Szczecin (PL)

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Szczecin is the capital city (in 2011 the population was 407,811) of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. In the vicinity of the Baltic Sea, it is the country's seventh-largest city and a major seaport in Poland.Szczecin is located on the Oder River, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania. The city is situated along the southwestern shore of Dąbie Lake, on both sides of the Oder and on several large islands between the western and eastern branches of the river. Szczecin borders directly with the town of Police and is the urban center of the Szczecin agglomeration, that includes communities in the German states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Historically, STETTIN was in Prussian province POMMERN.

Poland era

SZCZETIN 1, 1961
SZCZECIN 1, 2013

Meter cancels

Meter cancel 1996

Cards and Covers

Slogan postmark of Szczecin, Philatelic Exhibition. Cormorant bird in cancel. 1976.

Postmarks in Empire of Germany

STETTIN in 1879
STETTIN in 1882
STETTIN BAHNPOST 3 in 1890
STETTIN 1 in 1923
windowed business letter DEUTSCHE SEEPOST STETTIN-HELSINGFORS 1927
windowed business letter DEUTSCHE SEEPOST STETTIN-HELSINGFORS 1927 detail of cancel
STETTIN * 5 b in 1930
STETTIN * 1 H in 1932
Michel No. 472, postmarked at "Stettin", 06-1933
Michel No. 634, postmarked at "Stettin 1", 26-09-1936

GOTZLOW

Gocław (in German ′′GOTZLOW′′) is a part of the city of Szczecin, Poland. It is located on the left bank of the Oder river, north of the Szczecin Old Town and Middle Town.

GOTZLOW (POMMERN) in 1923.

Postmarks in Prussia Pommern province

It used a postal code 1439.

Szczecin (PL) PRPOM a.jpg