Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-04-15
GERMANY'S CITIES.
Interesting Statistics Concerning Their
Size and Wealth.


Size and Wealth.
Ever since the foundation of the new
German empire in 1871 each successive
census has shown a remarkable increase
in the urban population, and the census
of 1890 proves no exception to the rule.
Since 1885 the towns and cities of Ger
many have been adding to their in
habitants with ,undiminished and, in
some instances, with accelerated rapid
ity. Thus we find that the number Of
cities with more than 100000 inhabit-
ants has in the last five years increased
from 81 to 26.
With regard to the rank of the chief
cities of Germany in point of population
several important changes have taken
place within the last quinquennial
period. Berlin, of course, still remains
the first city of the empire, long way
ahead of its rivals. It's population is now
over 10000 According to the pre-
liminary report, the inhabitants of the
capital on the 1st of December, 1890,
numbered exactly 1,574, 1885, The in
crease in the five years was, therefore,
259, 900, or more than $4,000 year. At
this rate of increase the population of
Berlin will have overtaken that of
Paris within fifteen years from the
present time. In another ten years the
inhabitants of the German capital will
number over 100000.
Next to Berlin in point of population,
Hamburg still stands the second city in
the empire. According to the enumera-
| ton it's inhabitants now number 57O,-
534, being an increase of 1854 since
1885. For all practical purposes the
adjacent Holstein port of Altoona, with
it's population of 144, $50 ian increase of
| 1854 since 1850, forms one great COM
munity with Hamburg. The di-
vision between them is as artificial
as that which sewers Stafford from
| Manchester or as that which separates
| Plymouth into the three towns of
| Plymouth, Davenport and Stonehouse.
| The great urban community of Ham
burg-with- Altona now contains popu-
lation of over roo, 900 (exactly rs, 100,
and is larger than any town in the Brit
ish islands except London and Liver
pool with Birkenhead) In proportion
to it's population Hamburg has in the
| last five years been increasing even
more rapidly than Berlin.
By far the most remarkable of the
| changes which have taken place in the
other great towns of Germany since 1885
| is that which has occurred at Leipsic.
| Here the increase is enormous. In 1885
| Leipsic stood in the seventh place in
| point of population: it now ranks as
| the third largest town in the Ger
man empire, while Breslau, which
had hitherto held the third place,
| has sunk to the fifth. In 1885 LeipSic
had only 1913, 772 inhabitants. 1t now
numbers 353, 272. The increase in the
| five years has therefore been 159, 500,
being at the rate of no less than 50 per
cent. Next to this great Saxon town
| comes Munich, the capital of Bavaria,
which now has a population Of 334, S9S,
| showing an addition of nearly SO, 600 in
| the space OF five years. Munich now
| stands as the fourth largest city in the
empire, with Bresiau fifth
! Throughout the whole list it is found
/ that the largest absolute and relative
additions have been made in the centers
of industry, manufactures and COM
merce In the great industrial centers,
/ SllCI1 do LC1DSlCs NJ ttl1IClI, NO1OS hCs
Madgeburg, Frankfort, Hanover,
Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Chemnitz,
| Elberfeld, Halle and Mannheim,
and in the ports of Hamburg,
Altoona and Kiel the population has in
creased more than Is per cent, in Kiel
even about 80 per cent. Berlin has
| grown at the rate of 1917 per cent. 1t
is noteworthy that the principal towns
in the states annexed to Prussia in 1866
have once more increased, on an aver
age, at least as much as those of the
/ older Prussian provinces. This is true
also of the chief towns of Alsace-Lor-
raine. Strasburg, for example, has
/ grown 1915 per cent. and Metz nearly
as much. The increase of Stuttgart is
! about the same. The populations of
! Charlottenburg and Rixdorf, both sub
urbs of Berlin, have increased by no
less than rs and 60 per cent. respective
ly.-ChicagO News.