The stamp shows Siegfried and the Dragon and comes from the series Sagenhaftes Deutschland (issued 07-10-2021). The postmark I got here shows a dragon holding Worms' coat of arms.
Thank You very much Marcel for sending me the card in an envelope!
The stamp shows Siegfried and the Dragon and comes from the series Sagenhaftes Deutschland (issued 07-10-2021). The postmark I got here shows a dragon holding Worms' coat of arms.
The card was cancelled in the philatelic shop in Pau. The stamp is from the series about handicrafts and deals with the production of objects with feathers. Issued on 27th September, the stamp is printed with a special treatment to evoke the look of a real feather.
The left stamp shows an artistic depiction of the Winged Victory Statue in Brescia (issued 21-11-2020). The stamp was issued to celebrate a finished restauration of the statue. The other stamp was issued for the Centenary of the Congress of Livorno (issued 21-01-2021), the founding event of the Communist Party of Italy.
Another Pokemon stamp (issued 07-07-2021) was used here. This one shows the backside of a Japanese trading card. Here in Germany the backside however looks slightly different.
The stamp shows the Lighthouse of Tinsdal (issued 01-07-2021).
I used a stamp showing the same scene as the card from the series Sagenhaftes Deutschland (issued 07-10-2021) and a postmark of Siegfried forging his sword.
One of four Jack O'Lantern stamps (issued 29-09-2016) was used twice on the card. They arrived right in time for Halloween.
I sent this card with a matching stamp from the series Sagenhaftes Deutschland (issued 07-10-2021). The series was started in 2020, but next year it will not be continued anymore.
It is said that the Germans have a special connection to the forest. So when a stamp called Forest is Climate Change was included in the German stamp programme for 2021, I was expecting something special. This stamp issued on 7th October however is a very big disappointment. How unimaginative! And even worse someone unfamiliar with German will not even get the important message.
In the cover was this stamp from Austria's annual series of technical innovations. This one was issued on 25th October and is printed on tennis ball material. In real life the colour is much mor vibrant, but as the stamp is rather thick, my scanner did not got the colour right. Shown on the stamp is Dominic Thiem, the third Austrian tennis player in the World's Top Ten.
The card was cancelled with a special postmark created for this meet-up. As you can see, it was held to celebrate International Postcard Week, World Post Day and World Postcard Day, which are all in early October.
The stamp honours Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen (issued 20-10-2021). Written in 1897 and printed in 1900, it was not publicly performed until its premiere in Berlin in 1920 and in Vienna in 1921, where both it provoked strong reactions. It scrutinizes the sexual morality and class ideology of its day through successive encounters between pairs of characters, who just engaged or will soon engage in sexual activities across social classes.
The stamp is from a set of two about Mailboxes (issued 09-10-2021). It is a joint issue with Japan and just a few days before this card I also got one of the Japanese stamps on a card (see here).
One of my favourite stamps of 2019 was used on this card. It is from a set of two marking the beginning of the new stamp series called Heroes of the Childhood (issued 05-12-2019) and shows Heidi. The third set in this series will be issued next week. More about those new stamps later on.
A personalised stamp and a special postmark about the Bicentenary of Schubert's time in Sankt Pölten were used here. Schubert was invited to the town by the local bishop and there he composed parts of his opera Alfonso und Estrella.
I returned a week later on 26th October to visit the Cathedral Museum. Their current exhibition is called Frauenwelten (Women's Worlds) and shows the connection of exhibits from the museum's collection to two female convents in the region and thus gives insight into the life of Medieval women. I bought six cards in the museum. The first two show interior views and the other four show exhibits, the first three of them are actually part of the current exhibition.
I have been in Hildesheim multiple times in the last years, but usually I just go straight from train station to museum and back. As the weather on this day was so good, I actually went on a walk and used the scenic route back to the train station.
This card shows Saint Godehard. It is a basilica minor and its Romanesque architecture remained nearly unaltered and undamaged through the centuries. Godehard was an influential bishop of Hildesheim in the 11th century. This church was began right after his canonization in 1133.
The next card shows the Kehrwiederturm, the last remaining tower of Hildesheim's city walls.
After my walk I still had more time and visited the City Museum in the Knochenhaueramtshaus. I stood in front of this building, which is said to be the most beautiful timber-framed house in the World, a few times, but I have never before visited the museum inside. It gives a good overview of Hildesheim's history from pre-Roman times to the present. A focus of the first floor is the Hildesheim Treasure. Unearthed in 1868, it is the largest collection of Roman silver found outside imperial frontiers. The museum however only shows replicas of the pieces, as the originals are kept in Berlin.
The last card I bought in the tourist information and it is a nice addition for my growing collection of train stations. This however is not how Hildesheim's train station looks today. Although this version was not badly damaged in World War II, it was demolished in 1959 and replaced by a more modern building.