The solid Italianate bulk of the Fürth Rathaus — Bavaria's answer to a Florentine palazzo, complete with its distinctive crenellated clock tower — dominates this colourised prewar street scene, while a handful of townsfolk pause in the cobbled square below, including a uniformed figure and a woman in a white apron who seem frozen in ordinary civic life, unaware that by the time this card was posted, the world had shattered. The reverse tells the real story: postmarked "Fürth i. Bayern, 20 Okt. 15" and sent as Feldpost — the German military free-post system of WWI — this card travelled from the home front to a soldier (or from a soldier at home on leave) addressed to Herrn Albert [surname] in Glauchau i. V., Saxony. The message, written in period German Kurrent script, fills both sides with news. The Fürth Rathaus, built 1840–50 in neo-Renaissance style, survived WWII and stands today.