One World Trade Center - New York's tallest building The exhibits include photos of the thousands of victims as well as original debris from the World Trade Center. The atmosphere is moving, some may even find it depressing, but tourists should not close their eyes to this reality. In a museum below the pools, you can learn in detail about what happened back then. A separate inscription was also added for the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings (the former memorial was also destroyed on 11 September 2001). The naming of the 2983 victims includes (apart from the bombers) all the people who died in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the four aeroplanes. Around the pools, the names of the nearly 3,000 victims are engraved in bronze plates. These are the largest man-made waterfalls in the USA. In the centre of the pools, the water plunges over 9 metres into the basement. Two pools, the "Foot Prints" of the World Trade Center", mark the spots amidst trees where the two gigantic towers once stood. Since then, the former site of the Twin Towers is no longer a place of terror, but a place of silence. On 12 September 2011, the 9/11 Memorial was officially opened by the then President Barack Obama. In the end, it was decided to rebuild the so-called One World Trade Center, the foundation stone of which was laid on 4 July 2004. On the one hand, it was seen as a memorial and monument to terrorism, on the other hand as a burial place for the victims of the attack, whose peace should not be disturbed. 9/11 Memorial - a place of silenceĪfter the completion of the clean-up in May 2002, there was also a long public debate about what should be done with the square. But because of its past, many go there on pilgrimage to see the site of the disaster on the spot, where wanton destruction caused fear and terror on such an international scale as nowhere else in the world. "Ground Zero" vividly describes the impression of the enormous debris landscape at the site where the World Trade Center was located - as if a bomb had hit.Īt first, the former site of the World Trade Center was a huge construction site that does not look very attractive to visitors. After the terrorist attacks on New York on 11 September 2001, the term was expanded and is now also used as a synonym for the former site of the World Trade Center, which was brought down by two hijacked passenger planes. The term "ground zero" actually refers to the site after a nuclear explosion that was closest to the detonation and therefore suffered the most damage. On the Roof of New York City: Visit to One World Trade Centerĩ/11 Terrorist Attack - "Ground Zero" © littleny / Shutterstock.One World Trade Center - New York's tallest building.
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