150 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2000 - 8 Shilling

In 1850, Minister of the Interior Bruck Emperor Franz Joseph I proposed to put the preservation of the monuments in the hands of the state. Several European countries have already used similar posts. The organizational design for the forerunner of the Austrian monument protection authority comes from Eduard Melly. Already on December 31, 1850, the emperor gave his consent to the establishment of the K.K. Central Commission for the Study and Conservation of Monuments. From 1856, the Central Commission issued two periodicals, which are edited by the Federal Monuments Office to this day and appear as "Austrian Journal of Art and Historic Preservation" and "Vienna Yearbook for Art History". In 1923, the law on the protection of historic monuments came into force, whereby the protection of monuments and the preservation of monuments in law and enforcement became a federal matter. The law adopted the definition valid until today - monuments are man-made, immovable and movable objects of historical, artistic or other cultural significance, the preservation of which is in the public interest. Whether or not such an interest exists is decided by the Federal Monuments Office, which is also responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the World Cultural Heritage: the Schönbrunn Palace, the Old Town of Salzburg, the Hallstatt - Dachstein - Salzkammergut cultural landscape and the Semmering Railway have already been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List ,