Esch-sur-Alzette -- 3F Surcharge in 1940 on 5F Commercial School Pictorial

3F Surcharge on 5F
Ville d'Esch sur Alzette
Ecole Industrielle & Commerciale
Pictorial

The school shown on the stamp.

24 Feb 1940

 
Used on an Identity Card

Newly discovered, this attractive old pictorial has been surcharged from five francs to three, and pays the fee for issuance of an identity card on 24 February 1940.

When did the unsurcharged stamp appear? Who was the designer? the printer?

 

Much documentation of Luxembourg's communal revenues remains to be done. Can you help? Municipal archives would be an excellent source of information. Write to me at arsdorf@gmail.com with scans and new information!

During the WW2 Occupation, Differdange’s Hotel de Ville becomes the Stadthaus

"Taxe Communale" becomes "Gemeinde-Taxe"

 

during the WW2 Occupation

In their zeal to Germanize the Grand Duchy, the WW2 German occupiers transformed French-language administrative paperwork into German-only documents. Their efforts to purify language use even extended to the communal revenues, as shown above. 

Even though the basic stamp design is the same, the building shown on the stamps is designated the “Hotel de Ville” on the pre-occupation stamp at left, but becomes the “Stadthaus” on the stamp at right, which is also surcharged from francs to Reichpfenning. "Tax Communale" is now "Gemeinde-Taxe" and of course, "Differdange" has become "Differdingen". But some bureaucrat forgot to obliterate the "1 Fr." denomination!  Silly as it seems, this was often done during the first year of occupation, before stamps in the German-language were issued.

Beles WW2 German Occupation Communals—genuine or bogus?

Sanem-Belvaux WW2 Communals

Real or Fake?

 

 

During the WW2 German occupation, the administration for Sanem-Belvaux apparently issued an attractive set of communal revenues. Curiously, they were denominated in pfenning, not Reichpfenning—which was the occupation currency—and bear the name Beles, which of course is German for Belvaux. 
 
Were these stamps actually used? I’ve never seen uses or used examples. The mint set of four is shown above.

The design is strikingly similar to this pre-WW2 Sanem-Belvaux communal revenue:

During the occupation, the nearby commune of Esch-sur-Alzette issued communal revenues with denominations less than one mark denominated in “Pf.” However, denominations of 1 mark or more were denominated in Reichmark.

Combination Municipal and National Revenue Stamp Use in 1959

Combination Fiscal Franking!

Civil Register Extract
 

6.40F Luxembourg-Ville Communal
(horizontal shading)

used in combination with the

30F Timbre de Dimension