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01-16-2016, 09:59 AM
Since I started participating on this board I have come across many threads which mentioned Nazi Germany and how the country was irrevocably changed post-WW2. What may surprise many of you however, and which is something I have told many of my own friends in the past, is how damn beautiful Germany used to be before it got bombed into oblivion by the Allied Forces. Here are a few pictures - the original article (in German)
can be found here.
Nürnberg
Freiburg
Köln (Cologne) still featuring a provisional Rheinbrücke.
City hall in Wernigrode.
Quite frankly looking at these pictures deeply saddens me. All the 'progress' we pride ourselves of in the past 100+ years - and look at our cities now. Ugly, dehumanized, and rapidly filling with hordes of foreign invaders raping and pillaging without facing resistance.
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01-16-2016, 10:23 AM
If you were transported back to those times you would be struck by the smell of burning coal and soot everywhere, as well as the raw sewage in the rivers, and mud everywhere after it rained.
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01-16-2016, 10:24 AM
I heard regular houses are beautiful there. The first thing germans told me here was 'american houses are so cheap looking' and I keep hearing this from them for some reason.
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01-16-2016, 10:25 AM
Is this really so different from what is in Germany today?
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01-16-2016, 10:55 AM
Yeah, I still find Germany to be a beautiful country.
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01-16-2016, 12:06 PM
Downtown area in Würzburg.
Those flags did create a great outrage. It was anniversary of the turkish guest workers and they put those flags all over German cities. Those that could see did know already back then what direction Germany will go.
There are not many cities left that escaped the bombing terror. Konstanz is one but most cities had been rebuild.
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01-16-2016, 12:20 PM
A good portion of southern Germany escaped allied bombing, so Stuttgart and Munich are supposed to be well preserved.
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01-16-2016, 12:25 PM
The normal buildings are really ugly. Before the war most buildings were build with attention to detail. After this wasn't possible. But some places are still nice like the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, the cathedral of cologne, the town hall in Hamburg and many more.
Today Heidelberg is considered a beautiful city. Before the war it wasn't considered special.
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01-16-2016, 12:28 PM
Meh. Buildings can and always have been rebuilt. But a people cannot be rebuilt once they are demographically tarnished. It's not hyperbole to say that the bitch Merkel did more damage to Germany in 2015 alone than the allied air forces did in 5 years.
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01-16-2016, 12:37 PM
Nürnberg get hit heavy:
Should be about 1942
After bombing
Today
Würzburg:
After the war people need some housing, fast. So they rebuild most cities very practical. No time to get back to the original one. That's why you have some very ugly blocks and areas today.
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01-16-2016, 12:42 PM
I was really impressed with Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which I noticed in Lucky's post for "Germany Today". It's one of the few cities that escaped relatively unscathed that I know of.
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01-16-2016, 01:31 PM
Quote: (01-16-2016 10:34 AM)Lucky Wrote:
Germany today:
Germany circa 2020:
I don't know if I should laugh or cry... and yes, you're absolutely right.
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01-16-2016, 02:03 PM
So complaining will do solve everything?
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01-16-2016, 02:46 PM
Tell them too much, they wouldn't understand; tell them what they know, they would yawn.
They have to move up by responding to challenges, not too easy not too hard, until they paused at what they always think is the end of the road for all time instead of a momentary break in an endless upward spiral
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01-16-2016, 05:45 PM
Quote: (01-16-2016 10:23 AM)aSimpNamedBrokeback Wrote:
If you were transported back to those times you would be struck by the smell of burning coal and soot everywhere, as well as the raw sewage in the rivers, and mud everywhere after it rained.
and horse shit. I remember reading some history archives about madison wi pre automobile and there being these summer shit epedemics that would stink up the entire downtown and people would get ill en masse.
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01-16-2016, 06:29 PM
I use to live in Wernigerode.
The town hall looks exactly the same.
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01-16-2016, 06:35 PM
European architecture has roots from its current monarchy.
The UK architecture can be traced from vernacular to Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, modernism, (pre-war) inter war, the after war years. 60-70s Through to 90s and modern.
Architects are the leaders and decision makers of these eras but modern day it is more to do with the ego of the designer and those who have the money.
What you now find is buildings requiring strict adherence to building codes, fire especially, and cost.
I wouldn't label all Architects as liberals but more or less the dreamers of the built environment. Cold hard logic comes from surveyors and project managers.