GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

Protected landscapes.
Königsstuhl Cliff.
Second stamp in a set of 6, issued on 17.05.1966.
Face value: 15 East German pfennig.
Design: Gerhard Wilhelm August Stauf (1924-1996).
Printed by Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (VEB), Leipzig.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 5,000,000 copies.
Size: 43 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1180.
- Scott No. 832.
- StampWorld No. 922.
- Stanley Gibbons No. E898.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 881.

Königsstuhl is a chalk cliff in Jasmund National Park on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It lies at 118 m (387 ft) above sea level. In 2004 it was incorporated into the terrain of Königsstuhl National Park Centre. There is a legend that the name Königsstuhl ("King's Chair") goes back to an event in 1715 when the Swedish king Charles XII is supposed to have commanded a sea battle against the Danes from this spot. The battle tired the ruler so much that he needed to take a chair. However, the name Königsstuhl was used in a travel report by the vicar Rhenan in 1586, who had been tasked by the Pomeranian duke to find mineral springs; thus it is clear that it had been named much earlier.