A great card with great postage stamps on it. I think the card is celebrating a century of Dutch football. Culemborg is a city of about 30 000 people found in the middle of the Netherlands. It received city rights in 1318. City rights are a feature of medieval history of the Low Countries. A liege lord, count, or duke granted a town or village he owned certain town privileges that places without city rights did not have.
Mölln is a small city of about 20 000 located in northern Germany. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal flows through the town, and there are eight small lakes that surround the city. It was founded in the 12th century and was a part of the Old Salt Route. Salt that was produced in the salt mines of Lower-Saxony was shipped to the Baltic Sea. Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary trickster known for exposing vices and provoking thought, is said to have lived in Mölln the last year of his life. He apparently died of the plague in 1350, but his existence has never been proven. Mölln has several monuments dedicated to him.
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