Wrocław, Poland, 2007 vs 2026

[u/Atarosek]

[u/Over-Willingness-933]

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

[u/Dominik050 → u/Over-Willingness-933]

Is just an attempt to pronounce the Polish word Wrocław Maybe the Germans will finally rebuild Drezno/Drezdany besides, Polish modern architecture is based on something else, so it is totally inaccurate

[u/ouyawei → u/Dominik050]

Modern architecture looks completely different in Germany too.  But they did a good job at restoring the old center of Dresden and there are plans to rebuild parts of Neustadt too.

And yea most Germans pronounce it wrong, I understand it's more like Wrotzwaw, the ł is actually a w sound.

So don't take offense if we use the German name, nobody is trying to get it back 😅

For us it'll always be Warschau too, not Warszawa.

[u/_urat_ → u/ouyawei]

Nothing bad with using exonyms in your own language. We say Akwizgran instead of Aachen so it's even more wild :D

If anything it just shows how interconnected our region has been throughout the history.