Historical Objects / Medals

Collection of Tyler Yates

Commemoration of Schwedenstein iron canopy

Engraver:
Anton F König
Year:
1837
Country:
Sweden
Diameter:
34 mm
Obverse:
Bust of Gustav II Adolf facing right.
GVST. ADOLPH. R. SVEC. FID. EV. PROTECT. N. D. 9 DEC. 1594.
Reverse:
The monument in Lützen known as 'Schwedenstein'.
OB. AP. LVETZEN D. 6 NOV. 1632. POPVLOR. PIETAT. D. 6 NOV. 1837
References:
Sveriges och svenska konungahusets minnespenningar, praktmynt och belöningsmedaljer, vol. 1, #217

The monument 'Schwedenstein' was created to commemorate the death of the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf's death in the Battle of Lützen on November 6th, 1632. On November 6, 1837, a monument in the form of an iron baldachin was erected above the stone by the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.