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Thursday Postcard Hunt – Landscape with Buildings

“Landscape with Buildings” is this week’s theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt.

Postcard from Germany

Observation Tower at Cape Arkona, a 45-metre-high high tower on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The Cape Arkona Lighthouse comprises two lighthouses and a radio navigation tower on the German Baltic Sea coast.
The former marine navigation tower (German: Peilturm) pictured in the postcard above was built in 1927 of brick and acted as a maritime navigation beacon. From 1911 to 1925, attempts were made —groundbreaking for the time —to improve navigation for the Sassnitz-Trelleborg railway ferry, established in 1909, using radio waves. To this end, large antenna fields were built within the ramparts of the medieval Jaromarsburg fortification. The foundations of the associated radio operating facility inside the ramparts have survived to this day. The technical facilities of the navigation tower were destroyed, however, in 1945.
Since 2003, the tower has housed the Amber Studio of Wiesbaden artist Nils Peters.

Postcard from Belarus

Minsk and the River Svislach

Postcard from Great Britain

Postcard from France

Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The commune’s position—on an island just a few hundred meters (yards) from land—made it accessible at low tide to the many pilgrims to its abbey. It was defensible as the incoming tide stranded drove off or drowned would-be assailants. Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979 for their unique aesthetic and importance as a Catholic site.

Postcard from USA

Christ and St. Luke Church, Norfolk, Virginia

8 comments

  1. It is curious to find a postcard of the observation tower. Usually, they only offer the main lighthouse.

    MOnt-Sant-Michel is a beautiful place. I’d like to visit Minsk as well.

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  3. What a great spot for an art gallery. I see a face in that tower 🙂

    There are probably lots of people who dislike the architecture as shown in the Minsk card, but I find it more interesting and preferable to the glass towers built today. violet

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  4. Lovely bright colors in the first one, and I like how part is in shadow. Poirot? I had to scroll back up to look! The round egg-shaped head? Ha!

    Lisa

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