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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Vlkolinec
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 25-Jan-25
August 2024 - the last days of our roadtrip returning fromm Romania we passed this little village. A steep road is guiding to the villages parking lot. You have to pay an entrance fee, which enhances the museum-character of this village. Visiting all wooden houses and some interiors can be completed within an hour. Make sure to visit the only restaurant in Vlkolinec which has wonderful Bryndzove Pirohe i Buchty na pare. The village is remarkable due to its wonderful surrounding landscape. 35 years ago i still remember some polish villages which looked similar.
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Jakob Frenzel Germany - 24-Jan-25
August 2024 - it was one of the hottest days during our trip. Luckily we found a camping spot at the local Swimmingpool which was included in the fee and seems to be the only spot to cool down in this town.
In the evening it became more bearable for a stroll through the old town. It is definitely a wonderful old town, but also too much of a tourist place loaded with souvenir shops and italian-style restaurants. I regret not visting the old town next morning again, without the tourist masses. Summing up, I expected a bit more of this one, but it was a nice visit.
Villages with Fortified Churches
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 24-Jan-25
August 2024 - After visiting Sibiu we took smaller roads to Biertan. It is probably the most visited Fortress town as it is on the way to Shigishoara. We visited during lunch break of the guards, so no entry fee for us. The german heritage is very obvious and the history well displayed. The next day, we still visited Saschiz and the wonderful and idylic Viscri (Photo). However, we spent the night at yet another fortress which strangely is not found on the list. Honigberg or Hārman is well preserved and the Saxonian heritage still being worshiped. It definitely adds some value putting it on your itinerary.
Dacian Fortresses
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 09-Dec-24
August 2024 - After spending the night in Hunedoara, we took smaller roads with the goal to visit the Fortress of Sarmizegetusa Regia. It was hot that day and the roads really bad. Thus we decided to stop at Costesti. On the map it looked like a small hike, but my family decided to stay at the parking lot.
Damn, the hike was more strenous than anticipated and hard on my lungs. I did not meet anybody on the hike, and I was expecting to meet bears. Eventually I arrived at the fortress and climbed around the stones for a bit.
Very mystical place, especially when being alone.
During the descent I met the first visitors, who had the same idea.
Dacian Limes
Jakob Frenzel Germany - 09-Dec-24
August 2024 - Another Limes WHS! Good that it got inscribed before our trip, so we knew what to look for. At the end, we ended up just activly visiting 2 components. Alba Iulia and Jidova.
Alba Iulia is amazing though. We spent two hours here, and admired the old roman remains. Jidova (picture) was rather a spontaneous stop. The remains there are also by far more interesting than all these Limes components in Germany.
I am curious how many more WHS will evolve from the Roman Empire era.
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- Vlkolinec
- Banska Stiavnica
- Dacian Limes
- Roșia Montană
- Dacian Fortresses
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Sighisoara
- Monastery of Horezu
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu
- Via Appia
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Hortobágy
- Hollókö
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble
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Austria . Belgium . Czechia . Estonia . Germany . Holy See . Italy . Latvia . Lithuania . Luxembourg . Moldova . Poland . San Marino . Singapore . Slovakia . Slovenia .Visited WHS
Rating StatsAngkor 5Granada 5Redwood 5Aachen Cathedral 4.5Lake District 4.5Sintra 4.5Belfries 4Istanbul 4Kraków 4Le Havre 4Mafra 4Nancy 4Oporto 4Reims 4Tallinn 4Trier 4Verona 4Vilnius 4Agrigento 3.5Alto Douro 3.5Bamberg 3.5Banska Stiavnica 3.5City of Bath 3.5Naples 3.5Provins 3.5Riga 3.5Seville 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Torun 3.5Úbeda and Baeza 3.5Belem 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Ferrara 3Kuldiga 3Saltaire 3Salzburg 3Syracuse 3Telc 3Zamość 3Bardejov Town 2.5Burgundy 2.5Dacian Limes 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Holasovice 2.5Hollókö 2.5Jelling 2.5Kronborg Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Modernist Kaunas 2.5Orange 2.5Reichenau 2.5Taos Pueblo 2.5The Four Lifts 2.5Kernavė 2Ivrea 1.5Roșia Montană 1.5Schokland 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Vlkolinec
- Sighisoara
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Dacian Fortresses
- Dacian Limes
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Wooden Churches of Maramures
- Roșia Montană
- Hortobágy
- Tokaji Wine Region
- Naples
- The Porticoes of Bologna
- Ferrara
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Struve Geodetic Arc
- Tallinn
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Margravial Opera House
- Chaîne des Puys
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
- Old City of Berne
- Caves and Ice Age Art
- Bamberg
- Reichenau
- Orange
- Burgundy
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
- Wachau Cultural Landscape
- Telc
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine
- Kronborg Castle
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
- Par force hunting landscape
- Sintra
- Belem
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- University of Coimbra
- Mafra
- Oporto
- Bom Jesus do Monte
- Guimarães
- Alto Douro
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde
- Elvas
- Evora
- Holasovice
- Žatec – Landscape of Hops
- Ayutthaya
- Sukhothai
- Angkor
- Classical Weimar
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt
- 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
- Białowieża Forest
- Riga
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Hedeby and Danevirke
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon
- Mesa Verde
- Jelling
- Chaco Culture
- Taos Pueblo
- Torun
- Moravian Church Settlements
- Syracuse
- Vilnius
- Kernavė
- Modernist Kaunas
- Curonian Spit
- Kuldiga
- 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
- Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
- 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
- The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
- 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
- Aguas Livres Aqueduct (T)
- Alpine and pre-alpine meadow and marsh landscapes (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Cascata delle Marmore and Valnerina: Monastic sites and ancient hydrogeological reclamation works (T)
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco (T)
- Diocletian's Palace and the Historical Nucleus of Split (extension) (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau : château, jardins, parc et forêt (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Eglises byzantines et post-byzantines de Curtea de Arges (T)
- Ensemble of Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works in Portugal (T)
- European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper) (Poland) (T)
- Extension of the World Heritage Site "Historic Centre of Prague" with the important Monuments in its Vicinity (T)
- Fishpond Network in the Trebon Basin (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Gdansk - Town of Memory and Freedom (T)
- Green Belt (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- Hanbury botanical gardens (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Historical theatres of the Marche Region (T)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame à La Rose - Lessines (T)
- Íznik (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)
- La Camargue (T)
- Lake Maggiore and Lake D'Orta lakelands (T)
- Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
- Le Charolais-Brionnais, paysage culturel de l'élevage bovin (T)
- Le noyau historique de la ville d'Alba Julia (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 « coules » de Petite Valachie (T)
- Les Alpes de la Méditerranée (France) (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Les villes antiques de la Narbonnaise et leur territoire: Nimes, Arles, Glanum, aqueducs, via Domitia (T)
- Les villes bastionnées des Pays-Bas du nord-ouest de l'Europe (T)
- Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale, enjeux de pouvoir, confrontations stylistiques et identité urbaine (T)
- Mining Historical Heritage (T)
- Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
- Monastery of Santa María de La Rábida and the Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Montagne Sainte-Victoire et sites cezaniens (T)
- Monuments, Sites and Cultural Landscape of Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- Mountain-top Hotel and Television Transmitter Ještěd (T)
- Natural Reserves of Tatras Mountain (T)
- Noyau historique d'Antwerpen -Anvers- de l'Escaut aux anciens remparts de vers 1250 (T)
- Nuruosmaniye Complex (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Original Meadow - Pasture Sites of Slovakia (T)
- Orvieto (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Pretzien Weir (T)
- Primošten Vineyards (T)
- Princely religious foundations in Wallachia and Moldavia (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Renaissance Houses at Slavonice (T)
- Rouen : ensemble urbain à pans de bois, cathédrale, église Saint-Ouen, église Saint Maclou (T)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in Portugal (T)
- Saint-Honorat, Île monastique de l’archipel de Lérins à Cannes (T)
- Salento and the Barocco Leccese (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- The Andaman Sea Nature Reserves of Thailand (T)
- The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (T)
- The Architectural Works of Alvar Aalto - a Human Dimension to the Modern Movement (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- The Betlém Rock Sculptures near Kuks (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains (T)
- The Fortress of Terezín (T)
- The Historic Centre of Sibiu and its Ensemble of Squares (T)
- The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava (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 Murge of Altamura (T)
- The Network of Rural Heritage Buildings in Hungary (T)
- The old villages of Hollókõ and Rimetea and their surroundings (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- The Padang Civic Ensemble (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic – Heritage of the First World War (T)
- Trading Posts and Fortifications on Genoese Trade Routes from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- Varazdin (T)
- Velebit Mountain (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- Vila Viçosa (T)
- Villas of the Papal Nobility (T)
- Volterra: Historical City and Cultural Landscape (T)
- Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf - extension of the WHS (T)
- Waters and seabed of Fiordland (Te Moana O Atawhenua) (T)
- Yıldız Palace Complex (T)
- Zadar - Episcopal complex (T)
Reviewed TWHS
- The old villages of Hollókõ and Rimetea (T)
- The Cultural Landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio (T)
- Le Charolais-Brionnais (T)
- Ceský ráj (Czech Paradise) Rock Cities (T)
- Historic centre of Pavia and Chartreuse (T)
- Montado, Cultural Landscape (T)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Southwest Coast (T)
- Bussaco cultural landscape (T)
- Alvaro Siza's Architecture Works (T)
- Vila Viçosa, Renaissance ducal town (T)
- Chiang Mai, Capital of Lanna (T)
- The Olive Grove Landscapes of Andalusia (T)
- Jaén Cathedral (T)
- Columbus Memorial Places in Huelva (T)
- Grobiņa archaeological ensemble (T)
- The Augustow Canal (Kanal Augustowski) (T)
- Trakai Historical National Park (T)
- The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse (T)
- Francke Foundation Buildings (T)
- Metz Royale et Impériale (T)
- Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (T)
- Domaine de Fontainebleau (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Voormalige Nazorgkolonie en Sanatorium Zonnestraal (T)
- Rouen (T)
- Les citadelles mosanes (T)
- Les sites à fossiles néandertaliens de Wallonie (T)
- Taormina and Isola Bella (T)
- Shakespeare's Stratford (T)
- SS Great 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)