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Years of neglect of explosive charges to blow up parts of
the old town.
Today, when the sound of horse-drawn But then came the German reunification
carriages echoes over the cobblestones, and with it the resurrection from the ruins.
the streets look as dignified as they once Most of the listed buildings were brilliantly
did. The town on the Neisse River survived renovated, in large part thanks to a donor
two world wars unscathed, but decades of who gave generously every year between
neglect during the GDR era almost de- 1995 and 2016. “However, there were two
stroyed it. The workers' and peasants' state conditions attached to the ‘Old Town Mil-
deliberately allowed the buildings of the lion’ as the locals called it”, remembered
middle classes to fall into disrepair. Bore- Schallwig. “The donor had to remain anony-
holes had already been prepared on the mous and the money had to be used for the
most dilapidated houses for the installation restoration of old buildings in the German
part only”.
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