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17th May 1934
Stuttgart

Postcard depicting a view of Stuttgart. Beneath the image is printed (in part) an homage to Stuttgart by Karl Gerok. Ref: 17.05.1934


Stuttgart

(Ãœberroller-post - Allied occupation 21./22.04.1945)

 

The poem (above) is taken from 'Greetings to Stuttgart' (c.1867) by Karl Geroks. It reads:


There you lie now in the sunshine

Beautiful as I have ever seen you

In your mountain green wreath

My Stuttgart, there again.


Lying there, flamed by the evening gold

Nestled in the valley

As if set in green velvet

A golden jewel lies there!


Karl Gerok (1815 - 1890), German preacher and religious poet. He studied at Tübingen, and became chief court preacher and chief consistorial councillor in Stuttgart in 1868.


 

Postcard depicting the Marktplatz in Stuttgart. The correspondence on the reverse reads, in English, 'We are spending three days here & then going on to the Black Forest. These are some of the old houses, but just round the corner are some modern German skyscrapers.' Ref: 02.08.1934

 

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