Wuppertal Schwebebahn 1902 & 2015 side by side video

When I found these two videos:
• [60 fps] The Flying Tr... filmed in 1902
• Generation 15 - Führer... recorded in 2015
I realized it might be possible to line them up side by side to get an impression of what have changed after 113 years.
The left video is left intact and I tried to line up the corresponding scenes in the right one by cutting and manipulating framerates. The duplicated frames in the right video are also present in the original and makes it a bit jerky.
I made this just for fun and did not aim for a 100% match but it is still possible to see how buildings etc. have changed over time.

[@ityaboykris]

The fact that they had this in 1902.

[@Railhog2102]

That's mindblowing.

[@IdoN_Tlikethis]

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

[@ityaboykris]

@@IdoN_Tlikethis wow

[@colinstu]

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

[@pomi1298]

i didnt even know they had this nowadays

[@StreetCarma]

I‘ll take 1902, thanks.

[@DavidHaTzadik]

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

[@pipchen1975]

The 1902 view is prettier :)

[@gambacherkalbenstein]

me - a german - too

[@KnorpelDelux]

Until you have to go to the dentist :D

[@DMTHOTH]

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.

[@Danucd]

Dynamic range of 1902 camera is twice better than in 2020 :)))

[@user-tk6yx3hb2w]

the left is very much edited

[@Stassu]

It's right! Dynamic range is really wider!

[@Stassu]

@@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.

[@keff_cb]

I was gonna say the same

[@xibokamania]

Yeah looks like a Christopher Nolan's movie

[@timrohrbach1801]

Before: Trees on the road. No trees on the river. Now: No trees on the road. Trees on the river.

[@MrMisterMaster]

They ran away and hid from the cars

[@neilacero6761]

MrMisterMaster that or the cars pushed them away

[@latvianminecrafter8040]

The soil is poisoned

[@buddyclem7328]

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

[@deenad3562]

Best part about today's version.🏞

[@saarbrooklynrider2277]

the two worst things that happened to the city: ww2 and the car

[@JairoAgama777]

AMEN !.

[@crystl5775]

as always

[@gambacherkalbenstein]

we are still paying...

[@oberstoffer]

just wanted to write the same :-)

[@neonskyline1]

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

[@MagnusVonBenz]

How beautiful it was in 1902: no cars, trees, beautiful buildings

[@larylary5709]

even chickens were in the streets.

[@ghostlyme]

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

[@AsiaMinor12]

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

[@chickennugget6654]

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

[@huhummmmmmm]

@@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.

[@horrorAk]

am feeling sad by looking at this

[@montyi8]

Why? You should be amazed

[@slimcharles1479]

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

[@SirNikurasu]

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

[@montyi8]

@@SirNikurasu it's actually more dirty in 1902

[@montyi8]

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

[@trueblue37]

Old looks like a dream. The cleanliness and the architecture is outstanding.

[@user-xi4nz3be1x]

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.

[@cherrygum3800]

@@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

[@smith2354]

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

[@SonnyGFX]

@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

[@SonnyGFX]

@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?

[@hundekuchenmitcola]

Could you imagine that all the old buildings you see from 2:55 to 3:10 survived the war? They were torn down in the 50s/60s to make room for a 4-lane road intersection in order to build a 'car friendly' city center. what a shame...

[@totaleNonale]

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

[@eiffe]

When the 1902 film camera still has better dynamic range than modern technology...

[@gabrielfair724]

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

[@vladimirchudyk995]

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

[@Harrock]

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

[@acmenipponair]

@@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.

[@iannickCZ]

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

[@3UZFE]

Gosh the older era had so much more style and vibrancy. New era looks like a cheap and tacky mess.

[@Critical_Hit]

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

[@TalycAden]

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

[@derauditor5748]

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

[@acmenipponair]

@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.

[@n1k398]

@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?

[@CRZ_PL]

modern architecture is so depressing i don't understand what happened, why can we not make these gorgeous detailed buildings anymore :((

[@robertagregory7177]

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

[@rixille]

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.

[@StarOnCheek]

Money happened

[@pizzaiskalt.2193]

its true.

[@LukasZ_77]

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

[@LOL-gn5oh]

Left: Nice aesthetics, cool atmosphere, breathtaking scenery. Right: Bad remaster, don't buy.

[@tchernobay]

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.

[@CrazyLeiFeng]

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

[@LPMagazin]

@@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.

[@acmenipponair]

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.

[@safe-keeper1042]

Also, horses ^^,.

[@Pokenopoly]

Lovely. 1902 architecture much preferred to The stone block we see today.

[@henner645]

WW2 happend.

[@Pokenopoly]

@@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.

[@Chillstreamer]

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

[@IntyMichael]

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.

[@svenjal9696]

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

[@blackevan88]

This is so upsetting. The scenery, the architectures, the nature were absolutely breathtaking. We have transformed our beautiful European cities into a modern, boring, tastless, awful mass of tarmac and concrete. This video makes me feel so sad. 🥺

[@ramimehyar481]

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

[@brandonfreeman4375]

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

[@christianpirmayr5595]

Quite a lot of that did WW2.

[@karlheven8328]

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

[@concretejungle9182]

...the more humans there are.

[@Darkk6969]

You matched the old and new very well. I've spent some time going through the old and new videos to see what's been changed. Sadly most of the buildings in 1902 along the tram line no longer exist today as it was damaged in WWII.

[@TheMacValk]

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 !

[@mclovinpo]

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

[@rkan2]

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

[@MTobias]

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

[@MrJolte]

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

[@Ahmed-N]

German architecture used to look so distinct. It's a shame that such character has since been erased and is only brought to life in time capsules such as this, such a loss.

[@jumpnrun3368]

So true.

[@Hans2241]

thanks the bombs in the world wars :/

[@lisamarieschnee]

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

[@djsilversun]

@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

[@sam-45632]

Kar33m22 LK well we shouldn’t have started one

[@HD-fc4ds]

1902 every building built with class and taste. 2015 cement walls with windows....

[@lockergr]

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

[@TheKing-wf9es]

Wuppertal got massively bombed in World War 2

[@Astr0_Feline]

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

[@Elr2000]

Just imagine how a citizen of this town would react when you show him her the 2015 footage

[@natsu1666]

I live there

[@lbennhtx6072]

Spinning in their graves.

[@meagronLP]

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

[@Elr2000]

@@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

[@middler5]

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

[@DenisShiryaev]

Amazing comparison, thanks for uploading :)

[@bnmannn]

Where the trees? In 1902 city looks human-friendly, match better than now!

[@HiCZoK]

It's crazy. Only the railway is still there. Most buildings are gone

[@alexandermiller5425]

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

[@philipp66176]

Joseph Mama two

[@saulgoodmansentme1992]

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

[@philipp66176]

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

[@rednovember2205]

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

[@kanister21]

No cars, no street signs, no commercial advertising signs, no plastic built things, cities back then were so much more beautiful

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Just people living in the moment.

[@Styrbjiorn]

Zachary Rollick they do be vibin doe

[@joejoematic8206]

Truth

[@deeznoots6241]

We can still get rid of cars, just saying

[@voncarstein812]

Typical comment

[@Naelt147]

Old cities look better all around the world, makes you wonder what the hell todays architects are doing. Nice video, thanks for the upload.

[@marthamelchers]

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

[@jesusistheonlygodamen3406]

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

[@solinvictus39]

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

[@igegan1]

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.

[@jesusistheonlygodamen3406]

@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.

[@Eza_yuta]

1:15 The saddest part of the video you can no longer see this majestic view.

[@BronzeBart]

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

[@nickderschlitzermacgurk1008]

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 :))

[@keptins]

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

[@Stevesk0011]

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

[@perschistence2651]

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

[@jonjessen]

A few generations of city planners should be ashamed of their work...

[@jonjessen]

@Atheist Nihilist Communist I like your name

[@jonjessen]

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

[@TheDemoncaller]

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

[@swevixeh]

Executed for their works*

[@jakartagamer6188]

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

[@ManfredGorgus]

Atemberaubende Architektur im alten Wuppertal. Straßen ohne Blechverschmutzung. Bemerkenswert.

[@FelixO]

It really is sad to see how destroyed german cities have become. Mostly due to ww2. THose older houses just have such an amzing atmosphere compared to how it looks now

[@Gr95dc]

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

[@Petra44YT]

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

[@antoniodespuches3995]

GraceDcastle so true...

[@McKlatka]

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

[@pol1315]

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

[@BabyScatha]

The old city has style. The new one is pretty ugly. But great comparison :)

[@WendyLopezGazquez]

We lost so much beautiful architecture.

[@roby9555]

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

[@pizzaiskalt.2193]

So true. All destroy in ww2.

[@WendyLopezGazquez]

@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.

[@WendyLopezGazquez]

@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?

[@weaponofmassconstruction1940]

@@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!

[@danielstenzel8683]

Als Wuppertaler muss man sich echt eine Träne verkneifen, es sah früher alles so viel schöner aus.

[@marcfuchs6938]

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.

[@christiank.8637]

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...

[@reinharddecker4650]

Und zum Ruhrgebiet zählt Wuppertal auch nicht...

[@johanliebert4574]

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

[@starstencahl8985]

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

[@robertYoutub]

Modern Architecture is a poor primitive demonstration that people can live in houses that look like bunkers and military fortification.

[@EzraMerr]

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

[@robertYoutub]

@@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.

[@F0nkyNinja]

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.

[@heinzguderian628]

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)

[@TimSlee1]

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

[@Shagyamum]

Looked better in 1902

[@pietvandercruyssen7420]

One thing is painfully clear: architecture (the buildings) has gone dramatically backwards. Not just in Wuppertal but everywhere. Other than that, I like the Schwebebahn. I took it to work as an exchange student from Canada. I liked Wuppertal in general.

[@kronk4355]

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

[@MrJolte]

@@kronk4355 But only on Saturday and Sunday

[@eoghanley]

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

[@chadkingoffuckmountain970]

@@bucket_seal ow the edge

[@pietvandercruyssen7420]

@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.

[@ChristianTheodorus909]

1902 is much nicer than now. Now is plain and boring..

[@PillsBuryDoughBoy_]

WW2 happened

[@Azizz1]

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

[@cplcabs]

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

[@cplcabs]

@Magic Man in the Sky Hitler

[@cplcabs]

@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.

[@marioardma2778]

1902??? How do you achieve such a feat? I never imagined that a train like this existed 120 years ago. Germany had been living the future for more than a century. My country needs over a hundred years to reach the Germans!

[@MaSa-bp5qe]

In all honesty, 1902 looks wayyy better. Seriously, not even close. Love the natural scenery and the green fields in the distance.

[@rodmunch69]

Its colorized, those fields weren't actually green.

[@MaSa-bp5qe]

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

[@SuperFinGuy]

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

[@idot3331]

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.

[@MaSa-bp5qe]

@George Washington Thanks George.

[@gutsyjasmin4592]

God, I live in this city and I so wish I could visit the old version for a couple of days. I know there were A LOT of terrible things going on back then, but it just looked so beautiful and tranquil. The people in this comment section are right: today's version is a mess! I wish I could experience what it looked like before two world wars, the age of the car and VERY bad mismanagement ruined everything.

[@vomm]

Bad mismanagement? In opposite to good mismanagement?

[@jnnakle101]

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

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Same in Liverpool, 🇬🇧.

[@Styrbjiorn]

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

[@Benjy52]

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

[@jiraph52]

My god, the buildings were so beautiful.

[@eohq]

The cameraman risked his life hanging in front of this train and you leave dislikes, smh.

[@knmaherijayatp8181]

lmao

[@juliepahl3821]

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.

[@PillsBuryDoughBoy_]

@@juliepahl3821 normie

[@eohq]

Julie Pahl wooosh

[@catwoman07076]

In 1902, they were hand-cranking the camera!

[@MichaelCasey1988]

You matched it very well considering the new trams run faster

[@svenjal9696]

Not anymore lmao

[@z00h]

@@svenjal9696 why?

[@svenjal9696]

@@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

[@z00h]

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

[@goyohan5176]

@@z00h The company goes by the name Kiepe Electric

[@HappyTrader420]

Damals war Wuppertal ja sogar noch richtig schön 👍

[@lqr824]

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

[@peterlustig6888]

I hate what WW 2 did to germany

[@thelongs2782]

I hate what germany did in WW2

[@peterlustig6888]

@@thelongs2782 Which was a result from the anti german policy of basically all major european powers since the first modern german state was founded in 1871

[@kevlon_]

@@thelongs2782 So do the germans.

[@krashd]

@@peterlustig6888 You can't blame the other European powers for the white supremacist urges of your forebearers.

[@thelongs2782]

@@peterlustig6888 That is bulls**t and the rest of the world knows it. It seems to me that no one took the time to teach you the meaning of accountability. That era cost Germany (and the world) millions of valuable human beings, and Deutschland got what they were owed.

[@freagle123]

2:48 1902 the Buildings on the right side...a Dream. Than i look to 2015 and my Heart is bleeding...

[@NexosKTR]

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

[@kelvinsurname7051]

@@NexosKTR that is no reason to destroy art.

[@paedapedda6397]

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

[@BelastetGD]

Yeah cuz of WW2 or WW1

[@rodmunch69]

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

[@Einstein52]

That is a wonderful idea to place the two videos side by side, and the realization in your production is really well done. 👍👍👍 Thank you very much. The planners and constructors of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn at about the year 1900 have built an extraordinary technical masterpiece of public transport, using the streets and the river Wupper for the line route. 👍👍👍

[@MrFaktenFaktenFakten]

My city looked so beautiful back then 😭

[@zagyex]

yes.

[@pol1315]

at least it wasnt obliterated like warsaw

[@MrFaktenFaktenFakten]

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

[@MrFaktenFaktenFakten]

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

[@kinas88]

the city looks nicer in 1902 than in 2015

[@Game_Hero]

looks nicer, but was it nicer?

[@avus-kw2f213]

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

[@Game_Hero]

@@avus-kw2f213 look mom, a reichsburger!

[@JustForCute]

The fact that they come up to this "Hanging Train" idea when there was no traffic in 1902. One of Hanging train's purpose is to minimize street congestion and traffic. They were literally living in the future.

[@smartbaba1321]

From green and beautiful to concrete jungle.

[@sanick4864]

Lmao

[@TheSighphiguy]

all those grand olde buildings replaced by soulless glass cubes. no wonder all the younger folks just stare at their phones all the time. there isnt anything worth looking at.

[@dailydoseofsunshine2319]

Ok boomer

[@erdbeerchan]

@@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?

[@kingofracism]

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

[@sentientarugula2884]

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

[@Imaxxd22]

@@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.

[@shinjunkang74]

It's so amazing the sky train is still working over 100 years!

[@Henry14arsenal2007]

This thing looked so much more surreal in 1902.

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername]

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

[@admontblanc]

@@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?

[@JMdJ2001]

This is the closest Steampunk thing we'll ever see.

[@andreasu.3546]

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

[@Unanuma]

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

[@andreasu.3546]

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

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

@@andreasu.3546 Made my day! :D

[@ManuelBTC21]

2:40 On the right. Old: Nice apartment houses. New: Parking garage and an underpass. Pretty much sums it up.

[@cyphrent298]

I didn't expect to get depressed over a video like this, but here we are...

[@rodmunch69]

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

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

It's the depressing music

[@kawabatayukio1906]

There is no beauty in the modern world

[@joutakujo9773]

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

[@beaglemanzzz]

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

[@TimSlee1]

A fellow doomer? I'm with you there.

[@HollowGTX]

Atleast there is no slavery today

[@kawabatayukio1906]

Hollow 81 well there is

[@om3g4z3r0]

Isn't it odd that everywhere in the world is losing identity and becoming visually like another usa city? I don't like this one bit.

[@mcs7352]

Hope its not like that in the us , i live in Wuppertal and i want to get the hell away from there after i finish school i wanna go to the us.

[@TheDrunkMunk]

@@mcs7352 It's much, much worse in the US. Try to take some pride in your homeland and improve it

[@johnfeagins9685]

Oh jeez, nobody in America told the Europeans what their buildings should look like, they did that themselves.

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

@@TheDrunkMunk No, it's much, much worse in Germany and it will only worsen.

[@TheDrunkMunk]

@@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277 wrong

[@dayarode3685]

Back then when Europe was Europe

Its certainly NOT Europe anymore...it Europanistan.

[@dunebasher1971]

@ Oh look, a racist in a YT comment. That's unusual.

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

@@dunebasher1971 What's racist about identifying the real indigenous europeans Living their lives recorded compared to multicultural shit pleasure we have now

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

@@dunebasher1971 oh look, a libtard virtue signaler.

[@tempestosfugi9846]

dunebasher1971 I don’t think that this comment is racist. He probably tried to say that Europe lost a lot of its architecture and soul because of the war and crazy modernist architects and urban planners that destroyed many buildings and replaced it with uglier architecture

[@Twist_UAP]

Let's be honest 1902 looks way cooler

[@yeahrightbear8883]

The old one is so fantastical looking compared to the new.

[@CrazyDragon1992]

Also ich muss sagen, die Sicht aus 2015 gefällt mir überhaupt nicht. Viel zu vollgestopft. Ich finde, die Sicht aus 1902 hat was. Gefällt mir mehr ;-)

[@101stWebster]

achte mal bei 2:34, wie wunderschön es war, Häuser mit verzierungen, Denkmal, und heute, kotz

[@svenjal9696]

Lieber wie 2015 als momentan nur am Wochenende

[@thevoiceofeurope504]

da hat @Pavelow100 schon recht @DragoniaGames. Nach dem Krieg musste auch schnell wieder vieles wiederaufgebaut werden; eine andere Architektur wäre da deutlich teurer geworden. Und man darf auch nicht vergessen, die Architektur der Jahrhundertwende war auch Symbol des Kaiserreichs und damit diskreditiert. Und zum Thema vollgestopft: Cars....

[@CosmicCleric]

"I'll take 'Translation' for $100 Alex." :p

[@Stellaluna88]

Cosmic Cleric They're all commenting about how beautiful the 1902 version was compared to the present time.

[@bowlchamps37]

Just imagine this time when Gavrilo Princip was 8 years old and Hitler was 13. How life would be now if those two remained unknown people in history.

[@meagronLP]

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

[@meagronLP]

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?

[@thevoiceofeurope504]

@@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

[@Njordin2010]

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.

[@thevoiceofeurope504]

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

[@thanos8948]

These bridges survived from German Empire to Modern Day Germany...Impressive !!

[@rixille]

One of them is different at time 2:00

[@dr94279]

One of the biggest tragedies of the last 100 years is the destruction of all the beautiful buildings in wwii

[@luckyhunter5291]

70% percent of the German cities were destroyed in WW2

[@akita2973]

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

[@luckyhunter5291]

@@akita2973 thats also a Point

[@WideGauge]

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

[@luckyhunter5291]

@@WideGauge yeah the old pictures Look so much better

[@Chronomatrix]

Sometimes I wonder, are we really moving forward?

[@Gnarrkhaz]

Yes, in almost everything except architecture.

[@wanderer1385]

The Beauty and the Beast.

[@clabar9571]

Sehr gut zusammengeschnitten 👍 Was für ein Vergleich...

[@theletsplayer9503]

The world looked kinda cooler back in the day. Literally and figuratively

[@adamk4775]

Life 100 years ago just looks so chill Especially without all those cars around

[@mentallyderanged888]

Modern architecture killed european cityscapes.

[@jonasebel8509]

1902: aesthetic architecture 2015: much more trees but ugly buildings

[@ChechiDLR]

Basically 1902 had actual views and beautiful scenery.

[@lqr824]

This train blocks a huge number of views itself. Every window you see, every person on the ground, used to have a view of the sky and the surrounding area that is totally ruined.

[@timatola9997]

As someone who lives in this city I can only say how sad I am that it got a lot uglier there... Junge das sieht einfach richtig pennerhaft aus Btw I didn't even know that the Schwebebahn is also known outside of germany

[@daz9275]

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

[@bowlchamps37]

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.

[@peterlustig6888]

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

[@ricardlupus]

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.

[@DJ-Sellout]

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.

[@andreasblohm9173]

In 1902 Elberfeld and Barmen were among the richest cities in Europe. A prolonged economic decline followed.

[@YoungOne48]

Cars really did ruin everything.

[@rogerwilco2]

It's sad to see how many trees are missing, and how many beautiful monumental buildings have been destroyed.

[@BlauerBooo]

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

[@lqr824]

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.

[@LythaWausW]

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

[@androgaming416]

Früher gab es mehr Platz, mehr Freiraum, man kannte jeden um die Ecke usw. Und jetzt, alles beengt, kaum Platz, der Nachbar kennt sein gegenüber nicht usw... Früher war es noch Leben und heute ist alles Zombifiziert und eingeschlossen

[@newnik]

it's sad that we live so little. in our short life, we hardly have time to enjoy our life. I would like people to live 150-200 years on average.

[@SneedFeedAndSeed]

Soul vs Soulless

[@El_Presidente_5337]

2:19 They just despawned the asset

[@pianoforest5815]

Why am I feeling sad about it?? Im not German but I wish it could go back to what it was supposed to be. Such a peaceful place it's like in my dream. I feel sad because some good old times we will never chase them and get them back to us

[@carlomoretti89]

The Film from 1902 is better in quality than 2015 :D

[@phil3114]

For all those wondering about the picture qualities, the original vintage recording to the left was enhanced by modern computer algorithms and AI.

[@skinnymax]

ty

[@Tadfafty]

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

[@phil3114]

@@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.

[@Tadfafty]

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

[@phil3114]

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

[@Mattisttam]

The fact they had this in 1902 is incredible.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

For some reason this makes me feel very melancholy. It really brings home that I am no different than those figures running about their lives now long forgotten to time. How few happy summers we have and how it all seems to speed up the older I get. Especially as I've been alone for months now. I literally haven't spoken to anyone since March when we first locked down. I nearly died from COVID alone and had no one to speak to when I left hospital and arrived home. It's been very difficult.

[@Lolwutfordawin]

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

[@gretetimm]

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

[@jennifercarter6788]

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.

[@CosmicCleric]

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

[@amiqai]

Stay strong, man. Good times will come.

[@lazyeejay]

I'd love today's technology with yesterday's vision and creativity. Imagine beautifully intricate buildings designed with passion containing all the best tech the modern era has. A world where you could admire and be grateful to be alive. Today's buildings are designed to be quick to build at minimal cost. No artistry, no detail, no flair.

[@Infinite_Jester]

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.

[@scienceium5233]

@Juulius Caesar then why do you go to the doctor

[@justin.booth.]

@@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.

[@Infinite_Jester]

@@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.

[@deanekendall545]

Where did the old world find all that steel?

[@IdoN_Tlikethis]

Wow, I think suspension railways still look a bit futuristic so seeing it in 1902 makes it look like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie

[@atomsmurf]

An overexposed, washed out, cell phone video isn't really a match

[@vomm]

Cell phones make better videos than this 1990 first prototype webcam

[@theimperialkerbalunion7568]

@@vomm um no not really? That 1902 was shot on film, which basically has no upper limit to the resolution, just really depends on the quality of the lens and size of film. So the 1902 footage is arguably better. You can see theres a larger amount of dynamic range in the 1902 shot

[@theimperialkerbalunion7568]

@@vomm if the one of the right was shot on todays highend film cameras or digital cameras, it could easily beat the 1902 footage. Cellphone cameras are designed for convienience but are definitely not the best by far

[@WideGauge]

Someone needs to re-shoot the modern footage with a DSLR. Find a lens that matches the old one. Then apply a filter to give the footage a sepia-tinged old-fashioned look.

[@theimperialkerbalunion7568]

@@WideGauge agreed

[@edelweiss-]

1902: *clean streets* 2015: *dirty streets*

[@sebw3964]

Oh man all this old beautiful buildings are just gone and today crowded with ugly boring Bunkers

[@predattak]

At 0:08, the building from the left that has the corner entrance is still there today. Glad they didn't replaced it with modern glass nonsense ones but consolidated and renovated it. :)

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Even the restored old footage looks better-exposed. The modern camera probably didn't want to deal with how ugly the modern route is... Oh dear... xD

[@turkishpunisher6386]

For me,its just emotional. Dont you see everyone is mortal? Why the hate? Why disrespect? Why cant we all work together, to discover the universe for example? We in Turkey say 'It is a three- day world', means life is very short. I hope for a better world, but it seems pretty difficult

[@MrGigi-dz9cv]

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

[@ionut-cristianratoi7692]

@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.

[@Kijinn]

@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.

[@mott41261]

When I saw the updated AI processed film I was amazed and started looking for newer versions (I found one from the 1960s and another from the 2000s) to compare but got sidetracked with work... thank you, it's a great job you did... it's a fascinating peek on how life changes in 100 years plus.

[@franzm4945]

For the first few minutes I was like: Oh wow maybe Wuppertal was’t damaged as much during WW2. Then starting at 2:12 ... Oh.

[@peterfreeman6677]

As I said in another post, 40% of Wuppertal was destroyed by bombing, much of it in the firestorms that engulfed parts of the city in 1943 after air raids using incendiary bombs. Thousands of the city's inhabitants died. Much of the centre of the city suffered only relatively minor damage. The discrepancy is mostly down to the city being a linear development, between high granite banks on both sides of the river.

[@raydai9541]

1902 actually looked way better, although I would definitely miss the technology of today in 1902.

[@LythaWausW]

I appreciate not having to go outside to pee like the people who first lived in my home (1870). I thank God that when I turn on my sink or shower, hot, drinkable water comes out. How many people in 2023 don't have that luxury? *sigh*

[@nothere6991]

Its sad that the Allies bomb every single city and dense town in Germany. Majority of destruction of these cities and towns were around 90%. Alot of these places had no military value too. Wiki has a listing of bombardment percentage if you want to check it out. But yea, Germany had so many beautiful towns....

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

I just have to recommend Thomas Goodrich book "Hellstorm", it changes peoples lives. There is also a documentary made by the same name, but I highly recommend people to read the book.

[@Pitcairn2]

@MrPauljerry Im a Brit and I concur.

[@robertagregory7177]

Yes, I visited from the US and had been told how many historic buildings had been destroyed, and of course the heartbreaking loss of life and the enormous task of rebuilding. 🙁

[@mmmdesignllc]

All the German cities have a “rubble hill” . Where they piled up all the rubble from the bombings.

[@alkyd85]

"It's sad that Germans started WWII that caused every single city and dense town in Germany to be bombed." Here fixed it for you.

[@_Encie]

This is a testiment to bad modern architecture.

[@ArchitekturTV]

Fantastic video! Great comparsion! 😊👍☘️ Es fällt auf das die Städte früher für Menschen gebaut wurden und heute für Autos. Früher ging man über Boulevards an der Wupper spazieren. Heute steht man dort im Stau und Atmet den Dreck der Autos ein. Früher war in der Architektur auch der Mensch und das schöne der Maßstab, heute einzig und allein der Profit. Das muss sich alles ändern, sofort!!

[@acmenipponair]

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.

[@acmenipponair]

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.

[@RacTac]

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

[@off_Planet]

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