Garsten Market Town Millennium

    Austria  1985.06.07

    In issue: Stamp(s): 1   

    Printing: offset and engraving

  • Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1816   Yvert: 1645   Scott: 1316  

    Perforation type: 13 ¾x13 ¾

    Subject:

    4.5 shillings. View of the Garsten Town*, 17th century engraving by George Matthaus Fischer.
    On the fragment you can see a water mill.

    Additional:

    *Garsten is a municipality in the district of Steyr-Land in Upper Austria, Austria. 

    Garsten was first mentioned as Garstina in documentation around 990, and a monastery was founded there in 1082. After being fully rebuilt in Baroque style in the late 17th century, the Benedictine monastery was converted to a prison in 1850, a function it fulfills to this day.