Germany - Netherlands - Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes

"Following the left bank of the Lower Rhine River for approximately 400 km from the Rhenish Massif in Germany to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands, the transnational property consist of 102 components from one section of the frontiers of the Roman Empire, which in the 2nd century CE, stretched across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, over 7,500 km. The property comprises military and civilian sites and infrastructure that marked the edge of Lower Germany from the 1st to 5th centuries CE. Archaeological remains in the property include military bases, forts, fortlets, towers, temporary camps, roads, harbours, a fleet base, a canal, and an aqueduct, as well as civilian settlements, towns, cemeteries, sanctuaries, an amphitheatre, and a palace. Almost all of these archaeological remains are buried underground. Waterlogged deposits in the property have enabled a high degree of preservation of both structural and organic materials from the Roman periods of occupation and use."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1 - Nuess, Germany
Along the Rhine River, at Neuss, a reconstructed fortified Roman tower. Thanks to Marcel of Germany.

Postcard 2 - Xanten, Germany

Illustration of Roman site of Colonia Ulpia Traiana at Xanten Archaelogical Park Museum in Xanten, Wesel near the Dutch border. Thanks to Marcel of Germany. Postmarked on July 13, 2020 with Covid-19 special cancellation "GEMEINSAM GEGEN CORONA" (Together Against Corona) and arrived in July 28, 2020.

Postcard 3 - Nijmegen, Netherlands
A postcard of Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen,Netherlands showing a Roman mask found along the Rhine River border forts of the Roman Empire. Nice stamp of Year of Rat used. Thanks to Jeroen of Utrecht, Netherlands. Postmarked June 23, 2021 and arrived in Penang island on July 13, 2021.

Postcard 4 - Haus Burgel, Germany
Haus Bürgel Roman fort, Monheim am Rhein, Germany is part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes. Thanks to Marcel of Germany.

Netherlands - Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker

"Built between 1774 and 1781, this property is a moving mechanical scale model of the solar system as it was known at the time. Conceived and built by an ordinary citizen – the wool manufacturer Eise Eisinga – the model is built into the ceiling and south wall of the former living room/bedroom of its creator. Powered by one single pendulum clock, it provides a realistic image of the positions of the Sun, the Moon, the Earth and five other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). The planets revolve around the Sun in real time and the distance between the planets are at scale. The model fills the entire ceiling of the room, making it one of the earliest predecessors of the ceiling and projection planetariums of the 20th and 21st centuries."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Postcard 1
Vintage postcard of Planetarium Eise Eisinga. Thanks to Peter of Netherlands.

Postcard 2

Telescopic mechanism of Eise Esiginga Planetarium. Thanks to Ruyi of Netherlands for mailing using matching Eise Esiginga stamp set. Posted in November 11, 2019 and arrived in Penang island on November 23, 2019.

Belgium - Netherlands - Colonies of Benevolence

"The transnational serial property encompasses four settlements; cultural landscapes with one colony in Belgium and three in The Netherlands. Together they bear witness to a 19th century experiment in social reform, an effort to alleviate urban poverty by establishing agricultural colonies in remote locations. Established in 1818, Frederiksoord (the Netherlands) is the earliest of these colonies and home to the original headquarters of the Society of Benevolence, an association which aimed to reduce poverty at the national level. Other components of the property are the colonies of Wilhelminaoord and Veenhuizen, in the Netherlands, and Wortel in Belgium. As the colonies’ small farms yielded insufficient revenues, the Society of Benevolence sought other sources of revenue, contracting with the State to settle orphans, soon followed by beggars and vagrants, leading to the creation of “unfree” colonies, such as Veenhuizen, with large dormitory type structures and larger centralized farms for them to work under the supervision of guards. The colonies were designed as panoptic settlements along orthogonal lines. They feature residential buildings, farm houses, churches and other communal facilities. At their peak in the mid-19th century, over 11,000 people lived in such colonies in the Netherlands. In Belgium their number peaked at 6,000 in 1910. "

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postard 1
Colony Wilhelminaoord in Drenthe, Netherlands is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2021. Thanks to Jarina of Netherlands. Postmarkd Zwolle, written on August 5, 2021 and arrived in Penang island on September 8, 2021.

Postard 2
Colonies of Benevolence at Veenhuizen, Netherlands - a 2021 inscribed UNESCO World Heritage site. This nice postcard with UNESCO WHS stamps used was sent on August 5, 2021 and arrived in Penang island on September 9, 2021. Thanks so much to Jarina of Netherlands.

Netherlands - Dutch Water Defence Lines

"The significant boundary modification of the property first inscribed in 1996 stretches from the IJsselmeer (previously known as Zuiderzee) at Muiden to the Biesbosch estuary at Werkendam. This modification adds the New Dutch Waterline to the existing Defence Line of Amsterdam World Heritage site, to become the Dutch Water Defence Lines World Heritage property and also includes a number of small extensions and reductions to the boundaries of the Defence Line of Amsterdam World Heritage property. In particular, the extension illustrates a single military defence system, which was based on inundation fields, hydraulic installations and on a series of fortifications and military posts stretching over an area of 85 km. It also includes three smaller components: Fort Werk IV, the Tiel Inundation Canal and Fort Pannerden near the German border. Built from 1814 to 1940, they complement the already inscribed site, which is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands have used their expert knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes. The centre of the country was protected by a network of 45 armed forts, acting in concert with temporary flooding from polders and an intricate system of canals and locks."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Fort Pampus is built on a man-made island and is part of the Defense Line of Amsterdam. Thanks to Stephany of Netherlands.

Postcard 2A

Muiderslot is an important part of Defence Line of Amsterdam. Thanks to Paula of United Kingdom.

Postcard 2B
Muiderslot is part of Nieuw Hollandse Waterlinie. Thanks to Mike of Netherlands.

Postcard 3

Loevestein Castle is part of New Dutch Waterline. Thanks to Mike of Netherlands.

Netherlands - Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout

"The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Construction of hydraulic works for the drainage of land for agriculture and settlement began in the Middle Ages and have continued uninterruptedly to the present day. The site illustrates all the typical features associated with this technology – dykes, reservoirs, pumping stations, administrative buildings and a series of beautifully preserved windmills." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
A beautiful aerial view of the windmills of Kinderdijk. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.






Postcard 2
A multi-view with a night view of the windmill network. Thanks to Carolien of Netherlands.






Postcard 3
What a nice surprise to reserve this extra long postcard of the famous windmills of Kinderdijk with so man beautiful stamps. I am smiling from ear to ear. Thanks so much to "femliedorien" of Holland.

Postcard 4

Kinderdijk in winter. Thanks to SP for mailing from Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Postcard 4

Nice sunset postcard of Netherlands UNESCO World Heritage of Kinderdijk Windmills at sunset with nice stamps including a 3D stamp showing the skater right hand swinging up and down when you move the stamp. A cool stamp addition to my collection - thank you so much Nicole of Netherlands. Received in Penang island on March 19, 2019.

Netherlands - Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht

"The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new ‘port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port that encircled the old town and was accompanied by the repositioning inland of the city’s fortified boundaries, the Singelgracht. This was a long-term programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland, using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling in the intermediate spaces. These spaces allowed the development of a homogeneous urban ensemble including gabled houses and numerous monuments. This urban extension was the largest and most homogeneous of its time. It was a model of large-scale town planning, and served as a reference throughout the world until the 19th century." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Aerial view of the historic canal zone of Amsterdam. Thanks to Anja of Germany who visited Amsterdam.




Postcard 2
Westerkerk (Western Church) is Amsterdam's tallest church and a Protestant church along Prinsengracht (Prince's Canal) which the fourth and the longest of the main canals in Amsterdam and named after the Prince of Orange. Most of the canal houses along it were built during the Dutch Golden Age of the United Provinces. Thanks to Elizabeth of Netherlands.

Postcard 3

Postcard 4

Multi-view of Amsterdam. Thanks to Hasti for mailing from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Received in July 2018.

Netherlands - Van Nellefabriek

"Van Nellefabriek (Netherlands) was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse Polder industrial zone northwest of Rotterdam. The site is one of the icons of 20th century industrial architecture, comprising a complex of factories, with facades consisting essentially of steel and glass, making large-scale use of the curtain wall principle. It was conceived as an “ideal factory”; open to the outside world, whose interior working spaces evolved according to need, and in which daylight was used to provide pleasant working conditions. It embodies the new kind of factory that became a symbol of the modernist and functionalist culture of the inter-war period and bears witness to the long commercial and industrial history of the Netherlands in the field of importation and processing of food products from tropical countries, and their industrial processing for marketing in Europe".

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Van Nellefariek, Rotterdam. Thanks to Mike of Netherlands.

Postcard 2

Van Nellefabriek factory. Thanks to Mike of Netherlands.

Netherlands - Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Netherlands Antilles

"The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 1634. The town developed continuously over the following centuries. The modern town consists of several distinct historic districts whose architecture reflects not only European urban-planning concepts but also styles from the Netherlands and from the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns with which Willemstad engaged in trade." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Willemsted town. Thanks to Gudrun of Austria who was visiting Willemsted.

Postcard 2

Colorful waterfront buildings of Willenstad, Curacao, Netherland Antilles. Nice stamps used. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France who visited Curacao.





Postcard 3
Fort Amsterdam is the most important of eight forts in Curacao. It includes the Governor's residence, the Ministry, several government offices, and the United Protestant Church, which has a museum. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.




Postcard 4
The Courthouse in Curacao. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.




Postcard 5
The Parliament House in Curacao. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.




Postcard 6
A historic merchant building from 1708 in the downtown Willemsted, Curacao. Two nice stamps used. Thanks again to Ruth who was visiting Curacao.





Postcard 7
Curacao lighted up in this ad postcard. Two nice Netherland Antilles stamps used. Thanks to Ruth who was visiting Curacao. Postcard mailed on Jan 26, 2010 from Curacao and arrived in Penang on February 10, 2010.