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Friday #FlashFiction: The Borderlands Expire

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Der Meistertrunk

Georg Braun; Frans Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Band 1, 1572 The Master Draught

The Thirty Years War was a many-faceted conflict fought in Central Europe, neatly fitted into a nutshell starting with what they call the Defenestration in Prague in 1618 and ending with a series of treaties called the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Many factors figure into this weary, bloody, long-lasting era of human destruction. The most popular reason for the war was, of course, religion: the subject...

What Inspires the Setting of a Novel?

A Short Video About the Sichardtshof Farm

For the accompanying text, please click: Historical Images of Franconia, Germany

Historical Images of Franconia, Germany

Sichardtshof, eine verschwundene Ortschaft
At the base of the low mountain range Steigerwald, in a fertile little hollow called the Edelgraben, there once stood a sheep farm. The first inkling of this farm appears in the Dachsbach registry in 1450 as ‘Sigartzhoffe’ belonging to a man named Peter Sighart. The good man paid a chicken and some grain to settle his taxes.  
Over the years, thorough searches in the archives have produced a few registry entries, a sentence here, a mere crumb of i...

Sites of Nuremberg, Germany

The Tucherschloss, a short documentary


Music by Eighth Union
Text to accompany the video:  http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2016/03/the-tucherschloss.html

The Tucherschloss

Das Tucherschloss in Nürnberg. Stahlstich um 1854. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Porträt- und Ansichtensammlung)

Sites of Nuremberg:
Medieval and early modern Nuremberg was considered a free imperial city, an independent city-state, until its absorption into the Bavarian kingdom in 1806. As an independent city-state, Nuremberg was free to rule itself without being subordinate to the surrounding territorial leaders. The only one they had to answer to was the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.&nbs...

Cover Reveal !

Blue Heron Book Works proudly reveals new book coverIn celebration of the upcoming release of the novel The Master and the Maid by Laura Libricz, Blue Heron Book Works of Allentown, PA USA has revealed the cover image for the first installation of the historical novel series, Heaven's Pond. The Master and the MaidBook One of the Heaven's Pond Trilogy
She’s lost her work, her home and her freedom. Now, harboring a mysterious newborn, she could lose her life.In 17th Century Germany on the br...

Forchheim

A Short Documentary about the City of Forchheim




Music by Eighth Union

Text to the video: http://lauralibricz.blogspot.de/2016/03/museum-monday.html

Museum Monday

Merian Franken 1648





The year is 1634. War rages though the German territories. Swedish troops rumble through Franconia, Germany. No village is safe or even left standing. Was any place safe in what became known to modern historians as the Thirty Years War? Yes, there were cities where the walls were impassable so that even under siege they could not be taken. At least not by land. One of these cities is Forchheim in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria.
Forchheim was in its time the only new B...

What am I reading?

Heather Richardson

I'm reading Magdeburg by Heather Richardson:Link to Magdeburg on amazon.com
1631. Germany. As the Thirty Years War rages across central Europe, the Protestant denizens of Magdeburg are holding out against the armies of the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand.
Sweeping in its scope and ambition, Heather Richardson's debut novel tells the intertwining and conflicting stories of the Henning family, their friends, their associates and their enemies.

And she's here today to tell us a li...