3386 - Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Wolfsburg is a city on the Aller River and has about 125 000 people. It's famous for having the world's largest car plant and is the corporate headquarters for Volkswagen.

The city was a planned city and was founded on 1 July 1938. It was named Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. It was built as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen Beetle). During the Second World War, military cars, aeroplanes, a
nd other military equipment was built here by a workforce of mainly forced workers and prisoners-of-war. In 1942, German authorities established the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp for a few months.

The city and the Volkswagen factory were captured by American forces on 11 April 1945. About 7700 forced labourers were liberated from the Volkswagen factory. The Americans changed the name to Wolfsburg, after a castle located nearby. The area became a part of the British occupation zone in June 1945.

Wolfsburg is also home to the Autostadt, which is an open air museum/theme park dedicated to automobiles owned and operated by Volkswagen. Pavilions feature all of Volkwagen's major brands - Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Škoda Auto, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche.

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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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