While that is true, all towns and villages under 80,000 inhabitants in my area (100 km around the village where I grew up) had historic centers with (at least)

While that is true, all towns and villages under 80,000 inhabitants in my area (100 km around the village where I grew up) had historic centers with (at least) dozens of buildings that looked like my example from above, and were spared in WWII. These old half-timbered houses are so extremely common here that as a child I thought that all towns and villages looked like this.