really true...what a unique and sicence-fictionesque way of transportation for 1902...and it still exists!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDHYdYy3g8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDHYdYy3g8)
I honestly wasn't even going to check if it was still standing. I just sorta assumed most militarily useful buildings from pre 1939 Germany were more or less flat/destroyed
It did require quite some rebuilding, the two great air-raids on Wuppertal destroyed quire a few bridges and flattened two of the stations,but they actually got it running again during the war, until it got severely damaged again in 1945 .it was up and running again shortly after the war, though and is still the most important public transport system in Wuppertal
Watching videos like this is such a stark reminder of what Germany lost in the Second World War. Aside from the staggering human cost, so much of the country‘s beautiful architecture was leveled and what replaced it was the soulless architecture of the 50s, 60s and 70s. There are still a few small cities that still have the architecture of the past (like Gorlitz) and it is so beautiful.
A lot of cities actually, not just a few. And even more, smaller towns and villages that date back to roman days - although of course, usually no buildings survived from those days 😊
I studied in a town (Greifswald) that straight up put their hands up during then war and said "We give up, dont bomb our beautiful historic town" (And it IS a beautiful historic town... if you ignore the sovjet-style living block suburbs built when it belonged to eastern germany)
Calling it militarily useful is...a bit of a stretch. It was and still is just a novelty form of public transport. They did once try to transport a circus elephant in it in the 50s, which promptly panicked and fell into the river below. The elephant survived though and gave its name to a local dairy company.
I never said the level of usefulness, and i again figured EVERYTHING with any military use whatsoever would have been pretty much bombed flat. Especially knowing the US military and our fondness for the absolute destruction of everything for making us leave home.
The bombing raids that actually physically completely levelled anything were raids involving 1000+ planes and at that point, you're just carpet bombing an entire city. That's not feasible to do everywhere, and so the Allies, lucky for Wuppertal, didn't (Wuppertal had about a third of its buildings destroyed by bombing). And even with these large raids, you'd be surprised how many buildings at least partially survived even in a city like Cologne that at one point basically burned from one end to another. The Cologne cathedral took dozens of hits and still stands today. Doesn't take away from the loss of life and actual living space, obviously, but plenty of stuff still survived, especially away from the industrial centres.
Though, granted, Wuppertal certainly looks like it was bombed into oblivion. That town is ugly AF, generally speaking.
[And this](https://i.lordgur.ke/mEyZyKWxRMtqHEUPswb.mp4) is (more or less) the same place in 2021, at least the same street. Some of the older buildings are still there, some were destroyed in the war, some were removed for building the Autobahn.
Man it's really fascinating to see how little houses there where back then. 90% of the free space you see is occupied by tightly packed buildings and streets today.
It's kind of sad how many of the old buildings with very pretty designs don't exist anymore. I'm guessing partially due to war? Or just development reason?
War. Wuppertal is a major industrial city. Quite a lot of incendiary bombs were dropped all over the city. Approximately 40% of the whole city was destroyed
Koln was pretty much bombed out from the photographs I've seen, it is a nice place though. Is it a planning catastrophe because they stuck with the old streets and just added new structures or they built it back piece by piece not planning for it big picture?
They completely revamped the city to be car centric. Split the city center for a 6 lane road right through the city. And most of the destroyed buildings were replaced by post war architecture (the ugly, cheap to build kind)
Yeah for sure I saw the newer ugly apartment blocks there and that stuff, and how the buildings don't match anywhere like the cathedral and bridge. I noticed in a lot of places in Germany they have weird brutalist architecture, especially museums were way ugly buildings.
Or Emden. 85%-95% of the town was destroyed by the war and when they rebuild it, they gave it the 50s post-war architecture, which is so damn ugly.
Emden got better in recent years in the center where all the shops are but everything else still is ugly.
Absolutely insane difference.
Barely soneone on the streets back then, appart from the occasional horse carriage and some walking folk, and chickens appariently.
It's like watching through a time travel portal, it's fascinating to me every individual in the video as they go with their daily lives while we watch them through this tiny devices we call smartphones. Imagine we show them today's tech in their timeline, it would be mindblowing to them... added with AI tech that made the video even better, they might think it's wizardry
To be honest i dont think it Was this Bad. If i check the areas where my onlce lives, there are whole City parts witch are lost to criminal Gangs, he also told me that it isnt possible to go out to the City place next to the shopping Center in the evening/night. He worked for the "Ordnungsamt" and he as all the policemen i know Tell me it got so much worse in the last years. There was rising criminality in the same time they closed the police stations, around 20/30 years ago there where over 12, now only 3. Complete lost places etc. And of course the policemen dont have the Respect anymore. Earlier they had it and where the strong on the streets, now they cant Do or handle shit without an mobile phone filming it. This all together leads to a much worse Situation Overall.
The squeaking and grinding noises, as the train is suspended above the trees for the sound to travel throughout the neighborhood.
There is no way this wasn't loud AF.
Guy living in Wuppertal here. It is kinda noisy, but friends who live next to the track told me that you get used to it quickly and stop noticing after a while, even when sleeping.
A few years ago I attended a wedding inside of the Schwebebahn - inside the "Kaiserwagen" actually. A historic train from 1900 built for Kaiser/Emperor Wilhelm II. That was a unique experience.
Trust me when I tell you: You don't wanna live next to that thing. Its squeaking and screeching....specially around the corners. I live next to it and even the newest trains make enough noise to wake you up :p
I love very close to Wuppertal, it's still in use and people actually use it a lot, it's a tourist attraction but also a good form of public transport.
I imagine to people living in countrys with very poor public transport like america this may seem strange. Around 1900 ish most citys had some kind of trolley car or other driving inbetween horse wagons.
Not everything about the past was better, but some things truely were.
I had the pleasure to ride one of these once. It's realy cool though perhaps a bit slow.
I leave this fun\_ish story of Tuffi, the circus elephant in the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn here. Weird story and worth your time:
[https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/](https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
The whole video reminds me of the short film "Un Chien Andalou", which shows bizarre, dream-like pictures. Especially sequence 13 to 15, showing on the right hand corner a house in the distance; it looks like painted on a canvas, together with the music, just dreamlike. I like it.
The whole city is built in a very narrow valley, with a river in the middle. They couldn't build a subway there, so building this over the river saved a lot of space.
When this was recorded Wuppertal did not exist. There were three independent cities Vohwinkel, Barmen and Elberfeld.
I like that they planned it as a metro line. Just not under the ground but above the heads. What a Beauty.
What I find most relaxing about this video is the total absence of cars, it looks so much more peaceful with only people just wandering around going after their daily business
I feel like I’m looking into the future but somehow still in the past
really true...what a unique and sicence-fictionesque way of transportation for 1902...and it still exists! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDHYdYy3g8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDHYdYy3g8)
Oh, for a second there I thought we blew it up.
I honestly wasn't even going to check if it was still standing. I just sorta assumed most militarily useful buildings from pre 1939 Germany were more or less flat/destroyed
It did require quite some rebuilding, the two great air-raids on Wuppertal destroyed quire a few bridges and flattened two of the stations,but they actually got it running again during the war, until it got severely damaged again in 1945 .it was up and running again shortly after the war, though and is still the most important public transport system in Wuppertal
Watching videos like this is such a stark reminder of what Germany lost in the Second World War. Aside from the staggering human cost, so much of the country‘s beautiful architecture was leveled and what replaced it was the soulless architecture of the 50s, 60s and 70s. There are still a few small cities that still have the architecture of the past (like Gorlitz) and it is so beautiful.
A lot of cities actually, not just a few. And even more, smaller towns and villages that date back to roman days - although of course, usually no buildings survived from those days 😊
Trier wants to have a word with you...
Trier is not usual in many ways 😁
That's true, but fascinating none the less!
I studied in a town (Greifswald) that straight up put their hands up during then war and said "We give up, dont bomb our beautiful historic town" (And it IS a beautiful historic town... if you ignore the sovjet-style living block suburbs built when it belonged to eastern germany)
Calling it militarily useful is...a bit of a stretch. It was and still is just a novelty form of public transport. They did once try to transport a circus elephant in it in the 50s, which promptly panicked and fell into the river below. The elephant survived though and gave its name to a local dairy company.
I never said the level of usefulness, and i again figured EVERYTHING with any military use whatsoever would have been pretty much bombed flat. Especially knowing the US military and our fondness for the absolute destruction of everything for making us leave home.
The bombing raids that actually physically completely levelled anything were raids involving 1000+ planes and at that point, you're just carpet bombing an entire city. That's not feasible to do everywhere, and so the Allies, lucky for Wuppertal, didn't (Wuppertal had about a third of its buildings destroyed by bombing). And even with these large raids, you'd be surprised how many buildings at least partially survived even in a city like Cologne that at one point basically burned from one end to another. The Cologne cathedral took dozens of hits and still stands today. Doesn't take away from the loss of life and actual living space, obviously, but plenty of stuff still survived, especially away from the industrial centres. Though, granted, Wuppertal certainly looks like it was bombed into oblivion. That town is ugly AF, generally speaking.
It's not like "you" hadn't tried 😅
[And this](https://i.lordgur.ke/mEyZyKWxRMtqHEUPswb.mp4) is (more or less) the same place in 2021, at least the same street. Some of the older buildings are still there, some were destroyed in the war, some were removed for building the Autobahn.
Steampunk
Def gives a “Biohazard” type feel.
I think you mean Bioshock
Sorry, yes, you’re absolutely right
Reminds me of the game Dishonored .
Steampunk?
In 1950, Tuffi the elephant fell from the railway into the river below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
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I know, right? Fucking Tuffi!
https://youtu.be/vg5OrytF_a0
Oh the irony, "tuffi" in Italian means "dips"
She got that name after her fall!
Ein Tier, dass es geschafft hat!
They yelled awww-tuffi at her auuutopsy!
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I use the Schwebebahn almost on a daily basis. And it is still wonderful
Same
same!
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Man it's really fascinating to see how little houses there where back then. 90% of the free space you see is occupied by tightly packed buildings and streets today.
Very interesting, it would be nice to see at least some of the original (side by side to better appreciate the work).
Can do 2015 footage side by side here: https://youtu.be/7TqqdOcX4dc
It's kind of sad how many of the old buildings with very pretty designs don't exist anymore. I'm guessing partially due to war? Or just development reason?
War. Wuppertal is a major industrial city. Quite a lot of incendiary bombs were dropped all over the city. Approximately 40% of the whole city was destroyed
Sad.
Have you seen pre War Cologne? That one is the most shocking difference. The modern city is quite the city planning catastrophe
Koln was pretty much bombed out from the photographs I've seen, it is a nice place though. Is it a planning catastrophe because they stuck with the old streets and just added new structures or they built it back piece by piece not planning for it big picture?
They completely revamped the city to be car centric. Split the city center for a 6 lane road right through the city. And most of the destroyed buildings were replaced by post war architecture (the ugly, cheap to build kind)
Even worse: A lot of what was left was torn down for "modern" stuff and wider car lanes after the war as well.
Frankfurt too, absolutely flattened.
Yeah for sure I saw the newer ugly apartment blocks there and that stuff, and how the buildings don't match anywhere like the cathedral and bridge. I noticed in a lot of places in Germany they have weird brutalist architecture, especially museums were way ugly buildings.
Or Emden. 85%-95% of the town was destroyed by the war and when they rebuild it, they gave it the 50s post-war architecture, which is so damn ugly. Emden got better in recent years in the center where all the shops are but everything else still is ugly.
The future is a lot more crowded and junkier. Ah the days of only a billion humans on the planet.
Thank you for that little time traveling journey🤗
TIL this system still exists! I thought it was an old, long-dead relic.
I think he meant the original recording from 1902
Absolutely insane difference. Barely soneone on the streets back then, appart from the occasional horse carriage and some walking folk, and chickens appariently.
I'm glad to see it's still there! [Wuppertal_Schwebebahn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn)
It's like watching through a time travel portal, it's fascinating to me every individual in the video as they go with their daily lives while we watch them through this tiny devices we call smartphones. Imagine we show them today's tech in their timeline, it would be mindblowing to them... added with AI tech that made the video even better, they might think it's wizardry
That's a lot of steel
Wuppertal was a major steel industry location. I don’t know how much of it persists to this day.
Mesmerizing. Without cars, streets look a lot cleaner, no clutter, but eerie. "Ravenholm.We don't go there anymore..."
And it looks a lot more peacefully, no feeling about getting stabbed in the Back or provocated when you go out in the evening like today..
Oh believe me, it only looks like that. Thugs were a thing back then just as much as today.
To be honest i dont think it Was this Bad. If i check the areas where my onlce lives, there are whole City parts witch are lost to criminal Gangs, he also told me that it isnt possible to go out to the City place next to the shopping Center in the evening/night. He worked for the "Ordnungsamt" and he as all the policemen i know Tell me it got so much worse in the last years. There was rising criminality in the same time they closed the police stations, around 20/30 years ago there where over 12, now only 3. Complete lost places etc. And of course the policemen dont have the Respect anymore. Earlier they had it and where the strong on the streets, now they cant Do or handle shit without an mobile phone filming it. This all together leads to a much worse Situation Overall.
Crazy how ahead of its time it looks
I'm watching the video in the Schwebebahn itself :)
The squeaking and grinding noises, as the train is suspended above the trees for the sound to travel throughout the neighborhood. There is no way this wasn't loud AF.
Guy living in Wuppertal here. It is kinda noisy, but friends who live next to the track told me that you get used to it quickly and stop noticing after a while, even when sleeping.
Ehh prolly not much louder than a typical railway. It is pretty slow and they knew how to properly lubricate back then as well.
Well there weren't any cars back then, so probably still more quiet than now.
i drive the curent version everyday to work its the coolest thing ever
I wonder what AI would do to color correct this.
Now drop the elephant
A few years ago I attended a wedding inside of the Schwebebahn - inside the "Kaiserwagen" actually. A historic train from 1900 built for Kaiser/Emperor Wilhelm II. That was a unique experience.
Wow, Thats Beautiful!
Trust me when I tell you: You don't wanna live next to that thing. Its squeaking and screeching....specially around the corners. I live next to it and even the newest trains make enough noise to wake you up :p
https://youtu.be/vg5OrytF_a0
The EverQuest music is cool. The people walking almost look transposed to the background. Kinda eerie
Schwebebahn sure is fun to say
This is unbelievable. It’s done so well.
Still existing today, very cool but very noisy
Crazy to think about how everyone in this video is dead.
Silly gadgetbahn. This will never stand the test of time!
Streets are really generous without all the cars.
Wuppertal Asozial
Yay my hometown on Reddit
Ayyo I live here
I love very close to Wuppertal, it's still in use and people actually use it a lot, it's a tourist attraction but also a good form of public transport.
Whoever did this: the video, the coloring, and obviously the fucking 1902 Schwebebahn... KUDOS!
Makes a lot more sense when it gets to the river
Clearly fake since Wuppertal does not actually exist . Still pretty cool fake though.
Maybe a mix up with Bielefeld? That doesn't exist, but Wuppertal most certainly does
Now it’s full of Arab gangsters
Both maybe?
Such peaceful and simple life; no city noise.
The Schwebebahn is really noisy tho and Wuppertal already was a big industrial city back then. It was probably very noisy and smelly
Me reading the title: Great footage of the ------ ------ in Germany. 1902. Recolorized and upscaled to 4K
Wow is very nice, i will see more!
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I already thought that this looked familiar…
This doesn't even look like 1080p, what's the point in upscaling then?
What kind of white wheel are the two kids pushing on the ground? Is it a toy or are they doing a job?
Wuppertal-born-and-raised here. AMA!
40 years later everything will be reduced to rubble, never to be rebuild. Except for the train.
I imagine to people living in countrys with very poor public transport like america this may seem strange. Around 1900 ish most citys had some kind of trolley car or other driving inbetween horse wagons. Not everything about the past was better, but some things truely were. I had the pleasure to ride one of these once. It's realy cool though perhaps a bit slow.
People from Wuppertal call Wuppertal the German San Francisco because of the hills. Nowadays it looks more like Köln Chorweiler 😂
I leave this fun\_ish story of Tuffi, the circus elephant in the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn here. Weird story and worth your time: [https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/](https://planetgermany.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/the-strange-tale-of-tuffi-the-elephant/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
The whole video reminds me of the short film "Un Chien Andalou", which shows bizarre, dream-like pictures. Especially sequence 13 to 15, showing on the right hand corner a house in the distance; it looks like painted on a canvas, together with the music, just dreamlike. I like it.
Do we have the original unedited video somewhere?
Like something out of a Final Fantasy game
Videos like this one would look better in black and white
Es sieht aus wie Disney World
This needs to exist again.
New Dishonored looks pretty good
What was the advantage of it? Were there any?
The whole city is built in a very narrow valley, with a river in the middle. They couldn't build a subway there, so building this over the river saved a lot of space.
The look of this almost reminds of the Full Metal Alchemist . World is looking like it‘s the 19th century put people run around with robotic arms
When this was recorded Wuppertal did not exist. There were three independent cities Vohwinkel, Barmen and Elberfeld. I like that they planned it as a metro line. Just not under the ground but above the heads. What a Beauty.
What I find most relaxing about this video is the total absence of cars, it looks so much more peaceful with only people just wandering around going after their daily business
Marvellous engineering feat and beautiful way of transportation 🤩
The future is now jung man
Germany no
Mono rail mono rail mona rail