Commemorative stamp series - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1971 - 50 Pfennig

Berlin Structures The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes six multicolored postage stamps with illustrations of Berlin buildings. Important buildings in the German Democratic Republic All buildings depicted on the special stamps were badly damaged in the Second World War. Their careful restoration and wise use document the great responsibility of the socialist state for the care and preservation of important cultural treasures of the past in the German Democratic Republic. New guard (50 Pfennig value) The guardhouse designed and built K. F. Schinkel from 1816 to 1818. As a purely functional building - common room of the royal guard - he was worthy to be placed in the prestigious boulevard Unter den Linden between the arsenal and the university. By slightly withdrawing the squat structure from the façade, Schinkel succeeded in highlighting this castellated structure borrowed from Roman antiquity. The greek pillared hall with the flat gable, which contains a relief by Gottfried Schadow, gives the small building representation and monumentality. The Neue Wache is today a memorial to the victims of fascist barbarism and imperialist conquest seeking.