Editing Nuremberg (section)

===After the Napoleonic Wars===
[[File:Nuremberg Scrapbooks cropped.jpg|thumb|Old town of Nuremberg in the 19th century]]
[[File:Adler Originalfoto.jpg|right|thumb|The British-built ''[[Adler (locomotive)|Adler]]'' was the locomotive of the first German Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth.]]

After the fall of [[Napoleon]], the city's trade and commerce revived; the skill of its inhabitants together with its favourable situation soon made the city prosperous, particularly after its public debt had been acknowledged as a part of the Bavarian national debt. Having been incorporated into a Catholic country, the city was compelled to refrain from further discrimination against Catholics, who had been excluded from the rights of citizenship. Catholic services had been celebrated in the city by the priests of the [[Teutonic Order]], often under great difficulties. After their possessions had been confiscated by the Bavarian government in 1806, they were given the Frauenkirche on the Market in 1809; in 1810 the first Catholic parish was established, which in 1818 numbered 1,010 people.<ref name="Cath:Nuremberg"/><!--Catholic Encyclopedia: possibly biased for this kind of info? also, possibly outdated (1913) - WP:RSAGE-->

In 1817, the city was incorporated into the district of [[Rezatkreis]] (named for the river [[Fränkische Rezat|Franconian Rezat]]), which was renamed to [[Middle Franconia]] ({{langx|de|[[:de:Mittelfranken|Mittelfranken]]}}) on 1 January 1838.<ref name="Cath:Nuremberg"/> The first German railway, the [[Bavarian Ludwigsbahn]], from Nuremberg to nearby [[Fürth]], was opened in 1835. The establishment of railways and the incorporation of Bavaria into [[Zollverein]] (the 19th-century German Customs Union), commerce and industry opened the way to greater prosperity.<ref name="Cath:Nuremberg"/> In 1852, there were 53,638 inhabitants: 46,441 Protestants and 6,616 Catholics. It subsequently grew to become the more important industrial city of Southern Germany, one of the most prosperous towns of southern Germany, but after the [[Austro-Prussian War]] it was given to [[Prussia]] as part of their telegraph stations they had to give up. In 1905, its population, including several incorporated suburbs, was 291,351: 86,943 Catholics, 196,913 Protestants, 3,738 Jews and 3,766 members of other religions.<ref name="Cath:Nuremberg"/> The ''Fränkischer Kurier'' was published as a local newspaper in Nuremberg.