Dimensions: 10.5 x 14.7 cm. (4.1 x 5.7″)

Publisher/Editor: Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck

Condition: Postally unused, Loreley rock stamp backside. Good condition with some signs of age including surface marks.

Notes: Katz Castle is a castle above the German town of St. Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at St. Goar. It was first built around 1371 by Count William II of Katzenelnbogen.

Sankt Goarshausen is a town located in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Nassau on the eastern shore of the Rhine, in the section known as the Rhine Gorge, directly across the river from Sankt Goar, in the German state Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Lorelei, also spelled Loreley in German, is a 132-metre-high, steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 1930s Loreley Amphitheatre is on top of the rock. (Wikipedia)