This town was badly destroyed in the last days of the second world war by French troups. The rebuilding was characterised by discussions between mainly two factions, rebuilding more in the traditional style and the more modernist planners who wanted to take the demands of modern traffic etc. into account. They found a compromise leaning more toward the traditional, it went relatively fast (sometimes dubbed as the “miracle of Freudenstadt” and the citizens had a monument build with this woman on top looking toward a future while still trying to retain contact with the past, symbolising the revival of Freudenstadt.
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A BIG story so succinctly told. The tension between old (traditional) and the new continues to concern us.
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True. But some towns after wwII were tabula rasa and it could have gone either way. Darmstadt was so completely destroyed in one night and hardly any of the old buildings survived or were rebuild. Frankfurt on the other hand or Nürnberg managed to recreate the centre to a large extent as it was.
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I remember the tourist guide in Berlin pointing out bullet holes in the old buildings. I m sure a lot of beautiful architecture was destroyed.
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The allieds tried to leave out really important and beautiful buildings in some cities (e.g. the Cologne cathedral) but with some cities they were quite relentless (Nürnberg, for example, because it was such a central point of Nazi ideology).
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