Images - Region, City, and Countryside

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1.	Loreley Rock at St. Goarshausen on the Rhine (19th Century) The legendary figure of the Loreley became part of German folklore in the nineteenth century. In a ballad included in his novel Godwi (1800-01), the Romantic poet Clemens....
2.	Lübeck (19th Century) Since the heyday of the Hanseatic League in the late fourteenth century, the city of Lübeck on the Baltic Sea had lost substantial amounts of trade to Bremerhaven, Hamburg, and Stettin (present-day....
3.	View of the Römerberg with Church of Saint Nikolai in Frankfurt (1822) Beginning in the 13th century, the city of Frankfurt played host to numerous trade and book fairs, becoming an important center for trade and finance in the process. This view of Frankfurt shows....
4.	Laying Pipe for Berlin's First Gasworks (1826) This lithograph shows workers in Berlin laying pipes that will supply gas to the streetlight at the right. In this comical scene, the process appears to be taking a little longer than it should,....
5.	Bonn on the Rhine (c. 1827) The small city of Bonn served as the residence of the “emigrated” archbishops and electors of Cologne from 1238 until the conquest of Cologne and Bonn by French revolutionary troops in 1794. The....
6.	A Rhineland Inn (1833) Particularly in the countryside, where people lived farther apart, inns played an essential role as centers for sociability and the exchange of ideas, sites for business transactions, and venues....
7.	Berlin Panorama (c. 1840) "Panorama of Berlin seen from the Royal Palace." With its focus on grand architecture, gardens, and broad boulevards and squares, this panorama clearly presents Berlin as the royal seat; the smokestacks....
8.	The Old Berlin City Hall (1840) In 1840, the date of this painting of the Old Berlin City Hall at the corner of Königsstrasse and Spandauer Strasse, the historical core of Berlin still remained largely unaffected by the modern....
9.	Mainz – Market in Front of the Cathedral (1840) As an archbishopric and the seat of an elector, Mainz had a long history as a religious center. That changed, however, when French revolutionary troops occupied Mainz in 1793. The city was secularized....
10.	Night Watchmen in Berlin (c. 1840) Night watchmen were an important presence on Berlin’s nighttime streets during the 1840s. These four, however, have just been caught napping by their sergeant, who wants to enter the supply station....
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