Photostory - Upper Frankonia

September 23, 2012

Photostory - Upper Frankonia

Frankonian Woods

Germany is more than just Berlin or Munich

The forgotten areas far way from the glitter of the metropolis

If you think about the success story that was the German reunification in 1991, most people would tell you about the myriad of great projects in Berlin, housing projects, social experiments, architecture, art ect., about the monuments that urge the tourist, the “Berliner” (not the jelly donut), and your average passer-by to remember the darker chapters in a dark German history.
The entire city of Berlin resembles a construction site. But what about those areas, closest to the former boarder. On the homepage you can read the region is historically as well as culturally multifaceted. After the Wall was erect in 1961, even in this rural area the barbwire separated two countries. After the reunification the subsidies from Bonn (former German capital) ran dry. This is what Bavaria’s smallest rural district, Kronach, in northern Bavaria (Upper Franconia) looks like, between rural flight, foreclosures, history and postcard idyll and the distinct promise of a better future.