by Simon Winder
Rubens, Peter Paul 163, 164, 209, 291
Rückert, Freidrich 287
Rudolph I, King of the Romans 123
Rudolph II, Emperor 124, 125, 146–7, 163, 170, 180, 186
Ruhr 283, 305, 401
Ruritania 336–9
Russia 372–3, 383, 384, 385, 387
Rust 402, 414
Ruthenes 396
Saarland 108, 401
Salian emperors 39, 56, 63, 84
Salzburg 75, 200, 210
Samoa 358
Sanssouci Palace 220–1, 248–9
Saracens 54
Sarajevo 381
Saxe-Coburg 236
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 283, 338, 390
Saxe-Hildburghausen 236
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchy of 236, 251–2
Saxons 24, 51, 59, 62, 87, 119
Saxony 81, 89–90, 104, 174, 176, 234–40, 312
Scarlet Empress (film) 245–6
Schaumburg-Lippe 303–4, 307–8, 315–16, 406
Schiller, Friedrich 252, 436
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich 369–70
Schlegel, August Wilhelm 164
Schleicher, Kurt von 429–30
Schlemmer, Oskar 423
Schleswig 61
Schleswig Wars 297, 350
Schleswig-Holstein 134, 311
Schlieffen, Graf von 313
Schlieffen Plan 384
Schmalkaldic League 145
Schmitz, Bruno 293, 436
Schnitzler, Arthur 121, 441
Schoenberg, Arnold 417, 418
Scholl, Sophie 292
Schönborn, Christoph, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna 229
Schönborn, Friedrich Karl, Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg 229
Schönborn, Lothar Franz, Archbishop of Mainz and Bishop of Bamberg 229, 230
Schönborn, Philipp Franz, Bishop of Würzburg 229
Schonbrünn Palace 407
Schopenhauer, Arthur 277
Schreck, Johannes 189
Schubert, Franz 272, 415
Schumann, Robert 235, 288
Schütz, Heinrich 194
Schwäbisch Gmünd 437–8
Schwäbisch Hall 75, 83, 114–15, 116–17, 275
Schwitters, Kurt 433
Scott, Ridley 22–3
Scottish mercenaries 178
Sebald, W. G. 324
Vertigo 259
Sebaldus, St: reliquary tomb 132
Second Reich 52, 181, 252, 313
Second World War 259–60, 352, 374
dead 91
memorials 402–3
Sedan, Battle of 312, 314
Septimania 104
Serbia 392, 417
Serbin 356–7
Serbs 396
Seven Years War 387
Seventh Seal (film) 92
Shakespeare, William 164
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein 305
Sibelius, Jean 101
Finlandia 301
Sigismund, Emperor 118
Sigmaringen 407, 409
Silesia 217, 223
Silesian Wars 219
Simeon II, Tsar of Bulgaria 338
Slankamen, Battle of 202
Slavs 28, 60, 282, 414
Slovaks 396
Slovenes 396
Smetana, Bedich 172, 320
solitude 284–9
Sophia of Hanover 196
Sophie Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst see Catherine the Great
Sophie of Bavaria 318
Sopron 415, 416
Sorbs 24, 51, 81, 87
Spain 302
‘Spanish Road’ 107
Spanish Succession, War of 243, 377
Speer, Albert 96
Speyer 37, 66, 153, 206, 403
Cathedral 63–4, 206
Spiegelsberge 435–7
Spix, Johann Baptist von 354
SS 25, 39, 52, 58
Stauferland 75
Stauffenberg, Claus von 255, 409
Stealing of the Princes 235
Steller, Georg Wilhelm 257, 258
Sternberg, Josef von 245
Stifter, Adalbert: Rock Crystal 286
Stolberg-Stolberg 57
Strasbourg 108, 109, 129, 133, 206, 369
Cathedral 8, 9, 38
astronomical clock 8
cathedral museum 8
Strauss, Johann 272
Strauss, Richard 288, 329, 368–9
Stravinsky, Igor 422
Stuttgart 144, 423
Styria 170, 200
suburbs, German 363–4
Subutai 82
Sudan 374
Sudetenland 414
suevite 178
Sullivan, Arthur 429
Swabia 32, 55, 85, 113
Swabians 62
Swedes 176–7, 178, 179–80, 181
Switzerland 105, 122, 133, 146, 162, 180, 303
Szerb, Antal: Oliver VII 337
Szymanowski, Karol 417
Tacitus
Agricola 21
Germania (On the Origin and Situation of the Germans) 20–2, 23, 30
Tallinn 81, 101, 103
Tannenberg, Battle of 71, 72, 384–5
Tarkovsky, Andrei 82
Tauber, River 215
Teutoburg Forest, Battle of 22
Teutonic Knights 70–72, 81, 82, 103, 120, 333, 334, 384–5
Theroux, Paul: Mosquito Coast 80
Thing-theatres 25
Third Reich 29, 52, 334, 422
Thirty Years War 79, 91, 114, 119, 124, 167–70, 173–82, 190, 193, 204, 206, 207, 218, 264, 301, 377, 383, 437
Thuringia 32, 55, 68, 89, 236, 248, 251, 325
Thuringian Forest 328, 333
Thurn und Taxis family 307
Tiberius, Roman Emperor 26
Tibet 374
Tiepolo, Giambattista 165–6, 172, 230
Tilly, Count of 169, 171, 176, 177, 376
Tirpitz 352
Tirpitz, Grand Admiral von 351, 365, 373, 383
Titian 142, 145–6
Toul (Tull) 133
Tower of London 37
town walls 76–7, 78
trade 13, 100, 101, 103, 132, 133, 158, 204, 349, 354, 400
Transylvania 202, 206
Trapp, Captain Georg Ludwig, Ritter von 359
Treitschke, Heinrich von 215, 216–17
Trèves see Trier
tribes 23–5, 87–90
Trier 76, 86, 108, 165, 227, 276
architecture 26
Black Gateway (Porta Nigra) 26–7
Constantine’s palace 26–7
post-WWII 29
Roman 26–7, 28
Trier, Archbishop of, as Elector 27
Trotha, Lothar von 361
Tsingtao 359
Ukraine 385
Ulm 40, 40–1, 85, 129, 134
Umberto I, King of Italy 381
unification of Germany 46, 47, 68, 297, 303, 307, 308, 309, 313, 315, 323, 344, 350, 351, 386, 395: see also reunification of Germany
USA 355–7
post-WWI 420
Vandals 23
Vaughan, Thomas 185
Velázquez, Diego 167
Venezuela 353
Venice 272–3
Verdun (Wirten) 133
Verdun, Battle of 392–3
Verdun, Treaty of 104
Versailles 196, 205, 207, 208, 314–15
Versailles, Treaty of 400–1, 428
Vichy government 409–10
Victoria, Queen 278, 279–80, 284
Vienna 62, 76, 118, 165, 170, 176, 200, 223, 225, 266, 276, 282, 316, 318, 320, 367, 416, 417
as capital 83, 396
Habsburg court in 83, 146, 199, 272
Kunsthistorisches Museum 199
Natural History Museum 146, 224, 426–7
Neu Burg 294
origins 26
zoo 224
Vienna, Congress of 275, 304–5
Vienna, Siege and Battle of 1, 98, 201–2, 204, 221, 319
Vikings 53–4, 55, 59
Vilnius 258
Vischer, Peter, the Elder 123, 132
Vojvodina 202
Vrancx, Sebastian 166–8
Wagner, Richard 20, 235, 252, 281, 329–30
Lohengrin 59, 330
Nibelheim 96
Ring 30
Siegfried 31
Prelude 19
Tannhäuser 46
tributes to 30–1
Waldeck, Franz von, Prince-Bishop of Münster 148
Waldseemüller, Martin 189
Walhalla 163, 290–4
Wallenstein, Albrecht von 175, 176
Walter, Bruno 432
Wandervogel movement 421–2
war memorials, German 262–3, 308, 402–5
Wartburg 46
Washington, George 355
Waterloo, Battle of 219, 386
Weber, Max: Protestant Ethic and the spirit of Capitalism 137
Weikersheim 115, 215–17
Weimar 233, 247, 251–2
Weimar Republic 283, 399–400, 404, 408, 418–19, 423, 425, 427, 428
Wends 24, 87, 356–7
Westphalia, Kingdom of 264
Westphalia, Treaty of 180–1
Wettins 110, 112, 227, 235–6, 238, 239, 338
Wetzlar 83, 118
Weyden, Rogier van der 106
White Mountain, Battle of 171, 172, 174
Wiener Neustadt 82, 83
wigs 207–8
Wilhelm I, Kaiser 47, 48, 52, 319
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 47, 48, 52, 103, 240, 280, 294, 313, 333–6, 345, 364, 371, 373–4, 376, 388, 390, 395, 397, 408
Wilhelmshaven 349–53, 394
William the Conqueror 54
William III, King of England 196, 208
William V, Duke of Bavaria 125
Windsor, House of 390
wine 151–3
Wirten see Verdun
Wittelsbachs 110, 112, 210, 227, 331
Wittenberg 78, 138–9, 145
City Church 66
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 346, 396
Wolfenbüttel 192–5, 197, 326, 403
wolves 250–1, 332–3
Woman in the Moon (film) 424
wonder cabinets 185–92
Wörlitz 249, 436
Worms 26, 63, 66, 118, 206, 403
Worms, Diet of 142, 144
Worms, Edict of 143
Wrede, Karl Philipp von 376
Württemberg 114, 134, 263, 275, 307
Württemberg, Dukes of 85–6, 144, 274–5
Würzburg 152, 153, 165–6, 179, 342
York 54
Yugoslavia 310, 416
Zanzibar 362
Zimburgis of Masovia, Princess 123–4
Zionism 345–6
Zola, Émile: Germinal 205
Zürich 133
Zweig, Stefan 121, 320, 432
Zwingli, Ulrich 137