does anybody speak non-Google German?

[wolf63]

I am working my way through a huge pile of old/vintage postcards to see if any of them are worth more than pennies. They will be sold either in our charity shop or on our website.

I have what feels like a zillion German cards - and I am finding that the Google translation is not coping. It isn't even coming up with really awful translations.

I have only started this for today and there are a couple of words that have me stumped.

"Pegnitzpartie" - it is a postcard of the Church of the Holy Ghost in Nurnberg and/or nuremberg. I can find similar cards but not this one.

The second is of a woman praying to a altar thingy in a wood - with Jesus hanging on his cross. It looks like a huge totem pole. "Parlenkirchen Josiphhichl" - I thought of church place to speak to Joseph as a general translation.

Help - please. Thunder has just started.

[jno]

Nuremberg is Nürnberg in German. The Pegnitz is a river flowing though it. Is part of the river visible in the photo?

[wolf63]

Yes - there is a river running alongside the building. I was hoping that the word would help me identify this particular card from the three hundred other cards of the same scene.

I found a postcard of the Hindleburg after it was scuppered in 1919 - the couple who donated these cards seem to have been keen travellers.

Thanks

[shaneystar2]

Parlenkirchen ..is probably mispelt
It's probably Partenkirchen .As in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[jno]

Nuremberg must have had millions of postcards showing views of churches with or without the Pegnitz - no idea how you're going to find that one's worth more than another unless it's signed by Hitler or has an incredibly rare stamp (maybe one of those hyperinflation ones from between the wars). Good luck!

[SueMoneyRowley]

Could it be Partenkirchen? The name of a place in Bavaria. A lot of villages in that area have sort of totem poles.

[SueMoneyRowley]

http://www.ebay.com/i...Germany-/390356245032

[SueMoneyRowley]

I think you're probably trying to translate place names.

[wolf63]

Sue - place names are difficult as some are listed, on ebay for example, with the German spelling and others with the English version.

The Parlenkirchen could be partenkirchen - the writing on all of the cards is tiny.

jno - the church one is just one woman, kneeling in front of a pole which is in the middle of a forest. It's odd

[jno]

possibly some sort of pilgrimage site or shrine. Sacred groves in forests often go back long before Christianity.