Dornbirn (AT)

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Dornbirn city coat of arms
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Dornbirn's landmark - Red House
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Dornbirn is a city in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is the administrative centre for the district of Dornbirn, which also includes the town of Hohenems, and the market town Lustenau.

Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlberg and the tenth largest city in Austria. It is an important commercial and shopping centre.

Read more @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornbirn

Post Office opened ZIP-Code (AT)
Dornbirn Orange marker.png 1. February 1840 6850
The Postal Divisions Post Office opened ZIP-Code (AT)
Dornbirn-Haselstauden (AT) Green marker.png 1. October 1990 6857
Dornbirn-Hatlerdorf (AT) Pink marker.png 2. August 1965 6853
Dornbirn-Messepark (AT) Yellow marker.png 19. March 1987 6854
Dornbirn-Oberdorf (AT) Cyan marker.png 12. June 1984 6852


Stamp type designations according to
the catalogues of:
Edwin Mueller 1850 - 1864
Wilhelm Klein 1867 - 1895
Hans Stohl 1900 – today

Postmark Examples

Austria-Hungary Empire (K.u.K./1840-1918)

Long postmark DORNBIRN Used from 1840 to 1861

Cursive handwriting

Dornbirn (AT) ot-11-4-1843.jpg Dornbirn (AT) ot-1851-SEP-5.jpg
(type sL-I)
Single-circle handstamp DORNBIRN Used from 1860 to 1885
7.10.187? (type RS-f) 6.10.1887 (type gEj 15.4.1892 (type gEje)
(type RS-f) (type gEj) (type gEje)
Hatching stamp DORNBIRN Used from 1894 to 1904

32 x 22 mm
in sans-serif lettering
with date and year
postmark in black

Hatching stamp 3.3.1897 (type 4i0)
(type 4p4) a
Hatching stamp DORNBIRN Used from 1894 to 1904

32 x 25 mm
in sans-serif lettering
with date and year
postmark in black

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(type 4p4) a b c
Hatching stamp DORNBIRN Used from 1900 to 1917

32 x 22 mm
in sans-serif lettering
with date and year
postmark in black

File:Dornbirn (AT) ot-.jpg
(type 4e5) d
Railway Station-Mailbox Postmark DORNBIRN used from 1901 to1914

32 x 15 mm
in Roman type
with line between date and DORNBIRN
postmark in black

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(type 5a2)
25.X.1906 (type 6k10) 30.XII.1907 (type 6l20) Bridge DORNBIRN on a newspaper stamp in 1907. Dornbirn (AT) AH b.jpg

First Republic

b 31.3.1922
3a 21.I.1925
6a 23.X.1932

Slogan cancels

8.VII.1932

World War II

Advertising stamp with picture and text - DORNBIRN Gartenstadt mit Rappenlochschlucht/Bödele u. Ebnit - Used form
1940 to 1964

1940 - 1945

35 mm Ø
distinguishing mark 3 mm
month in arabic numbers
3-digit time
postmark in black

Dornbirn (AT) 10-2-41--11.jpg Printed matter from Dornbirn to Worms
Printed matter from Dornbirn to Worms

1945 - 1964

35 mm Ø
distinguishing mark 3 mm
month in arabic numbers
3-digit time
postmark in black

Dornbirn (AT) 08-3-67--21a.jpg Reply postcard from Dornbirn / Austria to Bad Blankenburg / GDR
Reply postcard from Dornbirn / Austria to Bad Blankenburg / GDR
21.IV.1943
18.4.1944 (7a1)

Second Republic

Bridge p 24.X.1946
Circle az 17.4.1969 6850
Circle ib 28.1.1987 6850
Circle aj 24.9.1993 6850
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Slogan cancels

w 5.8.1956 Visits the export and sample fair DORNBIRN 27.&.-5.8. 1956
p 7.3.1957 DORNBIRN Garden City with Rappenlochschlucht, Bödele and Ebnit
p 21.6.1961 Visit the export and sample fair DORNBIRN 14-23 July 1961
az 27.7.1973 Visits the 25th Dornbirn trade fair with Austrian exhibition from 28 July to 5 August
az 16.2.1982 so close so good Dornbirn shopping centre
az 4.4.2007
bj 1.7.2011

Commemorative Postmarks / Special postmark

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Sample fair special cancellations

Hobby fair special cancellations

Balloon Post Special Postmark

31.3.1979 Special balloon mail flight on the occasion of WIPA 1981
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code number 1 code number 2 code number 3 code number 4
15.4.1983 Balloon mail flight
Dornbirn (AT) sst-15-4-1983--1.jpg Dornbirn (AT) sst-15-4-1983--2.jpg Dornbirn (AT) sst-15-4-1983--3.jpg Dornbirn (AT) sst-15-4-1983--4.jpg
code number 1 code number 2 code number 3 code number 4

Meter Marks

World War II

7.9.1943

Second Republic

8.3.1947
22.1.1964
22.1.1969
7.1.1969
14.11.1984
27.1.1993
3.5.1993
2.1.1997
8.8.1997
25.3.1998
13.4.2001
1.3.2002
5.4.2004
7.8.2008
22.2.2010
9.11.2010
6.12.2010
7.4.2014
5.12.2014 ORF V
6.12.2023 Dornbirn Hospital

Cards

Card in 1915 during the Great War.