Idar-Oberstein (DE)

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Idar-Oberstein is a town (28,459 inhabitants end 2012) in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a Große Kreisangehörige Stadt (large town belonging to a district), it assumes some of the responsibilities that for smaller municipalities in the district are assumed by the district administration. Today’s town of Idar-Oberstein is the product of two rounds of administrative reform, one in 1933 and the other in 1969, which saw many municipalities amalgamated into one. Idar-Oberstein is known as a gemstone town, and also as a garrison town.

Postmarks in Germany

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Meter cancels

Idar-Oberstein 1959

Idar-Oberstein 1987

Idar-Oberstein 1998

Idar-Oberstein 2004

Idar-Oberstein

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Postmarks in German Reich

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IDAR in 1925.

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Postal card

OBERSTEIN Postal card in 1895.

Postmarks in North German Confederation

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Postmarks in Prussia Rheinland province

IDAR used a Postal code 674, Kreis Birkenfeld, District Birkenfeld. OBERSTEIN used a Postal code 1077, Kreis Birkenfeld, District Birkenfeld.

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