Early Modern history of Germany |Part of a series on the|
|History of Germany| The Habsburg Monarchy refers to the
territories ruled by the Austrian branch of the House of
Habsburg, and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine,
between 1526 and 1867/1918. The capital was Vienna (from 1583 to
1611 Prague). The 16th century  German Renaissance  The German
Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural
and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the
15th and 16th centuries, which originated with the Italian
Renaissance in Italy. This was a result of German artists who
had traveled to Italy to learn more and become inspired by the
Renaissance movement. Many areas of the arts and sciences were
influenced, notably by the spread of humanism to the various
German states and principalities. There were many advances made
in the development of new techniques in the fields of
architecture, the arts, and the sciences. This also marked the
time within Germany of a rise of power, indepe