Hoehr-Grenzhausen (DE)

Höhr-Grenzhausen is a town (9,353 inhabitants end 2017) in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a centre for the ceramic industry in the Kannenbäckerland with a professional college for ceramics, another for ceramic form, and many others, hence the nickname Kannenbäckerstadt (roughly, “Jug Baking Town”).

Together with the communities of Hillscheid, Hilgert and Kammerforst it has formed the Verbandsgemeinde of Höhr-Grenzhausen – a kind of collective municipality – since 1971.

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Postmark in Germany

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Postmarks in German Empire (1872-1945)

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Bridge HÖHR in 1923 inflation.

Postmark in North German Confederation

Since 1 January 1868 until end 1871.

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Postmark in Prussia (July- December 1867)

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Postmarks by Thurn und Taxis

The HÖHR post office used a Thurn and Taxis code 187, district of Montabaur, Nassau province.

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