Lighthouses

This article deals with the special postage stamp series lighthouses from Germany since 2004. For the building, see lighthouse . For the GDR stamp series see lighthouses, beacons, beacons and pier lights .

The German special postage stamp series Leuchttürme has been published since 2004 with 32 values ​​issued so far (as of July 2020). Until 2018, two stamps were issued every year at the usual domestic postage levels for postcards (45 euro cents ) and letters; only in 2011 a stamp appeared with the value of 90 euro cents for a compact letter. The lighthouses special postage stamp series has a larger circulation than the post horn set and is therefore the best-selling series of Deutsche Post. It is published by the Federal Ministry of Finance and sold under license by Deutsche Post.

Issue occasion

"The special postage stamps with the motifs of the lighthouses" x "and" y "are part of the" Lighthouses "series, which want to draw attention to the diversity of German lighthouses in a loose sequence."

- Deutsche Post AG : The postage stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany

motive

The designs for the series came from Professor Johannes Graf from Dortmund up to and including 2018 . The motifs of the individual brands - with the exception of the “Roter Sand” brand published in 2004 - are supplied by the photographer Reinhard Scheiblich, with whom Graf is working on this series. Scheiblich only photographs the lighthouses in June in order to get an even incidence of light on all brands. Graf then reworks the images on the computer. Each year, a brick tower was selected as well as a tower with a color scheme of black, white, red or green. A lighthouse stamp will appear annually from 2019. It can then also show towers that do not fit into the aforementioned color scheme.

Each stamp has a size of 35.0 × 35.0 millimeters. They were printed on coated white fluorescent postage stamp paper DP 2 in multicolor offset printing at Bagel Security-Print GmbH & Co. KG in Mönchengladbach in miniature sheets of ten wet-adhesive stamps (2 × 5) each.

Brand sets and brand boxes with self-adhesive stamps with these lighthouse motifs appeared several times.

List of issues and motives

Legend

• Image: An edited image of the brand mentioned. The ratio of the size of the stamps to each other is shown approximately to scale in this article.
• Description: A brief description of the motif and / or the reason for the issue. In the case of issued series or blocks , the descriptions that belong together are indented with a marker.
• Value: The face value of the individual stamp in euro cents . A "+" means that it is an additional stamp (= postage value + donation).
• Issue Date: The date this stamp was first sold.
• Edition: As far as known, the number of this edition offered for sale is given here.
• Design: As far as is known, it is stated here who designed this brand.
• Mi.-No .: This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

image	description	Values in euro cents	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Greifswalder Oie	45	July 8, 2004	24,800,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich, Norderstedt	2409
	Red sand	55	July 8, 2004	26,500,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Hans L. Bischoff, Bremen	2410
	Red sand self-adhesive from roll	55	July 8, 2004	509,543,700	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Hans L. Bischoff, Bremen	2413
	Brunsbüttel , pier 1	45	July 7, 2005	16,000,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2473
	Westerheversand lighthouse	55	July 7, 2005	16,000,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2474
	Greifswalder Oie self-adhesive from booklet	45	July 7, 2005	190,000,000	Johannes Graf based on photographs by Reinhard Scheiblich	2478 MH 58
	Brunsbüttel pier 1 self-adhesive from booklet	45	July 7, 2005	190,000,000	Johannes Graf based on photographs by Reinhard Scheiblich	2479 MH 58
	Neuland lighthouse	45	August 10, 2006	8,560,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2555
	Hohe Weg lighthouse	55	August 10, 2006	8,800,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2556
	Bremerhaven lighthouse	45	July 12, 2007	10,050,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2612
	Hörnum lighthouse	55	July 12, 2007	8,320,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2613
	Warnemünde lighthouse	45	July 3, 2008	12,600,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2677
	Amrum lighthouse	55	July 3, 2008	12,800,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2678
	Hörnum lighthouse self-adhesive from booklet	55	4th July 2008	216.503.960	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2682 MH 75
	Amrum lighthouse self-adhesive from booklet	55	4th July 2008	216.503.960	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2683 MH 75
	Norderney lighthouse	45	July 2, 2009	12,360,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2742
	Dornbusch lighthouse	55	July 2, 2009	10,960,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2743
	Neuwerk lighthouse	45	June 10, 2010	10,500,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2800
	Falshöft lighthouse ( Pommerby )	55	June 10, 2010	8,100,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2801
	Warnemünde lighthouse self-adhesive from booklet	45	July 1, 2011	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2875 MH 86
	Norderney lighthouse self-adhesive from booklet	45	July 1, 2011	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2876 MH 86
	Arngast lighthouse	55	July 7, 2011	6,825,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2878
	Dahmeshöved lighthouse	90	July 7, 2011	6,025,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2879
	Arngast lighthouse self-adhesive from roll	55	May 2, 2012	193,240,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2935
	Small lighthouse Borkum	45	July 12, 2012	6,320,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2942
	Cape Arkona lighthouse	55	July 12, 2012	5,700,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	2943
	Flügge lighthouse	45	6th June 2013	6,600,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3010
	Büsum lighthouse	58	6th June 2013	6,400,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3011
	Buk lighthouse	45	3rd July 2014	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3089
	Pellworm lighthouse	60	3rd July 2014	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3090
	Moritzburg lighthouse	45	June 11, 2015	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3156
	Lindau lighthouse	62	June 11, 2015	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3157
	Staberhuk lighthouse	45	2nd June 2016	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3252
	Kampen lighthouse	70	2nd June 2016	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3253
	Kiel-Holtenau lighthouse	45	June 8, 2017	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3316
	Bremerhaven lighthouse Unterfeuer	70	June 8, 2017	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3317
	Darßer Ort lighthouse	45	7th June 2018	4,500,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3391
	New lighthouse Wangerooge	70	7th June 2018	4,500,000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3392
	New lighthouse Wangerooge self-adhesive from roll	70	7th June 2018	?. ???. 000	Johannes Graf after a photograph by Reinhard Scheiblich	3396
	Camp	70	June 6, 2019	?. ???. 000	Susanne Wustmann and Dieter Ziegenfeuter	3465
	Schleimünde	60	2nd July 2020	?. ???. 000	Hanno Schabacker	3552
	Schleimünde self-adhesive from roll	60	2nd July 2020	?. ???. 000	Hanno Schabacker	3555

More German postage stamps with lighthouse motifs

Amrum lighthouse

In the Post series with the topic of letter delivery in Germany , a stamp appeared in 2005 that depicts delivery by postal bike in northern Germany, with the Amrum lighthouse visible in the background.

Industry and technology

On February 17, 1976, the lighthouse Alte Weser brand appeared in the definitive series Industry and Technology of the Deutsche Bundespost and the Bundespost Berlin .

Lighthouse series in the GDR

The series Leuchttürme, Leit-, Leucht- und Molenfeuer in the GDR was already published in 1974 in offset printing . The designs come from Jochen Bertholdt .

literature

• Michel catalog
• Deutsche Post AG: The postage stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany (volumes 2004–…)
• Mint never hinged - The Philately Journal of Deutsche Post AG:
  • July / August 2009; The series “Lighthouses” - Radiant Signposts ; P. 10
  • May / June 2010; Lighthouses: a diverse collection area - originals from the coast ; P. 12 f.
  • July / August 2014; 10 years of the »Lighthouses« series - perfectly staged. The designer of the lighthouse brands, Professor Johannes Graf ; P. 4 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mint never hinged - Das Philatelie-Journal; July / August 2014; P. 5

Web links

Commons : German lighthouses on stamps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Prof. Graf sends German lighthouses into the world
• Neuland and Hohe Weg
• Lighthouse pictures: postage stamps and more
• Exemplary philatelic collection on the subject of lighthouses under the title "The way to light - The development of beacons"