Seems like a shame to tear down a historical building, but it is kind of ugly.

Don´t worry, we still have more than enough of those. And it didn´t have THAT much history. They build it early in the war as bunker for passengers of the railway station, the residents of the surrounding habitation areas and for workers of the nearby wholesale market hall, habour and industrial areas. After the war it was used as a homeless shelter for about twenty years and then it was empty. A useless uglys block of ferroconcrete in the middle of the city.

Bummer. I hate it when they demolish old buildings.

Especially ones with history.

Its a 70 year old bunker. There are still about 40 of those monsters in Frankfurt alone. So no loss.

Holy shit, they were not joking during the Third Reich when they built bunkers oO, look at the size of this thing !

Yeah, and its not even a big one. In Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna where REALLY massive bunkers, the socalled "Flak-towers", 10floor high concretemonsters with large AA-guns on top http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower .

why couldn't they just renovate them... it would get more people in

Its a old bunker, what could you possibly use it for? Onne bunker here in the city has been converted into a small museum, another one into a cultural center with practicing rooms for young bands (sound proof), another one is a shooting range of a gun club (again sound proof), but other that that? There is just no use for all of these ugly monsters, they just stand around and take up precious land, which is rare in a densly populated city like Frankfurt. Plus its still cheaper to demolish them instead of converting them to something usefull.

ah.. okay

Those things were built to last, that's for sure