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big bottles, central station today i am in dirt county, a region in the federal state of north ryan westphalia. that is shaped by its industrial history a 100 years ago. but baton was dirty lout 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 and 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 book a thought together. ah, the city has something very special a suspension railway. ah,

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 for me is something very exciting, but for this everyday life to be overhead tree. this is crazy. so close to the houses and this is particularly worth see the turning maneuver at the full vehicle terminus. there are 20 stops. each one is different. i like this one best. the fooling us cause it

looks like a small castle art evoke when it comes to architecture, papa 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. the vizier was all a former gas boiler, gets a 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 to hustler is the city guides 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 super merged into one city and they named themselves after the river that connects them for. but i abernathy shall be out. i heard that hotel is rain whole. that's true, right. is it always like that? it is as it was all there. as of a battle always gets a lot of rain. here the children are born with umbrellas and rubber boots, so 1 may go missed different booklet though. but why did the textile industry choose to set up shop here to wish that young seat of the gun and their services due to the water of the lipper river and the plato of the yawn he had,

which was already practised here, back in the 16th century, that the textile industry developed out of that the bleaching required the sun and rain and voted was the perfect place for that lies pulses on, on playing duffers for my thought and for perfect 150 years ago, votter grew into 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 resume will have us for some time in hans 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. then the university came along and it's boomed for the last 20 years. it is a wound in as sonata, the old factories and their chimney's still shape the cityscape. today. down here

is this, i and i, let's, this is one of the last remaining places where textiles were one to produce stanley, i bet they made ribbon. when he bent down here the straps. lehman everything still as it was fun while back. 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 thus far loud, it was ram out loud and ha jeeps to the looms with steam driven. so it was an incredibly stressful place to work, grassy and widened. yet for our boy, ah,

the splendor and misery of the industrial revolution was experienced by this gentlemen, 1st hand and foot, but i've freely hang. it's textile, entrepreneur, philosopher, revolutionary, and leader of the labor movement. what would be the wisest text here in germany, chinese instead of english. for instance, if you're, if that's a finer sankoh. therefore, faculty keena this statue as a gift from the people's republic of china. a thing of an ortho blanco's is of great importance to the chinese duties. communist ideas come hoc element. yeah. they come here in big groups to visit angles, statue and take home a bit of this states industrial culture. waco swore us and i am it for let's take a look at angles house in this house and some that i'll come on. lucas, you came by. the grandfather's house where it's grew up is now a museum. hey 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 almonza, keep that went asi business them. as i said, is new stella, there are different visa, she suddenly wasn't the most progressive boston. there definitely weren't any town building exercises as we know them today as a hellish matter. 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 dangling canada through 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 forgotten here. they built their villas. ah, so the battle is really a city full of contrasts for new york has got the highlight. and papa has got the north fawn profit, a former railway line across the city at 22 kilometers. the not bon casa, was the longest in a city train route. the people here fought for years to turn it into a bike path. now the root is, there's ah, we'll talk, yeah, shut or utopia. city is right on the bypass. 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 to serve and gardening. people meet here and discuss what a good life at the city of the future could look like. me. centerpiece is the train station open workshops and event rooms are being built here. 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, like right now it's a construction site movement is boston. what i'm telling me is here. he knows what we're stuck behind. utopia city is designed to create a possible space, a physical ones like this room, but also idealized space, have mental spaces for so long. excellent. the person who came up with all that is

going to offer that does, this will be a good question. i was going who comes up with such an idea of lots of people from the creative and technical factors about about neighbors not to want to help me shape the city steps oversize. we continue outside. there is 40000 square meters of playground for ideas. finance with loans, brands and donations from citizens for citizens of f 1st and looks like a huge construction site. what's going on here? yes. is that now it's a big construction site. next summer, a big student competition will take place in this week. 18 building is made by teams of students from an 11 countries closer down here on after they're gone and the ground has been leveled again. so the containers will probably come back right now. we're holding a competition seeking ideas for the development of,

and an inductance width of absolutely going to be made of it to come to is a hollow? yes, i will. it's about bringing up as much space as possible by experimental urban development. why? of all the move, please, who experimentalist up in the gloom. sam hung off that when i can, i saw something finished here. very looking at b. m. if it were up to me, it had never be truly finished because experimental oven development needs development is vicky bottle is a 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 involved. i taught more than in any other german city. each one has its own name and some are designed by artist like the hosting stairs.

if the people have up a thought when it leave the city and see some nature, they can go to baggers lunch or burke county. it lies at the gates of the city and it's just half an hour away or on weekends, not just a flip. a toddler's, but also people from clone and dusseldorf, head to the hills and forests of the baggage his land. this region of north rhine 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, right? it's tough to top.

the bag of sugar 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 lake in summer, they're popular with water. sports enthusiasts. bag is german for mountain, but the biggest land isn't named for its hilly terrain. the name comes from the counts of bad who ruled this county for centuries, many castles and palaces here date from this period. now they provide the perfect destination for relaxing weekend to get away. ah, oh, do i dear to go up there?

london 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 belts, walkie talkies, who do you copy? yeah. and security check leads. good, else, perfect. done the stuff, i'm all i want road here we go with 15 minutes a sent 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 you reach the on it aside. it

was actually clear to me that this would happen. my fear of heights kicks in. ah, 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 day 2, you can look over here and i'll take a picture of your animation to sit here. every step is a fight. oh man, ah. and the others are already on their way back

at me. i'm done with it. i am. 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, but what's that mean? the chassis performed a glorious feature went above and beyond and almost breached to tom elko, nevada. 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 had people up there? i mentioned or kicked up the link. i was longer than it back in and in our night we

thought maybe one or 2 years i'm fly out. in fact, it to pretend before we cleared away the roadblock and the authorities, i would say, put in our way. but we wanna test k. they've never dealt with anything like this before. my crime can fall optimal, be 15 content give home if you have been very surprised how many people have contacted us and said they want to climb off. and we promised ourselves that if we sold a 1000 ticket on between the press conference in the openings and it would fly to las vegas to celebrate. and then suddenly i noticed we sold $7000.00 tickets for the whole. not many more time slot that i people buying a voucher. wouldn't have to wait until march 2025 to use. i mean, so there's a lot 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 people to follow up who will come

to your guess mostly come from germany or also from abroad over the phone from also my most of them come from germany due to the travel restrictions, but we do have foreign visitors, especially railroad enthusiast on now that they finally have the scale railway bridge. yet folks from all over europe coming here, look at best buy because it some extraordinary and patient land. you buy your here as opposed to all think of this. so they look at the river, it's not the view exactly to feel how it vibrated is going to train, passes over it with like a climb of the bridge. only here one adoption. it's one of a kind in germany and your to globally. it's comparable to sydney's hob, a bridge for those for whom sydney is too far away, says winston bridge. it 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 towns 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 it. the vert try it. white 3, add black blue by and look also has a reservoir. i think it's perfect for an auto mall and freely relaxing here. even in the countryside, you can discover industrial history. you can book a tour on the form of upa valley railway with a hand car. ah, this section of the track was laid in the hooper 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. whitfield. the

tours highlight is the old voting textile, making complex roofing for thought is of course the roof and complex is germany's largest remaining industrial ensemble. from that period we reached the former factory town visits of haven't aveson for 4 of us are touring around enjoying the landscape in western sir. yes. now let's see what they'll tell us about wolfing and angles. if you have to start, it's quite interesting to gain some insight and learn what industrial life was like a century ago. no. john wilkins zulu thing was something special back then. it housed not just textile factories and workers apartments, but also shops, daycares, and sports facilities invoke or tal. a person in a working class household had just 2 to 3 square meters of space. here, doors they had 12. milton, that's via the and they said were injured voice. it wasn't just a humane gesture lawyer. they had to do something to draw city folk out here to the

middle of nowhere to day voting is a museum. voice gang moss, a neck 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 felton hutton in if we had 60 weaving machine that one wheel would operate 18 machines. each of these power looms ran 10 times as fast as the single line run by just one we are you by in the marshy love. 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, zagata. i'm quite granite on with the time they take and how precisely they explain . thank cell. it's very good. they go to the food offer. what's now history still has an effect on the present. our name, i wish to the chair,

physician workers' rights and your social security health insurance on all these things came out of in store sign. we and hotel can be proust. all angle is one of our own law. and anton sites in ireland and orphan from angles day right through to the present. this to are leaves you with plenty to think about. ah, i am in papa tal 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 kaffir. either a specialty of the region is waiting for me. i take a look at this. the burg coffee table. waffles, rice pudding. black bread, cold meat, raisin bread scrambled eggs. jeez,

cherries whipped cream and liquor. oh okay. i need support. subpoena from coffee. these it keeps me company. it's funny you know in order here go, 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 law philosophy, mothers on. we can start with them if you like, the damage you're stopping. okay. so then let's get to the waffle with i mean to so that the waffles lights down smoothly. you definitely have to drink something. what's that? when a burgersson to offer a delicious coffee, of course, ever. so here shown angelica a nice coffee from the top to mina, top amendment and unusual names. anomaly doesn't boy very german looks unusual.

where does come from the theater film of and how it looks unusual because it originally comes from the netherlands form. so it's called hopa via cuz it drips out a little bit. as you can see here, double paid to not have been called pop, norma gotten out. that's why there's also a little dish underneath the spam, another one. 0, 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 from i'd say sinful. it's very fatiguing, delicious. like a kind of issues. i'm just getting into it. the appetite is coming fun. comes with the game. yeah. that's true. well then, but i think sabina ah,

i would say this is like a grand finale for me. they invoke i thought 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, ruth, you should consider a trip to hope. i thought, by the next time. ah ah, ah ah ah, ah with

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