DonteVIE´s Soupeneinlage

5 Deutsch Mark: Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859). She was a poet and her works belong to the German Romanticism. She became famous after publishing her correspondence with J.W. Goethe

5 Deutsch Mark: Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

10 Deutsch Mark: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). German mathematician, astronomer and physicist with a very wide range of contributions

10 Deutsch Mark: Sextant, Nautical instrument. The instrument was used to determine the position of a ship based on the position of celestial bodies, such as the moon or the sun

20 Deutsch Mark: Anna (Annette) von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848). German poet and writer. In the background pictures of buildings from a German medieval town

20 Deutsch Mark: Feather – the sign of poets and writers

50 Deutsch Mark: Balthasar Neumann (1687 – 1753). German architect of the baroque era. In the background pictures of baroque buildings

50 Deutsch Mark: Architectural drawings and examples of Balthasar Neumann’s baroque architecture : the Abbey of Neresheim and the stairway of the Würzburg palace

100 Deutsch Mark: Clara Schumann (1819-1896). German composer and the most famous pianist of her time. In the background pictures of buildings of Leipzig – the town where Clara is born

100 Deutsch Mark: Concert piano. In the background picture of the Koch music conservatory in Frankfurt

200 Deutsch Mark: Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915). German professor of medicine, who developed several new drug and researched cancer. In 1908 he received the Nobel Prize

200 Deutsch Mark: Microscope. This magnifying instrument takes up the theme from the frontside of the note, insofar as it is heavily used by medical researchers.

500 Deutsch Mark: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) German painter, especially focussed on natural topics

500 Deutsch Mark: Drawings and engravings of Maria Sibylla Merian : Dandelion with butterfly and larvae

1000 Deutsch Mark: Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) and Jacob Grimm (1785-1863). German language scientists and collectors of cultural and linguistic items

1000 Deutsch Mark: German dictionary (created by the Grimm brothers) and the King’s library in Berlin, where the Wilhelm and Jacob worked for a long period of time

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