Dénesi Tamás - Dejcsics Konrád (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 2. (Pannonhalma, 2014)

II.Közlemények

MARTINSBERG – GYŐRSZENTMÁRTON – PANNONHALMA 241

Antal Hirka OSB:

Martinsberg – Győrszentmárton – Pannonhalma. A survey of the settlement’s postmarks

The Archabbey in Pannonhalma was in constant (administrative, pastoral, educational, and economic) correspondence with the dependent abbeys, religious houses, parishes and economic centres. Besides the Archives

of the Order, the documents of this correspon

dence are kept in a separate collection because of their points of interest as for the history of mail. Interesting items related to the settlement surrounding the monastery have been selected from this collection.

Since the start of mail service (1851) here, the inscription of the postmark also reflects the changes of the settlement’s name

: MARTINSBERG, GYŐRSZENTMÁRTON (1867), PANNONHALMA (1965). The earlier Austrina post-office administration is replaced by the Hungarian one in 1867, which is also displayed in the language-change of the postmarks (German/Hungarian).

The section of mail-history is completed by a demonstration of special-day-postmarks

staring with the cylinder-postmark of the Saint Stephen Year in 1938, followed by the postmarks commemorating the visits of Saint Stephen’s Holy Right Arm (1939, 1988), succeeded by the jubilee postmarks celebrating the millennium of Saint Martin’s Monastery in Pannonhalma (1996). This sequence is ensued by the postmarking, which signifies the occasion that the monastery and its environment became a part of the World Heritage (1997). The next items are the stamps and postmarks of the Pannonhalma-Sokoróalja wine-district. The last postmarks celebrate the Club of Young Philatelists in the Benedictine Secondary Boarding School of Pannonhalma (2005) decorating the stamps in connection with the Abbey.