Württemberg 3 kreuzer 1818 

• 1818 
• KM# 530 
• Württemberg 
• 3 kreuzer 

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Coins

Württemberg 3 kreuzer 1818

1818

Crowned monograms, Crowns, Flora (Plants), Monograms, Twigs, Wreath

333

1.35

18

0.6

KÖNIGL: WÜRT: SCHEIDEMÜNZ. III KREUZER 1818.

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Plain

KM# 530

Jaeger# 30, AKS# 101, KR# 57

Upon William's accession, Württemberg was suffering crop failures and famine in the "Year Without a Summer", in 1816. After taking office, he initiated sweeping reforms, resulting in the approval of the Estates of Württemberg to a constitution on September 25, 1819. In his 48-year reign, the kingdom moved from one that was created from different denominational principalities and a heterogeneous agricultural country, into a constitutional state with a common identity and a well-organised management. In addition to his successful domestic policy, he pursued throughout his reign an ambition focused on German and European foreign policy. Alongside the great powers of Prussia and Austria, he imagined a third major German power in the form of Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover and Württemberg. Although this plan never succeeded, it ensured a consistent, coherent and targeted policy during his reign. William was the only German monarch who was forced to recognise the Frankfurt Constitution of 1848. After the failure of the March Revolution of 1848, he pursued restorative policies that counteracted his liberal image from before the revolution. He died in 1864 at Rosenstein Castle in Bad Cannstatt and is buried in the Württemberg Mausoleum.