natural monuments - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1977 - 50 Pfennig

Natural Monuments The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes five multi-colored special postal stamps depicting natural monuments in the GDR. Natural Monuments The development of the developed socialist society also places new and larger tasks on nature conservation. The predominantly preserving aspect for individual objects and areas as a special nature protection task became too narrow. It was a matter of using and protecting the entirety of nature and its riches as planned. Therefore, on May 14, 1970, the new comprehensive Land Culture Act of the GDR was issued, which sets out in its first Implementing Regulation of May 14, 1970 - the Nature Conservation Ordinance - the tasks of special nature conservation. On this basis, about 18 percent of our land area is currently protected as nature reserves (nearly 410 areas with about 18,000 square kilometers), one percent of our land as a nature reserve (about 700 areas with about 90,000 hectares) and about 10,000 objects as natural monuments. The "natural monuments are ... individual entities of nature, which are witnesses of the history of the earth and the landscape, have scientific or homeland significance, or are distinguished by special beauties or their value for education." (in accordance with § 11 of the first implementing regulation). They can have a surface area of ​​up to three hectares and are then referred to as surface nature monuments. Here are five representatives of our Natural Monument complex. The 50 Pfennig value, the foundling "Rauenscher stone", represents a part of the surface natural monument Markgrafensteine ​​near Rauen, circle Fürstenwalde, district Frankfurt (Oder) (Unterschutzstellung took place already before 1945). These stones reached this area about 5O million years ago during the Brandenburg stage of the Vistula Ice Age from northern Europe. The pictured smaller stone protrudes 3.7m and is still about 2 m in the ground. Its circumference is 22 m. The larger stone was blown up in 1826. Parts of it were processed to the well-known shell in front of the Altes Museum in Berlin. These stones were counted by Theodor Fontane to the "seven march wonder of the world".