Deutsches Historisches Museum

Deutsches Historisches Museum is an newer museum, conceived in 1987 in West Germany shortly before reunification, but of course its ultimate location is in the former East Berlin.

Next door to Deutsches Historisches Museum, Neue Wache is an neo-Classical memorial to the Liberation Wars in which Napoleon was defeated, an event which occurred not long after Napoleon’s defeat in Russia.

Deutsches Historisches Museum is located in Zeughaus, where it has replaced Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, which presented history from the communist point of view.

Augsburger Monatsbilder Cycle depicts daily life in Augsburg in the 16th Century.

At the time, Augsburg was a leading financial center in Europe, located strategically along the trade routes which connected imports from the far east to the Hanseatic League.

The Spanish Empire was financed by the Fuggers of Augsburg.

Berlin Cathedral was built in the early 19th Century of sandstone from fertile and prosperous Silesia.

A great place to see sandstone in it’s natural setting is by train through Elbe Canyon between Prague and Dresden.

The 17th Century conquest of Silesia helped make Prussia wealthy and powerful enough to eventually unite Germany.