[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
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- 🔗 Source video from The Museum of Modern Art channel:
• The Flying Train (1902...
💖 Huge and sincere thank you to MoMA for making it available online in such great quality.
🎞 Upscaled with neural networks footage of "Wuppertal Schwebebahn" shot in 1902. Btw, the train system hasn‘t changed much and still functional. The "Schwebebahn" was built mostly over the river to save space.
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✔ Upscaled to 4K;
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second, I have also fixed some playback speed issues;
✔ Stabilized;
✔ Colorized - please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
ℹ Note: Contrary to the text at the beginning, the city "Wuppertal" didn't yet exist in 1902. Back then, these were a handful of seperated cities and towns called "Elberfeld", "Ronsdorf", "Cronenberg", "Vohwinkel" and "Barmen". These cities were united in 1929 under the name "Barmen-Elberfeld" and were renamed into "Wuppertal" in 1930, according to the fact that the cities are located around the Wupper river.
🎀 An interesting fact about that train system:
Tuffi was a female circus elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, four years old, to travel on the suspended monorail in Wuppertal, as a publicity stunt. The elephant trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell ~12 meters (39 ft) down into the River Wupper, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured. Althoff helped the elephant out of the water. Both the circus director and the official who had allowed the ride were fined.
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Dear subscribers and viewers, please excuse me for a glitch on the right side of the video, it is not a problem of neural networks, but my mistake in the final render.
In the future, I'll avoid this problem, sorry for that 💖
It's a nice "bevel" effect 😂
Keep up the good work bro, these videos are excellent :)
Absolutely amazing. Bravo!
Fantastic, would love to see the footage of Halifax that is on here restored, I still walk on the same streets today as its my hometown. Nice work
Could you do Toronto please?
i feel this is the closest that we have to a time machine
The still and video camera, either separate or one camera
And this video oddly feels like a time machine to the future...
I felt the same way!!
Always the exact same comment on every old video. We should use the time machine to go back to a time when people were not in desperate need for attention.
@@brinckau Now on the other hand, yours was an incredibly valuable comment to richen humanity (not)
This looks like some alternate universe and not the past... it's so weird ._.
I know exactly what you mean... Yess. I was even reminded of some anime films. Strange
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Nice and quiet without the traffic!
The more I learn about the past, the less advanced the present seems.
In some ways I think they were even more sophisticated.
Thats what the germans were known for, before the Brits and French ruined it.
Knowing Wuppertal today it is insane how different the city looked and felt back then. We may have gotten bigger and more efficient with our building, but damn have we lost any sort of aesthetic aspirations for our buildings in the process...
yet this flying railway is still flying
No, they just changed.
German engineering
Less than a minute in and my brain can’t handle this. This video looks like something from the future. So artistic and incredibly beautiful that I struggle to believe it’s real and over 110 years old.
The days when the world was filled with optimism and faith.
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Mahameru or Great Meru is just one of evidence of Hindu, wasn't religion as today but an Ancient region from Indonesia all the way to Europe. As India the significant remaining.
I am not surprised in Bali 2012 I had a bizarre experience meeting one of my Ancestors from another realm, out of common people logic spiritual understanding. As surrounding of Bali's 4 mountains, is Gate 7 of Earth's Chakra 7th which is Mount Kailash Tibet.
Called Hindia, Indus, Indo (also Indo Europe and Indo Persia), Indonesia means Indo Nesos, Indo Islands, exactly on center of Equator line. Richest nature on entire world.
Most humid yet stable weather all year around, alway sunrise at 6 AM to sunset 6 PM.
Sumatra means Sumer/Summer/Sun/Gold + Tera/Terre/Earth/Land = Mother of Sumeria.
The highest humidity and with so many volcanoes than anywhere in the world made the things decaying easily, worldwide still don't know about our oldest ancient civilization before the massive eruption of Toba 74000 years ago resulted today world's larget crater lake, volcanic Toba lake with width around 100 kilometers. As our Ancestors were even much more advanced than us today and flee towards today Europe, Middle East, America escaped the eruption larger than Yellowstone USA.
#Indonesia #Atlantis
Minangkabau, Batak, Sumatra, Indonesia
Minangkabau Sumatra = Minoan Europe
Batak Sumatra = Batak Bulgaria
Egypt isn't oldest civilization. But Indonesia.
Bit by bit the veils are uplifted, limited knowledge of present world is incomplete and inaccurate. Including how they west and middle east has been drawing Indonesia too small on world map especially since Mercator 1569 while should be almost as wide as Russia.
Majority of people don't even know that our Ancestors technology was much more advanced than us now.
They don't know anything about human civilization before 74,000 years ago the massive eruption of supervolcano Toba on Sumatra shaped today world's largest crater lake on earth. Toba is bigger than Yellowstone USA.
Again, present education worldwide has very limited knowledge, based on their limited nature.
Our Ancestors knew about the eruption before it happened and migrated towards West; Middle East, Europe and America. The fact is Indonesia center of the world, richest nature in whole world on center of earth's Equator line, is the root not the other way round.
Biblical/Alquran/Koran stories including about Adam and Eve are just metaphorical fairytales in fact all those religious stuff are just fairytales.
Religion = Region rely on legion and legislation.
Sumatra (Sumatera) = Sumer/Summer/Suma/Sun/Gold + Tera/Terra/Land = Mother of Sumeria
#world
jordan Silva Excuse me for stalking but I see that a lot of the stuff you watch is what I watch too. Good training videos, keto diet, log cabin building, small self sustaining garden projects. I guess that’s what waking at 4am and seeing a reply on TH-cam can do 😂
This train system is still the backbone of public transport in Wuppertal today, although they are out of service for a massive overhaul at present due to problems with the latest train model they had put in service. The wheels were "wobbly" and have to be replaced, as well as some of the tracks that were damaged by them.
The thing is even 118 years later, riding on this floating train feels like a very unique experience (I visited Wuppertal 2 years ago). Futuristic too but the steel beams that support the system look vintage. Overall it feels like something out of a steam punk fantasy.
Exactly, the combination of vintage and futuristic, makes it straight out of a steam punk movie, but the best part is it still functioning well
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@Johnson Taylor Yeah, that's a must-go destination if I'm around Germany
That is so cool! This just made my bucket list.
I feel the same vintage vibes in Dishonored (game)
Who else wishes there was a time machine to go back and experience these magnificent times again?
I'd do anything to go back to the golden XIX century
Yeah I would love to see the architecture until I realized that it's 1902, no thanks
unbedingt muß ich mit....
That would be fun except if you are Jewish, black or basically any other minority
I was there 1 week ago
Just wow, I have never had a video move me more than this one. Being able to peer back in time and see a 120 year old society cleanly and freely carrying on their daily lives and routine, oblivious to my omniscient gaze flying through the sky of a grand and marvelous city. The architecture is breathtaking, the streets were immaculate, the population sparse, the water clean. I truly felt like I traveled through time. What an amazing marvel of human ingenuity and expression.
We've went downhill since then.
@Space Cadet absolutely, it is a tragedy what has happened to western civilization.
The water wasn‘t clean, the wupper (the river you see) was one of the most polluted rivers in Europe for a very long time, it is a quite recent development that there a fish back in this river and that it got renaturalised.
Population in Wuppertal wasn't sparse in 1902.
Wuppertal as a city didn't exist then, but Elberfeld and Barmen, two of the cities it consists of, were called the "German Manchester" in the second half of the 19th century. The population had increased about tenfold in a very short period of time. I love this video and the serene atmosphere, but my guess is that this was filmed on an early Sunday morning.
(My main source: my grandmother was born in Elberfeld in 1900, and according to her, it was a very busy place.)
Its only a few generations ago really. My grandfather was alive at this time (1894-1967 RIP).
Life goes by quick people, from 0-20 seems an eternity, once you hit 30 every year is a flash.
So true, so sad.
It really is 🥺
Im in this comment and I don't like it
Every year has been a flash since when i'm 20 in my case, now I'm 27
It depends on what you are doing in life. Get rid of your stress, turn of the screens, sit and just look around you, close your eyes and look inside you. Keep life in the speed that you want to live with.
Why does this look more futuristic then today? I don't know why, but it looks so fascinating.
It might be those gigantic spider legs of the structure, they appear like a giant centipede!
You must be living in a cave if you think this looks more futuristic than today. If anything it looks more steampunk rather than futuristic. You "I was Born in the wrong gen" drama queens always make me cringe so bad
The city looked so peaceful to me
Still exists and still looks futuristic! Still functioning!
@@rrkwarmonger calm down bro. It is more peaceful and serene because look, no advertisements! No graffiti no trash no shitty people like yourself who go around hating on people. Try positivity for a change, smile at people 😁🤪
The fact that this still exists today is mind blowing
That’s only 1/20 of The time to the Lord and saviour
Wuppertal actually has a museum that now actually offers a Vr experience of that. You get seated in an old traincar, get Vr googles and then get the entire train ride simulated as if you were driving through 1922 Wuppertal.
OMG! 1902! I am completely astonished by how advanced Germany was. Super awesome work!
The good guys won eh?
@@skippityblippity8656 lol I wish I could go back in time and tell my Ancestors to stay in Germany. Seeing this city and flying train...my soul feels like it belongs there.
@@nyastclair8174 as long as none of your ancestors are gay, disabled, people of colour, Jewish, alternative etc...
Please americans stay where u are.
@Bryce Because black people are the only people who aren't white? It helps to not be foolish when trying to pretend as if another is.
Note: Contrary to the text at the beginning, the city "Wuppertal" didn't yet exist in 1902. Back then, these were a handful of seperated cities and towns called "Elberfeld", "Ronsdorf", "Cronenberg", "Vohwinkel" and "Barmen". These cities were united in 1929 under the name "Barmen-Elberfeld" and were renamed into "Wuppertal" in 1930, according to the fact that the cities are located around the Wupper river.
Oh, didn’t know that, thank you for clarifying, will add to the description later
Upd: description updated, thank you
woow :)
Do you know if the hanging train lines are still there? I don't remember seeing them, but only been in the city for a few hours, I wonder if I missed such a beauty.
@@ayapotato7429 Yes, the Schwebebahn ist still there and it is still working.
@@ayapotato7429 There was and is only one line there, but the network is extremely prone to failure due to the new technical equipment. The new vehicles are very unreliable in operation. In addition, the conventional railway signal system was replaced by a new GPS system, which very often does not work. The new vehicles, which are only five years old, are already showing extremely heavy wear. The maximum speed of the network therefore had to be greatly reduced, which is why the vehicles are incredibly loud when driving slowly. Due to these technical problems, the line is currently only operated on weekends. A rail replacement bus service is offered on all other days of the week.
Interesting fact: In almost 120 years of operation, there was only one severe accident that resulted in serious injuries and deaths. On April 12 1999, a track construction company forgot to dismantle a derailer (a component for track maintenence work) on the tracks. The first train in the morning hit the steel component at a speed of 50 km/h (~31 mph) and fell from a height of almost 10 meters. Five people died and 47 people were seriously injured. Incidentally, that was the only time so far that such a train has derailed.
The city of my mom's birth, Sept. 14, 1927. We went back together in 2002. Much has been lost over time. It brought back memories for her. It also turned out to be her last trip back to the old country. Once she came to the US she never looked back. Beautiful video, much nicer in 1902. She and my grandparents would have enjoyed watching. Thank you for posting.
Look at the architecture of the village! How come villages and towns looked more beautiful 120 years ago than they do today? They did not even have a refrigerator at that time, yet they managed to both dress better and live in more beautiful houses and apartments than we have today, what is the reason for this?
Communist/Liberal architecture. There is no beauty in it just efficiency. Also, the architecture of this time reflected the spirit of a homogenous peoples. You don't get that w multiculti society.
Do you ever see some random person walking in one of these videos and wonder who they were? What their life was like? Just me? :)
i feel the same!
Yes!
Same feel
Feel the same, every video processing :)
I agree I feel the same way.
Something most people won' get: You can still take the SAME ride! Would be a lovely project to maybe put them side to side, to compare Wuppertal then and now.
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Its still working!! I visited Wuppertal recently I recognized the Zoo station and Central station (Hbf) 🙌🙌
Germany in 1902 was more developed than some countries today
Ancient Tenochtitlan (before it became Mexico) was more developed than many countries in Europe when the Spaniards conquistadors first visited the place. Too bad that we don't have any videos from that era. Only accounts from the conquistadors themselves such as this one: "It was like the enchantments in the book of Amadis, because of high towers, rues [pyramids] and other buildings, all of masonry, which rose from the water. Some of the soldiers asked if what they saw was not a dream". The city had aqueducts and its more than 200,000 inhabitants bathed daily. Which was one small detail that impressed the Spaniards since apparently they didn't take a shower very often. LOL
And many places were far more advanced too
@@Cassxowary Yeah centuries later LOL
So developed that they will elect a mad man in 30 years...what a great country indeed, what a great country...right?
@@xabierperez Your history knowledge of Germany is only limited between 1933-45... You're a poor and sad induvidual, i actually feel bad for you.
This is incredible
Well no sheet dick tracy
It’s still there! Just renewed! I rode it they use it as a normal tram, it’s crazy ahaha
A gift from the Tartarians. They gave us free electricity too. Look it up.
Just Wow
Awesome, isn't it?
The most amazing thing about this is seeing how tranquil it looks with roads that are not clogged with thousands of automobiles.
The only video in the world which gives you an impression of parallel universe like another earth or planet or dimension. I don't feel it is earth but more an alternative world
if there's one thing you'll notice in this kind of footage - NO ADVERTISEMENTS. That's what makes it so beautiful and clean. Imagine the place where you live without billboards, signs and stuff shining with artificial colors and each one trying to be more prominent than the others.
Don't say that then it'll start to flood with ads.
Congratulations!
You are now a communist😆
We need a time machine
1902 wasn't a time with lots of advertisements because they just started to invent that.
The architecture was also way more beautiful.
Watching such old films I always wonder how Europe would look like today without those two world wars...
Europe would't look better. USA also doesn't look better even when was not bombed in the two world wars. It is the opposite. Those wars boosted science. Where would be nuclear powerplants and rocket industry without WWII?
@@mareksykora5197 the eternal lie peddled by war mongerers and profiteers for decades. War did not lead to polio vaccine, or penicillin, or stem cell therapy. It did not lead to the internal combustion engine or artificial intelligence. It DID kill many millions, and lead many more to lives of poverty and servitude both during and after the world wars. Society has still yet to rip out the ideologies of hatred and nationalism that fueled the conflicts and horrors of the 20th century, and in recent times some of these thoughts have even been legitimised by states and media.
@@SmokeyBCN War is a competition on the highest level with the highest motivation to reach the target and with the highest concentration, it is about lives of your soldiers and all your people. Huge experiences with antibiotics, rocket science - german V2 rocket, great improvements in planes, radar, radio communication, experiences with nuclear reaction, atomic bomb, computers needed to calculate the processes in the bomb. Without the WWII it would be impossible for Neil Armstrong to land on the Moon just in 1969.
The second world war killed the german cities
nyz1973 ...probably just amazing. But even tho w/o wars we humans ‚tend to change things. Would have torn down old stuff, getting modernized... the wars did it just at once
More than 100 years ago, and we get to see it in such details. It's amazing
It's amazing how some things never change. At the 1:02 you can see kids on swings. It's now 2022 and I look in mt backyard and see my kids on swings. 😊
Sadly, considering how old they look and the time period this was filmed in and the location this was filmed in... there is a very good chance these boys fought in WW1
Kids like swinging... Why is that a shocker?
Kids don't use swings anymore.
Quite shocked, how much Germany was advanced more than a century ago. Raising Steel Structure above another steel bridge, Wow! Salute to Germans!
Germany did not exist before ~1871.
@@markp6982 what a joke that you are....
@@aolbaol2964 I get flak when I'm over the target.
@@markp6982 germany did exist before 1871, it just wasnt one unified country, but it was still germany. Kinda like the eu now, germany was kind off unified way before bismarck showed up.
@@cantinadudes Probably when it became a corporation like most/all countries.
Man that is just insanely cool
What an amazing structure from the early 1900's.Who knew that Germany was this advanced back in 1902? There is an old saying, once people put their minds together anything is possible!
I live in Germany and I didn't know that this Schwebebahn is from 1901!
Germany has always been very advanced. That’s why the whole world wants to piggyback on their work.
it wasnt a secret lol
Once Western Europeans put their minds together anything is possible
Germany and Germans renowned for technical innovation.
OMG!!!!!!
I AM SO HAPPY THAT I HAPPENED UPON THIS OLD FILM!!!!!
THIS WAS FANTASTICAL AND I COULD HAVE WATCHED THIS ALL DAY!!!
I WAS SO MESMERIZED BY THE INCREDIBLE GERMAN ENGINEERING AND THE BEAUTY OF THIS FLYING TRAIN AND ALL THE SCENERY!!!
JUST INCREDIBLE AND SO HAPPY THAT I GOT TO SEE THIS!!!
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERY BEST AND INTERESTING OLD FILMS THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!
I AM KEEPING THIS VIDEO IN MY FAVORITES!!!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS!!!
Imagine, this people had names, they had their aspirations, they had hopes and dreams too. I wonder what they're thinking at those moments, I hope they had a fruitful life. Now the time is ours, let's make the most of it.
@@witoldlaszuk2543 except they didn't.. the NSDAP did, not the normal citizen. big misconception there..
@@witoldlaszuk2543 First, this video is from 1902, so the people you see in it were probably mostly retired or even dead in the 30s and 40s. Second, most common people had no vested interest in the wars to come. Many bought into the propaganda, sure, but don't you do the same if you blame an entire country for the crimes of individuals? You may feel that way because you are Polish. The Prussian aristocracy and their kings (self-styled "emperors"), the heirs of the teutonic knights, subdued and oppressed most German states, especially the catholic ones in the West and South, just like they did with Poland. It's not a question of nationality but of ideology.
They all got raped by the soviet army...
Right! Because NSDAP had no aupport from the nation of Herrenvolk and, of course, NSDAP top and minor members were all the citizens of Mozambique!
However, all the sickening ideologies always came from one nation. Why are you trying to clean German history? Accept the facts. May they never have the power to let their bloody, primitive inatincts work again. That's the lesson and homework.
The streets look so calm. I want this back.
And another Daily Kaiserstraße traffic jam addict 😂👍
You guys gave everything away to the enemy 🤡
Need another plague or Corona virus ?
Germany is still under military occupation, in an effort to destroy it from within through endless immigration.
And I.
The flying train and its infrastructure feels so retro-futuristic even in today's standard. Feels like another reality.
Yeah. Like something from the parallel universe in Fringe
1902 год! Я совершенно поражен тем, насколько развитой была Германия. Супер классная работа!
В Гатчине тоже была подвесная дорога такая , и электромобили в то время и электробус.
идея немецкая эта тупиковая, скорость маленькая. Они могли бы с такой скоростью дешево и просто пустить катера по каналу. Особенно катамараны. У них вообще можно швартовку не делать , а сгружать людей на причальный островок посередине.
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Can you imagine being born in the early-mid 19th century and seeing something like this be built in your lifetime? People must have felt incredibly optimistic and privileged to witness such technological marvels.
They were incredibly optimistic about the future.
I think 0:50 shows it the best. Horse carriges were standard. Cars were a toy for the rich. And over the carrige floats a train still seen futuristic a hundert years later.
I think people born in the 1700s might've been more impressed, the early 1800s is when all the innovation started.
and then two world wars came...
Ludwig van Beethoven you were born in the 1700s
This is an utterly crazy achievement of engineering and architecture. Imagine, without computers, paper and pencil in had, measure precisely the entire route, design all the stations, all the turns, all the necessary auxiliary equipment, and then manufacture all the necessary elements, bring them together and combine them with really primitive tools, and knowing that nobody has build anything like this ever before! Today we have lasers for measurements, drones for scouting the terrain, AutoCAD to plan everything to the tiniest detail and the notion that everything is possible. Back then they just started using electricity for lighting!
Inventor is better than AutoCAD ;)
People used to draw on paper a lot. Paper, pencil and
logarithmic ruler is just enough for the huge steam machine, first jet engine or Eiffel tower. Who needs computers?
Finding the Route was pretty simple. Most of the Track is just above the River. Wuppertal badly needed a Rapid Transit System in the late 19th Century but didn't have Space for a normal Train or Tram. So they chose the only available Place which is over the River. That's also the Reason they built a suspended Monorail which would be a pretty crappy System anywhere else.
Dunno man.
Calculating the stability of a truss, is done in the first year of any engineering study, when all directions learn overall basics in mechanics, physics, maths, electrical stuff and so on.
German engineering is ze best in ze world!
It's amazing to see the house I grew up in exactly 100 years before I was even around
Я жил в Германии, много лет. Эти дома ещё сохранились и выглядят как новые. Немцы относятся с уважением к своему прошлому.
А дороги этой нет уже?
@@Bony.80 Её скоро посьтроють дороженьку☝️😉👍❗
Обожаю европейские домики построенные еще может (не знаю точно) в конце 19 века, каменые кирпичные, допустим их построили примерно в 1870-1890 они уже 140 лет стоят, и думаю смогут простоять лет этак 400 еще минимум. Вообще хотелось бы родится где нибудь в Германии или Франции или в Чехии в году этак в 1905. Люблю эту эпоху.
It would be cool if there was a side by side of this and the modern day version as they traverse the same section of rail
I just went and found a modern version and looked at them side by side on two monitors! It's quite different now.
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You can identify the corresponding sections in the modern video by the numbered pylons,, between about minute 3 and minute 15.
Lord Hogarth note: the link opens the video at a timestamp where this video here fades out and is not shown. Look at minutes 3 and short before 15 like he said
@@Freakinreviews oh man, its horribly different. Especially the part when they enter the bigger city. Now it's just factories and generic buildings. I hate this
@@TheDutchMitchell Wuppertal was severely bombed in WW2, so many buildings were destroyed
118 years later the Wuppertal Schwebebahn still operarional, amazing but true.
But nowadays, the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal is *extremely* glitchy
last time i took a ride in it was when i went to school 1 day before summer break in 2004, left Germany afterwards:(
Stuff was actually designed and built to last back then, Planned obsolescence wasn’t the norm.
@@Sushi3477 Wasn't the Phoebus Cartel active just a few years later?
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Not true, it’s well maintained.
I was left speechless by this video. Seeing it in colour and with such clarity is the closest thing to time travel. Well done preserving this piece of history and for presenting it in such a wonderful way.
This is weirdly calming. It's like something by Jules Verne - but real!
1980: I bet we'll have flying cars in 2020
1902: *flying trains*
Someone will has travelling last time
@Roman M. Had to Google what retrocasuality was and thank God I did cause I LMAO'd afterwards
The world is crowded, people are selfish and stupid, they cannot even drive properly on land, what’s worse and even more dumber in some cases, they cannot even stop at the pedestrian crossing and you want them to start flying their cars ? 😂
Flying cars and Flying Trains. Wasn't that the theme of Back to the Future?
So Doc actualy got his flying train not from future, but from fucking 1902 Wuppertal
1:12 the way that guy with the hat walks, It's unbelievable I can pretty much imagine myself walking there as well like it's 1902. But this is even before the flipping titanic!? You can still see just how rural the area is around it, it still has that 1800s charm to it. What fascinates me the most is that they'd probably have the same feeling about what happened a long time ago as we do, talking about the middle ages would make them seem almost modern, but then you're reminded of just how different the place really is. It'd be so weird to time travel there and know everyone around you doesn't know about ww1 and 2, their parents would've lived in the time of Beethoven. Immerse yourself in this world, it'll make you cry.
I loved how you put it, and I loved it even more when I noticed your username and picture 😂
Looks like the mans legs were bowed, probably had Rickets caused by vit. D deficiency as a child
This makes me want to get a VR headset..it FEELS like we are traveling thru time..
Wahnsinn. Wirklich - mir fehlen die Worte. Wie sauber und aufgeräumt unser Land mal war. Danke fürs hochladen.
Das Land war noch bis vor 10-20 Jahren ziemlich sauber.
@@Leonard0108 Doch ich meine damit die Hygiene auf den Straßen. Es war keine Anspielung.
Germany was never clean. all shit
@@wernersidler5775 Dein Kommentar ist auch nicht ganz sauber! 🥴
@@Leonard0108 but open borders.
I’m so sad we don’t make this kind of architecture any more. Everything is so boring and sad looking.
Almost like were devolving into shit.
Germany was very pretty around this time, until the idiot came and broke everything. The towns and cities were so well planned. And the suspended train is much better than a subway. Riding in the light instead of a dark hole.
@@krollpeter Yeah as a German I agree. A lot of Germany is kind of shitty now.
Seriously. Germans have no imagination . It’s really a shame. Esp in berlin it’s a third world shithole
@@mindyourbusinessxoxo You’re so wrong. Please tell me one thing that suggests that Germans don’t have imaginations? You literally just pulled that out of your ass.
It's unbelievable! German science and technology of 1900' are amazing and very impressive. The flying train, Germany in 1902 was fantastic and fascinating to me. Thanks for uploading!
True
@@gooser__43 You are correct. I have ridden it. Of course the cars have been replaced with new ones although I believe they kept one of the originals.
Yeah, I was especially impressed with that young man (at 3:00) on the bridge contemplating the relative speeds of the trains going in opposite directions and wondering what the perspectives of the passengers might be. Probably just daydreaming before heading off to Switzerland for his new job.
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@@piotrtrebisz6602 Thank you for giving me good information. From Seoul, Korea.
SO PEACEFUL!
Nobody in this video had a clue of what is coming in 12 years and what will be in 40 years...
dont fool yourself, some did.
I kept thinking the same thing and it was breaking my hear
They voted the wrong guy and believed in stupid conspiracy theories and lies back then. Like today.
@@kareha0 Turns out it wasn't just theories but real conspiracies. The Bolsheviks did conspire to overthrow the tsar. The Zionists did conspire to create Israel. The Americans did conspire to take the leadership from European empires.
Just think, that is no more after the war
Ich bin Wuppertaler und lebe jeden Tag mit der Schwebebahn.
Vielen Dank für dieses super Video, das habe selbst ich als Wuppertaler noch nicht gesehen 💗👍👌
This is amazing. i am coming from germany and its much more going on there. I love the peacefulness here, no cars. just a "flying" train and such a nice looking atmosphere... i wish the world was still like this...
same for me!!
I can't properly convey how I feel when I watch footage like this... The past absolutely fascinates me. So long ago, yet I feel as though I could almost reach out to touch it. Wonderful beyond words.
U can still go on it. :)
I agree but makes me sad too, can’t explain why maybe because everyone is gone.
@@fundagonulsen4020 yes omg me too
Remeber NO ONE from this Video lives anymore.
This is like being in a time machine. Like I was just there. The people walking in the street doing daily chores, kids playing. You almost forget this is over a century ago and even the kids are no more.
Life seemed so much more calm and tranquil then. This is a fantastic video.
it´s sad watching the people walking the street thinking that they probably had no idea what was about to come in just 12 years from then
I imagine a recording of riding a train with no goal other than to record the train ride would feel more tranquil than the average train ride in any century
Toller Film, in dem man sehen kann, wie es vor fast 120 Jahren in Wuppertal aussah.👍
I'm 23 years old and now living in Russia, where I was born in Wuppertal. As a kid I loved to sit in this Flying Train and to watch the terrain from the window.
Gosh, it makes me so emotional from this good old past ;(
Ps. Watching this video, i've recognized most of this places, especially the stations. Funny to see this from more than 100 years ago.
Wow, eigentlich geht man ja eher von Russland nach Wuppertal 😅
Kenn die Schwebebahn auch noch aus der Kindheit, da meine Großeltern in Wuppertal leben.
I can imagine how emotional you are. I was living in a beautiful small city in middle europe. When I see photos etc, I feel the same way as you. That is nostalgic..
yeah same here only that i still liive in there. the schwebebahn wagons had been canged and since then iit only had problems. once a cable fell down at a porsche and it diidnt drive for a year. now iits a diffrent probem with the same after effects. the weels are worn out and it has become really loud. i am only 18 btw
Выперталь
@@CjnwJust a question. Why did you write выперталь with a b in the and not stop at the л? How would it be pronounced if you wrote for example Вупертал?
There's something almost ethereal about this. It's like being in a dream or something.
On point
Totally amazing. It uplifted me. Human accomplishment.
That sudden change at the first station from almost rural streets to full on inner city gave me thematic whiplash.
Cities in these times looked so asthetic and clean because they were.
Must be because of the people living in it.
One of my friends prefere flat buildings in citys. I hate it. This vid shows how great a city can looks like. And that 118 years ago
Because it was before the socialist/fascist influenced movement called "modernism" (Bauhaus, Le Corbusier etc). A set of dogmas that rule over most architects and city planners to this day.
@Wil Sain Not on Mussolini or the Italian fascists per se, but on a similar totalitatian mentality as the fascists, communists and national socialists all had. Bauhaus was a totally leftist school, and Le Corbusier showed appreciation and admiration for these non democratic movements.
But only on the main streets, once you go into the alleyways it becomes a completely different story.
Then again, that's the same today but even our main streets are trashy
Thank you for the person that record this video in the train 118 years ago.. And for the person that enhanced and digitized this old video. You guys are awesome
1902 and flying trains ... I am sure German citizens were thinking: "What a magnificent century is ahead of us!".
WW1 happened and then WW2
It would have been if it weren’t for greedy bankers.
@@ChuckBeefOG *Jḝws
I was thinking the same. Before WW1 society was on the right track, overall quality of life in europe was improving and there was general optimism. Those in control decided to throw that away. Europe didn't recover for 40 years
This was before Britain and France forced unequal and corrupt treaties on Germany and Hungary.
Wowww! Superschön gemacht!!!! Danke!!!
🎀 An interesting fact about this train system:
Tuffi was a female circus elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, four years old, to travel on the suspended monorail in Wuppertal, as a publicity stunt. The elephant trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell ~12 meters (39 ft) down into the River Wupper, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured. Althoff helped the elephant out of the water. Both the circus director and the official who had allowed the ride were fined.
Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
Fascinating.
That has always been the story, but the car was full of reporters and nobody took a picture. There is only photographic evidence of a damaged car and later of a young elephant on the banks of the Wupper. The river is extremely shallow at that time of year and runs over stony ground. Wikipedia give the depth of the water as some 50cm, which sounds about right, but describes the location as muddy, which I doubt, though I don't remember it well enough to be able to swear to it, having last seen it 40 years ago.
So I believe, as I have believed since my Wuppertal relatives told me the story over half a century ago, that this is a lot of hype, that Tuffi damaged the car while trying to get out before the train had even left the platform and that the attempted journey was then abandoned. Sensationalism is the business of the real circus and the media circus, so I think that Althoff and the reporters embellished the story.
Think about it: Even a cat will rarely escape serious injury in a fall from such a height. (Though, knowing the location, I reckon that 12 meters are an exaggeration, too - the German version of the Wikipedia article gives the height as ca. 10m, which appears more accurate.) It is beyond belief, that an elephant should survive such a fall. Would a car dropped from that height just need a new bumper?
Many years ago, I urged Mythbusters to check the story experimentally, but unfortunately the series ended without the subject being investigated.
Same elephant was brought to the city hall of my hometown Oberhausen and got so upset there that she pissed all over the floor in front of the mayor. I suppose you can’t hold that against her.
Tuffi rocks the house.
Whatever you do just don't mention the Elephant in the SchwebeBahn Car
This may be the most beautiful video I have ever watched. Peering through time. The watercolor apsect of it. The fluidity. The ghosts of the past strolling by, beneath. Or are they still there, forever walking in a loop that is the eternal now? I am a total nerd for this. Awesome job.
1902 год, инфраструктура на высшем уровне. архитектурные здания, которые стоят не один десяток лет, металлические конструкции, навесные вагоны. все было уже развито тогда!
А какие были электромобили и электроскутера! Где-то наша цивилизация повернула не там...
@@user-yi9qd6le5k как минимум в 1914 и в 1939
I know this film has been tidied up and colourised but for a 120 year old film, it's surprisingly high res, detailed and well preserved. I would never have guessed the date save for the obvious giveaways in clothing, carriage design etc.
I live there....and the brigdes are still all there. Next to that big one, after the middle of the movie, there is a zoo nowadays. And Bayer AG. Lot of industry. Its so nice to see so much nature! Its still pretty green here actually, but compared to that video up there, it looks like New York :p
and the big bridge is actually not like there anymore :)
@@caiusmariusc The big brigde its diving under?? Just before Zoo. And it still looks old.
@@LaserGadgets since 1913 it's a new bridge de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnborner_Eisenbahnbrücke
@@caiusmariusc Ah ok.
the city was bombed in ww2?
Weird how much life would change for the people in this film over the next couple of decades after this film was shot
Can you imagine if those wars never happened how would life be?
@@BigBodyBiggolo Wars lead to the advancement of technology. If there was no war, man wouldn't have developed so much. Without Alan Turing, there would be no such thing as computer science. So if there was no war, he would never have made the Bombe. Bombe is an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher secret messages encrypted with the German Enigma-machine during the Second World War. Unfortunately, wars are bad and so shameful for humanity, but without war, mankind could not have developed. USA learnt to use Atomic Energy, Nazi Germany invented Jet Engines... lots of examples...
@@batuhandev4847 you are right, we would probably be living like the 60s.
But those advancement arent more important then the innumerable atrocities that happened world wide.
I would still much rather live in a world where the -R othsc hild- family and the other elitists didnt orchestrate two world wars and a dosen economic collapses, like they are doing right now.
Peace
@@BigBodyBiggolo I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….
@@BigBodyBiggolo I would rather that too
Absolutely marvellous, Denis! Thank You for the work. Great contribution to the original footage on 65 (!)mm-film. I am from Wuppertal. So I know each kilometer of this journey.
Stunning vid ! I lived in Wuppertal during the 70s and know this system quite well. Fun fact: in 1902 the name of a city called "Wuppertal" was unknown. We got Barmen, Elberfeld, Vohwinkel and a couple of smaller towns. The "unification" came in 1929. Greets from GER, U.
When the camera quality from 118 years ago is better than 99% of modern “UFO” footage.
You bring up a very good point!
And better than the combat cameras in 2122, when fighting Aliens.
@@wimpow LOL
And better then most cctv footage
Or cctv footage
This is so futuristic for 1902...
Something you'd see at Disney and Epcot...
to me, it looks still pretty futuristic even for now.
I’m getting some steampunk vibes
Looks like something out of a BioShock game, doesn't it?
Straight up feels like I'm looking at an alternate timeline of history
Other than how the people walking around are dressed i would completely believe this was a futuristic or innovative technology video. Das ist großartig!
И как это все строили в те года? Какие фермы, какие распоры прям над рекой!
My grandpa used to show me his postcards that he sent back home during WWII and one of them was from Wuppertal. I vividly remember that because of these trains! He died in ‘96 when I was 5 years old. I totally forgot about this place.
Years later in 2013, I was visiting my friend in Dortmund, and thanks to my lack of German, I missed my connection and continued towards Wuppertal. When I saw those trains again I also found a long lost memory with my grandfather.
Just look how amazing the cities looked before all the parked and driving cars everywhere. Looks so peaceful
By 1904 cars and motorised buses were just starting to replace trams and horse drawn carts. By the 1930s London was mostly cars and buses. By the 1970s practically every family had one.
Yes, here is a side by side with 2015. There are many cars today: th-cam.com/video/7TqqdOcX4dc/w-d-xo.html
Links with timestamps to modern day recording, coordinates to search with on Google Earth and some commentary:
0:22 Arch 34 - Kaiserstrasse, after of station "Bruch" - 51.2342321,7.0766762 - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
The building at the left of Arch 41, before the bend onto Göthestraße is still standing.
1:04: Arch 47 - Before the bend, looking up to either "Hammerstein" or the north end of "Schrödersbusch".
The house on the hill underneath Arch 47 looks to be still standing, though it appears to have lost the spire on it's west wing.
1:17: Arch 96 - After station "Sonneborner Straße" - 51.2385451,7.1009054 - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
To the right, the three buildings on the are still standing.
To the left, Hauptkirche Sonnborn barely visible at 1:20
1:53: Arriving at Station "Zoo/Stadion" - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
The big overarching bridge is the old "Sonnborner Eisenbahnbrücke" which was 60 years old at this recording. It would be completely rebuilt just 10 years later, and the "new" bridge is now over 100 years old.
2:21: Arch 233 - Before the old station "Alexanderbrücke" - 51.2559438,7.1442816 - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
2:30: Arch 236 - Below you can see the bridge "Wupperbrücke Alexanderstraße" - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
The old station was after/east of the bridge and burned down in WW2. A new station "Ohligsmühle" was opened in 1982, this time before/west of the bridge.
I think I recognize the three steps going up in the wall after the two boys at 2:43.
Behind them on the left is the old Bismarck Denkmal in Elberfeld. Destroyed in 1943, purportedly smelted for the war effort. It was built in 1895 (not even 10 years old in this recording) with funding of 60.000 Mark (100 Kg of silver) from 3000 donors.
2:50: Arch 241 - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
The beautiful building on the left with all those balconies appears to have been replaced by a cheap imitation
2:56: Arch 243 - "Isländer Brücke/Neue Fuhrstraße" - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
These buildings on the right belong to the "Neue Fuhrstraße" which were built starting 1885. To build them the old "An der Fuhr" (a slum built of traditional "fachwerk" houses) was torn down. The new buildings were destroyed in an 1943 air-raid, along with much else on the Döppersberg. At their location today is a parking garage and an underpass.
Many bridges have existed at this location, the one visible here was replaced by a larger one in 1928. To the left it leads to the main shopping street "Wall" of Wuppertal-Elberfeld and the "Neumarkt".
3:08: Arriving at Station Döppersberg - 51.2559067,7.1486854 - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
To the right is the Brausenwerther Platz. The statue is the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal, smelted in 1943.
The building behind it is the Stadttheater am Brausenwerth, bombed in 1943.
3:22: Arch 251 - Leaving Döppersberg - th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
From here, I can't regognize much. Earlier arches appear to be the exact same, but here it looks like they've been replaced, even if the numbering was preserved.
Wow. Thanks for your informative comment, loved those info. Especially about Bismark statue.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing this
Thank you. I live in Wuppertal and I barely recognized anything. That was really helpful.
Yes, some mysterious house on the hill is puzzle 🤔quite a gem by architecture.
You are a God!
Love the roads without the car, seems more peacefull and less stressfull from the constant honking and people always nearly crashing into each other
wolrd looked so good back then ... and the color style makes it so good
the architecture , fields mountains combiend not much crowed
This is straight out of some SteamPunk fantasy game/novell.
Nope, Just 1900s Germany
(Maybe, Just maybe, Steampunk is inspired by things like this)
@@noelblack8159 of course thats what he meant lol
@@georgeskanderbeg3242
I know,
But still
Just search for Wuppertaler Schwebebahn. Its still standing
In fact ive been on it. Feels weird but cool since the trains swing outwards a bit in the curves
Germany was such a beautiful country before the wars.
It still is a beautiful country!
The country who lost in two world wars still is one of the best in the world. And mine one - Russia - is a shithole. I hate it
Germans were very good at restoring bombed cities to their old glory. I've been to Rothenburg ob der Tauber last year and it was hard to believe that a large part of the city had been destroyed in an air raid in 1945. The restored part looked just like the part that that was spared.
Depends on what one considers as beautiful. You mean the landscape and architecture ? Sure that was nice. At least from our perspective. Life was certainly a lot quieter and slower paced as today but also a lot harder. An outdated monarchical system deeply embedded in a bubble of neo-imperialism and militarism with an ever increasing social class division slowly eroding its pillars. Pretty much the same as in most european countries at that time.
@Daan Schlüter
Russia before 1917 was a country where 95% of the population were in villages. Villages in the bad meaning. Peasants were slaves till 1861 and then they were enslaved again by terrifying
obligatory loans by the government. And after 1991 it's still the richest country in the world with the highest poverty level in Europe, with a kleptocratic dictatorship. And the communism isn't the reason. The reason is lack of the democratic principles in heads.
Compare the average city buildings back then to their counterparts of the present. No concrete bunkers and greenhouses but buildings that resemble the city's culture.
I’ve lived in Wuppertal for 1 year and been walking and driving in these streets 😮
At 2:55 when the train goes over the bridge, one man stops to watch.
It’s 118 years later, and we see you. We all stopped to watch this too.
😦😦😦
This is such a nice comment. 😊 Stopping and appreciating the present is so important in this hectic world.
An utterly tantalizing timetravel in a lost age; my home country. The „Schwebebahn“ or floating train was opened in March 1901 in a town called Wuppertal. It´s still in use today. Much of the architecture shown in the footage has been destroyed during WW II.... Magic, Denis, thanks!
Oh awesome, thanks for the fact, so is it still in use till today? Is it efficient?
@@adzamkaulana9343 Sure, they have to use it. There is no much space in this town in narrow walley. So they need to use city transport just above the river.
Meine Oma ist 1900 in einer der zerstörten Straßen geboren, sie erzählte oft von ihrer Kindheit in Elberfeld, und natürlich von der Schwebebahn. Ich kann es kaum fassen, daß der elende TH-cam-Algorithmus mir gerade diesen einen Blick in ihre Kindheit serviert hat...
mickimicki ,Hey, ich bin auch zufällig darauf gestoßen... Ich habe in Elberfeld in meiner frühen Kindheit gelebt.
That's amazing and very sad at the same time.
How do I wish the camera had been invented at an earlier age? At least we could have watched Napoleon, the French Revolution, and fashion in the era of Louis 16, with sound and image, how wonderful that was
French revolution in colour... Thanks but no thanks
lol we have paintings for that
The Architecture, sooo beautiful! And this is Wuppertal.. Wish I could experience Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden and Munchen from these times.. So much was lost :(
Our world today looks more like a Mad Max movie in comparison to that.
But the flying train (called "Schwebebahn")still works flawlessly!
I wish I can go back to that era ! no addiction to easy accomplishment and living in depression, being closer to nature is more healing to the soul & mind. No tech life appreciation
Unbelievable that they have built that 120 years ago. Two World wars did an injustice to the once advanced country.
On the contrary, that once- advanced country did an injustice to the world with two world wars.
@@Fairfax40DaysforLife Not really. Germany didn’t start WW1 it was Austria-Hungary if you would be just slightly educated you would know that. After that came the treaty of Versailles and if Germany deserved that treaty, Europe deserved WW2.
I always look forward to your uploads. This really takes the viewer back to a different era.
This is the first video in a long time that made my mouth drop open in amazement
Such a quaint, antique picture of turn-of-the-century European country life - I love the homely slate-roof cottage with the boy swinging in the yard and the mother walking with her children at 1:05 - gliding along in the futuristic skytrain. Why don't we have these now??
Это просто фантастика! Потрясающе!
Unglaubliche Qualität für das Jahr. Was für eine schöne friedliche Zeit.
Ja jetzt ist dort wo die bahn verläuft nichts als schmutz und nen haufen asozialer, bin dort zur schule und hab da gearbeitet die stadt ekelte mich nur an.
@@deutsche-kuromoriminepanze2737 Ich war öfter in Wuppertal und glaub mir, dass Ruhrgebiet ist 100 mal gammeliger. xD
@@augustpreiler3555 ich wohne im ruhrgebiet und es ist ansich genau gleich wenn man nicht im ländlichen gebiet wohnt.
@@deutsche-kuromoriminepanze2737 auch wenn es keiner glauben will, aber die Stadt ist hauptsächlich so asozial, aufgrund eines bestimmten “Klientel” welches da lebt...leider
Habe Wuppertal auch in sehr guter Erinnerung. Bin 1935 dort geb,oren und habe dann 42 Jahre dort gelebt. Auf jeden Fall ist damals die Schwebebahn IMMER gefahren.
Amazing old footage. I didn’t realize they had rail systems like this in 1902.
It's actually not that complicated, mechanically, if I remember correctly. They didn't become common because, for most purposes, the standard sort of railway is just better (not sure which is safer, they mostly have different safety hazards from each other). It so happens, though, that in this case there was a problem that needed solving that the regular railway Wasn't suitable for: the only viable path for the track for most of it's length was straight down the river! Also other issues, but that's the one I remember.
History did not start with smartphones....
The besteht thing is, this system is still running. I know it because i live in Wuppertal
I lived in Wuppertal for a short period and going for a walk outside always felt like a museum tour with nearly all of those turn of the century houses still intact and standing...Ölberg, Markomannenstraße was my address, very cheap rents and a city that used top be the hub of german industrialization but has been passed by since the decay of the old industries and is still struggling to find a new role nowadays...
beeindruckend, die hohe Quallität, besser als als 60 Jahre später bei der Mondlandung. Und wieder zu sehen, Straßenbahnen ohne Strom-Trasse
Ohne Strom-Trasse? Deutschland erfand die ersten praktischen elektrischen Straßenbahnen.
i live in germany. but why da fk this looks so surreal? so hard to imagine this.
@Roman M. so it's not real right
@Roman M. damn barbarian lmfao
@Roman M. what was added?
Das habe ich mir auch gedacht ob das wirklich echt ist?..so Künstlich würde ich sagen.
@Roman M. I hope you are just trolling. xD