Denomination: Silver Strike of the Medallic Gold Ducat, which commemorates the completion of the Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart.
Obverse: Perspective view of the Gymnasium Illustre (Latin name for a School of High education, located in protestand lands) in Stuttgart.
Legend: SAP [AE]DIF SIBI DOMUM EXCID COLUMN VII ("Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars.")
Exergue: PROV . IX . V . I . (Book of Proverbs 9:1) / ICM (Johann Christoph Müller)
Reverse: Legend in seven lines above date in roman numeral.
Legend: C . B . D / GYMN. STVTG. / AUSPICIIS . / SRSS . WURT . DUC . / FRID . CAROL . / ADMIN . OPT . / FUND . / XXVII MART . / MDCLXXXV ("(completed) with God´s help and under the protectorate of the Duke of Wurttemberg Frederick Charles, best of Administrators, on 27th of March 1685")
Translated: "Hard work please the fittest"
Engraver: Johann Christoph Müller
References: Klein/Raff 170.11a, KM-. R!
Ruler: Friedrich Karl of Winnenden as administrator.
Diameter: 26 mm
Weight: 5.69 gram of Silver
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Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium is a gymnasium in Stuttgart established in 1686.
The school was established in 1686 as Gymnasium illustre. In 1881, during the reign of Charles I of Württemberg, because of overcrowding, the Karls-Gymnasium was established and took over 18 of its 39 classes. At this time, it changed its name to the current one after Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, who had been under age and under guardianship at the time of the school's foundation.
The first building in what is today, Gymnasiumstraße in Stuttgart, was built in 1686 and converted in 1840. A new building erected in 1903 in Holzgartenstraße was destroyed in 1944 during a nocturnal bomb attack on Stuttgart. The school was then accommodated in the buildings of the Zeppelin-Gymnasium until the new buildings on the site of the former villa of Ferdinand von Zeppelin at Herdweg 72 had been completed in 1957.
The new building was developed by a team led by the architect Hans Bregler, a former pupil who had completed his abitur in 1941. This building became heritage protected because of its prize-winning architecture (Paul Bonatz Prize 1959).