GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

Protected landscapes.
Teufelsmauer.
Fifth stamp in a set of 6, issued on 17.05.1966.
Face value: 30 East German pfennig.
Design: Gerhard Wilhelm August Stauf (1924-1996).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,400,000 copies.
Size: 43 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1183.
- Scott No. 835.
- StampWorld No. 925.
- Stanley Gibbons No. E901.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 884.

The Teufelsmauer (‘Devil's Wall’) is a rock formation made of hard sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous in the northern part of the Harz Foreland in central Germany. This wall of rock runs from Blankenburg (Harz) via Weddersleben and Rieder to Ballenstedt. It was placed under protection as early as 1833 and, in 1852, by the head of the district authority in order to prevent quarrying of the much sought-after sandstone. Many legends and myths have been woven in order to try to explain the unusual rock formation.