PLAN C

LAURENSKERK

STADHUIS

POORT 
COOLSINGELZIKENHUIS

HET WITTE HUIS

MARINIERS KAZERNE

WILLEMBRUG

HULSTKAMP

PLEIN 1940

BOOMPJES/
SYNAGOGE

While making the inventarisation of what buildings could be rebuild, PLAN C was one of them, however it was still decided to remove the remains. Some balustrades have remained on the Oude Haven side and partly at the first floor of the Cube Houses, the Cube Houses now being a defining architectural and touristic landmark of Rotterdam.

Damaged but rebuild, on old bombing pictures of the centre of Rotterdam you can see the remains of the church lonely and dystopian seeming, left within the destroyed surroundings. Suggested to be removed, however Hitler put the church under "Kunstschutz".

The city hall has several big and small stories around it's WW2 lifetime, still visible are the bullet holes. The original carillon were stolen by the Nazi's and never to be seen back, and the agriculture in the surroundings during the severe hunger. Also indoor, with several plaques, medals and gifted stained glass by WW1 Belgian refugees. Several speculations to why the city hall remained, however considering it was a fairly modern building, and bomb droppers could not aim that specifically.

A often unnoticed or unrecognised element in todays shopping area of Rotterdam. The gate was used for ambulances, and is now the only element left of the hospital.

At the time the highest building in Rotterdam, and first sky scraper of Europe. Shows traces from bombing aswell. One of the remaining buildings from the bombings.

The marinierskazerne near the Marine Monument remembers those who faught during the May Days in 1940. There are lines on the walkway that show were the old kazerne was.

A old pilar can still be seen on the Willemsbrug. Played an important role in the WW2 history of Rotterdam, on 10 May there was a battle between the German and the Netherlands. Here the white flag transfer took place.

One of the first buildings to have been occopied by the germans,

Used to be water, pre bombing. However now the war memorial by Zadkine is there. Named after the starting year of the war in NL.

Shows the skyline of Rotterdam. Now the synagoge is at a different location,

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