Special post office Sankt Nikola an der Donau

The special post office is held annually on December 6th in the St. Nikola elementary school

The special post office Sankt Nikolaus an der Donau has been held annually since 1974 on the initiative of the Grein stamp collecting association in the elementary school in St. Nikola an der Donau im Strudengau in the Perg district in Upper Austria .

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The special post office is a joint project of the market town of St. Nikola an der Donau and the Grein stamp collecting association (BSV Grein) with the Österreichische Post AG and is part of the festivities (church service, arrival of Nicholas by ship, special exhibitions, etc.) in honor of the Saint Nicholas , which are held annually on the day of the church patron in the market town.

The activities within the framework of the special post office usually include, in addition to handling by means of special stamps, the issuing of special stamps, special receipts and the implementation of a special stamp exhibition. Unlike Christmas post offices , no letters are answered.

Stamp collecting association Grein

The Grein Stamp Collecting Association, or BSV Grein for short, is the only philatelic association in the Perg district and is based in the city of Grein .

The association was founded in 1967 and entered into the register of associations on April 1, 1968. He is a member of the Association of Austrian Philatelic Societies . The club members meet twice a month. Erwin Uhrmann from Waldhausen im Strudengau acts as chairman of the association .

In addition to the members' meetings, the annual special post office in St. Nikola an der Donau, the annual stamp show as part of the Waldhausner Advent, the association's activities include:

• the holding of Austria-wide philatelic days in the region
• taking up regional anniversaries of people and institutions in connection with the implementation of exhibitions and the issue of special postage stamps and postmarks

Examples of exhibitions organized by the association: (the information in brackets refers to the year of the exhibition)

• Karl Mostböck - For his 90th birthday, exhibition of pictures by the artist in the theater cellar of the Grein City Theater , issue of a special stamp (2011)
• Donau.Fluch & Segen - Issue of a special stamp and implementation of the Philatelietag as part of the cross-state special exhibition in Ardagger in the Lower Austrian Strudengau (2010)

An example of the association's special stamps is: (the information in brackets relates to the edition)

• Otto von Machland (1000)

The designs for the special stamps and stamps are usually from regional artists.

Examples of the activities at philatelic days in Strudengau:

• 2006 Postage stamp with a typical Grein view from the image archive of the city of Grein
• 2007 postage stamp with a watercolor from 1935 by Helene Geitler with a view of the main street in Grein
• 2008 postage stamp with the first oil painting by Karl Mostböck from 1946 with a view of Greinburg
• 2009 stamp on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the Waldhausen market survey

• 2010 postage stamp with an oil painting by Ludi Donner from 1944 with a motif from the war winter of 1944
• 2010 stamp with the motif of the cross-border exhibition Donau.Fluch & Segen

Other special post offices on the feast of St. Nicholas

Germany

• The St. Nikolaus Christmas Post Office in Warndt in the municipality of Großrosseln in Saarland in Germany is a post office founded in 1896 as a post office, where letters to St. Nicholas were initially dispatched with the regular day stamp and later with a special stamp from 1966 . A Christmas post office has been in operation since 2005 and has had its own zip code with 66351 since 2007.

Austria

• The Nikolaus special post office in Dorf an der Pram of the Innviertel stamp collecting association Ried im Innkreis, founded in 1909, has been opened on December 6th since 1973. Personalized stamps, jewelery envelopes and a special postmark are provided.

Web links

• Homepage of the St. Nikola tourist office on the Danube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Feast of St. Nicholas in St. Nikola an der Donau, accessed on August 20, 2011.
2. ↑ Philatelic stronghold Grein , Briefmarkensammlerverein - traditional club active for more than 40 years, in: Tips 48/2008 S 17 Tips ( Memento from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Christmas Post Office 66351 St. Nikolaus accessed on August 20, 2011.
4. ↑ Nikolaus special post office in Pram (PDF; 190 kB) queried on August 20, 2011.