This is a postcard sent in 1918 from Trakeningken, Kreis Tilsit (now Trakininkai, Lithuania), to Berlin. From my experience, a postmark of Trakeningken on a Reich stamp is pretty rare, I should say I'm lucky to find it in such clear condition.
If Pogegen was a railway gateway to Memelland from Tilsit side (which is confusingly the Russian side nowadays), Trakeningken would be the land gateway since the road coming from Tilsit splits there to multi direction. The village itself is pretty small, today, Trakininkai's population counts only 150.
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