Deutschland von Oben
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Germany is covered by a network of cities. In addition to the ten major cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen, there are hundreds of small and medium-sized cities.
85 percent of Germans living in these cities, towns and villages.
The second season of "Germany from above" looks from the air on Germany's cities and draws from them the most unusual perspectives, and some secrets. About the trip with the only German Zeppelin: A mission of the Research Center Jülich measures of air pollutants from ships and their distribution in the atmosphere. If the air is via Frankfurt and Ludwigshafen actually worse than in the Black Forest and Freiburg?
From the air, identified the aerial archaeologist Klaus Leidorf the buried remains of the oldest city in Germany. The Upper Bavarian Manching, near Ingolstadt, was the metropolis of the Celts. Up to 10 ° 000 people lived here during the Iron Age - more than any other city north of the Alps. Klaus Leidorf can show up today part of the seven-kilometer-long city walls of ancient Manching. Even in the Iron Age, the towns starting point of wealth and culture. But why the old disappeared oppidum of Manching, which later took on the Romans for centuries from the scene?
Almost all major German cities have been created in Roman times or in the High Middle Ages and were able to defend their position over the centuries. Roman-ups such as Cologne or Mainz grew into its current plan of the Roman garrison along roads. Cities such as Bamberg and Münster were more than 1,000 years important bishoprics. Port cities such as Bremen, Hamburg and Duisburg on the Rhine fought over the centuries by their traffic access to the sea and stood constantly on ever larger ships. In the Ruhr, the former steel giant Dortmund and Essen to the de-industrialization of newly invented and become magnets for young people.
Why do we remain for centuries in the same places, although the old pull of the cities do not understand it? When is a place for the abandoned gold mining town, as once Manching? From a bird's eye view you can see, for example, are buried in places where the dead. Like no other city is the metropolis of Cologne seen from above their city of the dead.
The most radical upheaval in German cities caused by the bombing. Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne and Dortmund, Nuremberg and Stuttgart were razed to the ground 1943-1945. After that decision had to citizens and city officials how much they build up again - or whether they would be in the same city almost a modern city are made new. Nuremberg and Münster built parts of its medieval old town to - in a simplified form, but with success.
Other German cities, a total planned on the drawing board and built from the ground: Planned cities like Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Baden and Freudenstadt baufreudigen of kings, artificial cities like Wolfsburg or Eisenhüttenstadt of the two German dictatorships. The growth of large cities today, the squares are planning to see. The modes and aberrations of the city planning can be seen from the air everywhere and feel sometimes. In Berlin for instance can be different from the air heat zones of different urban areas to measure accurately. Because of the heat blocks of buildings in the summer, some districts of five degrees more than other districts.
The World Heritage Site of Bamberg, which is on its seven hills, as the German Rome and Bremen, which is classified as the most English city in Germany and towns researchers as the "most livable city in Germany" are, however, not only of the amount considered a delight. The symmetry of chance and moderate building rules is obviously what we today on the image of our cities particularly fascinating. A visit to the medieval times in our purged Nordlingen in Swabia, once a free imperial city, it seems like time travel.
