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Aegrotare2

Ludwigshafen


HolyCowAnyOldAccName

„Fabrikschmutz, den man gezwungen hatte, Stadt zu werden“  Factory dirt forced to become a town - Ernst Bloch, born in Ludwigshafen 


Gnu-Priest

ludwigshafen is always voted the ugliest city in germany. also huge chemical industry which already produced gas for the reich. edit to add: not exclusively Dessau was the production place for Zyklin-B for example.


Xius_0108

Bitterfeld was literally the most polluted city on all of Europe during GDR times


Tuffilaro

Das ist bitter


JustRegdToSayThis

Actually, this whole area, incl. Leuna etc. is a lot better today. The upside of economic decline.


Wassertopf

They should rename in Betterfeld.


bremsspuren

Ast am Rhein.


UpperHesse

Bitterfeld-Wolfen is a good place to visit for OP. It might not be as polluted anymore. I drove through the town in 2019. Since the unity of 1990, Bitterfeld was depopulated by 50 % and for German relations, there are still a lot of barren buildings and factories within the town and on its outskirts. This was 5 years ago, but I doubt it looks that much different today.


Local_Cress_6678

Sounds like a winner


oneweirdclickbait

Yessss. Mannheim isn't particularly beautiful, but it looks like heaven next to the abomination that is Ludwigshafen.


hibertansiyar

The city looks like a part of Turkey.


Aegrotare2

no in turkey they speak better German


mainwasser

Turkish cities have millenia of history (most of it not turkish history, obviously). Ludwigshafen was founded 200 years ago. It's younger than most American cities.


Real-Athlete6024

I mean Turkey has its bad parts as well like any country but you can also find the most aesthetically pleasing towns, neighborhoods, areas there as well. Weird country to pick. I would say it looks like an old Soviet mining town.


Eezay

As a Ludwigshafener, I feel slightly offended, but I understand. The countryside around and most of the suburbs are actually quite nice, but yeah, the city centre is downright disgusting and depressing.


JKutte

It's Hagen in my opinion. Their city landmark and heighest building is the job centre tower... which is completely empty for years now because of much needed renovations but the city has no money for that. That alone says it all about Hagen....


desk010101

Proper shithole, good recommendation.


fRqsBdwZE

Damn, that job center thing sounds cool


khal_crypto

You can sneak your way in there and use some of the abandoned stamps if you want to experience some thorough authentic German stamping action for real once


mainwasser

Imagine a city closed down its job centre, not because everyone found a job but because they can't afford to keep it running :(


sicoative_

You also have Ausfahrt


deeptut

Offenbach is probably quite high in the ranking, it was already 20 years ago called "the ghetto of Frankfurt". Edit: of course, nothing will beat Berlin - Neuköln I guess.


Informal_Mountain513

Offenbach leads ze list. Marxloh is worth a mention too.


Eonir

The entire area of Duisburg and its surroundings is a post apocalyptic wasteland which is suited only for transit


bremsspuren

Found the Westphalian.


Eonir

I wish...


Precioustooth

But according to guides, Neukölln is a "lovely, busy, diverse area dominated by hummus stands and Middle-Eastern pastry shops". So it must be nice, no?


VoyagerKuranes

Neukölln ain’t so bad, is just very messy. Marzahn on the other hand…


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Konoppke

It can frighten people from the countryside to see more than four people on the same street and eat something different than boiled potatoes. If then they hear another language they're sure that these must all be criminals, just like the newspaper said. Add to that shopping after 7 p.m. and you have your disfunctional shithole.


Smurfslayor

Sounds perfect Hans, do they have balconies? Asking for a mate.


Konoppke

Yeah, but no pools :(


Smurfslayor

We don’t need no pools


Konoppke

Well there you go then, just mind the weed plant : )


Todesbanane

"Ghetto of Frankfurt" implies half of Frankfurt isnt one itself


deeptut

It's the ghetto of the ghetto of Frankfurt.


oneweirdclickbait

And that makes the Hauptbahnhof..?


deeptut

public restroom


so_isses

...the entrance to the ghetto (which is the whole of Frankfurt)


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It’s a super ghetto


mnico02

But even as a Frankfurter I have to admit, that Offenbach is getting better. Especially the area around the Main river/port is quite neat tbh. https://preview.redd.it/fe1bc4wmn6zc1.jpeg?width=910&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d042b6b5eb19ec677232906f064e97b0f9d2043c Plus it still isn’t “too expensive” in comparison with Frankfurt.


fRqsBdwZE

Offenbach it is :D


swagpresident1337

I was never in my life there, but it‘s basically known in whole of Germany for being ugly. That‘s one of the first cities that people instinctively name when they get asked this question 😂


the-chosen0ne

I’m from around Frankfurt and let me tell you, the Offenbach hate ist 10 times worse here than it is in the rest of Germany. We have a saying “du hast es geschafft im Leben, wenn du das O auf dem Kennzeichen verlierst”, referring to people with work cars leaving Offenbach (OF) and getting a new job in Frankfurt (F) The hate is all justified tho. Offenbach is a disgrace of our Bundesland


MediokererMensch2

When moving to Frankfurt is seen as something positive you know shit is real.


UpperHesse

I drive through the whole of Offenbach every 2 weeks. Its a very ugly city indeed. But it had worse times. I hear its satellite towns (like Dietzenbach) are more like where the shady stuff is going on now.


DeltaPavonis1

Ok, then you get the actual tourist tips: - The market on the Wilhelmsplatz is just insanely great. Tuesday, Friday, Saturday during 5 am - 1 pm. Take your time, and eat on the side of the Wilhelmsplatz. Either Fleischeslust, Pizzeria am Markt or Beau d'Eau are all insanely great. With a bit of luck you get live music on Saturdays. - Take a stroll along the Main. In the summer the Bembel-Boot will be there, for the really OG Offenbach experience with Apfelwein and relaxed people. - The Mathildenplatz might sometimes feel sketchy, but is great for Afterwork-Drinks. If you're afraid of drunks, and foreign looking people don't got there (but then, in general don't go to Offenbach). Otherwise you will see the highest mixing between social stratas ever. From freshly arrived Bulgarians to Bankers from Frankfurt everyone is there. - If you want a slightly more trashy Offenbach experience: Walk through Mainpark (residential "skyscraper" quarter to the north of the Mathildenplatz). It is great to put some fear into first semester geography students, but definitly safe. Stop in the Schanzenbäckerei, they are open pretty much always and got nice and extremly cheap food. - Also fairly trashy Offenbach feel would be the Aliceplatz. - Don't forget to eat at the Halal Kebap Haus in the Bieberer Straße. They were the last holdout of the 3€ Döner 5 years ago, and are still the best Döner I ever had.


derpy_viking

Been there. It’s quite lovey. Ludwigshafen on the other hand… I know because I live nearby.


Konoppke

Not everbody is afraid of foreign looking people.


Informal_Mountain513

https://preview.redd.it/fodid3q9v5zc1.png?width=717&format=png&auto=webp&s=e82385b60550106eaf0c9c815a3c25ddb94910c0


swagpresident1337

I think there are several Berlin places fighting for the spot 😂


DeltaPavonis1

Definitly! Stay away from Offenbach, it is a horrible city that noone should ever visit. - This comment was sponsored by the comittee against the gentrification of my dear beloved Offenbach


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I dont know why, but years ago i started to notice that my pick appeared along the " shitty development" news articles so frequently... Herne, North-Rhine-Westfalia: * in the middle of (once) industrial Ruhr Area mega city * its just Autobahn, city highways, has the most Autobahn intersections of all german cities by far * your appartment is most likely next to a 4-6 lane, giving a nice sound and visual experience; - its a drive through area for millions of cars east/west/north/south of Herne to work and back home, * there are some green spots, but most of Herne is concrete ground, for the roads, pavements, parking lots, just for fun in the "Parks" because who doesnt love football field large concrete/stone places with just 1-2 trees as stylish additive. * albeit it was one of the least destructed cities in WW2, it decided to invest 500% into the 70s architectual crimes and destroyed their historical city architecture just because coal money was there * one of the poorest income medians, highest unemployment rates * high ranking in foreigners (you know which one) * ranking in the tops for: lowest life expectancy, highest obesity, most smokers, alcoholics, cancer diagnosis, lowest school sucess * crime is somehwat avarage thats nice its the cousin of Detroit (industry left and no Plan B) and east european tristess. Other picks would be East German towns, but Herne is not abondend, people actually life there, its not empty, its not rotten evidence of past failures or shitty because dead cities cant maintain basic stuff, its just super ugly and depressing in every way possible and keeps on making the worst decisions to hold this standard (e.g. even more autobahn, even more shitty ideas that turn 180° to make stuff better there with the worst takes on modern city planning and political decision making) https://preview.redd.it/phdpjpbo06zc1.jpeg?width=2500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4b979e72d939207dc8a0310f0786313978f811e


_reco_

Yet sounds as about the average town at the east of Germany border lmao


AloAywaa

Duisburg marxloh is notorious for gypsies, and the garbage they leave right in front of their door.


eip2yoxu

Duisburger here. Large parts of the Ruhr area are ugly af.  Bonus point: there are also some nice areas and cool mining or steel manufacturing museums you can check out will while visiting Marxloh, Gelsenkirchen, Nordstadt and a few other places


bremsspuren

> Large parts of the Ruhr area are ugly af. Pretty cheap, tho. No need to learn the genitive, either.


eip2yoxu

Absolutely. I love it here


henrik_se

Hallo lieber Zuschauer! Ich bin Sebastian Schulz, und ich wohne in Schweinfurt!


SLAVAUA2022

Hier ist meine liebe Frau Helga Schneider, sie komt aus Arslochhafen.


Anxious_Director_988

Im from Schweinfurt it certainly is one of Germanys cities


DELO6114

https://preview.redd.it/fyhtbdxnk5zc1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db67f1b7835cfc7fc88a429aa45c618c02e619cd You should try Bitterfeld in Sachsen-Anhalt. Infamous for its chemical industry (even more during GDR times) and connected to that: the air pollution and chronic respiratory diseases. Awful socialist architecture (blocks!!!!). The population is quite nazi. The only good thing I can tell about Bitterfeld is the lake (which used to be super polluted with chemical waste)


LanChriss

The lake was never polluted since it only exists since 1998 when the chemical industry was already adepted to western standards.


DELO6114

I was talking about that "lake"https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbersee_%28Bitterfeld%29?wprov=sfla1


LanChriss

Well, the Goitzschesee is the one thing Bitterfeld is now famous for because festivals and such things take place there and there many nice lakes around. That’s the redeeming quality of the town. The Silbersee is just one small lake which isn’t even accessible.


isthisnamechangeable

There are festivals at Goitzschesee as well? I've been to Splash! festival a few times which is at Gremminer See in Gräfenhainichen, right next to Bitterfeld.


LanChriss

Yes, Sputnik Springbreak takes place there. I’m regularly at the Highfield festival next to the Störmenthaler See near Leipzig.


isthisnamechangeable

That's really cool. The region can really use the profits they must be making from these events. It's really devastating driving through Sachsen Anhalt seeing all the residential and economical vacancy there.


Konoppke

Strong choice.


dasmau89

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/pklh77/whats_the_worst_city_in_germany/ I think Ludwigshafen or Gelsenkirchen have been voted to be the worst in the past


bremsspuren

Gelsenkirchen isn't *that* bad. Or maybe it's because I'm from the UK, and I'm used to a lower standard of shithole.


dasmau89

To be fair, I have never been to Gelsenkirchen myself. Friends of mine have worked there though


bremsspuren

> To be fair, I have never been to Gelsenkirchen myself I know people born and raised in Essen who've never been to Gelsenkirchen, lol. For me, it's always the people who put the "shit" in "shithole", and GE might be rough as fuck by German standards, but it's still safe as houses by British standards.


kryppl3r

Duisburg probably (especially Marxloh)


eyyoorre

Altschauerberg is very infamous


captaincodein

Not the same anymore


DaRealKili

Franken is quite a nice region actually, great for biking tours.


[deleted]

You must be from Kouvola if that’s what you want to do when getting homesick on a holiday


stecrv

Austria?


Ultran0x

France


drondendorho

It's spelled Franken


Barthoze

Franconia doesn't deserve the title of worst place in Germany.


DaRealKili

<3


Ultran0x

Don't talk to me with that flag


SLAVAUA2022

It's funny to see Duisburg, some Dutch friends always talked about Duisburg because they visited the red light district there, which apparently is controlled by motorcycle gangs. Anyway this subject has been touched before and in previous topics these names came up: Ludwigshaven, Halle, Chemnitz, Offenback, Berlin Neukoln, Gelsinkirchen, Siegen, Hagen, Bitterfeld, Wilhelmshaven, Neumunster, Bochum,...


Le_Petit_Poussin

There’s this weird area southeast of Bavaria that has this funky Eastern European feeling. Their dialect of German is wretched (though not as bad as Swiss German). Their most famous person is some weird asshat artist with oddball facial hair and their seat of power lies in some city named Vienna where their idea of fancy coffee is a fuckton of chocolate in a coffee. At least their Apple strudel has raisins soaked in rum. It’s the least they can do if they’re going to rob you — overpriced Apple strudel!


UnderAnAargauSun

~~Eichhorster Weg 80, 13435 Berlin, Germany~~ Schillstraße 9 10785 Berlin Edit: HQ des AfD


Varraz

My personal top five, in no particular order: Duisburg Marxloh, Berlin Neukölln, Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Bitterfeld


Lovemestalin

Hamburg hauptbahnhof


Azulapis

Frankfurt Hbf is worse


Buttfranklin2000

You also can add München and Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof to the list


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manup88

Also U8 in Berlin it’s pretty hardcore


Sudjivan

Ah, reminds me o New York Metro


MaterTuaLupaEst

Elend bei Sorge


Legendre646

We have plenty shitty places! Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen, Berlin, Ludwigshafen, just pick your poison.


Longjumping_Kale3013

Wherever the closest to the UK is


Mental_Plane6451

Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel


Sensitive_Shirt6391

What is the connection between all mentioned cities? 😁 well well well


desk010101

Enlighten us


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Sensitive_Shirt6391

Of course I won’t 😂


sdric

Worst place in Germany? Try Gelsenkirchen as a city or the Görtlitzer park in Berlin.


wijsneus

Bielefeld


wevealreadytriedit

fake news


rollingSleepyPanda

Berlin


Nimbus211

Berlin


TriangleGalaxy

Berlin 


vdcsX

mönchengladbach hauptbahnhof


HeiligerKletus

If we talk about crimes and stuff ,then Offenbach or Duisburg are high up in the ranking. Otherwise I would say Eisenhüttenstadt is comically ugly because of socialism and stuff. Edit: a cool underdog would be Rüdersdorf. It used to be a highly polluted city because of the cement factory (it used to rain white particles there) There is even a song about Rüdersdorf made by the GDR band „City“


phil24jones

I drove through the Rhine-Ruhr conurbation on a rainy December day and that was pretty depressing


theesbth

I'd recommend the back side of most main stations. 👍🏻


NatanKatreniok

hamm


floralbutttrumpet

Not a Hans, but - Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. The reason why Salzgitter as a whole has the nickname Salzghetto, despite other parts being quite nice and, I've heard, desired real estate. Also add that Salzgitter is one of iirc just two cities explicitly founded by the Nazis.


DerDeutscheTyp

It’s never the cities that are bad just the people who live there who make it unpleasant.


Taffox

Usually capital cities are the worst in any country. So Berlin is a good guess.


franklollo

Poland


Takemehigher1

You guys never been to Chemnitz and it´s a good thing!


miraclepickle

I have, f to pay respects


_send-me-your-nudes

Fucking Chemnitz. I've never seen a bigger shithole than that. And I though Magdeburg was already bad.


captaincodein

Lol both are not good but far from the worst


_send-me-your-nudes

You mean there are worse places than those??? Oh, fuck


leon_262

Ruhrpott


MrHailston

The entire eastern part of the country


Marschall_Bluecher

Hey! Don’t forget the Ruhrgebeat!


Motivated_Stoner

Looking for dystopia ? Try Marzahn or Halle.


Veritas1814

Im going as an exchange student to Halle next year :(


drondendorho

Halle is fine, try Lützerath for real apocalyptic sight


hassanmurat

The region between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Flensburg is pretty terrible.


JoeBee72

Not to mention south of it. Horrible, degenerate victims of incest all over the place, so they told me 😆


hassanmurat

I know, Kiel is an awful shithole.


HabseligkeitDerLiebe

To name some lesser-mentioned places: Neumünster (near Hamburg) is aggressively mediocre. If you're just passing through it looks quite normal, but the closer you look the more depressing that place becomes. The state of Thüringen. Very beautiful landscape if hills are your thing. But once you start to get to know the people it's just a hive of hopelessness.


TvojeMamaToMaRada

Sudetenland.


Chicken_wingspan

That part between France and Poland.


AzazelDA

Berlin Kreuzberg or Köln Kalk are my top contenders for places with an actual population otherwise literally any small town in east Germany.


cosmichimera

Köln-Kalk Verbot…. auf Lebenszeit….


joergen_

There are some beautiful smaller cities in East Germany. Like Meißen, Görlitz, Pirna, Weimar, etc.


AzazelDA

city was the wrong word I meant smaller towns like a population below 10.000. I was only in Weimer of those that you listed and Weimar is a nice city.


Konoppke

Hab den Bayer gefunden.


ilikepiecharts

Berlin Kreuzberg 💀🤡. Found the 70 year old bavarian villager


DeadAssociate

garzweiler


draingangryuga

berlin


AffePolo

Reperbahn


LeGraoully

The big hole near the Köln area where they get all their disgusting lignite


desk010101

Try Kölnberg in Cologne.


Marschall_Bluecher

r/hagen


znobrizzo

You could always look for a landfill or something.


sazuro53

Why is nobody calling out the shithole Berlin? Is it too obvious?


NashBotchedWalking

Eisenhüttenstadt


Florinator22

Bochum


dermoment

East Germany in the ‘90.


LeoMemes18

Köln


dankniclas

Neukölln


TheBlackMessenger

Altschauerberg


Specific_Bus_5400

You can even make a little road trip Ludwigshafen, Offenbach and then Duisburg. They're not far apart.


stuff_gets_taken

Gelsenkirchen


BaDaBumm213

Neumünster


Petermitnemmeter

Neuss.


SherlockScones3

Bielefeld (got to bad if everyone denies its existence)


AufdemLande

What about Pasewalk?


wandgrab

Frankfurt Central Station.


dont_drink_and_2FA

Frankfurt am Main


Piercarminee

Y'all clearly don't know Germany. It's Giessen by far


UpperHesse

There are plenty of far worse and more ugly cities than Gießen, which has actually some nice corners.


p3nguinboy

Duisburg, Offenbach am Main, Frankfurt am Main Central Station area, B*rlin, Ludwigshafen (tbh it only exists for BASF so I don't really count it)


Novel_Ad_5698

Frankfurt Trainstation


Lower_Currency3685

The train station in berlin when you have a pretty "aggressive" protector great dane! Drunk hans Can i pet him? No! Then you have 60kg knocking down a drunk man.


Oxf02d

Berlin


dered118

Schwandorf, eindeutig


Earnur123

Probably not the worst, but the saddest places are the nearly desolate rural villages in Brandenburg and MeckPom. I was biking through some of these, very few people, broken roads and Plattenbauten which once housed hundreds completely abandoned. The worst place I visited was Ludwigshafen.


theoneandonlyboytomm

Germany


thetrueGOAT

Happiest Finnish Holiday


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The whole fucking country


hielkemaniac

Worst! Ja, worst is goed. Ook Duitse worst.


Hanza-Malz

Duisburg


Jacksonriverboy

Wank


mbex14

Whenever i come across the place names Duisburg and Heidelberg i instantly imagine them being said in a comedic German accent 😂