ah ah ah with food but at central station today i am in burke county, a region in the federal state of north ryan westphalia, that is shaped by its industrial history a 100 years ago. but i was dirty blout and crowded. it was the center of the textile industry and germany, a working class city. well, the city's no beauty at 1st sight. if you're planning

a city trip in germany, you probably think of munich, berlin, or hamburg. but potter, i don't think that many people are there know about the city, and to be honest, neither do i. so let's just discover papa thought together. ah, the city has something very special, a suspension railway. it has been the number one means of transport here for 120 years. the construction of the suspension railway has to do with industrialization. the traffic increased fast at that time. in order to relief the streets, people had to move in the air. the suspension railroad follows the river voip up and over the by a factory premises. some of the few companies that still exist here.

ah, for me, this is something very exciting, but a everyday life take over that tree. this is crazy . so close to the houses. and this is fit tiki lily worth. see that turning maneuver at the full vehicle terminus. there are 20 stops. each one is different. i like this one best. the fooling us cross, it looks like a small castle art level when it comes to architecture, but my thought is extremely diverse. there are so many cool places to discover old ones with tradition, but also some that are brought back to life with good ideas. ah, the vizier hope a former gas boiler gets the new interior utopia

city viewport. our residents are committed to the future of the city in a disused train station and loans than bridge germany's pious railway bridge. and the only one that you can climb on today. ah, the out, the hustler is the city guide and has promised me insights into the history of a baton and great views. here we start the vizier dorm, a decommissioned gas boiler that is used inside as an exhibition space with precisely composed projections, a great feeling of space here. one floor up, you'll find the skywalk with a $360.00 degree panoramic view. it was not until 1930 that the individual industrial places along the flippa merged into one city and they named

themselves after the river that connects them for battle. every author shall be out . i heard that for battle is rain whole. that's true, right? is it always like that? it is, as it was all i as a vip, it'll always gets a lot of rain here. the children are born with umbrellas and rubber boots, so i'm 1 may go miss different combos. though, why did the textile industry choose to set up shop here to visit young, visited the gun, and there's services due to the water of the look, the river and the plate you have the yawn. he had, which was already practiced here, back in the 16th century labs. the text on industry developed count of that. the bleaching required the sun and rain and whoop, a tad was the past a place for that size. oh, long playing toughness will my thought am for perfect. 150 years ago. vip auto group to one of the largest industrial sites in europe, in the 1970s automation and competition from low wage countries, led to the decline of the textile industry. scott,

it's i have as 0 as was in time. enhance unemployment was very high, him but the medium sized businesses here are very well connected. and afterwards they were able to create lots of jobs that then the university came along and it's boomed for the last 20 years. that is wound in and as the fancier the old factories and their chimney's still shape the cityscape today. yeah, and here's if i'm there, let's. this is one of the last remaining places where textiles were once produced. dana, i bet they made ribbon when he been down here, the stabs lehman everything still as it was fun, martha ah, the highlight there are still original looms on the 1st floor. it seems like a lost place to me. you can walk through history here and you can even touched it. ah asked if

the workers had just gone home. all the machines stopped thus far and as far allow, it was cram out loud and ha jeeps. don't the lose with steam driven. so it was an incredibly stressful place to work, grassy and tightened. yet for our boy, ah, the splendor and misery of the industrial revolution was experienced by this gentleman, 1st hand and foot. but i've freely hang is textile, entrepreneur, philosopher, revolutionary and leader of the labor movement. obviously twice a text here in germany and chinese instead of english. for instance, if you're, if that's a sign of saying call a 4th faculty keana, this statue is a gift from the people's republic of china. at ng as an author,

blanco's is of great importance to the chinese duties. communist ideas and com hook element. yet they come here in big groups to visit angle statues and take home a bit of this state's industrial culture. waco swore often ave made for. let's take a look at angles house in this house and found that i'll come on. lucas, you came by. the grandfather's house where it's grew up is now a museum. angus wrote the communist manifesto together with callmax. he's famous for that english found his 1st inspiration in the family's textile factory, which he later took over the english. i was a boss and entrepreneur himself and had many workers. how did he actually treat them? responded amazon kit that went out in the system, as i said, is new stella, that there are different views. so she suddenly wasn't the most progressive boston

guy that definitely weren't any found building exercises as we know them today as, as a hellish math. but what he did in his enterprises, without a doubt, was to abolish child labor, which was still common at the time. thus far in gawain care with all these outside the rich angles, families still lived in the immediate vicinity of their factories and workers. ah, it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the rich moved away from the dirt of the city up into the heads of baton. here they built their villas. ah ah for so the bottle is really is city full of contrast for

new york has got the highlight and booklets us has got the north bond graphs. it a former railway line across the city me at 22 kilometers. the not on top was the longest in a city train route. the people here fought for years to turn it into a bike path. now, the route is, there's or utopia city is right on the bike path. it is a citizen project, something like a test laboratory for urban change. you can rent containers here and try out ideas from coffee roasting chill urban gardening. people meet here and discuss what good life at the city of the future could look like. the center piece is the train station open workshops and event rooms are being built here. busy

it's another big construction site and he hasn't been here in the 1st class waiting room. it was the jewel of the entire station and will be once again. right now it's the construction site. the moment is boston, what i'm telling me is here. he knows what they're stuck behind. utopia city is designed to create possible space, physical ones like this room, but also idealized space of mental spaces for a long extremity of listen. who's came up with all that? that's going to offer that. does this good question? i was going who comes up with such an idea of lots of people from the creative and technical sectors of all about neighbors. in the next, i want to help me shape. the city starts oversize. we continue outside. there's 40000 square meters of playground, for ideas financed with loans, grants, and donations. it's from citizens for citizens of f. i 1st it looked like

a huge construction site. what's going on here yet? isn't both. now it's a bay construction site. you next summer, a big student competition will take place it into a free week. 18 buildings made by teams of students from 11 countries whilst idea form after they're gone and the ground has been leveled again. the containers will probably for come back. right now we're holding a competition seeking ideas for the development of this whole other than victim 5th of absolutely wrong can be made of it. you can think of is a hollow here. i will, it's about bringing up as much space as possible for experimental urban development . i have all the movies through experimenter stuff in the gloom, som, of that when i can i see something finished here of river looking at been m if it were up to me it had never be truly finished because experimental oven development needs development. be kil patel. is the city that has been reinventing itself since the decline of the textile industry. you could feel it here.

ah, this is exhausting. there over $500.00 stairs in football, thought more than in any other german city. each one has its own name. as some are designed by artist, like the hosting stairs. if the people are volva, when it leaves the city and see some nature, they can go to baggage his lunch or burke county. it lies at the gates of the city, and it's just half an hour away. ah, on weekends, not just the woods, toddlers, but also people from cologne and dusseldorf, head to the hills and forests of the bag ashes land. this region of north rind,

westphalia offers a wide variety of recreational activities. eats extensive forests are a great place to explore on height and even cyclists will also find well sign posted roots. but a hot air balloon ride, it's tough to top. the bare gushes, land is also rich in water. there are many small rivers like the ripper. the dune and vizier and countless reservoirs created to keep the annual floods in check. no other place in germany boasts as many man made lakes in summer. they are popular with water. sports enthusiasts. bag is german, 4 mounted, but the bag of sugar land. is it named for its hilly terrain?

the name comes from the counts of bag, who ruled this county for centuries. many castles and palaces here date from this period. now they provide the perfect destination for relaxing weekend getaways. ah oh, do i dare to go up there? ah, the munson bridge spans the flippa river near zoning and it is the highest railway bridge in germany, 107 meters high. the crazy thing is you can climb up 777 steps. lead up along the gigantic arch of the bridge. i want to try to go up there to 1st there are felts walkie talkies. who do you copy? yeah. and the security check leads. good, else,

perfect. done. the stuff i month i work with. here we go with 15 minutes a send through the forest. we're not even at the bridge. and my hearts already beaten faster. ah. oh yes. once you hook on right up here where i'm standing, you'll only exit the securing system. once he reached piano's side. it was actually clear to me that this would happen. my fear of heights kicks in. my mouth is dry. i'm starting to stutter. i'm not enjoying this at all. so the groove is almost at the top.

sewland stays with me. i want to go up to the group is already taking pictures. when we're here on the east coast, but if you want to and dare to, you can look over here and i'll take a picture of your emotion as to sit here every step as a fight. oh man ah, and the others are already on their way back at me. i'm done with it. i mean i almost made it, but then i was just too afraid. anyway, i'm proud of myself and i think i need a break. yeah. i'll these to you gloria. owned memory,

hollywood with what that mean, which are so you performed a glorious feature, went above and beyond and almost reached the top mosca delva the old. don't think i'll drink to that. and ellis, though, honestly, i'm glad to be down here again. because i mean, how long did it take from the idea to the moment when you actually send people up there? i mentioned because it up the link is longer than it back in. and in our night we thought maybe one for 2 years. i fly off a lot, in fact, it per 10. before we cleared away the roadblock and the authorities. i wouldn't say put in our way, but we want to test case. they'd never dealt with anything like this before. mike, i'm kind of fall optimal, be 15 content give home if you have been very surprised how many people have contacted us and said they want to climate off. and we promised

ourselves that if we should hold a 1000 ticket on between the press conference in the openings and it would fly to las vegas to celebrate. and that will suddenly noticed we've sold several 1000 tickets. hope for hope. we have to open up many more time slot that i pay for buying a voucher. i wouldn't have to wait until march 2025 to use me. so there's lots of work ahead. the 5 good days we can guide 200 people across the branch. we have our hands full and we're really happy about the tool and follow up with your guest. mostly come from germany or also from broad outlet from from also be my most of them come from germany g to the travel restrictions. but we do have foreign visitors, especially railroad enthusiast on now that they finally have the chance scale a railway bridge. yet folks from all over europe coming here, look at best buy because it's some extraordinary and patient land aaliyah here. what's the author? governance? so they look at the river, it's not the view and know exactly how it vibrated is going to train,

passes over it with a claim of the bridge. only here one as a dawson, it's one of a kind in germany and europe tooth globally. it's comparable to sydney's hobby bridge. what for those for whom sydney is too far away. message winston bridge would stop quicker. so this day to day, i will not forget it all my life. i'll stay a little longer in burke county. by and book is one of the most beautiful counts here. i need to recover from the adrenalin rush. this is really pretty. the houses are all clad with slate and have a uniform color combination. there is a name for the burg try it. white 3 as black blue by and look also has a reservoir. i think it's perfect for an auto mall freely,

relaxing here. even in the countryside, you can discover industrial history. you can book a tour on the former vip, a velli railway with a hand car. this section of the track was laid in the upper valley in 1880 to service the textile industry to day hand cars run along the line, past former cloth factories dating back from fried rich ingles day field. the tours highlight is the old voting textile making complex. perfect, perfect. yes. of course. the booth and complex is germany's largest remaining industrial ensemble from that period. we reached the former factory town visits of hint aveson for 4 of us are touring around enjoying the landscape lessons. yes. now let's see what they'll tell us about wolfing and angles in earth. yes. so it's quite interesting to gain some insight and learn what industrial life was like

a century ago. not. you're welcome. so no zulu thing was something special back then. it housed not just textile factories and workers apartments, but also shops, daycares, and sports facilities. in flipper towel, a person in a working class household had just 2 to 3 square meters of space. here doors they had 12 loans on those via the nation were injured voice. it wasn't just a humane gesture lloyd. they had to do something to draw city folk out here to the middle of nowhere near to day. the thing is a museum. voice gang masonic was the factory manager here for over 30 years and witnessed 1st hand how jobs were lost was at one time, 300 looms stood here. sure. certain heard in it. we had 60 weaving machine that one weaver would operate 18 machines. each of these power looms ran 10 times as fast as the single line run by just one week. we were in the marshy another. despite the

automation in the 19 ninety's voting could no longer compete with cheap textile imports. from the far east to day, the looms are only operated for the museums, visitors to executor. i'm quite impressed. hungry with a time they take and how precisely they explain things. so it's very good regarding the food offer. what's now history still has an effect on the present about name irish to ers. what's our position workers' rights and your social security health insurance on all these things came out of in store sign. we and hotel can be browse the whole angle is one of our own law. and and whom so denying and or from, from angles day right through to the present. this to are leaves you with plenty to think about. ah, i'm in votel again in the hot facilities. this is one of the oldest city parks in

germany. also an example of citizenship created by citizens for citizens in cathy and either a specialty of the region is waiting for me. ah, take a look at this. the burg coffee table. waffles, rice pudding. black bread, cold meat, raisin bread scrambled eggs, gees, cherries, whip cream and liquor. oh, okay. i need support. sabina from coffee. these it keeps me company to send the miller in order here. going. what do i have to start with? a waffle or, or maybe i can say end of all half the raisin bread, the cheese or is it a rule that you have to start with the wrong? there's no set order, but i really like to waffle on. set him up on. we can start with them if you like, the damage you're stopping. okay. so then let's get to the waffle for mr. mrs.

good. i mean to, so that the waffles lights down smoothly. you definitely have to drink something. what's that when a biography to offer a delicious coffee? of course, i've heard of it shown angelica a nice coffee from the top to mina top amendment and unusual names. anomaly doesn't lloyd, very german looks unusual. where does come from the theater film of and so it looks unusual because it originally comes from the netherlands form. so it's called cuppa by because it drips out a little bit as you can see here, the web page. not been all, hoped norma getting out. that's why there's also a little dish underneath the spam an next round at a coffee table like this. you sit with friends and family for hours. we can do it too. i mean,

you're not to recall that. is there a name tom might say sinful. it's very 50 deluka is kind of issues. i'm just getting into it. the appetite is coming fun. comes with the game you. that's true. but oil bed with thanks. sabina ah. i would say this is like a grand finale for me. they invoke i taught you city may still be an insider tip, but it shouldn't stay that way. so if you want to get away from the usual tourist room, you should consider a trip to hope. i thought by by see you next time. ah, ah ah

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