GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

Protected landscapes.
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz).
Third stamp in a set of 6, issued on 17.05.1966.
Face value: 20 East German pfennig.
Design: Gerhard Wilhelm August Stauf (1924-1996).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 8,000,000 copies.
Size: 43 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 969.
- Michel No. 1181.
- Scott No. 833.
- StampWorld No. 923.
- Stanley Gibbons No. E899.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 882.

Saxon Switzerland is located in the current German Free State of Saxony, near its capital, Dresden. Since 1990 it is a national park (Nationalpark Sächsische Schweiz) covering two separate areas of 93.5 km² (36.1 sq mi) in the heart of the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Its landscape is of cracked and rocky canyons. The highest peak in the Park is 556 m (1,814 ft) above sea level. The National Park borders the Bohemian Switzerland National Park (Czech: České Švýcarsko), in the Czech Republic.