Is the capital of Germany's industrial heartland, the Rhine-Ruhr region, where Germans are at their most stereotypically industrious, technical, and humorless.
The Dusseldorf of Theo and Louise's time had just faced a huge baby-boom due to the industrial revolution, the 1882 population being doubled by 1892. Given the large number of people, guest-houses such as theirs were very common, as well as public parades, parks, and zoos.
No comments:
Post a Comment