#ruinenwert

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Vikings were notorious for defacing their burned structures with runes, so to this day a destroyed object is still said to be Runed, or “Ruined” in modern spelling.

[wendelsae]

Nazi-era 'hochbunker' and 'flakturm' in Trier and Vienna respectively. These fortifications were firmly built, and it was deemed impractical to demolish them after the war.

[spurloser]

[hyperboreanlifestyle-blog]

Ruinenwert also known as ruin value. "When we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, not for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stone will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! this our fathers did for us.'" Read more: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/7.4.html