Five Hundred Years In Germany, Beautiful National Memory

Zheng Lei / Wen

In the past one hundred and forty years, Germany has been the core force of the European continent. Understanding European history can start with reading Germany. Germany: the memory of a country is a national history as well as a cultural history. The book is divided into thirty themes: architecture, sculpture, painting, porcelain, beer, sausage, cars and money. Linking up the history of German politics, culture and art for hundreds of years is the most exquisite German history I have ever seen.

This book covers five hundred years. Most of the time, Germany is made up of many independent regimes, each of which has its own unique history. Perhaps Germany's history is naturally broken, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, consciousness and experiences. Beginning with the modern printing technology invented by Gutenberg in fifteenth Century, the author selected objects and concepts, characters and places that could still resonate in new Germany, such as Dresden porcelain and its rubble in ruins, Bauhaus design, German sausage, crown of Charlie, and Batman Wald concentration camp. Elephant.

The gene that once used to span western Europe to central Europe like mosaics or platters has been deeply engraved in the big family of the European Union. Understanding Germany should start from the Holy Rome Empire (about 1500 A.D.), because many Germanic settlements settled all over Europe, covering a wide range of lands from today's Holland, Belgium (West) to Denmark, the Baltic Sea (North), to Poland, Russia (East), and then to Italy (South), forming a coherent text. Transform the world. Modern Germany was born in 1871.

Pan German is a historical and cultural concept, referring to the German cultural area, Holland, Czech, and even now be classified into the former Northern Poland area of Russia, belong to this area. Strasbourg, France (formerly German) is a German German dialect, which is originated from upper Rhine and Switzerland. Gerd and Henie studied there. The Charlie University in Prague was the first German language world founded in 1348 by the holy emperor of Rome, Charlie IV. Kaliningrad (now belongs to Russia) turned out to be the hometown of Prussia, the home of Kant, the German philosopher. L.STEINFURT. is carved on the cast iron manhole cover there.

The word "A-G-1937-K" NIGSBERG. The Germans arrived in Prague at the end of the thirteenth Century and became the spiritual capital of the German world in 1600. It was a famous city by Kafka, a famous writer.

In the German imagination and memory, the the Rhine is germane and the German identity. Since the Renaissance, German culture has been deeply influenced by ancient Rome and France. For centuries, the boundaries of German knowledge, spirit and culture are not consistent with their political boundaries. Germany's constantly changing boundaries and the resulting complex problems and conflicts have now been incorporated into a new political framework - the Confederation of Independent States, which is named after the European Union. The diversified and diversified social pattern that Germany built in the past is very helpful for understanding today's European family. At that time, there were two hundred currencies in different German territories. Every nobility with seats in the imperial assembly had the right to coin their own coins. Even the nobles and monasteries had their own coins. Such a fragmented monetary system did not lead to unredeemed chaos. They had a unified weight, reciprocal exchange, and usually had a common symbol: the imperial eagle. There are about one hundred kings, nobles, fifty or sixty free cities and the same number of bishops. The unity of those territories and free cities is not due to force coercion. They belong to the Empire and operate under the common legal framework. The law was established in the regular imperial assembly by the imperial emperors and the nobility of the territories. This political and economic form is even more open and stable than the current European Union.

We know Germany, and we may be able to find a stealth connection under the surface differences of European countries. From about the early eighteenth Century, Britain and Hungary, Greece and so on maintained close ties with Germany. Germany used to be a symbol of inclusiveness, towering on the shore of The Danube and a symbol of German Deutsche hall. Valhalla enshrined many statues of great German people with Germanic ancestry, such as the German speaking but Scotland lineage, the Russian general Clay Detoli, who had fought with Napoleon, and William III, who later became king of Great Britain. In the "Pantheon", it is remembered by the Germans. The design style of this temple is not the most popular gothic architecture in Germany at that time, but the Greek style, much like the patrnon shrine in Athens. Germany's position as a European Security hub and its historical and cultural heritage will inevitably bear the historic mission of uniting Europe, which is very important in today's and near future.