A bustling scene frozen in Edwardian elegance: inside Wiesbaden's famous Kochbrunnen spa hall, white-aproned attendants stand behind a "Kasse" (cashier) counter stacked with goods, while fashionably dressed women in full-length dark skirts and elaborate hats promenade or rest along the long glazed colonnade — the kind of refined mineral-spring ritual that made Wiesbaden the "Nice of the North." The soaring iron-and-glass vaulted ceiling, ornate chandeliers, and leaded arched windows convey the imperial grandeur of Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany at its zenith. Postmarked 20.1.09 from Wiesbaden with a German Reich 5-Pfennig Germania stamp, the card was mailed to "Fräulein Lisa Wanzel" — a young woman, perhaps a friend being tantalised with tales of fashionable spa life — at an address in what appears to be "Liss" or a similar small town. The Verlag Julius Dormass, Wiesbaden imprint confirms local production for the tourist trade.