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Largest Cities In The German Empire 1871-1890

The German Empire experienced massive population increases and urbanisation in the 48 years it existed. Can you name the largest cities in The German Empire for the period 1871-1890?
The German names were used for consistency, the English names will work
Make sure to check out part 2 for the period 1900-1919
Some of these cities are no longer in Germany
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City
1871 Pop
% Growth (from 1861)
Berlin
826,341
50.9
Hamburg
240,251
34.3
Breslau
207,997
34.5
Dresden
177,089
38.2
München
169,693
14.5
Köln
129,233
7.2
Königsberg
112,092
37.0
Leipzig
106,925
36.2
Stuttgart
91,623
49.4
Frankfurt am Main
91,040
27.2
Danzig
89,121
14.1
Hanover
87,626
45.8
Straßburg
85,654
4.4
Magdeburg
84,401
23.0
Nürnberg
83,214
43.3
Bremen
82,969
23.9
Stettin
76,280
30.4
Barmen
74,384
48.8
Aachen
74,146
26.6
Altona
74,100
62.8
City
1880 Pop
% Growth
Berlin
1,122,330
35.8
Hamburg
289,859
20.6
Breslau
272,912
31.2
München
230,023
35.6
Dresden
220,818
24.7
Leipzig
149,081
39.4
Köln
144,772
12.0
Königsberg
140,909
25.7
Frankfurt am Main
136,831
50.3
Hanover
122,843
40.2
Stuttgart
117,303
28.0
Bremen
112,453
35.5
Danzig
108,551
21.8
Straßburg
104,471
22.0
Nürnberg
99,519
19.6
Magdeburg
97,539
15.6
Barmen
95,941
29.0
Düsseldorf
95,458
37.6
Chemnitz
95,123
39.4
Elberfeld
93,538
31.0
City
1890 Pop
% Growth
Berlin
1,578,794
40.7
München
349,024
51.7
Breslau
335,186
22.8
Hamburg
323,923
11.8
Leipzig
295,025
97.9
Köln
281,681
94.6
Dresden
276,522
25.2
Magdeburg
202,234
107.3
Frankfurt am Main
179,985
31.5
Hannover
163,593
33.2
Königsberg
161,666
14.7
Düsseldorf
144,642
51.5
Altona
143,249
57.3
Nürnberg
142,590
43.3
Stuttgart
139,817
19.2
Chemnitz
138,954
46.1
Elberfeld
125,899
34.6
Bremen
125,684
11.8
Straßburg
123,500
18.2
Danzig
120,338
10.9
cpgatbyu
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Sep 2, 2020
Boy, the Ruhrgebiet really wasn't much back then, was it?
Salazar96
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Level 57
Sep 3, 2020
Between 1875 and 1910 the number of German cities with more than 10,000 residents increased from 271 to 576 and the number of German cities with a population of more than 200,000 people increased from 3 to 23.

The urbanisation was focused in the Rhineland, Westphalia, Saxony, and Brandenburg and the largest industrial development was focused in the Ruhr, Saxony and Silesia. Generally this shift didn't affect the east, in the regions of East Prussia and Posen in 1910, 2/3 of the population lived in communities of less than 2,000, for the Rhineland and Westphalia the figure was 1/5.

In addition, the German cities of Duisburg, Essen, and Kiel all had their populations increase by five times or more during this time period.

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