Extremely competent and meticulous. Highly recommended! Bavaria in the Book: A fluidly written, coherently structured, and vividly illustrated city history. The treasure chest of the Empire and the industrial heart of Bavaria, the city of the Reich Party Days and Red Nuremberg, the center of Europe or Bavarian province, the city of Dürer, the first German railway, and gingerbread - in no other city in Germany do the contrasts of history clash so sharply. This brief city history traces this development: from the imperial estate of the Salian dynasty through its heyday as a cultural and economic center of European rank to its decline in the 18th century, from industrial upturn and the romantic discovery of Nuremberg to the usurpation of this tradition by National Socialism and the destruction in World War II, and finally to the modern metropolitan region today.