GERMANY ~ Hedeby - UNESCO ~

... Nice aerial view of part 2 of this UNESCO site... Hedeby, in present-day northern Germany, played an important role as a key trading center in the viking age that developed into the second-largest Viking city in northern Europe... the settlement was surrounded by semi-circular ramparts, which survived and were linked by further defensive ground walls with the Danevirke... between the 8th and 11th centuries, these ramparts were at the center of trade networks between northern and western Europe and at the same time formed the border between Scandinavia and continental Europe... this exceptionally well-preserved archaeological material serves as an important scientific source for important insights into the Viking Age...  you can visit a reconstructed Viking village and a great museum here... Thanks once more Agi! \_(♥‿♥)_/ 

Hedeby’s rise was due to its favorable location at the westernmost point of the Schlei fjord – a narrow navigable inlet around 40 km inland from the Baltic Sea.

Hedeby was destroyed by Norwegian King Harald Hardrada – the last great Viking – in 1050 using burning ships. It was finally destroyed by fire in 1066 after a raid by Slavic warriors and the site completely abandoned.

Since 2018, the Danevirke Archaeological Border Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with the important Viking trading center Hedeby.

 Stamps:

Definitive - Flowers

(Issued 08- 06- 2017) 

Heroes of childhood

(Issued 01-09-2022)