equestrian - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1962 - 1.80 Shilling

This brand was entirely in the service of sports promotion and shows a "horse gymnast" in perfect shape at a very typical for the "horse swing" movement phase. His image represents and promotes in particular for the "device gymnastics" and in the broader sense for the "gymnastics" as a folk educative oriented exercise. The horse gymnastics is now competed in two forms, as "horse swinging" and as "horse jumping". Both are in addition to the stretching, ingot, ring and floor gymnastics an integral part of national and international gymnastics competitions. Horse gymnastics is a discipline of the broader practice field "Artistic Gymnastics". The brand image of the special postage stamp symbolically represents the larger field of physical education, which is often misunderstood as "gymnastics". Gymnastics means more than just a specific practice area. "Gymnast Jahn" understood all physical exercises that are used in the service of popular education. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the philanthropists (a group of German educational educators) recognized the value of physical education as a means and way of personal development and consciously integrated it into their educational system.