100 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2013 - 62 Euro Cent

The paddle-wheel steamer "Hohentwiel", the former state yacht of the last king of Württemberg, Wilhelm II., Is the only still operated steamship and at the same time the oldest passenger ship still operating on Lake Constance. Located in Hard bei Bregenz, the steamer is named after the mountain of the same name near Lake Constance. History: It was the year 1911, when a certain engineer Eugen Kittel began to design the Hohentwiel as a semi-saloon, 1913, exactly 100 years ago, the elegant paddle steamer in Friedrichshafen finally ran off the pile and was the last own steamship of the Royal Württembergischen state railway put into the service. The First World War had little influence on the German Bodenseeschifffahrt. The course traffic was indeed thinned, but maintained until 1919; From 1920, the entire Upper Sea Course could be used again. As a result, passenger traffic increased rapidly and there was an onset of change from the transport to the amusement fleet. Not the commuters, students and freight traffic dominated the shipping, but the excursion traffic of holiday and weekend guests. This required passenger ships with ever-larger passenger capacities. On the foredeck and the upper deck of the Hohentwiel elegant salons were set up, the wheelhouse had, extended by a bridge, on a higher deck soft. During the Second World War, the Hohentwiel was still used on the few still maintained ship courses. Fortunately, the Hohentwiel spared the night of the bombing, when Friedrichshafen sank to rubble and ashes and several ships were destroyed - it could be held back in time before leaving Konstanz. After the war, barbarous years began for the Hohentwiel, in 1962 she was finally retired and converted into a clubhouse with a restaurant. In 1984, the "International Maritime Museum of the Sea" finally acquired the desolate steamer and, after extensive restoration work, restored it to its original state in 1913, skilfully combining state-of-the-art technology and historical material. Today, of course, you can experience the Hohentwiel as the last paddle steamer on Lake Constance on various round trips and excursions - almost as it once was. Special mention deserves that the nostalgic ship made even in international film business career: Both in the millionaire James Bond strip "A quantum of consolation" as well as in David Cronenberg's production "A Dark Desire" were shot on the Hohentwiel some scenes.