GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

Bridges.
Bridge over Templiner Lake.
First stamp in a set of 6, issued on 21.09.1976.
Face value: 10 East German pfennig.
Design: Paul Reißmüller (b. 1927).
Printed by Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (VEB), Leipzig.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 8,100,000 copies.
Size: 65 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 1885.
- Michel No. 2163.
- Scott No. 1757.
- StampWorld No. 1905.
- Stanley Gibbons No. E1878.
- Unificato No. 2163.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1839.

Templiner Lake is located in the state of Brandenburg. It stretches to the south and west from the center of the city of Potsdam. It is some 5.8 km (3.6 mi) long, with a maximum width of 1.2 km (0.75 mi) and a surface area is 5.11 km² (1.97 sq mi). It lies at an elevation of 29.4 m (96 ft) above sea level, and has a maximum depth of 6 m (20 ft). The navigable River Havel flows through the lake, entering it at its northern end adjacent to central Potsdam, and leaving it at its southern end via a short channel to the Schwielow Lake between Caputh and Geltow. The lake is crossed by the Berlin outer ring railway, using the bridge represented on the stamp. To keep the dimensions of the bridge small, a dam about 90 m (295 ft) long was built into the lake from the east bank. From the west bank, a 150 m (492 ft) long embankment met the first. This means that it only took 140 m (459 ft) to close the gap. The bridge was completed in 1957.