UNESCO world cultural heritage

Limes block issue (Michel number: 2623 or block 72)

UNESCO World Heritage Site is a series of stamps that has been issued in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1990 . The series shows UNESCO World Heritage Sites in loose succession . The Michel catalog also names the series the cultural and natural heritage of mankind .

All postage stamps issued in DM times were originally unrestrictedly valid for postage . With the introduction of the euro as a common European currency on January 1, 2002, this regulation became obsolete. The stamps that were issued with penny values could be used up by June 30, 2002. An exchange was possible until September 30th in the branches of the Deutsche Post , after that until June 30th 2003 centrally in the Philately branch of Deutsche Post AG in Frankfurt.

In the vote for Germany's most beautiful postage stamp in 2007, the Limes block edition (Michel number: 2623 or block 72) from the “UNESCO World Heritage Site” series won first place. In the vote for the most beautiful European postage stamp, the pad came second with 14.84% of the vote. First place went to Switzerland (15.44%) with the pad: " Stamp Day - Einsiedeln Monastery " .

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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 postage value of the individual stamp in the currency unit specified in the table header. 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.

Special stamps (in DM)
image	description	Values in pennies	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Result: I. Lübeck old town	100	January 12, 1990	28,780,000	Otto Rohse	1447
	Result: II Old Völklinger Hütte	100	August 14, 1996	24,780,000	Rolf leather bow	1875
	Result: III Old town Bamberg	100	September 12, 1996	25,500,000	Isolde Monson-Baumgart	1881
	Episode: IV Augustusburg and Falkenlust castles	100	April 8, 1997	28,550,000	Vera Braesecke-Kaul and Hilmar Kaul	1913
	Result: V Maulbronn Monastery	100	January 22, 1998	20,000,000	Rolf leather bow	1966
	Result: VI Messel Pit	110	August 20, 1998	25,000,000	Isolde Monson-Baumgart	2006
	Wurzburg Residence Parallel edition with China	110	August 20, 1998	21,000,000	Xiao Yutian	2007
	Puning Temple in Chengde Parallel edition with China	110	August 20, 1998	21,000,000	Xiao Yutian	2008

Special stamps (in euros)
image	description	Values in euro cents	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Episode: VII Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (Wörlitz Castle and Lake Wörlitz )	56	May 2, 2002	50,000,000	Hannelore Heise	2253
	Episode: VIII Museum Island Berlin	56	August 8, 2002	22,560,000	Heinz Schillinger	2274
	Episode: IX Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz self-adhesive from booklet	56	August 8, 2002	76,920,000	Hannelore Heise	2277 MH 49
	Result: X Cologne cathedral	55	March 6, 2003	50,100,000	Joachim Riess	2329
	Result: XI Cologne cathedral Self-adhesive from rolls	55	March 6, 2003	263,860,700	Joachim Riess	2330
	Bauhaus sites in Weimar and Dessau	55	April 7, 2003	18,000,000	Sybille and Fritz Haase	2394
	Upper Middle Rhine Valley	55	May 4, 2006	10,500,000 including 125,000 on ETB	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2536
	Upper Middle Rhine Valley self-adhesive from booklet	55	May 4, 2006	295,485,000	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2537 MH 63
	Riga , Stralsund and Wismar ( joint edition with Latvia)	65	July 12, 2007	8,000,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Sibylle and Fritz Haase	2614
	Riga, Stralsund and Wismar (joint edition with Latvia)	70	July 12, 2007	8,100,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Sibylle and Fritz Haase	2615
	Limes (block edition)	55	October 11, 2007	2,968,000 including 105,000 on ETB	Annegret Ehmke	2623, block 72
	Reichenau monastery island Graphic representation of the island of Reichenau with partial excerpts from a liturgical reading book (left) and from a Gothic wall painting (right)	45	January 2, 2008	9,600,000 including 95,000 on ETB	Ernst Kößlinger	2637
	Reichenau monastery island Graphic representation of the island of Reichenau with partial excerpts from a liturgical reading book (left) and from a Gothic wall painting (right) self-adhesive from booklet	45	January 2, 2008	159,949,000	Ernst Kößlinger	2642 MH 71
	Luther memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (Joint edition with the United Nations)	145	May 7, 2009	6,200,000 of which 85,000 on ETB	Grit Fiedler	2736
	1000 years of St. Michaelis Hildesheim	220	January 2, 2010	4,750,000 of which 74,000 on ETB	Bianca Becker and Peter Kohl	2774
	Temple Yakushiji in Nara (Joint issue with Japan)	55	February 3, 2011	5,910,000 of which 67,500 on ETB	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2844
	Old town Regensburg with cathedral (Joint issue with Japan)	75	February 3, 2011	6,900,000 of which 67,500 on ETB	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2845
	Old town Regensburg with cathedral self-adhesive made of foil sheet	75	February 3, 2011	72,629,000	Dieter Ziegenfeuter	2850 FB 14
	Fortified church in Biertan (Joint issue with Romania)	75	September 15, 2011	5,700,000 of which 67,500 on ETB	Razvan Popescu	2889
	Muskauer Park (Joint issue with Poland)	90	July 12, 2012	5,287,000 of which 60,200 on ETB	Marzanna Dabrowska	2944
	100 years of the Fagus factory	60	2nd October 2014	?. ???. 000	Christof Gassner	3105
	Corvey Monastery	70	March 1, 2016	?. ???. 000	Daniela Haufe and Detlef Fiedler	3220
	Mine Rammelsberg , old town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management	145	April 13, 2017	?. ???. 000	Nina Clausing	3299