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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2937152, member: 39&quot;]These &quot;Steckenreiter-Klippe&quot; pieces were made shortly after the Thirty Years War. The war ended in 1648 when the peace treaty was signed in Münster (today in the state of NW) and Osnabrück (today NI). Afterwards, in 1649/50, the further details were negotiated at the Friedensexekutionshauptrezess <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in Nuremberg (Nürnberg, today BY). Octavio Piccolomini was the leader of Ferdinand III&#039;s imperial delegation.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is said (folk tale in German <a href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/sagen-aus-franken-9857/66" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/sagen-aus-franken-9857/66" rel="nofollow">here</a>) that one day several little boys on hobby horses came to him and asked him for a peace souvenir. Piccolomini replied that he was not prepared for this but that they should come back a week later; he would then give them something. The next Sunday even more kids came, and Piccolomini gave each of them of these klippes that he had made. Hard to tell how many were actually made in that year, and how many were minted later; most of them are silver pieces but there are also some in gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Osnabrück, by the way, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steckenpferdreiten" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steckenpferdreiten" rel="nofollow">Steckenpferdreiten</a> is an annual custom, started in 1948. This was the 300th anniversary of the Westphalian Peace (25 Oct 1648), and also shortly after WW2. Since then, every year more than 1,000 schoolchildren (mostly 9 year old) on hobby horses have come to the city hall on 25 October. And while the Osnabrück Peace Day is mostly about peace, interreligious dialog, migration and integration, they will at the end get a ... nah, not a klippe but a sweet pretzel. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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