"The postcard shows a typical motif: the view of a town with a church in the middle embedded in a landscape depicting woods, fields, hills and water. The picture is colorized, underscoring contemporary notions of the aesthetic and natural character of the scene. Such scenes are not just typical of German postcards but were common around the world at the turn of the twentieth century. The postcard was an everyday form of communication, not made and sold for tourists alone but popular among locals as well. <br /> Photographic postcard, colorized: ""Ratzeburg v. Drei Linden"" ca. 1905 /1906, Verlag Ottmar Zieher, Munich 8.8 x 14 cm, postmarked July 18, 1906. Source: Private collection of J. Jäger, with kind permission"
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