Monuments of water management - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1986 - 10 Pfennig

Monuments of the Water Economy The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of monuments of the water industry. Special cancellations from January 21 to March 20, 1986 Monuments of the water industry 10-pfennig value: handstalk piston pump, Berlin, circa 1900 Until the establishment of a first central water supply in the middle of the last century, the then about 600,000 inhabitants of Berlin received their drinking water from around 9,000 wells. Even after the first Berlin water works "Vor dem Stralauer Tor" (1856) and the Tegel waterworks (1877) were in use at the turn of the century, there were more than 1,300 public street wells, nine tenths of which were shallow wells The most well-known types of pumps for water extraction came from the Lauchhammer iron foundry In 1945, the remaining pumps helped to secure the emergency water supply for the population.Today, all of the approximately 70 cast iron pumps are listed buildings.