Showing posts with label stamps: Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stamps: Germany. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Alzey - Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany


This card says Alzey in wine paradise Rhenish Hesse. Rhenish Hesse (German: Rheinhessen) is a region in German state Rhineland-Palatinate (Rhineland-Pfalz) and is the largest of 13 regions producing German wine (hence the wine paradise).
Alzey is one of the Nibelungenstädte – towns associated with the Nibelungenlied – because it is represented in this work by the character Volker von Alzey. Hence, Alzey is also known as Volkerstadt.

And this is my favourite stamp from Germany:

Bollenhut - Baden-Württemberg, Germany


Part of traditional Schwarzwald (Black Forest) women costume is Bollenhut, a straw hat with wool pom-poms. Married women wear black pom-poms, unmarries girls wear red ones. These hats are worn in the three neighbouring Black Forest villages of Gutach, Kirnbach and Reichenbach since around 1750.

Also a stamp featuring Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (known in many countries as Felix Mendelssohn), famous German composer, pianist, organist and conductor.

Hamballe fountain - Baden-Württemberg, Germany


In the German cultural region Swabia (in the South of Germany) there is a term "Hamballe", meaning a dopey (but lovable)person who would, for example, water their flowers when it's raining.

Also, some nice German stamps:

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Hamburg by night


Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (used to be a member of the medieval Hanseatic League) is the second-largest city in Germany and the eight-largest city in the European Union.



Lufthansa





Saturday, February 19, 2011

Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany


Stamp: joint issue with Latvia. Theme - Unesco World Heritage Sites. On this stamp we can see Black-roofed house in Riga (Latvia).

Friday, February 18, 2011

Zuckerschnecke: cinnamon roll from Germany


Chocolate from Germany with an Internet stamp



This is the Internet stamp, pn-line postage service of Deutsche Post. Here's the information from the web site: The free INTERNETMARKE online service is the quick and easy way to print your postage for letters, small packages and parcels straightaway with the motif of your choice.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Greetings from Germany - Sachsen-Anhalt


A card from Germany, Halle an der Saale - Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)

Stamp and cancellation

Friday, January 29, 2010

Reichstag dome, Berlin




What makes this card even more precious to me is the fact that it's written in Russian! I'm always more than happy to get cards from foreigners written in my mother tongue:))

Saturday, December 26, 2009

A seahorse and other lovely things

This is one of the most beautiful and thoughtful cards through and through:))
There is a seahorse on the front side, and I just love seahorses

*by Walter Trier, children's book illustrator*

On the back side, there was a poem by my favourite poet and the stamps were so nice!

On the left stamp is Bernhard Grzimek, famous zoologist and book author, on the right one is Heinz Erhardt, comedian, musician, actor and poet. The stamp says "Another poem!" (it was the title of his first book), which corresponds beautifully with the poem on the card.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Da hast Du deine Karte:)

"Here you have your card", says the card:)

Beautiful card from a little girl - Baden-Württemberg, Germany

This is my second postcrossing official. It's very special for me. Not only is it extremely to my liking, it was also sent by a little girl. So very sweet:))