GERMAN REICH

GERMAN REICH / DEUTSCHES REICH.

Winter Charity: Ostmark Landscapes and Alpine Flowers.
Mount Grossglockner, Carinthia & East Tyrol, Austria, and edelweiss.
Fourth stamp in a set of 9, issued on 18.11.1938.
Face value: 6 + 4 German reichspfennig.
Design and engraving: Maria & Werner von Axster-Heudtlass.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 27 x 32 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 675.
- Michel No. 678.
- Scott No. B126.
- StampWorld No. 670.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 666.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 619.

The Grossglockner is, at 3,798 m (12,461 ft) above the Adriatic Sea, is the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glockner Group of the Hohe Tauern range, situated along the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps, on the border of the Austrian states of Carinthia and East Tyrol. The Pasterze, Austria's most extended glacier, lies on the Grossglockner's eastern slope. The first known ascent took place on July 28, 1800, by five members of an expedition led by Count Franz-Xaver of Salm-Raifferscheid: Sepp and Martin Klotz, Martin Reicher, Matthias Hautzendorfer and another person from the the identity is unknown.

A typical alpine flower, the edelweiss (Leontopolium nivale), appears on the stamp.