Hello Mahlon,
I just want to add something. In Germany nearly every town (also Frankfurt)
and even village nowadays has a old district (often called "Altstadt")
which was developed at some time after the war. But there are differences
between the old western Federal Republic and the situation in the former
DDR. In the west, there was not enough money in the fifties to restore the
destroyed cities and many old things were completely destroyed and replaced
by cheap new buildings. An exception of this trend was for example the
"Prinzipal Markt" of Muenster. In the sixties there was more money, but
then it was chic to replace old areas through new complexes, which were
then often expensive built, more radically. After this happened, from the
end of the seventies on, there changed this trend and the cities tried to
recover the old districts. In the former DDR there was never enough money
after the war even to destroy old buildings and so you can find many towns
and villages with really old districts. There was also less destruction by
the war at all. This districts are in part still in very poor condition,
but where is money (e.g. capitals of the countries) there are some inner
cities which look amazing. An example for this is Erfurt, the capital of
Thuringia, which has also a very unique huge hill with two great churches
side by side in the city.
Matthias
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