by Simon Winder
Treasure Chest 265, 267
‘Unexpected Reunion’ 95
Heck brothers 335
Heidegger, Martin 30
Heidelberg 26, 206
Heilbronn 275
Heine, Heinrich 12, 38, 93–4, 287, 291
Heinrich the Fowler, King of the Germans 53, 56, 60
grave 57, 59
Heinrich II, Emperor 63
Heinrich II Postumus, Prince of Gera 194–5
Heinrich III, Emperor 38, 47, 63
Heinrich VI, Emperor 89
Heinrich Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg 192–3
Heinrich the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and of Saxony 81, 162
Heligoland (Helgoland) 362–3
Henry VII, King of England 142
Herder, Johann Gottfried 252
Herero massacre 361
Hergé: Tintin stories 337
Herzl, Theodor 345
Hesse, Electorate of (HesseKassel 1803–66) 366
Hesse, Hermann: Narcissus and Goldmund 92–3
Hesse, Landgraviate of 71, 197, 366
Hesse and by Rhine (HesseDarmstadt), Grand Duchy of 227, 262, 263, 306–7
Hildesheim 50, 115, 285
Cathedral 60–1
Himmler, Heinrich 58, 103, 158, 370
Hindemith, Paul 422
Hindenburg, Paul von 71–2, 103, 313, 384, 429, 430, 431
Hitler, Adolf 48, 103, 134, 240, 334, 366, 372, 377, 421, 430
annexing regions 314
anti-Catholicism 228
birthplace 207
bunker 52, 217
coming to power 71, 384, 419–20, 428, 431
favourite operas 59
inspiration 28, 220, 440
July 1944 plot against 409
locations connected with 293, 294, 328
Hobbes, Thomas 185
Hoefnagel, Joris 146–7
Hoffmann, E. T. A. 255–7, 288, 370
‘Mines of Falun’ 95, 256
Hoffmann, Heinrich 376–7
Hoffmann, Josef 417
Hohenlohe, Princes of 215
Hohenlohe-Weikersheim 215
Hohenstaufens 56
Hohenzollern, Albrecht von, Elector 137–8
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 338, 408, 409
Hohenzollerns 57, 109–10, 112, 130, 238, 408–9
Holbein, Hans 163
Hollar, Wenceslas 190
Holocaust 340, 341, 439
Holy Roman Empire 26, 27, 29, 57, 83–7, 118, 161, 181, 260, 272
Hope, Anthony: Prisoner of Zenda 336–7, 339
Hornburg 340, 346
Horthy, Admiral Miklós 394
Humboldt, Alexander von 254, 257, 258–9, 288, 354, 370
Hundred Years War 37, 106
Hungary 24, 82–3, 124, 199, 202, 206, 415
Huns 24
hunting 334–6
Hus, Jan 136
Hussites 236
Huxley, Thomas 425
Iceland 54, 61
Imperial Knights 227–8
industrialization 181, 306, 329, 386, 389–90, 427
inflation 400–1, 402, 428
Ingolstadt 167–8, 173–4, 177, 231, 305, 358, 384
Inn, River 198, 207
Innsbruck 122, 123–4, 329, 368
Schloss Ambras 124–5
Islam 78
Istanbul 204
Italy 161–2, 163, 164–5
post-WWI 421
wars 310
Jamaica 355
James I, King of England 168, 171, 316–17
Janáček, Leoš 417, 438
Japan 372, 393
Jean II, King of France 106
Jefferson Memorial 28
Jena 426
Jerusalem 67
Jews 238, 339–46, 397, 402, 416
massacres of 67
riots against 341–2
Joan of Arc 106
Joanna the Mad, Queen of Castile and of Aragon 122
Johann Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach 174
Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony 238
Johann Georg IV, Elector of Saxony 238
John of Austria, Don 142
John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony 145
John of Leyden 147, 149
Joseph I, Emperor 221
Joseph II, Emperor 207, 211, 260
Jugendstil 30, 363, 364, 367, 425
Jünger, Ernst: Storm of Steel 403, 429
Jutland 61
Jutland, Battle of 351, 394
Kafka, Franz 121, 256
‘The Burrow’ 85
The Castle 119
The Trial 119
Kahlenberg 201
Kämpffer, Eduard 69
Karl II, Archduke of Austria 170–1
Karl II, Duke of Braunschweig 275–6
Karl IV, Emperor 86
Karl VI, Emperor 218, 225, 243
Karl VII, Emperor 222, 223
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 408–9
Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 251–2
Karl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 284
Karlsruhe 202–3, 342
Kaufungen, Kunz von 235
Kassel 177, 208, 248, 258, 264, 366
Kepler, Johannes 189
Kickelhahn Mountain 252
Kiel 350, 394
Kiel Canal 351
Kilian, Jan 356
Kingsley, Mary: Travels in West Africa 362
Kipling, Rudyard 30, 429
Klein Venedig 353
Kleist, Heinrich von 370
Kleukens, Friedrich Wilhelm 367
Klimt, Gustav 417
Koblenz 26, 108, 206, 436
Kocher, River 75
Kolmar 133
Königgrätz, Battle of 219, 312, 313, 314, 318
Königswinter 30–1
Köthen 231–4, 435
Krakau (Kraków) 260
Krupp family 274
Kubrick, Stanley 441
Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) 94–5
Kyffhäuser Mountain 293
la Motte Fouqué, Friedrich de: Undine 287
Lang, Fritz 418–19, 423–4
Metropolis (film) 424
Woman in the Moon (film) 424
languages:
in eastern regions 415–16
German 139
Latin 27
learning 9–12
pidgin German 362
Le Corbusier 367
League of Nations 419, 423
Leclerc, General Philippe 109
Leutze, Emanuel 437
Leibniz, Gottfried 192, 195
Leipart, Theodor 431
Leipzig 219, 235, 266–7, 315
Leipzig, Battle of: memorial to 293–4
Lemberg 260
Lenin, Vladimir 278, 398
Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen 232–3
Leopold I, Emperor 122, 198, 200–1
Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden 276
Leopold II, Emperor 221
Lepanto, Battle of 124, 199
Lepsius, Professor Karl Richard 354
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 192
Liechtenstein 304, 312
Liegnitz, Battle of 82
Linderhof 331
Lindisfarne 30
Lipizzaner stud 170
Lissa, Battle of 310
Liszt, Franz 252, 414
literature, Roman 29–30
Lombardy 104
Loos, Adolf 417
Lorraine, Duchy of 164, 223
Lorraine (Lotharingia) 53, 104–6
Lothair I, King of Italy 104
Lotharingia see Lorraine
Louis II, King of Hungary 124
Louis IX, King of France 67
Louis XIII, King of France 314
Louis XIV, King of France 28, 64, 107, 133, 165, 196, 201, 204–8, 314, 334
Louis XV, King of France 314
Louis XVI, King of France 243, 261, 281
Louis-Philippe, King of the French 281
Lübeck 35, 85, 100, 101, 102, 103, 134, 157, 285, 323–4, 403
Lublin 260
Ludendorff, Erich 103, 384, 397, 419–20, 428
Ludwig the German, King of East Francia 53
Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Hesse 262
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria 163, 276, 290–1, 338, 376
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria 329–31
Ludwig III, King of Bavaria 331, 398, 403–4
Ludwig Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden (‘Turkish Louis’) 202, 203
Ludwigsburg 208
Lüneburg 157–61, 325, 335
Lusatians 81
Luther, Martin 46, 134–87, 139–41, 142, 143, 144–5, 147, 235–6
Lützen, Battle of 176, 177
Luxembourg 3–6, 105, 108
Macke, August 369
McKinley, William 381
Magdeburg 63, 79, 176, 179, 231, 295–6, 404–5
Magna Carta 20
Magris, Claudio: Danube 121
Magyars 24, 55
Mahler, Gustav 287, 329, 346, 368–9, 438
Mainz 66, 84, 86, 101, 108, 165, 206, 215, 225–7, 229–30, 258, 262, 306
Cathedral 63–4, 68, 228
museum 27
Mainz, Archbishop of, as Elector 226
Mainz, siege of 252
Mann, Thomas 247, 323, 364–5, 366, 399, 432
Joseph and His Brothers 365
Magic Mountain 364
Royal Highness 337
Tonio Kröger 99
Mansfeld, County of 136
Mansfeld, Ernst, Count of 175
maps 99–100, 103–9, 170, 189
Marburg 71, 115, 116
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 22
Maria Theresa, Empress 222–3, 224–5, 243
Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia), Queen of France 243, 281
Marne, First Battle of the 384, 385, 392, 394
Marr, Wilhelm 344–5
Marx, Karl 140, 276–8, 280–1, 283, 284, 346
Mary I, Queen of England 143
marzipan 323–4
Matthew the Illuminator 95
Matthias I, Emperor 170
Maulbronn Abbey 92–3
Maximilian I, Emperor 118, 122–3, 132, 142
tomb 123
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico 317–18
Maximilian II, Emperor 107, 160, 170
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria 376
Mayence see Mainz
Mazarin, Cardinal Jules 204
Mecklenburg 61
medievalism 47, 58, 80, 330, 333, 384
megafauna 332–6
Meissen 76, 101, 153, 235, 236, 237–8, 364
Melanchthon, Philipp 137
Mendel, Gregor 438, 439
Mendelssohn, Felix 288
Mennonites 148–9
Mercator, Gerardus 189
Mergentheim 120
Merian, Maria Sibylla 191, 425
Messerschmitt, Willy 255
Metropolis (film) 423, 424
Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel von 281
Metz 108, 109, 133
Mexico 309, 316–18
Mexico City 318
Michaelsberg 253
Middle Ages 37, 59, 90, 95, 100, 101, 105, 114, 129
enthusiasm for 38, 39, 40, 63, 87, 132, 370
religious differences 66–7
survivals from 45–8
town walls 76–7, 78
traces of 75–7
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 367
Migrating Birds movement 421–2
Milan 83
militarism 371–7
Military Frontier 200
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount 373–4
mining 93–6
missionaries 61
Mittelbau-Dora 96
Modersohn-Becker, Paula 368
Mohács, Battle of 124, 199
Moholy-Nagy, László 432
Moltke, Helmuth von, the Elder 261, 311, 312
Moltke, Helmuth von, the Younger 262, 365, 376
Monaco 304
Mongols 68, 78, 81–3
Montenegro 372
Moravians 368, 396, 438
Möricke, Eduard 287
Morocco 374
Mosel Valley 75, 108, 151
mountains 327–31
Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven 390
Mühlberg, Battle of 145, 236
Mühlhausen 76–7, 85, 140–1, 313, 384
Munich 224, 376, 397–400
Antiquarium 163
Asamkirche 209
Hofbräuhaus 437–9
Munich putsch (1923) 419–20
Münster 76, 146, 147–50, 180
Müntzer, Thomas 140, 141
museums 172–4, 177
Musil, Robert 121
Mussolini, Benito 28, 421
Nabokov, Vladimir
The Gift 385
King, Queen, Knave 99, 423
Laughter in the Dark 116, 432
Nama massacre 361
Napoleon Bonaparte 38–9, 57, 60, 69, 79, 85, 108, 112, 114, 119, 141, 181, 211, 257, 305
defeat 296, 303, 304
hat 259
and Jews 342
paintings of 370
see also Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon III, Emperor of France 277, 317, 318, 421
Napoleonic Wars 46, 133–4, 181, 219, 239, 252, 255–6, 259–65, 311, 342, 366, 376, 387, 397
memorials to 265, 377
years following 271–6, 303–4
nationalism 301–7
Naumann, Johann Friedrich 231
navy, Austro-Hungarian 393
navy, British see Royal Navy
navy, German 349, 350–1, 352, 358, 373, 393, 394
navy, Habsburg 318, 393
navy, Hungarian 394
Nazism 41, 59, 103, 134, 220, 297, 315, 385, 390–1, 402, 409, 416, 430, 433, 439
artists and 419
Jews and 340–1, 345, 427
objectors to 147, 292
obsession with Middle Ages 87
organizations banned 422
places associated with 96, 276, 328, 440–1
plans 109, 339
supporters 284
neo-paganism 25
Netherlands 105, 120, 146, 158, 168, 176, 180, 304–5
Neuschwanstein 329–31
Neusiedler See 413–14
Neustria 104
New Braunfels 355
New Kamerun 382
Newbolt, Sir Henry 429
Nietzsche, Friedrich 235, 252, 277
Nördlingen 178–9
Norman Conquest 20
Normandy 54, 105
Normans 59
North America 355–7
Nuremberg 85, 118, 130, 131–2, 266, 440
fortifications 130
German Museum 132, 181
Oberth, Hermann 424
Ödenburg 415
Ogedai, Great Khan 82
Oktoberfest 236
Oldenburg 312, 349
Olrich, Joseph Maria 367
Orange Order of Ireland 275
Orkneys 61
Öttingen-Öttingen 120
Otto, King of Greece 338–9, 370
Otto I ‘the Great’, Emperor 52, 55, 63, 105, 161
Otto of Freising 64
Otto III, Emperor 49
Ottoman Empire 124–5, 198–204, 372
Palatinate 162, 170, 206
Paris 56, 263
parks 246–9
Passau 198, 200
Passion: images of 115–16
Paulus, Friedrich 396
Pavia, Battle of 140, 143, 199
Peasants’ War 140–1, 147
Pétain, Philippe 409
Peter the Great, Tsar 139, 260
Pfaffenhofen, Battle of 223–4
Philip the Good, Duke of
Burgundy 106
Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy 122
Philip II Augustus, King of France 67
Philipp, Prince of Hesse 408
pidgin German 362
Pietists 217
plague 92–3
Pleistocene era 20
Poland 201–2, 239, 260
Mongol invasion 82
Poles 24, 51
Pomerania 32, 81
Pomeranians 81
porcelain 237–8
Portugal 302
Posen 260, 303, 416
Potsdam 217, 220–1, 248–9, 280
Poussin, Nicolas 164
Praetorius, Michael 192
Prague 75, 76, 125, 171, 180, 186, 282, 319–20
Pressburg see Bratislava
prince-bishops 60–1, 62, 254
Prohibition 356
Protestantism 101, 137–41, 142–5, 157, 160, 162, 163 see also Thirty Years War
Provence 104
Prussia 134, 217–19, 239, 243, 260, 262, 263–4, 275–6, 297, 304, 305
wars 308–9, 310–14
Prussians 24, 87, 302
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow 96
Quedlinburg 57–8, 118, 274
Radetzky, Field Marshal John 273
Ragusa 272
Ramillies, Battle of 376
Ransmayr, Christoph: Terrors of Ice and Darkness 354
Rastatt 306
Ratskeller 13, 35
Ravensburg 274, 329
Reformation 119, 138–41, 143–7, 162
Regensburg 12–13, 66, 83, 129, 160, 284, 307
architecture 26
churches 40
Imperial Assembly Hall 119
origins 26
St Emmeram’s Church 209–10
Reichstadt, Napoléon Bonaparte, Duke of 317
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front 35, 429
Rembrandt 162
Renata of Lorraine 125
reunification of Germany 79, 371, 404: see also unification of Germany
Reuss, People’s Republic of 408
Reuss, Princes of (Senior and Junior Lines) 89, 194–5, 248, 303–4
Reval see Tallin
Rezzori, Gregor von: Snows of Yesteryear 121
Rhine, River 21, 290
Rhineland 306, 360, 401–2
western: in Roman Empire 25–6
Rhodes, Cecil 373
Richard I Lionheart, King of
England 67
Richelieu, Cardinal 168, 204
Riga 81, 101, 102, 103, 416
River Lech, Battle of 176, 177
Röbling, Johann 140
Romania 409
Romanians 282
Romans/Roman Empire
in Britain 20, 30
Europe’s connections to 51
in Germany 20–2, 25–30
inhabitants 21–2
legacy of 28–9
objects 27–8
Rominten Wilderness 333–4, 335, 336
Rommel, Erwin 41, 396
Roon, Albrecht von 311
Roth, Joseph 11, 121, 320, 374, 432
Silent Prophet 398
Rothenburg 179
Rothschilds 343
Royal Navy 102, 351, 373, 374, 383, 386, 390, 393, 394, 400, 429