Terminated due to incompleteness

 During the Megamarathon I started assembling an Innovakids Jigsaw puzzle and terminated it due to time constraints. It would have taken me too much time to finish the pink sky

I restarted it by assembling the clouds, the inscription as well as the frame, just to find out that 4 pieces are missing.

 

 

This is where I decided to terminate this jigsaw puzzle
 

 

Completed 21st February 2025

  1000 Pieces 

Florenz mit Arno (Florence with river Arno) 

FXSchmid, Germany

vintage jigsaw puzzle

 

The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Apennines and takes a southward curve. The river with a length of 241 kilometres turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence and Pisa, flowing into the Ligurian Sea.

 

The "Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze"

Santa Maria del Fiore

 

The Palazzo Vecchio

Under construction: vintage F.X.Schmid Panorama > Florence (completed 21st Feb.)

 When I was a child, I spent time with my grandfather's sister and we enjoyed assembling jigsaw puzzles.

Must be late 1970ies until the late 1980ies - a long time ago, but I think she ignited the spark that started my love of puzzles and the time I spend assembling them. It was her joy and patience with the pieces and a little girl that felt chosen to help putting so many pieces together.

I remember that she once assembled a view of the italian city Florence. This view was kept in my memories until I found a vintage jigsaw puzzle at Ebay, offered by a private seller in my hometown. It was during the Covid pandemic and we decided to organise the pick-up in the fresh air due to social distancing. I paid a fair price for this vintage jigsaw puzzle and I was happy. I kept the puzzle in my stash for a few years and decided it was time. Now!

A Super Panorama jigsaw puzzle by FXSchmid, a German manufacturer of playing cards, board games and puzzles. It is named "Florenz mit Arno" - the river that flows from east to west. 

Florence is the capital of Tuscany with about 360.000 inhabitants. The city is best known for the Uffizi Gallery, the Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti as well as the Ponte Vecchio. Florence was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. It was economically and culturally one of the most important cities in Europe and the world from the 14th to 16th centuries!

So here we go, starting from 15th February.

The red coloured dome of the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore ("cupola del Brunelleschi")  has been build by Brunelleschi in the 15th century. 

 

 The end is near... 😉

 

 

Completed 4th February 2025

  

1000 Pieces

Paris

Innovakids, Germany 

What a stunning view from the three-wing building of the United Nations (UN) across the military academy and the Champ de Mars towards the Eiffeltower. 

 

 Behind the Eiffeltower are about 6 km of Parisian quarters named "arrondissements" and the skyscrapers of "La Defénse". Imagine that the river Seine crosses those arrondissements two times between the landmarks Eiffeltower>La Defénse

Finished 11th January 2023

 

300 Pieces

 

"Ballons" / (c) shutterstock

 

Finished 30th September 2022

 

500 Pieces

The blue Mosque at Istanbul

 41° 0′ 18.86″ N, 28° 58′ 36.77″ E

 Built in the early 17th century by Sultan Ahmed. Find out more here

Manufacturer: MB, Series: Promenade

 

Finished 26th September 2022

  

500 Pieces

Sirmione at Lake Garda

 45° 29′ 33″ N, 10° 36′ 30″ E

Photo: Bildagentur Kinkelin

Ravensburger, 1990

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

 

Finished 1st November 2020

 

500 Pieces

 

Cannobio, Italy

a vintage MB-jigsaw puzzle (Belvedere Series)

 

Finished 21st February 2020

500 Pieces

Bad Kreuznach

49° 51′ N, 7° 52′ O

Bad Kreuznach is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in the world with buildings on it^.

<sup>A vintage MB jigsaw puzzle with a wonderful water colour painting of Bad Kreuznach



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Already assembled in August + September 2019

I did not received advent calendars but also assembled and made them for others :-)

For my friend magihabbi

1000 pcs.

Mount Fuji, cover illustration by Bob Knox

New York Puzzle Company

completed 7th September 2019

+ 4 small 54pcs.-jigsaw puzzles for her cute daughter

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A few weeks earlier I completed two jigsaw puzzles for another friend. At least I decided to devide the huge one into 24 parts :-)

 2000 Pieces

New York Skyline

Innovakids, Bildagentur Huber

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1000 Pieces

"Beach of dreams" (german title: Traumstrand)

M.I.C. Nature Art

Finished 23rd November 2019 ** view of an ancient ruin

1000 Pieces

Akropolis

Photo by Klammet

Finished 28th July 2019 ** Salzburg

500 Pieces

"Spring"

leads us to Mirabell Garden in Salzburg (Austria), 

watching the castle Hohensalzburg through a wrought ironwork 

A vintage Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle (the final one? 😉 )

Finished 28th July 2019 ** Copenhagen

500 Pieces

Copenhagen

The capital city of Denmark since the early 15th century

you see the Vesterbrogade with Frascati (italian restaurant) in front and the SAS hightower

as well as the Axelborg with the copper cupola close to it.

A vintage Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle

Finished 17th March 2019 ** Ciro Marchetti at his best

990 Pieces

Fantasy Panoramic

Ciro Marchetti

A Clementoni Panorama High Quality Collection jigsaw puzzle

some detailed views

Finished 1st December 2018

 500 Pieces

Hawaii Waikiki Beach

Photo: Edmund Nägele

Waikīkī Beach is a neighborhood of Honolulu on the south shore of the island of Oʻahu in the United States state of Hawaii. The area was a retreat for Hawaiian royalty in the 1800s who enjoyed surfing there on early forms of longboards.

A Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle (1994) with huge pieces (= Maxi Line)

 the measures are the same as the 1000-pcs-puzzle = approx. 70x50cm