Postcard Ouren near Burg-Reuland, Schibbachtal with Nonnenley, East Cantons ca. 1910

German-language postcard from the early twentieth century showing a black-and-white phototype of the Schibbachtal near Ouren close to Burg-Reuland. The image shows the river valley with its winding road, fields in the distance and on the left the Nonnenley rock formation, flanked by two large tree trunks in the foreground that frame the vantage point. At the top, the caption reads "Ouren b. Burg Reuland. - Schibbachtal mit Nonnenley." The verso is unwritten and unposted, with a divided back. The card is in good condition.

Ouren is a hamlet at the meeting point of three countries, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, in the valley of the Our. When this card was published, the area still belonged to the German Empire as part of the Kreis Malmedy in the Rheinprovinz, which explains the exclusively German inscription on the card. After the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 the territory was ceded to Belgium and incorporated into the newly formed East Cantons, now the territory of the German-speaking Community. The Nonnenley, a rock formation in the Schibbachtal, is a favoured walking destination in the southern foothills of the Eifel. Postcards from this period show the area in its final years under German administration and document a region that would shortly afterwards adopt a different national identity without its language, landscapes or village names changing.