Friedensplatz, Dortmund Live Cam

Friedensplatz is the civic square of Dortmund, with the city hall along one side and a peace column standing in the middle. The camera looks down on it from a roof above the square.

This is where the city puts its markets, rallies and festival stages, so the square is rarely empty; in the picture it is stacked with benches for one of them, and a building on the far side is wrapped in scaffolding behind a printed façade.

Dortmund was a coal and steel city and stopped being one within living memory: the last colliery closed in 1987 and the last steelworks in 2001. The towers behind belong to what replaced them, and the two church spires on the skyline are among the few things that survived the bombing of the centre.