Dated in a confident hand "21/5 1900," this luminous German Sonnenschein postcard captures the very first summer of a new century — a winding footpath leads past grazing sheep and a gothic church tower half-hidden in lush greenery, while a bold raised gold sun with fine radiating lines presides over the left sky. Printed by Winkler & Schorn of Nürnberg under their Series IV Sonnenschein-Postkarte line and marked with the "Souverain" Schutzmarke, the card carries only the sender's initials — signed simply as "M.a." — beside the date on the picture side, leaving the address panel pristine. The back format, with its single undivided address space, is consistent with pre-1902 German postal regulations, corroborating the 1900 date. A charming and precisely datable survivor from the golden age of postcard collecting.