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Postage stamp: castles and palaces - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1977 - 200 Pfennig

Designer: Hella und Heinz Schillinger

Postage stamp: castles and palaces - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1977 - 200 Pfennig


Theme: Architecture
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date1977
Face Value200.00 
Colorgreen
PerforationK 14
Printing TypeLithography
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number809
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID344735
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A new series of permanent rolling press with depictions of German castles and palaces replaces the roller-type brand series "Accident Prevention". The postage stamps for 60 and 200 Pfennig, which appear as the first values ​​in this series with the inscription Deutsche Bundespost, come out at the same time and in the same motif as the inscription Deutsche Bundespost Berlin. Only a few kilometers northwest of Mayen is located in the upper Nettetal, surrounded by wooded Eifel heights, castle Bürresheim with its vieltürmigen silhouette. It is a unique monument of Rhenish architectural and cultural history. The history of the castle exemplifies the gradual development of the medieval fortified castle over the fragmented late Gothic Ganerbenburg to the baroque residences and finally to the romantic castle. Probably the land on which the castle stands originally belonged to the Count Palatine of the House of the Ezzons, which died out in 1142. The first known owner of the fortress was Eberhard from the tribe of the lords of Neumagen (1157). Since the 13th century Bürresheim was Ganerbensitz. In the 14th century, the archbishop of Cologne became the sole feudal lord. In 1473, the Lords of Breitbach acquired a share, in 1659 they became sole owners. Their heirs were the Counts of Renesse (1796). In 1938 the property was sold to the Provincial Association of the Prussian Rhine Province. As his successor, the palace administration of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate took the castle into its custody in 1946. The castle complex includes the smaller so-called Cologne Castle and the large, castle-like developed residential castle of the Lords of Breitbach. The oldest surviving component is the 12th-century Romanesque keep. Extensions were made especially towards the end of the 15th and in the second half of the 17th century. After the transition of the estate into state property 1938 - 1940 the Vogthaus was expanded. (Extract from the use of texts of the German Castle Association e.V. Braubach - Dr. W. Avenarius and the State Office for the Preservation of Historic Land Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz)

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A new series of permanent rolling press with depictions of German castles and palaces replaces the roller-type brand series "Accident Prevention". The postage stamps for 60 and 200 Pfennig, which appear as the first values ​​in this series with the inscription Deutsche Bundespost, come out at the same time and in the same motif as the inscription Deutsche Bundespost Berlin. Only a few kilometers northwest of Mayen is located in the upper Nettetal, surrounded by wooded Eifel heights, castle Bürresheim with its vieltürmigen silhouette. It is a unique monument of Rhenish architectural and cultural history. The history of the castle exemplifies the gradual development of the medieval fortified castle over the fragmented late Gothic Ganerbenburg to the baroque residences and finally to the romantic castle. Probably the land on which the castle stands originally belonged to the Count Palatine of the House of the Ezzons, which died out in 1142. The first known owner of the fortress was Eberhard from the tribe of the lords of Neumagen (1157). Since the 13th century Bürresheim was Ganerbensitz. In the 14th century, the archbishop of Cologne became the sole feudal lord. In 1473, the Lords of Breitbach acquired a share, in 1659 they became sole owners. Their heirs were the Counts of Renesse (1796). In 1938 the property was sold to the Provincial Association of the Prussian Rhine Province. As his successor, the palace administration of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate took the castle into its custody in 1946. The castle complex includes the smaller so-called Cologne Castle and the large, castle-like developed residential castle of the Lords of Breitbach. The oldest surviving component is the 12th-century Romanesque keep. Extensions were made especially towards the end of the 15th and in the second half of the 17th century. After the transition of the estate into state property 1938 - 1940 the Vogthaus was expanded. (Extract from the use of texts of the German Castle Association e.V. Braubach - Dr. W. Avenarius and the State Office for the Preservation of Historic Land Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz).