LINDAU ROYAL MINT, KING HEINRICH VI, Bonhoff 1824, Date 1185-1200 AD, BI Silver Brakteat, Lime tree

★ Extremely fine condition, near Mint State - high relief and sharply strucked - well centered - beautiful silver patina color toning ★
MEDIEVAL GERMAN COINS, ROYAL MINT OF LINDAU
Reign: Heinrich VI von Hohenstaufen (1190-1197)
Mint: Lindau, Royal Mint
Date: c. 1185/1200 AD
Nominal: Brakteat (Bracteate)
Material: BI Silver
Diameter: c. 21mm
Weight: 0.42g
Pedigree: Ex Schulten & Co. Numismatics, Köln, Auction 16, Lot 1174, Year 1985
Reference: Berger 2519
Reference: Bonhoff 1824
Reference: Wüthrich 248
Reference: Leschhorn 5539
Reference: Klein/Ulmer (CC) 84
Obverse: Lime tree with three-part root, 7 leaves and 16 flowers, double beaded ring and beaded rim
Inscription: -
Translation: -
Comment: Lindau was first mentioned in documents as "Lindoua" or "Lintoua" in 882 AD in a deed of donation from St. Gallen: a Cunzo or Kunzo donated goods in Tettnang and Haslach "ad Lintouam". However, this mention can only refer to the Lindau ladies' convent, which must have been the only legal entity on the island of Lindau at this time. The only reference to the foundation and founders of the monastery is the so-called Ludovicianum, a partially forged document of Louis the Pious, from which the privileges of the monastery were derived. However, authentic parts mention Adalbert of Raetia from the Burcharding dynasty as the founder. Lindau historiography assumes that Adalbert founded the canonical monastery between 810 and 820 AD and had the Udalriching Ruadpert, Count of the Argen and Linzgau regions, who was defeated near Zizers, buried in the newly founded monastery. An early ecclesiastical center of the island is St. Peter's Church, until 1180 AD the sole parish church of the island of Lindau. It may have existed as a fisherman's church even before the monastery, which can be regarded as the actual nucleus of the town's development. The market was originally located in Aeschach in the mainland. Its favorable location at the crossroads of the Bregenz-Buchhorn and Lindau-Kempten (Allgäu) transport routes ensured relatively uninterrupted settlement continuity since the Roman occupation of the land. In 1079 AD, however, the market was moved to the island for security reasons in the wake of the unstable conditions of the Investiture Controversy. Wine, fruit and vegetables from the crops of the monastery of St. Gallen as well as flax and the hemp needed for shipbuilding were traded. The market was supplied with lard, cheese and livestock from the western Allgäu and the Bregenz Forest, while the Upper Swabian farmers brought in grain. This local trade was soon joined by long-distance trade with the south. The parish church of St. Stephen was built around 1180 AD, and Franciscans founded a monastery in 1224 AD. In 1274/1275 AD, King Rudolf I confirmed the previously acquired town privileges. Lindau now appears as an imperial city. Under King Rudolf of Habsburg (reign 1273-1291 AD), the noblewoman Guta von Triesen was elected abbess of the noble ladies' convent in Lindau and ruled it with great fame until 1340 AD. Lindau used its right to mint coins to eliminate the revocation and renewal of the bracteate pennies, which disrupted trade, by minting its own coins, the so-called perpetual penny.