Stamps series "Winter Relief Fund - Landscapes and Flowers"

1675. - Castle Forchenstein and Silver Thistle. Near Mattersburg a small market town a few miles from the Hungarian border is the village of Forchteneau where this castle stands. Formerly the stronghold of the highly independent Mattersburg Barons. The castle was constructed in the 17th century, and now contains a notable collection of arms and armour. In its courtyard is a well sunk 465 feet into the rock, built by Turkish prisoners, 1660 to 1690.

1676. - Flexen road and Spring Pasque Flower. This road winds down the steep side of the Stubenbach Gorge in the Flexen Pass near Bregenz.

1677. - Zell am See and Auricula. A small summer and winter sports centre on the Zeller See (lake) about fifteen miles from Salzburg. The lake is about 2 miles long and is 2,461 feet above sea level.

1678. - Grossglockner and Edelweiss. Austria’s highest mountain (12,454 feet).

1679. - Aggstein ruins and Cyclamen. This stamp shows a view of the Wachau Valley which covers a twenty mile stretch of the Danube, starting at Durnstein and finishing at Melk. The castle is above the village of Aggstein enthroned on a bluff, precipitous on three sides, 1,050 feet above the river. The castle was built in the Middle Ages and re-built in 1429, and left to decay after 1685.

1680. - Prince Eugene monument and Rose. This equestrian statue stands in the Heldenplatz (Hero’s square) in Vienna.

1681. - Erzberg and Alpine Rose. The Erzberg is literally an "iron mountain" 5,033 feet high in Styria.

1682. - Solbad Hall and Alpine Flower Trumpet. A village six miles east of Innsbruck. Was important from the 13th century for its salt mines.

1683. - Braunau City and Spring Crocus. A small town on the River Inn on the Austrian German border. Birthplace of Adolf Hitler. The large building on the right is the Gasthaus Pommer were Hitler was born.