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Quote: In 1938, it again became a "free city" (which means that it didn't belong to a county)

Anyone care to expand on this? It seems quite an important part of Ulm's recent history.

--Spiggot 16:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

It seems to be a complete unneccessary and misleading quote. Every town which exceeds the number of 100.000 exhabitants beomes that status, which means that it now is an urban district and not longer part of a county. The quote pretends a status like that of a Imperial Free City, of which it is far from, but in fact Ulm was once one. In the moment it looks like the Nazis granted the City of Ulm a special status, but it only exceeded 100.000 people in 1938.

I changed it, for non-Germans the old quote seemed to be simply confusing. Gerhard51 16:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I rewrote and extended the article. Hope you like it. There is however still much to do. Candidus 11:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

The Hirschstraße picture currently says "View from the Münster towards Hirschstraße. Due to its almost complete destruction in 1944, this part of the city consists of modern architecture only.", which isn't true. For example, today's "Wöhrl Plaza", former "Hertie" has survived the WW II bombings, although it was damaged and had to be repaired. It's the building with the distinctive roof on the left, the thing that looks like a chopped-off cylinder with a peak in the middle. This is the location of the central stairhouse of the building, which had a glass dome in earlier times, as historical photographs show. Also, right above the entrance (not visible from the picture in the article), there is a stone relief that was hidden behind metal blinds/covers (covering the entire building's front and sides) during the "Hertie" times, and discovered again during renovation when it was turned into the "Wöhrl Plaza". Today, it is sometimes covered with advertising, but if you're lucky, you get to see it. Maybe someone could "wikify" this information and add it to the article? At least change the statement that all Hirschstraße buildings are post-war buildings - this is just plain wrong. 85.216.17.14 20:24, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint. I replaced "only" by "primarily". I think this term adequately describes the situation. Candidus 11:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)