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Archduchess Anna, Princess of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein

1879–1961

Born
1879, Lindau
Country of birth
Germany
Died
1961, Baden-Baden
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A life in time

  1. Born · Lindau

    Birth, Lindau

  2. Child born: Prince Karl, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein

    Birth

  3. Died · Baden-Baden

    Death, Baden-Baden

What was it like?

The world around Lindau, 1879: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Archduchess was born around the same time as Konrad Adenauer, Oswald Spengler, and Guillaume Apollinaire.

Born around the same time

  • Konrad Adenauer

    1876 · German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

  • Oswald Spengler

    1880 · German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

  • Guillaume Apollinaire

    1880 · French poet (1880–1918)

  • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

    1876 · Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)

  • Pau Casals

    1876 · Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)

  • Hermann Friese

    1880 · German-Brazilian athlete (1882-1945)

Fashion

Children often lacked footwear in Pomerania

Poorer children often lacked proper footwear, sometimes going barefoot from early summer to late fall. On Sundays, they might wear worn-out boots bought from junk dealers for 1.2 to 1.5 marks.

Distinctive vests signaled marital status in Betzingen

In Betzingen, married men wore black velvet vests, while unmarried men wore red cloth vests with twelve silver buttons. Bachelors also traditionally displayed a red handkerchief from their pocket when searching for a bride.

Music

Costs for attending local festival banquets

Citizens often paid an entry fee of 20 to 30 Pfennig to attend local festive banquets, which featured patriotic music, choral performances, and speeches.

Diverse musical repertoires in cities

Musical life was diverse, blending folk music and rustic dances with military band repertoires that featured marches, operetta tunes, and original works.

Getting around
Around 1873–1873

Railway journey times in 1873

In 1873, traveling by railway from Hanover to Hamburg took between 4.5 and 5 hours, while the journey from Cassel to Frankfort on the Main could take between 4.5 and 8 hours.

Around 1873–1873

Railway travel times by 1873

By 1873, railway travel had become the standard for longer distances, such as the 4 1/2 to 8-hour journey from Cassel to Frankfort on the Main or the 4 1/2 to 5-hour trip from Hanover to Hamburg.

Daily life
Around 1877–1877

Meager working-class housing and kitchen setup

A typical working-class household in the Taunus region relied on a single room for living and sleeping, while the kitchen was often just the hallway. Water was heated in cooking pots, as there were no separate wash-boilers or running water.

Access to running water varied by class

Working-class homes often lacked running water, requiring water to be heated in cooking pots, while wealthier, modern homes featured hot-water heaters and running water in the kitchen and bathroom.

Food

Meat was a luxury for working families

In working-class households, meat—often cheap sausage or ground meat—was a luxury, frequently reserved for Sunday meals, and sometimes stretched with breadcrumbs to make meat-like dishes like fake rabbit. Men, seen as the primary providers, often received the largest portions of meat, while wives and children ate significantly less.

Simple breakfasts and rare egg treats

Breakfast typically consisted of brown rye bread and a watery brew of coffee and barley, as milk and sugar were considered expensive luxuries. Eggs were an extremely rare delight, and one worker noted that it was amazingly rare for him to even get one.

Work

Extremely long working hours

Working days were grueling, often lasting 14 to 18 hours, especially for retail clerks and agricultural workers during the harvest season.

Monotonous diet of peas

Farm worker Franz Rehbein recalled that while working at a brickyard for 20 marks a week, his daily diet consisted almost entirely of peas, which left him feeling nauseous for years.

News and letters
Around 1875–1875

Same-day Express Delivery via Postcard in 1875

In 1875, it was possible to send a request by postcard in the morning and receive the goods via express delivery by the same afternoon.

Cost of Fast Communication at the Time

A pneumatic post letter cost 30 pfennig and a postcard cost 25 pfennig, an amount that equaled the price of a liter of beer or a kilogram of rye bread around 1900.

During their lifetime

  1. 1883

    First national health insurance introduced

    Germany became the first country to introduce a national social insurance system with the approval of a worker's health insurance plan.

  2. 1910

    Life expectancy rose to 47 years by 1910

    By 1910, advancements in medicine, hygiene, and infrastructure, such as improved water and sewage systems, increased the average life expectancy to 47 years, compared to 37 years in 1871.

  3. 1914

    Ten percent of households accessed electricity by 1914

    By 1914, approximately ten percent of German households had access to electricity, transforming daily life through new lighting and urban infrastructure.

  4. 1918

    Women gained suffrage in 1918 Weimar reforms

    Following the 1918 proclamation of the Weimar Republic, a new democratic system was established that enfranchised women and mandated an eight-hour workday for laborers.

  5. 1923

    Currency restabilization fueled economic recovery by 1927

    Following the restabilization of the currency in late 1923, Germany secured 800 million gold marks in foreign loans by 1927, which helped industrial production return to 1913 levels.

  6. 1933

    Car ownership grew slowly between 1933 and 1938

    Motorization remained limited in the 1930s, as the number of cars grew from 0.5 million in 1933 to 1.3 million in 1938, yet there were still only 19 cars for every 1,000 inhabitants.

Family

Parents

Children

Ancestors and children

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Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.