A postcard from my current hometown Uelzen, Lower Saxony, postwar, probably 1950s.
Upper Left: Town Hall, looking towards the north. The historical city centre, for at least half a millenium. By now it's the old town hall (a new one has been built about 400 metres further south) and has been thoroughly renovated. One of it's more memorable uses is the anual advent calendar, as pictured below (November 30th, 2024)
The road in front of the building originally was the crossing of two major national roads and saw a lot of traffic, but late in the 1990s several road building projects moved the traffic outside of the city center, and today the entire area is a 10 km/h (6 mph) speed limit zone, surrounded by a 30 km/h (18 mph) zone, and twice a week it's made into a pedestrian zone for a farmers market.
Upper right: Railway station. Heavily modivied by now, the buildings to the left and to the right are gone, the main building in the middle has been completely refurbished prior to the 2000 World Expo to a design by renowned artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Lower left: "Outer Mill", next to the river. Originally outside the city limits, it still is on the northern edges of the town. The building itself still exists, but the bridge is gone, replaced by a road bridge a few meters away. The bridge is part of a road built around the eastern side of the city.
Lower right: Bahnhofstraße, the road between the city centre and the railway station, looking twards the east (not entirely sure about that). You'd barely recognize it today without the caption. The road is gone and replaced by a pedestrian zone, some of the buildings in the pictures are gone, the others have been modernized and thoroughly changed. Most of the houses were torn down because of war damage, which would not have been put on postcards but otherwise was still a common sight in the early 1950s.