Further to our post of 15 February on Berlin as it once was, the University of Texas Library has put on its website maps of German regions and cities as they were published 100 years ago in the book Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers; Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker, Fifteenth Revised Edition, Leipzig, 1910.
The above map of Berlin has features that have since changed significantly. For example the big Kopfbahnhöfe or head railway stations - Anhalter, Potsdamer, Lehrter, Görlitzer and Stettiner - have now gone, victims of the post-WW2 division. Another map on the website shows the inner city in more detail.
Some cities, such as Liegnitz, Breslau, Stettin, Danzig and Königsberg, are no longer parts of Germany, while others such as Görlitz and Frankfurt an der Oder have been divided between Germany and Poland over the 'Oder-Neisse line'.
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