My Favorite Postcards

Fredericia, Denmark

This is postmarked in 2009 with a Denmark stamp.

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Fredericia was founded in 1650 by Frederick III, after whom it was named.

Danmark (Denmark)

This postcard is postmarked in 2013 with two Denmark stamps.

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Denmark has a population of around 5.6 million people and the national language, Danish, is closely related to and mutually intelligible with Swedish and Norwegian.

Bornholm
The Pearl of the Baltic Sea

This is postmarked in 2009 with two Denmark stamps.

the sender writes, 'Bornholm is a small Danish Island just off the south coast of Sweden.  Fresh air, great sights, beautiful beaches and No industry at all.'

Copenhagen - "Langelinie" and the Little Mermaid

Postmarked in 1973 with a Germany Umweltschutz Luft (Environmental Air Protection) stamp

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The statue of The Little Mermaid sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie. This small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction.

The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen’s Royal Theatre and asked the primaballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913. The statue’s head was modelled after Price, but as the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor’s wife Eline Eriksen was used for the body.

Copenhagen - Pedestrian Street "Strojet" and Stork Fountain

Postmarked in 1973 with a Germany Umweltschutz Luft (Environmental Air Protection) stamp

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When the volume of traffic increased in the beginning of the 60s in the inner part of the old narrow streets and the expanding shopping areas around central Copenhagen and the sidewalks became more and more crowded with busy pedestrians, who was bumping in to each other and blocking the way – Copenhagen’s City Council decided in 1962 to establish a car free pedestrian zone from the westerly Town Hall Square to Kongens Nytorv (The Kings New Square) in the eastern part of the town called “Strøget” - which also includes a maze of small streets and historical squares that altogether are fanning out from “Strøget” and the mediaeval part of Copenhagen, having a total length of almost 3,2 km., and beeing the oldest and longest pedestrian street system in the world.

Danmark (Denmark)
postmarked in 2007