From the rubble of living memory, this evocative artist-painted postcard depicts Nuremberg's Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall, built 1315) and the adjacent Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Holy Ghost Church) as they stood before Allied bombing obliterated both in 1944 — making this card both a souvenir and an act of mourning. The richly toned watercolor-style print, signed by artist "G. Reitz 1951," renders the Gothic brick gable, the tunnel arch passage, the column lantern, and the warm yellow church tower with melancholy beauty. Sent on 24 December 1952 from Überteisendorf by a cousin named Clare to her cousin Guido in Offenbach am Main, the Christmas Eve note expresses warm holiday wishes and mentions plans to meet in Frankfurt. A 10-Pfennig Deutsche Bundespost posthorn stamp and a 2-Pfennig Notopfer Berlin Steuermarke (Berlin Emergency Tax stamp) frank the card — a philatelically significant pairing of the early West German period.