Dresden has a Great Culture! ❤ It's an Amazing Place now as it used to be before the Wars. I wish to visit there sometime. The Germans are Great at their Culture.
@christopherhall3894 Жыл бұрын
I was in Dresden in 2010. I saw the Kurlander Palace just after it had been completed. A beautiful building and one of many. I visited everything historic I could in the 4 days I was there. There has been amazing reconstruction in this city, and of course more has been done in the 13 years since I was there. For example the recreated rooms in the Residenzschloss that opened in 2019. Thank goodness some of the prefab concrete Communist style buildings (on the website Skyscraper City they are called "Commie blocks" ) built in the1950s and 60s in the Neumarkt and other places are gone. I arrived by train. As the train crossed the Elbe River I saw the view of the skyline I had dreamed of seeing in person since I first learned what happened to Dresden as a child and thought I never would, and including the rebuilt Frauenkirche. However, after arriving at the train station I then walked through the city to my hotel across from the Zwinger. The pre February 13/14 1945 Dresden is gone forever for the majority of this city.. I walked by many buildings that have nothing to do with what had once been there; block after block after block after block. Yes, the most important buildings closer to the river are recreated (you cannot use the word "restored" when priceless world heritage architecture has been incinerated) but I walked past some really unattractive modern buildings that a pre 1945 Dresdener would say "Where am I ?" The exception is the Altmark area although there was no attempt to recreate this as in Warsaw. However, at least the buildings there are attractive looking and an effort to honor what had once been there. There are many streets though, if you compared pre 1945 with what there is now, you would be correct that the heritage is gone forever. FOREVER. So enjoy what has been able to be brought back, but realize Dresden has nothing left of the many charming back streets you can find in Prague, Krakow and Lwow/Lviv. Just like Breslau/Wroclaw,( another city of wonderful reconstructions but many many pre 1945 losses forever) those places in Dresden are gone when you get past the beautiful rebuilt parts near the river.
@ArchitekturTV Жыл бұрын
@christopherhall3894 Thanks for charing your story. There are a lot of progress, it cuild be more, but what we get are stunning. Budapest could be a good role model for the future of this city. 🤞🍀
@AnveshKhatri Жыл бұрын
I just wanna hope the Buda Castle will also be Restored to its former glory before the War Damage during WW2@@ArchitekturTV
@ArchitekturTV Жыл бұрын
@@AnveshKhatri It will, the reconstruction had started
@GrandTheftChris Жыл бұрын
@@christopherhall3894 Thanks for your impressions. I would like to correct you on two things: The so called commie blocks and prefab concrete buildings are two different things. Commie blocks are brick buildings with a real roof from the 50s and 60s like you have seen on Altmarkt square. Prefab buildings are made from concrete tiles with flat roof from the 70s and 80s. They have been almost completely removed from the city center. But there are still a lot of the older brick buildings. Moreover the charming back streets as you call them still exist in Dresden, just not directly around the old town. Because there was a ~2 km radius of the bombing zone in southeast direction. You have to travel further out of the city center to see some of the old charming districts that were spared by the bombs. I understand you only had 4 days but you could have easily cross the river to the north side and visit an old baroque district, followed by an old district from Wilhelminian time. So the destruction level was insane but it is wrong to say everything has gone forever. Cheers.
@LJB1038 ай бұрын
I found both cities to be beautiful and was lucky enough to attend two performances at the Semperoper.
@r0ns0n0l4 ай бұрын
Das ist "Dresdens TOP 10 Kollektion" aber nicht Sachsen :D