35 maps show the structure of Germany (and some neighbouring areas) at the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the Geman Nation.

The purpose is not to document any territorial claims.
Many customs, traditions and even architecture or landscape have their roots in history.
A simple example: why is carneval celebrated in one village but not in the next one only 5 miles away? One was probably part of a catholic territory and the other part of a protestant territory.

Germany 1789 includes the following maps:

• The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
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• Bavaria
• Swabia (Bavarian part)
• Baden-Würtemberg Southern Part
• Baden-Würtemberg Northern Part
• Palatinate
• Saarland
• Rhineland-Palatinate
• Hesse Southern part
• Hesse Northern part
• Saxony - Thuringia ? Anhalt
• Brandenburg
• Silesia (1763)
• Pomerania
• Mecklenburg
• Schleswig-Holstein (1730)
• Lower-Saxony
• South-Western part of Lower Saxony (Bentheim, Lingen and Osnabrück)
• Niederstift Münster
• Northrhine-Westphalia
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• Bishporic of Cologne
• Lower Rhineland
• Bishopric of Münster ? Southern part
• Minden-Ravensberg and Lippe
• Bishopric of Paderborn and Principality of Waldeck
• Duchy of Westfalen
• Ruhr area
• Siegerland
• Limburg and Liege
• Luxembourg
• Tyrol (1766)
• East-Prussia and West-Prussia
• Baltic countries 16. century
• Baltic countries end of the 17. century
• Baltic countries end of the 18. century
• Legend and abbreviations