Warm ochre light bathes the Temple Neuf — Metz's neo-Romanesque Protestant church — as it sits on its island perch in the Moselle, its massive crossing tower reflected in the calm water, in this hand-colored early 20th-century card published during the German imperial period when Metz was part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen. The reverse is densely covered in old German Kurrent script in violet ink, the writer pouring out an extended personal narrative — mentioning lying in a nose-wound ("im Nasen liegen") for 5–6 hours of bombardment, capturing a vivid soldier's first-person WWI account — and the front bears additional lines of Kurrent across the sky. Sent to "Meine liebe Martin!" (Dear Martin!) and dated internally "7/16 [19]17," this is a rare piece of WWI correspondence from the German-occupied Lorraine front zone, published by Julius Berger of Metz. The stamp box is empty; the card may have been hand-delivered or the stamp is missing.