Word: fuggerei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fuggerei, as the walled district came to be known, was 80% destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in October 1944. But it has been rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must...
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