Bremen is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, a two-city state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.  With about 570,000 inhabitants, the Hanseatic city is the 11th largest city of Germany and the second largest in Northern Germany after Hamburg.  Bremen is also the largest city on the river Weser, the longest river flowing entirely in Germany, lying some 37 miles upstream from its mouth into the North Sea and is surrounded by the state of Lower saxony. Bremen’s port, together with the port of Bremerhaven at the mouth of the Weser, is the second largest port after Port Hamburg. 

   This is a 1906 Postkarte, postmarked in Bremen with a nicely framed image of the city and river, with two lovely young ladies in bonnets. “Gruss Aus” cards are German postcards from the Pioneer Era that usually have several views on the front with the words “Gruss Aus” which translates to “Greetings from”. The Chromolithographic trade was well established in Germany with many highly skilled lithographers and pressmen and this process was soon used for picture postcards and the “Gruss aus” type card design was born and widely used from c 1894-95 on.  This card is postmarked 1906 and is in excellent condition with minor wear and clean, clear images. The reverse is neatly written on and is also clean.