GERMAN REICH

GERMAN REICH / DEUTSCHES REICH.

Winter Charity: Ostmark Landscapes and Alpine Flowers.
Zell am See, Salzburg, Austria, and mountains cowslip.
Third stamp in a set of 9, issued on 18.11.1938.
Face value: 5 + 3 German reichspfennig.
Design and engraving: Maria & Werner von Axster-Heudtlass.
Printed by Reichsdruckerei, Berlin.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 27 x 32 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 674.
- Michel No. 677.
- Scott No. B125.
- StampWorld No. 669.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 665.
- Unificato No. 618.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 618.

Zell am See is the administrative capital of the Zell am See District in the Austrian state of Salzburg. The town is an important tourist destination known as Zell am See-Kaprun and is a transportation hub for the region. It is located on the western shore of the 68-metre-deep (223 ft) Lake Zell. The Zell Valley is a corridor in the Kitzbühel Alps, connecting the Saalfelden Basin of the Saalach River in the north and the Salzach in the south. At the backround of the stamp you can see the Hoher Tenn massif. The town's development was decisively promoted by the opening of the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway line (Giselabahn) on July 30, 1875, starting the annual summer tourism season. Zell am See received city rights on January 24, 1928.

The flower depicted on the stamp is a mountains cowslip.