www.worldpayphones.com			Europe
	Germany

	gallery- payphones currently in service


			(German Landis and Gyr) payphone	Standard modern card phone. Stainless steel. Very attractive unit.



		A cluster of British GPT Marconi Saphires in Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. (this model is popular in railway stations)	Rather groovy new street kiosk.

	Berlin, June 2004. Many thanks to Davy Burns.	pic. Davy Burns	pic. Davy Burns

	Photos of payphones taken by the German payphone collector Marco Kosmehl. Click here for full series.	Photos of booths taken by the German payphone collector Marco Kosmehl. Click here for full series	Photos sent by Peter Holk of German plexiglass payphone enclosures made by his company www.holk.de. Click here for full series.

	I´d like to send you two new pictures of german cardphones. The first one is made by Bosch. The second one is a Siemens card phone that you have already but it is with integrated box for used cards. These boxes were installed in 1991 to collect the old cards and recycle them. Many of these boxes were opened (illegal) by telephone card collecters. But unfortunately there is one way only to open them, if you don`t have a key. Today only a few of this boxes are existing. With special thanks to Andreas Jacob		More photos of payphones taken by the German payphone collector Marco Kosmehl. Click here for full series.	Historical photos and diagrams by German payphone collector Marco Kosmehl. Click here for full series.


	gallery- kiosks


	6 piece telestation, Magdeburg. with thanks to Marco Kosmehl	6 Telephone booths type H78 Uniplatz, Magdeburg. with thanks to Marco Kosmehl	4 Telephone booths type H90 Uniplatz, Magdeburg. with thanks to Marco Kosmehl	4 Telephone booths type HB90 Altstadt, Magdeburg. with thanks to Marco Kosmehl

	photo Marco Kosmehl


		old booth as aquarium...		first German cabinet










	Good old pre-96 booth.	Ugly new German telecom boxes.

	Non-Telecom kiosk in Hamburg. Telephone British GPT Marconi Saphire	pic. Davy Burns	pic. Davy Burns


	history

	Coin Telephone 27 (1927) Adaptation of the British AB Button Box.	Coin Telephone 28 (1930) click here for more info	Coin Telephone 33 (1933)	Table Coin Telephone 33 (1933) click here for more info


	Coin Telephone 50, (1950) click here for more info	Table Coin Telephone 55 (1955)	Coin Telephone 56 (1956) click here for more info	Coin Telephone 57 (1957) click here for more info


	Coin Telephone 63 (1963) click here for more info	Coin Telephone 21 (1980) click here for more info	Clubtelefon 1 (Coin Telephone 88) click here for more info	Clubtelefon 4


	Clubtelefon 5 click here for more info	Coin Telephone 23

	Coin Telephone 2 with thanks to Marco Kosmehl		West German sign	East German sign
	special thanks to Dirk at www.telefonvitrine.de


	Coin Telephone 21, Siemens,1984. photo Marco Kosmehl	ÖKartTel_BTM4080 photo Marco Kosmehl	ÖKartTel_BTM4080 Prospekt photo Marco Kosmehl	SWFVMü69_DDR photo Marco Kosmehl


	East German phones. The translation is "Doesn't Work, Doesn't Exist."	East German payphone		older East German payphone



	The public telephone boxes of the German Reich and the Federal Post Office the need everywhere to telephone exists nearly since beginning of telephonie. Since there were only very few substations at the beginning, these by many people "were shared". It was to be determined in beginning relatively simply the costs of a discussion, since these were manufactured almost exclusively by the office. So the subscriber only the money of the user had to abkassieren. Now it with increasing spreading and acceptance in the population for the substation owners became however annoyingly the money personally to take the money to have to constantly make and its substation available other one. Therefore the realm telegraph administration decided to already furnish 1902 public substations with public telephone boxes in the year in Berlin. The technology of the public telephone boxes was increasingly refined and improved. If it was to be manufactured beginning only possible local calls without assistance of a person in the assistance call, the fortscheitende development made possible for the user of district later to manufacture far from or international calls themselves over the public telephone box. For correct taking the money still the good hearing of the Telefonistin necessary, also this procedure was alone by the public telephone box was later taken over for beginning of the public telephone boxes. Also the later devices in a the position the remainder money in appropriate height were to be paid back and/or to be indicated during the discussion the remainder money. But since more jeher there are some contemporaries to use the tried the weak points of the technology in order to save the Entgeld for the discussion. Like that an important mainspring was for the advancement of the public telephone boxes that makes more difficult from manipulation and departure attempts in the first years. The housings were supervised more substantially, those Muenzpruefer more exactly and the control elements such as dials or fork change over switches on normal enterprise. You are in such a way designed partly, which for the technology compellingly necessary serving and/or time-outs is kept and/or controlled by the equipment on mechanical wise. Since nearly all control and test and indicator functions mechanically took place, led to which a public telephone box up to 40 kg brought to weight on the balance. This improved only, when modern plastics and electronics held into the public telephone boxes introduction.

	In the good old days, phone booths were bright yellow, a real eye-sore but easy to spot if you needed one. The new phone booths are almost all glass with some gray and a pink trim, trendy but not as easy to spot as the old ones. If you are in an urgent need for a public phone and can't find one, ask in a restaurant, they usually let you use their phone for a quite usurious price (like 50 Pfennige per minute or so). Public phones in Germany work more or less like everywhere else, except for the differences: Most public phones by now are card phones. Unlike American card phones, they use debit cards. German phone cards can be bought at any post office, most money exchanges at major train stations and many newspaper stores. They have a given value, for example 12 DM for 60 units or 50 DM for approx. 260 units, which works out to something like 0.20 DM/unit. Once you have used up this value you must get a new card. It is not that easy any more to find a public coin phone, even though they still exist. You usually have to insert 20 Pfennige, the minimum price for a call. In airports, train stations and some of the more touristy places you often find credit card phones, too.