Dresden, Germany: Reconstructed and Rewarding

[D.N..]

The majority of Dresden is post modern, few areas were actually rebuilt to their original historical style. In its glory day, Dresden must have been one of the most beautiful cities, not just in Germany, but all Europe... sad, little remains.

[leaderofthelewishpeople]

To see modern buildings at Neumarkt Square fills my heart with anger.

[hermannschell]

Unglaublich wie schön die Architektur ist. Das ist in meinen Augen eine göttliche Architektur die aber nicht nur in Dresden sondern in unendlich vielen Bauwerken auf der ganzen Welt zu sehen ist.

[avexp]

My father managed to leave Dresden just days before it was incinerated. Even his family didn't know if he was alive. My grandfather had prepared travel papers for him to go to Kempten, and my father could choose between a civilian train, a local, or an express. As fate would have it, he chose the local and saw the express take a direct hit from an Allied bomb. He insisted until the day he died that someone led him out of Dresden. I asked him about Frauenkirche and he remembered it very well. He attended concerts there.

[Ian-iqrr]

They should reconstruct the whole city and not replace with modern architectures

[margaretbubenik]

Keep enjoying your wonderful travelling and we all can enjoy the beautiful places posted by you, bravo.

[emmerentiagroenewald]

I was in Dresden when the Frauen Kirche was stil not rebuilt. All the blocks and the materials that they were able to use again, were kept in wire cages around the church.
Nou you can see the difference in colour, where the old and new stones were built in the walls....

[Nothingschanged]

Soviet “architecture” is and always will be... rubbish.

[TWOCOWS]

As usual, you are the best, Rick. This has been so since the 90s! I saw one of the vids where as a very thin young Rick, you teach people how not to pack and carry too many items of clothing, by washing in the wash basin of a hotel in Italy and hanging to dry the entire under garments for reuse!

[yvonnepaul]

Dresden is my favorite city in Germany. It has endured the worst and not just survived but rebuilt many of the grand buildings per the original architectural drawings. The Cathedral is absolutely amazing! The potassium bombs actually vaporized the buildings...similar to napalm . It was at the end of WWII and it was not necessary.

[arielsilva]

great video! we're flying there this afternoon, and this vid have me so excited !!!!

[doctorsocrates]

The gold cross standing at the top of the frauenkirche was crafted by an englishman who's father had actually took part in the 1945 raid...Dresden trust was founded here in england to help with the restoration..Very unfortunate in a time of war that this happened but with all the information we have in regard to rail links to the eastern front and munitions factories helping the german war effort i feel it was a legitimate target.

[sixmax]

question, if the original church was constructed using artisains and craftsman imported from italy (in the 1700s), where did the workers obtain the knowlgede and skill needed to rebuild it down to the finest detail? those skills and trades are unknown today. they haven't constructed anythin using similar techniques for hundreds of years!!

[leonowak]

Such beautiful City i wish someday visit this pearl of Germany .

[janandersen]

will they also rebuild the rest of the city? Since most of it look really ugly today with grey office and apartment blocks

[muzamilkelam]

It pains me to think of what could have been if it had not been incinerated by the Allies.
Britain had savages like Arthur Harris among their ranks who were not very different from the Nazis.

[JacksonsJourneys]

Germany is definitely on my to do list

[luuchoo]

Such a beautiful city it was! If only Germany wouldn’t have tried to invade the entire continent...

[tomek]

The British did a war crime by this bombing. It was strategically without a reason

[TheSolder]

why can germans construct everything from 0 but migrants from africa and asia can't?