BURG KLOSTER OYBIN. Oybin, Sachsen, Germany (2025)

BURG KLOSTER OYBIN
02797 Oybin
www.burgundkloster-oybin.com

Admission ticket
15-03-2015
4,00 EUR

The Oybin (Upper Sorbian: Ojbin) is a hill in Saxony, southeastern Germany, near by the city of Zittau and it is part of the Zittau Mountains. It contains the ruins of Oybin Castle, which Emperor Charles IV converted into his retirement home, and a Celestine monastery, founded in 1369. The 14th-century castle was "rediscovered" during the Romantic period, when the Saxon court painter Johann Alexander Thiele discovered the walls overgrown with vegetation. Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, and other Romantic painters painted the ruins and made them famous. As a result, the castle was cleared of debris in 1829 to prevent further deterioration. From the mid-19th century, more and more hikers and spa visitors flocked to the mountain. This was largely due to the opening of the narrow-gauge railway from Zittau to Oybin in 1890. In 1883, Alfred Moschkau opened a museum on the mountain for the first time.

Merci à Gilles K.

KATARINAHISSEN. Stockholm, Sweden (1964)

Katarinahissen.
(Photo: Jordjubbe, 2005)

KATARINAHISSEN
Stockholm

Ticket Nº 801620 (1964).
5 öre

Katarinahissen (Katarina Elevator or Katarina Lift) is a passenger elevator in Stockholm that connects Slussen area to the heights of Södermalm district in the city centre. The original lift, designed by the engineer Knut Lindmark, was constructed by the Belgian firm Lecoq & Comp in 1881 and opened on 19 March 1883, but the current structure dates from the rebuilding of the Slussen transport interchange in 1936. The lift was closed for a lengthy renovation in 2010 and reopened in October 2023.

Traveler's collection.

BAYERISCHEN STAATSBAHNEN (Germany). Lokalbahnlokomotive D VI "Berg" in Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Rheinland-Pfalz), 1976.

BAYERISCHEN STAATSBAHNEN
Lokalbahnlokomotive D VI "Berg" in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, 23.05.1976.

Postcard published by Fotoverlag Reinhold Jungels / Reiju, CP 1040.
Photo: Reinhold Jungels.

The locomotive in the image was manufactured by Lokomotivfabrik Krauss + Co. in 1883.

Traveler's collection.

TMB. Card of 10 trips, T-2, commemorative of tram line 26, 1914 (1996)

TMB - Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona

Card valid for 10 trips Nº 029815 K, which reproduces a 1914 photo of a tram
of the line 26 in the Horta neighborhood.

(1996)

The first steam tram arrived from Barcelona to the then still independent municipality of Sant Joan d'Horta on 5 July 1883, and the first electric tram line did not arrive until 21 June 1901. Horta was annexed to the municipality of Barcelona in 1904.

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PALERMO, Italy. Interno della Stazione Centrale. XI Convegno Filatelico Siciliano (1985)

PALERMO
Interno della Stazione Centrale. La grande tettoia in ferro
XI Convegno Filatelico Siciliano
1º Centenario Linea Ferrata Palermo-Catania
Stazione F.S. Notarbartolo
Palermo, 18/19.05.1985
[Interior of the Central Station. The large iron shed
XI Sicilian Philatelic Conference
1st Centenary of the Palermo-Catania Railway Line]

Commemorative postcard published by DI.FA, Palermo, Nº 4.

The Palermo Central station, equipped with 10 platforms, was designed by the architect Giuseppe Di Giovanni and inaugurated on 7 June 1886. It was characterized by a large canopy with elegant iron and glass lines, supported by sickle-shaped trusses placed to cover the beam tracks; it was designed in 1883 by the engineer Ausanio Cajo of the Società Italiana per le Strade Ferrate Meridionali. In 1941 the structure was demolished to recover scrap metal to support the World War II war effort.

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SHAW SAVILL LINES. Poster reproduced on an Australian stamp (2004)

SHAW SAVILL LINES
[United Kingdom]

Poster reproduced on an Australian stamp (2004)

Shaw Savill Line of London was a shipping company set up to transport both produce and passengers between Great Britain and New Zealand via South Africa and Australia. Robert Edward Shaw and Walter Savill (employees of Willis, Gann and Company, a London ship-broking and chartering firm) set up on their own account in 1858 and began chartering ships. They bought their first ship in 1865. While the trading name, Shaw Savill, remained the same, the partners who owned it changed a number of times. The company, by then a partnership of Walter Savill and James William Temple, agreed in November 1882 to join the Albion line as of 1 January 1883 to form Shaw, Savill & Albion Line.

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