Germany

Germany's entries divide between what survived and what was rebuilt, and the atlas says which is which. Quedlinburg and Bamberg came through the war intact; Dresden's Frauenkirche was left as rubble for fifty years and reassembled from its own blackened stones; Cologne's cathedral took fourteen bombs and stood while the city fell. The country also holds the Hanseatic head, the empire's ceremonial capital and a theatre built for one composer.