View of the Cathedral at Limburg on the Lahn / Beautifully picturesque edifice (1213–1242) / Most brilliant monument of the Rhenisch transition style / From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin

Nuremberg, the city of the Minnesingers / The Church of Our Lady (1355–1361) / In front of the Church is the Beautiful Fountain, an exquisite creation of old Nuremberg plastic, erected in 1385–1396 under the direction of Heinrich dem Palier / From a photograph by M. Stich, Nuremberg

Albrecht Dürer, born at Nuremberg, May 21, 1471, died in Nuremberg, April 6, 1528 / Artist’s portrait of himself, 1500, now in the Old Pinakothek, Munich

View of the Cathedral Church at Freiburg in Breisgau (Baden) / The nave begun in 1250 / The earliest and most perfect Gothic tower with pyramid of perforated masonery, existing in Germany / From a photograph by G. Röbecke, Freiburg in Breisgau