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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
Meter cancels
Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1950
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Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1952
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Wuppertal-BARMEN Meter cancel 1958
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Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1962
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Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1964
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Meter cancel Wuppertal-Barmen 1967
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Allied Occupied Germany
WUPPERTAL-(BARMEN) 25.5.46. 17-18
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WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 1 ( ) 12.3.46. no hour
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WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 1 (nn) 25.2.46.-7
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Meter Postmarks
WUPPERTAL-BARMEN 7.11.45 VORWERK Isolierband
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Postmarks in German Empire
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Bridge at BARMEN, 23-07-1894
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Bridge at BARMEN WUPPERFELD b on 25 May 1901.
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Railway postmarks
From Rittershausen to Radevormwald in 1921.
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Postmarks in North German Confederation
Wichlinghausen
Prussian type R3 frame. Mi15
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Covers
From BARMEN (DC cancel) to Constantinopel on 26 August 1868, with 3 groschen, first issue. Sold 520 SF in 2000.
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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.
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Covers
Cover from Barmen to Constantinopel with 5 Sgr in railway DÜSSELDORF-SOEST in 1867. Sold 1,000 SF in 2000.
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