Is this Germany’s ugliest city? Ludwigshafen am Rhein – REACTION – really?

Germany has many ugly places and the number is growing. Industry is moving away, and BASF in Ludwigshafen is also gradually moving production abroad. Germany is too expensive due to bad policies. Our industry is being destroyed by ideologues (for example the car industry) and the economy is shrinking. There is hardly any money for infrastructure. A bridge collapsed in Dresden a few weeks ago. Luckily it was at night and no one was on the bridge. Shortly before the collapse a tram drove over it. The pictures are available on the Internet. This bridge is symbolic of the state of our country. Expenses for the uncontrolled immigration of migrants are rising, the social system is collapsing and the war in Ukraine is costing us a lot of money.

Hi, I think, you will not find such ugly places you mentioned anywhere in Germany. And you won't find it even in Berlin or Frankfurt. For us Germans, however, all cities that were not rebuilt true to their original form after the severe destruction in World War II are ugly. And there are many cities like that in Germany. I live in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Ruhr area and almost all the cities there look terrible. The city I live in is on a medieval trade route. The oldest church in our city, for example, was built around 1150 as a Romanesque basilica and converted into a three-aisled baroque hall church in 1748. Unfortunately, the magnificent baroque interior did not survive the heavy air raids in the World War II. Like the rest of the city. After 60 air raids, 4 of them heavy, the city center was almost 100% destroyed and the total destruction of the city was almost 80%. Reconstruction began as early as 1947 and today faceless facades stare into the streets and offend the eye of the beholder at every turn. Apart from a few buildings, nothing remains of the city center that was built over centuries. People still regret the loss of these historic city centers today. And that is why we count such cities as the ugliest cities in Germany. We have so many historical sites in Germany and without the World War II there would be countless more.

Spent a month there, also went to Mannerheim, which as we were told, by Germans, so not my words: "where all the criminals are".
As for my opinion… I mean we heard gunshots from the other side of the river lol
So that wasn't too much prettier either.
Minus smaller traditional cities and towns (which ARE pretty) Germany on the whole is kinda… I mean f' it, Germans are painfully direct too, it's a pretty concrete'y/grey place compared to what I'm used to.
To me, not the prettiest place in the world (which isn't to say it isn't pretty for others).

My God, this is a Green politician who thinks He is female…
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ui, my shitty hometown. Ludwigshafen is really ugly, but the Hochstraße (that ugly bridge all over the city) will be replaced in the next years. The Rathaus Center will be also demolished the next time. And it is the Hometown of Helmut Kohl (former chancellor of Germany).

It may be "ugly" but Ludwigshafen has one of the biggest and most important chemical companies in the world there
BASF, it's huge and is known the world over for the chemical products that it produces and exports.

In general, Germany IS much safer than the US. That doesn't mean, that Germany doesn't have dangerous places, but they are well known and avoided by the locals. But given that guns are far more restricted in Germany, even these places would be considered relatively harmless to some US places.

This might be considered the ugliest place in Germany architecturally, but the neighbourhood in front of Frankfurt central station is socially the ugliest place in Germany.

Ludwigshafen translates to Ludwig's harbor – maybe that helps with the pronunciation (english speakers use usually the French version of Ludwig: Louis. Originally it was hlut vic = famous warrior).

if you are used to places like : kensington philadelphia , this is 🥜

Today EU make everything against cars!They try to create utopia.

6:20 Never see much homeless in german cities and only in big one, crime the same. Prostitution is legal in germany and they pay taxes.

I lived in Ludwigshafen round about 12 years and it's not all so bad and ugly here

4:00 is the best part for me. D's reaction… He was schocked about the huge ammount of streets, large buildings and a large puddle with wild flowers in front of it.🤨 But all in all it's great to learn that there are different levels of what to find "ugly". And I think i agree to D's opinion and that the author of the video was wrong. Thanks D for your reaction and greetings from Germany (not Ludwigshafen ;-))

ALL major cities in Germany were heavily bombed during the Second World War – Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dresden. 97% of the housing in Wesel was destroyed. The very beautiful city of Kassel was 80% destroyed, the inner city almost 100%. Of many really beautiful towns, often only 20 % to 40 % remained standing. The result of the newly built houses in the decades after the war is what we in Germany today call ugliness.

Now its a Islamic town convince yourself

Neumünster and Salzgitter are the ugliest cities in Germany.

😂😂😂 your comments made me laugh!!!
Greetings from Stuttgart

I am living in Ludwigshafen and the title ugliest city was badicly a joke by a TV show. The first thing the City has done was to offer tourist tours to the ugly places 😂.
The traffic is horrible at this time but only because they are renovating and rebuilding a few bridges. Also it's planned to build a nice new Allee with a lot of green and nice parks. I am in Mannheim in 15 minutes with piblic transportation and also each Heidelberg and Bad dürkheim in less than an hour.
The place where I live is in the middle of 2 parks and a lot of schrebergärten (wich is an interesting topic if you truly want to understand the Germans)

Drug addicts and homeless are to be found around the railway station of every major city: Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, München, Düsseldorf.

Oh, my dear, I'm sorry that we disappointed you. We'll, there is a thing in Germany with "ugly" and "not nice" to have. Actually there are uglier places here, you can believe. But, what you asked for is not real in Germany. Sorry!!! 😊
Come here and make your own decisions. 😊

Hallo D. If you want to find Germanys ugly cities you have to Look in the west of Germany. The "Ruhrpott" got many huge cities with more than 500.000 people there. They are Industrial cities. And, I am sad because it ist my Home so the place where my Heart belongs, Duisburg is one of the ugly cities in Germany. Here you can See homeless, alcoholics or drugs using people. But I am proud to live here because I was born in this place. And Duisburg have the best Fußball Fans! The Club ist the MSV Duisburg, called "Zebras". The Club ist Not successfull. But ITS lokal Fans give IT there Love. Many greetings from Duisburg in Germany.

Someone who says that Ludwigshafen is the ugliest city in Germany, has clearly never been in Pforzheim. 😂

I always find your reactions so authentic and it's fun to hear them!

I grew up in Ludwigshafen and still live in the suburbs. So I want to give a little perspective.
Rewboss is one of my favorite YT-creators as his videos are well researched, balanced and fair. And from an ourside and contemporary viewpoint I cannot argue with what he showed and noted. BUT:
He only showed the city center (Stadtteil Mitte) and didn't bother to visit any of the other 13 neighborhoods which (with three exceptions) originated as crown/church domains, medieval villages, or as a town (with walls and the whole shebang). You still find cobblestone streets and places, half-timbered houses, the remnants of a palace (prince-electorial), a monastery, dozens of old churches (a pilgrimage church among them) and other pittoreque places. Unfortunately, the city center as well as the surrounding areas of Nord, West, and South (I know, very creative) was heavily destroyed by allied bombing raids (which found the inhabited areas rather than the industrial ones), so that some streets had no houses left. Post-war architecture is ugly AF. But what can you do? Apartments and living space was scarce and apartment blocks were built with the available materials and with hardly any regards to beauty.
When the main train station was built, it was state of the art, with several TEEs (the fast trains of the 1960s and 70s) in every direction stopping there every hour. ICEs don't stop there anymore because the platforms are a few meters (yards) too short (the existence of Mannheim nearby is not the cause but doesn't help either) for the modern ICE-trains. An elongation of the platforms is technically unfeasable because of the rail crossing in a triagonal shape and the lack of space surrounding the station. Mannheim's status as a major train hub (comparably recently) was the nail in the coffin though.
A big plus are the many green areas (parks and agricultural areas), the network of bike-paths (though you could always improve on that), the very good public transport systems with trams running every 10 minutes in every direction during the day (4 AM to 10PM) which is not bad for a city of app. 150K citizens. Together with the other parts of the system (connecting the city with Mannheim, Weinheim, Heidelberg [yes, the famous Heidelberg], and Bad Dürkeim) is the largest tram network in Germany.
Unemployment rate: As many of the people who could/can afford it move(d) to the suburbs, which don't belong to the city itself but are there own entities, the people that have remained (and replaced the people who left) are the less better off and often are immigrants from less affluent EU member states as Romania and Bulgaris. Esp. since 2015 there have arrived many asylum seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, and other Arab countries. These people often don't get work permits and if they are lucky enough to get a permit they often don't find a job because of lacking language skills. As a result we have an area around the city with 250K people, high wealth and low unemployment rates. The picture is skewed without taking this into consideration.
Of course there are hookers (legal in Germany), drug addicts, crime, and homelessness. But as addictions are considered a health problem rather than criminal behavior the justice system tries to help addicts to clean up their act through rehab (funded by the health system). Drug trafficking though is on another page. Young adults (14-21) often get juvenile detention (with school and the possibility to get a 3-year vocational education) or "compensatory punishment" – e.g. cleaning graffiti themselves with brushes + 150 hours of social work (e.g. with handicapped or elder people) and there is an emphasis on prevention over punishment. Homelessness – there are low-level programs for homeless people to get them into housing (+ social workers help with re-integration into society as long as the person needs them) plus public shelters. Only people that don't want to enter the programs/shelters sleep on the street. They are subsidized by the cities and villages + some rely on begging, only few rely on theft or other crimes to earn more money (often drug related).
You may find the odd hooker on the street but most work in Mannheim where there is a brothel street (like Herbertstraße in Hamburg), you may read about stolen mobile phones, bikes, or cars in the paper but you read more often about organized gangs from Eastern Europe cleaning out senior citizens (caller pretends to be a grandchild or fake-pregnant woman asks for a glass of water while an accimplice fleeces the house).
I love the city I grew up in, I had a great childhood. Ugly city? Maybe – beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.