1935 Photo postcard Munich Frauenkirche mailed 23 March from Rosenheim

Germany / Third Reich (1933-1945)

Munich Frauenkirche The Frauenkirche is an imposing brick edifice 320 feet long, 120 feet broad, and 110 feet high. The nave and aisles (of equal height), ambulatory, and unusually lofty side-chapels (between the buttresses, which are on the inside), were erected by Jorg Ganghofer in 1468-88 on the site of an earlier church. The two towers, 329 feet high, covered after 1512 with round caps of green copper, are a distinctive feature of Miinchen. Since the creation of the archbishopric of Munchen and Freising in 1817, the Frauenkirche has been the metropolitan church of Bavaria. Published by A. Lengauer, Munchen. Picture postcard mailed 23 March 1935 from Rosenheim. Franked with the 6 Rpf value of the Saarabsiintmung Issue of 1935. Rosenheim, at 1447 feet elevation, was an industrial town of approximately 19,000 inhabitants in 1935. The town, long a trading place on the road from Italy to the north, had many houses showing a mixture of Italian and German architecture.

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Type: Postcard, Postal History

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Rare Stamps and Postal History Auction #18

Auction 18

September 28 - October 15, 2021

United States , Huntersville , NC

Our 18th Philatelic Auction consists of more than 2,800 lots of the rarest stamps and postal history items of Russia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other countries. $1 starting price for all items!

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