Two lines of text, no box. [Kü-9b-36a]. Our code aLo. Arbesbach is in Niederösterreich near Zwettl, postcoded 3925. The canceller was issued in 1954 when the office opened; this example was used in 1956.
| Back to Austrian Stamps homepage | Back to Cancellations on Austrian Stamps part 3 | Back to Cancellations on Austrian Stamps part 4 |
Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, the agency name reverted to Postablage. Wherever they had survived, the old Postablage cancellers of the First Republic were used, failing which the German Reichspost ones. The next step was the physical removal of the 12a or 12b post zone codes (and Nieder- or Oberdonau) from the Reichspost cancellers.
According to Lessig, the first new Austrian Postablage cancellers of the Second Republic were produced in March 1946. These were double-spaced rubber stamps without frames or central line; the first line contained the place-name preceded by 'Postablage', and the second line contained the post office name preceded by 'Post'. They were issued to three offices only:
Lessig adds that in May 1946, most of the remaining Postablagen received their new cancellers, which differed from the March one by the omission of the word 'Postablage' in the first line. In April 1947 a new Postablage canceller subtype was introduced, differing essentially from the 1946 types by having a horizontal rule between the text lines, a full stop in the first line after the Postablage's name, and in the second line a 'P.' before the Post Office name.
Kühnel, however, states that from 1945 new Austrian 2-line rubber cancellers were introduced, with the post office name preceded by 'P.' or 'Post' [Kü-9]; at first they had no horizontal rule between the text lines, this being added to those issued later. He makes no particular comment on a Postablage prefix. While the three offices mentioned above do appear in his catalogue as 'Postablage X / Post Y', this type of canceller is listed as in use at these offices from 1949/51 only. Pre-war or modified wartime cancels were in use up till then. Indeed, Ingolsthal is listed as using a Postal Zone 12b canceller up to 1950! We will follow Kühnel's opinions.
Two lines of text, no box. [Kü-9b-36a]. Our code aLo. Arbesbach is in Niederösterreich near Zwettl, postcoded 3925. The canceller was issued in 1954 when the office opened; this example was used in 1956.
Two lines of text, no box. [Kü-9b-247f]. Our code gLo.This example was used in 1951. Note that although the Postal Town is the nearby Eben im Pongau, the postcard has been cancelled at Radstadt, the main local market town to which the postbuses run.
Two lines of text, no box. [Kü-9b-488i]. Our code gLo. This example was used in 11.7.1956, and the stamp has an Ortswerbestempel of the principal town of Pongau, St Johann - which was its Post Town from 1892 till 1954.
[The Ortswerbestempel is circular - on some computers it appears oval!]
By a decree of 1957, 'Posthilfsstelle' became official. This new period saw the introduction around 1960 of a rectangular three compartment box (our code K3), [Kü-10], with the name of the agency at the top, the date including the hour in the middle and the Post Town at the bottom. This was struck on the stamp, presumably indicating that the agency had evolved into a regularly-operating sub-post-office (to use the British term). A few of these three compartment box types do have the chamfered or rounded corners similar to the so-called railway station cancellers.
Three-section box. [Kü-10a-165m]. Our code gK3je. Lend is in Salzburg south-west of Bischofshofen. The canceller was issued in 1960; the office opened in 1899. This example was used in 1964.
Three-section box. [Kü-10a-1423c]. Our code gK3je. Jenbach is the terminus of the Zillertalbahn and the Achenseebahn, in the main Inn valley near Innsbruck. This example was used in 7.3.1967.
Three-section box. [Kü-10a-1407h]. Our code gK3je. The Post Town Pfarr Werfen is in Salzburg near St Johann im Pongau. This example was used in 17.8.1966.
Three-section box. [Kü-10a-1309g]. Our code gK3je. This example was used in 17.2.1964.
| Back to Austrian Stamps homepage | Back to Cancellations on Austrian Stamps part 3 | Back to Cancellations on Austrian Stamps part 4 | Forward to Part 4 of Postablagen |
©Andy Taylor. Last updated 2 June 2006