Osterode (DE)

Osterode (am Harz) is a town (22,130 inhabitants end 2014) and district head in southeastern Lower-Saxony on the southwestern edge of the Harz mountains. Historically in the Kingdom of Hanover.

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Postmark in Unified-Germany

Postmark Osterode am Harz - 1, 1996, postal code 37520.

Postmark in Allied Occupied Germany

Cards and Covers

OSTERODE * (HARZ) c 13.8.45.-11-12. Ancillary postal markings "Zurück", "Empfänger nicht ermittelt/Postamt 1 Düsseldorf", "Falls verzogen, nicht nachsenden,/sondern mit neuer Addresse zurückerbeten.

Meter cancels (all periods)

Meter cancel 1947

Meter cancel 1968

Meter cancel 1998

Meter cancel 2001

Postmark in German Reich era

Postmark in German Empire

Bridge OSTERODE (HARZ) in 1909.

Postmark in North German Confederation

Since 1 January 1868.

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Postmark in Kingdom of Prussia

Since 1 October 1866.

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Postmark in Kingdom of Hanover

Since 1814.

Blue circle (21 mm) used in the 1852-1862 period.