Gründerzeit
Sign in to savethumb|Tempo der Gründerjahre (Tempo of the Founder's Years) by Friedrich Kaiser, depicting tenement construction in the rapidly-expanding Berlin in 1865 The '''''' (; ) was a period of European economic history in mid- and late-19th century Germany and Austria-Hungary between industrialization and the great stock market crash of 1873. Its name is derived from the many incorporations of companies that occurred in the years between the Franco-Prussian War and the panic of 1873.
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- Periodization
- Social and economic history
- Art and cultural history
- Economy
- Design and architecture
- In Austria
- In Germany
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Tempo der Gründerjahre (Tempo of the Founder's Years) by Friedrich Kaiser, depicting tenement construction in the rapidly-expanding Berlin in 1865 The '''' (; ) was a period of European economic history in mid- and late-19th century Germany and Austria-Hungary between industrialization and the great stock market crash of 1873. Its name is derived from the many incorporations of companies that occurred in the years between the Franco-Prussian War and the panic of 1873.
The term also refers to a cultural and architectural era which began in the mid-19th century and lasted until 1914. Gründerzeit architecture is closely associated with historicism, and occupies a prominent place in many Central European cities due to 19th-century urbanization.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gründerzeit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.