The Prinzipalmarkt in Muenster, before the war.
The same part of the street after the city got bombed out during WW2, just looking at the houses on the other side of the same part of the street. Muenster got very severly pounded, most of the city core got destroyed.
While some ruins and facades still stood after the war, all the buildings' interiors had burned out. Almost the whole historical city centre.
The same street today, a pedestrian zone now, only busses allowed. Houses on both sides of the street are the ones you saw in the pictures before.
All houses where destroyed during the war. What there is today and looks old and ancient, indeed are just modern - and simplified - copies of the former facades and buldingds, because the remains that stood after the war had to be teared down.
Its all fake!
