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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Monastery of Alcobaça
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 10-Feb-21
October 2020 - our third and last WHS for that day. Unfortunately parts of it where under construction, so we could not e.g. marvel at the baroque facade. But inside there were many interesting elements again. Sacrophags of Portugals first kings and families. Beautiful fountains in the cloisters visited by numerous white doves. But the most unique part was the tiled kitchen. We originally thought it was something like a hamam for the monks, due to the „bathtubs“ and pool-like tiled construction under the giant chimney. All in all another wonderful monastery which certainly deserves WHS status.
Read OnMonastery of Batalha
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 08-Feb-21
October 2020 - this was our 2nd Whs visit that day. The giant and beautiful gothic monastery of Batalha. Before we entered we had a snack at the cafe just east of the monastery. The cathedral has some wonderful gothic elements but most stunning is the light. Due to the colorful windows there were green, red, yellow spots on the floors and spread a charming atmosphere. This followed us to the many separate parts of the cathedral. A curiosity of the buildings can be found in the unfinished chapel. Due to lack of money, the Kings rather wanted to finish Jeronimos Abbey in Lisbon and let it stand like this for another 500 years.
Read OnSouthwest Coast (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 08-Feb-21
October 2020 - since all Portuguese mainland WHS sites are north and east of Lisbon, we decided not to travel along the Algarve and Southwestcoast. However, friends of us where in Portugal at the same time, so we visited them in Vila Nova de Milfontes. It is a cozy little surfer town. North of it you can find the Praia de Malhao with its beautiful cliffs, sand beach and coastal vegetation. I am positive that this must be one of the most beautiful spots of Portugal’s coast. We spent a whole day here with our friends and daughter, were swimming in the cold waves of the Atlantic, got sunburned and had good enough impressions that we could leave the coast the next day to continue to Evora and Elvas.
Read OnConvent of Christ in Tomar
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 12-Jan-21
October 2020 - after sleeping in Coimbra we arrived in Tomar in the Late morning. You can drive up all the way to the Convent which we didn’t know.so we were quite exhausted already. The small garden inside the fort is lovely with views at the foothills. We bought a combiticket 15€ for 3 WHS sites. Tomar has numerous rooms, courts and chapels. The architecture and flair is comparable with Alhambra. Orange trees, malioka tiles, springs, overall an authentic medieval complex. There is a golden chapel with the biggest wooden organpipe. The chapel very much reminded me of Aachen. Beware of the lady who sells her fruits outside the building. Apparently all from her garden but overpriced and overripe. But the lady is nice anyway!
Read OnDesert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 12-Jan-21
October 2020 - going south from Porto to Lisbon we still had a few spots to visit in between. Before going to Coimbra that day we drove into the national park of bussaco. You can buy a car ticket at the entrance booth for reasonable 5€. We drove up to the palace hotel and first had a long hike through the Tasmanian and American forests and found a mysterious cascade with water dripping downwards. Many exotic plants and trees are standing here and especially the many ferns make this spot look like a moderate-climate jungle. We did have a map but the paths are in very Bad shape so we found ourselves crawling under fallen trees or jumping over branches. Somehow we made it to the top again and still had time to circle the palace hotel
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Recently Visited WHS
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- Oporto
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Belem
- Sintra
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Monastery of Batalha
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Evora
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Alto Douro
- Guimarães
- Elvas
- University of Coimbra
- Mafra Palace, Convent and Royal Hunting Park
Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Granada 5Redwood 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Lake District 4.5Sintra 4.5Belfries 4Le Havre 4Nancy 4Oporto 4Reims 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 3Bardejov Town 2.5Christiansfeld 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Holasovice 2.5Jelling 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Taos Pueblo 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Kernavë 2Reviewed WHS
- 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
- 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)
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (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)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Citté-fortezza di Palmanova (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (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 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)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (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 - Testimonies of everyday life, religion and town history between change and continuity (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Padova Urbs Picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the 14th century painting cycles (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (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)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Routes in Portugal (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)
- Southwest Coast (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 (T)
- Velebit Mountain (T)
- Vila Viçosa, Renaissance ducal town (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
- 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, 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 - 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)
- 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)