American Reacts To "This Is Bavaria"! by Dr. Ludwig
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- As always Germany is just stunning, breathtaking. Dr. Ludwig once again delivers a phenomenal video showcasing its beauty. Thank you
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• This is Bavaria
The "alles klar, willkommen zurück" was perfect, including the ü 🙂
Fun fact: there are more castels in Germany than that there are MacDonalds locations in the USA.
The numbers: some 25,000 castels (of which some15,000 are still more or less intact) versus some 13,500 MacDonalds locations.
That's insane!
Nice Reaction btw The music is by Thomas Bergersen and Two Steps from Hell (This is Germany and This is Bavaria)
Mein Land Deutschland ,das Land der Dichter und Denker
Dude, come and visit and stay as long as u want! I live near Burghausen, the longest castle in Europa, i think u will enjoy a visit here
Servus, Kyle! ("Servus" means "Hello" or "Goodbye" in the Bavarian dialect.) I live in Bavaria and it's nice for me to see how much you like these pictures from Bavaria! Maybe you'll stop by and come and visit us in Bavaria as a tourist? - I recommend Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, the Allgäu or Berchtesgaden. Anyway, I can tell you a few interesting things about the history (in a nutshell) if you're so intrigued:
Bavaria is the largest of Germany's 16 federal states in terms of area (but only in 2nd place among the most populous states). For most of its history, Germany was NOT a united country, but a very loose federal confederation of countless small and large principalities, duchies, counties, and free cities (this huge puzzle was called the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" and existed from the 10th century until 1806).
For this reason, federalism and cultural diversity between and within the individual German federal states are very pronounced. In Bavaria, for example, there are many different dialects and the north of Bavaria (Franconia) is very different from the south ("Old Bavaria"). I live quite far in the south of Bavaria and have the typical Alpine panorama on my doorstep.
A bit of history:
In the Middle Ages and until the 17th century, Bavaria was a duchy within the "Holy Roman Empire of German Nation".
In the 17th century (during the Thirty Years' War), Bavaria was elevated to the status of an Electorate Principality. This means that the Bavarian Duke was now one of the voters entitled to vote in the election of the Emperor. These special princes were called "Elector Princes" in the HRE. In the 18th century, the Kingdom of Prussia began to rise to become a new great power within the empire and a serious competitor to the hitherto dominant great power Austria. During all this time, Bavaria had mostly been a friend and ally of Austria, which had provided the emperor continuously since the 15th century. The HRE increasingly disintegrated.
In 1806, Napoleon put an end to this old, very decentralized and increasingly unstable empire.
The HRE increasingly disintegrated. On the other hand, however, the individual countries of the empire increasingly gained independence. - Bavaria too.
Bavaria voluntarily joined Napoleon in 1806 (as did many other countries in the empire) because they had high hopes for him. - Bavaria was given a gift by Napoleon: it received Franconia and was elevated to the status of a kingdom. BUT the alliance with the French emperor also had a serious disadvantage: Napoleon wanted money and soldiers for his gifts! As Napoleon suffered more and more defeats (especially in Russia in 1812) and many Germans died for Napoleon, the enthusiasm for the progressive French ruler turned into rejection and hatred. In 1813, the Germans all joined forces to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig. Bavaria also changed sides and now also fought against Napoleon. - With success. (Even if Napoleon wasn't really defeated until Waterloo in 1815.)
After the victory over Napoleon, Germany was restructured at the Congress of Vienna: However, there was no unified modern German nation-state (which many Germans actually wanted, because Napoleon had unintentionally aroused these feelings in the Germans), NO, the "German Confederation" was created, consisting of over 30 individual German states. Of course, this also included the Kingdom of Bavaria.
In the course of the 19th century, however, the Germans' desire for a truly united German nation-state grew steadily. And in the long run, none of the many individual princes and kings of the country could suppress this desire of the people. The many princes feared for their sovereignty and therefore rejected German unification. In March 1848 there was a revolution. In Bavaria, too, people wanted a united Germany. Unfortunately, this revolution was crushed!
The dream of German unification did not become reality until 1871. Responsible for this was the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck, who forged Germany together under Prussian domination with 3 wars (1864 - 1871). Bismarck even bribed the King of Bavaria (Ludwig II), who still rejected unification, with money to get him to agree to the unification of Germany under Prussian domination. King Ludwig II of Bavaria liked to build private fairytale castles (such as the castles of Neuschwanstein or Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof). That is why he gladly took the Prussian bribes and even agreed that the Prussian king should become German Emperor.
However, King Ludwig II's expensive hobby finally proved to be his undoing in 1886: because the Bavarian state parliament was no longer willing to approve the costs for the royal building projects, the king was declared mentally disturbed and disempowered by a questionable psychological remote report. A day later, the king was found dead floating in Lake Starnberg. To this day, we don't know if it was suicide or murder ...
The monarchy in Bavaria - as well as in the whole of Germany - ended in the November Revolution of 1918. At the end of the First World War, all monarchs in Germany were overthrown and the republic was proclaimed. The republic was proclaimed in Berlin on 9 November 1918. In Bavaria even one day earlier, when the last Bavarian king (Ludwig III) was deposed. Bavaria was now called the "Free State of Bavaria" and this is still the official name of Bavaria today.
Unfortunately, Bavaria was dissolved in 1933 when Hitler had all the federal states dissolved and Germany centralized. But after the Second World War, the Free State of Bavaria was refounded with the help of the Americans. That was in 1946. And in 1949, Bavaria became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since the 1980s, Bavaria has even been the economically strongest state in Germany.
Today - after the German reunification of 1990 - it is one of 16 federal states and probably the best known in America, isn't it? 😉😂
To answer, yes its by far the best known to Americans. I heard of it before i started this channel but didn't know exactly what it was(thanks USA educational system lol). Thank you for this comment, it breaks it down so well and the amount of history is mindboggling!
@@KyleMcPherson1993 The fact that Bavaria is the best-known German state in the USA is due to the fact that Bavaria was in the US occupation zone after World War II. That's why your impression of Germany is likely to be very Bavarian. It's sometimes quite funny for us Germans when we watch US TV series, and Germans are generally equated with Bavarians. Bavaria's culture, dialect and customs are very different from those in Berlin, Saxony, Swabia or the North Sea.
No problem! - No need to complain about the American education system!- Why should you learn German history in your country? You learn American history, just as we learn German history in school. This is completely logical and OK! But I think it's nice that you are so interested in and able to fascinate the history and culture of another country! Be sure to keep your curiosity about the world going! This is very useful and helpful!
And if you have any questions about Germany or Bavaria, I'll be happy to answer if you like!
.....now you made me want to go there even more, you wurst-eater.
Hello! I am live in Weltenburg/ Kelheim. 😜
Well, it was understandable. Wich is high praise.
Minute 10:49 - Straubing, the city I work at.....
Minute 10:52 - Waldsassen, place of my birth
Minute 10:54 - Trinity church "Kappel" - near Waldsassen
"How could you not want to wake up in a town like this?" - easy: depending on your personality, these small towns can be fairly boring. However, the size of the town doesn't say much about the boredom. Erlangen has 111000 citizens but is a university town, so there is quite an active nightlife. Also, you get used to the sights. I live in Fuerth, a town near Nuernberg and Erlangen, I was born in Munich (I've been to all the attractions in Munich shown in this clip).
If you ever come here, be warned: Germany (and also Bavaria) is fractal. The closer you look, the more beautiful details you discover.
The Intro was not bad German!
Good Reaction 👍
Thank you!
Funnily enough, you stopped at my hometown, at 4 minutes. And here’s a “not fun fact” about it. The river is actually a peaceful fellow, like on the pictures (only 2 medium floods in the entire 20th century). But if it was really cold, so that the Main was thickly frozen over, enormous floods could occur in spring. During the mini-ice age in Europe (approx. 300 years), so much ice was formed in 1682 that the meltwater accumulated to a height of over 21 feet, which is almost the height of the houses below the castle wall...
And 2000 years ago, the river was the border to the Roman Empire. The picture was taken, from the Roman side.
That is absolutely insane!
Don't get me wrong, but not everything in Germany is beautiful! But preserving old beautiful and ugly things is right.
Little tip: allmost all videos from Dr. Ludwig have “subtitles”! it says what you see right now
i wonder why this one have not?!
#uh !!! I saw that he used a few TV recordings from TV channels and removed the “watermarks”.
My home town was in that video. I actually live in a village a bit away from the city but for me it counts.
To answer your question about how it is to wake up and having a peacefull
town/village or city out of your window. Well i only known that my whole life.
Only times i left was when i was in training for my dream job. I had to go to
Regensburg a 150k people city and that was maby a bit too many people for
my taste. My home town hat 45k currently and thats just right (tourists not included).
But for me i coulndt immagine living in a city like new york. Just way too many people
and buildings. Just to think i would have to drive like an hour to get to a decent natural
place is just crazy. Here where i live i gotta drive 5-10 minutes and im at a calm lake
with lush nature to relax on a sunny weekend.
Plus in the villages you can get evrything sourced locally (regarding food).
Milk, eggs, meat, bread and other goods are from our village only. Some
other things like washing powder ect we goota get from the local super market.
I wouldnt exchange this life for life in the big city... not even for big money.
Edit: i would recommend you to take a look at a video about the german alps.
ruclips.net/video/DAtvupNKzEU/видео.html (link if you trust that)
or search: "German Alps From Above MUST SEE Views: Berechtesgadener Land 4k | Königsee"
its from Bashir Abu Shakra.
Be wellcome. don't worry. most germans speak german
Kevin und Chantal nicht.
and english