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 site, that way we visited 18 sites in England 2018! And 28 sites on a trp to the Normandy and back.
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.
Recent Reviews Jakob Frenzel
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 12-Aug-19
Although my uncle is living in Hamburg and I had been several times, I only visited the Speicherstadt and nearby Kontorhouse distric in July 2019 and March 2016.
It is quite interesting that the whole district has been closed for public a few decades ago and a big fence went around it. As Hamburg in no Freihafen anylonger, this beautiful distric can be enjoyed by everyone and recently the marvelous Elbphilarmony was added.
There is quite a lot of tourist things to do: Hamburg Dungen, The miniature railway museum, coffee roastery etc. etc. or you just stroll arond like we did both times. The district lack authenticity, since a lot of stuff was rebuild or put in between. However, the Chilehouse makes the WHS that remarkable
Read OnThe Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 12-Aug-19
July 2019 - we visited my uncle in Hamburg. Of course it was a weekday and the cemetary was closed, but if you walk around it, you can see actaully everything, that you could see when going onto the cemetary.
I know the Berlin Jewish cemetray, of course the one in Prague and we have been to Trebic. I dont know whetehr this one is really all that special. Interesting the Iberian Quarter in Hamburg, that has to do with the Sephardic Jews that came here from Portugal.
Next time i will be here on a sunday and actually visit the cemetery.
Read OnFrancke Foundation Buildings (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018- our last stop on the roadtripbefore coming back to Berlin.
Halle is a nice East German city. It has stilla lot of remains from GDR, including old advertisements, lack of renovation, some socialist buildings. Definitely worse visiting. But then there is still the Freankesche Stiftung. An historic housing complex run by the church for living, working and learning.
A nice ensemble, but for WHS i do not think it is sigificant enough.
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Luther Memorials
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018 - finally we visited the place where it begun and ended. Luthers Life!
The town is quite deserted, in the middle of nowhere, few young people not many shops, cafes etc, only some Luther museums.
The hot, dry summer made it even less attractive, But we were happy to have visited once. We did not pay the horendous entrance fees, but just had a glimspe from outside.
Wittenberg, the place of work and sucess, is more interesting. Its locacted in a whs hotspot, next to the Elbe river and more significant concerning reformation. I have visited Wittenberg in 2006, 2010 and 2012. The Schlosskirche, the Melanchton house, the University, all interesting places to visit and important places in history.
Read OnBergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018 - on our way back to Berlin we still wanted to vist the remaining WHS. We always planned to visit Documenta Kassel at some point, but never made it. Now we had the chance to visit Kassel. We drove sträight to the top to visit Helcules and had a stunning view over the terraces and the whole park. We drove down to the park then and had another walk and views from thepark, up to the terraces. Unfortunely a lot of construction was going on at that time. We hope to come back at some point when it is more spectacular. Maybe documenta?
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Recently Visited WHS
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- Water Management System of Augsburg
- Jelling
- Risco Caido
- Christiansfeld
- Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- The Prosecco Hills
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
Visited WHS
Rating StatsRedwood 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Lake District 4.5Belfries 4Le Havre 4Nancy 4Reims 4Trier 4Agrigento 3.5City of Bath 3.5Provins 3.5Corvey 3Saltaire 3Syracuse 3Christiansfeld 2.5Jelling 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Reviewed WHS
- 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
- 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)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centro Storico di Lucca (T)
- Centro Storico di Pavia e Certosa (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Cultural Landscape of Innsbruck-Nordkette/Karwendel (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Austria) (T)
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Germany) (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Great Spas of Europe (Czechia) (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (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)
- Kuldîga Old Town in the Primeval Valley of the River Venta (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Le massif forestier de Fontainebleau (T)
- Le noyau historique médiéval ou la "Cuve" de Gand (T)
- Le Palais de Justice de Bruxelles (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (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)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- National Park "Hohe Tauern" (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (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)
- ShUM cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (T)
- Site of the Retiro and the Prado in Madrid (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)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The Burren (T)
- The city of Bergamo (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Historic City of Dublin (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 Monastic City of Clonmacnoise and its Cultural Landscape (T)
- The Neanderthal fossil sites of Wallonia (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Porticoes of Bologna (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)
- The West Bohemian Spa Triangle (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Varazdin - Historic Nucleus and Old Town (the Castle) (T)
- Velebit Mountain (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
- 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)
- Le massif forestier de Fontainebleau (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)
- The Neanderthal fossil sites of Wallonia (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Shakespeare's Stratford (T)
- Slate Industry of North Wales (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)