Cover franked with Scott No. 529 posted in Rott (Inn) on 2 May 1945, five days before Germany’s surrender to the Allies. The cover was mailed from Fran Ursula Schonthaler to Dr. Schonthaler in Bad Homburg.
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There are two small towns in Germany with the name Rott. The town from which this letter was mailed is on the Inn River about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of Munclien. Baedeker’s Guide to Southern Germany (1929 Edition) speaks of the region thusly: The train soon diverges on the light from the Munchen line and runs north across the plain of the Inn. On a hill, to the left of Rott (1445ft.), is a large old Benedictine abbey, the church of which, rebuilt by J. M. Fischer in 1759, is a masterpiece of the south German rococo style. The interior decoration comprises frescoes by Matthias Gunther (1763), plaster work by
F. X. Feichtmayr and Jakob Rauch, and delicately painted wooden figures by Ignaz Gunther.