Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. European regions

Narrower term/s

• Wendish
• Wilhelmine (period)
• Ancient German (period or culture)
• Bavarian (culture or style)
• Hamburger
• Hessian (culture)
• Swabian (culture or style)
• Thuringian (culture or style)
• West German
• Hanseatic (culture)
• Alsatian (culture or style) [NP]
• East German
• Saxon (modern)
• Weimar (style and movement)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the cultures, periods, and styles of the modern nation of Germany, or the cultures that have occupied the area of the modern nation in central Europe. More broadly, it can refer to the cultures of the ancient groups of related peoples who inhabited central and northern Europe, and who spoke dialects from which the Germanic or Teutonic languages developed.