Eine Tour durch Wien um 1400 (K.I. Rekonstruktion)

Hello, I'm Tom – and today I'm taking you to the Habsburg capital: Vienna in the year 1400. 🌐 Starting today, you can find all my videos, a newsletter, and much more on my new website: https://toms-zeitreisen.de ☘️ If you enjoy my time travel videos and would like to support the channel, I would be very grateful for a contribution on Ko-fi. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps to make further elaborate reconstructions possible – thank you so much! ❤️ https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... https://ko-fi.com/tomszeitreisen In this video, we'll follow Tom through an entire autumn day in the city. From dawn on the banks of the Danube, past the Hoher Markt and the construction site of St. Stephen's Cathedral, to the Hofburg Palace, the Jewish Quarter at Schulhof, and finally into the taverns and sleeping alleys of the night. We encounter craftsmen, merchants, monks, a Jewish family of scholars, the court official of Albrecht IV, and the lone journeyman spending the night in the city for the first time. Around 1400, Vienna was not a Hanseatic city like Cologne – it was the residence of the Habsburgs and the political center of a growing territory. The Danube brought goods from the Wachau region, from Bavaria, and Hungary. The Hofburg, then a four-towered castle, housed the court of Duke Albrecht IV. At the construction site of St. Stephen's Cathedral, the enormous south tower had been rising into the sky for generations. And around 800 Jewish residents lived at Schulhof – a significant center of Ashkenazi scholarship. Twenty-one years later, the Viennese Gesera would wipe out this community. Vienna around 1400 was denser, more organized, and wealthier than many assume today. A city of craft guilds, ducal decrees, an early university (founded in 1365) – and a population in which only a few percent could read. The Jewish community at Schulhof was a remarkable exception. This reconstruction is based on a combination of: AI-powered visual representation historical city views such as the Albertine Plan (circa 1421/22) and written sources archaeological findings on the medieval urban development of Vienna modern research on the economy, society, and daily life in late medieval Vienna Note on the presentation: Some of the images shown in this video were reconstructed using artificial intelligence. For many scenes, there are no direct contemporary visual sources such as paintings, engravings, or archaeologically verifiable views. The visual representations are therefore approximations and not exact 1:1 depictions of historical reality. The aim is to convey the most plausible and detailed picture possible of the respective era, based on archaeological finds, written records, and modern historical research. In doing so, different sources may contradict each other on certain points. The reconstruction is based on a comparison of this information. Furthermore, current AI technology still has limitations. Therefore, in individual scenes, inaccurate details, anachronisms, or visual discrepancies may occur that do not correspond to historical reality. The spoken content of this video, however, is consistently based on the current state of research. 💬 Now I'm interested in your opinion: What surprised you the most? The Jewish scholarship in the schoolyard? The Hofburg Palace as a four-towered fortress? Or the unfinished St. Stephen's Cathedral towering above it all? If you enjoyed this journey through time, please leave a like and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any more trips into the past. Many more insights await you on Tom's Time Travels – and they are often closer to reality than you might think. 00:00 - Intro: Vienna in 1400 02:03 - Station 1: Danube Riverbank and Residential Lanes 04:38 - Station 2: The Hohe Markt (High Market) 06:33 - Station 3: The Danube and the Landing Stages 08:52 - Station 4: St. Stephen's Cathedral Under Construction 11:21 - Station 5: The Hofburg Palace and the Ducal Court 13:35 - Station 6: Jewish Quarter 15:55 - Station 7: Taverns, Bathhouses, and the Night 17:53 - Outro and Giveaway