Wuppertal-Barmen (DE)

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Barmen is a former industrial metropolis of the region of Bergisches Land, Germany, which merged with four other towns in 1929 to form the city of Wuppertal. Barmen, together with the neighbouring town of Elberfeld founded the first electric suspended monorail tramway system, the Schwebebahn floating tram. Barmen was a pioneering centre for both the early industrial revolution on the European mainland, and for the socialist movement and its theory. It was the location of one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany, KZ Wuppertal-Barmen, later better known as Kemna concentration camp. Oberbarmen (Upper Barmen) is the eastern part of Barmen, and Unterbarmen (Lower Barmen) the western part.


Postmark Examples

Federal Republic of Germany

1970

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1950
Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1952
Wuppertal-BARMEN Meter cancel 1958
BARMEN Meter cancel 1962
Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1962
Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1964
Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1967

Allied Occupied Germany

WUPPERTAL-(BARMEN) 25.5.46. 17-18
WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 1 ( ) 12.3.46. no hour
WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 1 (nn) 25.2.46.-7

Meter Postmarks

WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 7.11.45 VORWERK Isolierband

Postmarks in German Empire

1932
Bridge at BARMEN, 23-07-1894
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Bridge at BARMEN WUPPERFELD b on 25 May 1901.
BARMEN-RITTERSHAUSEN

Railway postmarks

From Rittershausen to Radevormwald in 1921.

Postmarks in North German Confederation

Wichlinghausen

Prussian type R3 frame. Mi15

Covers

From BARMEN (DC cancel) to Constantinopel on 26 August 1868, with 3 groschen, first issue. Sold 520 SF in 2000.

Postmarks in Prussia Rheinland province

BARMEN Kreis used a Postal code 70, district of Düsseldorf. Sub-offices: BAHNHOF, RITTERSHAUSEN, UNTERBARMEN, WICHLINGHAUSEN and WUPPERFELD (3 lines frames).

WUPPERFELD BARMEN on a 1856 issue.
DC BARMEN in 1866.

Covers

Cover from Barmen to Constantinopel with 5 Sgr in railway DÜSSELDORF-SOEST in 1867. Sold 1,000 SF in 2000.