The German city Krefeld is celebrating its 650th birthday this year!

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  1. My Hometown is 870 years old or older if consider the town which was there before the one was build at the exact place, but a lot smaller (about 2% of the inhabitants) and wasn’t a city but a village until the 21 century.

  2. Quite a latecomer as far as European cities go, especially in the Western border regions of Germany.

  3. That’s probably newer than most cities in Germany I’d imagine? I think the main phase of founding cities was the 12th century if I don’t mix something up.

    The German city I live in turns 2061 this year.

  4. That’s the nicest possible shot one can find of Krefeld. The city is an eyesore with terrible infrastructure.

  5. That’s about 120 years longer than the discovery of the new world, just under 3 times longer than the USA, almost 20 times as long as the current iteration of Germany (reunification, only 8 times for post-war Germany) and over 4 times longer than Germany as a unified idea (German Empire), although only just over half the age of the HRE which some might argue as the first iteration of Germany.

    650 years is a very long time, I hope this put it in perspective a bit.

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