Stil hier?

When I lived here in 1995, this is what most of Weimar looked like: decrepit, grayish-brown buildings, not much different than the rest of eastern Germany.


Few had been renovated, and some still showed damage from WWII. East Germany still felt like a different country. Take a closer look, though (or just click on the picture below), and you can start to see the decorative elements embedded in the crud.




Weimar was named European Cultural Capital for 1999 while I was still here, and money started coming in. Now many (if not most) buildings look like this, which is the building to the left of the one above:




Hitler's favorite town is still in the shadow of Buchenwald, but at least it's all prettied up now.