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.
Recent Reviews Jakob Frenzel
Elvas
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 06-Nov-20
October 2020 - our third night in the camper we spent in Elvas. Just next to the aqueduct there is a parking lot, with a beautiful view at the fortification. The town is small enough to stroll along the bulwark and through the city center. From the top, we could look over to Spain. The main square has a Escher-like pavement and is really one of the highlites. Some cafes offered food on the main market, so thats where we had dinner. Another walk in the evening revealed how poor the city is. The flats some streets away from the market are tiny, in bad shape, dogs are lingering on the streets, and it does not quite feel like this town is profiting from WHS status. However, the night at the aqueduct was nice, especially the next morning with fog hanging on that marvelous building
Read OnVila Viçosa, Renaissance ducal town (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 06-Nov-20
October 2020 - after spending few hours in Evora we still scheduled a stopover in the marvel town of Vila Vicosa. Already on the way we passed several quarries and trucks which transported the white gold to somewhere. We arrived in the town, parked at the castel and took a walk to the Paco Ducal. The palace is beautiful, the facade shimmers blueish/silver and also a walk through the town reveals some further nice spots. I would not be dissapointed if it should be inscribed.
Definitely good side to squeeze in between Evora and Elvas.
Read OnEvora
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 06-Nov-20
October 2020 - despite the pandemic and german travel warnings for parts of Portugal, we decided to stick with our original plans from beginning of the year and flew to Lisbon, rented a camper and made a wonderful roadtrip with our 22 months old daughter.
Beginning south of Lisbon at the North west tip of the Costa Vicentina, we continued our trip to the spanish border. Shortly before arriving Evora we visited Beja (I guess it will be part of the Camino Portugues nomination) with its medival torre and churches. Driving further north we could shortly after marvel at the silhoutte of Evora.
Read OnHolasovice
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 28-Jun-20
September 2014 - I have quite good memory about this tiny picturesque village. I sent my parents here a year before with the remark that it is a WHS. When they came back, they were like "seriously?". I wanted to see it myself. After spending the morning in Pilsen and visiting the brewery we drove further to Cesky Krumlov. With a small detour you can easily visit holasovice on that Tour. We walked into the local Tourist Information, bought some Souvenirs (handmade Krtek christmas hangers) and meandered through the village. In the south east corner we bought a big jar of Honey, took some nice pictures and shortly after continued our drive to cesky Krumlov. The village is nicely preserved and certainly a good example
Read OnŽatec – the Hops Town (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 27-Jun-20
September 2014 - I finished my studies and we bought an old VW Campervan to drive around Europe. So we switched to vanlife for few weeks.
Starting our journey, we headed south via Dresden to Czechia. Our first Twhs was Zatec. Since I am a brewing scientist, I was happy to see finally a beer spot on the list. I was quite disappointed, when Mechtild Rössler read out on the Whs meeting the deferal of the "town of hope". Obviously she did not even know what hops is and that it is a fundamental ingredient for beer.
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Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Granada 5Redwood 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Lake District 4.5Belfries 4Le Havre 4Nancy 4Reims 4Trier 4Verona 4Vilnius 4Agrigento 3.5Bamberg 3.5City of Bath 3.5Provins 3.5Riga 3.5Seville 3.5Torun 3.5Úbeda and Baeza 3.5Corvey 3Saltaire 3Salzburg 3Syracuse 3Bardejov Town 2.5Christiansfeld 2.5Graz 2.5Holasovice 2.5Jelling 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Taos Pueblo 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Kernavë 2Reviewed WHS
- 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
- Kernavë
- 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
- 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 (T)
- Early Medieval Monastic Sites (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" (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)
- 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)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt (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 (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 (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
- Vila Viçosa, Renaissance ducal town (T)
- Žatec – the Hops Town (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Old Synagogue and Mikveh in Erfurt (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 (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)