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View of Amöneburg and surrounding countryside, 1640. image from matthaeus merian, topographia hassiae et regionum vicinarum/landesgeschichtliches informationssystem hessen
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The Linden tree in Himmelsberg. Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Karten no. b 158; image courtesy of Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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View of Schweinsberg and neighboring villages, 1631. Artist: unknown; image from Daniel Meisner/Eberhard Kieser, Thesaurus Philopoliticus Oder Politisches Schatzkästlein vol. 2/ Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Detail of a 1574 map of Fulda abbey. Artist: Wolfgang Regerwill, from Regerwill’s map “Der Buchavia Oder des Hochstifts Fulda”; image: public domain
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View of Hersfeld, circa 1592. Artist: Joist Moers; image from Werner Engel, “Joist Moers im Dienste des Landgrafen Moritz Von Hessen,” Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 45/ Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Confirmands in procession, heading to the church in Großseelheim, 1936. Photo: Ludwig Ph. M. Marck; image from Mathilde Hain, Das Lebensbild Eines Oberhessischen Trachtendorfes. von Bäuerlicher Tracht und Gemeinschaft/Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Women in procession along a path outside Mardorf, 1936. Photo: Ludwig Ph. M. Marck; image from Mathilde Hain, Das Lebensbild Eines Oberhessischen Trachtendorfes. von Bäuerlicher Tracht und Gemeinschaft/Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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The church and the tavern. artist: adriaen van ostade, peasants carousing outside, in front of an inn, 1670. Image: public domain
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Villages in and around parish Oberweimar. Detail of Schleenstein’sche map, 1705–1715; image courtesy of Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Ludwig Knaus, Hessian Funeral in Winter, 1871. Image: public domain
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Otto Piltz, In a Hessian Village School, 1882. Image: public domain
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The church in Haddamshausen. Date of photo: 2016; image: Hydro/ Wikimedia Commons
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View of Frankenberg, looking southward, 1581. Image from Georg Braun/Franz Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum/Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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View of Buchenau, 1833. Artist: G. Francke; georg Landau, Die Hessischen Ritterburgen und Ihre Besitzer vol. 2/ Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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View of Ramholz and the Steckelberg ruins, 1850. Illustrated by Karl Christian Köhler, engraved by Friedrich Foltz; image from Das Kurfürstenthum Hessen in Malerischen Original Ansichten/ Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Reinhard’s church in Altenhaßlau. Photo, date: Rudolf Stricker, 2011; image: Wikimedia Commons
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Otto Piltz, Women Praying the “Our Father,” 1882. Image: public domain
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Frankenberg’s Town Church, 1850. Illustrated by August Wenderoth; engraved by Friedrich Foltz; image from Das Kurfürstenthum Hessen in Malerischen Original-Ansichten/ Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
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Otto Piltz, Boys’ Choir, 1880. Image: public domain
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Dedication of a new cemetery and a soldiers’ memorial in Allendorf, 1928. Photo: unknown; image courtesy of Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen
Maps
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Places mentioned in Chapters 1 and 2 (Created by author)
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Abandoned and surviving settlements around Schreufa (Created by author; Based on “Schreufa, Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg” in Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen)
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Places mentioned in Chapters 3–5 (Created by author)
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Places mentioned in Chapters 6–11 (Created by author)