LIECHTENSTEIN.
Landscapes. Rhine embankment.
Second stamp in a set of 5, issued on 23.07.1959.
Face value: 20 rappen of Swiss franc.
Design: Josef Seger (Austria, 1908-1998).
Engraving: Courvoisier S.A.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 4,682,331 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.
Catalogues
- Michel No. 385.
- Scott No. 337.
- StampWorld No. 386.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 381.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 344.
- Zumstein No. 327.
The river Rhine forms the western border of Liechtenstein with Switzerland. In 1892, Switzerland and Austria-Hungary signed a treaty on the regulation of the river to avoid the numerous floods that used to cause, reducing its course by means of two cuts to increase the slope, raise the flow and avoid the deposition of sediments. The task, which also involved the canalization of the Rhine and the construction of embankments, known as Rheinregulierung (Regulation of the Rhine) or Rheinkorrektion (Correction of the Rhine) was partially finished in 1910, and completely in 1943, when the construction of the Canal of Liechtenstein, almost 25 km (about 15 mi) long, was completed.
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