AUSTRIA

AUSTRIA / ÖSTERREICH.

Myra Falls, Lower Austria.
Stamp issued on 07.12.1977.
Face value: 20 Austrian schilling.
Design: Otto Zeiller (1913-1988).
Engraving: Werner Pfeiler (b. 1941).
Printing: Photogravure and recess.
Size: 28 x 33 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1459.
- ANK No. 1600.
- Michel No. 1565.
- Scott No. 975.
- StampWorld No. 1610.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1688d.
- Unificato No. 1381.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1381.

The Myra Falls (German: Myrafälle) are located in a ravine in the municipality of Muggendorf in the Lower Austria state. The ravine has been cut by the Myra, a small tributary of the Piesting. In 1912 Oskar von Rosthorn built a small pumped-storage power station at the Myra Falls, that was in operation until 1974/1975. The actual ravine with the falls is about 600 m (2,000 ft) long; The gorge runs from north to south and is protected as a natural monument. The subsoil of the gorge is limestone. The Myra falls in several cascades through the gorge. At the upper and lower end the water is impounded into a small pond.

Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).