the china, like his promised partner's rich in europe. there's a sharp warning you want wherever accepts money from, the new superpower will be dependent on in china as gateways. europe starts july, 1st on d, w. ah, ah, ah, me. i'm in darmstadt in the german state of hazard. we're about 30 kilometers south of frankfort. some stuff is not really a classic tourist destination in germany, but there is plenty to see around here. like this building designed by the austrian

architect freedom shown that vasa or the state theater at the time of its inaugural ration in 1972. it was the most expensive theater built in postwar germany. but really i'm here for this. the downstairs artist colony. it was founded at the end of the 19th century in the neighbourhood called my children. the basic idea was to unite art and everyday life. now over a 100 years after it was built, it has a pretty good shot of becoming a world heritage site. i will also check out lores abbey, which is already a world heritage site. then we'll take a trip back in time all the way to the middle ages and ever heard of horace bathing. i'll give it a try. ah oh,

oh. my student who is dom shuts premier site and the place where local like to get together. there's a pretty odd mix of styles here, the wedding tower, and you can feel, then comes a rush and chapel and in between a large exhibition building being renovated at the moment. the russian church was not actually part of the artist colony, even though it was billed at roughly the same time as the surrounding buildings. the complex includes a number of imposing houses. it was home to the artist colony until the start of the 1st world war. i meet with philip, good ports, the director of the my children who are institute i'm fair to say you have the nicest office in the city. which idea take started the artist colony and stuck with

me. yes. and what i was a grand duke who succeeded to the title at age 23. and he had this modern vision of supporting the arts was stimulating the economy and what he hoped to attract artist to dom start it would come up with new product designs for the regions manufacturers that would make his economy flourish of the config, dunker guts and were there any personalities that turned out to be especially influential in the artist colonies academy? yes, got guns, but there were 2 especially prominence names. one was yoseph maria abra, viennese architect who built most of the buildings in the tilton who. ok, so it was one of the most important architects here was pay to barons who was originally a painter and ended up being one of the foremost architects of the 20th century. i should just think to bow host directors were his students and i found the ro involved group this and la, caboose year was under the pupil of peter, baroness, obviously of us. you know,

he was self taught and built his 1st house here 2 years and he was pretty known to the public future in. so we're hoping for world heritage application to successfully to make this history more well known how things are going to be contacted by another special aspect was that my children who it was open to the public wasn't it comes can i list because in exactly everything you see here was part of 4 major construction exhibitions and they were open to everyone that's very important. and as one people could walk into the architects houses, they could see which cars albrecht drunk from which curtains and musical instruments he had for hang on to that he was complimented. he this, i'm each object was created for each house and could be purchased here. huffman here, the state one that was very modern for the time in the also this idea of combining support for the economy with support for the onset of thought with could to a said works meant to be sold. the companies were meant to receive orders, films, everything could be viewed at the exhibitions, and then also giving them the former workshop designed by all day, is today

a museum. the exhibition shows everyday objects fashioned by the artists in residence. i'm gonna put that one here for chairs designed by members of the dom, start artists, colony. you want. we want to show that they were working together here in one place . peter wanted to hear you see one by pet barons, a chair from his dining room and we see curved lines, but it's overall very simple and functional. and this is why the frame has a certain touch of practicality that they find really fascinating. these can spun in this to decide, as you see, a piece by petri scuba, a very young designer who worked here, got to touch the 19 or 20 when he came here from water designed these teachers. this time i went for outside field and that was the restaurants church. the last you can tell, but the back the end of easy to push back and forth between and him having an early example of form follows function. i just, you know, it wasn't just

a matter of artists to trying things out here and then the pieces were meant to be functional and inexpensive to produce. which helps the companies bring in lots of orders and films a few in offering for the wonderful double doors from pe to barons house in house. and there you see the same ornamentation that shows up this armchair. the often in vested answers in this, remind me of the film, metropolis true system. architects and artists designed all kinds of objects. even gadgets, cutlery. they build the basis for the interdisciplinary approach that would make the bow house world famous. and here we have peter barron very time dining room his invoice. everything was designed by peter barons and then manufactured by various companies and factories that but it could all be purchased as a complete work of art because i'm concerned. this is also how it was displayed in

berlin. very time, department store in 1000, no 2, oscar state, which is quite remarkable. and modern, it is not for the me with the i'm not leaving without climbing up the wedding tower. and the entry way is already stunning. inquisitor from here we see the kiss, my feet extend. clicking was designed especially for the for a of the wedding tower of the tower was a gift from the city of dom start to the ground duke and salute this to wing. the beings come from brett, over by richard wagner on the land for smith. it was published as a book here, matilda who had been produced in a spectacular way. only that we're

now at the top of the wedding tower and i'm still not entirely sure why it's called that. because he's at this time, it was a prison from dumpster underground to get something big married for the 2nd time in 19 o. 5 and the city thought about what they could give to the grand duke. the 1st idea was a precious, just for jewels lunatic found out, he told them he would love to have an observation tower. ultima tilden has been assigned to this tower and for the 1st time in the history of architecture, there was a row when the run around the corner to see it as the tower offers an amazing view of dom shots and to the north. you can even see the frankfurt skyline, and it keeps living up to its name. doesn't that weddings take place here, which fits nicely with the towers name when people come from all over the world. and there's a wedding every half hour. so married couples are turned out,

this is an assembly line discipline for the monitoring the 1st owners legacy. so we will find out whether the colony will get the prestigious title or not should it be world heritage. it will become one of several illustrious architectural sites here in germany award at that distinction. each one of them very unique and groundbreaking in their own way. through germany, both the total of $46.00 unesco world heritage sites. many on the architecture of the 20th century. among the most famous of the bow school buildings by architect group use in dest out. they were built from 1925 to 926. and unesco listed them as well. heritage site in 1996,

along with many other buildings from the bow. sarah, the movement started at about how school environment it's found to cope use taught there as well. me the signature bout how style influenced many areas of art today. many furniture pieces from the period are considered icons in modern designs. o unesco, also added berlin, so called horseshoe estate from the 1922. it's weld heritage list in 2008 designed bipolar count among others. it's today seen as a milestone in modern urban housing. this is one of the houses swiss french

architect called was year designed for stood god's vice and office state. it was built in 1927 and add it to you. next goes world heritage list in 2016 the 20th century architecture. as we know it would have been unthinkable without matilda. here it was the 1st step into modernity that includes the villas of matilda, which were completed in 19 o one. the. the doctor's house is one of many buildings here designed by architect your old place is also where a team is working on the bid to make my children who adopt a unit school world heritage site. it's a goal, almost 10 years in the making art historian look at who can help the

team and where would you put the artists colony and germany's cultural history, younger sister? i know visually i hit the architectural terms. this was the cornerstone of the development of modernism. i wanted to pick on what you might call it a gateway and toward a story gateway opened in the early 20th century. here matilda, however indulged at with all the constitutes modernism in the progressive sense inside it. and that's vital to know does for in the house, for example, wouldn't have been conceivable in this form without matilda. and who forms or miss 1st about darmstadt, may or to convince cassidy can win the title. now why deserve to become a world heritage city? the but to whom happy matilda who artists the universal design for reform to is and they didn't create buildings on that. his garden art,

exhibition art and interior design were only designed to bounce off and on the spirit of the place syria radiates. far beyond darmstadt. by the answer, that's why it's become a world heritage site. and with the not far from darmstadt, we find a property that has already gained unesco world heritage status. laura sh. abby built around the year 800. it was one of the biggest monastery in the kingdom of the franks. the close a lot lower. shabby is the world heritage site. i know you might be biased, but one makes this place so special. complex focus on the so can enter. this is

what's called the gatehouse king's hall by the sea. we don't even know what function was building had, but it's the only carolinian era structure in europe preserved so completely. and it's a very special structure on because it displays a cultural facade, ball background. and also that's unusual because normally you find the declaration inside the building different, for example, in churches they are painted with frescoes. that's especially impressive, was some of the books here. it's the facade and scholarship style it and roman masonry technique was used here. we see continuity between the ancient world and the carolinian era. that makes this building especially precious and art history. and especially attractive to our visitors. because it simply will not reveal its function. as to him is close to the house and the king's home. the name is a bit controversial and you yourself can't give it

a definitive name. how come you didn't because they didn't come to miss that. we can spend down a name calling because the function isn't clear. we also have to consider the possibility that in the current engine era and building like this may have served more than one purpose. like it might have been a conference room or a courtroom with the other to help the king down from his subtle when he visited the abbey, him before the ceremony and workplace were ceremonial. greetings were staged schools schools. last was a royal or imperial abbey. so there are many different possibilities to consider. the court. the decor inside doesn't offer any clues, either the 1st, because they're so neutral that you can't produce any particular function from them . the gatehouse isn't frightened because this wasn't the obvious case and the king's home is problematic. because it's suggested the king used it in a way. we've never heard of

it. of course, that makes it hard to explain why this is a world heritage site company. we no longer have a monastic town and tucked here, so it's close to the monastery. disappeared in the 17th century. it's so now the idea is to show where the building stood without reconstructing them on which one could do with stones or cars or something. but my daughter, misleading. the idea is this. think of a velvet cushion and a jewelry display case, there's a t error and at some point the t r is sold, so it disappears with. so all you have left is a circular imprint in discussion. broken isn't. so you don't know exactly what the t r a looks like. what it was made of shopping bobby this and he continued. there's also, mike, why is we don't know how tall these buildings where we don't know if they were grand, or if they had lots of windows that were built. but we have the imprint on the

ground. and this is the and this, and you can see the layout of this complex is like the velvet cushion. there's an impression that the footprint in the sand was up to and from the also part of the world heritage site is love with the reconstruction of a carolyn gee and manner. if you want to go to the left abilene to the right. so i want to go to the right and left a link. that was very counter intuitive. ok, why not? let me, let's give it a go plowing like 1200 years ago. why didn't adventure? david, the bong have to slower with these. and then they are quite quick. oh,

we go, how think were the fields back then? so i could feel like this could be about a kilometer long as i'm slow, slow down volume. this isn't that you're a bit better at this than i am. i have to admit the loudest assigned for investigating agricultural techniques and the life of the carolyn james. scientists work here, but are happy to show visitors around kinds. this is an open air lab, not a museum. what's it about the about the complete complicated title would be some experimental archaeological open air laboratory. there is, i'm carol engine manner laws. i'm a thank goodness people just say, let's say we want to show what a man looks like 1200 years ago of his home because he went to show we're not a museum and that's the research site and fashioned arts. and we want to explore everything from the daily customers in the sense of old craft to the finer

lifestyle of the upper class of that time. and for me, on the open air lab, loudest time opened in 2014 the scientist here, mostly work with universities and museums. and i do have a historical model. today's the song, i think challenge for these many evil houses is that often we can only reconstruct the parts where pillars one stood, the floors and everything else are not there anymore. you have to imagine a lot of stuff now and then the wall might be preserved. but sometimes there isn't archaeological evidence. bunch of thing i have to ask ourselves again and again, how would i saw this 12 and refuses to be her stuff? well, here's one possibility for such a

chair, looks incredibly modern. it's reconstructed according to early, many findings. me, this is amazing. me me? yes, another place to check out not far from dom that is the backs class. so by geo park is truly remarkable. an avalanche of rocks that stretches half a kilometer up the mountain with just a 2nd spectacular spot to climb. one could think it was put here by humans, but you know about the real origins. don't you know?

my current one could think that you had to, oh, in fact the local population imagined a giant laid it all down instead of here. but of course, the real story is more exciting. when this formed about 340000000 years ago, for deep down in the earth, about 10 kilometers. and in the course of the earth history, it made its way up and today were sitting on top those rock quarter system. but he also using his diamond isn't in isn't t o part. it's not a nature reserve. i'm not a national park. what exactly is geo park? could you break it down for me? cause i'm not, i, can you parks, but do you park still primarily with earth systems. how does our planet work from sciences or how does it influence our landscape us? how can we make use of it for regional planning? the space, the phone. but you could say we've merged a best of both worlds into a g nature per by combining the g park topics with the nature park topics. so

environmental protection is seen in the context of our geological legacy. so, so that's something very special. when does this for us? persona isn't high, you're also part of the worldwide unesco network. is that only perks or does it come with commitments? well, what's the died of these is pretty cost gets to be in the title is not awarded permanently . you know, it has to be renewed every 4 years so that when this school unesco looks at the progress we've made and that means we can't keep doing the same old same old house . and so we have to keep developing and be creative side. i'll stay in the forest a little longer because i'm in for a very special experience in the united to breathe deeply. you know,

right down to your feet. there's been like, close your eyes if you can because once your sense of site has blocked out, your senses of hearing, smell and touch are far more open on the test to feel often. now you sheila legs and our belly and our back how and i had what's called claudia actually is a volunteer park ranger. she introduces me to something called forest bathing, a tradition that started in japan. the idea is to consciously seek relaxation in nature by taking in my surroundings with all my senses. all right, i'll take you that you have time to get to know your tree. so i knew can

you give me different tasks? one of them feeling a tree with my eyes closed and then finding it again sports club, mccain. i figured it out when i was come me that won't give me definitely started that way. i think really good. it had been happy. i remember feeling ranch mon, so i'll say the word that one to

me use comes a more relaxing assignment. ok. simply let your so float. like i said, ok. all right. doesn't time to fly when you're having fun. that's our show already. i think my trip here really proved once again that it's always worth it to veer off the beaten path. and

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