Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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The town of Neu-Isenburg just south of Frankfurt is not a classic tourist hotspot. But its history is linked to religious persecution, a refugee crisis, and intercultural tensions. Also, one of post-war Germany's greatest statesmen wasn't born here, but his name was.

Chapters:
00:00 An intriguing town
00:23 Aircraft noise
00:36 Religious persecution
01:08 The Count of Isenburg-Offenbach
02:06 The tram that thinks it's a train
02:38 The border
03:14 Town planning, Baroque style
04:02 The church and the town hall
04:38 Building the town
04:55 The French school
05:29 Rivalries
06:28 Historic pride
06:53 Willy Brandt? No, Willi Brandt!
07:39 The House of the Lion
08:11 Getting there


Music:

"On My Way Home"
by The 126ers
YouTube Audio Library

"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence


Map of the Holy Roman Empire
by Ziegelbrenner
via commons.wikimedia.org

Street map of modern Neu-Isenburg
created with data from
OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org

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