Jakob Frenzel Profile
I was born in 1987 in West-Berlin. Since then I have visited many places in Europe and went on four trips through the USA, to New Zealand and Thailand.
2005 I discovered the magnificance of World heritage sites and since then try not to miss any on our journeys. We try to plan trips according to the locactions of WHS sites. That way we visited 18 sites in England 2018! And 28 sites on a trip to the Normandy. More trips like that are planned.
The German Televison produces short documentaries on each site, called Schätze der Welt, which I record and love to watch with the whole family. I recommend it to every WHS enthusiast.
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Fortress of Suomenlinna
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 16-Feb-23
January 2023 - Just after arrival in Tallinn in the morning, we left our luggage at the hotel next to the harbour and went rightaway to the ferry to Helsinki. We booked Eckeröline which is fairly cheap when booking a return that same day. At approx 2 pm we entered the skerries of Helsinki, one of them in the distance was Suomenlinna.
Of course that was not enough for a tick, thus first thing we bought a dayticket, took the tram to tuomiokirrko and walked the few meters to the line taking us over to [...]
Read OnStruve Geodetic Arc
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 09-Feb-23
January 2023 this is possibly one of the least exciting WHS to visit. Anyway WHS lunatics want to tick it off the bucket list. On our Baltic Trip 2017 I completely blanked out the two spots around Vilnius. Years later I was still mad about. Now, on a spontaneous trip to Tallinn and surrounding my travel buddy asked me, whether visiting Tartu would be within our itinerary.
Of course! I am happy to visit! So after daytrips to Helsinki and Laheema NP in our 4th travel day we took an early train to Tartu through wonderful snowy Landscape and arrived approx. 2 hours later.
Read OnTallinn
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 25-Jan-23
January 2023 - due to a cheap flight offer I finally decided to visit Tallinn this was. I could persuade a friend from school to join. After a day and night in Riga, we flew into Tallinn. Due to our extreme itinerary we spent 3 nights in Tallinn, but made our actual visit to the old town only on the last day, before going back to Berlin.
The old town is very different from Riga or Vilnius. Medieval Flair, extremely well preserved and as we had the luck of snowfall, the views at the old town were just marvelous. Make sure to visit the oldest pharmacy in Europe, Tallins oldest Art-Nouveau Café and the numerous churches. From Toompea you have the nicest view at the city, making a visit to the townhalls tower probably unmecessary.
Read OnSacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jan-23
July 2022 - Just after crossing the Simplonpass we entered Italy. As we had missed the Sacre Monti around the Lago di Como the last time we had it on our itinerary this time. Domodossola was pretty much the first town in the road coming from Switzerland. The Calvario depicts different steps in the life of Jesus, carved in wooden sculptures in different chapels. We were not the only people. But the place was quite abandoned and we had early Lunch on the lawn with takeaways from the local supermarket. Some of the chapels are in bad shape, but the sculptures are made with attention to many details.
Read OnSwiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 15-Dec-22
July 2022 - choosing the road via Switzerland was mainly due to visiting this magnificent Natural Wonder. There are two different approaches visiting this Site. Either from north via Grindelwald to experience the high Mountains Jungfrau, Eiger and Mönch, or coming from south to have a marvelous view at the Aletsch Glacier. We decided for the latter. We found a nice campground in Betten and still got the Aletschentdeckerpass (55CHF) which gives you unlimited rides in one day. Of you buy the Swiss Coupon Pass in advance you even get 2 for 1 and our children were included anyway.
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- Jakob Frenzel
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- Germany
- Most Impressive
- Grand Canyon, Cinque Terre and many more
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Saechsische Schweiz
Görlitz
Sequoia NP and many more
Recently Visited WHS
- Update 29.03.23
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- Assisi
- Castel del Monte
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Matera
- Naples
- Ferrara
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Ravenna
- Urbino
- Pompei
- Cilento and Vallo di Diano
- San Marino and Mount Titano
Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Granada 5Redwood 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Lake District 4.5Sintra 4.5Belfries 4Kraków 4Le Havre 4Nancy 4Oporto 4Reims 4Tallinn 4Trier 4Verona 4Vilnius 4Agrigento 3.5Alto Douro 3.5Bamberg 3.5City of Bath 3.5Provins 3.5Riga 3.5Seville 3.5Torun 3.5Úbeda and Baeza 3.5Belem 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Saltaire 3Salzburg 3Syracuse 3Telc 3Zamosc 3Bardejov Town 2.5Burgundy 2.5Christiansfeld 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Holasovice 2.5Jelling 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Orange 2.5Reichenau 2.5Taos Pueblo 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Kernavė 2Ivrea 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Tallinn
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Margravial Opera House
- Chaîne des Puys
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Old City of Berne
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Bamberg
- Reichenau
- Orange
- Burgundy
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Telc
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Kronborg Castle
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Par force hunting landscape
- Sintra
- Belem
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- University of Coimbra
- Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park
- Oporto
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Guimarães
- Alto Douro
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Elvas
- Evora
- Holasovice
- Ayutthaya
- Sukhothai
- Angkor
- Classical Weimar
- Úbeda and Baeza
- Seville
- Cordoba
- Medina Azahara
- Wartburg Castle
- Gorham's Cave Complex
- Granada
- Antequera Dolmens Site
- Donana National Park
- Bamberg
- Graz
- Regensburg
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Verona
- Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest
- Riga
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon
- Mesa Verde
- Jelling
- Chaco Culture
- Taos Pueblo
- Torun
- Christiansfeld
- Syracuse
- Vilnius
- Kernavė
- Curonian Spit
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
- Luther Memorials
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Trier
- City of Luxembourg
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Nancy
- Reims
- Champagne
- Provins
- Fontainebleau
- Chartres Cathedral
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Le Havre
- Amiens Cathedral
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
- Belfries
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
- Mining Sites of Wallonia
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes
- The Four Lifts
- Aachen Cathedral
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cologne Cathedral
- Corvey
- Fagus Factory
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Val di Noto
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Agrigento
- Arab-Norman Palermo
- Isole Eolie
- Mount Etna
- Blenheim Palace
- Saltaire
- Derwent Valley Mills
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- City of Bath
- Stonehenge
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Gwynedd Castles
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Studley Royal Park
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Lake District
- Liverpool
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Semmering Railway
- Vienna
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Schönbrunn
- Salzburg
Visited TWHS
- Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- Hanbury botanical gardens (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone (extension) (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- Kahurangi National Park, Farewell Spit and Canaan karst system (T)
- Karst Valleys of Slovakia (T)
- Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement (T)
- Kuldīga (Goldingen) (T)
- La Camargue (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Le Charolais-Brionnais, paysage culturel de l'élevage bovin (T)
- Le noyau historique ou la 'Cuve' de Gand, et les deux abbayes qui sont à son origine (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe (T)
- Luther memorials in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Bavaria and Thuringia (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (Germany) (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nîmes, l'Antiquité au présent (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (Belgium) (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- The Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Network of Rural Heritage Buildings in Hungary (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Varazdin (T)
- Velebit Mountain (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- Le Charolais-Brionnais, paysage culturel de l'élevage bovin (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza) (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement (T)
- Kuldīga (Goldingen) (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Voormalige Nazorgkolonie en Sanatorium Zonnestraal (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Sites funéraires et mémoriels de la Première Guerre mondiale (Front Ouest) (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Shakespeare's Stratford (T)
- "SS Gt Britain" (T)
- The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth Jarrow (T)
- Menai + Conwy Bridges (T)
- Caerleon legionary fortress (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- National Park Hohe Tauern (T)
- Abbey of Kremsmünster (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)