Glorious colour photos of Germany in 1900

Did you dreamed of travelling back to a time when Germany hadn't been through two wars and decades of division and reconstruction that have obscured its old face. Take a trip into the past with these rare colour images from around 1900 ?

The Butchers' Guild hall (Knochenhaueramtshaus) in Hildesheim, modern day Lower Saxony.
Rheinstein Castle (Burg Rheinstein), on the banks of the Rhine river in Rhineland-Palatinate, was originally built in 1316-17 but reconstructed in 1829
Schwerin castle is now home to the state parliament of modern-day Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Sigmaringen Castle (Schloss Sigmaringen) was originally built in the 11th Century and was once the seat of the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, in the city of the same name in Baden-Württemberg.
The town hall in Wernigerode is the crowning glory of this small town in Thuringia, central Germany.
The famous bridge running through the Bastei rock formation in Saxony.
Holidaymakers at Westerland resort on the North Sea island of Sylt - which remains a top-class German holiday destination to this day.
Two men on the Hohe Sonne plateau near Eisenach, Thuringia, with Wartburg Castle in the far distance.
Berlin Cathedral seen from the north side, with the Friedrichsbrücke in the foreground.

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