Real photo postcard of the Gasthaus Melleck near Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria — a traditional whitewashed Bavarian inn with shuttered windows and a balcony set in an Alpine valley, framed by a beech tree in the foreground and the steep forested slopes of the Loferer Steinberge rising behind it, snow visible on the higher peaks. The caption identifies it as a popular excursion destination on the German-Austrian border, near the Dietrichshorn, with rooms available with or without pension, run by proprietor L. Holzner. Posted from Bad Reichenhall — a famous salt-spa resort town — in the 1930s with a Third Reich-era Hindenburg stamp and the distinctive Predigtstuhl-Bahn cable car promotional cancellation, the inn sits in the landscape that would have been extremely familiar to hikers and spa guests of the era.

• Caption: "Gasthäus Melleck b. Bad Reichenhall gegen Loferer Steinberge u. Dietrichshorn. Beliebter Ausflugsort an der deutsch-österr. Landesgrenze. Schöne Fremdenzimmer mit u. ohne Pension. Bes.: L. Holzner"
• Photographer/Publisher: Fotohaus Schmid-Maier, Bad Reichenhall
• Postmark: Bad Reichenhall, c.1935 (Predigtstuhl-Bahn slogan cancel)
• Status: Posted