Completed 4th March 2026

99 tiny pieces

Der Franz (The Franz)

Manufacturer: Sunshine Puzzles, Germany

Produced in Türkiye with recycled paper 

Franzbrötchen is a small, sweet Viennoiserie baked with butter and cinnamon, similar to a cinnamon roll. Originally, it could be found only in the region of Hamburg, but now Franzbrötchen are also sold in Bremen, Berlin, and other German cities.
 

Completed 31st August 2025

  

500 Pieces

Hamburg - by Bernd Natke

MOCA/Art333 

Completed 14th January 2024

  

1000 Pieces

The Old Elbetunnel, Hamburg

 litraton.de

 

photography (2022), drawings (1912)

(c) Michael Björnson

 

 

Development process of "Der alte Elbtunnel", 1000 pcs.

 I started this jigsaw puzzle together (simultaneously) with two friends of the german jigsaw forum last monday. I shows the old Elbe tunnel

photography (2022), drawings (1912)

(c) Michael Björnson

Finished 29th July 2022

  

1000 Pieces

Elbe Philharmonic Hall (german: Elbphilharmonie)

is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. It is among the largest in the world. The glassy construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave, iceberg or quartz crystal resting on top of an old brick warehouse (Kaispeicher A, built in 1963) near the historical Speicherstadt.

 The Elbphilharmonie was officially inaugurated with a light show on 11 January 2017

Manufacturer: Ravensburger, 2017

Photographer: Stefan Hefele

 

Megamarathon (8.-10. January 2021)

 It was Megamarathon again and I had fun with my lovely husband assembling jigsaw puzzles the whole day long. Here we go: (notes will be added later)

Finished 27th September 2019 ** 800 years of the Port of Hamburg

1000 Pieces

800th anniversary of the Port of Hamburg

The Port of Hamburg (German: Hamburger Hafen) is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. It's Germany's largest port and is named the country's "Gateway to the World" (Tor zur Welt). In terms of TEU throughput, Hamburg is the third-busiest port in Europe (after Rotterdam and Antwerp) and 15th-largest worldwide. In 2014, 9.73 million TEUs (20-foot standard container equivalents) were handled in Hamburg.

The port covers an area of 73.99 km² and was opened on the 7th May 1189 (source: wiki)

A F.X. Schmid jigsaw puzzle dated 1989

Meeting of jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts at Wesel (Lower Rhine, Germany)

Yesterday me and my lovely husband met many other jigsaw enthusiasts at Wesel

...  it was a cloudy rainy day at the marina

 We had fun talking and assembling jigsaw puzzles

 250 Pieces

Badger Moon 

by Nette Ingram

 

 250 Pieces

Sally Lunn's House

watercolour by Lorna Rankin

 40 Pieces

Schwerin Castle, 1850

Steel engraving

 40 Pieces

Alsterjogger, Hamburg

Sina Vodjani

40 Pieces

"It's Snow Fun"

by Greg Giordano (2012)

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And these are my finger exercises

 each 33 pcs.

CURIOSI

40 pcs.

Lighthouse at Kampen, Island Sylt, North Sea

built 1855 

 40 pcs.

"The King of the Forest"

 by Evgeni Dinev

 40 pcs.

"Winter's Warmth"

by Czes Pachela

all jigsaw puzzles on top are Wentworth wooden jigsaw puzzles!

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150 pcs.

Egyptian dancers

a cordboard jigsaw puzzle by Fridolin

Finished 27th June 2019

2000 Pieces

Staircase in an old villa in Hamburg, Germany

Photography by jasto