Ruined buildings and their replacements in Europe

[Karasek]

Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, Germany. This was the first Grand Hotel of Berlin. It was located opposite the Reich Chancellery:




Today:

[ainttelling]

Originally Posted by Karasek

Kaiserpalast in Dresden, Germany:

Aw, that's a pity. Even though it kinda looks like a pile of vomit, but still.

[norbert91]

the kronenberg palace


the saski palace





warsaw

[Master Roshi]

The old cityhall in Eindhoven:





And the current structures

[skysurfer26]

This hurts sooooo much...all those beautiful gems lost...but maybe not forever...we hope one day all the stupidity that our politics and so called arquitects now a days will be gone and washed for ever...and new generations will reconstruct and build in historic style thats way much beautiful, warm and cozy that all this modern crap from the 60, 70...lets hope so !!!!

[missioneiro]

YOU just destroied my week but I think that nothing can be comparable to Brazilian Neoclassic Rio de Janeiro... EVERYTHING HAS BEEN LOST TO BIG BOXES, I MEAN ALL BUILDINGS, AMAZING BUILDINGS DESTROIED...

Well... nothing more to say... bad bad Monday

[Karasek]

Another one from Dresden, Germany. The Zentraltheater was a neo-baroque monstrosity. Not exactly pretty or precious, but sad nevertheless since almost none of these over the top buildings was preserved:



Today:

[ReiAyanami]

This is actually an improvement, for a change.

[*****]

Kursalon lipik

Before 1991

older photos




newer photo but bad quality




today

[Index_LT]

Great synagogue of Vilnius. Only slightly damaged by nazis.



Completely destroyed vy soviets and replaced with ugly kindergarten.

[Norkey]

The worst replacement ever?

Historical royal town of Pons/Brüx/Most, North Bohemia (1238-1982)
before:





after:

[Tiaren]

Originally Posted by norbert91

Originally Posted by norbert91

and now...

warsaw again

Sure these are the same buildings? Both, the theatres and churches, seem to have very little in comon! Size, style and groundplan changed almost completely.

[*****]

OMG but look here
Zadar
before ww2
http://nmz.hr/images/galerija/zbirka...-Riva-1912.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7965/03km8.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/659/04ky5.jpg


same place today

http://www.croatia-expert.com/wp-con...Zadar-riva.JPG

[ainttelling]

Kristallnacht saw the destruction in a single night of more than a thousand Synagogues, the ransacking of tens of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes, and more than 200,000 Jewish people were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. It marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people who could trace their ancestry in Germany to Roman times, and served as a prelude for the Holocaust that was to follow.



http://www.ashkenazhouse.org/

[Tiaren]

Originally Posted by ainttelling

Kristallnacht saw the destruction in a single night of more than a thousand Synagogues, the ransacking of tens of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes, and more than 200,000 Jewish people were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. It marked the beginning of the systematic eradication of a people who could trace their ancestry in Germany to Roman times, and served as a prelude for the Holocaust that was to follow.

http://www.ashkenazhouse.org/

You are kind of obsessed with Nazi Germany, are you?

Just for the record:
image hosted on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithmaguire/1028909292/

This beautiful synagogue of Berlin was completely destroyed by Allied bombings, not by Kristallnacht!
And the Synagogue in my homecity Trier was as well.

[Karasek]

Paulinerkirche Leipzig, the church of the university, was destroyed by the Commies in 1968:




The new structure preserves the shape of the old church:

[Rascian]

King Alexander bridge ( also known as Zemunski bridge) in Belgrade, was sacrificed by Serbian army in 1941 to delay the entrance of the German army in the city.











the new bridge on the same place



at least the original base decorated in serbo-byzantian style survived

[norbert91]

Originally Posted by Tiaren

Sure these are the same buildings? Both, the theatres and churches, seem to have very little in comon! Size, style and groundplan changed almost completely.

yes I'm sure. that's the sad true of war and years of comunism...

[Unknownsoldier]

years of kapitalism destoyed as least as much as communism did, especially in the 60's. 70's and 80's. In western countries people thought as well that the new and the modern could replace all those buildings people truely loved. In the town I grew up, the town hall has been replaced twice since the 1980's, my old school disappeared, as did a few old churches, a windmill has been replaced, the shopping center has been renovated a million times and new squares, streets and buildings were constructed that now remain empty or serve as the backside of another (and yet newer) aim to create a new Utopia. The only reason all this happened is the money that could be made by constucting no matter what on the spot the old buildings stood. In communism it is at least someone to blame for, in kapitalism no-one (or everybody) is responsible for the loss of all this.

[beren_me]

Originally Posted by Rascian

King Alexander bridge ( also known as Zemunski bridge) in Belgrade, was sacrificed by Serbian army in 1941 to delay the entrance of the German army in the city.

Off-topic:What is that big structure seen in the distance, in photo no. 3?Also, do you happen to have more color photgraphs of interwar Yugoslavia, besides picture no.4?Thx