Just saw this very old building in Cologne. When I looked closer, it has holes all over the facade in different sizes. Also, this house looks very old. Even tho Cologne was flattened in WWII, can it be that this house "survived" and got its marks to this day?
by crackred
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Yep
Probably not. You can see that the holes on the bottom left are alligned horizontally and vertically, so it was probably one of those rain drains. I don’t know anything about ground battles in Cologne either, it was just bombings I guess.
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Looks more like something was attached there at some point. But who knows… in my home town we still have such damage from the 30 Years War at older buildings, so anything is possible.
I don’t think so as the facade does more look like post-war.
However, look for old buildings made of sand stone or other natural stones and you’ll likely find traces of war. Very interesting inside the Reichstag too. There still are graffitis by Allied Soldiers (IIRC Soviet soldiers as they captured Berlin).
Nah. We Germans are pretty good at maintaining our houses and there are lots of codes that would have made it mandatory to close holes like that a long time ago. E.g. due to the cement failing around the hole due to water Ingress and plummeting down.
Also out of a sense of pride and probably some shame most people would have covered up any such markers.
Plus a lot of cities were bombed down rather than fought in extensively, so the damages would have been of a different nature.
TLDR no.
Bottom left of the picture? Looks like a woodpecker did that to the insulation of the house.
Unlikely, it’s not that old and the plaster is almost certainly post-war, that stuff just doesn’t live that long.