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 even plan trips according to the locactions of WHS site, like we did in England 2018!
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 have to recommend it for every WHS enthusiast.
World Heritage Sites I visited during my life:
Roadtrip to Spain 1992:
Strassbourg,Alhambra,Cordoba,Carcasonne,Arles,Toledo,Teruel,Genua,Barcelona
Trip to Tunis: Sousse
Disneyland: Paris
Roadtrip Scotland 1993: Edinburgh
Roadtrip to Masuria 1994:
Torun and Malbork
Roadtrip through USA 1995:
Yellowstone NP,Redwood NP,Olympic NP,Glacier NP
Visit in Poland 1996:
Krakow, Binarowo
1996: Mallorca: Sierra de Tramatura
1997:Trip to North Sea Bremen, Waddensea
1999 Sailingtrip Kattegat: Kronenbourg#
2000: Familytrip to Prague
Classtrip to London 2001:Tower of London,Westminster Abbey, Greenwich,Canterbury
Another classtrip 1999 and 2003:Wadden Sea
2004 visit in Black Forest: Strassbourg
Highschool year in Colorado 2005:Mesa Verde,
Grand Canyon
2005 class trip: Prague
Harz visit: Goslar, Quedlinburg
Biketrip 2006:Quedlinburg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg,
Bauhaus Dessau,Gartenreich Dessau-W�rlitz
Blackforest again: Maulbronn
Summer visit: Warsaw,Malbork
Biketrip: Dresden Elbtal,Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Trip with family 2007: Vienna,Schönbrunn,
Another summer trip: Wismar
classtrip: Architecture of Gaudi/Barcelona.
Palau de la Musica Catalana
Family trip to Poland: Wieliczka Salt Mine,Krakow
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska,
Bardejov,Polish wooden churches
Trip to Tuscany: Pisa,Siena,Florence,San Giminano
In 2008:
Easter in Wroclaw:Centennial Hall
Ireland trip: Newgrange
Trip to Paris: Paris,Versailles,Tour St.Jacques
2009:
Trip to Brussels: Grand Place,Brugge
Beguinages: Ghent, Brugge
Plantin Moretus Museum
Town houses of Viktor Horta
Belfries of Flandern
Palais Stoclet
Biketrip to Copenhagen:
Stevns Klint, Cathedral in Roskilde
Trip to Poland: Auschwitz,Polish and Slovakian Churches: Hrvatov
Peacechurch in Jawor
Trip to Sardegna:Su Nuraxi
Trip to Ireland: Dublin, Newgrange
Trip to Vienna 2010:
Regensburg, Bamberg
Salzburg,Vienna, Schönbrunn,
Semmering Railway
With friends: Stralsund, Jasmund
2011:
Return from Black forest: W�rzburger Residenz
Trip to Scotland:Edinburgh,New Lanark
Biketrip Holland:Kinderdijk,Stelling van Amsterdam
Amsterdam,Beemster Polder,Rietveld Schr�der Huis,Van Nelle,
Trip to Heidelberg: Lorsch,Speyer Cathedral
2012:
Biketrip:Dessau_W�rlitz, Bauhaus, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Roadtrip Midwest:Mesa Verde,Taos,Chaco Culture,Yellowstone,Grand Canyon
Trip to New Zealand: Singapor Botanic Garden,Western New Zealand NP
US Visit in 2013:
Yosemite NP,Redwood NP,Olympic NP
Statue of Liberty, Guggenheim museum
Trip to Poland: Auschwitz, Wooden Tserkvas, Jawor
Trip to Brussels: Grand Place, Bruges, Ghent, Stoclet
Christmas-Trip to Stockholm: Drottningholm and Skogskyrkogarden.
2014:Dublin,Ghent
Roadtrip: Zatec, Cesky Krumlev, Holasovice, Kremsmünster, Hallstein, Dolomiten, Padua, Vicenca, Prosecco, Venice, Aquilea, Skocjanske Jame, Split, Trogir, Zadar, Sibenik, Plitvice,
Neusiedler See, Lednice Valtice, Trebon, Litomysl, Nepomuk etc.
2015: Trip to Budapest
2016:Weekendtrip: Rome, Vatican, Villa d'Este, Villa Hadriana, Cerveteri
Roadtrip to Tuscany: St. Gallen, Sardona, Bellinzona, Bergamo, Crespi d'Adda, Milano, Pavia, Genua, Cinque Terre, Lucca, Carara,
Siena, San Giminano, Firenze, Medici, Pienza, Val d'Orcia,Bergamo, Modena, Mantova, Verona, Brescia, Val Camonica, Rhaetian Railway, Neuschwanstein, Augsburg
Summer:
Asia: Angkor Vat, Chiang Mai, Sukhothai, Ayutaya, Andaman Coast
Slovakian Paradise, Ice caves, wood churches
Things I got to see pretty often:
Potsdam Sanssouci,
Museumsinsel, Modern Housing Estates,
Luebeck
Recent Reviews Jakob Frenzel
Bergpark 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?
Read OnUpper Middle Rhine Valley
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018 - we started in Trier, drove along the Mosel and bought some fine wines to bring back to the family. In oder to not loose the whole day, we took a shortcut from Berkastel Kues to the Rhine and landed straight inside the cultural landscape in Bacharach. A beautiful small wooden framed town where we had good beer and Wurstsalat before driving slowly further north. First stop was at Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, called the Maus?, a former customs office inside the Rhine. Then we stopped again somewhere between Oberwesel and St. Goar, with great views at the Loreley, or rather the rock she sits at. Another stop was at Boppard and finally in Koblenz at the Deutsches Eck!
Read OnTrier
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018 - after our trip to France we finally arrived Germany again. The last few days we still wanted to visit the WHS sites that are on the road. And there were some more than we expected.
Trier is one of the oldest cities in Germany. The WHS is a combination of the roman and medieval sites, a nomination that would propbabaly not work anymore
Read OnCity of Luxembourg
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 04-Jul-19
August 2018 - after visiting the Saarland we made another small loop, to visit the smallest EU country and another WHS. Luxembourg was never on my favourite list, but why not take the chance.
The fortress and placement of the city is quite interesting, however the old city is quite boring and only some houses in between are remarkable and add to the justification of the whs status. Of course every member state somehow deserves to have a whs. And there are way less significant cities in europe that would not deserve the status.
Read OnVölklingen Ironworks
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 12-Jun-19
August 2018 - What a site. After visiting Nancy and Metz that day, we still went back to germany and visited, for the first time, the Saarland. After more than a week in France with its beautiful medieval cathedrals, castles and towns, this industrial heritage was quite a switch during our trip. But this cathedral of steel is a masterpiece of human craftship. Just its size, and filigree details atthe same time.
The entrance fee is quite steep, but pay it, visit the Ironwork, it is amazing. You can climb up to the top, the view is stunning and you feel like a lego figurine trapped in a big wonderworld
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Recently Visited WHS
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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 3Luther Memorials 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Reviewed WHS
- 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 champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (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)
- Paysage culturel minier des Monts Métallifères (Erzgebirge) (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)
- 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 Marble Basin of Carrara (T)
- The Monastic City of Clonmacnoise and its Cultural Landscape (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
- 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)