Small town: an empty square, hardly a person, and if so, the old or the young, no sight worth seeing, empty inner-city shops, slow decay, in the best case the charm of the morbid. One only passes through by chance and asks: who is here when I am not, and why? Small towns are the satellites of the big cities. The still-valid definition of the small town by the Imperial Statistical Office of 1887 names 5,000 to 20,000 inhabitants.