Watch BERLIN Grow for 1,300 Years - 3D Timelapse
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Watch BERLIN Grow for 1,300 Years - 3D Timelapse
Watch Berlin grow in 4K from Slavic strongholds in the forest to a capital of 3.7 million – 1,300 years of history in 5 minutes, as a 3D timelapse built from real geodata and historical research.
From the twin towns of Berlin and Cölln on the Spree to the Prussian royal capital, the Brandenburg Gate, the imperial metropolis, the destruction of 1945, the Wall and reunification: year by year, the city grows on the real terrain of the Spree valley.
Chapters
0:00 Intro: Berlin today, then 1,300 years back
0:46 1237: Cölln and Berlin are first documented
0:59 1443: The Elector's castle on the Spree
1:13 1618: The Thirty Years' War
1:23 1685: The Huguenots arrive
1:44 1789: The Brandenburg Gate
1:56 1838: The railway age
2:07 1871: Capital of the German Empire
2:43 1920: Greater Berlin
3:00 1943–45: Bombs and battle
3:27 1961: The Berlin Wall
3:54 1989: The Wall falls
4:26 Today: Berlin, 3.7 million people
In this 3D timelapse of the history of Berlin you'll see the Slavic strongholds of Spandau and Köpenick, the medieval twin town of Berlin-Cölln with its city wall, the Elector's castle, the Thirty Years' War, the baroque star fortress, the Huguenots and the new Friedrichstadt, the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden, Napoleon's entry in 1806, the railway age and the tenement city of the German Empire, Greater Berlin in 1920, the Nazi dictatorship and the destruction of World War II, the Berlin Airlift, the divided city and the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Wall in 1989 and today's capital with the TV Tower, the Reichstag dome and the rebuilt palace.
No AI imagery: Berlin is reconstructed year by year on the real terrain of the Spree valley, based on historical and archaeological research. Pre-modern buildings are reconstructions, and population figures before 1801 are estimates.
About CityEons: we turn the history of the world's great cities into 3D timelapses – watch them grow over hundreds and thousands of years, from the first settlement to today's metropolis. Subscribe so you don't miss the next city.
Which city should we build next? Tell us in the comments – and share your favourite moment with a timestamp.
Music
"Fire Tree (Violin Version)" by Axletree
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ax...
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
"4 mei" by Maarten Schellekens
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ma...
CC0 1.0 – public domain (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0)
"Every Blade of Grass" by Axletree
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ax...
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Sound effects: Pixabay
Historical audio (public domain, Wikimedia Commons): Reichstag session of 23 March 1933 (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wels_vs_Hitler_Reichstagsrede.ogg) · "La Marseillaise", United States Navy Band (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Marseillaise.ogg)
Data credits
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright)
Geodata Berlin: Geoportal Berlin (gdi.berlin.de), Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0
Geodata Brandenburg: © GeoBasis-DE/LGB, dl-de/by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0), data modified
Monument list: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (CC BY) · Population: Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (CC BY 3.0 DE)
Terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA
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Watch BERLIN Grow for 1,300 Years - 3D Timelapse
CityEons
27,412 views
Watch BERLIN Grow for 1,300 Years - 3D Timelapse
Watch Berlin grow in 4K from Slavic strongholds in the forest to a capital of 3.7 million – 1,300 years of history in 5 minutes, as a 3D timelapse built from real geodata and historical research.
From the twin towns of Berlin and Cölln on the Spree to the Prussian royal capital, the Brandenburg Gate, the imperial metropolis, the destruction of 1945, the Wall and reunification: year by year, the city grows on the real terrain of the Spree valley.
Chapters
0:00 Intro: Berlin today, then 1,300 years back
0:46 1237: Cölln and Berlin are first documented
0:59 1443: The Elector's castle on the Spree
1:13 1618: The Thirty Years' War
1:23 1685: The Huguenots arrive
1:44 1789: The Brandenburg Gate
1:56 1838: The railway age
2:07 1871: Capital of the German Empire
2:43 1920: Greater Berlin
3:00 1943–45: Bombs and battle
3:27 1961: The Berlin Wall
3:54 1989: The Wall falls
4:26 Today: Berlin, 3.7 million people
In this 3D timelapse of the history of Berlin you'll see the Slavic strongholds of Spandau and Köpenick, the medieval twin town of Berlin-Cölln with its city wall, the Elector's castle, the Thirty Years' War, the baroque star fortress, the Huguenots and the new Friedrichstadt, the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden, Napoleon's entry in 1806, the railway age and the tenement city of the German Empire, Greater Berlin in 1920, the Nazi dictatorship and the destruction of World War II, the Berlin Airlift, the divided city and the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Wall in 1989 and today's capital with the TV Tower, the Reichstag dome and the rebuilt palace.
No AI imagery: Berlin is reconstructed year by year on the real terrain of the Spree valley, based on historical and archaeological research. Pre-modern buildings are reconstructions, and population figures before 1801 are estimates.
About CityEons: we turn the history of the world's great cities into 3D timelapses – watch them grow over hundreds and thousands of years, from the first settlement to today's metropolis. Subscribe so you don't miss the next city.
Which city should we build next? Tell us in the comments – and share your favourite moment with a timestamp.
Music
"Fire Tree (Violin Version)" by Axletree
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ax...
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
"4 mei" by Maarten Schellekens
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ma...
CC0 1.0 – public domain (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0)
"Every Blade of Grass" by Axletree
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ax...
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Sound effects: Pixabay
Historical audio (public domain, Wikimedia Commons): Reichstag session of 23 March 1933 (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wels_vs_Hitler_Reichstagsrede.ogg) · "La Marseillaise", United States Navy Band (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Marseillaise.ogg)
Data credits
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright)
Geodata Berlin: Geoportal Berlin (gdi.berlin.de), Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0
Geodata Brandenburg: © GeoBasis-DE/LGB, dl-de/by-2-0 (www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0), data modified
Monument list: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (CC BY) · Population: Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (CC BY 3.0 DE)
Terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA
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