During the nearly forty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) thousands of these pre-fab Plattenbau apartment buildings were built all over the country.
These buildings have not aged gracefully, for the most part, and some have been torn down, but others are now being modernized and successfully marketed.
Updated Jan 3, 2006
Glad to see they haven't removed the bust of Karl Marx from the square in front of the theater.
Updated Jan 3, 2006
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Glad to see they haven't removed the bust of Karl Marx from the square in front of the theater.
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My first visit to Dessau was in March 1994, in the fourth year of German reunification. The streets were deserted and dimly lit after sundown. Lots of people were still driving their old Trabbis and...
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While heading to Woerlitz coming from Leipzig it seemed a good idea to visit the BauHaus site in Dessau. BauHaus is probably the most known design school name all over the world; founded in Weimar in...
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