Thank you to the sender for painting a bowling ball and pins—wrong bowling, but I appreciate the effort. The sender comes from Neutraubling , a relatively new city founded in 1951. It was established to house displaced ethnic Germans, many of whom had been expelled from the Sudetenland (then part of Czechoslovakia ) or from former eastern territories of Germany that are now part of Poland . Before the city was built, the area had a very different purpose. During the Second World War, it was the site of an airbase and aircraft factory used for the production of Messerschmitt planes. It’s interesting to think how a place shaped by war and displacement has since become a modern town—something you wouldn’t immediately guess just from looking at a simple postcard.