The beauty of old Frankfurt am Main 🇩🇪♥️

[@H.E.L.D.W.A.H.R.S.]

Meine Laune wurde vom Video komplett zerstört... Musik hat auch mit geschlagen. Wie schön war die Stadt von meinen Ahnen! Und andere Städte bevor Zweite Weltkrieg. Oh, wie hasse ich moderne Architektur! Dankeschön für dieses schönes, aber trauriges Video!

[@Diegoromir]

The pain I feel in knowing that I cannot walk through the old city of Frankfurt before it was criminally and needlessly bombed is one of the greatest pains of my life, tearing at every fiber of my heart. I hope that one day my beloved Germany will have the competence and glory to rebuild every part of the old city the same as it was before the bombs, without modernist annexes, nothing is impossible for human ingenuity.

[@ArchitekturTV]

2019 was a small part reconstructed. But some day in the future we get more, maybe 🤞🤞

[@Briiiville]

Will we though?

[@Diegoromir]

@@Briiiville They who?

[@levisludus9177]

@@Diegoromir it wouldn't reflect the times , would it

[@cremapastelera00]

i feel you

[@DerKirchenhocker]

This is the Frankfurt I never knew. I was born in 1957 across the river in Sachsenhausen and lived two blocks from the Haubtbahnhof. a lot of old beauty was destroyed in 1944, however there were same sections that were in very poor condition.

[@weltenschmerz1041]

Architektur mit Seele ❤️

[@1aikane]

So beautiful! How could everything go so wrong? To give up all this?

[@MMadesen]

Grade um diese großen mittelalterlichen Altstädte wie Frankfurt oder Nürnberg sie hatten, ist es extra Schade. Klar ist auch eine barocke oder wilhelminische Altstadt wie in Dresdem oder Berlin ein großer Verlust, aber gerade diese engen, verwinkelten und uralten Fachwerkgässchen haben nochmal einen ganz eigenen Charme als die breiten barocken Straßenzüge. Sie sind außerdem viel seltener und existieren in so einer Form halt wirklich nur in Deutschland bzw. deutschem Kulturraum. Barocke und wilhelminische Altstädte gibt es ja in ähnlicher Form in den meisten europäischen Ländern, siehe Budapest, Warschau, der viktorianische Stil in England und seinen Kolonien, usw. Aber unser schönes, deutsches Fachwerk, gepaart mit gotischen Kathedralbauten ist wirklich eine unschlagbare und einzigartige Kombi.

[@voxpopuli8132]

Thank you very much for your efforts!!! Your taste in music has become very sublime! I like it! Please, keep up the hard work!

[@ArchitekturTV]

Thanks for your great comment, that makes me very happy 😄☘️

[@voxpopuli8132]

@@ArchitekturTV You are welcome! Your videos speak to my soul.

[@cavendermary3954]

Wow thankyou for this beautiful treasure to pour over! At least I can burn this into a memory that nobody can take!

[@isitover5549]

Home of some of my German ancestors!❤

[@ArchitekturTV]

come and visit us 🙏😊

[@porshprix4286]

Dr. Ludwig brought me here.

[@andreasmetzger7619]

Thank you for the upload. I recently compared the Frankfurt city plan of Matthäus Merian from 1628 to Google Maps from today and it was really fun seeing that although the entire city was turned to ashes, many streets are still the same as 400 years ago (with modern buildings of course) and thanks to the reconstruction of the Römer, Frankfurt is looking beautiful again. I would've loved to see the old Frankfurt because nowadays the small, narrow alleys don't exist anymore and many of the historic buildings weren't rebuilt, which is a pity

[@JohnBambooO]

Thanks for sharing ❤️from new Frankfurt

[@muscledavis5434]

5:04 damn that facade is beautiful! And it looks like it is on both sides of the road 😍

[@aquamanbeforehewascool5347]

Frankfurt back then: Architectural, historical and cultural capital of Germany Frankfurt now: Oversized and rundown dump with a Gucci belt built on the rubble of a lost metropolis

[@ArchitekturTV]

Its not that bad, but almost 😉 I recommend you to watch my Frankfurt Gründerzeit video 👍😊

[@karlbauer9734]

„Frankfurt was a European jewel“, that is true.

[@joachimb5721]

4:44 Yes, they have reconstructed those two buildings (kind of) but there is a huge parking garage in front of it

[@kentrosaurusboi3909]

There's always been buildings in front of them, in the 1862 plot, you'll notice that the area was a courtyard (hence *Hof* Rebstock) and was hedged in on all sides until the breakthrough for Braubachstraße in 1906. Then the two buildings were exposed to the Domplatz (which is when that picture was taken), but in the 30's the Haus am Dom was constructed, where it remained until the destruction in 1945

[@fez3416]

Imagine living there, i would go to war to protect my beautiful country too

[@ritamedina-molina8550]

Biggest criminals so called allies bombing innocent civilians ... .biggest one is England... destroying almost all of their " colonies" double dealing Palestine lying to all parties..I am referring to an excellent documentary on KZbin

[@Oisseau53]

L'Allemagne devrait reconstruire toutes ses villes à l'identique. Elle en à les moyens. Dire qu'en France certains voudrait la guerre alors qu'on à eu la chance de sauver la majorité de notre patrimoine durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

[@derbuchhandelclub]

@ Frankfurt am Main 🇩🇪

[@barbarahermanns2804]

Es tut weh zu sehen wie schön Frankfurt mal war und wie hässlich es heute ist( mit wenigen Ausnahmen). Meine Mutter stammt aus Frankfurt und wurde im 2. Weltkrieg ausgebombt. Sie erkennt ihre Stadt heute nicht wieder und erzählt immer wie schön es war.

[@ArchitekturTV]

Das Dom Römer Projekt ist toll! Leider war dies nur eine Tropfen auf den heißen Stein…

[@MMadesen]

It would be great, if you could add info to each picture on wether the building was destroyed, is still standing or was rebuilt. You already did for some, but not for all

[@ArchitekturTV]

The sad story is that everything got destroyed! 😢🫣 Except the few buildings where I wrote that they were reconstructed. Its only a tiny puzzle part…

[@MMadesen]

😞

[@simonallchin7436]

Yes , the bombing of this beautiful town was terrible , but even more terrible was the treatment of the millions of Jewish men , women and Children who suffered undescribable brutaliy at the hands of some of the most cold and cruel people in history !

[@joachimb5721]

Every innocent person that has been killed during that time is a victim of terrible injustice. The bombings of German cities have killed many men, women and children, too. No need to call one murder more terrible than the other.

[@simonallchin7436]

@@joachimb5721 I stick to my first commentary , but I also agree with you that every person killed is a terrible thing ...I am of course horrified at all the innocent people kllled in ww2 , and also deeply saddened at the destruction of so many beautiful and historic cities ....Could this have been avoided? Of course we can't rewrite history , but could the British ( of which I belong) have made an effort to just bomb industrial sites ....??? I don't know ...

[@joachimb5721]

This war was Germany against the rest of the world, including the USA, the UK, France and Russia. I don‘t really understand how this war was not over a lot sooner and also how it was necessary to take such drastic measures such as bombing every German city to the ground or erasing two Japanese cities completely. No matter how inhuman one side acts, the people are usually not responsible for their government‘s crimes. (I know, I have seen pictures and films of masses cheering to Hitler, I still can‘t believe a majority of the German population was ok with the holocaust)

[@ralfbenatzky886]

@@simonallchin7436 „It has been decided that the primary objective of your operations should be focused on the morale of the enemy civil population and in particular the industrial workers.“ - Die Area Bombing Directive (General Directive No.5 (S.46368/D.C.A.S); „Anweisung zum Flächenbombardement“) wurde während des Zweiten Weltkrieges am 14. Februar 1942 vom britischen Luftfahrtministerium herausgegeben. (Wiki)

[@friedrichii3390]

Two completly different points, which have exactly no relation to each other !

[@stanlehmann4523]

From phantasy movies and series the carachters always remind us about “danger of changing history “ if by machine you could back in times - however send intelligent team before world war 1 (www2 in this case can be prevented) how many lives and culture could be possibly saved and could be one of the greatest “do” in human history and the evil never happened….. humans are horrible

[@davidf.4886]

and now it is one of the most asocial and criminal cities in Europe :(

[@rosshart9514]

It's about Frankfurt, not Berlin...

[@davidf.4886]

@@rosshart9514 Hauptbahnhof & Bahnhofstraße, have a look.

[@OpusDogi]

It's a great channel to be sure, but I can't look at it without being filled with a sense of shame and disgust. IMO there was no excuse for the area/carpet bombing to which Germany was subjected. Let's be clear, that bombing was not restricted to military or even industrial targets; it included purely residential targets and was also called "de-housing" It was designed to flatten whole cities, in line with the misbegotten theories of General Giulio Douhet, who theorized that "terrorizing" (his words) the populace would end the war. Even by the standards at the time, terrorizing civilians was a war crime. A city that is in the line of an army's advance or the occupation of which is the goal of a campaign, must inevitably suffer damage. Such was the case with Stalingrad and Berlin. Since the capturing of Berlin was the very end goal of the war, its destruction cannot be viewed as unnecessary. Likewise the damage done to Aachen during the American advance on that city. But indiscriminate aerial destruction is another matter. What is worst of all, is that so much major damage was done in the very months when it was clear that Germany had lost the war. The flattening of Dresden, Leipzig, Köln and other cultural gems did not save a single Allied soldier. It was done solely out of collective hate and raw revenge. It was a crime against human patrimony. Maybe in 500 years it will be called out for what it was.

[@bettynowill6472]

My husband died in 2001, but I can assure you he did not deserve to be a witness to the horrible deaths of his grandparents in the blitz, but he was on one terrible night. He watched as the family business that had begun in the year 1700 burned to the ground. He was a 3-year-old child who endured over 9 months of bombs and fires, he was terrorized and did not understand why. He also lost family members in the fiery destruction of Coventry in 1940. More than the beautiful old cities of Germany suffered "de-housing." A 3-year-old boy did not hate and didn't know what the word revenge meant.

[@ВячеславСологуб-х8в]

Война- зло!!! Гитлеру надо было хорошо подумать, прежде чем начинать войну...

[@AK-hi7mg]

I think this is what he wanted in the end. It was never about winning for Hitler. Just do as much damage in as short time as possible..

[@ВячеславСологуб-х8в]

@@AK-hi7mg Если речь не идёт о победе, то зачем он напал на Россию? Защищался из Польши? А фильм очень красивый, прекрасная архитектура 👍👍👍