How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt
555K views · Nov 30, 2023 · Education
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@the_aesthetic_city · 2 years ago · pinned
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@mariannenygaard1861 · 2 years ago
I am Danish and have worked as a tour guide in Dresden for 12 years. My first encounter with the city was "love at first sight”. Although at that time, a large part of the area around the Frauenkirche was still more or less undeveloped. When I come to Dredsen today, I see the incredibly beautiful buildings around the church. It couldn't have been done better, thanks to the architects who made Dresden one of the most beautiful cities in Europe again.
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@markuserikssen · 2 years ago
Happy to see that Dresden is slowly getting a beautiful city core again. It's hard to believe that there are people who are against this.
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@dirtywaterpj_dj · 2 years ago (edited)
I was in Frankfurt recently, where some buildings have also been reconstructed in the style of what was there pre-WWII. A local said that some people referred to it as “Disneyfication”, making it nice for tourists. But nice is nice. Who doesn’t like a pleasant, attractive environment?
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@LW1Tok · 2 years ago
As a Non-European, there's something about Western (more specifically classical/traditional European Architecture) that just oozes grandiosity and beauty that leaves me in utter awe and appreciation.
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@adesauvanie · 2 years ago
The ultimate example for me is always Rotterdam versus Middelburg in the Netherlands. Both were destroyed in the Second World War. Rotterdam was rebuilt as a modernist city, but Middelburg was rebuilt mostly as it was before. And tourists today flock in droves to Middelburg because of its beauty, whereas the same cannot be said for Rotterdam.<br>The modernists can claim whatever they like, but the human is naturally drawn to traditional beauty, and not to the soulless boxes that are the modernist utopic vision.
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@jchendrix · 2 years ago
All of the cities in Europe should be restored to their former glory and beauty.
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@karolw.5208 · 2 years ago
I come from Poland, another country where 75 years ago cities looked similar to Dresden. Warsaw was largely rebuilt following historical standards, why not Dresden or Leipzig? Today visiting Neumarkt or Stare Miasto is simply a pleasure.
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@HistoryHustle · 2 years ago
Great video. Maybe it was a blessing that Dresden was in East Germany. Because there was no money to rebuilt the city centre remained empty. In many west German cities they inmediatly started to replace the bombed city centre buildings with ugly modern architecture.
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@feyenoordsongs3882 · 2 years ago
Make the world beautiful again!
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@spiralpython1989 · 2 years ago
I visited Dresden last year. I was stunned by the beauty and the feeling that it was not a pastiche… the city felt authentic, and even though it was rebuilt, it was rebuilt properly. I was blown away by the delicate beauty of the Frauenkirche. Dresden is one of my favourite European cities. And a very different city to those comparatively modern cities in my country, Australia.
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@augustconnors260 · 2 years ago
An Attractive City is a liveable city. People like a liveable city. (Walk to work, parks, garden, fountains, caffe, malls, meeting plazas/places.)
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