Building of the Deutsche Post - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1988 - 20 Pfennig

Deutsche Post building The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes three multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of Deutsche Post buildings. Special cancellation from 2 February to 1 April 1988 In addition, three maximum cards, each with a special postage stamp of 15, 20 and 50 Pfennig are issued. The price of each card is 3, - M plus the value of the attached special postage stamp. It is possible to order from the Central Post and Telecommunications Office, Dept. Postal Stamps, PO Box 300, Berlin, 1085, each interested person up to three sets of maximum cards. The subscription of the maximum cards is possible on subscription - outside the permanent receipt of postage stamps - using the debit procedure. Individual orders outside the subscription will be delivered in cash in the order of receipt, as long as the order is available. Post Office of the GDR The postal museum of the GDR, the oldest of its kind in the world, was founded by Heinrich von Stephan. On his initiative in the years 1893 to 1897 was built according to plans of the Secret Ober-Postbaurates hoe and headed by the Postbaurates Techow and Postbauinspektors Ahrens a monumental purpose building with round façade in the style of the Italian high Baroque in the Leipziger street. Well-known artists gave the building the character: The sculptors Wenck, Klimsch and Damman worked on the decorative design of the facade. Rich figurative decoration adorned the interior of the building, symbolizing the various forms of transport. The Reichspostmuseum presented here all its exhibits on three floors and in the atrium with a total of 3 500 m2 of exhibition space, including the development of the transport and communications of all peoples and times according to its commissioned exhibits (including the world-famous postage stamp collection). During the Second World War, the building of the Reichspostmuseum was heavily destroyed. His collections had to be outsourced for the most part. Immediately after the war, the remaining heavily damaged remains of the collection were recovered from the rubble. End of the 50s was the gradual structural repair. On 1 August 1958, the Postal Museum came out with the exhibition "The construction of socialism in the mirror of the stamp" (200 m2) to the public. The exhibition area expanded in 1960 to accommodate modern museum requirements on 1,200 m2 on the ground floor. In 1963, the first floor was prepared for exhibition purposes. On the basis of the Historic Preservation Law, the comprehensive reconstruction of the Post Museum began in 1983. With the opening of the exhibition "Berlin on Stamps and Coins" in May 1987, the first section of the reconstruction measures was completed in the finished annex with historicizing façade in Leipziger Straße. In the subsequent gradual reopening, the entire building will be restored to its old beauty in accordance with the monument preservation goal. In it a modern exposition will provide an impressive overview of the development of the postal and telecommunications system from the beginning to the socialist present in the GDR.