You would not know that there is any printing at the bottom of this postcard (in the banner type design) unless you enlarge it. It shows “Brixen (560m) Kloster Neustift, Engelsburg.” This is a Stengel & Co. card of Novella Abbey or Kloster Neustift. This abbey is located in Northern Italy, near the town of Bressanone, in the Italian Alps. It was founded in 1142 by the Bishop of Brixen, and thriving today, still run by the Augustinian Canons Regular, an order of monks that help care for more than 20 parishes as well as run the abbey, produce award winning wines, etc. Check out the link above. (I want to visit there now.)
As far as a time frame for the postcard, I searched online for the series or number 2481 and found a different postcard, but same number, of almost the exact image on another website, by the same publisher. See 1900 – Brixen, Kloster Neustift Engelsburg. I believe the “1900” refers to the year of the postcard. But check out the differences in the two cards. And this is always interesting – you can see that either one or both of them have been altered from whatever the original photo was (and then we kind of wonder why the publisher would have taken the trouble to make changes.) But notice in the “linked in” postcard that the figure with the staff is not proportionate to the other people. And notice that in the postcard that we have there is a different figure with a staff (a shepherd, well presumably both figures are shepherds) with a goat. In the other image the goat is much smaller, stands next to the two ladies and could easily be mistaken for a dog. And there are other differences, of course, but you get the idea. It’s like one of those exercises for kids (find the things that don’t match) and rather fun!
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher: Stengel & Co., G. m. b. H., Dresden. Series or number 2481. Circa 1900.
Price: $18.00
Sources: Kloster Neustift. Web accessed May 24, 2015. [http://www.kloster-neustift.it/en/order-convent/abbazia-di-novacella-today.html]
Martinschitz, Ernst. “1900 – Brixen, Kloster Neustift Englesburg.” imBildTV. Web accessed May 24, 2015. [http://www.imbild.tv/index.php?option=com_pic_places&view=pic_ef&tmpl=component&fto=800021464&nr=17&fmt=ser]