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3970 - Wenden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The card translates as follows: Journey Towards the Future and Ruhr-Sieg route and change in transportation.  Wenden is a small city of about 20 000. It is first found in documentation in 1011. A monastery was founded here. Catholicism is still the main religion here as it remained Catholic during the Reformation. Neighbours to the southeast, south, and southwest converted to Protestantism. Today St. Severinus parish church can be found here. 

3551 - Venray, Limburg, Netherlands

This card is a part of a series called Famous Dutch Sayings . In this one the card translates to talking about cows and calves , which means "talking about all kinds of unimportant things." Venray is a town and a part of the municipality of Venray, which consists of 14 towns. I think a municipality in the NEtherlands is similar to a county in Canada. Most of the people in this municipality, 30 000 of the 44 000 of them, live in Venray (town). Venray is home to the St. Peter ad Vincula Church. It hosts one of the largest medieval collections of wooden sculptures that survived the iconoclasm (destruction of icons) of the protestant reformation in the Netherlands. The church was built in the 1400s in the gothic style. It was heavily damaged in World War II and has since been rebuilt. Venray was the site of many battles in late World War II. The Battle of Overloon was the largest and was the biggest tank battle between the Germans and Allies in October of 1944. The Germans lost 6...