The first impression at the train station reveals streets that are far too wide. In the city centre, they continue as a result of reconstruction.

Some of the housing estates built before the war proudly display their year of construction: 1939. The intensive construction activity of the 1930s has burned the aesthetics of the time into the city's charm. The construction of housing estates – as a model for the new city – and the spatial dominance of car traffic have shaped the photographer's view of Braunschweig. Bettina Lockemann, born in 1971 in Berlin, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.