Freiberg is a former mining town, best know now for being a university town. Freiberg annually hosts the Mining Town Festival (Bergstadfest) on the last weekend of June. The historic Miners' and Ironworkers' Guilds have a parade.  Eric's card has a quote from Joan of Arc: "I am not afraid...I was born to do this." She apparently uttered these words before her execution.

This is a great card of the Arnhem Bridge. Of course it is the iconic bridge in A Bridge Too Far . The movie is set during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. The British 1st Airborne Division, and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were ordered to secure the bridge at Arnhem. At the beginning of the operation, a bulk of the paratroopers were dropped far from the bridge and weren't able to get to their objective. The 2nd Parachute Battalion, led by Lt-Col John D. Frost (1912-1993), did get to the bridge but couldn't secure both sides. They met with resistance from the German 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions.  The British forces ran out of ammunition and were captured on 21 September, four days after they were dropped. Remaining forces were ordered out on 26 September. The bridge was eventually destroyed by the US Army Air Forces shortly after.  The bridge built to replace the bridge after the war was named after Lt-Col Frost. The Arnhem Bridge was named John F...

Dany from Poitiers sends a great card from Marseille and the Notre Dame de la Garde (Our Lady of the Guard). The Notre Dame de la Garde is a Catholic basilica in Marseille and the city's best known symbol. It is located at the highest point in Marseille. The plans were made by architect    Henri-Jacques Espérandieu. The still unfinished basilica was consecrated on 5 June 1864. The bell tower is 41 metres high and there is a 11.2 metre statue of the Madonna and Child.  A major restoration on the basilica took place between 2001-2008. Mosaics that were damaged by candle smoke were cleaned up. Pollution that had corroded the green limestone was repaired. Bullet holes in stonework from the Liberation of France were also repaired.  Notre Dame de la Garde receives about 1.5 million visitors each year. Some are tourists to check out the Cathedral, others to check out the incredible view, and others are pilgrims. Poitiers is a city of almost 90 000 people and has an ancient ...

Another World Postcard Day card. This one is a from a meetup in Saint Petersburg. The participants either signed or used personalize ink stamps to autograph it. It's a great card design and some of the ink stamps are neat.  Saint Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703, on the site of a captured Swedish fortress. Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with the birth of the Russian Empire and Russia's entry into modern history as a European great power. It was the capital city of Russia from 1713 - 1918, except for a brief period between 1728-1730 when it was situated in Moscow. The Soviets moved the capital to Moscow in 1918. 

Annette is from Wadersloh, which is a small city of about 12 500 people. She sends a card from  Løkken, which is in northern Denmark. It is a popular tourist and vacationing destination. 

Leverkusen is a city of 163 000. Leverkusen is made up of the following former villages:  Wiesdorf, Opladen, Schlebusch, Manfort, Bürrig, Hitdorf, Quettingen, Lützenkirchen, Steinbüchel, Rheindorf and Bergisch-Neukirchen. Ozan, the sender, is from Opladen which joined Leverkusen in 1975.  Ozan's card is from the island of Frauenchiemsee. It is the largest of three islands in Chiemsee. Frauenchiemsee is 15.5 hectares and is car free. There is a convent of Benedictine nuns, along with 300 permanent residents.  The monastery was founded in 782 by Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria. The first abbess was Blessed Irmengard in 850 and was dedicated to the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. King Ludwig I of Bavaria rebuilt the monastery for the Benedictine nuns and allowed them to receive new candidates on the condition the nuns created their livelihood by opening schools. As such a grammar school, called Irmengard Gymnasium, existed on the site until 1995. The current ...

Herbert is a student at City University of Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 and has nine main schools offering courses in business, science, engineering, liberal arts and social sciences, law, and veterinary medicine, as well as the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies.  Herberts card was created by an art students to highlight the various clubs there are at CUHK. At CUHK there are 80 different clubs of interest groups, residents' associations, cultural groups, debate, and departmental societies.  Herbert lives in Kowloon  九龍 , which is an urban area within Hong Kong. Kowloon has 2.1 million residents (a population density of about 43 000 people per square kilometre). It is the most populous area in Hong Kong.