The lost cityscape of Kassel before its destruction in 1943, with fascinating insights into the life of a large city in the 1930s, is brought back to life in this volume: work and education, sports and leisure, daily errands between the market and department store, expanding traffic, and the cycle of bourgeois existence between birth, marriage, and death. From the rich collection of the estate of the photographers Carl Eberth (father and son) from Kassel, the author Stephan Franke has made a remarkable selection that offers a glimpse into the everyday life of old Kassel - a daily life that is also cast in the shadows of the political circumstances.