But a remarkable transformation has seen Essen go from being Germany's ugly duckling to ... dead "open sewer" since the end of the 19th Century, thanks to the dumping of mining and factory slurry ...

The big summer show at Washington’s National Gallery of Art offers a rare chance to see fine art from a very glorious period in German artistic history–the 19th Century. Collections and ...

The book contains photographs of Germany taken between 1840 and 1890. An exhibition of the photos opened at the Munich city museum last November. This image has an almost medieval feel to it.

But a remarkable transformation has seen Essen go from being Germany's ugly duckling to ... dead "open sewer" since the end of the 19th Century, thanks to the dumping of mining and factory slurry ...