when there were plans to build a major road along the danube from one end of the old town to the other to the window and longing for an item into the which we simply held a protest there and prevented it from happening to protest you or not it s just on the whole quick and on sometimes you weren t born in regensburg what you ve lived here for a long time what makes regensburg so unique. that s a good question if you re stuck and i have a very strong emotional bond to the city and i feel at home here. for i always have we it was like when i stepped off the train in rome the 1st time and felt i d been there before your martial way or i m just now i m half and half roman so to speak and you start here in this city is very much worth living in because it s preserved its historical structure both in stone and in spirit. the whole world was in reagan s book during the perpetual diet but he comes across this mixture of presidential and cosmopolitan is really something that beautiful and he wa
life of those people who live. on the banks of the danube which during peak season is lined with cruise ships i meet with peter maass but he has the organization friends of reagan s bergs old town it s one of the oldest citizens initiatives in germany and as the name implies it s concerned with preserving the city s historical heritage their most recent coup was to prevent the construction of a convention center in the old town to hide from the rain we seek cover in a former royal villa which today houses the bavarian monument office and was permitted on most value previously worked as a tourist guide in reagan s work what s your take on this tourism boom. i think it s very positive because i experienced the humble beginnings when there were 600 guided tours in the year or year and now we have more than 6000 guided tours before
more than half a 1000000 people come to vote in the abbey every year. where you re from here i have found that i m not either for on a spread of years back there are now from south korea from busan the good very much this close up as the. the spear. 1 back in the slightly rainy reagan s burg i have an appointment with my ts paetec at the 95 flats he shows me the outlines of the former jewish synagogue. reagan s burg is like many many evil cities if you dig here it s likely you ll discover something in 1905 traces of the 2000 year history of the city were uncovered during construction work on a knife op that s. was. looking
a pig a deliberate insult and humiliation as pigs are considered unclean in judaism. even so the building as a whole is an impressive monument next to the one in cologne ribbons for a cathedral is considered to be germany s most extraordinary gothic cathedral. reagan s berg was not only important because it became a bishop seat fairly early on the danube was a significant trade and traffic route and here on its banks in the old town hall the perpetual diet or rice stock was held for over 140 years.
some of the locals on the other hand aren t too enthusiastic about their new found fame. in summer of 2006 the old town of reagan s book becomes a unesco world heritage site for it s fantastic i hope for this for a long time before. they were euphoric celebrations in the city. you know we did it to the world heritage status is a rare distinction but today. god says it will share are happy for you and we were proud but things have gotten out of hand also ought to be what nobody ever really wanted to be a world heritage site because nobody really thought about the consequences we just wanted to get in the tourist brochures and there was a big boom back then were trying to sort it out 1st it was nice to see so many people come but now it s turned a little like it just going to. put some of the conspirators the own stores has