Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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BERLIN. When in 1871 Berlin, already the capital of the Prussian monarchy, became the metropolis of a united Empire, its population was 824,484. At the census of December 1st, 1905, its population numbered 2,040,148, the increase since the preceding census of 1900 having been 151,300, or 8'01 per cent., and during the preceding decade 362,844, or 21*63 per cent. ISTor has this expansion been the result in any notable degree, as in the case of many large towns, of the incorporation of outlying townships. There are in the street nomenclature of Berlin “ chaussées ” and “ allées ” which speak of the absorption of former rural areas, and in these streets may still be seen old-fashioned buildings whose origin goes back to the time when the " chaussee ” or “ allee ” was a sandy road leading through a forest of fir trees or through open com land, but Berlin’s growth has been due pre-eminently to the inrush of population which began with the industrial and commercial development that immediately followed the war of 1870-1. The percentage of the total increase due to this movement from the outside and to excess of births respectively is here shown for successive inter-censal periods :— Inter-censal Periods. 1871 to 1875 1875 „ 1880 1880 » 1885 1885 „ 1890 1890 „ 1895 1895 „ 1900 1900 „ 1905 Percentage of total increase due to Excess of Immigration over Emigration. Excess of Births over Deaths. 74*78 55-65 68-40 70-60 16-57 59-99 46-26 2522 44-35 31-60 29-40 8343 4001 53-74 It was found at the census of 1905 that of 2,040,148 inhabitants only 822,270, or 40*3 per cent., were born in Berlin ; of 1,217,878 born elsewhere, 1,062,074, or 52T per cent, of the total population, came from other parts of Prussia, and 103,674, or 5T per cent., from other German States. The effect of this recent development, and of the entire transformation which the original town, save in a comparatively limited area, has undergone, is that Berlin can claim to be one of the most modern of capitals. The structure and laying out of the town have followed practical lines, and have been deliberately devised for practical ends. The streets are long and run in straight lines, and their symmetry is perfect. To that extent convenience is served in a high degree, though the total effect is somewhat monotonous to anyone accustomed to the unsystematic formation of the ordinary English town ; for one street succeeds another, as one house succeeds another, alike in plan and structure, until any sort of curve or corner would be a relief to the eye. There is a Berlin and a Greater Berlin. The nuclei of Berlin proper were the two townships of Berlin and Kölln, Wen dish colonies, one on the right and the other on the left bank of the Spree, which early in the fourteenth century joined together, and for a time ruled themselves as a republic. In the seventeenth century the small towns of Friedrichswerder and Dorotheenstadt were added, though the united population at the beginning of the eighteenth century is only estimated to have been 57,000. The four original components of Berlin still 29088 A

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