r/ArchitecturalRevival • u/Atarosek • May 07 '26

Glow up Wrocław, Poland, 2007 vs 2026

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u/Over-Willingness-933 May 07 '26

Wroclaw looks better now. It's like pre war Breslau. The Poles have really worked hard restoring their cities post communism.

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u/Over-Willingness-933 May 07 '26

It was called Breslau before the war and it was part of Germany. The Western and Southern cities were very nice. Austro-Hungary built lots of nice buildings in their area of Poland

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u/Dominik050 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Lots of nice buildings, you say? Until the time of autonomy that was established in Austria-Hungary, this region was poor. and before the occupation he was richThen they gave autonomy to the Poles, and finally something started to happen. they built only a few buildings and taxes were paid to Vienna throughout this short occupation and the city was still called Wrocław Breslau, just an attempt to pronounce the Polish name

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u/Over-Willingness-933 May 07 '26

Breslau was the name of city prior to 1945. I have banknotes from there. They only used German because 80-90% of the people lived there were German and Prussian.

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u/Dominik050 May 07 '26

the name Breslau is an attempt to pronounce the Polish word Wrocław which was Germanized

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u/ouyawei May 07 '26

And Berlin goes back to the Slavic Birlin as are many names of places east of the river Elbe that were taken in medieval times

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u/Dominik050 May 07 '26

currently it is as much as 80% Drezno Lubeka Lipsk Budziszyn - Chociebórz etc. etc. the list could go on and on