One of the most poignant postcards in any collection — a hand-colored Wilhelmine-era view of the magnificent Strasbourg Synagogue, its Romanesque-Revival tower reflected in the still waters of the Ill River, posted on 22 February 1905 from Strasbourg (then Straßburg i. E., capital of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen) to a young woman named Maria in Saar-Union, Alsace. The synagogue, designed by architect Ludwig Levy and consecrated in 1898, was one of the grandest in the German Empire — a statement of Jewish civic confidence in a city that had only recently returned to German rule after 1871. Tragically, it was destroyed by the Nazis on Kristallnacht, 10 November 1938, making surviving pre-war postcards its primary visual record. The colorized card — blues, ochres, and warm greens — was published by Hofmann & Reitz, Kunstverlag, Straßburg, and bears a 5-Pfennig German Reich stamp (Germania series). The handwritten German message fills the address side, addressed to An Fräulein Maria Han—, Saar-Union, Hauptstraße 32.