Kortrijk (BE)

Kortrijk is a city (75,219 inhabitants in 2013) and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders. It is the capital of the arrondissement of Kortrijk. The municipality comprises Kortrijk proper and the villages of Aalbeke, Bellegem, Bissegem, Heule, Kooigem, Marke, and Rollegem.

It used a postal code 29 with bars (before 1864), and 87 with points before 1870. The post-office COURTRAI opened before 1830, HEULE on 19 July 1881 (relay), BELLEGHEM and ROLLEGHEM on 10 September 1903, BISSEGHEM on 7 September 1905, COURTAI-STATION on 20 November 1906.

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Postmarks

Postal codes 8500-8511.

Kortrijk

KORTRIJK in 1955.

Kortrijk X in 1982.

KORTRIJK in 2004.

Bissegem

Circle Bissegem D in 1980.

Marke

Marke 8510 in 1992.

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

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File:Kortrijk (BE) LIII b.jpg

Albert I period

Bilingual Kortrijk-Courtrai, German occupation in 1914.

- KORTRIJK Railway Postmark in 1925.

- Railway Postmark in 1935.

Leopold II period

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Railway issue 1879, Hexagonal COURTRAI in 1882.

Circle COURTRAI in 1889.

Covers

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Meter cancels

Meter cancel Kortrijk 1993.