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Postcard RPPC Graz Schlossberg Funicular Railway 1927 Austria Fischer Restaurant
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RPPC · 1927

Postcard RPPC Graz Schlossberg Funicular Railway 1927 Austria Fischer Restaurant

Graz, Styria, Austria1927RPPCGood

Clinging vertiginously to the rock face of the Schlossberg, Graz's beloved castle hill, two funicular cars creep toward the summit restaurant in this dramatic real-photo card taken as if from the descending car itself — the rack-and-pinion track plunging steeply away into the city below. The Schlossbergbahn, opened in 1894, was a beloved institution of Styrian daily life, and this card was produced by L. Strohschneider of Graz in 1927 on bromide-silver paper (Bromsilberkarte) as promotional material for the Schloßbergrestaurant Fischer at the summit. The back bears the restaurant's violet-ink rubber stamp advertisement — an evocative piece of ephemera from interwar Styria, unused and in very good condition.

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PC-01222 · L. Strohschneider, Graz (Bromsilberkarte)
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