Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/430

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast. The remains of the Limes today consist of vestiges of built walls, ditches, forts, fortresses, watchtowers and civilian settlements. Certain elements of the line have been excavated, some reconstructed and a few destroyed. The two sections of the Limes in Germany cover a length of 550 km from the north-west of the country to the Danube in the south-east. The 118-km-long Hadrian’s Wall (UK) was built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian c. AD 122 at the northernmost limits of the Roman province of Britannia. It is a striking example of the organization of a military zone and illustrates the defensive techniques and geopolitical strategies of ancient Rome. The Antonine Wall, a 60-km long fortification in Scotland was started by Emperor Antonius Pius in 142 AD as a defense against the “barbarians” of the north. It constitutes the northwestern-most portion of the Roman Limes.

Postcard 1 : Saalburg Castle

Sender: Xiaoi,  Sent on: 24 Jun, 2014, Received on: 2 Jul, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Bergischer Löwe (Bergischer Lion), Düsseldorf, Germany

Sender: Singalarius,  Sent on: 17 Jun, 2014, Received on: 24 Jun, 2014, Travel time: 17 days

Flag of Hessen, Germany

The civil flag of Hesse consists of a bicolor of a red top and a bottom white stripe, in the proportion 3:5. The state flag is similar, except it is defaced with the coat of arms in the centre, and may only be used by government departments and services. It is the reverse of the flag of Thuringia and, apart from the proportions and the shades of red, identical to the flag of Indonesia and the flag of Monaco.

Sender: hsjoerdis,  Sent on: 10 Jun, 2014, Received on: 24 Jun, 2014, Travel time: 14 days

Mount Watzmann, Germany

The Watzmann is a mountain in the Bavarian Alps south of the village of Berchtesgaden. It is the third highest in Germany, and the highest located entirely on German territory.

Three main peaks array on a N-S axis along a ridge on the mountain's taller western half: Hocheck (2651 m), Mittelspitze (Middle Peak, 2,713m) and Südspitze (South Peak, 2,712m).

The entire massif lies inside Berchtesgaden National Park.

 

Sender: lueneburg, Sent on: 15 Apr, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 29 days

Messel Pit Fossil Site, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/720

 

Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the Eocene, between 57 million and 36 million years ago. In particular, it provides unique information about the early stages of the evolution of mammals and includes exceptionally well-preserved mammal fossils, ranging from fully articulated skeletons to the contents of stomachs of animals of this period.

 

 

Sender: Crazy_Cooper, Sent on: 21 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 15 days

Fagus Factory in Alfeld, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1368

 

Fagus Factory in Alfeld is a 10-building complex - began around 1910 to the design of Walter Gropius, which is a landmark in the development of modern architecture and industrial design. Serving all stages of manufacture, storage and dispatch of lasts used by the shoe industry, the complex, which is still operational today, is situated in Alfeld an der Leine in Lower Saxony. With its groundbreaking vast expanses of glass panels and functionalist aesthetics, the complex foreshadowed the work of the Bauhaus school and is a landmark in the development of architecture in Europe and North America.

 

 

Sender: Sabine, Sent on: 14 Apr, 2014, Received on: 29 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 15 days

House Loburg (Haus Loburg), Coesfeld, Germany

 

House Loburg is the peasantry Sirksfeld at Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. It's an old, surrounded by a moat noble residence, whose roots are traced back to the times of Charlemagne. 1550 to 1560 the property was built by the noble family of Westphalia Graes and remained more than three centuries in the family.

In 1912 Prince Alfred zu Salm-Salm Schloss Anholt Loburg house for his son Franz Prinz zu Salm-Salm, the grandfather of the current owner.

 

Sender: Fire112, Sent on: 29 Mar, 2014, Received on: 7 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/729

Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus School, based first in Weimar and then in Dessau, revolutionized architectural and aesthetic concepts and practices. The buildings put up and decorated by the school's professors (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky) launched the Modern Movement, which shaped much of the architecture of the 20th century.

Sender: mani2265, Sent on: 12 Mar, 2014, Received on: 21 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Landau's large main square (Rathausplatz), Germany

Landau's large main square (Rathausplatz) is dominated by the city hall (Rathaus) and the market hall (Altes Kaufhaus). in the 19th-century, the former fortifications gave way to a ring road that encircles the old town centre, from which the old industrial buildings have been excluded. A convention hall, the Festhalle, was built in Art Nouveau style, 1905–07 on a rise overlooking the city park and facing the modernist Bundesamt, the regional government building. The "Protestant Collegiate Church" in Landau in der Pfalz is one of the oldest buildings in the city.

Sender: Landau, Sent on: 12 Mar, 2014, Received on: 23 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 11 days

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski, Poland and Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1127

 

A landscaped park of 559.9 ha astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau from 1815 to 1844. Blending seamlessly with the surrounding farmed landscape, the park pioneered new approaches to landscape design and influenced the development of landscape architecture in Europe and America. Designed as a ‘painting with plants’, it did not seek to evoke classical landscapes, paradise, or some lost perfection, instead using local plants to enhance the inherent qualities of the existing landscape. This integrated landscape extends into the town of Muskau with green passages that formed urban parks framing areas for development. The town thus became a design component in a utopian landscape. The site also features a reconstructed castle, bridges and an arboretum.

 

Postcard 1 : Muskauer Park, Germany

 

 

Sender: ri-tu, Sent on: 7 Apr, 2014, Received on: 10 Apr, 2014, Travel time: 3 days

 

 

Postcard 2 : Park Mużakowski, Poland

 

 

Sender: Frutina, Sent on: 7 Mar, 2014, Received on: 14 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 7 days

Devil's Table in Hinterweidenthal, Germany

The Devil's Table in Hinterweidenthal is a 14 metre high mushroom rock in the German part of the Wasgau region, the southern Palatine Forest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Thanks to its location in the territory of the village of Kaltenbach - formerly part of Wilgartswiesen – it is often called the Kaltenbach Devil's Table (Kaltenbacher Teufelstisch), especially in old literary sources. It is larger and better known than the Devil's Table of Salzwoog, which is only 5 kilometres away to the southwest.

Sender: Mehlstaub, Sent on: 5 Mar, 2014, Received on: 11 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 6 days

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Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/783

These places in Saxony-Anhalt are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and his fellow-reformer Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house in Wittenberg, the houses in Eisleben where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546, his room in Wittenberg, the local church and the castle church where, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted his famous '95 Theses', which launched the Reformation and a new era in the religious and political history of the Western world.

The following individual sites and monuments are included in the World Heritage site:

1- Luther's birthplace (1483), Eisleben

2- House in which Luther died (1546), Meben

3- Luther Hall, Wittenberg

4- Melanchthon's house, Wittenberg

5- Town Church, Wittenberg

6- Castle Church, Wittenberg

Postcard 1 : Wittenberg, Multiview

Sender: Apperveilchen, Sent on: 4 Mar, 2014, Received on: 12 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Wartburg Castle, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/897

Wartburg Castle blends superbly into its forest surroundings and is in many ways 'the ideal castle'. Although it has retained some original sections from the feudal period, the form it acquired during the 19th-century reconstitution gives a good idea of what this fortress might have been at the height of its military and seigneurial power. It was during his exile at Wartburg Castle that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German.

Sender: dandelion_, Sent on: 24 Feb, 2014, Received on: 7 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 13 days

Monastic Island of Reichenau, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/974

The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, intellectual and artistic influence. The churches of St Mary and Marcus, St Peter and St Paul, and St George, mainly built between the 9th and 11th centuries, provide a panorama of early medieval monastic architecture in central Europe. Their wall paintings bear witness to impressive artistic activity.

Sender: Apperveilchen, Sent on: 3 Mar, 2014, Received on: 7 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 4 days

Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1067

The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.

Postcard 1 : Stralsund (Town Hall and St. Nicholas' Church)

Sender: Apperveilchen, Sent on: 3 Mar, 2014, Received on: 7 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 4 days

Classical Weimar, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/846

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting many writers and scholars, notably Goethe and Schiller. This development is reflected in the high quality of many of the buildings and of the parks in the surrounding area.

The World Heritage site comprises eleven separate buildings or ensembles:

1- Goethe's House and Goethe´s Garden and Garden House 

2- Schiller's House

3- Herder Church, Herder House and Old High School

4- Residence Castle and Ensemble Bastille 

5- Dowager's Palace (Wittumspalais)

6- Duchess Anna Amalia Library 

7- Park on the Ilm with the Roman House

8- Belvedere Castle and Park with Orangery

9- Ettersburg Castle and Park

10- Tiefurt Castle and Park

11- Historic Cemetery with Princes´ Tomb

Postcard 1 : Multiview

1- Residence Castle and Ensemble Bastille (City Palace) 2- Goethe's House

Sender: dandelion_, Sent on: 21 Feb, 2014, Received on: 27 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 6 days

Postcard 2 : Multiview

1- The Main House (Großes Haus) of the Deutsches Nationaltheater 

2- Goethe´s Garden and Garden House 3- Goethe's House 

4- Charlotte von Stein′s House 5- Duchess Anna Amalia Library

Sender: thirau, Sent on: 7 Mar, 2014, Received on: 12 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 5 days

Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/535

Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ruling dynasty. It has been a prosperous trading town since the Middle Ages. The number and high quality of the timber-framed buildings make Quedlinburg an exceptional example of a medieval European town. The Collegiate Church of St Servatius is one of the masterpieces of Romanesque architecture.

Sender: Nordfriesland, Sent on: 15 Feb, 2014, Received on: 24 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 9 days

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/896

The museum as a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. The five museums on the Museumsinsel in Berlin, built between 1824 and 1930, are the realization of a visionary project and show the evolution of approaches to museum design over the course of the 20th century. Each museum was designed so as to establish an organic connection with the art it houses. The importance of the museum's collections – which trace the development of civilizations throughout the ages – is enhanced by the urban and architectural quality of the buildings.

Sender: Daniela77, Sent on: 19 Feb, 2014, Received on: 27 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 8 days

Völklingen Ironworks, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/687

The ironworks, which cover some 6 ha, dominate the city of Völklingen. Although they have recently gone out of production, they are the only intact example, in the whole of western Europe and North America, of an integrated ironworks that was built and equipped in the 19th and 20th centuries and has remained intact.

Sender: Sofa, Received on: 10 Feb, 2014

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin, Germany (UNESCO)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/532

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke. Voltaire stayed at the Sans-Souci Palace, built under Frederick II between 1745 and 1747.

Sender: Nordseekrabbe, Sent on: 10 Feb, 2014, Received on: 14 Feb, 2014, Travel time: 4 days