Wuppertal Schwebebahn 1902 & 2015 side by side video 

That's mindblowing.

As far as I know this is the first suspension railway that was built

@@IdoN_Tlikethis wow

and it's still here over a 100 years later. still functional.

i didnt even know they had this nowadays

I'd go back to 1902 for the architecture but will stay in 2020 since I'm jewish 😅 haha

The 1902 view is prettier :)

me - a german - too

Until you have to go to the dentist :D

I dont want to die by way way higher chance of the freezing, starving, food poisoning, lead poisoning, borax poisoning, mercury poisoning, smog, poor working condition, poor medical treatment, wrong medical treatment, hate crimes, police violence, political violence, genocide and war. So no thanks.

the left is very much edited

It's right! Dynamic range is really wider!

@@user-tk6yx3hb2w, it's error. Filmed video can't be recovered since overexposed. This old film has really wider dynamic range than today's one on the right, and even can be improved.

I was gonna say the same

Yeah looks like a Christopher Nolan's movie

The majority lived in squalor back then, the problem is that nobody filmed it. This leads people to believe it was better back then when it was not the case.

@@user-xi4nz3be1x also the footage doesnt have enough quality to show dirt and rust and many other things, so it looks incredibly clean, when it probably wasnt

@Falk M That is such a false statement idek where to begin with that.

@Falk M a quick google search nd u see that ur telling bs maybe the imax uses old technology with little advances dosent mean they would still use a 19something kodak to record a star wars movie LEL also the red cameras are often seen and their earliest version is build in 2007 if i remember correctly so ur wisdom is pure bs sir now i took like 5mins off my life to correct absolute bs as smith stated before

@Falk M maybe they cost the most because they have historical worth like an old mercedes benz dosent mean we still race on those or? LMAO someone who dosent know rescaling old footage to make it look fresh with the help of brand new devleoped AI shouldnt comment on those topics either huh?

So true.

thanks the bombs in the world wars :/

Socialism destroyed a lot of the old era flair. Look at all the buildings which were built in the DDR...

@Justin 12O16E26 that's not really the reason. After ww2 Germany needed huge amounts of affordable housing as quickly as possible so they couldn't exactly build beautiful buildings as that would've been more expensive and time consuming

Kar33m22 LK well we shouldn’t have started one

even chickens were in the streets.

It looked more like out in the country, now it's a city

@@ghostlyme eh, the architecture worsened and there are far less trees.

There’s more nature now, back then it looked industrial

@@chickennugget6654 The region was one of the industrial centers of .de at the time so obviously it looks industrial. The lack of cars can't be talked away, though.

Why? You should be amazed

You feel sad because this footage reminds you that time at some point will just move on without you.

@@montyi8 amazed at what? All the unnecessary cars and ugly buildings?

@@SirNikurasu it's actually more dirty in 1902

@abso weplol Whites weren't under siege because all other races were under siege by whites.

Yeah I see a lot of old film that has surprisingly great dynamic range. I suspect that maybe some AI remastering might be at play here as well in this particular video

that video used quite a bunch of video algorithms among them a stabilizer, colorizer and 4k resolution upscaler.

People always forget film is basically a 1-1 imagine from the real world with theoretical infinite resolution... only the sharpness of your lens changes the resolution ... off course when you have an 35 or 70 mm film, digital remaster technology is limited by the maximum resolution of the,Sensor . But you can say that 35mm has round about the resolution of 6K digital and 70mm 12K ... so people who say 4k blu-rays are useless and 8k tv are useless as well have no clue ... The problem is that modern film is only shot digital even with nativ 6k but as soon as they use Special effects they render it in 2k wich than gets upscaled by your TV and you see no difference between 1080p Full Hd and 2k upscaled to 4k ... but trust me Apocalypse Now remastered in Nativ 4K looks better than modern movies

@@Harrock Also, the major problem with old film and you can SEE it here is, that you don't have so much images per second - that's why the left video feels so "slow", half the images are computer-generated and intermixed with the existing material, so that you can get it up to 30 fps. that's also why it feels more stable: all the little shakings are outrendered.

Link to the original "new" footage is not so bad....it may be due bad render settings of video editing SW.

Most of these beautiful old buildings in Germany were destroyed by bombing in WW2. 🙁

All those old buildings were made by many laborers who dedicated time to making the facades look the way they did. The newer replacements are just functional but nothing more.

Money happened

its true.

@@robertagregory7177 still doesn't excuse taht they don't build these type of buldings anymore

Imagine thinking Germany is socialist. Social democracy is still capitalistic in nature.

Wuppertal is a mess these days. Back in 1902 the city was much wealthier than it is today, and thats noticible.

@DefinitelyNotDan Pls stop watching Fox News. Its not good for your Brain.

@definitelynotdan: Wuppertal was never communist, you brainiac. It were your bombers which destroyed the buildings during WW2. And by the way: From the outside the buildings look nice. But on the inside you were lucky, if you didn't freezed in winter, when you had to go outside to the toilet.

@DefinitelyNotDan what makes it socialist, the cars that replaced the train bc of big lobbies so there's traffic everywhere now? Or the houses that are only seen as ways to make profit so they look crap as long as people pay their rent? Or the station not looking as nice anymore bc there's no money for that bc you know... Profits?

I live there

Spinning in their graves.

Well she could also think: oh look how technology has advanced and what you say? There are well isolated houses with their own heating system and a very good sewer system? Nice

@@meagronLP Or: what are all those things on the road? I know that the car was invented in the 1880s but they probably wouldn't notice them as cars atleast at first glance

Imagine if someone showed us their footage from 2120. They'd think it's horrible while we are amazed.

WW2 happend.

@@henner645 I know and I get that a lot was bombed away. But why not rebuild it to what it once was or a similar architecture? Or just anything that is pleasant to the eyes.

Unfortunately, most cities could not afford to rebuild the old houses in their fancy look. In many cases, rather simple architecture had to be used in order to tackle a lack of housing quickly

You cannot rebuild everything to it's former shape. Only the major landmarks got a historical rebuilt. Look at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, it got bombed 80% to the ground but looks now like a medieval town. And after all, most of the houses were by end of WWII just 40-50 years old. So, they were not seen as historical important.

And now nothing works, they only run on saturday and sunday . They should have kept the 2015 trains

For me its 3:00 look on the right side and compare to today. Theater bombed away and statue melted down for war...

Now the Wuppertal stadium is on the right, directly behind is the zoo, and its one of the most beautifull quarters of Wuppertal (might be a little consulation for you :))

Well you cannot see the view but there is nothing "majestic" about it. Stop idealising whats gone.

"Here! Have an ugly building!" 20th century architects.

Absolutely! It's soo sad! Everything is so ugly today.

ig its more about the buildings induvidualy looking good than the overall scene. they hire different architects for everything and each does sum different , maybe they even try to make it look the best from all the surrounded buildings. hmmm

Post-modernist architecture seems to be inspired by depressing Soviet trash.

@@jesusistheonlygodamen3406 Brutalism. Modernism. I just call it junk.

It's called 'post-modernism'. It's deliberately depressing and demoralising by design. The Architect schools in the west are all over-run as part of the Marxist Long-March through the Institutions...that's why they all produce the same rubbish.

@Gegen Propaganda oh my, it's clear such architecture was inspired by such a sick ideology, which is why it's sickening to look at, unlike Christian baroque architecture for example, which is refreshing and rejuvenating.

Left: People didnt knew what to eat , people dying because of weak medicin . Population: about 150k Right: A flourish city where nobody needs to starve and need to die because of polio or some shit . Population: about 355k Just stop u´r trashtalking back in the day anything was worse.

@@tchernobay Left: an average woman had four kids during her lifetime. Right: total fertility rate well below replacement level, the nation dying out...

@@tchernobay The people may have had less in general in comparison, but not everybody was starving or "poor". The past was not as bad as you might think.

Well, from the OUTSIDE the left buildings might look nicer. But do you want to live in a one room flat with four other people and toilet only in the court behind the house? Nowadays it might not look so modest - but you have all the commodities you want in your own flat.

Also, horses ^^,.

They ran away and hid from the cars

MrMisterMaster that or the cars pushed them away

The soil is poisoned

I'm thinking that they cut down the trees to make construction easier.

Best part about today's version.🏞

Don't be sad young man! At the end nature will win, she always does :)

And pretty soon they are going to look like one endless African shanty.

Quite a lot of that did WW2.

@@brandonfreeman4375 It is already a bit of a shithole . But it will get worse.

...the more humans there are.

That’s what a world war will do to a city I guess

Joseph Mama two

@@philipp66176 there wasn't much air raids in ww1.

Channel for Random Stuff I guess that’s true but there still was artillery

@@philipp66176 Lol Germany wasn't touched by anything during WW1. WW2 Flattened it.

I didn't know it drove all the way from Canada, thats incredible!

@@kronk4355 But only on Saturday and Sunday

In fairness a lot of the building were probably built after the second world war, so they didn't have much money

@@bucket_seal ow the edge

@Roger Dodger Let us make a distinction between building materials&techniques on the one hand and design on the other. The former are indeed more efficient, but they can just as well be applied to beautiful buildings. The latter, i.e. the design, has gone down the toilet for no good reason at all.

Just people living in the moment.

Zachary Rollick they do be vibin doe

Truth

We can still get rid of cars, just saying

Typical comment

AMEN !.

as always

we are still paying...

just wanted to write the same :-)

car has ruined everything, antiquated pile of crap, still pumping out dirt because of greedy people

Dont be a Troll.... as*** jiraia

So true. All destroy in ww2.

@Jiraiya Sennin I am a 37 yo Dutch woman with Jewish roots. I did nothing because I didn't even lived back then smart-ass.

@Jiraiya Sennin Serious? You have 0 conversation skills do you? What about I like old architecture and when I see it on film, I find it a big loss that future generations like me can't enjoy this anymore. That possibility was not even in your mind wasn't it?

@@WendyLopezGazquez I get what you're saying. It's sad, and it's happened all over the world. Yes there have been wars, but I think most of it is due to our increasing population. So many old buildings replaced with apartment buildings for example. In my hometown, so much has gone even in just the last 15 years!

That is indeed very sad. I have been couple times to The city of Wuppertall especially for the Schwebebahn. The city is spectaculair because of the vally and the river and surrounded by wood. But to be honest, back in the days it looked really fantastic !

Sure they weren’t just demolished? The tram looks to be untouched and was right next to these buildings

@@mclovinpo The transport was more important than the buildings.

@@mclovinpo the railway was also demaged but quickly rebuilt af5er the war.

@@mclovinpo You are able to spot some differences in the railway here and there. IT also looks more sturdier today

If ww2 hadn't happened imagine how pretty Europe would look today, I mean, it's already really nice, but without centuries of architecture lost to war I wonder how beautiful it would be

Oh, don't worry. Wuppertal still has a lot of amazing old houses. In fact, I like the city.

GraceDcastle so true...

It is still nothing compared to what Warsaw looked like after German bombardment. I want to mention that the capital city of Poland was in 90 percent completely destroyed

Dawid K yeah, warsaw was completely destroyed, but berline was destroyed too!

Ja, Wuppertal ist keine schöne Stadt. Allerdings gilt das für das ganze Ruhrgebiet, und viele andere Gebiete Deutschlands. Ziehe von Krefeld in den Raum Frankfurt, und da ist es auch nicht schöner. Nur wenige Städte und Landkreise haben tolle Umgebungen, ich kann sehr München und Bayern generell empfehlen.

Jede deutsche Stadt sah damals besser aus, mir kommen immer wieder auf das Neue die Tränen, wenn ich meine Heimatstadt mit Bildern von früher und heute vergleiche...

Und zum Ruhrgebiet zählt Wuppertal auch nicht...

Christian K. Das land war besser aber nicht die Regierung sei froh dass du in Demokratie lebst

@@johanliebert4574 Das eine hat mit dem anderen nichts zutun. Hier geht's um Landschaft und Architektur. Wieso muss sowas sofort wieder politisiert werden?

WW2 happened

Yeah That why we need a third world war at least it won't be boring

@Magic Man in the Sky thank an immigrant, not the Jews.

@Magic Man in the Sky Hitler

@Magic Man in the Sky well, have a little think before you embarrass yourself. The reason why the UK declared war on Germany is because it had an agreement with Poland as did France. It was also clear that Germany was going to invade other European countries because the UK had been negotiating to try to keep peace in Europe, but Hitler kept reneging on any agreements made. So to summarise, Britain and France declared war on Germany due to their agreements with Poland and Germany's clear intentions it was not going to stop at Poland.

Are you trying to show off that you're luciferian?

Wuppertal got massively bombed in World War 2

1902: No cars, only horses pulling a wagon, dirt road, beautiful buildings and views. 2015: Cars, air pollution, concrete road.

Its colorized, those fields weren't actually green.

@@rodmunch69 ... you’re telling me my life is a lie :(

@@rodmunch69 Yep those fields are actually black and white.

Maybe because at that point it wasn't a very large city? Cities grow as populations grow. There's nothing we can do about it. There is still natural scenery and green fields beyond the city. But if the population didn't grow, and technology and industry didn't grow with it, you wouldn't be here today.

@George Washington Thanks George.

@Atheist Nihilist Communist I like your name

@Atheist Nihilist Communist I'm sure that you are invited to a lot of partys

@Atheist Nihilist Communist Surely it was war that caused them to rebuild with ugly architecture

Executed for their works*

I mean, if it's for efficiency it then there's nothing wrong to it

Bad mismanagement? In opposite to good mismanagement?

Let’s create our own country and build only old architecture, with modern quality of live!

Same in Liverpool, 🇬🇧.

Harold, The Talking Tree - Maybe we have come far. But at what cost? I would argue people are more miserable than ever now.

Go to the Lake District. Feels like the 1940’s if you visit the tiny villages.

You sound like you're bleeding, is it that time of the month?

It's the depressing music

man wtf. But i guess they weren't old enough to be cool back then

Probably because of how much the footage on the left was edited because apperantly people can't look at black and white film anymore

@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername what's wrong with making it look as it would've been then? Did the people back in 1902 only see in black and white?

Vor dem Krieg, als die Alliierten es komplett bombardieren mussten, weil alles von Nazis bewohnt war.

Wie eigentlich überall in D

yes.

at least it wasnt obliterated like warsaw

@33kaus holokaust no never was. It's in North rhine-westphalia. Near Düsseldorf and Cologne

@Qebster living in that period I wouldn't because I wouldn't know what technology exists in the future.

lmao

No he did not haha. There’s a see through window at the front but anyways this video is beautiful so it shouldn’t be disliked.

@@juliepahl3821 normie

Julie Pahl wooosh

In 1902, they were hand-cranking the camera!

Sometimes, old buildings need to be destroyed because new houses are cheaper. For example, they are easier to clean.

@@NexosKTR that is no reason to destroy art.

WW1 and WW2 will come after 1902. I Think some buildings were desteoyed because of These wars.

Yeah cuz of WW2 or WW1

Too bad that isn't really the case, because if it was you'd be too dead to bore people with your dullard commentary.

Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system...

You apparently haven't seen ship engine rooms from that time, or even a building's boiler room 😂 look it up!

@@Unanuma Those are definitely "steam", but are they also "punk"?

@@andreasu.3546 Made my day! :D

Yeah but if you go to modern cities like chengdu in China the modern architecture has an influence of the 1800s and it's pretty beautiful and.ghen there's the glass window buildings with LEDs they look alright but atleast the blend in with the colonial style monolithic buildings

@@EzraMerr A clever person said: There is a lot room for new modern architecture, but just a little room left for the old building, that never will get more. Speaking of German. The industrial revolution in the early 1900 destroyed nearly 80% of the old city architecture. The trues is, it where the Americans who introduced the protection of historic buildings, against the will of the modern German architects, who wanted to remove any remaining symbols of a past history. Typical German, get clean through faceless architecture.

That's why you should respect the style of the buildings already standing when you build new ones so that they fit together and make beautiful cities. There should be a council for this sort of thing.

Have u ever been in brazil, Its the bunker country in latin america, most houses have a big wall with something like broken glass on the top so nobody jumps it (remember, its a 3m wall with broken glass on the top that never meet anything more than rain, there maybe viruses)

@DON'T FUCKING STARE AT ME! Modern ones are boring, practical and cheap, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Not anymore lmao

@@svenjal9696 why?

@@z00h they messed up the new wagons (the orange ones in the video No longer exist, they changed Them. Which turned out to be a huge mistake.) When it rained it leaked and sometimes they would just Stop mid air or don't work at all. So now they need to redo everything for a year. They should have kept the orange ones

@@svenjal9696 lol, who made them Bombardier or Adtranz?

@@z00h The company goes by the name Kiepe Electric

looks nicer, but was it nicer?

@@Game_Hero yes you had Wilhelm II and none of this Republicans $&#t

@@avus-kw2f213 look mom, a reichsburger!

Hey man, If you need someone to talk to, let me know. Things will get better again, I'm sure!

@@Lolwutfordawin Without a doubt, there will always be a better one. But when? (Ohne Zweifel, es wird immer ein besser geben. Nur wann?)

I'm sorry you had to go through all this alone. I think about people, in your same circumstance, all the time. It makes me sad.

Just remember, you may not be with others, but you are not alone. Hang in there citizen.

Stay strong, man. Good times will come.

Platzpropeller exactly. People tend to attribute historical events too much to historical figures instead of the situation and context

I still get the underlying point of the first comment though. The world may have been better off without the big wars. Or maybe not. Who knows?

@@meagronLP In the end we don't know what drives history because we can't experiment with it... But to say, that events aren't deeply and intrinsically linked to those participating and driving them is a bit unplausible, isn't it? :D

england, france, usa, japan, italy and russia would find another way to wage wars. many countries and their economies were starving for war. america couldn´t wait to get their hands dirty finally, to get their industry out of depression. the world was left very unstable after ww1 and ww2 would have happened either that or another way.

@@Njordin2010 as if Imperial Germany was a peace loving giant and the only good guy ... hehehe ...

One of them is different at time 2:00

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Actually that's only colorizing, it's original 68mm film stock is amazing condition and looks beautiful.

@@Tadfafty Mate, the guy who posted the original video even made a statement how he improved it. Films back then simply did not have the framerates to get such smooth results.

@@phil3114 Well I have watched the "unimproved" version, and it looks excellent.

@@Tadfafty I am sure you have a link to share

Lmao

Well who destroyed those houses?

Buildings, yes, but I'd say trees are more in the modern video...

Maybe they should have thought of that before they started a war that got the city bombed nearly flat for creating strategic war materiel. The city was all Nazis or at the very least didn't protest when Nazis rounded up the Jews and gassed them and attacked in all directions.

@@BlauerBooo Those trees on Kaiserstrasse were put in without much forethought that the Schwebebahn is right there, hitting all the branches.

A lot of the things that made old buildings nice are simply impossible today (unless you have truly insane amounts of money). What we appreciate in those buildings today is largely handicraft (facades, fireplace tiling, wallpaper etc). But with cost of human labour being so high in Europe, and skilled labour in these fields being rarer than ever, you really can't recreate the atmosphere. My godfather built a cabin like ten years back, but wanted it to look like someone had cut the timber with an axe like back in the old days. So they had a machine shave off pieces of the wood to mimic axe cuts. It looks terrible and fake because everything is uniform patterns.

@Juulius Caesar then why do you go to the doctor

@@Infinite_Jester But think about modern CNC and 3D printing technology. Imagine if instead of applying all our energy to making perfect flat surfaces and straight lines, we put it towards perfectly intricate carvings and facades. We could do so much better than them if we tried.

@@justin.booth. That's still pretty expensive and a very time-consuming process. I think "better" here is also pretty subjective. We tend to give value to skilled craftsmen and handicrafts, whereas a regular person gives very little aesthetic value to the process behind programming a machine to imitate a handmade product (or a different type of product entirely). We sure can do a lot of things they couldn't though, and we do. For example, we have buildings made mostly of glass. 170 years ago, the Crystal Palace was a marvel for all. Today, it's par for the course. It's not impossible that we adopt new technologies for facades at some point. I think it's a really cool idea. City planners already mandate how your building has to look to a pretty extreme degree, so it's not like we don't spend money on making ugly-ass non-practical shit.

Yes, in almost everything except architecture.

No, the didn't have medicine and internet back then

The problem was that „they“ (the German rulers) were getting too proud too fast and caused and lost two world wars. Especially WW2 was disastrous for the human beings and the material. This video shows what happened to Wuppertal but also to many many other cities around the world like Hiroshima, Dresden, St. Petersburg, or London. Including their citizens, their soldiers, and the Jewish people in Europe. We should never forget why we have two vastly different videos to compare today and if we don’t hold on to our democratic values for every day of our lives we may not get a third video after the next big humanitarian catastrophe.

Ok boomer

@@dailydoseofsunshine2319 So you Write „ok Boomer“ regardless of whether it makes no sense in the context and doesn't fit. do you even know what that means? is everyone a boomer in your eyes who uses their brain?

@@dailydoseofsunshine2319 I'm a zoomer and I agree.

@@erdbeerchan nah it's the language the guy used "phone bad"

@@erdbeerchan Nah, he is not using his brain, only crying about "good old times". If you can't understand beauty of modern architecture, doesn't mean you have more brain.

Don't worry. It will take time untill we accomodate with each other.

@Jhon Krasnovskiy this is not a very productive thinking. Life is beautiful, sadly we usually don't know how to appreciate it (me included). So, instead of thinking like this, maybe you should try enjoying it more, focus more on the good parts. We usually see what we are looking at.

@Jhon Krasnovskiy "Life is mostly suffering very little happiness." That's not a truthful assessment of what life feels like to a human and that isn't a matter of opinion. If you make a statement like that, it gives way to the interpretation that you may be suffering from a depression. To make that clear, someone who's depressed isn't crazy, but suffering from a disease that strongly affects emotions. I'd describe as an emotional filter, changing perception of the world, pulling everything into the sad or unsatisfying spectrum. If you feel like the given quote, consider talking to any doctor or therapist, as soon as possible. Otherwise you'll spend your lifetime in a state that robs you of the pleasures you deserve to experience.

Nice dream but its not happening

There is a beautiful building in the background of the 1902 version. It is to the right. You can see it at the 0:47 mark. Does it still exist?

@@Stellaluna88 I just checked it via google maps. It is possible, actually many old buildings are still standing in that area. But most of them are blurred out due to privacy concerns of their owners.

@Jul W I think there could be a combination of old and new if architects would stop caring only for Bauhaus.

PJP K Ok, thanks. I found the area on Google Maps as I saw the track marker on the beam. It stated “48” and I was able to locate the area. I wasn’t able to find the building and wasn’t aware you could request Google to blur out the property.

Das wird sich nicht mehr ändern. Außerdem vergisst du auch die Vorteile davon: Damals waren rund 150000 Menschen auf einer Fläche eingequetscht, wo heute nur noch ein Viertel davon leben. Dafür gibt es halt Parkplätze für die 300.000 Menschen, die aus den umliegenden Vierteln, die damals noch kleine Vorortdörfer waren, in die Innenstadt fahren.

Ich seh es z.b. an Salzburg: Zu Mozarts Zeiten lebten 30.000 Menschen auf einer Fläche, auf der heute rund 8000 Menschen leben. Das hat für einen massiven Wohnqualitätsanstieg gesorgt.

@Nexatronic Trotzdem ist Fußverkehr vorteilhaft für Geschäfte und die Sicherheit der Menschen

Scheiß mal auf die Autos, die haben nicht für diese ekelhaften Betonklötze überall gesorgt.

70% percent of the German cities were destroyed in WW2

It's not the destruction. It's the bad architecture today

@@akita2973 thats also a Point

Imagine how resplendent Europe would look without the World Wars. And without the modernization campaigns overhauling classic architecture.

@@WideGauge yeah the old pictures Look so much better

Well the buildings in europe have an excuse for why they look cheap now and it's *war destroys buildings*

I wouldn't say that but it definitely seems like something's been lost

A fellow doomer? I'm with you there.

Atleast there is no slavery today

Hollow 81 well there is

It actually has changed at parts, look at the legs are the start, the metalwork individual pieces are different

some of the rail was destroyed in ww2, you can see many parts are different, but most survived

It didn't change with time. It changed with Allied bombing because the city were all Nazis and their factories were central to the war effort.

ありがとうございます！

Dankeschön

considering that we have more than 5000 years of architecture history, it is pretty sad that it had ended that way.

It's a piece of fantastic engineering...it's a beautiful video.

Du darfst dich nicht blenden lassen. Um die damalige Jahrhundertwende war Wuppertal (also das was heute Wuppertal ist) auch, wie du es schreibst, pennerhaft. Total verdreckt und stinkende Luft.

@@bowlchamps37 ? Ästhetisch ansprechende Gebäude, große Grünflächen, Parks und Statuen?

Among rail and transportation enthusiasts the Schwebebahn is known all over the world I would think. When passing through Germany, our family has purposely planned for stopping in Wuppertal in order to visit the Schwbebahn.

A few medium to high profile educational/travel-youtubers made videos about the line. It's a great way to talk about solutions looking for a problem in the context of a success story.

Were many damaged during WW2?

A lot of negative people eager to share their resentments. Good for you for sharing. I mean the tram still exists and many of the buildings. Time doesn’t stand still. Tschüss!

Well, it's not just about old versus new houses. It's about the composition, the harmony. Old pretty buildings in a city of new skyscrapers don't make the city beautiful and in harmony.

@@jonroyo yes, Wuppertal was one of the major production places for weaponry during the war, so it was heavily bombarded. That's what makes the buildings that survived even more special:)

@@lurchhightower2806 I disagree. Oftentimes it is that balance of old and new that creates a harmony in modern day cities. I think it's what makes a place special, to see where time has moved on and where it stood still. Also, you hardly find any sky scrapers in Wuppertal, it's not that big of a city actually :)

I have the same feelings, but about my city, Milan...

@@antoniodespuches3995 Italy wasnt bombed like germany in WW2 the most german cities were destroyed in WW2

Lucky Hunter I know, but still a lot of cities lost a big portion of their buildings. Some cities lost up to 50%. Milan lost 1/3 and lots of slightly damaged buildings got destroyed after the war. I know this is nothing compared to Germany, but still it’s noticeable

@@antoniodespuches3995 yeah of course every country had their destroyed buildings except USA...

For my American eyes, it still looks beautiful, clean and charming. American cities have decayed far worse in the past 70 years.

_On May 30, 1943, 650 British bombers flew in five waves in a 10 km wide stream towards Wuppertal-Barmen and Wuppertal-Ronsdorf at night and destroyed the old parts of the city with 920 tons of explosive bombs and 1,014 tons of incendiary bombs. For many citizens, there was no escape from the firestorm._ Maybe that's the reason?