2456 - Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Richard is a city administrator and the yellow roofed building in the card is the town hall where he works. The card is promoting staycations because it says, Sei gast in deiner eigenen Stadt! (Be a guest in your own city). On the back of the card is says, Warum in die Ferne schweifen wenn das Gute liegt nah? (Why wander far away when the good is so close?)

Herford is an ancient town founded in 789 by Charlemagne in order to guard a ford crossing the narrow Werre River.

Herford was the location of the headquarters of the 1st Armoured Division at Westfalen Garrison, as a part of the British Forces Germany until the division moved back to the United Kingdom in 2015. The British Forces Broadcasting Service studio for Germany was located here until 2009, when it moved to Hohne.

In hockey, the Herforder Ev (Ice Dragons) play in the Regionalliga, which is the fourth level of hockey in Germany. There are 48 teams in the Regionalliga and they play in five different regions.
Herforder Ev is the current Regionalliga West champions.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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