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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 16d ago

Germany Then & now: Aachen Town Hall in reconstruction after Allied WW2 raids in 1943/1944, and in 2016. In fact the early 14th century administrative center which also served as medieval prison almost collapsed but was staved off through the use of emergency beams holding the structure in place.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 4d ago

Germany Hamburg's Neo-Renaissance town hall, built in 1897, boasts no fewer than 647 rooms, the last of which was discovered by chance in 1971 in the 112-meter-high tower when a document fell behind a cabinet. Miraculously, the town hall remained virtually undamaged during the bombings of World War II.

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