Germany - Bavaria - Franconian Switzerland

Greetings From Franconian Switzerland.

Sent by Jonas and Annett from Bavaria, Germany.

Franconian Switzerland (German: Fränkische Schweiz, pronounced [ˈfʁɛŋkɪʃə ˈʃvaɪts]) is an upland in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany and a popular tourist retreat. Located between the River Pegnitz in the east and the south, the River Regnitz in the west and the River Main in the north, its relief, which reaches 600 metres in height, forms the northern part of the Franconian Jura (Frankenjura). Like several other mountainous landscapes in the German-speaking lands, e.g. Holstein Switzerland, Märkische Schweiz, or Pommersche Schweiz, Franconian Switzerland was given its name by Romantic artists and poets in the 19th century who compared the landscape to Switzerland. Franconian Switzerland is famous for its high density of traditional breweries (read more).

Germany - Bavaria - Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

Greetings From Würzburg
Cherry blossom in front of the Residenz.

Sent by Tom from Plauen in Saxony, Germany. 

Located in Southern Germany, the sumptuous Würzburg Residence was built and decorated in the 18th century by an international corps of architects, painters, sculptors, and stucco workers under the patronage of two successive Prince-Bishops, Johann Philipp Franz and Friedrich Karl von Schönborn.

The Residence was essentially constructed between 1720 and 1744, decorated on the interior from 1740 to 1770 and landscaped with magnificent gardens from 1765 to 1780. It testifies to the ostentation of the two Prince-Bishops, and as such illustrates the historical situation of one of the most brilliant courts of Europe during the 18th century. The most renowned architects of the period - the Viennese, Lukas von Hildebrandt, and the Parisians Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand - drew up the plans. They were supervised by the official architect of the Prince Bishop, Balthasar Neumann, who was assisted by Maximilian von Welsch, the architect of the Elector of Mainz. Sculptors and stucco-workers came from Italy, Flanders, and Munich. The Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo frescoed the staircase and the walls of the Imperial Hall.

Russia - Republic of Mordovia - Saransk

Facts/Details of Saransk.

Sent by Julia from Russia.

Saransk (UK: /səˈrænsk/, US: /sɑːˈrɑːnsk/) is the capital city of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about 630 kilometers (390 mi) east of Moscow. Saransk was one of the host cities of the official tournament of the 2018 FIFA World Cup (read more).

Australia - Queensland - Bli Bli Castle

BLI BLI CASTLE
BLI BLI, SUNSHINE COAST,
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

A medieval castle opened to the public in March 1973, featuring a dungeon torture chamber and a large display of mediaeval armour.
Seven fairy stories are depicted in dioramas, a display of 350 dancing dolls dressed in national costumes representing 57 countries around the world.
A doll museum featuring over 2000 dolls, some antique, was opened in December 1986.
Lunches and teas. Unique Gift and Souvenir Shop. Opened 9am - 5pm every day (Castle entry closes 4.30 pM). The Castle overlooks the Maroochydore Noosa Heads and Maroochydore on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Sent by Jack from Bli Bli in Queensland, Australia.

Germany - Baden-Württemberg - Heidelberg

Best regards from Heidelberg.

Sent by Daniela from Oberheimbach in Germany.

Heidelberg (/ˈhaɪdəlbɜːrɡ/; German: [ˈhaɪdl̩bɛʁk] ; Palatine German: Heidlberg) is the fifth-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of students, it is Germany's 51st-largest city. Located about 78 km (48 mi) south of Frankfurt, Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region which has its centre in Mannheim.

Heidelberg is located on the Neckar River, at the point where it leaves its narrow valley between the Oden Forest and the Little Oden Forest, and enters the wide Upper Rhine Plain. The old town lies in the valley, the end of which is flanked by the Königstuhl in the south and the Heiligenberg in the north. The majority of the population lives in the districts west of the mountains in the Upper Rhine Plain, into which the city has expanded over time (read more).

Russia - Moscow

Multiviews of Moscow.

Sent by Ludmila from Moscow region, Russia.

China - Hemu Village

Hemu Village.

Sent by Roy from Suzhou in China.

Hemu Village is one of the three extinct Tuva villages in China. The superb beautiful and serene natural scenery has won it “Paradise for Photography” and “A Private Land of Gods”. It is most famous for oil painting like autumn scenery, when unique Tuva wooden houses are decorated by dreamy mists and extensive golden birch trees (read more).

Germany - Baden-Württemberg - Hundertwasserhaus Plochingen

A Hundertwasser Architechture Project.
Living Under The Rain Tower, in Plochingen.

Sent by Ingrid from Laupheim in Germany.

The Hundertwasser House Plochingen "Living under the Raintower" is a house designed by the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) co-designed building in the German City Plochingen. It was built from November 1991 to August 1994 (read more).

Belarus - Minsk - Belarus State Circus

Belarusian State Circus.

Sent by Eugene from Borisov, Belarus.

This is my second postcard of Belarusian State Circus. My first is here.

United Kingdom - England - Goodison Park

Goodison Park is home to Premier League club Everton since its completion in 1892.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool in May 2019.

Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England, it was the home of Premier League club Everton from 1892 until 2025. It is now the home of Everton's women's team. It is 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre, and has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.

Goodison Park has hosted more top-flight games than any other stadium in England. It has also been the venue for an FA Cup Final and numerous international fixtures, including a semi-final match in the 1966 World Cup (read more).

United Kingdom - England - Anfield Stadium

Anfield has been the home of Liverpool FC since its formation in 1892.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool. I watched Liverpool played against Wolverhampton Wanderers for the last game of the Season 2018-19. Liverpool won 2-0 and finished second behind Manchester City.

Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since its formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the fifth largest stadium in England. It was originally the home of Everton from 1884 to 1891, before they moved to Goodison Park after a dispute with the club president.

The stadium has four stands: the Spion Kop, the Main Stand, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Anfield Road End. The record attendance of 61,905 was set at a match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952. The ground converted to an all-seater stadium in 1994 as a result of the Taylor Report, which reduced its capacity (read further).

United Kingdom - England - Maritime Mercantile City (4)

The Royal Albert Dock Liverpool was opened in 1846.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool in 2019.

This is my fourth postcard of the same UNESCO World Heritage Site. My other three are here, here, and here.

USA - Indiana - State Capitol Building

INDIANA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING

Indianapolis, Indiana

The statue of Oliver P. Morton, Civil War Governor of Indiana from 1861-1867, stands at the Market Street entrance. This Neo Roman structure with its Corinthians columns was constructed in 1878-88 at a cost of 2 million dollars. The building's most distinguishing feature was the gold dome, which was 72 feet in diameter and rises to a height of 234 feet above ground.

Sent by @jocrafts from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

The Indiana Statehouse is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of Indiana. It houses the Indiana General Assembly, the office of the Governor of Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court, and other state officials. The Statehouse is located in the capital city of Indianapolis at 200 West Washington Street. Built in 1888, it is the fifth building to house the state government.

The first statehouse, located in Corydon, Indiana, is still standing and is maintained as a state historic site. The second building was the old Marion County courthouse which was demolished and replaced in the early 20th century. The third building was a structure modeled on the Parthenon, but was condemned in 1877 because of structural defects and razed so the current statehouse could be built on its location (read more).

USA - New York - United Nations Headquarters

UNITED NATIONS POSTAL ADMINISTRATION

NEW YORK CITY

UN HEADQUARTERS

Sent by Helen from San Francisco, California, USA.

The postcard was mailed and postmarked at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Thanks for the beautiful UN stamp.

My other four UN New York postcards are here, here, here, and here.

UN Stamp

Russia - Yaroslavl Oblast - Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl. Church of Elijah the Prophet.

Sent by Marina from Yaroslavl, Russia.

Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century churches and is an outstanding example of the urban planning reform Empress Catherine the Great ordered for the whole of Russia in 1763. While keeping some of its significant historic structures, the town was renovated in the neoclassical style on a radial urban master plan. It has also kept elements from the 16th century in the Spassky Monastery, one of the oldest in the Upper Volga region, built on the site of a pagan temple in the late 12th century but reconstructed over time (read more).

The Netherlands - Queen Wilhemina

Willy Martens (1856 - 1927) / Queen Wilhemina in the garden of Soestdijk Palace.

Sent by Laura from Zwolle, Netherlands.

Wilhelmina (Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɪlɦɛlˈminaː] ; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom. Her reign saw World War I, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933 and World War II.

The only surviving child of King William III of the Netherlands and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Wilhelmina ascended the throne at the age of 10 after her father's death in 1890, under her mother's regency. After taking charge of government, Wilhelmina became generally popular for maintaining Dutch neutrality during the First World War and solving many of her country's industrial problems. By that time, her business ventures had made her the world's first female billionaire as measured by U.S. dollars (read more).

Austria - Vienna

Vienna, AUSTRIA.

Sent by Helga and Leopold from Austria.

My other postcards of Vienna is here.

Vienna (/viˈɛnə/  vee-EN-ə; German: Wien [viːn] ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the river Danube.

The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wienfluss (Vienna River). Vienna is completely surrounded by Lower Austria, and lies around 50 km (31 mi) west of Slovakia and its capital Bratislava, 60 km (37 mi) northwest of Hungary, and 60 km (37 mi) south of Moravia (Czech Republic) (read more).

Germany - Bavaria - Erlangen

Greetings From Erlangen
Evening Market Square

Sent by Claudia from Erlangen, Germany.

Erlangen (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁlaŋən] ; Mainfränkisch: Erlang, Bavarian: Erlanga) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 119,810 inhabitants (as of 30 September 2024), it is the smallest of the eight major cities (Großstadt) in Bavaria. The number of inhabitants exceeded the threshold of 100,000 in 1974, making Erlangen a major city according to the statistical definition officially used in Germany.

Together with Nuremberg, Fürth, and Schwabach, Erlangen forms one of the three metropolises in Bavaria. With the surrounding area, these cities form the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, one of 11 metropolitan areas in Germany. The cities of Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen also form a triangle on a map, which represents the heartland of the Nuremberg conurbation (read more).

USA - Mapcard

Mapcard of USA.

National Bird : Bald Eagle

National Anthem : The Star-Spangled Banner

National Flower : Rose

National Language : English

Independence Day : July 4, 1776

Capital : Washington D.C.

Population : 319,000,000

Territory : 3,805, 927 sq mi

First president : George WAshington

Largest State : Alaska

Smallest State : Rhode Island

Largest City : New York City

Sent by Tom from Boones Hill in Virginia, USA.

USA - New Mexico

NEW MEXICO

LAND OF ENCHANTMENT

Sent by Barney Family from Albuquerque in New Mexico, USA.

I received the same postcard 14 years ago from different sender. It is here.

Germany - Saxony - Leipzig (3)

Greetings from Leipzig.

Sent by Juliane from Leipzig, Germany.

My other two postcards of Leipzig are here and here.

Germany - Brandenburg - Commercial Vehicle Show 2023

IFA W 50 L and L 60 for the 6th Commercial Vehicle Show in Horstwalde on 13th August 2023.

Sent by Ulrich from Bonn, Germany.

The IFA W 50 is a medium-duty truck built by the East German IFA conglomerate at their Ludwigsfelde plant from 1965 until 1990. A total of about 572,000 were built in Ludwigsfelde, with an unknown additional number of special-use vehicles assembled at other plants. It was meant to be succeeded by the IFA L 60 but outlived it by several months. IFA ended all truck production on 17 December 1990, following the reunification of Germany (read more).

Germany - Brandenburg - Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

New Palace

Sanssouci Palace and Park, Potsdam.

Sent by Elke from Berlin, Germany

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke. Voltaire stayed at the Sans-Souci Palace, built under Frederick II between 1745 and 1747 (read more).

USA - Washington - Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Interior of world famous Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Ferry Dock Pier 52, Seattle 4, Wasington, USA, on Seattle's historic waterfront. In the foreground is "Sylvester" the mummy and Cigar Store Indian. Most unique shop in the world, "Beats the Dickens". Established 1899.

Sent by Lisa from Sacramento in California, USA.

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a store founded in 1899, on the Central Waterfront of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is currently located on Pier 54. Best known today as a souvenir shop and museum, it also has aspects of a dime museum, and is an important supplier of Northwest Coast art to museums. As of 2008, the store has been owned by four generations of the same family.

In 1933, the Seattle Star named Ye Olde Curiosity Shop one of the "Seven Wonders of Seattle", the only shop on the list. The other six Wonders were the harbor, the Ballard Locks, the Boeing airplane factory, the Seattle Art Museum, the Pike Place Market and the University District's Edmond Meany Hotel (now the Graduate Seattle hotel). (read more)

USA - Alabama - State Bird

SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Colaptes auratus
OTHER NAMES:  Yellow-shafted flicker, red-shafted flicker, common flicker.

STATUS:  Breeder. Fairly common to uncommon in all seasons and regions. Designated the offical state bird by the Alabama Legislature. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.

Sent by Michelle from Dallas in Texas, USA.

The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama (known by its colloquial name "yellowhammer") (read more)