200 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1966 - 1.50 Shilling

On April 19, 1966, it became 200 years that the People's Emperor Joseph II granted the Viennese a decree granting access to the area of ​​the Prater, which had previously been closed to the public, and allowed the opening of hostels and amusement parks. An amusement place was born. When the congress was held in Vienna, there were already 40 inns in the Wurstelprater with ring games, swings, bird shooting and bowling alleys. The climax of its popularity reached the Prater, because of his entertainment in the vernacular also called "Wurstelprater" in the World Fair Year 1873. Two permanent circuses vied for spectators, the Hanswurst made with his foolishness the Viennese laugh, three fireworks painted fairy tales and stories in the sky and numerous ringlet games not only delighted the children. But beyond that, the Prater also had other special features to show: So is the first lion compute, who celebrated world success as "Madame Senide", a child of the Prater. His landmark, which was to become the second landmark of Vienna next to St. Stephen's Cathedral, the giant wheel, however, he received only in 1897. When the empire of the Punch, the Schaubuden and the Ringelspiele 1945 was a robbery of the flames, then many Viennese believed in one End of the "Wurstelprater". But it still exists today - rebuilt and still 200 years old. The brand image brings a Prater landscape with the Ferris wheel.