This card features a beautiful picture of the Lorelei, a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the Rhine River in the Rhine Gorge, near Sankt Goarshausen. The site is part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. At the top of the rock is the Loreley Amphitheatre ( Freilichtbühne Loreley ), built between 1934 and 1939 as one of the Nazi Thingplätze . A Thingplatz was an outdoor amphitheatre designed for theatrical performances and political gatherings. The Nazis regarded the Lorelei as a symbolic shrine and sought to use the site to promote German nationalism and Nazi ideology. The amphitheatre’s opening performance was Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell . The Freilichtbühne Loreley continued to be used extensively after the Second World War. It hosted an international camp for European youth and, from 1952 to 1967, was used for performances of classical drama. Since 1968, it has hosted orchestral performances and rock and pop concerts featuring int...