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Germany’s Urban Frontiers Germany’s Urban Frontiers Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City Kristin Poling University of Pittsburgh Press “Shantytowns and Pioneers beyond the City Wall: Berlin’s Urban Frontier in the Nineteenth Century,” Central European History 47, no. 2 (2014): 245–74, reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press, copyright © Conference Group for Central European History. Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2020, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid- free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-4641-0 ISBN 10: 0-8229-4641-6 Cover photograph: Heinrich Zille. Wiese Vor Der Turnhalle Der Gemeindeschule, Dahinter Knobelsdorffstraße / Ecke Danckelmannstraße, 1898. Silver gelatin print photograph. Stadtmuseum Berlin. Cover design: Joel W. Coggins To my grandparents Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1 Picturing the City Urban Panoramas on the Leipzig Ring 15 2 Conquering the Wasteland Oldenburg’s Urban Empire in the Northwestern Moors 44 3 Taxing the Urban Border The Persistence of Prussian City Walls 78 4 The Shantytown Frontier City Planning and Wild Settlement on Berlin’s Urban Periphery 110 5 Urban Histories and National Futures in the German Empire 144 Conclusion 172 Notes 177 Bibliography 207 Index 243 Acknowledgments In writing this book I have incurred many debts. The University of Michigan–Dearborn College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and the Whiting Foundation all provided financial support for writing and re- search travel at different stages. I am grateful to my many academic mentors, foremost David Blackbourn, whose rigor, craftsmanship, and care provide a model of academic excellence toward which I strive. Two German Studies As- sociation panels bookended this book’s drafting and conception. In 2012 Eli Rubin organized a productive panel that helped me think about the relation- ship between the city, nature, and housing, which then produced a special issue of Central European Studies in 2014. I am thankful for his support and feedback, along with the other panel participants. In 2019 Paul Buchholz and Alexander Philipps organized a panel on the idea of the commons in German literature and history. I am grateful to them as well as the other participants for their contributions to that panel and their feedback on my contribution, which helped me think through my understanding of the wasteland commons. Numerous librarians and archivists provided me with invaluable support and information along the way. Conducting the research that eventually con- tributed to this book, I worked at the Leipzig City Archive, the Lower Saxon State Archive in Oldenburg, the Paderborn City Archive, the North Rhine– Westphalia State Archive in Detmold, the Nuremberg City Library, the Ger- man National Museum, the City Archive of Mainz, the Berlin State Archive, and the Prussian State Archive in Berlin. Each provided both research sup- port and pleasant places to work. Robert Wein at the Fotothek of the City Mu- seum in Berlin was exceptionally helpful in identifying and providing images. Writing a book while pregnant, nursing, and fully employed means making heavy use of one’s local campus library and its interlibrary loan services. I am
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