Pro Patria Foundation. Cultural heritage

    Switzerland  1997.05.13

    In issue: Stamp(s): 4    Booklet(s): 1   

    Printing: photogravure

    Issued in: sheets of 50 (10*5) stamps and in booklet of 10 (2*5) stamps (only for 3rd stamp of the issue)

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1612   Yvert: 1540   Scott: B622  

    Perforation type: 13 ¼x13 ½

    Subject:

    70+35 rappen. Watermill or "Kulturmühle" in Lützelflüh*

    Additional:

    *Lützelflüh is a municipality in the district of Trachselwald in the Swiss canton of Berne.

     

    Lützelflüh, the lovely village between Langnau and Burgdorf in the lower Emmental, is mainly known as the Gotthelf Village: pastor and poet Albert Bitzius, better known as Jeremias Gotthelf worked here from 1832 until his death in 1854.

    Kulturmühle – one of the Emmental’s most beautiful mills dating from 1821, now a venue for a variety of cultural events.