Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Building a large industrial area as part of the cargo harbor expansion. Talking about waterways, dams and canals of the Central Europe in the Eastern Bloc.
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Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Information about sources:
My primary sources are in Czech and Slovak, because I understand it and I can easily borrow books, search theses, articles or old TV programmes. This gives me information about Czechoslovakia. After learning or confirming something, I search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary through online articles or videos, but also sometimes English books that I can see through library access. Although some sources pop up from those other countries first. I don't research the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, since that is not where the series is from. I also don't focus on political theory but rather the reality.
Pictures credits:
(1) Veletov, Povodí Labe
(2) Šamorín, Slovakia by Laci30 / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(3) Gabcikovo Dam by Erik Cleves Kristensen / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(4) Visegrád és Nagymaros by Gyula Péter / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(5) FORTEPAN / tm - Hungary, Danube Bend, Visegrád, 1989
Major sources:
Online sources:
(I) Technical monuments of Elbe and Vltava waterways lvvc.cz
(II) Inland Waterways in Poland https://www.gov.pl/web/infrastruktura/srodladowe-drogi-wodne
(III) IMPREX D9.1: Vulnerability of Inland Waterway Transport and Waterway Management on Hydro-meteorological Extremes
TV and video:
(IV) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(V) Recent TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Google Maps
(VII) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com or fortepan.com
(VIII) Various online articles for technical information, after searching the specific dams, canals and rivers.
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building a large industrial area as part of the cargo harbor expansion. Talking about waterways, dams and canals of the Central Europe in the Eastern Bloc.
You can directly support the channel by becoming a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
Twitch - twitch.tv/akruas
Mod collections: steamcommunity.com/id/akruas/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710
Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Information about sources:
My primary sources are in Czech and Slovak, because I understand it and I can easily borrow books, search theses, articles or old TV programmes. This gives me information about Czechoslovakia. After learning or confirming something, I search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary through online articles or videos, but also sometimes English books that I can see through library access. Although some sources pop up from those other countries first. I don't research the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, since that is not where the series is from. I also don't focus on political theory but rather the reality.
Pictures credits:
(1) Veletov, Povodí Labe
(2) Šamorín, Slovakia by Laci30 / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(3) Gabcikovo Dam by Erik Cleves Kristensen / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(4) Visegrád és Nagymaros by Gyula Péter / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(5) FORTEPAN / tm - Hungary, Danube Bend, Visegrád, 1989
Major sources:
Online sources:
(I) Technical monuments of Elbe and Vltava waterways lvvc.cz
(II) Inland Waterways in Poland https://www.gov.pl/web/infrastruktura/srodladowe-drogi-wodne
(III) IMPREX D9.1: Vulnerability of Inland Waterway Transport and Waterway Management on Hydro-meteorological Extremes
TV and video:
(IV) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(V) Recent TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Google Maps
(VII) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com or fortepan.com
(VIII) Various online articles for technical information, after searching the specific dams, canals and rivers.
#citiesskylines #altengrad
