According to experts, Germany is by far the safest tourist destination for tourists. According to statistics, this is the third country in Europe in terms of the number of visits, and the income from the tourism industry amounted to 3.5% of the country’s total GDP. So what attracts tourists from all over the world so… Read More »
The circumstances in which the election of Henry II’s successor took place (diet of Kamba, on the right of the Rhine between Worms and Mainz, 4 September 1024) brought to light the political tendencies and forces that had formed in Germany. The elective-hereditary principle in the succession to the throne: the fluctuations of the electors… Read More »
PREHISTORY Man makes his appearance in Germany about 500,000 years ago, dating attributed to a lower jaw found near Heidelberg. The Acheulean culture (650.00-200.000 years ago) is present in important deposits (for example, Markkleeberg, near Leipzig, probably of Rssian age). During the Würm, in addition to the Micocchiano (Bockstein), various aspects of the Mousterian develop, the most interesting of which is… Read More »
Germany is a state of Central Europe, bordered to the North by Denmark, E by Poland and the Czech Republic, SE and S with the’ Austria, SW and O with France, Switzerland on Belgium and Luxembourg, to NO with the Netherlands ; it is washed to the North by the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. The name Germania (ie «country of the Germans») was originally given by the Romans… Read More »
The Germanic region occupies a large part of central Europe, i.e. the area that separates the regions of Atlantic-Mediterranean Europe (very rough hills and extremely articulated coasts) from the immense Russian plain (rather soft undulations and poor relations with the sea). Its southernmost part extends as far as the northern section of the Alpine chain proper,… Read More »
The first half of the twentieth century In the meantime, under the influence of the French Symbolists and the English Pre-Raphaelites, the great cycle of aestheticism had begun, which found in Germany one of its culminations in S. George, a refined poet and promoter of a circle that exercised an ethical-aesthetic teaching on German culture, creating… Read More »
The age of Goethe and German Romanticism In the meantime, JW Goethe had already strongly asserted himself who, for having collected, strengthened and often also aroused the ideal ferments of his time, defines an entire era, the most prosperous that German culture and literature have ever had. These ferments, collected under the common label of Sturm und Drang, expressed… Read More »
From Humanism to the Baroque Age In Germany Humanism essentially remained a scholarly phenomenon: however, the personalities of the Franconian C. Celtis and the Rhenish J. Reuchlin, as well as the great Erasmus of Rotterdam, should be remembered. Too more vital and urgent were the contemporary religious instances, promoted by M. Luther, a genius of the German spirit as he was… Read More »
The beginnings – The first evidence of an independent German literature with respect to the Latin and Romanesque world dates back to the Carolingian era and belong to the field of lexicography: the Abrogans, a collection of synonyms translated into Bavarian dialect in 765-70 and then into Alemannic dialect towards the end of the century, and the Vocabolarius… Read More »
From the origins to the 18th century From the earliest times, Germanic poetry benefited from singing, especially choral singing, alone or supported by instruments such as harp. In the early Middle Ages the spread of Christianity produced original blooms of choral singing, while from the 12th to the 14th century. a large troubadour movement developed,… Read More »
Population and society Made up of nearly 81 million people, the German population is the largest in the European Union. In recent years, however, there has been a slight decrease: the demographic increase rate was 0.3%, the fertility rate was 1.4 children per woman, while the migration rate – much decreased compared to the 1990s.… Read More »
In a political and cultural framework radically transformed by the reunification of two long-separated communities, a growing consideration for the ‘German pain’ has imposed itself on the united consciousness, and therefore greater attention to the biographical events of family members involved as victims or executioners in tragic events of National Socialism. A second line of… Read More »
Central European state. Sixty years after the disastrous outcome of the Second World War, which in fact reduced it (and relegated it for a long period of time) to a state of not fully sovereign state, Germany has returned to being an actor of the very first magnitude in the political and, above all, European… Read More »
On the threshold of the third millennium, Germany represents one of the key elements of the new European and world geopolitical construction, but, at the same time, also one of the elements of greatest uncertainty. The assertion, paradoxical in itself, is grounded in recent events in the German territory and economy. The first has not… Read More »
Only at the end of the century. 6 ° in Germany there was an autonomous activity of coinage, in the cities of Cologne, Mainz and Trier; the production of Roman mints is instead attested starting from the middle of the 3rd century. In minting centers such as Trier, Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Andernach, Bonn and Cologne,… Read More »
At the end of 1960 the BRD’s gold and currency reserves amounted to 33 billion DM while the considerable availability of liquidity created the conditions for a large granting of credit. To better define the financial framework, it should be added that, with effect from 6 March 1961, the federal government decided to revalue the… Read More »
After the Germany had been divided into four occupation zones (American, British, French and Soviet) at the end of the Second World War, in September 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was established in the territory corresponding to the first three (Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; acronym BRD), also commonly known as Germany Ovest or Germany di Bonn,… Read More »
In the immediate post-war period Germany found itself, even in the music sector, having to overcome the cultural isolation that had characterized its most recent history for over a decade. It was necessary to give space to the few who remained at home and almost completely inactive during the Nazi period, to recall the many… Read More »
Federal Republic of Germany. – Agriculture. In western Germany the attempt to make agriculture more rational by increasing the average size of farms continued, bringing the total from one million in the 1970s to 700,000 at the end of the following decade; in the meantime, however, the number of farmers also decreased, which today barely exceeds 1.2 million… Read More »
Agriculture. – In recent years the cultivated area has had a slight increase, from 7,880,000 ha in 1962 to 8,080,000 in 1973; of these, about 7.5 make up the arable land and over half a million are used for tree crops. The expansion took place at the expense of meadows and pastures (about 5.4 million… Read More »
The administration of the victors had to purge people, institutions, books from Nazi ideas, rigorously apply disarmament, restrict industry to narrow limits, organize the withdrawals of goods for repairs. Provisional borders attributed East Prussia to the Soviet Union, Silesia and the area up to the Oder, including Szczecin, to restored Poland. From these regions millions… Read More »
In 1950 there were 69 million residents in the two states, that is more or less the same as at the beginning of the Second World War, which however had led to a general aging of the population and a strong disparity between males and females, with direct consequences on natural increase. However, by 1960… Read More »
Official language German Capital Berlin Form of government Parliamentary republic Area 357.114 km² Residents 82,220,000 Currency Euro Time zone UTC + 1 CETUTC + 2 CEST (March to October) License plate D Internet TLD .de Telephone area code 0049 (Source: ALLCITYCODES) Geography With an area of 357,114 km², the Federal Republic of Germany is the… Read More »