by Simon Winder
2006–9
Index
Aachen 56, 61, 108
Charlemagne’s basilica 48–50
Academy of the Lynxes, Rome 188–9
Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe 308, 315
Adriatic 273
Africa 360–2
Aix-la-Chapelle see Aachen
AIZ 430–1
Albert, Prince Consort 81–81, 283–4
Albert the Bear, Margrave of Brandenburg 81
Albert V, Duke of Bavaria 163
alcohol, German 325–7
Alemannia 104
Alexander I, Tsar 69
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh 283–4
Alfred, King 20,57
Alfred I, Prince of WindischGrätz 282
Algeria 439
Allgäu region 329
Alsace-Lorraine 108 –9, 314, 382, 416
Altdorfer, Albrecht 163
Altenburg 235, 266, 324–5, 407
Amo, Anton Wilhelm 195
Anabaptists 147–8
Andorra 304
Andrei Rublev (film) 82
Anhalt-Köthen 231–4
Anne, Queen of England 196
Ansbach 85, 250–1
Antioch 67
Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 195–7
Antwerp 118
Aquitaine 104
Archchancellors 86, 226
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 163, 180
Arminius 22
Arthur, King 20, 123
Asam brothers 209
asteroid attack, on Nördlingen 178
Augsburg 26, 134, 403–4
Augsburg, Diet of 145
Augsburg, Peace of 146, 157
August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 4–4, 195, 197
August II the Strong, King of Poland 187 –8, 238–9
August III the Fat, King of Poland 239, 240
Augustus, Emperor 26
Austrasia 104
Austria 61, 81, 82, 121, 163, 200, 205–6, 282, 341, 381
incorporation 303
new state 396, 415
in Roman Empire 25 –6, 28
territories 14, 108, 122, 243, 260, 272–3, 304, 305, 306
war memorials 402
wars 219, 223, 262–3, 297, 310–11, 311, 312, 314, 361, 374, 383, 386, 387, 399
Austro-Hungarian Empire 295, 392, 395–6, 416, 426
navy 393
Austro-Prussian War 361
Avars 24
Bach, Johann Sebastian 232–3
Baden 137, 263, 276, 303, 306, 312
Baden-Baden 26
Baghdad 83
Ballin, Alfred 368
Baltic Sea 99 –102, 413
Bamberg 35, 75, 79–80, 118, 252–6, 264, 295–6, 338
Cathedral 92
Imperial Hall 230–1
Natural History Museum 254–5
Barlach, Ernst 404–5
Bartók, Béla 417, 418
Basel 133
Batenburgers 148
Bauhaus 247, 252, 367, 422–3
Bavaria 64, 89–90, 104, 105, 133, 200, 303
domination 55
Roman 28
rule over 207, 261, 312, 330, 331
territories 134, 338
Bavaria, Soviet Republic of 398–9
Bavarians 62
Beaune 106
Beckmann, Max 432
Beethoven, Ludwig van 272
Behaim, Martin 131 –2, 189
Behrens, Peter 367
Belgium 105, 108, 120, 207, 304–5, 387
Bellotto, Bernardo 239
Benjamin, Walter 432 –3
Benz, Karl 425
Berchtesgaden 328, 440
Berg, Alban 417
Berg, Duchy of 250
Bergman, Ingmar 92
Bering, Vitus 257
Berlin 218, 229, 237, 248, 259, 260, 263–4, 304, 339, 385, 397
Cathedral 294–5, 371
Charlottenburg 369–71
post-WWI 418–19, 420, 421
Sports Palace 432
Victory Column 297–8
Berlin Wall 113
Bern 133
Bernhard, Thomas 11
Berthier, Louis Alexandre, Marshal 264
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz von 210–11
Biedermeier period 271, 274
Bismarck, Otto von 47, 48, 52, 89, 108, 112, 132, 137, 181, 298, 312, 313, 317, 319, 358, 360, 361
antagonism to 248, 279
anti-Catholicism 228, 331
monuments to 382, 403
physique 363
wars 309
Bismarck Towers 436, 443
Black Death 92, 93
Black Forest 39
Blenheim, Battle of 376, 386
blockades, naval 349, 364, 373, 393, 398, 400
Blücher, Marshal Gebhard von 370
Blue Horde 82
Blumenfeld, Kurt 345–6
Bocskay, Georg 146–7
Boers 573
Bohemia 138, 170–1, 179–80, 282
Bonn 130
book-burnings 46
Borges, Jorge Luis 113
Bosnia 417
Bosnians 396
Boulez, Pierre 422
Boxer Rebellion 359
Brandenburg 32, 81, 176, 218, 238, 435
Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraves of 250
Bratislava 319–20, 415, 416
Braun, Wernher von 96, 424
Braunschweig (Brunswick) 164, 192–97, 260, 295, 297, 312, 339–40, 346
Brecht, Bertolt 432
Breitenfeld, Battle of 176
Bremen 61, 92, 101, 102, 133–4, 180, 253, 325, 344, 350, 354, 357, 360, 368, 373
Bremerhaven 134
Breslau 260
Breughel, Pieter, the Elder 65, 167, 265
Breughel, Pieter, the Younger 116, 149
brewery: oldest 64
Britain 302, 375, 429
alienation from Germany 385–92, 394
First World War 391, 392, 394, 395
imperialism 359–60, 387–8: see also British empire
mining in 93
post-WWI 420
Romans in 20, 30
royal history 112
rulers 221, 244, 275, 278
Vikings in 53–4
wars 219, 383, 393
Britannia 20
British empire 28, 360, 362, 382, 388, 392
Britons 59
Brocken 327–8
Browne, Sir Thomas 296
Bruges 106
Brühl 208
Brüning, Heinrich 432
Brünnhilde 30
Brunswick see Braunschweig
Brussels 83, 106
Bückeburg 307, 308, 406–7
Bülow, Bernhard von 364
Burgenland 414–16
Burgundians 23
Burgundy 53, 104, 105, 106–8
Burkhard II, Duke of Gross Comburg 75
Burton, Robert 185
Bush, George W. 31
Buzzati, Dino: Tartar Steppe 78
Byzantine architecture 49
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The (film) 423
cabinets of curiosities 185–92
Cage, John 435
Calvin, John 137
Calvinism 170
Cambrai 133
candelabrum: ‘Jerusalem’ 50
Canute, King 30
apek, Karel: RUR 423
Caprivi, Count Leo von 364
Carl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe 215–16, 217, 221
Carlos II, King of Spain 243
Carol I, Prince and King of Romania 409
Caroline of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Queen of the United Kingdom 244, 279
Carolingian emperors 39, 104, 227
Cathars 236
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 222, 245–6, 291
Catholicism 51, 137–8, 141, 208–12, 227–8 see also Thirty Years War
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Castle to Castle 409–10
cemeteries 437<
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Charlemagne, Emperor 26, 27, 48, 49, 50–1, 52, 55, 56, 83, 84, 104
tomb 49, 51
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy 106–7
Charles the Fat, King of Alemannia and Emperor 54
Charles V, Emperor 111, 140, 141–7
Charles Frederick, Prince of Hesse 408
Charlottenburg Palace 369–71
Chernivtsi/Czernowitz 121
Children of Emlichheim 148
China 359–60, 393
Christian the Younger, Bishop of Halberstadt 174–5
Christianity 26, 27, 29, 30
fighting in name of 60–2: see also Crusades
survival 78
Christmas trees 280
churches: strategic importance of 77–8
Churchill, Winston 429
Claude 164
Clausthal 93–4
Coblence see Koblenz
Coburg 284
Cold War 3, 302, 352, 415
Colditz 235
Colloredo, Hieronymus von 229
Colmar 133
Cologne 55, 61, 66, 86, 119, 130, 165, 227, 266, 305, 342
Cathedral 39–40
origins 26
Roman mosaic pavement 28
Columbus, Christopher 132
Comburg 50, 75–6, 77, 209
communism 79, 140, 195, 266, 281, 294, 341, 345, 364, 385, 397, 402, 431
Congo 439
Conrad II, Emperor 63
Conrad III, Emperor 64, 67
Constantine the Great, Emperor 26, 83
Cook, Captain James 257, 353–4
Counter-Reformation 209–12
Cranach, Lucas, the Elder 137–8, 145, 163
Cranach, Lucas, the Younger 163
Croatia 273, 310
Croats 282, 396, 414
Crusades 64, 65–8, 70, 88, 91
cuisine, German 31–7
Custoza, Battle of 273
Czechoslovakia 303, 415–16
Czechs 24, 171–2, 396, 414, 416
Daimler, Gottlieb 425
Dalmatian coast 310
Damascus 67
Danes 20
Danube, River 13, 21, 198, 200, 289, 290
Danzig 81, 101, 102–3, 260, 303, 416
Darmstadt 262–3, 265, 332, 342, 366, 367, 402, 423
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species 279
David, Jacques-Louis 370
Dawkins, Richard 425
Denmark 297, 310, 311, 350
Dessau 150, 423, 436
Diesel, Rudolf 425
Dietrich, Marlene 245–6
Dijon 83, 106
Dinglinger, Johann Melchior 188
Donaueschingen Festival 422
Dornach, Battle of 122
Dortmund 134
Douala 354
dragons 19, 31, 132, 182, 289, 334
Dresden 188, 234, 235, 237, 238, 239, 281
drinks, German 325–7
Dublin 54
Dürer, Albrecht 118, 123, 131, 142, 144, 163, 165
Durham Cathedral 37
Dvoák, Antonin 172, 320
dynastic history 109–13
Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, The 141
‘Earth Apple’ 130–1
Edward IV, King of England 142
Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom 280
Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom 244
Eichendorff, Joseph von: Life of a Good-for-nothing 288–9
Einstein, Albert 292, 368, 425, 427
Eisenach 56, 364
Eisenstadt 414
Eisleben 134–6, 364
Elbe, River 234, 249
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria 398
Elizabeth, Tsarina 220
Elisabeth of Hungary, Princess 71
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia 196
Elsaß-Lothringen see Alsace-Lorraine
Elsheimer, Adam 164, 165, 188
Engels, Friedrich 140
England:
origins 19–20, 59
tribes 88–9
Erfurt 65, 69, 226
Cathedral 61, 68
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 283
Ernst III, Count of Gleichen 68–9
Ernst August I, King of Hannover 275
Ernst Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (Darmstadt) 366–8
Erthal, Franz Ludwig 254
Essen 274
Esslingen 85, 152, 266, 275
Etzlaub, Erhard 189
Eyck, Jan van 106
Eyes Wide Shut (film) 441
Faber, Johannes 189
fairs 266–7
family dynasties 109–13
Family of Love 149
famines 91–2
Fellner, Karl 134
Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria 276
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria 124, 125, 316, 368
Ferdinand II, Emperor 171, 175, 179, 189, 392
Ferdinand III, Emperor 179
film industry, German 423–4
First Reich 39, 52
First World War 109, 235, 244, 272, 273, 278, 335, 355–6, 371–6, 384, 385, 391–7
Armistice 396–7
casualties 395
memorials to 402–5
reparations 400–1
results of 397–402, 416–17, 420–2, 429
traitors in 397
Flanders 105
folk costume 117
Fontane, Theodore: After the Storm 24–5
forests 19, 22, 30, 287, 332
Forster, Georg 257–8
Voyage around the World 258, 353–4
Forster, Johann 257–8
Fort Dybbøl 219
France 23, 182, 277, 306–7
borders 105, 205, 307
empire 382
First World War 392
German alliance with 304
modern 39, 49, 50, 53
post-WWI 401–2, 428
rulers 221
territories 86, 104–9, 134, 205–6, 223, 225, 302
Vikings in 54
wars 168, 179, 219, 310, 311, 312–13, 314, 350, 383, 384, 387, 393, 395 see also Franco-Prussian
War; Napoleonic Wars
Franco-Prussian War 108, 308, 312–14, 344, 361, 377, 386, 395, 397, 403, 409
Franconia 252–6
Frankenhausen 140
Frankfurt 83, 85, 170, 266, 282, 283, 312, 342, 369
Book Fair 266–7
food 34
Free Imperial City 86–7, 134
Hall of the Electors 53
Franz I, Emperor (Franz Stephan) 222, 223–4, 276
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria 319, 381
Franz Joseph I, Archduke of Austria 317, 318–20, 381, 395
Franz Joseph Land 354
Fraser, George Macdonald: Royal Flash 337
Frederick the Gentle, Elector 235
Frederick I, King of Württemberg 275
Frederick II ‘the Great’, King of Prussia 28, 47, 48, 72, 141, 161, 217, 218–21, 223, 239, 259, 260–1, 311, 312, 436
Frederick III, Emperor 107, 118
Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony 139, 144
Free French 109
Free Imperial Cities 85, 102, 129–34, 274
Freese, Daniel 159–61
Freiberg 94, 115
Freiburg 164
Freising 64–5, 209
Freud, Sigmund 417, 438
Friedrich, Caspar David 370
Friedrich I ‘Barbarossa’, Emperor 47, 48, 50, 55, 64, 67–8, 162, 166
Friedrich II ‘Stupor Mundi’, Emperor 68, 71
Friedrich III, German Emperor 47, 48, 279–80
Friedrich V, Elector Palatine 170
Friedrich Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 193
Friedrich Wilhelm I, King in Prussia 72, 218
Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia 263, 305–6, 343, 370
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia 282–3, 305–6
Frisia 104
; Frisians 62
Fürstenberg, Prince Max Egon von 422
Galen, Clemens August Graf von, Bishop of Münster 147
Galileo Galilei 189
Gascony 104
Gdask 81, 103
George I, King of England 196–7, 244
George V, King of Hannover 52, 308, 312
George V, King of the United Kingdom 390
Gera 194–5, 248
German Democratic Republic 140–1
German empire 314–15, 353–63, 382, 387–8
German language 139
pidgin 362
Ghent, Treaty of 306
Gilbert, W. S. 429
Gladiator (film) 22–3, 26
Gleim, Ludwig 436
globes (terrestrial) 131–2, 189
Gmünd 115, 275
Goebbels, Joseph 25, 432
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 30, 38, 66, 177, 245, 251–2, 287
gold 45, 144–5
Golden Bull (1356) 86
Golden Meadow 32 Golem (film) 423
Göring, Hermann 335, 430
Goslar 56, 115
Cathedral 38
mines 94
palace 46–8, 51–2, 68
Gotha 186, 259
Goths 24
Grass, Günter 11, 256
Cat and Mouse 99
Graves, Robert: Goodbye to All That 405
Graz 200
Greece 338–9
Greenland 54
Greuter, Mattheus 189
Grimm, Brothers 30, 95, 287
Grimmelshausen, Johann von: Simplicissimus 175
Gropius, Walter 367, 432
Gross-Friedrichsburg 353
group activity, German enthusiasm for 289–95
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden 169, 176, 177, 181
preserved horse of 177
Gutenberg, Johannes 226
gypsies 416
Haber, Fritz 202, 346, 425
Habsburgs 57, 81, 83, 86, 110, 112, 120–5, 171, 210, 227, 274, 282, 371, 381, 393, 395, 396
against Ottomans 199–201, 203–4
branches 146
court 199
fall of 309–10, 320, 368, 385, 400, 414, 416–17
lands 107, 121, 141, 143, 199, 218–19, 238, 272–3, 310, 409, 413
in Mexico 317–9
multinationalism 302
navy 318, 393
rulers 122, 160, 221, 221–2
in Thirty Years War 179, 181
tombs 224–5, 225
Haeckel, Ernst 425
Hahnemann, Samuel 232
Halberstadt 435, 436, 437
Hall see Schwäbisch Hall
Halle 137–8, 194, 217–18, 435
Hamburg 55, 92, 101, 102, 130, 134, 295, 342, 344, 350, 354–5, 357, 360, 373
Free Port 388–9
Hamlet 78
Händel, Georg Friedrich 165
Hannover (Hanover) 225, 244, 264–5, 275, 295, 297, 312, 350
Hanseatic League 100, 101–3, 158
Hansel and Gretel 92
Harvey-Jones, John 352
Harz Mountains 93–4, 289, 328, 332
factories 96
Haydn, Joseph 211, 414
Heartfield, John 430–1, 432
Hebel, Johann Peter: