Ebersberg, Germany

This card comes from Ebersberg, Germany. It is located in the southeastern portion of the country, near Munich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebersberg

Campanula. I don't know if this is a popular flower in Germany, but it seems I've received several postcards with this flower on the stamp from Germany, Netherlands, etc. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambung_National_Park

Another card from Germany...

I don't know anything about this building or area, except that my sender, a nurse, says she works here. This is from the back of the card:

This is the postmark and stamp ~ 

The flower is a campanula (ballonblume in German) - 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula

Sachsen-Anhalt

Received from Germany on October 28, 2010. 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxony-Anhalt

A Small Castle from Germany

This postcard arrived today, just a few hours ago.  This is a very small castle. I think it is absolutely lovely. I would like to see the rest of it.  Unfortunately, there is no other information on the card about this particular 'little' castle.  

These are cute stamps!

Amberg, Germany

Another favorite, again from Bavaria!  This card arrived on July 9 along with the card from Ohio (yesterday's featured card).  What a wonderful card with so many places to explore...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberg

Burghotel Lauenstein, Germany

"Hello, one castle for Janella" is the greeting on this postcard.  People are so nice to send me castles!  It is one of the few things I have requested, and they are just pouring in.  I love it!  This one is in black and white because that is the only one the sender had, but I am okay with that.    

Have you ever wanted to stay in a castle?  Here's your chance, because this castle is now a hotel.  Pretty cool, huh?     

- online-reservations.de/bls/

- tinyurl.com/28dn653

- tinyurl.com/2datzd7

Castles from the "Green Heart" of Germany

Another favorite, arriving on June 26.  I am so happy to receive all these castles!   The sender says he is from "a small village in the middle (the green heart) of Germany." That sounds beautiful!  He says "you can see very old castles around my village."  I think that would be amazing to be able to see very old castles where I lived, but I'm sure I only think that because I can't see any castles where I live.  

The problem for me is the German descriptions on the back of the card!  Not speaking German makes it very difficult to find information on the castles themselves. Most do not have any website in English at all (#3 has one on Wikipedia), and the others had to translated, but I've done my best. 

1 - Burg Greifenstein bei Bad Blankenburg - tinyurl.com/23lv9su

2 - Heidecksburg bei Rudolstadt - tinyurl.com/2b9qh4n

3 - Wartburg bei Eisenbach - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg

4 - Friedensburg bei Leutenberg - ?

5 - Wachsenburg bei Holzhausen - ? komm-nach-thueringen.de/de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=84&idart=263

The stamp on the left shows Maiglockchen (Lily-of-the-valley) one of my very favorite flowers. They have such a heavenly scent, and are so pretty and delicate looking! It looks like I've learned a little German after all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_of_the_Valley

"Auch Wolken Mussen Manchmal Pipi!"

This cute card arrived on June 17.  The sender sent "sunny greetings from Germany" and talked a lot about how everyone was getting excited about the World Championship in South Africa (the  World Cup).  Then she said she hoped I like this card, and that I can "figure out what those German words stand for" and drew a smiley face.  :D

Now, even though I am of German ancestry, I do not speak German.  I did manage to figure out what this says with the help of the translator on Dictionary.com ~ "sometimes clouds also have to pee".  So I posted that to the comments box for the postcard on Postcrossing, and my sender told me "Yeah! -  Herzlichen Gluckwunsch! I'm proud of your translation skills, because it was a tricky sentence (that's kind of kid's language)."  I enjoyed this postcard, it makes me smile whenever I  look at it  :D

...and it has a very pretty stamp, which I've received on at least one other postcard.  The flower known as the bleeding heart.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocapnos_spectabilis

Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin

The postcard with Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany arrived in my mailbox on May 24, 2010.  It is also one of my favorite cards which I have received.  Isn't it beautiful?

I just love the grounds!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottenburg_Palace

The flowers in these stamps are asters.  Simple flowers are just very pretty.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aster_(genus)

Bremerhaven ~ "Gate to the World"

Arriving on May 3, 2010 was this postcard from Bremerhaven, Germany.

The main view in this card is the Columbus Cruise Center.  These days tourists take cruise ships all over the world from here, but in the 19th and 20th centuries over 7 million people emigrated to America from here.  Bremerhaven was the largest German emigration port. The top left photo shows the German Emigration Center. Here, my sender tells me, the process of their emigration is told, as well as the life histories of some of the emigrants.

Here is the German Emigration Center's website:

http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/english.html  (English version)

I have German ancestors (two of my great-grandmother's were from Germany) and my husband is of German ancestry as well.  This would be a very interesting place for us to visit!

This flower is known as a bleeding heart:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprocapnos_spectabilis