POSTCARD N.15 - Germany

Postcrossing postcard posted on the 20th July; received on the 26th July
Potscard image: images of Hanau, left to right: City Hall; A statue of the Grimm Brothers; the old City Hall now the German Goldsmith's House; Schloss Philippsruhe   The old Horse riding arena.
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Hanau, in the State of Hesse, Germany. Another city totally unbeknown to me, something that is now a lesser fact, since receiving this beautiful postcard from Elo, made me go and look to discover that it was the birthplace of none other than the famed authors of ....horror stories, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

I can still remember the fear I felt , listening to little red ridding hood on my father's old Phillips tape recorder, when the hunters would slay the wolf to save granny and little red ... :-)

Thanks for the card and the memories, Elo.

Elo used a very nice 0,95€ stamp issued on 04FEB21, commemorative of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Friederich Ebert, a member of the SPD - Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands - the first President of the German Reich, a title he held from Feb.1919 until his passing away, on the 28th Feb. 1925. The stamp includes a photo of Ebert as well as a famous phrase of his "Demokratie Braucht Demokraten" - Democracy needs Democrats.

The postmark tells us that the card was mailed through BriefZemtrum 63, Offenbach am Main and the associated vignette in use since 25APR05 reads "schrift leger druck design www.offenbach.de". Not being German fluent I ran it through deepl and I got the impression that  "schrift leger druck design" is the name of a typeface, (but any help explaining this would be most welcome), while the URL takes us to the official site of the City of Offenbach am Main.