The train is the most important and fastest means of transportation for the population. Thus, the tourist arrived in Halberstadt at the train station and then went via Königstraße or Magdeburger Straße into the city center. Foreword Edition 1905You may have heard little of Halberstadt; but you know it, that it goes with cities as with people, and that just often d i e valuable and peculiar are, of which is spoken the least; they are too modest to praise themselves, and others do not always this labor of love. So stay here! Walk with me through the old city, over the venerable squares, past the tasty buildings, they will all want to tell you their story, their thousand-year history; do you want to hear it?Halberstadt, December 1905 - Hermann Schwab.Foreword Edition 1916The First World War already lasts 2 years.A messenger of uplifting cultural work in times of bloody struggle, this booklet begins its new trek to friendly readers. Spared from the horrors of the World War, our venerable German cities stand in unspoiled beauty - in the heart of the Fatherland, old Halberstadt. With heartfelt thanks to the shepherds and saviors of our homeland and with the most ardent wishes for their soon, victorious return home, we are at the same time filled with the proud certainty of the powerful duration of German character. And mightily drowning out the storms of the present, we hear the words of the great German master ringing through the centuries:"Uns bleibt die heil'ge deutsche Kunst."Halberstadt, May 1916 - Hermann Schwab.