An average pre-WW2 house in a German village may be prettier than an average house from the 1950s, but certainly not than an average house being built today. Yo

An average pre-WW2 house in a German village may be prettier than an average house from the 1950s, but certainly not than an average house being built today. Your perception is presumably clouded by the touristy "villages", which in fact have been at least locally important towns at some point in the past.