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German Theatre in Prague, photograph, around 1898

This prestigious building was constructed as a German counterpoint to the Czech National Theatre in order to testify to the presence of German high culture in the increasingly Czech dominated city.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    The metropolis as melting pot II: Prague

    Prague (Czech Praha), the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, had always been a bilingual city in which Germans and Czechs lived alongside each other. The history of the city was dominated by the alternating importance of the languages. From the middle of the 19th century, the pendulum swung to the benefit of Czech.