3386 - Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Wolfsburg is a city on the Aller River and has about 125 000 people. It's famous for having the world's largest car plant and is the corporate headquarters for Volkswagen.

The city was a planned city and was founded on 1 July 1938. It was named Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. It was built as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen Beetle). During the Second World War, military cars, aeroplanes, a
nd other military equipment was built here by a workforce of mainly forced workers and prisoners-of-war. In 1942, German authorities established the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp for a few months.

The city and the Volkswagen factory were captured by American forces on 11 April 1945. About 7700 forced labourers were liberated from the Volkswagen factory. The Americans changed the name to Wolfsburg, after a castle located nearby. The area became a part of the British occupation zone in June 1945.

Wolfsburg is also home to the Autostadt, which is an open air museum/theme park dedicated to automobiles owned and operated by Volkswagen. Pavilions feature all of Volkwagen's major brands - Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Škoda Auto, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche.

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3227 - Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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.

3322 - Hamburg, Germany

Happy birthday to me! What a lovely handmade card from the sender. Beautiful penmanship. Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main court of the German Open Tennis Championships. The International German Open has been played at the Rothernbaum since 1892, making it Germany's longest running tennis tournament. The current stadium was built in 1999 and can hold 13 200 people.

3232 - Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America

The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light was built in 1882. There were nine keepers of the light until 1897. It was redesigned in 1903 and is 12 meters high. The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal was started in 1872 and wasn't opened for large-scale watercraft until 1890. The canal is 2.1 kilometers long that goes from Sturgeon Bay in Lake Michigan to Green Bay. There are no locks on this canal. The canal was sold to the United States government in 1893 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the canal.

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