Back inwards Jan Zeit Online released a fascinating analysis of the most pop High German street names. They accept straightaway extended their exam to explore what the names given to roads disclose virtually the past times together with how the attitudes of Germans accept changed over the centuries.
In Streetscapes: Mozart, Marx together with a Dictator Zeit Online explores how at that topographic point is a distinct east-west divide to around High German street names, which owes a lot to the differing politics of the quondam East together with West Germany, earlier reunification. One matter that is in all likelihood truthful inwards both eastward & W is that women are much less probable to last commemorated past times having streets named for them than men. For example inwards Hamburg 2,511 streets are named afterwards men together with entirely 397 are named afterwards women.
Zeit Online has besides analysed which periods of history are commemorated inwards Berlin's street names. The most pop menses is the menses of the High German Empire (1870–1918). The Nazi era is, for obvious reasons, really unpopular together with "all street signs bearing the names of leading figures inwards the Nazi era accept been removed." However you lot tin nonetheless uncovering street names from that menses which "typify their ideology".
