5:26 that type of facade/ roof with its "steps" is called "Staffelgiebel" and originates in the Romanic architecture of 12th century Belgium and 13th century Rhineland (western Germany right next to Belgium)
When a new Emperor of the Holy Roman empire was elected (yes, elected) he had to tour the different bishoprics all around the HRE. But this tour (which could take many months, up to years, with the accompanying rituals and services) always ended in Aachen where the emperor was finally crowned and pronounced emperor for the whole of the HRE. Edit: yepp Schleswig Holstein is currently Germany's northernmost state and borders directly on Denmark. Lübeck is on the coast of Baltic Sea, again very close to Denmark and Sweden. Who actually started those step-front gables of houses I don't know, but yes, they are very common among Danish and Swedish coastal sea front towns. So it might be difficult to pinpoint who exactly started that, but it's safe to say that with influence of the Hanse, the north German merchant treaty organization of the 15th century it quickly spread along all Baltic and North Sea coastal areas. Lübeck was the central hub of the Hanse. The Hanse were incredibly rich as they successfully eliminated trade tariffs and reduced and regulated taxes for all members of the Hanse. Much like the EU single market today. Just 500 years ago. Edit 2 Bäckerei= bakery, Hof = court, so it was the court's bakery, which was a special title granted only to outstanding craftsmen. Bakeries, breweries, butcheries, smithies, chandleries, tailors, and many others could receive the title and honor of receiving the Hof- prefix as a sign of excellence. Only those top quality craftsmen selected by the local court/king were given that honor. It obviously boosted sales enormously if you were known to provide the court with your products. Usually only one craftsman of each type in an area received that title. So armed with that knowledge, what do suppose the world-reknowned Hofbräuhaus could mean? For what ubiquitous German drink is it known?😂 Cheers
Those house fronts extend over the buidling, sometimes even a storey more to prevent fires spreading across the street. They look different in the south, but have the same purpose. In some areas they were obiigatory after several fire blasts destroying towns.
Well, the election had nothing to do with democracy. The king (or emperor) candidate gathered his supporters around him in Aachen, mostly high-ranking nobles and bishops, who then confirmed him on acclamation. More than once, this election was then challenged by other candidates at gunpoint. So it could take quite a long time before a new king finally prevailed. This election was later laid down in rules for faster general recognition. Seven electors were to elect the king. These electors then made it clear that they had the sole right to vote and that the pope, who had long carried out the coronation in Rome, had no say in the matter. For many centuries the election took place in Aachen, at the throne of Charlemagne, later and until the end of the empire in Frankfurt am Main.
Yes, definitely. This wasn't democracy, but an oligarchy in the beginning, later it became a plutocracy of wealthy as well as aristocrats. @@wolsch3435
I am born and bred in Halifax, UK. We are twinned with Aachen, Germany. Google town twinning, to find out what this means. We have roads etc... named Aachen this and that.
She probably translated it directly from German (and what he would have called himself, without the Große obviously), Karl der Große. Charles the Great, Carolus Magnus, Charlemagne. Same guy.
You showed surprise that Aachen Cathedral was founded in the year 800 - you missed the earlier information that Trier Cathedral dates from the year 300 AD
I was once in Trier. You stroll through this beautiful modern and mediaeval city, and suddenly, a massive black Roman gate from over 2000 years ago looms in front of you. It's a moment you can't quite process.
7:04 'Hof Bäckerei' means 'court bakery'', 'Seel' is the last name (family name) of the baker. the name traditionally indicates that in earlier times they served the aristocrats of bavaria.
Yes, visited Trier, Aachen, Quedlinburg, Erfurt. The cathedral in Aachen is build by Charlemagne, he’s buried there. I was born not far from there in the Netherlands.
About your question, if there's usually a guy up there (Porta Negra) in roman attire: I wouldn't be surprised. In many bigger german cities, where history and historical stuff is part of the tourist attraction, it's not uncommon for the city or the association that is responsible, to hire reenactors of the according time period. Here in Freiburg where i live we have historical tours, where the guides walk people around the city telling them milestones about the history, all dressed in historical attire that we call 'GroMi' - short for 'Grob Mittelalterlich', which means 'roughly medieval'. The night tours are especially popular, as the guide would walk around with a lantern that is more of a fantasy setting, but it's very aesthetic. Especially when it comes to the 'reenactment' part, when the visitors get ambushed by a french historic figure and either the tour guide or another reenactor fends that french guy off. The viking group i was a part of was asked a few times to take such a job for different occations and in some cases we did that, in some cases we didn't. It was always paid work though.
3:00 You have every right to be surprised because the video just isn't true or is at least misleading. Like many churches in Europe, the Aachen Cathedral has undergone some changes and expansions over time. Styles from different eras often mix in many old buildings in Germany and Europe. In the case of the Aachen Cathedral, the hall with the high narrow windows shown in the video was obviously created in the Gothic period, not in 800 AD. This picture shows the different eras: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Dom#/media/Datei:Aachener_Kaiserdom.png - Blue = Baroque, green = Gothic, red = Carolingian (so still kinda impressive). BUT the idea of the Apse chapel came about around 900, and about 200 years later we got the Sens Cathedral - so, again, still kinda impressive.
Many cities and village are very old in Germany. My village is over 925 years old. Older as my house. It is 200 years old. And the townhall of our federal state city is 618 years old.
west of the river Rhine and south of the Danube many cities go back to Roman times. 618yrs or 925yrs was practically yesterday for people used to live in those parts of Europe. still, Americans have trouble processing anything older than 100yrs.
5:06 the style of the houses is called "Backsteingothik" brick gothic. You'll find them mainly in Hanseatic towns. Towns around the North and Baltic Sea. From England to the Baltic States over Finland and the Scandinavian countries. Brick gothic and the Hanse happened at the same time. I'm unsure if they're connected in any way, because towns not in the "Hanse" built their houses in this style too.
Don't bother, he never reads the comments, he's been told by many people about this particulare subject and still he's wondering.... same with many other subjects, shows you he doesn't read the comments.
Standing in the Porta Nigra is impressive when you realize that it is a Roman building. But also the Imperial Baths and all other historical buildings from the Roman era should be seen. From Trier it is also not far and also a stone's throw from my home to the Roman villa that was excavated and completely restored and also the Roman games there are worth seeing.
I know you are amazed when you see the Norman buildings in the UK which were built 1,000 years ago. I did not know that there was a cathedral in Germany which was built in 800! To go a step further, you should check out the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. This was a church which has a large domed roof, and was built in 537!
Before the church built about 800ad that one was built about 300ad. Shelswig used to be Danish but Germany had a war with them for it in the late 19th century and Germany won.
Yeah, Charlemagne is also known by his German name of Charles the Great or Carolus Rex. Same guy who tried to reinstate the Roman empire and brought Christianity on the heathen with the sword. The cathedrals would not be finished anytime during his reign. Those could take centuries to build.
Hello from beautiful Bavaria :D More precisely from the Upper Palatinate. Our capital is Regensburg. This city is World Heritage. I will send you a link where you can get to know the city a bit. We are a university and student city. We have over 1000 historical landmarks. We are also a sports city - ice hockey, soccer, marathons, cycling, etc. There are beautiful parks and cafes, delicious food in great restaurants, and of course different beer gardens in the summer. As far as the theater is concerned, there are also many different ones.
Hello from London. My last neighbours have good friends in Bavaria. One used to live there & has kept in touch with his ex-colleagues & visits every year with his partner. He absolutely loves it there. It does look gorgeous.
I am very astonished that this young man is astonished about emporer Karl der Große / Charles the great and his creations of 800 s.D. What do you think where it all comes from??????? We are the old world but today we are very modern. Around 800 years after the year 800 (that is years 1600 plus) the first settlers sailed from the old world towards the place where you live now.
this stile of steped fasades startet in what is now the netherlands in the 13-14th century and propagated trought the hanse to all tradecitys on the northern and baltik seas.
Indeed, the church of Aachen might been completed about 800 AD but of course, the Gothic style parts are not that old. These were later added. So it's mostly the central octagon which dates from Karl's time.
That's right, the oldest parts are the so called Pfalz-Kapelle, the Octogon. All other parts came later. In my village in the Mosel valley we have rests from the roman epoc more than 1.500 yrs old and the very oldest rests are from the Celtic epoc more than 2.400 yrs ago. The oldest houses of my village, where people are still living in, are from the 15th century. The oldest parts of our church are from the 12th century. That's Germany today in 2023.
@@lorenaklein7278 Yeah, building something new in Germany is such a hassle, the probability to accidentally dig up some ruins, ancient tools or just a bomb are way too high. When my parents built a house (the village was not that old, from the 1300s, but the area they built was in the outskirts) it took forever to start the groundwork. They luckily did not find any of that sorts (except some metal scraps from some agricultural tools - probably - from the 16th century or so, which were deemed irrelevant), but instead dig up a groundwater vein that now supplies their garden pond, their toilet flush water tank and the nearby sewage treatment plant to add to the freshwater supply for the households of the village.
The grand architecture in Europe is result of monarchy. The architecture found in USA are more practical as the fancier building were built thru tax money. Even the concept of British great house is built on money made off colonization. vintage Bronx in 1900 has equally pleasant looking dwellings as compared to the old half timbered houses.
Charles the Great IS Charlemagne or Carolus Magnus (in Latin). Aachen was his preferred Imperial residence - there was not one capital at that time, Frankish kings (like German kings later on) were migrating from residence to residence by season to encounter as much regions and subordinates during the year as possible. Quedlinburg was the Easter residence of the Ottonian dynasty, which is named after Otto I the Great, first-born son of Henry I who was the first non-Frankish king of East Francia (elected in 919 by the Frankish and Saxon nobles, he was before the Duke of Saxony). Otto I became 936 Duke of Saxony and King of East Francia, 951 King of Italy and 962 the first Roman-German Emperor. (5:12) The so called "Staffelgiebel" or stepped gable originates from Flanders around Ghent in today Belgium. The fashion then spread first to the Rhineland around Cologne, during the Gothic epoch (13th to 15th century) at first to northern Germany, especially the cities of the Hanseatic League, including the Hanseatic ports at the Baltic Sea (like Gdansk and Riga, but also some Scandinavian ports), then also to south(west)ern Germany (including then Switzerland). The former duchies of Schleswig and Holstein border to Denmark; Schleswig (while mainly settled by German-speaking Saxons) was actually a duchy under the Danish crown until 1864, while Holstein was a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire, but ruled by the Danish king as Duke of Holstein since 1460. The German Federation led by Austria and Prussia defeated Denmark in 1864; since then both duchies (as well as the duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg) belonged to Germany. Rothenburg ob der Tauber (lit. red castle above river Tauber), a Franconian town in Bavaria near the border to the state of Baden-Württemberg is only the northernmost and most touristic of three similar preserved towns; the southernmost would be the Swabian town of Nördlingen (see ruclips.net/video/Y9ZrheGVO-s/видео.html), about 70km to the south; about in the middle between both you'll find Franconian Dinkelsbühl (ruclips.net/video/o_gvMtlk36g/видео.html)
was trier not 300 AD? haha. his face when he was stuck of Achen at 800 AD. that face. pure awe. Vaterland is old indeed. enjoy the history. looking forward to more awe faces.
moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant bremerhaven😊 the brick ( klinker or backstein gothic) gothic buildings in lübeck are fonded in germany. the first buildings are build in the german hanseatic cities. all hanseatic cities has this style. the style come from the german to sweden, netherlands ,belgian., lettland, latvia, estland. check the hanseatic city history😊 allerbest un hool di wuchtig👍
1:52 Engl, French: Charlemagne, German: Karl the Great. 800 A D Was he German or French? No, that didn't exist back then. His kingdom included both. After his death, his kingdom was divided among his sons. The Western Frankish Empire became France. The eastern part fell apart and was not Germany.
In East Germany, for 40 years, people hardly had the money to build new houses, so the old houses had to continue to be used. From 1990 the money came to make the city beautiful again. Much of the old building structure was still preserved and could be made better than ever before.
Like Hamburg and Bremen, Lübeck had independent municipal and state rights. But Lübeck refused to vote for Hitler or support his party. The penalty came in Hamburg law. In the appendix Lübeck the rights were taken and integrated into the surrounding areas. The Hamburg law gave the city and state more land and rights. Today, Hamburg and Bremen are separate cities and states in Germany. Lübeck is just an ordinary city. Thanks to the Americans who had a port there, Bremen retained city and state rights Berlin is also a state and city for other reasons.
that's exactly how it is incomprehensible to Americans, but everywhere in Europe we have buildings and cathedrals that are 1000 or more years old, and many buildings from the Roman Empire ... it's incomprehensible to you and I don't know what you teach in school??? ?? history is here in Europe
As other commenters have said Charlemagne is French for Charles the great. 800AD isn't old to us as we've stuff way older than that. York was founded in 70AD and there's still stuff from around then as are in other English towns and cities and French ones too. The Romans didn't get much established further than the Rhine. Germany was barbarian country to them.
@@AltIng9154 Not earlier than 170AD. Londinium 43AD, York Eboracum 70AD, Hadrian's Wall 120AD. The western bank of the Rhine was largely the Roman frontier, although there were some installations on the eastern side at times. There is a link between Trier and York in that when his father died in York, Constantine was proclaimed Emperor by the northern legions at York in 306AD.
@@davidmarsden9800 There was wall from the Rhine to the Donau, called Limes. Left of the Limes it was called Germania Inferior and right of the Limes was free Germany . You know that Köln for example was a very important city those days ? Well, the Romans were stopped year 9 or so, right?
@@joergfro7149 no it was outside of the roman province, never forget this slavs bring 1066(destroyng the Town Hedeby in german Haitabu) together with the battle of hastings in the same year the end of the viking era.
The Slavic settlement of Liubice was destroyed in 1138 by the Saxons. In 1143, Count Adolf von Schauenburg founded Lubeke from scratch as a German town.
Always hilarious to see how clueless americans are about ancient history and the timeline of european history... Freaking out about Aachen Cathedral being built around 800 AD but not moving an eybrow about Porta Nigra which was built more than 600 years ago 😄
Most of Germany was bombed flat in WW2 so a lot of their old towns and cities look old but were rebuilt after the war. Aachen was one of those places. That's why they look so good they're fake. Erfurt was another that was bombed by the RAF and USAF and captured by the US in April 1945. Rothenburg was bombed by the allies on March 31st 1945 so not so old as it looks. If you see the wartime photos of the damage you see how old German places actually are after the USAF day bombing and the RAF by night.
True in many cases... but not all. Frankfurt am Main is mainly fake... but nice fake. Dresden the same. Nice fake also. But in 300years or so It will be old again. Some big cities burned down 16xx were rebuilt also. And your loved Heidelberg was totally destroyed by the French. No halftimbered houses in Heidelberg! Guess why?😊
Some smaller cities survived... not all bombed flat like Dresden or Hamburg, Köln... . Rothenburg ob der Tauber was not really bombed flat... Yes, one quarter was. In the last decades they also did a Lot of what we call Renovation. When I was there as a child, 50 years ago, a lot of the houses looked very, very romantic but the roofs and walls were near to collapse sometimes. It looked much more older half a century ago.😉
Charlemagne = Charles magnus = Charles the Great
Magnus is still a popular name in Scandinavia. The old vikings admired the guy and named their sons after his coins: Karolus Magnus..
Karl der Große = German
5:26 that type of facade/ roof with its "steps" is called "Staffelgiebel" and originates in the Romanic architecture of 12th century Belgium and 13th century Rhineland (western Germany right next to Belgium)
As an relief on tombs it can be found near Hegra (saudi arabia) built by the nabataeans around the first century.
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@@andreask2605 Vermutlich befindet sich alles schon mal irgendwo auf der Welt. Auch die Swastika hat ein gewisser A. H. nicht erfunden
When a new Emperor of the Holy Roman empire was elected (yes, elected) he had to tour the different bishoprics all around the HRE. But this tour (which could take many months, up to years, with the accompanying rituals and services) always ended in Aachen where the emperor was finally crowned and pronounced emperor for the whole of the HRE.
Edit: yepp Schleswig Holstein is currently Germany's northernmost state and borders directly on Denmark. Lübeck is on the coast of Baltic Sea, again very close to Denmark and Sweden. Who actually started those step-front gables of houses I don't know, but yes, they are very common among Danish and Swedish coastal sea front towns. So it might be difficult to pinpoint who exactly started that, but it's safe to say that with influence of the Hanse, the north German merchant treaty organization of the 15th century it quickly spread along all Baltic and North Sea coastal areas. Lübeck was the central hub of the Hanse. The Hanse were incredibly rich as they successfully eliminated trade tariffs and reduced and regulated taxes for all members of the Hanse. Much like the EU single market today. Just 500 years ago.
Edit 2 Bäckerei= bakery, Hof = court, so it was the court's bakery, which was a special title granted only to outstanding craftsmen. Bakeries, breweries, butcheries, smithies, chandleries, tailors, and many others could receive the title and honor of receiving the Hof- prefix as a sign of excellence. Only those top quality craftsmen selected by the local court/king were given that honor. It obviously boosted sales enormously if you were known to provide the court with your products. Usually only one craftsman of each type in an area received that title.
So armed with that knowledge, what do suppose the world-reknowned Hofbräuhaus could mean? For what ubiquitous German drink is it known?😂
Cheers
Those house fronts extend over the buidling, sometimes even a storey more to prevent fires spreading across the street. They look different in the south, but have the same purpose. In some areas they were obiigatory after several fire blasts destroying towns.
Well, the election had nothing to do with democracy. The king (or emperor) candidate gathered his supporters around him in Aachen, mostly high-ranking nobles and bishops, who then confirmed him on acclamation. More than once, this election was then challenged by other candidates at gunpoint. So it could take quite a long time before a new king finally prevailed. This election was later laid down in rules for faster general recognition. Seven electors were to elect the king. These electors then made it clear that they had the sole right to vote and that the pope, who had long carried out the coronation in Rome, had no say in the matter. For many centuries the election took place in Aachen, at the throne of Charlemagne, later and until the end of the empire in Frankfurt am Main.
Yes, definitely. This wasn't democracy, but an oligarchy in the beginning, later it became a plutocracy of wealthy as well as aristocrats. @@wolsch3435
In french he is called Charlemagne, in Germany he is known as Charles the Great. He was - so to say - the founder of both France and Germany.
In Germany he is more known as Karl der Große, but yeah.
@@Denara1 Of cause, sorry. 😂
Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein is just around 200 miles away from Denmark, so there's a ferry, a flix-bus and a train for daytrips to Denmark
Only 170 km by the German Autobahn...!
1,5 hours if you drive slowly!😊
I am born and bred in Halifax, UK. We are twinned with Aachen, Germany. Google town twinning, to find out what this means. We have roads etc... named Aachen this and that.
Yes, Charlemagne is just Charles the Great in French. I had no idea it's possible not to know that.
That octagon hall is from the 8th/9th century, the cathedral nave with the stained glass windows is much later (15th century or so).
Towns without cars, aren't they nice.
She probably translated it directly from German (and what he would have called himself, without the Große obviously), Karl der Große. Charles the Great, Carolus Magnus, Charlemagne. Same guy.
Yes, Charlemagne stems from Carolus Magnus (Latin for Charles the Great) or in German "Karl der Große".
You showed surprise that Aachen Cathedral was founded in the year 800 - you missed the earlier information that Trier Cathedral dates from the year 300 AD
yes, Lübeck is near Denmark
2:10 you wondered about 800 AD, but you didn't noticed that Trier was founded 2000 years ago 0:55 ;)
There is a Church near me in the UK ( Deerhurst, Gloucestershire), most of which was built about 780.
The school I once visited in Münster, Westfalia was founded in 797.
I was once in Trier. You stroll through this beautiful modern and mediaeval city, and suddenly, a massive black Roman gate from over 2000 years ago looms in front of you. It's a moment you can't quite process.
7:04 'Hof Bäckerei' means 'court bakery'', 'Seel' is the last name (family name) of the baker. the name traditionally indicates that in earlier times they served the aristocrats of bavaria.
Yes, Schleswig-Holstein is next to Dänemark. In old times is was a Part from Dänemark
These "step'-houses are typical for all towns in the hanseatic league. So that is why you found them in differend countries.
Yes, visited Trier, Aachen, Quedlinburg, Erfurt.
The cathedral in Aachen is build by Charlemagne, he’s buried there. I was born not far from there in the Netherlands.
About your question, if there's usually a guy up there (Porta Negra) in roman attire: I wouldn't be surprised. In many bigger german cities, where history and historical stuff is part of the tourist attraction, it's not uncommon for the city or the association that is responsible, to hire reenactors of the according time period. Here in Freiburg where i live we have historical tours, where the guides walk people around the city telling them milestones about the history, all dressed in historical attire that we call 'GroMi' - short for 'Grob Mittelalterlich', which means 'roughly medieval'. The night tours are especially popular, as the guide would walk around with a lantern that is more of a fantasy setting, but it's very aesthetic. Especially when it comes to the 'reenactment' part, when the visitors get ambushed by a french historic figure and either the tour guide or another reenactor fends that french guy off.
The viking group i was a part of was asked a few times to take such a job for different occations and in some cases we did that, in some cases we didn't. It was always paid work though.
Yes you are right, Charles the Great aka Charlemagne
3:00 You have every right to be surprised because the video just isn't true or is at least misleading. Like many churches in Europe, the Aachen Cathedral has undergone some changes and expansions over time. Styles from different eras often mix in many old buildings in Germany and Europe. In the case of the Aachen Cathedral, the hall with the high narrow windows shown in the video was obviously created in the Gothic period, not in 800 AD. This picture shows the different eras: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Dom#/media/Datei:Aachener_Kaiserdom.png - Blue = Baroque, green = Gothic, red = Carolingian (so still kinda impressive). BUT the idea of the Apse chapel came about around 900, and about 200 years later we got the Sens Cathedral - so, again, still kinda impressive.
Yes, the Cathedral of Köln got a very modern roof, made of steel. 😊 200 years ago it was a ruin... 😊
Many cities and village are very old in Germany. My village is over 925 years old. Older as my house. It is 200 years old. And the townhall of our federal state city is 618 years old.
west of the river Rhine and south of the Danube many cities go back to Roman times. 618yrs or 925yrs was practically yesterday for people used to live in those parts of Europe. still, Americans have trouble processing anything older than 100yrs.
Sadly many destroyed in WWII.
7:52 Even in this medieval town you can find a doner kebab shop
A german town without a döner kebap shop is not a german town.
5:06 the style of the houses is called "Backsteingothik" brick gothic. You'll find them mainly in Hanseatic towns. Towns around the North and Baltic Sea. From England to the Baltic States over Finland and the Scandinavian countries. Brick gothic and the Hanse happened at the same time. I'm unsure if they're connected in any way, because towns not in the "Hanse" built their houses in this style too.
Don't bother, he never reads the comments, he's been told by many people about this particulare subject and still he's wondering.... same with many other subjects, shows you he doesn't read the comments.
....the first brick ( klinkerstein) houses founded in north germany region ( low saxony and frisia)
later to england and netherlands.
allerbest😊
I live next to Aachen, the old town is awesome
Standing in the Porta Nigra is impressive when you realize that it is a Roman building.
But also the Imperial Baths and all other historical buildings from the Roman era should be seen.
From Trier it is also not far and also a stone's throw from my home to the Roman villa that was excavated and completely restored and also the Roman games there are worth seeing.
I know you are amazed when you see the Norman buildings in the UK which were built 1,000 years ago. I did not know that there was a cathedral in Germany which was built in 800! To go a step further, you should check out the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. This was a church which has a large domed roof, and was built in 537!
We have Roman buildings in Germany. Trier for example. Porta Nigra... 😉
Before the church built about 800ad that one was built about 300ad.
Shelswig used to be Danish but Germany had a war with them for it in the late 19th century and Germany won.
No actors in costumes are not strolling around in german citys. We live here, it is not Disneyland. And yes, I am offended about your question.
Schleswig-Holstein was a Part of Dänemark long long ago
Yeah, Charlemagne is also known by his German name of Charles the Great or Carolus Rex. Same guy who tried to reinstate the Roman empire and brought Christianity on the heathen with the sword. The cathedrals would not be finished anytime during his reign. Those could take centuries to build.
a couple of thousand year old city gate... no reaction.
church from 300 a.d.... no reaction
cathedral build in 800a.D. - mind blown
They can't get it. 😊 A 300 year old in Pensylvania comes just after the Pyramides. 😊
Hello from beautiful Bavaria :D More precisely from the Upper Palatinate. Our capital is Regensburg.
This city is World Heritage. I will send you a link where you can get to know the city a bit. We are a university and student city. We have over 1000 historical landmarks. We are also a sports city - ice hockey, soccer, marathons, cycling, etc. There are beautiful parks and cafes, delicious food in great restaurants, and of course different beer gardens in the summer. As far as the theater is concerned, there are also many different ones.
Hello from London. My last neighbours have good friends in Bavaria. One used to live there & has kept in touch with his ex-colleagues & visits every year with his partner. He absolutely loves it there. It does look gorgeous.
I am very astonished that this young man is astonished about emporer Karl der Große / Charles the great and his creations of 800 s.D. What do you think where it all comes from??????? We are the old world but today we are very modern. Around 800 years after the year 800 (that is years 1600 plus) the first settlers sailed from the old world towards the place where you live now.
this stile of steped fasades startet in what is now the netherlands in the 13-14th century and propagated trought the hanse to all tradecitys on the northern and baltik seas.
Indeed, the church of Aachen might been completed about 800 AD but of course, the Gothic style parts are not that old. These were later added. So it's mostly the central octagon which dates from Karl's time.
That's right, the oldest parts are the so called Pfalz-Kapelle, the Octogon. All other parts came later. In my village in the Mosel valley we have rests from the roman epoc more than 1.500 yrs old and the very oldest rests are from the Celtic epoc more than 2.400 yrs ago. The oldest houses of my village, where people are still living in, are from the 15th century. The oldest parts of our church are from the 12th century. That's Germany today in 2023.
@@lorenaklein7278 Yeah, building something new in Germany is such a hassle, the probability to accidentally dig up some ruins, ancient tools or just a bomb are way too high. When my parents built a house (the village was not that old, from the 1300s, but the area they built was in the outskirts) it took forever to start the groundwork. They luckily did not find any of that sorts (except some metal scraps from some agricultural tools - probably - from the 16th century or so, which were deemed irrelevant), but instead dig up a groundwater vein that now supplies their garden pond, their toilet flush water tank and the nearby sewage treatment plant to add to the freshwater supply for the households of the village.
The grand architecture in Europe is result of monarchy. The architecture found in USA are more practical as the fancier building were built thru tax money. Even the concept of British great house is built on money made off colonization. vintage Bronx in 1900 has equally pleasant looking dwellings as compared to the old half timbered houses.
Charles the Great IS Charlemagne or Carolus Magnus (in Latin). Aachen was his preferred Imperial residence - there was not one capital at that time, Frankish kings (like German kings later on) were migrating from residence to residence by season to encounter as much regions and subordinates during the year as possible.
Quedlinburg was the Easter residence of the Ottonian dynasty, which is named after Otto I the Great, first-born son of Henry I who was the first non-Frankish king of East Francia (elected in 919 by the Frankish and Saxon nobles, he was before the Duke of Saxony). Otto I became 936 Duke of Saxony and King of East Francia, 951 King of Italy and 962 the first Roman-German Emperor.
(5:12) The so called "Staffelgiebel" or stepped gable originates from Flanders around Ghent in today Belgium. The fashion then spread first to the Rhineland around Cologne, during the Gothic epoch (13th to 15th century) at first to northern Germany, especially the cities of the Hanseatic League, including the Hanseatic ports at the Baltic Sea (like Gdansk and Riga, but also some Scandinavian ports), then also to south(west)ern Germany (including then Switzerland).
The former duchies of Schleswig and Holstein border to Denmark; Schleswig (while mainly settled by German-speaking Saxons) was actually a duchy under the Danish crown until 1864, while Holstein was a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire, but ruled by the Danish king as Duke of Holstein since 1460. The German Federation led by Austria and Prussia defeated Denmark in 1864; since then both duchies (as well as the duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg) belonged to Germany.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber (lit. red castle above river Tauber), a Franconian town in Bavaria near the border to the state of Baden-Württemberg is only the northernmost and most touristic of three similar preserved towns; the southernmost would be the Swabian town of Nördlingen (see ruclips.net/video/Y9ZrheGVO-s/видео.html), about 70km to the south; about in the middle between both you'll find Franconian Dinkelsbühl (ruclips.net/video/o_gvMtlk36g/видео.html)
was trier not 300 AD? haha. his face when he was stuck of Achen at 800 AD. that face. pure awe. Vaterland is old indeed. enjoy the history. looking forward to more awe faces.
moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant bremerhaven😊
the brick ( klinker or backstein gothic) gothic buildings in lübeck are fonded in germany.
the first buildings are build in the german hanseatic cities.
all hanseatic cities has this style. the style come from the german to sweden, netherlands ,belgian., lettland, latvia, estland.
check the hanseatic city history😊
allerbest un hool di wuchtig👍
It´s a movie about Gemany, how can it be about Denmark ? 😂
1:52 Engl, French: Charlemagne, German: Karl the Great. 800 A D
Was he German or French? No, that didn't exist back then. His kingdom included both. After his death, his kingdom was divided among his sons. The Western Frankish Empire became France. The eastern part fell apart and was not Germany.
In East Germany, for 40 years, people hardly had the money to build new houses, so the old houses had to continue to be used. From 1990 the money came to make the city beautiful again. Much of the old building structure was still preserved and could be made better than ever before.
Like Hamburg and Bremen, Lübeck had independent municipal and state rights. But Lübeck refused to vote for Hitler or support his party. The penalty came in Hamburg law. In the appendix Lübeck the rights were taken and integrated into the surrounding areas.
The Hamburg law gave the city and state more land and rights.
Today, Hamburg and Bremen are separate cities and states in Germany. Lübeck is just an ordinary city.
Thanks to the Americans who had a port there, Bremen retained city and state rights
Berlin is also a state and city for other reasons.
that's exactly how it is incomprehensible to Americans, but everywhere in Europe we have buildings and cathedrals that are 1000 or more years old, and many buildings from the Roman Empire ... it's incomprehensible to you and I don't know what you teach in school??? ?? history is here in Europe
I'd send you a reply to your question on these particular facades, but I doubt that you ever read the comments ...
As other commenters have said Charlemagne is French for Charles the great. 800AD isn't old to us as we've stuff way older than that. York was founded in 70AD and there's still stuff from around then as are in other English towns and cities and French ones too. The Romans didn't get much established further than the Rhine. Germany was barbarian country to them.
The area left of the Rhine river not. Guess how old the Porta Nigra is.
@@AltIng9154 Not earlier than 170AD. Londinium 43AD, York Eboracum 70AD, Hadrian's Wall 120AD. The western bank of the Rhine was largely the Roman frontier, although there were some installations on the eastern side at times. There is a link between Trier and York in that when his father died in York, Constantine was proclaimed Emperor by the northern legions at York in 306AD.
@@davidmarsden9800 There was wall from the Rhine to the Donau, called Limes. Left of the Limes it was called Germania Inferior and right of the Limes was free Germany . You know that Köln for example was a very important city those days ?
Well, the Romans were stopped year 9 or so, right?
@@davidmarsden9800 Trier was founded 17 years previously to the birth of Christ.
Lübeck started as a Slavic Town with the name Lubice
LLübeck Starts at a City of the roman empire...
@@joergfro7149 no it was outside of the roman province, never forget this slavs bring 1066(destroyng the Town Hedeby in german Haitabu) together with the battle of hastings in the same year the end of the viking era.
The Slavic settlement of Liubice was destroyed in 1138 by the Saxons.
In 1143, Count Adolf von Schauenburg founded Lubeke from scratch as a German town.
Always hilarious to see how clueless americans are about ancient history and the timeline of european history...
Freaking out about Aachen Cathedral being built around 800 AD but not moving an eybrow about Porta Nigra which was built more than 600 years ago 😄
Most of Germany was bombed flat in WW2 so a lot of their old towns and cities look old but were rebuilt after the war. Aachen was one of those places.
That's why they look so good they're fake. Erfurt was another that was bombed by the RAF and USAF and captured by the US in April 1945.
Rothenburg was bombed by the allies on March 31st 1945 so not so old as it looks. If you see the wartime photos of the damage you see how old German places actually are after the USAF day bombing and the RAF by night.
You're fake
True in many cases... but not all. Frankfurt am Main is mainly fake... but nice fake. Dresden the same. Nice fake also. But in 300years or so It will be old again. Some big cities burned down 16xx were rebuilt also. And your loved Heidelberg was totally destroyed by the French. No halftimbered houses in Heidelberg! Guess why?😊
@@AltIng9154 They've definitely done a superb rebuilding job, has to be said.
@@davidmarsden9800 Frankfurt am Main got the most new old town.😊 Just completed... .
Some smaller cities survived... not all bombed flat like Dresden or Hamburg, Köln... . Rothenburg ob der Tauber was not really bombed flat... Yes, one quarter was. In the last decades they also did a Lot of what we call Renovation. When I was there as a child, 50 years ago, a lot of the houses looked very, very romantic but the roofs and walls were near to collapse sometimes. It looked much more older half a century ago.😉