The Prophesying Nun of Dresden notes of the prophetic manuscripts. These writings, according to Baschera's novel, were mentioned for the first time by a certain Abbot Nicolas Holb in 1808 in Vienna. The author of the manuscripts, written in the form of letters, was a German nun and clairvoyant whose actual name is not known. Of her, it is only known that she was “a pious Religious born in Dresden in 1680 and died in 1706” and that “ . . . her convent was on the banks of the Elbe” River. Some of the letters were written in German, some more in Latin and
Demographics of Hamburg Demographics of Hamburg The German city of Hamburg is the most populous city in the European Union which is not a national capital. The city contains an approximate 1.8 million people. The figures since 1970 are published by the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein, based on the information of several state authorities. Hamburg was by far the most populated German City after the Thirty Years' War. Due to its , which had been finished 1625, the city was never conquered and many people fled into it. On December 31, 2006 there were 1,754,182 registered people living in Hamburg