_"That's a beautiful beach; where are all the people?"_ On the beach. That's not a beach. That's tidelands. It's under water half of the time, and when it's not, it's mud.
@@dh1ao Interesting. In Dutch they are called Wadden, because it is such a big tidal area. Sandbanks are more like one row of sandy shallows in front of the coast.
@@ronaldderooij1774 We do too. "Watten"-"Wadden"... speak it with a north-german accent and you pretty much have the same word. A Sandbank may not be under water even at high tide i think.
@@ronaldderooij1774 In Germany it is also called Watt or Wattenmeer. We have the same definition for sandbanks as the Dutch, and some ships are visiting them to watch the seals there.
@@ronaldderooij1774 Oh, that's interesting for me. I live on an island in north frisia and we have those between the islands and the firm land. It's where the seals chill while it's low tide. Greetings to the netherlands and of course esp. to frisia :)
Believe it or not... Germany had several Colonies in Africa. 1884/1885: After the Berlin Conference, when European states divided Africa. Germany acquired German South-West Africa (today Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, German East Africa (today Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi), and parts of Papua-New Guinea.
Apparently the Togolese have a positive memory of the German colonization, compared to the French one. To quote " The things the French have build allready have fallen over the German stuff is still there. Thats one of the reason I wanted to go to Germany"
The paper ring at the bottom is collecting the "sweat" from the Glas. If you're served an ice cold beer, there will be water drops at the outside of the glass. If it runs down, the paper collects the water. 😉
Proof that Germans don't drink "warm beer", otherwise water wouldn't condense on the glass. You also have to drink beer from a glass with a foot and not use a cup (Red Solo Cups).
Germany never directly controlled Zanzibar. But they did have considerable colonial possessions in nearby Tanzania during the height of African colonialism towards the end of the 19th century. For control over Helgoland, they in turn recognized Britain's claim on Zanzibar. While never as extensive as the British or French possessions, Germany controlled areas several times the size of Germany itself in southern Africa. Primarily in modern day Namibia and Tanzania. Due to Germany's inferior navy, they lost control of their colonies during World War I and ceded the territory officially to Britain at the end of the war. During the period of decolonization after World War II, Britain finally had to release their colonies into independence.
"Grön is dat Land, rot is de Kant, witt is de Sand. Dat sünd de Farven vun’t hillige Land." (Green the land, red the cliff, white the sand. These are the colours of Heligoland" Nice climate, tax free goods, great view and lots of nature. AND it belongs to my home county :-D
"I don’t understand how German controlled an island in Africa" … colonialism, my dude? That’s like asking "I don’t know how there were so many Africans in America…"
@@lilg2300 I don’t think he has to know that, or which ones specifically, but I think as long as you know that colonialism was a thing that existed, it’s basically the only viable explanation for this. I also didn’t know that Zanzibar specifically was a German colony.
@@montanus777 Pretty much all european nations took part in colonialism.. That should be common knowledge even in the US.. The USA wouldnt even exist without the british stealing the natives land
3:38 That's not a beach, that's the ocean floor. The Wadden Sea is unique that way because the tide rises and falls so much the sea floor will be exposed while the water receeds / before it returns. Because of that you can actually take a horse cart or even walk over to some of the small islands that are closer to the shore of the mainland.
Well, he's also dressed in a suit and wears a watch. Not what you would generally expect a tourist to look like. And he's got the posh British accent as well.
@@theKiwii Why wouldn't you expect a tourist to wear a watch? Or have a British accent, which by the way isn't posh at all? And he doesn't wear a suit, just a shirt and a jacket, which is quite casual.
@@Nikioko It might be business casual but it's definitely not tourist casual. And if you still wear a watch in this age, you do it as a fashion accessory as everyone has a smartphone anyway. Also I didn't say tourists can't have British accents; that one's on your reading comprehension.
Even the German national anthem (Lied der Deutschen) is written on Helgoland (still British at that time) by Hofmann von Fallersleben. And Germany did not exist as one nation either in those days.
Was there back in the days as a teenager with my school class, one of the most traumatizing experiences in my life. The ship was little, the waves were high, over deck the north sea slapped you in the face pretty hard. One way Travel time was way above 2 hours. Everything in my stomach wasnt inside my stomach after 1 hour of the trip, i felt like Rocky after meeting Apollo the first time. I would say 90% of the passengers felt the same way, not the crew of course. Getting sea sick is the worst and our bus driver who drove us to the harbour at mainland knew what we were up to, he was joking a lot about vomiting (German pre-Schadenfreude and when we came back too of course). Best thing to do, go under deck in the middle part of the ship, there is the center of "gravity" practically speaking, it is not so gruesome there than elswhere on the ship.
@@PaulWinkle Never go under deck during passing heavy sea. It's a total mess for your senses. And not only yours so you will almost certainly be part of a Kotzfest. Even experienced sailors quickly could get seasick under deck. The best place is on deck near leeside. Try to concentrate on the horizon or even better a landmark if there is one. Leeside because if your up to feed the fish, it doesn't slap back into your face.
*laughs* I remember going there with my parents and pretty much everyone around Dad and me puking their guts out. We were there talking about what we'd get for the next meal and everyone turned even greener All depends on what one can handle. Feel bad for some of them in hindsight
@@ralfp8844 Kotzfest is true, it was like "Stand by me" and the pie eating competition. But it was quieter, less movement, well however one way or the other you get f'd
@@PaulWinkle I remember a visit of one of the canal Islands. One day before there was a heavy storm. Our mistake was to think, that when the storm is over, everything is quiet. The sea didn't think so. It still remembered the storm. I never expirienced such a heavy sea again. And i don't want to either. It was like Achterbahn. Down in the valleys we lost sight of the landmarks. But only for a short period, and that was good. Back again we sailed with the waves. That was quieter but not really better, cause now we stayed in the valleys much longer until the wave from behind gave us a lift. My former girlfriend only tried to sit down on deck and didn't want to look outside. Big mistake. Seconds later the breakfast broke out real fast. I stood there like a wannabe seabear trying to hold my body upright fixating a lighthouse whenever possible. That did it. I almost enjoyed it. Next time i wait until the sea also has forgotten the storm.
@@martingerlitz1162 The House of Hanover or "The Hanoverians" was a royal dynasty of German origin that succeeded the House of Stuart and ruled Great Britain between 1714 and 1901. This era is therefore also referred to as "Hanoverian England" in English historiography.
I went there at the age of 12 with friends of my family so that had to be in 1975. I thought it was boring there, just walking around, looking at some boring stone standing besides the shore (lange=long Anna). The most exciting thing of the day were going there by a quite small ship through rough waves and short before the island getting on a much smaller boat rocked by the waves. Thank god I never feel seasick. The other thing was while strolling over the island seeing a woman (tourist) sunbathing topless on a bench while people were walking besides her. I thought that was strange because I only knew that vom the beach of Travemünde (holidays at the baltic sea), private gardens/balconies or sauna and FKK areas. There are fotos from Helgoland showing me and my friend just sitting around with a lot of shopping bags we had to carry because of all the duty free things the grown ups bought (nothing for us children, just alcohol, parfume and cigarettes). Never planned to visit Helgoland again. (But went back to Travemünde 2 years ago with my then 31 yo daughter for memories and a lovely beach. She liked it that much that she's going there for holidays with her partner next week, even the same Ferienwohnung/holiday apartment!❤ I guess she wouldn't do that if we had visited Helgoland 😂) In the video I missed the saying that is on nearly every souvenir: "Grün ist das Land, rot ist die Kant’, weiß ist der Sand. Das sind die Farben von Helgoland". Green is the land, red is the edge, white is the sand, these are the colours of Helgoland. Greetings from Germany!
The trick is to bring your non-smoking, non-drinking friends along. They also buy stuff. There is a per person limit, so your friends can buy stuff "for you"
Same in Scandinavian languages. And Helgoland is still important so they always mention it in the fishing and weather reports. You always get.. Stiv kuling ved Helgoland og dokker banke.. 😊
If you think this short flight seems exciting, in Scotland there is what the Guiness Book of Records has declared the shortest scheduled aeroplane journey on earth. It is between the two Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray. It generally takes between one minute and 80 seconds, one way. It is run by Loganair and runs three to six times a day, depending on the time of year.
damn, this guy is cool. I love how he talks and explains things with his nice narrator voice, what a legend. hope you react to more of his stuff, if there is any. ^^
Wikipedia: Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara), British singer of the rock band Queen, born in Stone Town; at the age of 17, fled with his family to the United Kingdom during the Zanzibar Revolution.
It´s the OLD name. Heligo is related to "Halligen" which is still being used for the small islands. Later the Germans simply left the I out. This is just a guess, but I´d nearly bet that Helgoland originall meant as much as "Halligenland"
Fun fact, the children born on Helgoland have to travel to Cuxhaven to learn how to behave around traffic because they don't have cars there. And if you're pregnant you need to go to the hospital at the mainland because of their doctor
In childhood we spent every year our summerhollidays on Helgoland-Düne. The hole Düne has been a playground for us. As an adult you only can relax, here is nothing than walk left or right araund the island, sitting on the beach and watching the water... When I need to calm down, I only have to think about sitting on the Nordstrand or the clicking of the stones on the Aade.
We have been there a few years ago and I found something there that exists only there… the red flint, famous for Helgoland /Düne. You can buy it in the tourist shops but I found it by myself and it looks sooo beautiful. Cut into pieces and with polished surfaces it looks even better. Really proud of it😍
On 26 August 1841, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the German national anthem during a stay on the island of Heligoland, which at that time still belonged to England.
If you like the Northern Gannets of Heligoland, you'll love Puffins from the Faroe Islands ^^ They look like a parrot seagull hybrid, absolutely adorable.
4:00 Beachline: the German North Sea is incredible flat. The tideshift between flood an ebb results in moving the costline for several! hundred yards into the ocean and back on land. The seabottom there is very muddy an wet. It's no place to put down your towel, but it is an environment where lots of tiny creatures flourish. When it is ebb tide only few people bother to go to the sandy beaches. Many people come to the shore when it is flood tide as the water then is there too.
Heligoland is the german Mekka for birdwatching! I myself was lucky to watch a few birdspecies even from North America there (Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the airstrip and Great Northern Divers passing by off shore). Heligoland is something like a pit-stop for birds while crossing the german bight from northeast to southwest in autumn and vice versa in spring. So Helgoland has become my second home during the last four decades.😃
1:30 The little paper is drip catcher (with the logo of the brewery on it). It is often applied with Pilsner beer when served in a "Pils tulip" glass. 2:10 Zanzibar was never a German colony. At the time of the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890 (later also misleadingly called Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty) it was an independent Sultanate within the claimed German sphere of influence. The treaty limited this sphere in eastern Africa to the German colony of "German East Africa" which included Burundi, Rwanda, the mainland of Tanzania and a small region in the North of Mozambique. (It limited also the German sphere of influence in southern Africa to Namibia, where the treaty gave them also the Caprivi strip connecting Namibia to the Sambesi river.) The real swap was Heligoland and the Caprivi strip for the small sultanate of Witu (in today Kenya), some other small colonies within Kenya and the Kingdom of Buganda within today Uganda. The German Empire also "recognized the British protectorate over the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba". After the protectorate status had ended in 1963 the Sultan was deposed in the Zanzibar revolution of 1964, and three months later the new People's Republic merged with Tanganyika, the united republic later renamed in United Republic of Tanzania. Prussia wanted Helgoland as a navy base to protect the access to the new Kiel Canal (then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, now also Nord-Ostsee-Kanal = North and Baltic Sea canal, connecting North and Baltic Sea without having to circumvent Denmark). In late medieval times Heligoland was part of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, since 1544 of the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, which was a side branch of the Danish Royal House which was itself a branch of the German House of Oldenburg. This duchy (whose territories partly belonged to the Kingdom of Denmark, partly to the German Kingdom) supported in the Great Northern War 1700-1721 Sweden against the alliance of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Saxony and Poland-Lithuania; in 1714 Denmark occupied Heligoland. In 1721 a New Year's Flood split the island in two (separating the smaller island "Düne" from the main island). During the Napoleonic wars British troops conquered Heligoland in 1807 and kept it until 1890. The whole time Heligoland was settled by Frisians. 3:50 During flood tide there would be no shore line, only the ocean. It is part of the "Watt lands" (mudflats) along the Frisian coast at the North Sea.
1:28 We like to drink our beer cooled, which means water condensates on the outside of the glass. The paper collar at the bottom of the glass is for catching that water so it doesn't get on the table, your clothes etc.
3:40 That was likely a mudflat. Germany has some wide sandy beaches elsewhere on the North Sea, some on islands, but for 10 months of the year it's too cold to go swimming. In July and August, they are indeed packed with tourists.
Random fact about that drip catcher on the beer glass stem: It has a printing on one side of it featuring the brewery the bar/restaurant has made a contract with. If the printing is showing up there is beer in the glass. If it shows the blank side then it is Alsterwasser, a mixture of beer and lemonade. Because both drinks look so similar that is the way the waiter can tell what kind of drink it is and serve it correctly to the person who ordered it. Otherwise one would to take a sip to tell which is which. And who wants that? Beer brands differ slightly in their color. So even despite the Alsterwaseer is lighter in color due to the approximatley 50% colorless lemonade there might be some lighter beers in an order which makes it difficult to distinguish. And bad lighting in a bar does not help either. As to the contract with the brewery: This contract provides for a minimum amount of beer from the brewery being delivered to the bar or restaurant. So this means a calculatable flow of revenue for the brewery. As its part of the deal the brewery furnishes/finances the glassware and other inventory of the bar. Hence the brewery labels on the glasses and also on the signs for the bar. So the owner has not as much an investment to come up with. Of course other beer brands can be served too along with non-alcoholic beverages and food. But if you order a beer you will get one from the contract brewery if you don't specify another brand from the menue.
Fun fact: Since 1932 Helgoland is governed by the district (Landkreis) of Pinneberg and the highest point of the whole district (we're talking 49 municipalities on an area of 256.5 sqare miles) is NOT on the mainland but the crater of a demolished bunker right on top of that island. 61 m or 200 ft above sea level. That's why in 1998 a group of amateur climbers erected a summit cross there and named that small hill "Pinneberg" - just like the district which already translates to "Mount Pinne".
If you go there by ship you have to know that the journey is on the high seas and there are strong waves. On our family day trip on the ship from Wilhelmshaven to Helgoland almost everyone got seasick and was on the top of the ship.
the North Sea is NOT the high seas, one of the few places you can actually take a scheduled ferry on the high seas is from Denmark to the faroes, and on to Iceland, you will definitely feel a difference as soon as you clear the Orkneys and leave the North Sea and enter the Atlantic proper.
Trivia: Long ago there was a Dutch comedian. In WW2 he served in the British army. After WW2 he was made military governor of Helgoland unitil the UK gave it back to the Germans. The comedian (Rijk de Gooyer) returned to the Netherlands, I believe.
Those beer glass skirts you wondered about, they're to catch the drops of condensation from the cold beer running down the glass. It keeps the tables and your clothes dry. ;)
10:24 Quantum Mechanics is a bit complicated, bascially it says you can either measure the position or the impulse but not both at the same time. You'll understand it better if you look at the "Doppler" efect. Which says, by simply monitoring an experimaent you'll change the outcome of said experiment. Which means just by looking at something changes it's behavior. Therefore, while you measure one paramter you change another. Therefore, if you measure the position of a particle you change the impulse. If you measure the Impulse you change it's position.
Or, simplifying further: imagine standing by a road and watching a car go by. To know how fast it is, you will measure how lomg it takes to cover a set distance, and the longer that distance the more precise your calculation of the speed becomes (e.g. because starting/stopping the clock a little unprecisely will play less of a role if you measure for 1 minute vs. 1 second). However, during that time measurement, the car moves, so one cannot exactly say where the car is during the measurement. Inversely, to kno where exactly the car is at a given moment, you want to keep the time during which you observe the car as short as possible, to minimize its movement (imagine taking a photo at a fast vs. a slow shutter speed, regarding motion blur). So, the more precisely you measure one aspect, the more you lose the information needed to precisely determine the other.
The text next to the baby picture says "Children of smokers often turn out smokers themselves", so it's an appeal to quit smoking (at least in front of your children) if you want them not to start themselves in the future.
I lived in Bremerhaven, coastal and harbour town. We had a ferry taking you there for 3 hours. I went there couple times. Nice there. touristy as well. Lots of people coming by ship from Hamburg and Cuxhaven too. Flying is luxury. You take the boat.
Germany and Britain did not just swap Heligoland for Sansibar. It was actually a much bigger exchange of territories all around the world. Heligoland and Sansibar were only two minor footnotes in a much more extensive contract.
Helgoland is a very interesting place. The island was once much larger than today. Helgoland by the way is translated to the "holy land". Some people belive, that Helgoland is Atlantis.
Regarding the the paper on the bottom of the beer glass: A pilsner doily, also called a beer rosette, pilsner rosette, beer collar, pilsner collar, or drip catcher, is a round piece of absorbent paper around the stem of a beer glass - usually a pilsner doily.
Moin!😁 There are a total of 77 islands off the German North and Baltic Sea coasts, plus ten Halligen islands. many are larger and have miles of white beaches. Check other German islands 😁👍. Allerbest vun de waterkant Bremerhaven 👍
This where we went in my last year of school !! You have to take a ship from Cuxhaven, it takes about 2 h. I loved it (I`m 65 y. old now, & still remember the name of the ship.....alte Liebe (0ld love)
You have to keep in mind that the island has a circumfence of about 2,5km , there is simply no need for vehicles there are a few electric delivery vehicles , garbage collectors and an ambulance, as far as I do remember, and that is 20 years ago. I hope the Bunte Kuh is still going.
Some of the most famous Victual Brothers (Viktualien Brüder/ Likedeeler) during the Hanse era made Helgoland their base of operations in the north sea. Gödeke Michels, magister Wigbold and Klaus Störtebeker are but 3 of the highest renown in their time
We didn't own Zanzibar. That's a myth. There was one beach in the southeast of Zanzibar. The rest of the island already belonged to the British Kingdom. We didn't care back then because we had Tanganyika (the rest of modern Tanzania)
Even though it is called the "Helgoland -Sansibar Vertrag" Sansibar was a free Sultanate. Sansibar just belonged to the interest sphere of the German Reich.
Traveling there is an experience / FUN as a child, because the ships arent that big and you'll have a lot of "up and down" from the waves. The ships dont dock at the island and so you get on shore with small boats ... lots of "up and down" again (depending on the daily conditions).
The clip is inkomplete. There is very near another small island, its a 10min trip with a small boat to "Düne" where you can watch seals and commonseals relaxing at the beach.
The Beach could be empty because it´s Watt, shallow waters that fall dry over miles on low tide. It´s muddy silt, not sand. ;) There are beaches on the northern side of the islands, but most people prefer to swim on the official beaches because there are strong currents everywhere and many areas are protected. Wattenmeer is a national park.
Africa was one of the German colonies before the 1st and 2nd World War. Even today, some parts speak German, Cameroon later went to France after the 2nd World War. Even today, many people there have German names but the language is French and English.. 8:23 The images are meant to deter people from smoking during pregnancy and to warn people about cancer because of smokers. That's why such deterrent images were made in the late 80s and early 90s.ore the 1st and 2nd World Wars
If you ever go to the Wattenmeer at the North German coast be really careful when venturing out onto the mud flats during low tide. If you catch the ebbing tide roughly an hour after it starts it seems as if you had one huge five mile wide strip of muddy beach maybe with ankle deep water. However that is more than three yards underwater during the high tide. The currents both during ebbing and rising tide will rip any swimmer out into the North Sea. There's absolutely nothing you can do other than pray for rescue if you're caught too far from the real shore. So always do this only with local guides who know the exact times for the local tides. Otherwise stay within a hundred yards of the high dunes on the mudflats. Each and every summer the dedicated coast guard rescue some people too far out. In some tragic cases the corpses of those dragged out may still be recovered. Others are simply lost to sea.
Good thing with the cigarette pictures are required in the entire European Union to be printed on cigarette packs and German is just one part of the European Union
I don't want to write so many comments That's why I'm writing in my other comment. And by the way helgoland isn't located in Africa it is in the north sea above the Netherlands
We're travelling twice a year to Helgoland about 2/3 Weeks for holiday. Nobody need a bicycle (only some handyman) there. Helgoland is really small. About 1200 poeple staying the whole year on the island. Most of them working in tourism (more) or science (less - AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute). More and more workers coming to maintenance gigantic wind turbine parcs some miles before Helgoland in the middle of the North Sea.
Hello Sir, Thank you for making those videos and uploading. I am in born in Germany/MUC area and live in the US for some years. I am a grown up and I swear ...and some time I get home sick. If interested...and I don't know if it is available here in the US... "Deutschland von oben - Der Film" (Germany from above - The Movie) is done by ZDF, approx. 2h10min. It is absolutely extraordinary. I don't know if it is available in English, but it is mostly self-explanatory. If you have the chance to look it up, go for it. I have been on most of the mountains they show. Thanks again for making those videos.
To the cigarette packs; honestly, we don't even see the pictures anymore. It was a huge deal when they first came out but now? Kinda invisible to our eyes.
Today Ryan discovers: Colonialism, tides, and quantum mechanics. One really big reason for the large tourism is the fact that the island sits far enough out that you can get stuff tax free. And islands raised high? You should see the cliffs of Dover. Because Great Britain is an island. Also, the whole thing used to be much larger. But the water took most of it.
2:04 [inserted clip: but for many years, it was actually a British possession.] well, not really. just from 1807/1814 until 1890. before that, it changed hands many times between the duchy of Schleswig, Denmark/Norway and Hamburg. the Danish capitulated to the British during the Napoleonic wars but its population was German and after the Danish ceded it to the British many joined the _King's German Legion_ . the British exchanged it for Zansibar in 1890 because their navy didn't care for Heligoland as outpost and Zansibar was profitable while Heligoland was populated by Germans.
Helgoland actually has it's own internationally recognized language. It's a very strange mix of frisian, old english, dutch and danish and basically came to be because in the past it used to be a hub for fishermen from all these nations who came together there so stock up on drink and food. Rarely anyone noadays speaks the language tho but it has become a subject in the school there a few years ago.
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle is a pretty groundshaking discovery. It states that there is a hard limit to how much we can know. The implications are endless. Im surprised you haven't heard of it, I would have thought this to be common knowledge in schools curriculums - even I don't think a school student will really understand how deep that goes. By the way, Heisenberg himself would be a good topic to react on. You had Richard Feynman, we had Werner Heisenberg. Each in his regard was a pretty cool dude.
If you do happen to visit great Britain and Helgoland (in that order) please respect the tradition of bringing a pebble from Britain to Helgoland and drop it there. It's absolutely, truly, non-doubtly about our everlasting friendship with the english and has absolutely nothing to do with that garstly "england abbauen, helgoland aufbauen" ( roughly: demolish england, rebuild helgoland) Slogan you might have heard.
You may have come across the Heisenberg compensator in Star Trek NG, if you watched it. Each transporter has one and helps make transported subjects rematerialize at their destination in one piece.
"Grün dat Land, Rot die Kant, weiß der Strand, dat sind die Farben von Helgoland" [Green the land, red the edge, white the beach these are teh colours of Helgoland]. It explains the flag well, doesn't it?
Just like the US, we've got two sides with seashores: the North sea and the Baltic sea. The latter with our biggest islands, the former with the most expensive and the one farthest offshore...
Mentioned Helgoland under on of your other vids btw "heligoland" is relly funny haha it is also lovingly called "fusel-felsen" wich translated means "cheapspirits-rock" due to its tax free shopping ;-)
This island was completely devastated after WWII, no building survived. The Brits wanted to blow up the island with the biggest conventional explosion in history, which severely damaged the rock, but couldn't destroy it. So, they gave the barren island byck to Germany for resettlement.
These "shock images" on cigarette packets can be found all over the EU... I myself was on the island when I was 15, as part of a week-long school trip to Hamburg, and I took the opportunity to smuggle cartons of cigarettes... Ah, the youth...
Yep that's what it is called it English, while in German and Dutch it is called Helgoland. The North Frisians call it Deät Lun and the West Frisians call it Hilgelân (sometimes also called Helgolân).
_"That's a beautiful beach; where are all the people?"_
On the beach. That's not a beach. That's tidelands. It's under water half of the time, and when it's not, it's mud.
we call it sandbanks
@@dh1ao Interesting. In Dutch they are called Wadden, because it is such a big tidal area. Sandbanks are more like one row of sandy shallows in front of the coast.
@@ronaldderooij1774 We do too. "Watten"-"Wadden"... speak it with a north-german accent and you pretty much have the same word. A Sandbank may not be under water even at high tide i think.
@@ronaldderooij1774 In Germany it is also called Watt or Wattenmeer. We have the same definition for sandbanks as the Dutch, and some ships are visiting them to watch the seals there.
@@ronaldderooij1774 Oh, that's interesting for me. I live on an island in north frisia and we have those between the islands and the firm land. It's where the seals chill while it's low tide. Greetings to the netherlands and of course esp. to frisia :)
Believe it or not... Germany had several Colonies in Africa. 1884/1885: After the Berlin Conference, when European states divided Africa. Germany acquired German South-West Africa (today Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, German East Africa (today Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi), and parts of Papua-New Guinea.
Tsingtao!
Apparently the Togolese have a positive memory of the German colonization, compared to the French one. To quote " The things the French have build allready have fallen over the German stuff is still there. Thats one of the reason I wanted to go to Germany"
Nothing to be proud of chap ;)
@@hhbased You mean the bar isnt that high ;)
The paper ring at the bottom is collecting the "sweat" from the Glas. If you're served an ice cold beer, there will be water drops at the outside of the glass. If it runs down, the paper collects the water. 😉
This Beerthing is called a Biermanschette and stops the condensed water from dripping
It's not a private plane. It's a normal scheduled flight, just in a very small plane.
In 2003 I met one of pilots during a break, he literally was sleeping on a bench in the arrival hall at the airport.
However, the normal way to get there is by ferry, and then disembarking by boat.
@@NikiokoNot anymore, you can go from the ferry to land directly
@@carinam.9447 yes, in winter. They use the boats anyway in summer.
The paper on the glass absorbs the condensation or, if necessary, the overflowing beer.
Proof that Germans don't drink "warm beer", otherwise water wouldn't condense on the glass.
You also have to drink beer from a glass with a foot and not use a cup (Red Solo Cups).
Off course we east-wesphalians know what a "Pilzdeckchen" or "Bierrosette" is... 😅
@@Teuto-Charly Wissen das die Amerikaner auch 🙄🙄
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@@iglolangnesias5976 Ich glaube nicht, aber vielleicht wird er es danach tun.😀
that little paper thing around the bottom of the glass catches condensation from a very cold glass of beer. Less water stains on furniture…
Germany never directly controlled Zanzibar. But they did have considerable colonial possessions in nearby Tanzania during the height of African colonialism towards the end of the 19th century. For control over Helgoland, they in turn recognized Britain's claim on Zanzibar.
While never as extensive as the British or French possessions, Germany controlled areas several times the size of Germany itself in southern Africa. Primarily in modern day Namibia and Tanzania. Due to Germany's inferior navy, they lost control of their colonies during World War I and ceded the territory officially to Britain at the end of the war. During the period of decolonization after World War II, Britain finally had to release their colonies into independence.
Officially, the Britains also never "owned" Zanzibar. It was an "independent" sultanate... under british "protection".
Todays Tansania became independend in the 1960s. The republic's name is a coffer-word out of Tanganjika and Sansibar.
And we still have Helgoland. Got the better end of the deal.
"Grön is dat Land, rot is de Kant, witt is de Sand. Dat sünd de Farven vun’t hillige Land."
(Green the land, red the cliff, white the sand. These are the colours of Heligoland"
Nice climate, tax free goods, great view and lots of nature.
AND it belongs to my home county :-D
"I don’t understand how German controlled an island in Africa"
… colonialism, my dude? That’s like asking "I don’t know how there were so many Africans in America…"
@@Anna-zi7sx Not everyone in the world needs to know that Germany once had some colonies. Not many by the way compared to the big colonial powers.
@@lilg2300 you don't need to know in the first place. but when someone tells you, you still shouldn't be surprised.
@@lilg2300 I don’t think he has to know that, or which ones specifically, but I think as long as you know that colonialism was a thing that existed, it’s basically the only viable explanation for this. I also didn’t know that Zanzibar specifically was a German colony.
@@montanus777 exactly that. I didn’t expect him to know, but the answer to "why did X European country own Y" is always colonialism
@@montanus777 Pretty much all european nations took part in colonialism.. That should be common knowledge even in the US..
The USA wouldnt even exist without the british stealing the natives land
3:38 That's not a beach, that's the ocean floor. The Wadden Sea is unique that way because the tide rises and falls so much the sea floor will be exposed while the water receeds / before it returns.
Because of that you can actually take a horse cart or even walk over to some of the small islands that are closer to the shore of the mainland.
1:24 American sees a man drinking from a real glass.
"Wow, this guy is fancy!" 😂
It's a tulip glass. The type of glass used for pilsner.
@@Nikioko Yes, I know it is.
Well, he's also dressed in a suit and wears a watch. Not what you would generally expect a tourist to look like. And he's got the posh British accent as well.
@@theKiwii Why wouldn't you expect a tourist to wear a watch? Or have a British accent, which by the way isn't posh at all? And he doesn't wear a suit, just a shirt and a jacket, which is quite casual.
@@Nikioko It might be business casual but it's definitely not tourist casual. And if you still wear a watch in this age, you do it as a fashion accessory as everyone has a smartphone anyway. Also I didn't say tourists can't have British accents; that one's on your reading comprehension.
I lived on Helgoland for about 3 years. Its very cool there
@@Marco-e9w What exactly is cool there?
You mean the weather? 🙂
@@lilg2300 many Things, people , food, the fact thad the time seems to Go slower,duty free Shopping and and the fresh Air .
Does Helgoland still have a golf course? Do the seagulls also snatch icecream and Fischbrötchen from innocent tourists as they do on the mainland?
@@huehnerschreck751 seagulls are savage everywhere.
Even the German national anthem (Lied der Deutschen) is written on Helgoland (still British at that time) by Hofmann von Fallersleben. And Germany did not exist as one nation either in those days.
Was there back in the days as a teenager with my school class, one of the most traumatizing experiences in my life. The ship was little, the waves were high, over deck the north sea slapped you in the face pretty hard. One way Travel time was way above 2 hours. Everything in my stomach wasnt inside my stomach after 1 hour of the trip, i felt like Rocky after meeting Apollo the first time. I would say 90% of the passengers felt the same way, not the crew of course. Getting sea sick is the worst and our bus driver who drove us to the harbour at mainland knew what we were up to, he was joking a lot about vomiting (German pre-Schadenfreude and when we came back too of course). Best thing to do, go under deck in the middle part of the ship, there is the center of "gravity" practically speaking, it is not so gruesome there than elswhere on the ship.
🤢🤮🙈
@@PaulWinkle Never go under deck during passing heavy sea. It's a total mess for your senses. And not only yours so you will almost certainly be part of a Kotzfest. Even experienced sailors quickly could get seasick under deck. The best place is on deck near leeside. Try to concentrate on the horizon or even better a landmark if there is one. Leeside because if your up to feed the fish, it doesn't slap back into your face.
*laughs*
I remember going there with my parents and pretty much everyone around Dad and me puking their guts out. We were there talking about what we'd get for the next meal and everyone turned even greener
All depends on what one can handle. Feel bad for some of them in hindsight
@@ralfp8844 Kotzfest is true, it was like "Stand by me" and the pie eating competition. But it was quieter, less movement, well however one way or the other you get f'd
@@PaulWinkle I remember a visit of one of the canal Islands. One day before there was a heavy storm. Our mistake was to think, that when the storm is over, everything is quiet. The sea didn't think so. It still remembered the storm. I never expirienced such a heavy sea again. And i don't want to either. It was like Achterbahn. Down in the valleys we lost sight of the landmarks. But only for a short period, and that was good. Back again we sailed with the waves. That was quieter but not really better, cause now we stayed in the valleys much longer until the wave from behind gave us a lift. My former girlfriend only tried to sit down on deck and didn't want to look outside. Big mistake. Seconds later the breakfast broke out real fast. I stood there like a wannabe seabear trying to hold my body upright fixating a lighthouse whenever possible. That did it. I almost enjoyed it. Next time i wait until the sea also has forgotten the storm.
The reason you haven't seen cliffs like that is probably that you live in Indiana...
Why are there no people in the middle of the mudflats? Because they prefer to survive when the tide comes in.
And the UNESCO thing, of course...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 But being a UNESCO "World Heritage" or "Natural World Heritage" doesn't mean you can't visit it.
@@bunyip-ni6ch Yep! But under certain restrictions...
The one thing the british hate is the knowledge, that the Brits and the Germans are closely related brothers.
Not all of us 😁. Some of us like you enough that we've even lived in Germany for several years, and go back to visit whenever we get the chance.
👍 we are related. The kings and queens were all related
@@martingerlitz1162 The House of Hanover or "The Hanoverians" was a royal dynasty of German origin that succeeded the House of Stuart and ruled Great Britain between 1714 and 1901. This era is therefore also referred to as "Hanoverian England" in English historiography.
@@olafborkner good to have experts commenting 👍😃
Yeah, well, I mean, "ANGLO-SAXON". How much more obvious can it get? ^^
I went there at the age of 12 with friends of my family so that had to be in 1975. I thought it was boring there, just walking around, looking at some boring stone standing besides the shore (lange=long Anna). The most exciting thing of the day were going there by a quite small ship through rough waves and short before the island getting on a much smaller boat rocked by the waves. Thank god I never feel seasick.
The other thing was while strolling over the island seeing a woman (tourist) sunbathing topless on a bench while people were walking besides her. I thought that was strange because I only knew that vom the beach of Travemünde (holidays at the baltic sea), private gardens/balconies or sauna and FKK areas.
There are fotos from Helgoland showing me and my friend just sitting around with a lot of shopping bags we had to carry because of all the duty free things the grown ups bought (nothing for us children, just alcohol, parfume and cigarettes).
Never planned to visit Helgoland again. (But went back to Travemünde 2 years ago with my then 31 yo daughter for memories and a lovely beach. She liked it that much that she's going there for holidays with her partner next week, even the same Ferienwohnung/holiday apartment!❤ I guess she wouldn't do that if we had visited Helgoland 😂)
In the video I missed the saying that is on nearly every souvenir: "Grün ist das Land, rot ist die Kant’, weiß ist der Sand. Das sind die Farben von Helgoland". Green is the land, red is the edge, white is the sand, these are the colours of Helgoland.
Greetings from Germany!
The trick is to bring your non-smoking, non-drinking friends along. They also buy stuff. There is a per person limit, so your friends can buy stuff "for you"
Hmm I was 12 yo then... My friend (then 11 yo) did not smoke or drink. It were the adults that took us on this boring island. 😂😂😂
The name is "Helgoland" in german correctly - without an "i"
As he mentioned Heligoland was the "old" name and is now called Helgoland
But in English it is correct with the "i"
It’s Heligoland in English… just like it’s Munich for München or Cologne for Köln… seriously… loosen up…
Same in Scandinavian languages. And Helgoland is still important so they always mention it in the fishing and weather reports. You always get.. Stiv kuling ved Helgoland og dokker banke.. 😊
@@bastian6625 Nothing is correct in English ^^
If you think this short flight seems exciting, in Scotland there is what the Guiness Book of Records has declared the shortest scheduled aeroplane journey on earth. It is between the two Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray. It generally takes between one minute and 80 seconds, one way. It is run by Loganair and runs three to six times a day, depending on the time of year.
And probably the only way to school that includes air travel.
0:31 dear Ryan, it's not Heligoland, it's Helgoland, without that i, right before the shore of Germany, about 30 or 40 miles
The British call it Heligoland.
Danke!
damn, this guy is cool. I love how he talks and explains things with his nice narrator voice, what a legend. hope you react to more of his stuff, if there is any. ^^
Wikipedia:
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara), British singer of the rock band Queen, born in Stone Town; at the age of 17, fled with his family to the United Kingdom during the Zanzibar Revolution.
Guys, "Heligoland" is simply English for "Helgoland", just like "North Rhine-Westphalia" is English for "Nordrhein-Westfahlen".
Or "Lower Saxony" (Niedersachsen) 😅
It´s the OLD name. Heligo is related to "Halligen" which is still being used for the small islands. Later the Germans simply left the I out. This is just a guess, but I´d nearly bet that Helgoland originall meant as much as "Halligenland"
@@RSProduxx could be
Fun fact, the children born on Helgoland have to travel to Cuxhaven to learn how to behave around traffic because they don't have cars there. And if you're pregnant you need to go to the hospital at the mainland because of their doctor
So how there are children born on Helgoland if pregnant women to go to the hospital in Cuxhaven?
@@ChrisTian-rm7zm Well, the children still live there just for giving birth the woman have to go to the hospital on mainland
There are some cars there. But I think they could be counted on one hand. And they aren't private.
@@ChrisTian-rm7zm Home birth
@@ChrisTian-rm7zm Tje answer is Home Births. Women im Germany are not required to only go to the hospital to give birth.
In childhood we spent every year our summerhollidays on Helgoland-Düne. The hole Düne has been a playground for us. As an adult you only can relax, here is nothing than walk left or right araund the island, sitting on the beach and watching the water...
When I need to calm down, I only have to think about sitting on the Nordstrand or the clicking of the stones on the Aade.
We have been there a few years ago and I found something there that exists only there… the red flint, famous for Helgoland /Düne. You can buy it in the tourist shops but I found it by myself and it looks sooo beautiful. Cut into pieces and with polished surfaces it looks even better. Really proud of it😍
Lived there for 15 months, back in the years the german navy had a radar station there not far away from the "lange Anna"
That was in 1985.
Yes the german empire had colonies. It was all the rage at the time having some, so I guess we had to claim some too...
it was bad enough for them not to have a say in the caribbean, since there was no "german" navy to speak of back then.
On 26 August 1841, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the German national anthem during a stay on the island of Heligoland, which at that time still belonged to England.
If you like the Northern Gannets of Heligoland, you'll love Puffins from the Faroe Islands ^^ They look like a parrot seagull hybrid, absolutely adorable.
4:00 Beachline: the German North Sea is incredible flat. The tideshift between flood an ebb results in moving the costline for several! hundred yards into the ocean and back on land. The seabottom there is very muddy an wet. It's no place to put down your towel, but it is an environment where lots of tiny creatures flourish. When it is ebb tide only few people bother to go to the sandy beaches. Many people come to the shore when it is flood tide as the water then is there too.
and during low tides you can walk to most islands. Not Helgoland, that's too far out, but most other places.
The US still have some colonies. Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa….
When I've been around 12 y/o one of those sheeps tried to push me off the cliffs. :D
Sounds Like a Nightmare
@@StarwarsLexikon In retrospective yes. At this time, I wasn't really aware of the full danger.
Heligoland is the german Mekka for birdwatching! I myself was lucky to watch a few birdspecies even from North America there (Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the airstrip and Great Northern Divers passing by off shore). Heligoland is something like a pit-stop for birds while crossing the german bight from northeast to southwest in autumn and vice versa in spring. So Helgoland has become my second home during the last four decades.😃
1:30 The little paper is drip catcher (with the logo of the brewery on it). It is often applied with Pilsner beer when served in a "Pils tulip" glass.
2:10 Zanzibar was never a German colony. At the time of the Anglo-German Agreement of 1890 (later also misleadingly called Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty) it was an independent Sultanate within the claimed German sphere of influence. The treaty limited this sphere in eastern Africa to the German colony of "German East Africa" which included Burundi, Rwanda, the mainland of Tanzania and a small region in the North of Mozambique. (It limited also the German sphere of influence in southern Africa to Namibia, where the treaty gave them also the Caprivi strip connecting Namibia to the Sambesi river.) The real swap was Heligoland and the Caprivi strip for the small sultanate of Witu (in today Kenya), some other small colonies within Kenya and the Kingdom of Buganda within today Uganda. The German Empire also "recognized the British protectorate over the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba". After the protectorate status had ended in 1963 the Sultan was deposed in the Zanzibar revolution of 1964, and three months later the new People's Republic merged with Tanganyika, the united republic later renamed in United Republic of Tanzania.
Prussia wanted Helgoland as a navy base to protect the access to the new Kiel Canal (then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, now also Nord-Ostsee-Kanal = North and Baltic Sea canal, connecting North and Baltic Sea without having to circumvent Denmark). In late medieval times Heligoland was part of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, since 1544 of the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, which was a side branch of the Danish Royal House which was itself a branch of the German House of Oldenburg. This duchy (whose territories partly belonged to the Kingdom of Denmark, partly to the German Kingdom) supported in the Great Northern War 1700-1721 Sweden against the alliance of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Saxony and Poland-Lithuania; in 1714 Denmark occupied Heligoland. In 1721 a New Year's Flood split the island in two (separating the smaller island "Düne" from the main island). During the Napoleonic wars British troops conquered Heligoland in 1807 and kept it until 1890. The whole time Heligoland was settled by Frisians.
3:50 During flood tide there would be no shore line, only the ocean. It is part of the "Watt lands" (mudflats) along the Frisian coast at the North Sea.
1:28 We like to drink our beer cooled, which means water condensates on the outside of the glass. The paper collar at the bottom of the glass is for catching that water so it doesn't get on the table, your clothes etc.
4:10 It's a scheduled commercial flight, not private. You can fly to Helgoland from several other airports, not just the one. Price varies a little.
3:40 That was likely a mudflat. Germany has some wide sandy beaches elsewhere on the North Sea, some on islands, but for 10 months of the year it's too cold to go swimming. In July and August, they are indeed packed with tourists.
the wattensea (Wattenmeer) is the bottom of the northern sea actually at low tide. when its high tide it will be under water.
Random fact about that drip catcher on the beer glass stem: It has a printing on one side of it featuring the brewery the bar/restaurant has made a contract with. If the printing is showing up there is beer in the glass. If it shows the blank side then it is Alsterwasser, a mixture of beer and lemonade. Because both drinks look so similar that is the way the waiter can tell what kind of drink it is and serve it correctly to the person who ordered it. Otherwise one would to take a sip to tell which is which. And who wants that?
Beer brands differ slightly in their color. So even despite the Alsterwaseer is lighter in color due to the approximatley 50% colorless lemonade there might be some lighter beers in an order which makes it difficult to distinguish. And bad lighting in a bar does not help either.
As to the contract with the brewery: This contract provides for a minimum amount of beer from the brewery being delivered to the bar or restaurant. So this means a calculatable flow of revenue for the brewery. As its part of the deal the brewery furnishes/finances the glassware and other inventory of the bar. Hence the brewery labels on the glasses and also on the signs for the bar. So the owner has not as much an investment to come up with. Of course other beer brands can be served too along with non-alcoholic beverages and food. But if you order a beer you will get one from the contract brewery if you don't specify another brand from the menue.
Fun fact: Since 1932 Helgoland is governed by the district (Landkreis) of Pinneberg and the highest point of the whole district (we're talking 49 municipalities on an area of 256.5 sqare miles) is NOT on the mainland but the crater of a demolished bunker right on top of that island. 61 m or 200 ft above sea level.
That's why in 1998 a group of amateur climbers erected a summit cross there and named that small hill "Pinneberg" - just like the district which already translates to "Mount Pinne".
If you go there by ship you have to know that the journey is on the high seas and there are strong waves. On our family day trip on the ship from Wilhelmshaven to Helgoland almost everyone got seasick and was on the top of the ship.
the North Sea is NOT the high seas, one of the few places you can actually take a scheduled ferry on the high seas is from Denmark to the faroes, and on to Iceland, you will definitely feel a difference as soon as you clear the Orkneys and leave the North Sea and enter the Atlantic proper.
Trivia: Long ago there was a Dutch comedian. In WW2 he served in the British army. After WW2 he was made military governor of Helgoland unitil the UK gave it back to the Germans. The comedian (Rijk de Gooyer) returned to the Netherlands, I believe.
Those beer glass skirts you wondered about, they're to catch the drops of condensation from the cold beer running down the glass. It keeps the tables and your clothes dry. ;)
10:24 Quantum Mechanics is a bit complicated, bascially it says you can either measure the position or the impulse but not both at the same time. You'll understand it better if you look at the "Doppler" efect. Which says, by simply monitoring an experimaent you'll change the outcome of said experiment. Which means just by looking at something changes it's behavior.
Therefore, while you measure one paramter you change another. Therefore, if you measure the position of a particle you change the impulse. If you measure the Impulse you change it's position.
Or, simplifying further: imagine standing by a road and watching a car go by. To know how fast it is, you will measure how lomg it takes to cover a set distance, and the longer that distance the more precise your calculation of the speed becomes (e.g. because starting/stopping the clock a little unprecisely will play less of a role if you measure for 1 minute vs. 1 second). However, during that time measurement, the car moves, so one cannot exactly say where the car is during the measurement. Inversely, to kno where exactly the car is at a given moment, you want to keep the time during which you observe the car as short as possible, to minimize its movement (imagine taking a photo at a fast vs. a slow shutter speed, regarding motion blur). So, the more precisely you measure one aspect, the more you lose the information needed to precisely determine the other.
The text next to the baby picture says "Children of smokers often turn out smokers themselves", so it's an appeal to quit smoking (at least in front of your children) if you want them not to start themselves in the future.
I lived in Bremerhaven, coastal and harbour town. We had a ferry taking you there for 3 hours. I went there couple times. Nice there. touristy as well. Lots of people coming by ship from Hamburg and Cuxhaven too. Flying is luxury. You take the boat.
Germany and Britain did not just swap Heligoland for Sansibar.
It was actually a much bigger exchange of territories all around the world. Heligoland and Sansibar were only two minor footnotes in a much more extensive contract.
Helgoland is a very interesting place. The island was once much larger than today. Helgoland by the way is translated to the "holy land". Some people belive, that Helgoland is Atlantis.
Regarding the the paper on the bottom of the beer glass:
A pilsner doily, also called a beer rosette, pilsner rosette, beer collar, pilsner collar, or drip catcher, is a round piece of absorbent paper around the stem of a beer glass - usually a pilsner doily.
Moin!😁
There are a total of 77 islands off the German North and Baltic Sea coasts, plus ten Halligen islands. many are larger and have miles of white beaches.
Check other German islands 😁👍.
Allerbest vun de waterkant Bremerhaven 👍
This where we went in my last year of school !! You have to take a ship from Cuxhaven, it takes about 2 h. I loved it (I`m 65 y. old now, & still remember the name of the ship.....alte Liebe (0ld love)
Tbh if you look at a map, it makes much more sense that Helgoland is German and not British
Well, britain had a strong navy early on, german nations didn´t. And a navy is a good start if you wanna claim off-shore territory :)
8:50 They've banned cars and bicycles, which is why you see kick scooters and skateboards in some of the clips.
You have to keep in mind that the island has a circumfence of about 2,5km , there is simply no need for vehicles there are a few electric delivery vehicles , garbage collectors and an ambulance, as far as I do remember, and that is 20 years ago. I hope the Bunte Kuh is still going.
Some of the most famous Victual Brothers (Viktualien Brüder/ Likedeeler) during the Hanse era made Helgoland their base of operations in the north sea.
Gödeke Michels, magister Wigbold and Klaus Störtebeker are but 3 of the highest renown in their time
We didn't own Zanzibar. That's a myth. There was one beach in the southeast of Zanzibar. The rest of the island already belonged to the British Kingdom. We didn't care back then because we had Tanganyika (the rest of modern Tanzania)
And we also got this qutesy panhandle in Namibia wich, is completly useless, as found out later.
On a travel to VAE and Oman Jan 2024 I learned from our tour guide, that Sansibar once was an Oman colonie especially used for slave trade
I think the British were unaware that we did not control the whole island 😊
Even though it is called the "Helgoland -Sansibar Vertrag" Sansibar was a free Sultanate. Sansibar just belonged to the interest sphere of the German Reich.
Traveling there is an experience / FUN as a child, because the ships arent that big and you'll have a lot of "up and down" from the waves. The ships dont dock at the island and so you get on shore with small boats ... lots of "up and down" again (depending on the daily conditions).
The clip is inkomplete. There is very near another small island, its a 10min trip with a small boat to "Düne" where you can watch seals and commonseals relaxing at the beach.
The Beach could be empty because it´s Watt, shallow waters that fall dry over miles on low tide. It´s muddy silt, not sand. ;)
There are beaches on the northern side of the islands, but most people prefer to swim on the official beaches because there are strong currents everywhere and many areas are protected. Wattenmeer is a national park.
Africa was one of the German colonies before the 1st and 2nd World War. Even today, some parts speak German, Cameroon later went to France after the 2nd World War. Even today, many people there have German names but the language is French and English..
8:23 The images are meant to deter people from smoking during pregnancy and to warn people about cancer because of smokers. That's why such deterrent images were made in the late 80s and early 90s.ore the 1st and 2nd World Wars
Africa never was anybodies colony - it's a continent ;-)
If you ever go to the Wattenmeer at the North German coast be really careful when venturing out onto the mud flats during low tide. If you catch the ebbing tide roughly an hour after it starts it seems as if you had one huge five mile wide strip of muddy beach maybe with ankle deep water. However that is more than three yards underwater during the high tide. The currents both during ebbing and rising tide will rip any swimmer out into the North Sea. There's absolutely nothing you can do other than pray for rescue if you're caught too far from the real shore.
So always do this only with local guides who know the exact times for the local tides. Otherwise stay within a hundred yards of the high dunes on the mudflats.
Each and every summer the dedicated coast guard rescue some people too far out. In some tragic cases the corpses of those dragged out may still be recovered. Others are simply lost to sea.
8:54 Cars are also banned...the garbage truck is pulled by a horse...
Nonsens, they have already electrical Cars for police, ambulance and Garbage trucks.
@@beateried2477 In 2017, during my vacation, the garbage truck was a carriage. I have no idea if it is still like that today....
Good thing with the cigarette pictures are required in the entire European Union to be printed on cigarette packs and German is just one part of the European Union
I don't want to write so many comments That's why I'm writing in my other comment. And by the way helgoland isn't located in Africa it is in the north sea above the Netherlands
We're travelling twice a year to Helgoland about 2/3 Weeks for holiday. Nobody need a bicycle (only some handyman) there. Helgoland is really small.
About 1200 poeple staying the whole year on the island. Most of them working in tourism (more) or science (less - AWI-Alfred Wegener Institute). More and more workers coming to maintenance gigantic wind turbine parcs some miles before Helgoland in the middle of the North Sea.
Hello Sir, Thank you for making those videos and uploading. I am in born in Germany/MUC area and live in the US for some years. I am a grown up and I swear ...and some time I get home sick. If interested...and I don't know if it is available here in the US... "Deutschland von oben - Der Film" (Germany from above - The Movie) is done by ZDF, approx. 2h10min. It is absolutely extraordinary. I don't know if it is available in English, but it is mostly self-explanatory. If you have the chance to look it up, go for it. I have been on most of the mountains they show. Thanks again for making those videos.
To the cigarette packs; honestly, we don't even see the pictures anymore. It was a huge deal when they first came out but now? Kinda invisible to our eyes.
Today Ryan discovers: Colonialism, tides, and quantum mechanics.
One really big reason for the large tourism is the fact that the island sits far enough out that you can get stuff tax free.
And islands raised high? You should see the cliffs of Dover. Because Great Britain is an island.
Also, the whole thing used to be much larger. But the water took most of it.
2:04 [inserted clip: but for many years, it was actually a British possession.] well, not really. just from 1807/1814 until 1890. before that, it changed hands many times between the duchy of Schleswig, Denmark/Norway and Hamburg. the Danish capitulated to the British during the Napoleonic wars but its population was German and after the Danish ceded it to the British many joined the _King's German Legion_ . the British exchanged it for Zansibar in 1890 because their navy didn't care for Heligoland as outpost and Zansibar was profitable while Heligoland was populated by Germans.
3:35 you should probably get some info about the North Sea, the "Wattenmeer" and the tides there :)
Do you remember the time when the USA was a British colony? Germany also had colonies in Africa at the time.
My favourite Island in the North Sea. I often get there on my Vacation. I like your Videos and Coments. Very Cool.
If you want to see "a beautiful beach" like the on you saw from the plane with people, look for the islands from Sylt to Norderney.
Helgoland actually has it's own internationally recognized language. It's a very strange mix of frisian, old english, dutch and danish and basically came to be because in the past it used to be a hub for fishermen from all these nations who came together there so stock up on drink and food. Rarely anyone noadays speaks the language tho but it has become a subject in the school there a few years ago.
"I still don't know how germany controlled an island outside of africa"
🌈Colonialism🌈
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle is a pretty groundshaking discovery. It states that there is a hard limit to how much we can know. The implications are endless. Im surprised you haven't heard of it, I would have thought this to be common knowledge in schools curriculums - even I don't think a school student will really understand how deep that goes.
By the way, Heisenberg himself would be a good topic to react on. You had Richard Feynman, we had Werner Heisenberg. Each in his regard was a pretty cool dude.
4:26 Compared to the boat, which is the other way to Heligoland, the flight is expensive...especially since it is about a 15 minute flight
The Brits have this island reduced by using dynamite. We germans have only reduced the name by the letter "i" to "Helgoland"
8:55 - actually there's at least one bike with a special permit. I've ridden it couple of times... 😅
This paper thing is called Tropfenfänger. Drip Catcher.
If you do happen to visit great Britain and Helgoland (in that order) please respect the tradition of bringing a pebble from Britain to Helgoland and drop it there.
It's absolutely, truly, non-doubtly about our everlasting friendship with the english and has absolutely nothing to do with that garstly "england abbauen, helgoland aufbauen" ( roughly: demolish england, rebuild helgoland) Slogan you might have heard.
We also had a Colony called Deutsch-Süd-West-Afrika today it’s Namibia.
‚I don't understand how German controlled an island in Africa"
USA control Hawai 🤔😂🤣😂
Yeah, europe and their colonies.
I think that topic could be interresting for a video or two.
Especially for an American who never learned about colonies, colonialism and slavery
The exchange for Zanzibar took place in 1890 - back in the days of colonialism. But Zanzibar became independent in 1963.
You may have come across the Heisenberg compensator in Star Trek NG, if you watched it. Each transporter has one and helps make transported subjects rematerialize at their destination in one piece.
Guess most people only think about "Breaking Bad" these days when they hear Heisenberg 😄😄
If you are a Star Treck fan you know of course the Heisenberg compensator 😄😄
Fun fact: Helgoland belongs to the county of Pinneberg. Not Hamburg.
(Neuwerk belongs to Hamburg).
"Grün dat Land, Rot die Kant, weiß der Strand, dat sind die Farben von Helgoland" [Green the land, red the edge, white the beach these are teh colours of Helgoland].
It explains the flag well, doesn't it?
Just like the US, we've got two sides with seashores: the North sea and the Baltic sea.
The latter with our biggest islands, the former with the most expensive and the one farthest offshore...
I didn't know the english word for Helgoland is Heligoland
At least you were watched 2 minutes of the video before commenting, unlike most other people here.
Ryan, the misspelled the name. It is Helgoland.
*Deät Lun
Mentioned Helgoland under on of your other vids btw "heligoland" is relly funny haha
it is also lovingly called "fusel-felsen" wich translated means "cheapspirits-rock" due to its tax free shopping ;-)
we actually had a handfull countries as colonies in africa, in some, german is still a official second language!
This island was completely devastated after WWII, no building survived. The Brits wanted to blow up the island with the biggest conventional explosion in history, which severely damaged the rock, but couldn't destroy it. So, they gave the barren island byck to Germany for resettlement.
you should watch a video on German East Africa, that will answer a lot of your questions about Zanzibar
The uncertainty principle that you googled is a fundamental part of quantum mechanics.
How can someone make a video about Helgoland without mentioning the "Lange Anna"?
These "shock images" on cigarette packets can be found all over the EU... I myself was on the island when I was 15, as part of a week-long school trip to Hamburg, and I took the opportunity to smuggle cartons of cigarettes... Ah, the youth...
Do englisch and american people call it "Heligoland"? We germans call it "Helgoland" (without an "i")
Yep that's what it is called it English, while in German and Dutch it is called Helgoland. The North Frisians call it Deät Lun and the West Frisians call it Hilgelân (sometimes also called Helgolân).