Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-24
NUREMBERG, TOY
CITY, IS UNCHANGED
Bavarlan Municipality Un-
disturbed from Middle
Ages.

Nuremberg, Ba ria. to-. e.,.....
OF the world, IL city NJ thu N.4.},
Ages. handed down undlpttJrFe4 - 80,
present day" says a bulletin ffor1 ,,.
National Geol raphic Striety. ~ -.
wall and moat and 2 c4-..e
crooked streets and got 'Hd. ~et.,ta
houses-all tho aatiafrinZ qua.r.r.e..
OF page from one of - o1-n >,t~.
picture books.
About the old walled t.'.. ..-c
trusiveiy spread the stitIrf3< 70 ,....
ern Nuremberg. . thriving iqd...t~f...
community ~ 400 900 inhaF.t,4-.-
Eeer. lead pencila. metal wares. raj
way carriages and, above ali. ;o-= =
the leading manufacturer
Santa Claus Work shop.
Toys az every description han
their origin in Nuremberg factories
and are whipped out for the doi2r, ri
the youth of many lands From ne
Dutch Fast Indies 20 the AY2ert:-a.
Nuremberg toys are displayed There
are metal t0ys. wooden toyg. tr<-..c
and papier-rnache toys. picture DGos.
"a rdhoard games and transfer o.
lures. E"sides her own factcv..rqade
toys. Nuremberg markets dolls made
ia nearby places, largely through CO...
tage crafts From or d.strict a.1,s
come about a million dozen 41Us 2
year
The toy industry Of Nurerroerz u
said to have been begun br Prq,es-7~.
refugees dr:'en oGt Of France A. me.
time If the Huguenot lrs TIE -.r.
corners took 10 the toy bGsiness "a re
ing an unOccUpied field. In sr,-a re-
French beginnings. the induztr- has
become thoroughly Germa nized dvr!rr
the past century. however. AMI Ire
Teuton quairtneSs Of Nuremberg q
stamped upon her products.
Medieval Stronghold.
THE city owes its origin 20 IN i'm
perial castle. built in the eleventh en-
fury. upon the banks o. the River
I'egniiZ. Artisans and merchants col
l"cted in the safe shadow OF the -7--,.
walls. A mint and a market we're
ests hlished and the city prospersd. :.
quickly became d trading center BE-
tween Venice and the Orient. IN tra
one hand. nd Northern Europe, c1 tar
ether. Her workers in u..od. bras
and stone cloth and ivory became r.
nous over Europe. Eussa;ta~- rne--
chant princes built forid mansions. n
which they lived in regal styie. ore
Of the rOpes made the remark thai =
~ III DFftHdNk N1@ DhFEHE
housed than the King Of .ntlard.
Arts. letters and sciences four:shed.
Discovery Of waite trade routes -
In liza and China around the Cane ~
Good Hope ruined Nuremberg trade.
as ii did that OF Venice. This down
fall was added to by a terrible =,as
OF the city during the Thirty Years
War. when CJsiavus Adoinhgs o.
Sweden. the Protestant leader. d.
Tended the walls against Walle1s;siu
and 10000 inhabitants persisted %
starvation and disease. Patrician ru,-
in. families became more iIIioeral as
they became poorer. and armies o. TIE
French Revolution completed the
havoc already begun. The toxu was
reduced 10 the verge 81 bankruptcy.
and in 1906 the proud free city II
Nuremberg. citv republic since tire
Middle Ages. was annexed "a the k.1--
dom of Bavaria. A following cent o.
81 peace. nevertheless. made ts'a c%t
town the leading railway cenie- a19
manufacturing district 81 southern
Germany. The railroad from \ursn,-
berg 10 Furth was the first railway r
Germany. and the former i o. tNs
direct line between Rhine cities aUi
Vienna.