Kufstein fortress, perched above the Inn River in Tyrol, spent much of its medieval history as a Bavarian stronghold rather than an Austrian one — it only passed definitively to the Habsburgs in 1504 following the War of the Bavarian Succession. The fortress's Kaiserturm, built by Emperor Maximilian I after that acquisition, housed political prisoners well into the nineteenth century, among them the Tyrolean revolutionary Andreas Hofer's associates following the failed 1809 uprising against Napoleonic-allied Bavaria.
This coin belongs to Austria's long-running commemorative silver Schilling series, which concluded with the country's euro adoption in 2002, making 2001 issues among the final strikes in that denominational lineage.
Kufstein fortress, perched above the Inn River in Tyrol, spent much of its medieval history as a Bavarian stronghold rather than an Austrian one — it only passed definitively to the Habsburgs in 1504 following the War of the Bavarian Succession. The fortress's Kaiserturm, built by Emperor Maximilian I after that acquisition, housed political prisoners well into the nineteenth century, among them the Tyrolean revolutionary Andreas Hofer's associates following the failed 1809 uprising against Napoleonic-allied Bavaria.
This coin belongs to Austria's long-running commemorative silver Schilling series, which concluded with the country's euro adoption in 2002, making 2001 issues among the final strikes in that denominational lineage.