1965 Austria Wachau Woman 10 Schilling Silver Austrian Coin with Shield i53093

Item: i53093

Authentic Coin of:

Austria
1965 10 Schilling 27mm (7.55 grams) 0.640 Silver (0.1533
oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 2882 Obverse Designer: Kurt Bodlak Reverse Designer: Ferdinand
Welz Edge: Reeded
ÖSTERREICH ◦ REPUBLIC
around Austrian shield.
10 SCHILLING 1965 WELZ, Woman of Wachau.

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Waltraut Haas
(born June 9, 1927) is a popular
Austrian
stage and film actress and singer.

Born in Vienna
, Haas grew up at
Schloss Schönbrunn
, where her mother was a
restaurateur
. Haas made her stage debut in

Linz but was soon won over to the big screen. She achieved fame and
recognition already through her first movie, the
cult classic

Der Hofrat Geiger
(1947),
in which she played Mariandl, the illegitimate daughter of a woman who runs an
inn
in the picturesque
Wachau
valley. In
1961
, Haas would play Mariandl’s single mother
in a remake
entitled Mariandl. Her other
famous movie role was that of Josepha Vogelhuber in the
1960
remake of
The White Horse Inn
(Im weißen Rößl)
opposite
Peter Alexander
. After 60 movies, mainly
comedies and musicals, she stopped making films around 1970. Since then, she has
also appeared on television.

From 1966 until his death in 2011, Waltraut Haas was married to actor
Erwin Strahl
, with whom she frequently
performed both on the stage and in films. Their son
Marcus Strahl
is an actor and director.

Haas lives in
Hietzing
, Vienna.

The
Wachau is an
Austrian
valley with a picturesque landscape
formed by the Danube
river. It is one of the most prominent
tourist destinations of
Lower Austria
, located midway between the towns
of Melk
and
Krems
that also attracts “connoisseurs
and
epicureans
” for its high-quality wines. It is
40 kilometres (25 mi) in length and was already settled in prehistoric times. A
well-known place and tourist attraction is
Dürnstein
, where King
Richard the Lion-Heart
of
England
was held captive by Duke
Leopold V
. The architectural elegance of its
ancient monasteries (Melk
Abbey and
Göttweig Abbey
), castles and ruins combined
with the urban architecture of its towns and villages, and the cultivation of
vines as an important agricultural produce are the dominant features of the
valley.

The Wachau was inscribed as “Wachau Cultural Landscape” in the
UNESCO

List of World Heritage Sites
in recognition of
its architectural and agricultural history, in December 2000.

Austria,
officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik
Österreich), is a
federal republic
and a
landlocked country
of over 8.5 million people
in Central Europe
. It is bordered by the
Czech Republic
and
Germany
to the north,
Hungary
and
Slovakia
to the east,
Slovenia
and
Italy
to the south, and
Switzerland
and
Liechtenstein
to the west. The territory of
Austria covers 83,879 square kilometres (32,386 sq mi). Austria’s terrain is
highly mountainous, lying within the

Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its
highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speak
local
Bavarian
dialects of
German
as their native language, and
Austrian German
in its standard form is the
country’s
official language
. Other local official
languages are
Hungarian
,
Burgenland Croatian
, and
Slovene
.

The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the
Habsburg dynasty
when the vast majority of the
country was a part of the
Holy Roman Empire
. From the time of the
Reformation
, many Northern German princes,
resenting the authority of the Emperor, used
Protestantism
as a flag of rebellion. The
Thirty Years War
, the influence of the
Kingdom of Sweden
and
Kingdom of France
, the rise of the
Kingdom of Prussia
, and the Napoleonic
invasions all weakened the power of the Emperor in the North of Germany, but in
the South, and in non-German areas of the Empire, the Emperor and Catholicism
maintained control. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Austria was able to
retain its position as one of the
great powers
of Europe and, in response to the
coronation of Napoleon
as the
Emperor of the French
, the
Austrian Empire
was officially proclaimed in
1804. Following Napoleon’s defeat, Prussia emerged as Austria’s chief competitor
for rule of a larger Germany. Austria’s defeat by Prussia at the
Battle of Königgrätz
, during the
Austro-Prussian War
of 1866 cleared the way for
Prussia to assert control over the rest of Germany. In 1867, the empire was
reformed
into
Austria-Hungary
. After the defeat of France in
the 1870
Franco-Prussian War
, Austria was left out of
the formation of a new
German Empire
, although in the following
decades its politics, and its foreign policy, increasingly converged with those
of the Prussian-led Empire. During the 1914
July Crisis
that followed the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
, Germany
guided Austria in issuing the
ultimatum
to
Serbia
that led to the declaration of
World War I
.

After the collapse of the Habsburg (Austro-Hungarian) Empire in 1918 at the
end of World War I, Austria adopted and used the name the
Republic of German-Austria
(Deutschösterreich,
later Österreich) in an attempt for union with
Germany
, but was forbidden due to the
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
. The
First Austrian Republic
was established in
1919. In the 1938
Anschluss
, Austria was occupied and annexed by
Nazi Germany
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This lasted until the end of
World War II
in 1945, after which Germany was
occupied by the Allies
and Austria’s former
democratic constitution was restored. In 1955, the
Austrian State Treaty
re-established Austria as
a sovereign state, ending the occupation. In the same year, the
Austrian Parliament
created the
Declaration of Neutrality
which declared that
the Second Austrian Republic would become permanently
neutral
.

Today, Austria is a parliamentary
representative democracy
comprising nine
federal states
. The capital and largest city,
with a population exceeding 1.7 million, is
Vienna
. Austria is one of the
richest countries in the world
, with a nominal
per capita GDP of $52,216 (2014 est.). The country has developed a
high standard of living
and in 2014 was ranked
21st in the world for its
Human Development Index
. Austria has been a
member of the United Nations since 1955,
joined the European Union
in 1995, and is a
founder of the
OECD
. Austria also signed the
Schengen Agreement
in 1995, and adopted the

euro in 1999.