State: Germany, 2nd Empire
Issuer: Göttingen (chamber of commerce) (Han / Ns) Handelskammer
Location of issue: Göttingen (town)
Date of issue: 26.4.1917 AD.,
Value: 50 Pfennig
Size: 100 x 70 mm
Material: paper
Watermark: Wellenbündel
Serial :
Serial no. : 83238 ( 3,0mm high )
Signatures: (3)
Printer: Schwarz, Lindenberg, Allgäu , designer: Heinz Schiestl
Obv.: Handels-/ kammer - Göttingen / No. 83238 / …. , arms, church silhouettes flanking.
Rev.: 50 – Handelskammer Göttingen - 50 / Northeim – Einbeck / Duderstadt – Uslar / …. , man with German flag standing right, four shields of arms flanking.
References: Grabowski G25.3d ; Tieste 2320.10.16.2 .
Göttingen (Low German: Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the start of 2017, the population was 134,212.
The origins of Göttingen can be traced back to a village named Gutingi to the immediate south-east of the present city. The name of the village probably derives from a small stream, called the Gote, that once flowed through it. Since the ending -ing denoted "living by", the name can be understood as "along the Gote". Archaeological evidence points towards a settlement as early as the 7th century. It is first historically mentioned in a document by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in 953 AD, in which he gives some of his belongings in the village to the Moritz monastery in Magdeburg.
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