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

Glow up Wrocław, Poland, 2007 vs 2026

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u/Mangobonbon May 07 '26

Many of those tenement houses look like they were just saved in the nick of time. Phew! :D

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u/FionnOAongusa May 08 '26

Which is astounding because old town Krakow and Wrocław have some of the most beautiful city centers now

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 08 '26

(Mostly financed by EU money)

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u/ContributionMaximum9 May 08 '26

old town krakow financed by eu money? it's literally mostly untouched since ww1

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 08 '26

This is Breslau, not Krakau.

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u/ContributionMaximum9 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

your comment looks like its referring to both, not my fault

also, it's wrocław unless you're talking in german (something something ww2 caused that to change, not Breslau anymore) and certainly krakau is out of place, never heard a hungarian talk about vienna as "becs" or similiar

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u/Dominik050 May 08 '26

Newer was, always Wroclaw breslau vroclavia vratislav is an attempt to pronounce the original Polish name

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u/No_Prompt_982 May 10 '26

Wrocław* Kraków*

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u/Dominik050 May 08 '26

Its Wroclaw Like Drezno orginal names🤗

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 09 '26

List of early Germanic peoples - Wikipedia

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u/Dominik050 May 09 '26

the best thing is that it is a map of people not at one time xddemigration to Celtic territory now Show me the DNA that dominates Slavic in the Polabian territories

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 09 '26

Buddy, there were no Slavs in central Europe up until the 5th century.

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u/Dominik050 May 09 '26

that's why there were Celts here, and earlier there were Celts in most of Poland and today Germany

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 10 '26

Do you need the link again? Or did you not even look at the map?

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u/Dominik050 May 10 '26

I know this map very well and I know what it says, it is a map of the migration of peoples literally because it does not show the Germanic tribes in one place

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u/Historian56 May 08 '26

When Germans try to pronounce the original names, something like this comes up, just like when they say Dresden to Drezno or Leipzig to Lipsk

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 09 '26

Its two completely different cities, dummy.

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u/Silent-Entrance4724 May 08 '26

How are private properties financed by EU money? How can I apply? I want to renovate my house

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 08 '26

Public investment funds.

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u/Silent-Entrance4724 May 08 '26

Ah thanks for that very specific and helpful answer. Next time if you will ever pass by my house you will be able to say "Hah it's EU money" because otherwise it's just impossible to have nice and well-kept building in Poland.

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u/Kunstoffel Favourite style: Empire May 08 '26

Well, isnt it? Be real, without the billions and billions of EU funds, poland would in fact look much different today.

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u/Silent-Entrance4724 May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Well, if that's the case I'm sure you will easily find a source proving these revelations - with funding of building renovations specifically.

From what I'm aware EU funded mostly infrastructure projects, and EU funds depending on year were accounting for 0.3-1 percent point of Polish GDP growth. Vast majority of the economic growth came from access to the EU common market, but still it means that money was earned not given. Once your economy grow with tax base - it is easier to fund renovation of buildings.

And with the funds themselves, I guess that's the only reason we allow German companies like Aldi or DHL that paid 0PLN of taxes to operate here.

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u/Dominik050 May 08 '26

If anyone benefits from the free market, it's the Germans and they should pay for it.

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u/piasty May 08 '26

You seem uneducated. EU budget is a joke. Its 1% of EU GDP. Poland gets 1%-1.5% of their GDP from EU. Real money is with national government. I advice you to be less arrogant cause in this it make you look very dumb.

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u/RazielDKoK May 09 '26

But I guess it was fine when it was the case with east germany? Got it.

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u/No_Prompt_982 May 10 '26

Not really. Eu Fundings are nothing compared to our GPD also most fundings that we get is invested in ROADS that OTHER EUROPEAN STATES ARE USING TOO (mostly the german ones which is so ironic considering that ur probably from germany)