Appingedam (NL)

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Appingedam is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands. Although there is no certainty as to the exact age of Appingedam, historical research demonstrates that the place in which the city would eventually be built had been inhabited for over a millennium. Specifically, the area in which the earliest traces of human settlements have been reported is the Wierde, a quarter located in the northern part of the city centre. Today, a narrow, winding street by the same name runs along the waterfront as a living testimony to the times gone by. The characteristic landmarks of the old Wierde are still recognizable today: the historical East-West Canal, called “Diep,” dug to the South of the Wierde, diked on both sides, still defines the unique layout of the downtown Appingedam. Sometimes Appingadam for Appingedam.

Read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appingedam

Postmark Examples

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 7 (= Appingedam). c.1872. Stampset

Postmark APPINGADAM (!) 1883. King Willem III. Stampset

Postmark APPINGADAM (!) 1885. Stampset

Coded Postal Obliterator nr 7 (= Appingedam). c.1891. Stampset

Postmark Appingedam 1894. Stampset

Postmark Appingedam 1903. Stampset

Postmark Appingedam 1916. Stampset

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Appingedam 1985. Coat of Arms.

Cards and Covers

This service card (from Mayor to Mayor) was sent on October 15, 1887, from BIERUM (name stamp only) to Delfzijl via APPINGADAM and 't Zand. Between 1882 and 1889 Appingedam was written as APPINGADAM. Courtesy of Jan Boon.

This service card (from Mayor to Mayor) was sent on November 14, 1889, from BIERUM (name stamp only) to Winsum via APPINGEDAM. Courtesy of Jan Boon.

Letter Card sent from Appingedam (1897) to Berlin (Germany).