Rising from a wide cathedral square with almost vertiginous Gothic ambition, the single completed spire of the Strassburg Münster dominates this luminous early gravure card — its soaring 142-metre tower the tallest structure in the world from 1647 to 1874, and still, when this card was printed, a symbol of fierce cultural contest between French Strasbourg and the German Kaiserreich that had annexed the city in 1871. Captioned "Strassburg i.E." (im Elsass — in Alsace), the German territorial designation dates this card precisely to the period 1871–1918 when Strasbourg was administered as part of the German Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen. Published by Louis Glaser of Leipzig — one of Germany's premier postcard printers of the era, noted for fine-line gravure work — and numbered 05012, this collotype or early gravure production shows the cathedral's south flank and the contrasting Romanesque-transitional chapel of St. Andrew to its right with exceptional architectural clarity. The back is a simple German "Postkarte" format with blackletter script and "An" address line, consistent with pre-1900 to circa 1900 undivided German cards. Unused and well-preserved on cream stock, it is a significant document of Alsatian political and architectural history.