Germany-Unified 1996 Images from German cities - Gendarmenmarkt Berlin
- Label : „Deutsche Post“ of Germany; 1996, commemorative souvenir envelope to „90th anniversary of the „Köpenickiade“;
Note:
The „Köpenickiade“ was the action of the East-Prussian shoemaker Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt and his spectacular occupation of the city hall of Cöpenick (then independing municipalty, contemporary a quarter of Berlin) on the 16th of October, 1906 as he, dressed up as a Captain of the then German Army with a troop of credulous soldiers from the street, occupated the city hall of Cöpenich, arrested his major and robbed the city treasury of Cöpenick. One is called „Seine Majestät (= Emperor Wilhelm II) haben köstlich gelacht.“
Note 2::
The bronze statue before the entrance to the town hall in Berlin-Koepenick was created in 1996 by Spartak Babajan and casted in 1996 at the "Bildgießerei Seiler GmbH" in Schöneiche near Berlin.
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 1877; Yvert & Tellier: No. 1709; Scott: No. 1938; AFA: No. 2818
- Color : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal value : 100 (Pfennig)
- Postage validity : 14 August 1996 – 30 June 2002
- Designed by : Heinz Schillinger (1929-2008)
- Printed by : „Bundesdruckerei“, Berlin (probably)
- Print process : Offset printing (on yellowish-illuminting paper)
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13¾ : 14
- Print run : 25,590,000 stamps
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without year line): 51.0 x 28.5
- postmark : oval one-line special cancellation (laying oval with 44.0 mm widh and 33.0 mm high) at „12555 Berlin-Köpenick 1“, 16-10-1996
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To the stamp motive:
- 100 (Pfennig) : „Gendarmenmarkt“ in Berlin-Mitte (with the „Deutscher Dom“ (left), the „Schauspielhaus“ (middle) and the „Französischer Dom“ (rigt) and a central depicted modern replica of a historical city-lantern)
