POSTCARD N.182 - GERMANY

Postcrossing Postcard sent on the 8th June; received on the 13th June 2025.

Postcard image: A (much transformed...) view of Downtown Essen showcasing Garner Hotel 

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It has been a while since I received a Postcrossing postcard. Thanks a lot, Anne.

Essen is an important city in central west Germany, with a population of about 600000 inhabitants, in the  North Rhine-Westphalia Region.

Anne sent me a postcard with  a strange, highly digitally modified, I believe,  image of a part of the city relevant for the building of a hotel featured on the postcard: the former Handelshof hotel, built in 1913, nowadays the Garner Essen Hotel.

The postcard designer thought it a good idea to splash a couple of inverted ice cream cones into the hotel towers, a tight rope walker, and a few splashes of  virtual colour to the streets, under the warming yellow rays of a timid sun.......

There's a QR code on the back of the card that leads us to Essen's Theatre - Theatre und Philarmonie Essen -  webpage, so I presume that the postcard is a promotional vehicle for the institution.

Anne used stamps from the World of Letters definitive series, to send me the postcard: two 0.15 € - Letters Peacock - issued on 10AUG2024 and one 0,95 €  - Letters balloon - issued on 04AUG2022.

The mechanical Postmark reads Briefzentrum 45, which is also located in Essen.