Time spend with a friend...

One of my favorites postcards are those related to drinks, especially red wines.

I just love this simple & beautiful picture with wise words ("Zeit, die mit einem Freund verbracht wird, ist niemals verloren"). That means "Time spent with a friend is never lost". That reminds me of another saying: The most precious gift you can give is YOUR time because you give a piece of your own life that can never be taken back.

The card came with two very lovely stamps:
The 62 Euro-Cents (2013) shows a glass of wine featuring Southern Styria, one of the Austrian Wine Regions and Sauvignon Blanc wine variety.
The 80 Euro-Cents (2015) is one of Europa stamps with Matador wooden toy construction set.

Thank YOU, Marianne !

Country: Germany (but sent from Austria)

Description: two glasses of red wine

Publisher:  Alpha Edition

Source: Send 2, Receive 2 RR - 1310

Maria Gern Pilgrimage Church

I received this card in a RR exchange (Austria x World # 40). It is a Roman Catholic Pilgrimage church in Berchtesgaden Municipality (Bavarian Alps), very close to Austrian border. In 1680 a small church was built with here, replacing a smaller chapel. The Statue of Virgin, which was attributed miraculous effect, attracted many pilgrims from Berchtesgaden, but also from Austria, in to such an extent that in 1691 a hostel for pilgrims and a corner shop with candles were established. There are many churches in Austria and Bavaria with Maria Gern name and about this one you can read more in German.
The stamp (ND 2015) shows a wasp spider (Wespenspinne) and have a face value of 80 euro-cents.

Thank You, Sarah !

Country: Germany (sent from Austria)

Description: Maria Gern Pilgrimage Church in Berchtesgaden

Location: here
Publisher: Werbeverlag Gorzinski

Marchés de Noël

During this time of the year everybody love Christmas Markets. I've never been to a BIG serious one (only small, local ones in my country that I won't count). This one show (I guess) the Strasbourg Market. I have to reasons to believe this. In the background there seems to be the Strasbourg Cathedral and secondly this card is signed by PostCrossing members in Strasbourg Meeting (13 December 2014).

The main stamp (no dated) and suitable for 20g letter shows a Ribeauvillé house façade. The others 0,01 & 0,05 € (not shown in the picture) are common stamps showing Marianne de la Jeunesse.

Thank YOU, Niklot !

Country: France (but with German ID)

Description: Christmas Market in Strasbourg (Alsace)

Publisher:Editions Valoire-Estel (Blois)

LTS Boeing 757-200

Yesterday I've received an official postcard from Germany showing a vintage Boeing 757-200 airplane operated by LTS. Lufttransport Sud (LTS) was an airline based in Munich and it flew from May 1984 until 1998 when it merged with LTU. In 2009 LTU ceased operations and merged with Air Berlin.
About the stamp I've already wrote here.

Thank YOU, Beate !

Country: Germany

Description: LTS Boeing 757-200 D-AMUR

Publisher: Dressler & Schreiner - Düsseldorf

Let it snow !!!

Today was the first snow of this season. Not much, but enough to bring joy to my soul. Without knowing anything about, a day before I purchased a pack of 3 German postcards winter-themed. I just love this kind of cards and I want to share them with you.

gift pack from Austrian & Lufthansa

Today begun just outstanding. I received a 24 cards package with airliners cards from Austrian & Lufthansa. I am just out-of-this-world happy and excited. They were kind enough to write me something, too. The text translation: "Thank you very much for your inquiry. We send you couple postcards from Austrian Airlines & Lufthansa. We hope you will like them! We await you on our airplanes. All the best, Lufthansa Group team."

Yes, I like them VERY much.

Thank you !!!

Flughafen Airport

Thins thank you card was sent from Kassel, Germany, 200 km far from Frankfurt.

The huge Frankfurt Flughafen Airport is the busiest passenger traffic in Germany and and the third in Europe after London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle airports. In 2012-2013 winter, this airport served 264 destinations in 113 countries, making it the airport with the most international destinations in the world.

Between 2005 and 2007 a large Airbus A380 maintenance facility was built at Frankfurt Airport because Lufthansa wanted to station their future A380-aircraft-fleet here. Their first A380 went into operation in June 2010 and was baptized... Frankfurt am Main. And the second one was called Munich.

About the stamp I've already wrote here.

Thank You, Rumi !

Country: Germany

Description: Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Airport

Pubslisher: Fotoverlag HUBER

Location: here

Rostock Harbor

Today card came from Germany and it's an bird-eye view of the Rostck, the largest city in the north German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Town's roots date back to 11th century, when a group of Elbe Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc (which means broadening of a river). In 14th century the city joined the Hanseatic League and this move had a very positive effect of city's development. In  1419 The University of Rostock was founded, one of the oldest in the World and Europe. In modern times (WWII) large parts of the central city were destroyed by Allied bombing in 1942 and 1944. Nowadays it's one of the German industrial ports at Baltic Sea.

In the card there is the City's harbor (Stadthafen) and in the left the St. Peter Church (Petrikirche). It's a popular meeting place to sit by the water and enjoy the evening

The ND 0,75 € postage was issued in 2013 as a commemorative stamp: 50 years of Fehmarn Sound Bridge (50 Jahre Fehmarnsundbrücke).

Thank You, Holger !

Country: Germany

Description: Aerial view of Rostock harbor area (Stadthafen)

Photo: J. Knobloch

Publisher: Schöning GmbH & Co.

Location: here

Zollverein Coal Mine

Another postcard showed up today in my mailbox, along with the one from Luxembourg.
It's a Coal Mine Shaft, a UNESCO Heritage Site (no.975) in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Shaft was opened in 1932 stood in production until December 1986. Soon it was declared a heritage site and preserved by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. And in December 2001 UNESCO declared both the sites of the shafts 12 and 1/2 a World Heritage Site.
About the stamps.
- the 5 cents was issued in 11.08.2005 and depicts a Crocus (ger. Krokus)
- the 10 cents was issued in 08.09.2005 and shows a Tulip (ger. Tulpe)
- the 60 cents was issued in 01.03.2014 and contain a Easter cartoon "Für Dich" ("For You") signed by Peter Gaymann, a cartoonist from Koln.

Thank you Heidi !

Country: Germany
Description: Zollverein Shaft 12 (Zeche Zollverein XII)
Photo: Guntram Walter
Location: here

Trains come from Germany

 

Today's card meets totally one of my favorite theme: trains.
And when I say totally I mean the stamps as well.

The train operates on the narrow gauge railway Niebüll–Dagebüll in Northern Germany. The picture is taken in at the end of July 2010 in Dagebüll Mole (on the ferry pier) which is the route's terminus point.

But I find it unusual how they combine the train: the Prusian old locomotive (1923) with the much newer wagons.

As I've metioned before, the stamps are in the theme, too.

Issued in february 2012, they celebrate 125 years of narrow gauge railways in the Harz Mountains (Schmalspurbahnen im Harz). The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (German: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen) or HSB is a network of 1,000 mm gauge railways in the Harz mountains, in central Germany. It connects the principal towns of Wernigerode, Nordhausen and Quedlinburg and several smaller towns in the area with about 140 kilometres of track with 48 stations and stops, much of which is steeply graded and picturesque.

Many Thanks, Melita !

Country:Germany
Description: Dagebüll Mole narrow gauge station on the ferry pier
Photo: Thomas Böttger
Location: here