Dresden, Germany??

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rosbif

Hoyerswerda (about an hour north-east of Dresden) is a very interesting place. It was a model town under communism; once the major sources of employment closed after German unification the town lost over 40% of it's population in just over a decade. Even having lost over 30000 inhabitants, unemployment is still over 25%...
Dresden was pretty much bombed flat in March 1945, so most of the classical architecture has either been recreated or disappeared entirely. It's probably the most successful of the former East-German cities since unification, it's done even better economically than East Berlin. Check the link below (if you can read German) for all sorts of facts and stats on any city in Germany.

million$gon

it was one of the major blanket-bombing targets in Germany, kind of like Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan although with massive quantities of conventional bombs instead of nuclear bombs...
Aside from that, there is history of that town and a town close to it named Meissen that produced ultra-fine quality porcelain tea cups and tea pots / coffee decanters and very fine porcelain figurines...some of the finest quality ones in the world from technology learned and imported from China.

Also, there was a very high quality artist from Dresden during the middle-ages, named Albrecht Durer, who made some photo-quality sketches of hands (one of the most difficult things for artists to do especially back then), and high resolution drawings of rabbits plants and other things...Albrecht Durer travelled to Venice and drew the skyline of the town with meticulous detail and architectural accuracy for every little and big building in sight that it was virtually like a photo of a mediaevel town unlike anyone else ever did produce before, and perhaps even since.

sunshine & summertime

i would go with what "rosbif" said, but I would like to add that Dresden was not bombed during WWII because of its factories, it has very few, if any. It was simply bombed, and many refugee's, most of who were fleeing from the Russians and thought they were safe, were killed. It is a beautiful city and while it has recovered, most of the pre-war architecture is gone.

paia423

There's too much to list. Hate to do this, but you need to go to wikipedia, just because there is so much info. This city probably had the most beautiful architecture in Germany at what point, and then it all got blown up in WWII.

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