GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC / DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK.

Tourism.
Lilienstein Mountain and Elbe River.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 14.03.1961.
Face value: 20 East German pfennig.
Design: Erich Gruner (1881-1966).
Engraving: Oswin Volkamer (1930-2016).
Printed by Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (VEB).
Print: 83,000,000 copies.
Size: 21.5 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 617.
- Michel No. 815.
- Scott No. 537.
- StampWorld No. 557.
- Stanley Gibbons No. E549.
- Unificato No. 815.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 530.

Lilienstein is a highly distinctive mountain of 415.2 m (1,362 ft) in Saxony. It is one of the few table mountains on the east of the river Elbe and constitutes the symbol of the Saxon Switzerland National Park. The Elbe flows around the Lilienstein on three sides, which here describes a 180° loop. Lilienstein was first mentioned in a document in 1379, it was called Ylgenstein. In the High Middle Ages (around 1200) there was a small Bohemian castle in Lilienstein, which was probably abandoned around 1550.

ESTONIA

ESTONIA / EESTI.

Suur Munamägi Hill and Tower.
Stamp issued on 17.07.1999.
Face value: 5.20 Estonian kroon.
Design: Jaan Saar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 506,450 copies.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 375.
- Michel No. 348.
- Scott No. 365.
- StampWorld No. 381.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 336.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 339.

Suur Munamägi ("Great Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in Estonia (and the Baltic states), reaching 318 m (1,043 ft) above sea level. It is located near the village of Haanja, in Võru County in the south-eastern corner of Estonia, close to the borders of both Latvia and Russia. The landscape around the peak (the Haanja Upland) is gently hilly. On the top of the hill is the Suure Munamäe vaatetorn (“Suur Munamägi Tower”), opened on July 19, 1925 and rebuilt of ferrocement in 1939 with a height of 25.7 m (84 ft). During the Second World War it was not seriously harmed and the repair was made in 1955. In 1969 an additional floor was built at the top of the tower and the staircase was modified. The tower was now 29.1 m (95 ft) high. The view from the height of 346.7 m (1,137 ft) is 50 km (31 mi) in radius. A renovation project of the tower was started in 1998 by Haanja parish, and on July 24, 2005 the renovated observation tower of Suur Munamägi was festively opened. Previously there were other smaller towers in the same place, built in 1812 and 1870.