A new stamp belongs to the standard series: Tales and Legends of Austria, with the value of 23.00 ATS definitive stamp released on June the 16th, featuring a legend of The Bread Loaf Marter/Lower Austria.

The legend tells about the origin of one kind of little monuments, known as "Marterl" in Austria, which dot the countryside
at the city limits of Raabs an der Thaya in the district of Waidhofen an der Thaya in Lower Austria. In Austrian dialect, this type of monument is also known as a "G'spitzte Marter" or "Schwarze Marter". According to the stories:  back in the days of grave poverty, a very hungry young manual laborer stole a loaf of bread from a wealthy farmer in Oberndorf. The farmer witnessed the young boy. In order to run faster, the boy threw the bread away while fleeing. The farmer picked up the loaf and angrily hurled it at the boy, striking him in the head with such great force that the boy dropped to the ground fatally wounded. The court eventually sentenced the farmer to build a Marterl on this site. Yet another story handed down says that the same Marterl was supposed to have commemorated the death of a young manual laborer at the hands of a baker in whose shop the young man robbed a loaf of bread.