Wiki'd Buildings On Stamps

Fredrick the Great, also known as Old Fritz, needed an even more opulent palace than Sanssouci, so he had the New Palace built only a short distance away, 1763. The great Hall is overwhelming, clad in semiprecious stones and even fossils. The Neues Palais is part of the "Prussian Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin" UNESCO site. (Stamp from DDR 1968.)

Austria
EUROPA - Castles
May 9, 2017
Wikipedia: Schönbrunn Palace (Schloss Schönbrunn) is a former imperial summer residence located in Vienna, Austria. The 1,441-room Baroque palace is one of the most important architectural, cultural, and historical monuments in the country.

Hungary
Centenary of the Academy of Music Building
may 18, 2007
Wikipedia: The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music is a concert hall and music conservatory in Budapest, Hungary.............. The Academy moved into a building erected in 1907 at the corner of Király Street and Ferenc Liszt Square. It serves as a center for higher education, music training,[2] and concert hall. The Art Nouveau style building is one of the most well known in Budapest.

The New Palace of Fredrick the Great is shown in this stamp of 2005 amid the extensive gardens of Sanssouci. At the bottom of the sheet is a list of other parts of the ensemble belonging to the UNESCO site "Prussian Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin". The photo was taken in the Sicilian Garden.

The Schloss Charlottenhof (part of the Sanssouci ensemble) was remodeled in the classicist stile by the architect Schinkel during the first half of the 19th century. Inside, the design is also much simpler than in the larger palaces nearby. Stamp of 1983; print of about 1850.

One might imagine strolling through the parks at Sanssouci and then pausing for a cup of tea at the Chinese Teahouse. Potsdam Tourist site: The luxuriant Chinese Tea House in the Rehgarten of Sanssouci Park impressively illustrates the Chinese Fashion that starkly influenced the royal culture in all of Europe in the 18th century. Life-sized golden figures, either presented as single figures, or arranged in groups around the Tea House, determine the exterior impression of the pavilion. Fredrick the Great himself had it built.

France
Architecture - Notre-Dame de l'Epine
June 23, 2003
Wikipedia: The Basilique Notre-Dame de l'Épine (Basilica of Our Lady of the Thorn) is a Roman Catholic basilica in the small village of L'Épine, Marne, near Châlons-en-Champagne and Verdun. It is a major masterpiece in the Flamboyant Gothic style.

Ireland
Definitive Issue - Irish Architecture
December 15, 1982
Wikipedia: St. Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in County Kerry, Ireland. St. Mary's Cathedral (1842-1855) was designed by the renowned English Architect Augustus Welby Pugin and is considered to be one of the most important and best Gothic Revival churches of the nineteenth century in Ireland.

Great Britain
Cathedrals
May 28, 1969
Wikipedia: St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604. The present cathedral, dating from the late 17th century, was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren.

Great Britain
Cathedrals
May 28, 1969
Wikipedia
The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, usually known as Durham Cathedral and home of the Shrine of St Cuthbert, is a cathedral in the city of Durham, England, the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Durham.
The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York.
St Giles' Cathedral, also known as the High Kirk of Edinburgh,[2] is the principal place of worship of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England. It forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Germany
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
March 6, 2003
Wikipedia: Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark...... and currently the tallest twin-spired church at 157 m (515 ft) tall.

The Cologne Cathedral has been featured on many stamps and covers over the years, the earliest ones dating from the 1920s. The 10,000 Mark denomination and poor print shows the time period of inflation. In the 1930 stamp, St Martin's church is seen to the left of the Cathedral. Both of them were restored after WWII.


(Hi Kuol, I'm sure there will be a vast number of Houses of Worship turning up! K.)

A set of 4 stamps was issued in 1948 by the so-called Bi-Zone, the American+British occupation zones, for the 700th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone for the Cologne Cathedral. Two of them show details of the painted glass windows.

France
The 86th FFAP Congress
May 21, 2013
Wikipedia: The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral and seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Paris.
(Engraver: Yves Beaujard)

Cologne Cathedral was part of a definitive series of stamps (Bautenserie, Deutsche Post) which appeared in 1948, shortly after the ones shown yesterday. "Bundespost" did not appear until 1950.



Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. (Photo from the middle of the 19th century)