One reason why Germany has such strong regional variation is that we weren't one country until 1871, one of the youngest major nations in Europe. This means a lot of history ran different courses and cultures diversified along the lines of duchies, kingdoms and whatnot, despite sharing a language which led Otto von Bismarck to facilitate the eventual union around Prussia.
The thing about Germany you need to keep in mind is that it has only been unified since 1871 following the *Franco-Prussian War* and the *German War* in 1866. My home of the (formerly *Free and Imperial* ) city of Frankfurt was on the loosing side in the German War and subsequently annext into Prussia. It was a City State. At this point the number of German states (as in completely Independent international actors) had been reduced to a more managable number, but in the *Holy Roman Empire* there had been over 300 Independent policies in what today is Germany. And many remain remembered in sub-regional identities. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
@@whoismertsalih Also keep in mind that even in 1871 Germany wasn't as united as most people believe. The German Empire was split up in different Kingdoms and Duchies, all of which still had significant autonomy. There were the Kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony, the Grand Duchies of Baden, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hessen Oldenburg Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and lots of other Duchies, Principalities and Free Cities.
The empires (both the holy roman and the german) were somewhere between the EU and the federal US in their power relative to their members. Not as central as France or even the UK, but also not a symbolic thing like the UN.
A good example would be the area I grew up in. The free state of Lippe was merged to the state of North Rhine-Westfalia in 1947. And North Rhine-Westfalia as a whole was created one year earlier by merging the Rhine province and the province of Westfalia. So the whole state of North Rhine-Westfalia as it is today is an amalgamtion of different areas and their culture. And those only merged (in historical aspects) very recently.
None of the fairytales of the brothers Grimm was inspired by the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg. They worked at the university of Göttingen and collected regional tales in Lower Saxony, especially those of the River Weser Mountain region.
@@nmmknh8997 First of all: Fairy tale can be translated in German either as a Märchen or as a Sage. The difference between both is that Sagen name always a specific place and/or date, like the Piedpiper of Hamelin in 1284 or the town musicians of Bremen e.g. A Märchen is much more vague, it says usually something like „Once upon ago“ and - in the case of Snow white- „behind the Seven mountains“ but that‘s it. It never gets specific. Snow White is a Märchen and it doesn‘t name a certain place, except the 7 Mountains and this is the name of a mountain range near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony. But as it is a Märchen it’s doubtfully that they really meant this certain place but just took the name. But for sure it is not located in Baden-Württemberg. Second: Even the name is a hint! Snow White in German is Schneewittchen. Schnee is Snow and wittchen means little white one in Low German/Platt - the language of the north which is in varieties spoken from the coast down to the north of Hesse. In some prints they changed this name into the High German version Schneeweißchen but soon went back to the first name. (White in standard German is weiß, in Low German/Platt it is witt).
@@Yellowsubmarie1 Danke für die nette Übersetzung, aber ich bin auch Deutsch 😅 Ich weiß was das bedeutet. Aber trotzdem, der Ort ist zu 100% vom Schwarzwald inspiriert und Schneewittchen ist Deutsch.
@@nmmknh8997Durch Wiederholung wird’s nicht weniger absurd. Letzter kleiner Hinweis auf Fakten: Die Deutsche Märchenstrasse, die alle Orte der Grimms Märchen verbindet, startet in Hessen beim Geburtsort der Gebrüder Grimm und führt bis rauf vor die Tore Hamburgs. Schwarzwald kann da nicht weiter weg sein.
@@nmmknh8997 "„Frau Königin, Ihr seid die Schönste hier, Aber Schneewittchen über den sieben Bergen bei den sieben Zwergen ist noch tausendmal schöner als Ihr.“ sieben Bergen = Siebengebirge und die sieben Zwerge sind mittelalterliche Bergleute (in ihrer Arbeitstracht).
The Saxons that came to the British isles roughly 1500 years ago originated mostly from the coastal areas of the current federal state of Lower Saxony (a.k.a. Old Saxony / Alt-Sachsen) and farther north all the way to Hamburg and Holstein, the latter also being the place of origin of the Angles. Large parts of both Lower Saxony (the British-ruled Kingdom of Hanover until 1866) and Saxony-Anhalt used to be Prussian provinces until 1947 when Prussia was officially abolished by Allied decree, while the current federal state of Saxony (a.k.a. Upper Saxony / Obersachsen) used to be its own kingdom and then free state. The prevalence of the name "Saxony" is rooted in the historical ducal title of Saxony (one of the original five stem duchies of proto-Germany a.k.a. East Francia) moving southeast along the Elbe river (Lower Saxony -> Saxony-Anhalt -> Upper Saxony) through repeated fiefdom grants and varied inheritance within the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) over the centuries and it eventually ended up with the Margraves of Meissen in the 15th century. The ducal title was superior and thus Upper Saxony under the rule of the House of Wettin centered in Meissen (and Wittenberg) consolidated into the Duchy and later post-HRE Kingdom of Saxony centered in Dresden, which until the dissolution of the HRE in 1806 also held the Prince-Electorship of Saxony (cf. Prince-Electors of the HRE).
2:10 Some small corrections here: - The Black Forest has rather little to do with the Fairy Tales the Brothers Grimm collected in Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It has its own tales however (like the tales written by Wilhelm Hauff) - He refers to the Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet, the local variety of carnival. Some of the costumes are inspired by local legend, myths and fairy tales, but not by those of the Brothers Grimm. The more traditional ones are however often inspired by the carnival of Venice or by traditions of the Alps region which themselves are presumably based on Celtic traditions. - Swabian is a northeastern form of Alemannic, which is in many aspects more similar to Standard German than other varieties of Alemannic. It is spoken in most of Württemberg and in the western parts of Bavaria. The northernmost parts of Baden-Württemberg have a Franconian dialect, the western part (Baden) uses mostly Upper Rhine Alemannic, in the southernmost part of the Black Forest (as well as the High Rhine Valley) High Alemannic, the regions north of Lake Constance have their own Alemnannic dialect, which mixes a some places with the Upper Swabian dialect. Swiss German is mostly High Alemannic, in the Alps also Highest Alemannic; the Austrian state of Vorarlberg is partly Lake Constance Alemannic, partly High Alemannic. Most Germans which grew up south of river Main can understand most Swabian dialects, except perhaps for some idioms from the Swabian Jura. - The money thing is more of a cliché which is however partly true for Alt-Württemberg (that part which was Württemberg before Napoleon came and expanded it to the south), which has a Pietist tradition. 3:40 Like other states Bavaria is a multicultural state. Like Baden und Württemberg it was expanded by Napoleon and elevated from duchy to kingdom. The northern part is Franconia which has its own dialects, history and culture (as well as more breweries than anywhere else), and the western part south of river Danube is the district of Swabia, which was before 1803 partly the Prince-Bishopry of Augsburg (which had its seat in Dillingen), partly ruled by multiple Free Imperial Cities (like Augsburg, Memmingen and Kempten). On the other hand the dialect spoken in Tyrol is a Bavarian one.
Also I'd like to add that the language of the Amish does not come from North-West Germany, but from the Rhineland-Palatinate area. They call it "de Muddersproch" and I think anyone familiar with German dialects can immediately see that that's not Plattdeutsch.
And the Bratwurst is from Franconia, Nürnberg has one of the oldest and most famous Christkindlesmarkets in the world, Adidas, Puma and many more companies are from or located in this region and obviously the rest of Bavaria has so many national and international companies as well. Bavaria really was kept far too short
Before WWII, Berlin was an industrial center and economic center in all areas, comparable to Paris for France. After the war, the city was badly damaged and divided by the victorious powers. Then it was an "island" within the GDR for 40 years. Berlin has never recovered from this. Berlin is also the capital of the unemployed (some say the work-shy). By the way, the map for North Rhine-Westphalia is wrong. Only Westphalia is shown, North Rhine is missing.
Greetings from Party Daddy NRW (Dortmund). And there is so much more to NRW than just Cologne and Düsseldorf. They always forget Westphalia, totally different from NorthRhine.
I have lived in Berlin forever and am an accepted citizen of this city. But I grew up in Westphalia (near Münster), actually I still feel like a Westphalian and I am still a big BVB fan.
I am from Essen in NRW, grown up in Mülheim and Oberhausen, so quite in the Ruhrpott, not far from Dortmund, Münster, Düsseldorf or Cologne, but I think that NRW is something very unique to Germany that the variety differ from city to city since they are so many and so close to each other that it can be considered a huge city consisting of a lot small ones. and yes Westphalia it's a lot different from Rheinland but also from the Ruhrpott in which I grew up. I really like the different mentalities, but you don't have to travel very far to get these impressions. And there are a lot of small rivalries between some cities because of a all of different things such as carnival especially between Cologne and Düsseldorf or soccer between Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen. I have personal connections to a lot of places in NRW because of friendship and family. That is also why I am very attached to NRW. The dialects are also different from the places where you are in NRW although most speak usually high German on a regular basis, still some words give a hint on where you grew up. I even see it with my friends and their children who already start to curse in a slang special to some cities or areas. 😂
Many of our differences and peculiarities can be traced back to the Germanic and Celtic tribes. We fought each other in Roman times, and we still do, if only in soccer games. And we still make fun of each other. This is not only true within Germany - BeNeLux, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, even Sweden, Norway and Great Britain are our big Germanic family, as they have always been (and vehemently deny). BTW: Look at you! If you aren't a Celt I don't know who is. And I'm writing this in Augsburg, Germany, which was called "Augusta Vindelicorum" by the Romans. The Vindelici were the Celtic tribe here in Southern Germany.
@hape3862 We have all sorts of roots, Germanic, Celtic, but also Roman, Franconian and Slavic and problably much more. We have mixed roots like whole of today's europe
Greetings to Malaysia from Hamburg, which many call the most British of all German cities. Hamburg has strong economic ties with the UK for centuries (at least since the 13th century). I like your content (and the strong Scottish accent). 😊
@@whoismertsalihUnfortunately with the wrong Hamburg football team. ;) There are two important football clubs in Hamburg: Hamburger Sportverein (HSV) and FC Sankt Pauli (FCSP). HSV is friends with Glasgow Rangers, FCSP with Celtic. As a Sankt Pauli fan, I was even once with Celtic fans at a European Cup match against HSV. Similarly, although perhaps not quite as extreme, as in Glasgow, there is a strong rivalry between the clubs. Because you asked: There is also a strong rivalry between HSV and Werder Bremen. There are some people from Hamburg who look a bit disdainfully at Bremen, and that's not only related to football, but often. I myself like being in Bremen, even if I sometimes speak somewhat derisively of the western suburbs of Hamburg. Because common enemies unite, a certain friendship has developed between Werder and FCSP fans. So yes, there is a certain rivalry between the cities, but it is more on the football level (and even there only between HSV and Werder Bremen) than actually lived in reality. Bremen is like the somewhat dimwitted little brother, but one of the family (of the Hanseatic cities). And from Bremen's point of view, Hamburg is the arrogant but successful big brother, from whom you don't let anyone tell you anything, but who is there for you in case of doubt and helps you out with some money if need be.
Greeting from Schleswig-Holstein! Great little fact about this Bundesland is that it changed hands between Denmark and Germany a couple of times. "Hochdeutsch" which is basically the german you'd learn in school is mostly spoken here by the younger generations but older people tend to still speak Plattdeutsch (which i unfortunately never learned). We still have a strong connection to Denmark tho, with most of us spending a lot of summers on the danish coastlines. If you ever visit, you should definetly visit the "Wattenmeer" it's pretty cool seeing the ocean coming and going for kilometers! and you can find cute little "Wattwürmer" which are worms native to that area
And sometimes we wish we still belong to Denmark. ;-) And a lot of people along the border on each side speak Danish/German, on the west coast they speak Frisian and we are the happiest part of Germany. Maybe because we are a little bit more Danish by heart. 🥰
Language... must have been quite a challenge in Germany before we agreed on High German. I grew up in the beautiful coastal town of Cuxhaven. My grandmother still knew how to speak Plattdeutsch, but she told me it had quite some differences from the Plattdeutsch that was spoken in the regions around the town. You could say that every small region at the northern coast has its own Plattdeutsch flavour. I imagine that goes for Bavarian, too.
@@_dalbit Yeah, I get that a lot when I'm talking to my colleagues in the South. They always ask me what these strange words mean 😅. Sometimes I even use words people from Hamburg (where I am living now) never heard...
@@SirHaviland I went to reply and somehow deleted my first response, strange! Same for me, as I have colleagues from all over Germany and Europe. It’s funny that I used to think I pretty much spoke high German without a dialect - oh was I wrong! Now I can definitely hear it or ‘sense’ it when I meet a fellow Cuxländer or northerner in general lol. Grüße von mir aus der UK nach Hamburg :)
The dialectal most diverse region is in the so-called "Rhine Fan" (Rheinischer Fächer) along the river Rhine, where every village used to have its own distinctive dialect.
Western continental germanic is a language continuum in the old world. That means that you get changes in spoken language from village to village everywhere. That is actually the same everywhere like in the hindi language in italian continuum. Often that changed only because of oppession like with the russian dialects or the local languages in France or due to low prestige like with plattdeutsch.
I live in Brandenburg. Most don't know my hometown. But it is near Torgau and Wittenberg. These cities are quite famous in East Germany, because of history.
The building of the BER (the new Berlin airport) began 2006 and was planned to be finished in 2011. ... well they missed the date just close. It was finished in 2020 with a cost 6x higher than calculated 😂 It became such a meme that there was even a parody game called "BER Bausimulator" published on Steam about the building xD
17:04 That is the point. Germany is not one country... it is more a collection of countrys that joined together. That is also the reason why "german" cultur is so hard to pin down.
As someone who grew up in East Frisia "Lower Saxony" I can confirm that we get along with the Netherlands really well, at one point we even wanted to be a part of them. 😂 It was such a big culture shock when I moved to Switzerland about 5 years ago. 😳
In the end all Europeans are c°cks for the 2nd and 3rd world and will stop existing in +200 years or so cause of the aggressive nature of the bandit tribes. All this talk is meaningless and wh°te people will be extinct sooner or later or will be treated as complete s°bhumans due to their low numbers. Enjoy this reality cause the bandittribes know no mercy nor empathy.
Hello from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in South-West Germany👋 And yes, I speak that 'thick' dialect called swabian, lol. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Germany defo is very divers! I love spending the holidays in Northern Germany on the beautiful coasts of the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 🧡
Moin, First of all.. thank's for your channel...I've dropped by, just to practice my understanding of scottish english... Now i am enyoing your joy to explore Europe. Love you for that. hugs and greets from Hamburg, the, somehow, scots part of Germany. Hugs to your family!
The differences between us Austrians and the Germans are quite significant. There are hundreds of sayings underlining this circumstance. I like this one for instance: While Germans would say, "the situation is serious but not hopeless", Austrians tend to state, "the situation is hopeless but not serious". 😊
What's really interesting is tat Austria almost became a part of Germany if it wasn't for Otto von Bismarck and his strong protestant belives and his prussian nationalism. He hated the idea of catholic austrians being a strong power in a united German Empire so he excluded them from the beginning. He wanted the protestant prussia to be THE leading power. Many german patriots wanted a union of all German people (meaning all those who speak German) at the time and tht included places like Austria and Switzerland.
11:48 we colloquially call it McPom - and it's rather like a grandpa that's expected to die any minute (but doesn't). However, the coastal area is a popular inland tourist destination. 11: 50 they just highlight westphalia, missing the western part.
As you ask at 13:02 about our experiences as Germans, here my answer: I was born in the 70ies and I learned as a child that it's normal that the areas everywhere are very different and unique. And that areas don't need to be far apart to be very different. And everywhere were these very different dialects. I thought as a child, that this "dense" variety is everywhere in the world like this 🙃 My father was from Köln (state Nordrhein- Westfalen), my mother from a smaller town (Wetzlar) (state Hessen in the middle), I was born in Bavaria but grew up on countryside in Baden-Württemberg. And these 4 areas couldn't be more different. The areas in Germany often are much more different, than the youtube videos about Germany shows. The areas in some aspects are like totally different countries and cultures. And I studied in Trier, in the very West of Germany, Trier, the oldest town of Germany and always "flooded" by tourists 😒. It was always clear for me, that you never can visit and see all the interesting areas in one life. I still see in youtube things about Germany I have never heard before. There will be some very nice places I will never see (unless I win the lottery). I'd like to see more villages in Bavaria and Dresden in Sachsen. And some not popular areas but with very nice mid-size towns I'd like to visit (in the center of Germany). As some relatives live in Köln, I know the "rival"- talking between Köln and Düsseldorf. It's just teasing for fun, just for smalltalk. And the towns are quite different, Düsseldorf is the "main capital" of fashion and other posh companies, and some rich Düsseldorfer think they are better, and Köln is the dirty worker and trade (and now media) town, and much bigger than Düsseldorf. Maybe also important to keep in mind: like everywhere in the world, time constantly continues, things change constantly. As modern times mean, that big brands and shop- or coffee chains spread everywhere, and more people changed their home place due to find somewhere (better or any) work, more and more the differences of the many German areas slowly vanished within the last 30 years. So cultures, that are more related to older peoples are still rather unique and special in each area, and these parts of the culture that is more linked to young peoples are more equal in all Germany. The same with the dialects, they slowly disappear, at least the strong versions of the dialects, there are now more slangs that are left of the dialects, and as always on countryside you find more of the oldstylish way of life than in the big cities. E.g. in Bavaria on countryside you find people that wear in daily life really the leather hosen, in Munich etc. this is rare and people wear these traditional dresses more only at some feasts. Where I grew up in the 80ies, an area with lot of mid size towns was especially "colourful" and divers in the culture in daily life, each town had it's special feasts and special clubs for teenagers, it was cool to drink only local beer from tiny breweries of these towns and everywhere you had the chance of small rock concerts and theaters etc. I got really spoiled/used to such a very high level of culture and cool nice stuff in daily life, to experience a looooot of creative stuff in leisure time that when I "ended" as adult in other areas in Germany (or UK or other countries) I was quickly disappointed when there was not such a huge variety of things you can do and experience in daily life, cause this had been the normality for me when I grew up. Some Germans also have a very high "sense" of history, as we get as child all the tellings about the history of these towns and areas, about very unique buildings, about history of our families in different parts of Germany, we learn as child a lot about the castles, churches etc. That's normal for us to know all this. At least in my generation.
in addition: image videos can give a good idea of the variety of a town. ruclips.net/video/ZaTS7e1SsLc/видео.html however things are also exaggerated in such videos, like here, Stuttgart has not only this great sides but also quite significantly down sides, like one of the worst air quality in a German city, especially in summer you don't want to live there. And other downsides. (Stuttgart would be No. 30 maybe if I needed to choose a new town to live in Germany, ...grew up just 20 km away, so I know it.) But it shows the typical surprisingly diversity of Germany. Also (almost randomly chosen) extremly great to watch: ruclips.net/video/UoFPdZod4vA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/FaNrMwwZWzU/видео.html
and I lived here for some years. Veeeery different to the rest of Germany. (You don't need to understand the talking of this imagefilm, the pictures are enough.) Maybe you've never seen scenes like this ruclips.net/video/G6G8xAOEsl4/видео.html
Thank you so much for your comment. That is a wonderful insight into German life. I really appreciate you taking your time to write that out. It was a fantastic read
I am from the very northern part of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) and traveled to Bavaria last year for the first time and it was very interesting that you could see the clear difference in culture not only from the landscape (like here in the north we have no mountains and comparing that to the alps were I went to was just crazy), but also from the language, buildings and so on. For example hearing a Bavarian accent in real life was very funny to me. Anyway, I think that these big culture differences are like that because of all the seperate kingdoms that just became a unified German state in 1871 for the first time.
Officially Germany was a unified state from around 911 until 1806 and had its own king, by historians now mostly addressed as "Roman-German King", at the time however also often as "King in Germany". He was - like the King of Bohemia - formally subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, most of the time however the same person. After the dissolution of the HRE in 1806 Napoleon elevated some of his allies to kingdoms - that is how Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony became their own kingdoms.
As someone from Schleswig Holstein we consider everything south of the "Weißwurst - Equator" to be Bavaria. Depending on the individual the "Weißwurst - Equator" is either the Elbe or the Main river.
I really had a lot of fun watching the video, thank you. Your reactions are very good as well. It is obvious that you are genuinely interested and open minded. Greetings from northern Germany.
- Klöße not koöße = dumplings - Yes, the airport is ready ;-) - Many cities have more bridges or canals than Venice. - Many German cities compete with each other and become competitive, they modernize themselves that way, otherwise people will leave.
Interesting video, greetings to Scotland!😃 I come from the Vogtland, that is the south-western district of Saxony, "Vogtlandkreis". In the Middle Ages and early modern times, our area also included smaller parts of neighboring Bavaria, Thuringia and the Czech Republic (Bohemia), so today we still have good connections to these areas and they are culturally similar to us in many ways. Rivalries: In Germany as a whole, there is a lot of rivalry between cities, on different themes, economic, cultural, etc... but when it comes to football clubs, you can actually always talk about rivalries, also between clubs from the same city, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, in Saxony, one example, the city of Leipzig: BSG Chemie Leipzig versus Lokomotive Leipzig.
Bavaria is not only the southern „bavarian“ part, but also the northern frankonian part with the biggest City Nuremberg, famous for it’s Christkindlesmarkt and the Nürnberger Bratwurst (small and delicious sausages). These two have a historic rivalry as they were forced to be one state by Napoleon in 1806. Don’t miss it out if you visit Germany, but normally you get to at least Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which is also in Frankonia.
Greetings from Baden - Württemberg. I live in the Baden Part, and even WE have our tensions with Württemberg. If you call a Badener to speak swabien, it's a death sentence.🤣🤣🤣
@@whoismertsalih There's an old joke that the Swabians like to make about themselves and it's about their "thrift" (evil tongues would call it stinginess). "What are Scots? Swabians expelled because of proven extravagance..." Thank god, I'm a Bavarian...
You’re actually correct that the regions of Germany get along really well with their neighboring countries -Northwest Germany gets along well with Denmark & Netherlands -East Germany gets along well with Poland & Czech Republic -Bavaria gets along well with Austria -Baden-Wurttemburg gets along well with Switzerland -And the Rhineland/West Germany get along well with France & Belgium
I'm from Frankonia which is a part of Bavaria and yes we also have big rivalries, the biggest one is Nuremberg and Fürth both cities are next to each other and the rivalries go way back, they are also rivals in football and are one of the oldest derbys, the first derby was over 120 years ago...... There was a time, where the german national football team, was made out of players from Nuremberg and Fürth and because of the rivalry the team had to split up on the way to a game against the Netherlands. 😅
I grew up in the Palatinate Forest in the South of Rheinland-Pfalz. It's a very rural woodland area that lives from lumber (obviously), small industry (until the 90s we were the industrial center for shoe making) and tourism (lots of interesting sandstone formations, a large net of hiking trails and small valleys with winding roads that are very popular among motor cyclists). We have lots of medieval castle, most of them ruins that were either destroyed in the 30 year war or used as building materials by the locals afterwards. The inhabitants of the villages and towns in that region often have a collective nickname - along with family nicknames that get handed down over generations - that either comes from an old trade (like Pirmasens had a lot of shoe factories therefore "Schlabbeflicker" - shoe fixer, Clausen had coppersmiths that make pots and pans "Haawe" - cookpot, women from Rodalben sold soup vegetables "Grienesputsche" - bundle of soup greens...) or a weird incident (like the vicar of Merzalben calling his community a bunch of n...ers, after someone glued some tacks on the railing of the pulpit that he always slapped while preaching - I don't want to repeat their nickname here but it rhymes with "Feger"). The latter is of course used to mock each other. My village has two nicknames: Kienholz (pinewood or fatwood) comes from the people selling tinder sticks and Rehbock (roebuck) comes from a poacher who tried to smuggle a roebuck into the village in a pram. He was spotted by the forester from the neighbouring village who told his friends at the pub about it. It didn't take long until people claimed the women of Münchweiler can give birth to three different sexes - boys, girls and roebucks. Apart from rivalries among neighbouring towns there's of course the arch enemy in the west - the Saarland. Or as some call it "The bad substitute for Alsace-Lorraine". We tell jokes about each other, mock our slight differences in our dialects - like the Saarländer say "it" instead of "her" or "Sonwife" (Suhnsfra) instead of "daughter in law". It doesn't help that a famous TV series from the 90s called Familie Heinz Becker plays with those stereotypes and portrays the simple minded, poorly educated, slightly xenophobic, but yet know-it-all Saarländer. Although I must say that Saarländer and Pfälzer love this series both the same - even if sometimes for different reasons.
Im from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the things id add to mention are Rostock, a former Hanseatic city and also the biggest city (Schwerin is 2nd). Its a very beautiful coast city and the beaches at Warnemünde are worth visiting during summer. Arguably way better as a state capital than Schwerin. A beautiful thing in Schwerin is its castle wich houses the state parlament. We also have quite the fascination with sports and Neubrandenburg (my town) hosts a very important football event every year (Knabentunier) where many national and international football teams scout and show off young talents in games against eachother. Personally i find my town very beautiful with its big lake, park and gothic city center. In general this state can be very beautiful with its lakes and forests. Its much more than just fields and has quite a charm away from all the dense cities. Other than that some famous ppl from Mecklenburg are Otto Liliental who made the first ever glidefight in human history, Materia as a german rapper, Toni Kroos a national footballer, Fritz Reuter a poet and author and lastly Friedrich Jahn who was the father of gymnastics.
I live in Saarland. I love my state because we are cultural close to France although we are germans. Most people in Germany think that we all speak very well french - but we don't. On the other hand we call the rest of Germany the "Reich". I love the rest of Germany too. I would like to visit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern because I've never been there and I think it's beautiful.
When I go to the Saarland Ikea everything is in French as well as German and you hear so much French. Sadly an IKEA worker said that they didn’t speak French and that the French didn’t speak German. Maybe they communicate in English?
Fun fact. I learned as a child follow saying in German : Schwaben sind die Schotten Deutschlands - Swabians are the Scots of Germany 😂❤ and you confirm that 😂 thanks for your content. As a German Croatian sometimes I forgot Germany has good sights. Because it’s feels like we had many bad years.
Let's not forget that the Swabians are also the inventors of Germany. The Swabians invented the first car, a Scotsman build the first steam engine... The reason why Swabia had so many inventions was the inheritance law. The parents property was split evenly between the children which meant that families quickly didn't have enough land to live of. So everybody needed a side hustle. In Northern Germany it was more a winner-takes all for the eldest son. This meant that the others had to become sailors or factory workers or soldiers(!) to make means end.
@@Warentester Interesting, in Bavaria the firstborn inherited the farm and tried to acquire more property through marriage. If the family had money the second born son would become a priest and the third born a schoolteacher. The daughters married for prestige or joined a convent. In farms with less money the siblings often became servants to their older brother, worked on other farms, left for the next town or joined a convent. This tradition secured the agricultural basis of Bavaria and only started to change significantly after WWII. And yes, I know that this is an oversimplification and does not apply to all Bavarian regions.
One of the Rival Parts between Düsseldorf and Köln is also the Beer-Culture .... in Düsseldorf and their Neighbor-Town they drink a dark Beer called "Alt" and in the Köln-Influences Area they drink a Beer called "Kölsch" both have individuell Glass-Tyoes too
I grew up in Lower Saxony, moved Schleswig-Holstein and in my experience, the Danish and Dutch are both really easy-going people ...provided you dont mess with their bicycles and respect their bicycle infrastructure. Dutch and danish cyclists are forces of nature.
I grew up at the border of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria but on the side of Baden-Württemberg and the rivalry was present every day. :D Crossing the bridge in Ulm (BW) to Neu-Ulm (Bavaria) over the Donau would be like crossing into the "enemies" land. :D Now I live a bit further south and on the Bavarian side and being now a Bavarian and feeling represented when people speak about Bavaria feels so wrong. My heart belongs in BW and I feel so foreign here although I am still in a swabian part and the cultural difference is not that big from the also swabian little town one street and 2km away on the other side of the Iller (river) in BW. :D I love the people of Rheinland-Pfalz, people there were the nicest I've ever met and the landscape is beautiful. And I have a soft spot for the coastal region in Germany. I love to visit the north sea and would like to visit the "east sea" once. From what I've heard I also feel more drawn to the people in the north. Although I love the landscapes, dialects and food from the south I don't really like the mindset of the people here. But taking a one week long hike through the otherwise loved north sea region made me a bit depressed. :D As nice as it is when you go over the dam and look into the sea I found it quite understimulating walking through the always the same landscape near the dam. I remember my friend writing me that I should maybe hug a tree to feel better or something and I desperately answered that I didn't come across a tree I could hug all day long! I could see some singular trees in the distance but I never came across one.^^ I also lived a year in Brandenburg and it is so interesting how the forests, the grass, the soil, ... is so different! I usually despise summer, not a summer person at all but I miss the summer I had up there. Going for a walk barefoot in the sand through the forest, picking up fruits from all the fruit trees along the way who didn't belong to anyone, the little farmer stands (?) in front of the farms in the little villages with homemade marmelade etc.... A few more stories to tell but I will end it on this. :)
Hi Mert, I'm from Trier and YES we have the best wine :) The city is full of Roman buildings, we have (in rare occasions) Karl Marx on our pedestrian traffic lights and all in all a very picturesque city. To answer your travel question, I don't have a specific german city I travel the most and make more use of the the "Dreiländereck" (threecountrycorner) and go to France, Luxembourg and subsequently Belgium and especially the Netherlands. I've been to a couple of Technofestivals in the "Völklinger Hütte" (Völklingen ironworks" and It's a pretty cool place to host such a event. Love your Videos! Greetings from Trier
Mert: where does your tremendous and deep and warm interest In Germany come from? I find it amazing that a person wants to get so deep down into our mentality, peculiarities, differences of our Bundesländer and their affinity to those countries they share a border with. You are such a nice Scot, honestly. It is people like you that have been a foundation of my decade-long love and appreciation of Scotland!!!
I am from the countryside of Bavaria and I love visiting the North Sea and I enjoy the differences in language and lifestyle very much. We always try to speak a proper High German but it sounds so funny with a bavarian accent😆. Its just similar to your scotish English anyway
If you want to do a deep dive into one of the states, start with Northrhine-Westphalia. Biggest population and most diverse of all the states. In the west you got the former capital of the Holy Roman Empire, Aachen, neighbouring the volcanic region of the Eifel. Going east you'll enter the rhine and wine region, following the river there is former sleepy capital city Bonn, which still houses lots of it's ministries, followed by Cologne with it's own type of beer/language/way of life, Leverkusen born out of a chemical plant, Düsseldorf (Capital of NRW, upstart backwater wannabes, snobs, culturally very distinct parts of the city, the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan, etc.), and Duisburg marks the start of the Ruhr-metropolis which extends east. Stereotypical lots of manufacturing, coal, dust, smog, immigration and low education standards was used in movies and jokes up to the 90s, with the area slowly progressing into other types of business over the year, Essen transforming into one of the greenest cities, cuisine reveling from so many different influences of all the foreign workers who came during the 50s and later on. Former industrial complexes get transformed into new areas for living and leasure, like Phönixsee in Dortmund. But enough of that, to the north is the Münster region, more agricultural, slower, more Dutch along the border. Further to the east you can see more spa areas, where people go after they get a new hip or knee. To the south-west it gets more hilly, with a few small mountains and skiing during winter. Great region for hiking, but the people might be a bit thin lipped and cold, afer all if you haven't lived there for at least two generations than you're still the new ones in the village. If you really want to get more of a visual expression, look up the regional public broadcaster WDR, they often do little friday evening programmes about how beautiful NRW is, showing the low mountains ranges, following rivers from the spring up to their termination into bigger rivers, visiting rural festivities. Even if they might not be subtitled, the gist of it is pretty much understandable and it's really all about that scenery.
Come on if you are already referring to the southwest at least name drop the "Sauerland". But first of all thanks for putting a spotlight on NRW. It is indeed a very diverse region and peoole tend to summarize it always with there is the Ruhr agglomeration, Cologne and Düsseldorf. But as someone who was born in a village in the aforementioned "Sauerland" and now studies in Aachen, I always feel it refreshing when someone takes the time to differentiate the regions and also gives the not so well known parts of our country a mention.
I'm from NRW too, originally living at the border of Sauerland and Ruhrpott, but I lived in Düsseldorf for 6 years and travelled around a bit. It's very full of differences, almost every middle sized city or village groups have their own spin to it. I find it fascinating how the pott is looking like one giant city but can be seen so different if you look at the details
Sorry, but Aachen wasn't "the capital" of the HRE, just the place, where the coronation took place. The HRE didn't have a capital and the Emperor was moving from palace (Pfalz) to palace all the time. That's quite important for understanding german history and why it was never fully centralized
The island of Helgoland also belongs to Germany, is located in the North Sea and can only be reached by ship; this is always forgotten. Uch is known for the "Lange Anna", a high rock needle where hundreds of seabirds breed.
Also the German national anthem was written on Helgoland, back when it was a british ruled island. Later (1890) it was exchanged for some colony in Africa and Helgoland became German. It is now part of the district of the city Pinneberg which is located right outside of Hamburg and doesn't share any natural border whatsoever with Helgoland so I don't know, how exactly this happened, but as someone coming from Pinneberg, it makes me a bit proud to say that our national anthem was written in my district area. :)
It's Berlin that has more bridges than Venice. There is so much water in Berlin and Brandenbrug 💕 Thank you for this video - I learned some interesting things I didn't even know as a German about my country
I would describe Hamburg more like the no-nonsense seafarer of the family that likes to have a good night out ;) (and possibly drives a Porsche…) I think the whole IT thing is a new development. I am from there and have not even heard that!! 😅
3:35 funny he mentions half timbered houses , as ( southern ) Bavaria is one of the regions in Germany without any half timber houses . There are many though in Franconia and Hessen, which also were part of the US. occupation zone .
Funny sidenote, the seven "mountains" (more like hills) were not far away, from a village where I used to live as a child. And in said village is an old castle, which people mostly joke, it's the one of the evil queen.
The Hanse is a very big and exciting part of european history itsself and worth a look. Even Edinburgh and Aberdeen have been part of it for some time.
Something that may not be obvious to you: Unlike the UK, where the national border also is a cultural border (that watery stuff really stops you from having a chat with your next-door neighbour on the other side), in the German region of the continent, they rarely line up. Also, cultural borders are more like a spectrum, not a hard line. And when you add often-shifting or late-established borders to it...
I actually had to change my view on oceans as borders. They are more like connecting highways, transporting ideas and culture (see Hamburg) then borders. Mountains on the other hand are often much more efficient in separating cultures than one might think based on the distance between two valleys on a (2D) map.
@@Warentester The Alpine region produced a distinctive culture from the French Alps all the way into Slovenia, covering Switzerland, Austria and parts of Northern Italy. Not just Southern Tirol, but all along the border with Switzerland and parts of France. Of course there are a many differences in languages and dialects and local traditions, but they all have a distinctive Alpine flavour.
@@ludicrousone8706 True, but the differences in local language and customs can be astounding, while cultures "connected" via water often share suprising similarities despite much longer distances.
Like your content, you can break down the differences much further, many of these states are one in their current borders, but culturally much more divided than can be explained in a video, for example, in Hesse alone there are 4 major dialects that have little in common. do not tell a Franconian that he is Bavarian or a Baden he would be Würtemberger and so on and so forth. And the hardest dialect is in no case Swabian, I personally understand all very well only with Frisian there could be problemes 😂
Frisian is different with it's viking words and different forming of words, more like scandinavia and anglo saxony mixes. School here is written skuul, island is eilun, beach is struun, not is ei, together is tup. Nothing to do with platt or low german, that is spoken here as well
It is strange that Franconia was not made its own state. Bavarians have a strong and treasured identity, tradition and independent streak and don’t view Franconia as a proper part of Bavaria
9:58 Plattdeutsch isn't just a German dialect but actually it's own language and has more in common with Dutch and English than with German. 16:25 You can greet people with "Moin" in most places in Northern Germany. But just say "Moin". Only tourists say "Moin Moin". (Also, "Moin" means "good day", don't let people convince you that it means "good morning".)
Die englische Sprache basiert teils aus dem Plattdeutsch und niederländisch, nicht umgekehrt :-)) Weshalb wohl englisch auch eine einfacher aufgebaute Sprache ist als eben deutsch.
@@wallerwolf6930 Ich denke, keine der Sprachen basiert auf einer der anderen. Sie sind gemeisamer Abstammung. Genauso wie der Mensch nicht vom Affen abstammt, sondern Mensch und Affe gemeinsamer Abstammung sind.
@@seb0rn739 Es gibt darüber (Entwicklung der Sprachen) wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Forschung). Ich habe mir meine Zeilen nicht aus den Fingern gesogen. Norddeutsches Platt ist mit den Menschen, auf die Insel gezogen und ist auch vergleichbar, nachweisbar. Andere Einflüsse sind auch anderen Volksstämmen zuzuordnen, wie die der Kelten u.a..
unlike other nations like France and England, Germany at first was not ment as a single nation, it was an area where people lived in different nations (with different cultures and religions) but they all spoke german dialects. The idea to unite all these little german kingdoms came up first after the end of Napoleon Bonaparte and the "Reihnbund", It was Prussia who finaly added bavaria and created the 1. united form of germany ...
I'm from Bremen but never hard of chocolate beer. :D We have some brewerys here in Bremen (besides Beck's which now belongs to a belgium Brewery) and we had chocolate factory (but they put the production to poland). That's it. ;) And it was nice to listen to a scottish man. My last english teacher was from scotland!
Half timbered houses can be found in many regions in Germany. And regarding King Ludwig II. - they had him declared as mad in order to keep him in sk e sorts of house arrest, as he was spending too much for their liking.whether he kilked himself or whether he was killed is disputed.the only fact known us that he drowned, anything else is mere speculation. Oh and not only Bavaria has lots of breweries, the whole county has
Our Federal State of Bremen. My city Bremerhaven. But all forget that our City was a link to the New World in the 19. Century. Over 7 million people going over Bremerhaven to america. Our skyline looks like the hotel in Dubai. And Our port is the biggest place for cars in the world.
Just to clear up the old brother Grimm tales didn´t just come from Baden-Württemberg. They were collected from all over the German-speaking areas. The brothers Grimm actually came from Hessen.
this one was a test run of the final clip i believe that you can watch on youtube now, but thanks, i didn't know this one before..what do you say in scotland again? right "There can be only one".
11:51 I wonder if there is a reason they split North Rhine-Westfalia in two? Being from North Rhine-Westfalia, I never realised that the Southern-most point of NRW and the Northern-most point of Bavaria are roughly on the same geographical height. I always referred to Bavaria as the deep South. edit: and I just read that the southern-most point of NRW is South of the northern-most point of Bavaria. I'm kinda shocked I didn't know that
I'm from lower saxony really close to the border to hesse where I study. And that was a complete culture shock even though we live close together, they almost speak a different language sometimes.
I'm from Lower Saxony, the state known for their Hochdeutsch. I grew up in a really small settlement with maybe 20 houses which the half of it were farms. Basically Siedler of Cartan, everyone was focused on making something else, like wool or milk production (on a small scale, not like nowadays), my grand and grand grand parents were growing veggies and produced sausages and spoke one of the most lovely dialects in Germany: Plattdeutsch.
2:10 The costumes are from Fasnet/Fasching/Karneval the Schwäbisch Alemannische Fasnet. There are many Zünfte/ Guilds in the different places. They are a old tradition, bevore the lent 40 days bevore easter. Where all the food was eaten, which is fortbidden during the lent bevore easter. (That it don‘t get rotten) 2:00 this is one of the „Scherbenzunft“ in Freiburg 2:05 this are the „Schuttig“ from Elzach, they had many snail shells on the hat.
I'm originally from Jena, the 2nd largest city in Thuringia. There is a heavy rivalry against the city of Erfurt. But it's mainly because of their soccer teams FC Carl-Zeiss-Jena and FC Rot-Weiß-Erfurt. If you want so visit Thuringia, i can recommend both citys. Nearly every settlement here has a long history. So is the area of my homevillage settled for more than 3000 years and the village itself is around 1100 years old.
May be you should dive deeper into history, by learning more about the Hanse. The Hanse was a cooperation of cities, based on their common interest in trading basically all over Europe. The Hanse was founded in the late high medival time. Over time it consisted of the most important trading cities, all the way from the Atlantic ocean to the east Baltic sea, and lasted for several hundred years. It had a great influence on the developement of those cities and even the cultural connection between them. It is quite interesting to learn about it and explains many things of todays society in those regions. Compared to that, todays german states are mostly pretty young and also somewhat artificial. Most of them were established after WW2, and the east german ones even after 1990. Some contain several culturally diverse regions, like Northrhine-Westphalia for example. But to understand tthat, you need to look at the situation of the old Germany before 1871, when there were dozens of different little duchies and independant towns and whatever. Then it gets really complicated...
went into the comments to see if anyone had suggested learning about the Hanse (aka Hansa teutonica) yet, wasn't disappointed. :) That'd definitely help with understanding the way hanseatic cities see themselves even today and also why Bremen & Hamburg are their own states rather than being absorbed into the Flächenländer around them
@@LeyCarnifex The story of the Hanseatic League is the success story of these cities and not to describe in a few words. Similar to that of the Fugger.
indeed, it bothers me (being from Saxony) too. Saxony is only called that way because saxon nobility got to rule over it for some time and only after the tribes played a role in regional divides. Most of the people in Saxony are of slavic origin, the Saxon tribe never really got to the region of Saxony in any significant number.
Oh yes, local and regional rivalries are a thing. And yes, those states used to be their own nation in a somewhat loose union for a while. Which also explains why there are so many regional cultures and why those cultures tend to be a bit like neighboring countries. The north has some danish, the north west dutch, the west belgian and french, the south french and swiss, the south east austrian, the east czech and the north east polish influence.
What also should be mentioned: in some legal categories the states / the state parliaments (Landtage) are pretty independent, some categories are ruled only by the all over german parliament (Bundestag), and in some categories laws can only be ratified when that majority of the all over german parliament (Bundestag) and the majority of the states (Bundesrat, each state has one vote, regardless of inhabitants) voted for it. Who decides on which category is defined by the constitution.
Greetings from Hessia or Hesse, from a city about 20 minutes drive from Frankfurt called Offenbach am Main. I am originally from South Africa and came to Germany in 1994 and it’s become my home even though the rest of my family moved to Wales. I would love to go to the North Sea, maybe even retire there… I also love Allgaeu in Bavaria.
Sorbians are in my area in Brandenburg too. We have the name for cities or sometimes roads in sorbian language as extra. My hometown Forst is called "Baršc" in sorbian. I live 12km from the border to Poland. Those Polish people living at the border are displaced Russians and others by Katharina the Great and later Stalin. Another famous region in Brandenburg is the Schwarzwald with lots of small cannels.
When you ask a German where they're from, the answer will differ if they perceive you as German or as foreigner. A foreigner will always get the answer "Germany", because nobody will assume you know any German cities besides Munich and Berlin. If they think you're from Germany, they'll say their hometown or at least the next largest city to it - "Hey, I'm from Stolberg, near Aachen!" or "I'm from Bielefeld!" (although then you will almost certainly hear some dead dad joke like "You're lying, Bielefeld doesn't exist!"). The Bundesländer play a minor role here for our sense of home; mostly, it's City > Region > Nation > Bundesland. That's due to the fact that most of the Bundesländer (except for the city-states) are composed of a myriad of former smaller counties, earldoms, baronies etc.
Sometimes it even goes deeper: If I get asked by a German where I'm from I would say Duisburg or Lower Rhine region. But actually most of the people living in the part of Duisburg which is left to the Rhine don't feel as Duisburgians. 😊 The parts left of the Rhine were additionally put to the city in 1975 due to a reform.
I feel like it’s a bit different depending on where you’re from. For example in my home city of Regensburg most people see themselves as Bavarians more than Oberpfälzer even though Regensburg is the capital of the Oberpfalz. It’s because Regensburg was a free city until it came to Bavaria. That’s why the people of the city don’t really allign themselves with the people from the rural areas to the north but see themselves more as Bavarians.
@@chcucivtxzclccucifudohzfu6766 Of course there will be exceptions, mostly due to historical reasons like you mentioned. Still, I think it will be the majority of cases that someone values their region more than their Bundesland. To give an example: I'm from the Rhineland area west of Cologne, and show most of the traits that are accredited to Rhinelanders - I`m outgoing, bubbly, emotional and don't know when to stop talking. My husband is from OWL - a "Westfale" as if copied from the rulebooks: chill, reserved, and when he is angry, I have to search for clues, because I would have exploded into a bazillion pieces when he just states "No, that's not right, I have to talk to my boss about that!" But, we're technically both from NRW. The Bundesland doesn't describe its inhabitants enough. Regions do far more.
The Saxony, where the saxons invading GB from, came from was Lower Saxony though. Actually the Saxony of today only is called Saxony because they had a saxon King, who wanted his people to be called saxons too now (thats how it worked in those days. They were the 'Wettiner" before). The 'Hanse' (you asked about that) was a band of cities, that made sure their ships and loads weren't occupied by pirates or robbing knights (Raubritter). And the rivalries between German cities can get pretty intense. Even though not as intense as rivalries between different football clubs with different political influences.
You asked where i'am from.. Thüringen or in English: Thuringia. They call it "the green heart of Germany" - I love Scotland and your dialect. Slàinte Mhath. ♥
Edinburgh and Glasgow. It's the same thing here. Freiburg and Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. We talk shit about each others, but if i met a person of the bespoken cities in South Africa, we'd consider to be from the same place...its more of a friendly trash-talk. Unless when it comes to football...Karlsruhe vs Stuttgart, you want a lot of police there, same with Freiburg vs Stuttgart or Freiburg vs Karlsruhe...its insane
16:24 Yes, you CAN greet people by saying "Moin Moin", but then you have already become a chatterbox by the standards of Schleswig-Holstein. They usually just go with "Moin".
Here, where I’m from, a little fleck between Düsseldorf, Bochum and Wuppertal, my small city here has a rivalry with the city next door. Those love hate relationships seem to be common on all scales xD I was at many places in Germany already. The place I like the most is Baden-Württemberg. The food, landscape, people. It’s so awesome.
Im from braunschweig ( lower saxony), our rival is hannover and the rival goes as far it gets. For example football fans threw a pigs head above a fence at the training ground of the other team. When they play against each other both cities are filled with cops. But there is also just banter, like harmless but funny jokes like: Whats the best thing about hannover? - the autobahn leading to braunschweig
Moin as they say in Schleswig-Holstein, according to the happiness atlas, the happiest people in Germany live here in Schleswig-Holstein. Maybe because we are more similar to our Danish neighbors? But it's a quiet spot in the north, the people here are a bit quieter, but still very warm. And we greet each other with Moin at any time of the day. Moin derives from the Low German word moi, which means "pleasant, good, beautiful". Incidentally, Low German is not a dialect, but a language of its own, which is mainly spoken in the north of Lower Saxony via Schleswig-Holsten and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Unfortunately, Low German is dying out as a language, although the federal states are doing great things to preserve this old language. So greetings from the happy state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
Hello from Bavaria. Like in the north, the dialects have a great variety here. So the dialect in Upper Bavaria ist quite different to the dialect in Franconia or in Palatine. Usually, we do understand each other, but there are some words, you simply need to know. The dialect in Lower Bavaria is quite harsh, and if you meet one who is mumbling a lot, it can be quite difficult to unterstand what he says.
13:15 grew up in Mainz which is in a love-hate relationship with Wiesbaden on the other side of the Rhine. Mostly because they snatched three of our districts after WW2 and, although they're a much younger city, they're also wealthier, which is obviously insulting. Köln vs. Düsseldorf is rooted in the 30-year war, where the cities have found themselves on opposite sides. Other notable rivalries are Frankfurt vs. Offenbach and Bavaria vs. Germany.
13:21 As someone who lives in Hesse it's really interesting to see what a non german video had to say about all the different states (wouldn't agree with all that was said but it was quite entertaining). A big part of my family lives in Mecklenburg Vorpommern so I've been there quite a lot my whole life. It's definitely very poor compared to where I live, even though there's actually a lot of tourism there because it's right at the sea. I actually love going on vacation there as nature there is absolutely amazing. 9:04 In Hesse we actually have another fairly important city called Darmstadt which is/was quite famous for its science. There's actually an element in the periodic table named Darmstadtium because it was discovered there along with 5 other elements. The GSI in Darmstadt is a big player in the research of Ions and there is the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt as well. So yeah in Hesse there's not only a bunch of business bros but also science stuff. We also have alot of nice landscapes and little mountains and forests and probably many more things but I am actually quite bad in geography and only really know about Darmstadt because I like chemistry ,:)
There are so many small things to add here and there, but I'll just say this: I've recently been to Jena in Thuringia and learned that that's where Goethe and Schiller did a lot of work too to get out of Weimar because supposedly it was a very small village with lots of gossip, so they tried to get out into a more "metropolitan" town.
Pretty short Hessen part. Hessen - Home of the Brothers Grimm (Hanau) ... and also of the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow. 😆 It's also #1 federal states together with Rheinland-Pfalz regarding woodlands (nearly half of the area are forests) and a lot of regions and smaller cities have a medieval touch.
10:06 the Amisch speak Plattdeutsch? No, that's completely wrong. Pennsylvania Dutch is a High German dialect based on dialects much farther to the south. Mostly Rhineland-Palatinate.
@superaids generally speaking, it is also wrong to equate Hochdeutsch = Standard German. Sure, Standard German is a form of Hochdeutsch, but PA Dutch, as well as all dialects of Saarland, are dialects, but belong to the High German group as well. (whereas actual Dutch, in this classification, would clearly belong in the "Low" group) These are details you need to watch out for when discussing language on a scientific level.
I‘m from Wiesbaden, the capital of Hessia/Hessen. There’s a big rivalry between Wiesbaden and Mainz (capital of Rhineland-Palatinate/ Rheinland-Pfalz). They’re really close to each other geographically. Both cities tend to call the other one „die ebsch Seit“ which means (more or less) „the wrong site“ because they’re both located on the opposing sites of the rhine river. The rivalry can also be found in smaller villages, my home village and the direct neighbor (< 3km) are always trash talking the other one and that’s quite common (at least in many villages I know)
good job my friend ich muss sagen als Thüringer sehr gut zusammen gefasst ^^ aber kann dir empfelen als Schotte schau mal nach den kelten und germanen in Mitteldeutschland und ja selbt in irland kahm das gut an weiter so machst ne gute Arbeit
Greetings from *Hessen* to Malaysia! It's always a shame for me to hear that Hessen is only associated with Frankfurt and the financial world. I live about 90 km from Frankfurt in a region called the Goldner Grund (golden soil). The name derives from the particularly fertile loess soil in this area. There are many mineral springs here. Our town has historical first mention in 1018 and city rights since 1281. That means that we have a historic old town where history is still cultivated. Even our carnival association has existed since 1832. We Hessen love "Babbeln" (talking) and our "Äppler" (cider) and most of them are said to wear their hearts on their sleeves. For me, Germany is still a "poet and thinker" even if many forget that because they simply don't read anymore. - I like all of our federal states and have been to every one of them, ... except in fact Berlin 😂
I so agree, even as someone from Frankfurt, who loves the city Hessen has so much more to offer. But alas, a short video can't feature it all, hell, in Bavaria, they just completely ignored anything Franconian.. so
The BER airport is at leat operational for the last two or three years. i am not sure if it is fully done but it seemed like a normal airport to me when i was there in January .
One reason why Germany has such strong regional variation is that we weren't one country until 1871, one of the youngest major nations in Europe. This means a lot of history ran different courses and cultures diversified along the lines of duchies, kingdoms and whatnot, despite sharing a language which led Otto von Bismarck to facilitate the eventual union around Prussia.
I (North Hessian here) just came back from my first trip to Sachsen. Just loved it.
The thing about Germany you need to keep in mind is that it has only been unified since 1871 following the *Franco-Prussian War* and the *German War* in 1866.
My home of the (formerly *Free and Imperial* ) city of Frankfurt was on the loosing side in the German War and subsequently annext into Prussia.
It was a City State.
At this point the number of German states (as in completely Independent international actors) had been reduced to a more managable number, but in the *Holy Roman Empire* there had been over 300 Independent policies in what today is Germany.
And many remain remembered in sub-regional identities.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
Very interesting and this is why I am really intrigued with Germany. It is has such a complex and interesting history, Thanks for your comment Raoul
@@whoismertsalih Also keep in mind that even in 1871 Germany wasn't as united as most people believe. The German Empire was split up in different Kingdoms and Duchies, all of which still had significant autonomy.
There were the Kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony, the Grand Duchies of Baden, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hessen Oldenburg Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Mecklenburg-Strelitz and lots of other Duchies, Principalities and Free Cities.
The empires (both the holy roman and the german) were somewhere between the EU and the federal US in their power relative to their members. Not as central as France or even the UK, but also not a symbolic thing like the UN.
A good example would be the area I grew up in. The free state of Lippe was merged to the state of North Rhine-Westfalia in 1947. And North Rhine-Westfalia as a whole was created one year earlier by merging the Rhine province and the province of Westfalia. So the whole state of North Rhine-Westfalia as it is today is an amalgamtion of different areas and their culture. And those only merged (in historical aspects) very recently.
That dialect! 😊 As a German, never heard Scottish that distinct. Need to get used to it for a minute. Love it 😊
You'll also hear it from the RUclipsr Limmy. Probably even more.
@@Sasatern Just watched some videos of him, you are right :D
Glad he doesn't speak Scott (the dialect). Or scottish Gaelic (althoug I understand that a tiny bit).
haha same here. But I needed about 3 minutes to get into proper understanding :)
I'm not versed enough in scottish dialects to get the region, but I've heard more intense.
None of the fairytales of the brothers Grimm was inspired by the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg. They worked at the university of Göttingen and collected regional tales in Lower Saxony, especially those of the River Weser Mountain region.
No, Snow White is actually the best example. It takes place in the Black Forest.
@@nmmknh8997 First of all: Fairy tale can be translated in German either as a Märchen or as a Sage. The difference between both is that Sagen name always a specific place and/or date, like the Piedpiper of Hamelin in 1284 or the town musicians of Bremen e.g. A Märchen is much more vague, it says usually something like „Once upon ago“ and - in the case of Snow white- „behind the Seven mountains“ but that‘s it. It never gets specific. Snow White is a Märchen and it doesn‘t name a certain place, except the 7 Mountains and this is the name of a mountain range near Hildesheim in Lower Saxony. But as it is a Märchen it’s doubtfully that they really meant this certain place but just took the name. But for sure it is not located in Baden-Württemberg.
Second: Even the name is a hint! Snow White in German is Schneewittchen. Schnee is Snow and wittchen means little white one in Low German/Platt - the language of the north which is in varieties spoken from the coast down to the north of Hesse. In some prints they changed this name into the High German version Schneeweißchen but soon went back to the first name. (White in standard German is weiß, in Low German/Platt it is witt).
@@Yellowsubmarie1 Danke für die nette Übersetzung, aber ich bin auch Deutsch 😅 Ich weiß was das bedeutet. Aber trotzdem, der Ort ist zu 100% vom Schwarzwald inspiriert und Schneewittchen ist Deutsch.
@@nmmknh8997Durch Wiederholung wird’s nicht weniger absurd. Letzter kleiner Hinweis auf Fakten: Die Deutsche Märchenstrasse, die alle Orte der Grimms Märchen verbindet, startet in Hessen beim Geburtsort der Gebrüder Grimm und führt bis rauf vor die Tore Hamburgs. Schwarzwald kann da nicht weiter weg sein.
@@nmmknh8997 "„Frau Königin, Ihr seid die Schönste hier,
Aber Schneewittchen über den sieben Bergen
bei den sieben Zwergen
ist noch tausendmal schöner als Ihr.“
sieben Bergen = Siebengebirge
und die sieben Zwerge sind mittelalterliche Bergleute (in ihrer Arbeitstracht).
"Should the world ever end, I'll move to Mecklenbrug. Everything happens 50 years later there."
Otto von Bismarck.
The Saxons that came to the British isles roughly 1500 years ago originated mostly from the coastal areas of the current federal state of Lower Saxony (a.k.a. Old Saxony / Alt-Sachsen) and farther north all the way to Hamburg and Holstein, the latter also being the place of origin of the Angles. Large parts of both Lower Saxony (the British-ruled Kingdom of Hanover until 1866) and Saxony-Anhalt used to be Prussian provinces until 1947 when Prussia was officially abolished by Allied decree, while the current federal state of Saxony (a.k.a. Upper Saxony / Obersachsen) used to be its own kingdom and then free state.
The prevalence of the name "Saxony" is rooted in the historical ducal title of Saxony (one of the original five stem duchies of proto-Germany a.k.a. East Francia) moving southeast along the Elbe river (Lower Saxony -> Saxony-Anhalt -> Upper Saxony) through repeated fiefdom grants and varied inheritance within the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) over the centuries and it eventually ended up with the Margraves of Meissen in the 15th century. The ducal title was superior and thus Upper Saxony under the rule of the House of Wettin centered in Meissen (and Wittenberg) consolidated into the Duchy and later post-HRE Kingdom of Saxony centered in Dresden, which until the dissolution of the HRE in 1806 also held the Prince-Electorship of Saxony (cf. Prince-Electors of the HRE).
2:10 Some small corrections here:
- The Black Forest has rather little to do with the Fairy Tales the Brothers Grimm collected in Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It has its own tales however (like the tales written by Wilhelm Hauff)
- He refers to the Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet, the local variety of carnival. Some of the costumes are inspired by local legend, myths and fairy tales, but not by those of the Brothers Grimm. The more traditional ones are however often inspired by the carnival of Venice or by traditions of the Alps region which themselves are presumably based on Celtic traditions.
- Swabian is a northeastern form of Alemannic, which is in many aspects more similar to Standard German than other varieties of Alemannic. It is spoken in most of Württemberg and in the western parts of Bavaria. The northernmost parts of Baden-Württemberg have a Franconian dialect, the western part (Baden) uses mostly Upper Rhine Alemannic, in the southernmost part of the Black Forest (as well as the High Rhine Valley) High Alemannic, the regions north of Lake Constance have their own Alemnannic dialect, which mixes a some places with the Upper Swabian dialect. Swiss German is mostly High Alemannic, in the Alps also Highest Alemannic; the Austrian state of Vorarlberg is partly Lake Constance Alemannic, partly High Alemannic. Most Germans which grew up south of river Main can understand most Swabian dialects, except perhaps for some idioms from the Swabian Jura.
- The money thing is more of a cliché which is however partly true for Alt-Württemberg (that part which was Württemberg before Napoleon came and expanded it to the south), which has a Pietist tradition.
3:40 Like other states Bavaria is a multicultural state. Like Baden und Württemberg it was expanded by Napoleon and elevated from duchy to kingdom. The northern part is Franconia which has its own dialects, history and culture (as well as more breweries than anywhere else), and the western part south of river Danube is the district of Swabia, which was before 1803 partly the Prince-Bishopry of Augsburg (which had its seat in Dillingen), partly ruled by multiple Free Imperial Cities (like Augsburg, Memmingen and Kempten). On the other hand the dialect spoken in Tyrol is a Bavarian one.
Also I'd like to add that the language of the Amish does not come from North-West Germany, but from the Rhineland-Palatinate area. They call it "de Muddersproch" and I think anyone familiar with German dialects can immediately see that that's not Plattdeutsch.
Yeah, I will never understand (and don’t want to) why Bavarian Swabia wasn’t given to Württemberg instead of the Franconian parts…damn shame.
@@Philipp.of.Swabia 😅
And the Bratwurst is from Franconia, Nürnberg has one of the oldest and most famous Christkindlesmarkets in the world, Adidas, Puma and many more companies are from or located in this region and obviously the rest of Bavaria has so many national and international companies as well. Bavaria really was kept far too short
Before WWII, Berlin was an industrial center and economic center in all areas, comparable to Paris for France. After the war, the city was badly damaged and divided by the victorious powers. Then it was an "island" within the GDR for 40 years. Berlin has never recovered from this. Berlin is also the capital of the unemployed (some say the work-shy).
By the way, the map for North Rhine-Westphalia is wrong. Only Westphalia is shown, North Rhine is missing.
Greetings from Party Daddy NRW (Dortmund). And there is so much more to NRW than just Cologne and Düsseldorf. They always forget Westphalia, totally different from NorthRhine.
I have lived in Berlin forever and am an accepted citizen of this city. But I grew up in Westphalia (near Münster), actually I still feel like a Westphalian and I am still a big BVB fan.
Münsterland ist einfach nur geil.
I am from Essen in NRW, grown up in Mülheim and Oberhausen, so quite in the Ruhrpott, not far from Dortmund, Münster, Düsseldorf or Cologne, but I think that NRW is something very unique to Germany that the variety differ from city to city since they are so many and so close to each other that it can be considered a huge city consisting of a lot small ones. and yes Westphalia it's a lot different from Rheinland but also from the Ruhrpott in which I grew up.
I really like the different mentalities, but you don't have to travel very far to get these impressions. And there are a lot of small rivalries between some cities because of a all of different things such as carnival especially between Cologne and Düsseldorf or soccer between Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen.
I have personal connections to a lot of places in NRW because of friendship and family. That is also why I am very attached to NRW.
The dialects are also different from the places where you are in NRW although most speak usually high German on a regular basis, still some words give a hint on where you grew up. I even see it with my friends and their children who already start to curse in a slang special to some cities or areas. 😂
Many of our differences and peculiarities can be traced back to the Germanic and Celtic tribes. We fought each other in Roman times, and we still do, if only in soccer games. And we still make fun of each other. This is not only true within Germany - BeNeLux, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, even Sweden, Norway and Great Britain are our big Germanic family, as they have always been (and vehemently deny).
BTW: Look at you! If you aren't a Celt I don't know who is. And I'm writing this in Augsburg, Germany, which was called "Augusta Vindelicorum" by the Romans. The Vindelici were the Celtic tribe here in Southern Germany.
Great comment, thank you very much mate
@hape3862 We have all sorts of roots, Germanic, Celtic, but also Roman, Franconian and Slavic and problably much more. We have mixed roots like whole of today's europe
Greetings to Malaysia from Hamburg, which many call the most British of all German cities. Hamburg has strong economic ties with the UK for centuries (at least since the 13th century).
I like your content (and the strong Scottish accent). 😊
Thanks Pedro. Yeah even the football team I support (Rangers) has a strong connection with the Hamburg football team.
@@whoismertsalihUnfortunately with the wrong Hamburg football team. ;) There are two important football clubs in Hamburg: Hamburger Sportverein (HSV) and FC Sankt Pauli (FCSP). HSV is friends with Glasgow Rangers, FCSP with Celtic. As a Sankt Pauli fan, I was even once with Celtic fans at a European Cup match against HSV. Similarly, although perhaps not quite as extreme, as in Glasgow, there is a strong rivalry between the clubs.
Because you asked: There is also a strong rivalry between HSV and Werder Bremen. There are some people from Hamburg who look a bit disdainfully at Bremen, and that's not only related to football, but often. I myself like being in Bremen, even if I sometimes speak somewhat derisively of the western suburbs of Hamburg. Because common enemies unite, a certain friendship has developed between Werder and FCSP fans. So yes, there is a certain rivalry between the cities, but it is more on the football level (and even there only between HSV and Werder Bremen) than actually lived in reality. Bremen is like the somewhat dimwitted little brother, but one of the family (of the Hanseatic cities). And from Bremen's point of view, Hamburg is the arrogant but successful big brother, from whom you don't let anyone tell you anything, but who is there for you in case of doubt and helps you out with some money if need be.
Greeting from Schleswig-Holstein! Great little fact about this Bundesland is that it changed hands between Denmark and Germany a couple of times. "Hochdeutsch" which is basically the german you'd learn in school is mostly spoken here by the younger generations but older people tend to still speak Plattdeutsch (which i unfortunately never learned). We still have a strong connection to Denmark tho, with most of us spending a lot of summers on the danish coastlines. If you ever visit, you should definetly visit the "Wattenmeer" it's pretty cool seeing the ocean coming and going for kilometers! and you can find cute little "Wattwürmer" which are worms native to that area
And sometimes we wish we still belong to Denmark. ;-) And a lot of people along the border on each side speak Danish/German, on the west coast they speak Frisian and we are the happiest part of Germany. Maybe because we are a little bit more Danish by heart. 🥰
Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen, Deutscher Sitte, Hoher Wacht.
Gruß aus der Landeshauptstadt von einem Exilnordfriesen
@@norwegianwood7564 only the Cabaggeheads from Dithmarschen do
Plus we have a (political) party for the Danish with its own right in the government. It's small but I think it's cool to have them.
Einmal Nordfriese, immer Nordfriese
Language... must have been quite a challenge in Germany before we agreed on High German. I grew up in the beautiful coastal town of Cuxhaven. My grandmother still knew how to speak Plattdeutsch, but she told me it had quite some differences from the Plattdeutsch that was spoken in the regions around the town. You could say that every small region at the northern coast has its own Plattdeutsch flavour. I imagine that goes for Bavarian, too.
@@_dalbit Yeah, I get that a lot when I'm talking to my colleagues in the South. They always ask me what these strange words mean 😅. Sometimes I even use words people from Hamburg (where I am living now) never heard...
@@SirHaviland I went to reply and somehow deleted my first response, strange! Same for me, as I have colleagues from all over Germany and Europe. It’s funny that I used to think I pretty much spoke high German without a dialect - oh was I wrong! Now I can definitely hear it or ‘sense’ it when I meet a fellow Cuxländer or northerner in general lol. Grüße von mir aus der UK nach Hamburg :)
The dialectal most diverse region is in the so-called "Rhine Fan" (Rheinischer Fächer) along the river Rhine, where every village used to have its own distinctive dialect.
Western continental germanic is a language continuum in the old world. That means that you get changes in spoken language from village to village everywhere. That is actually the same everywhere like in the hindi language in italian continuum. Often that changed only because of oppession like with the russian dialects or the local languages in France or due to low prestige like with plattdeutsch.
Jo, kenne ich auch. Meine Oma schnackte auch Platt, meine Mutter aber Hochdeutsch mit uns Kindern. Deshalb kann ich nur wenig Platt.
I live in Brandenburg. Most don't know my hometown. But it is near Torgau and Wittenberg. These cities are quite famous in East Germany, because of history.
The building of the BER (the new Berlin airport) began 2006 and was planned to be finished in 2011.
... well they missed the date just close. It was finished in 2020 with a cost 6x higher than calculated 😂
It became such a meme that there was even a parody game called "BER Bausimulator" published on Steam about the building xD
"Niemand hat die Absicht, einen Flughafen zu bauen" (taz)
17:04 That is the point. Germany is not one country... it is more a collection of countrys that joined together.
That is also the reason why "german" cultur is so hard to pin down.
Nein
As someone who grew up in East Frisia "Lower Saxony" I can confirm that we get along with the Netherlands really well, at one point we even wanted to be a part of them. 😂
It was such a big culture shock when I moved to Switzerland about 5 years ago. 😳
Yeah, but they didn't want us...
In the end all Europeans are c°cks for the 2nd and 3rd world and will stop existing in +200 years or so cause of the aggressive nature of the bandit tribes.
All this talk is meaningless and wh°te people will be extinct sooner or later or will be treated as complete s°bhumans due to their low numbers.
Enjoy this reality cause the bandittribes know no mercy nor empathy.
As someone who grew up in "Ruhrpott", North Rhineland-Westphalia, I can confirm that we hate the Netherlands😂
Ich und ein Bekannter haben auch festgestellt die Schweizer sind sehr argwöhnisch gegenüber Deutschen. Zuerst zumindest.
Hello from Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg in South-West Germany👋 And yes, I speak that 'thick' dialect called swabian, lol. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Germany defo is very divers! I love spending the holidays in Northern Germany on the beautiful coasts of the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 🧡
Moin, First of all.. thank's for your channel...I've dropped by, just to practice my understanding of scottish english... Now i am enyoing your joy to explore Europe. Love you for that. hugs and greets from Hamburg, the, somehow, scots part of Germany. Hugs to your family!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate it. I can't wait to learn more about your wonderful country
The differences between us Austrians and the Germans are quite significant. There are hundreds of sayings underlining this circumstance.
I like this one for instance: While Germans would say, "the situation is serious but not hopeless", Austrians tend to state, "the situation is hopeless but not serious". 😊
Oh wow, that sounds amazing. I need to switch countries😁
@@phoenix72999 😀
What's really interesting is tat Austria almost became a part of Germany if it wasn't for Otto von Bismarck and his strong protestant belives and his prussian nationalism. He hated the idea of catholic austrians being a strong power in a united German Empire so he excluded them from the beginning. He wanted the protestant prussia to be THE leading power.
Many german patriots wanted a union of all German people (meaning all those who speak German) at the time and tht included places like Austria and Switzerland.
Very interesting, thanks Clemens
I love the phrase: "If austria meets the world, the world takes damage" :D
Greetings from a German in Vienna
11:48 we colloquially call it McPom - and it's rather like a grandpa that's expected to die any minute (but doesn't). However, the coastal area is a popular inland tourist destination. 11: 50 they just highlight westphalia, missing the western part.
As you ask at 13:02 about our experiences as Germans, here my answer:
I was born in the 70ies and I learned as a child that it's normal that the areas everywhere are very different and unique. And that areas don't need to be far apart to be very different. And everywhere were these very different dialects. I thought as a child, that this "dense" variety is everywhere in the world like this 🙃
My father was from Köln (state Nordrhein- Westfalen), my mother from a smaller town (Wetzlar) (state Hessen in the middle), I was born in Bavaria but grew up on countryside in Baden-Württemberg. And these 4 areas couldn't be more different. The areas in Germany often are much more different, than the youtube videos about Germany shows. The areas in some aspects are like totally different countries and cultures. And I studied in Trier, in the very West of Germany, Trier, the oldest town of Germany and always "flooded" by tourists 😒.
It was always clear for me, that you never can visit and see all the interesting areas in one life. I still see in youtube things about Germany I have never heard before. There will be some very nice places I will never see (unless I win the lottery).
I'd like to see more villages in Bavaria and Dresden in Sachsen. And some not popular areas but with very nice mid-size towns I'd like to visit (in the center of Germany).
As some relatives live in Köln, I know the "rival"- talking between Köln and Düsseldorf. It's just teasing for fun, just for smalltalk. And the towns are quite different, Düsseldorf is the "main capital" of fashion and other posh companies, and some rich Düsseldorfer think they are better, and Köln is the dirty worker and trade (and now media) town, and much bigger than Düsseldorf.
Maybe also important to keep in mind: like everywhere in the world, time constantly continues, things change constantly. As modern times mean, that big brands and shop- or coffee chains spread everywhere, and more people changed their home place due to find somewhere (better or any) work, more and more the differences of the many German areas slowly vanished within the last 30 years. So cultures, that are more related to older peoples are still rather unique and special in each area, and these parts of the culture that is more linked to young peoples are more equal in all Germany. The same with the dialects, they slowly disappear, at least the strong versions of the dialects, there are now more slangs that are left of the dialects, and as always on countryside you find more of the oldstylish way of life than in the big cities.
E.g. in Bavaria on countryside you find people that wear in daily life really the leather hosen, in Munich etc. this is rare and people wear these traditional dresses more only at some feasts.
Where I grew up in the 80ies, an area with lot of mid size towns was especially "colourful" and divers in the culture in daily life, each town had it's special feasts and special clubs for teenagers, it was cool to drink only local beer from tiny breweries of these towns and everywhere you had the chance of small rock concerts and theaters etc.
I got really spoiled/used to such a very high level of culture and cool nice stuff in daily life, to experience a looooot of creative stuff in leisure time that when I "ended" as adult in other areas in Germany (or UK or other countries) I was quickly disappointed when there was not such a huge variety of things you can do and experience in daily life, cause this had been the normality for me when I grew up.
Some Germans also have a very high "sense" of history, as we get as child all the tellings about the history of these towns and areas, about very unique buildings, about history of our families in different parts of Germany, we learn as child a lot about the castles, churches etc. That's normal for us to know all this. At least in my generation.
in addition: image videos can give a good idea of the variety of a town. ruclips.net/video/ZaTS7e1SsLc/видео.html however things are also exaggerated in such videos, like here, Stuttgart has not only this great sides but also quite significantly down sides, like one of the worst air quality in a German city, especially in summer you don't want to live there. And other downsides. (Stuttgart would be No. 30 maybe if I needed to choose a new town to live in Germany, ...grew up just 20 km away, so I know it.) But it shows the typical surprisingly diversity of Germany.
Also (almost randomly chosen) extremly great to watch:
ruclips.net/video/UoFPdZod4vA/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/FaNrMwwZWzU/видео.html
and I lived here for some years. Veeeery different to the rest of Germany. (You don't need to understand the talking of this imagefilm, the pictures are enough.) Maybe you've never seen scenes like this ruclips.net/video/G6G8xAOEsl4/видео.html
Thank you so much for your comment. That is a wonderful insight into German life. I really appreciate you taking your time to write that out. It was a fantastic read
I am from the very northern part of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) and traveled to Bavaria last year for the first time and it was very interesting that you could see the clear difference in culture not only from the landscape (like here in the north we have no mountains and comparing that to the alps were I went to was just crazy), but also from the language, buildings and so on. For example hearing a Bavarian accent in real life was very funny to me. Anyway, I think that these big culture differences are like that because of all the seperate kingdoms that just became a unified German state in 1871 for the first time.
Officially Germany was a unified state from around 911 until 1806 and had its own king, by historians now mostly addressed as "Roman-German King", at the time however also often as "King in Germany". He was - like the King of Bohemia - formally subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, most of the time however the same person. After the dissolution of the HRE in 1806 Napoleon elevated some of his allies to kingdoms - that is how Bavaria, Württemberg and Saxony became their own kingdoms.
As someone from Schleswig Holstein we consider everything south of the "Weißwurst - Equator" to be Bavaria. Depending on the individual the "Weißwurst - Equator" is either the Elbe or the Main river.
das ist so wahr, komme aus kiel
Alles südlich der Elbe ist Norditalien!
I really had a lot of fun watching the video, thank you. Your reactions are very good as well. It is obvious that you are genuinely interested and open minded.
Greetings from northern Germany.
- Klöße not koöße = dumplings
- Yes, the airport is ready ;-)
- Many cities have more bridges or canals than Venice.
- Many German cities compete with each other and become competitive, they modernize themselves that way, otherwise people will leave.
... in adition: the name of the previous mayor of Berlin is Wowereit not Wolverine - that subtitle makes me laughing out very loud 😊
Interesting video, greetings to Scotland!😃
I come from the Vogtland, that is the south-western district of Saxony, "Vogtlandkreis". In the Middle Ages and early modern times, our area also included smaller parts of neighboring Bavaria, Thuringia and the Czech Republic (Bohemia), so today we still have good connections to these areas and they are culturally similar to us in many ways.
Rivalries: In Germany as a whole, there is a lot of rivalry between cities, on different themes, economic, cultural, etc... but when it comes to football clubs, you can actually always talk about rivalries, also between clubs from the same city, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, in Saxony, one example, the city of Leipzig: BSG Chemie Leipzig versus Lokomotive Leipzig.
Bavaria is not only the southern „bavarian“ part, but also the northern frankonian part with the biggest City Nuremberg, famous for it’s Christkindlesmarkt and the Nürnberger Bratwurst (small and delicious sausages).
These two have a historic rivalry as they were forced to be one state by Napoleon in 1806.
Don’t miss it out if you visit Germany, but normally you get to at least Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which is also in Frankonia.
I’m from Bavaria and right now the state I want to visit most is Thüringen 😊so many beautiful cities I’ve never seen! And a great national park!
Awesome, I will need to learn more about Thüringen
Solang du dich nicht nach Gera verirrst gefällt es dir hier hoffentlich :)
Greetings from Baden - Württemberg. I live in the Baden Part, and even WE have our tensions with Württemberg. If you call a Badener to speak swabien, it's a death sentence.🤣🤣🤣
haha
@@whoismertsalih There's an old joke that the Swabians like to make about themselves and it's about their "thrift" (evil tongues would call it stinginess). "What are Scots? Swabians expelled because of proven extravagance..." Thank god, I'm a Bavarian...
You’re actually correct that the regions of Germany get along really well with their neighboring countries
-Northwest Germany gets along well with Denmark & Netherlands
-East Germany gets along well with Poland & Czech Republic
-Bavaria gets along well with Austria
-Baden-Wurttemburg gets along well with Switzerland
-And the Rhineland/West Germany get along well with France & Belgium
rheinlast west is also best buddy with netherland
I'm from Frankonia which is a part of Bavaria and yes we also have big rivalries, the biggest one is Nuremberg and Fürth both cities are next to each other and the rivalries go way back, they are also rivals in football and are one of the oldest derbys, the first derby was over 120 years ago...... There was a time, where the german national football team, was made out of players from Nuremberg and Fürth and because of the rivalry the team had to split up on the way to a game against the Netherlands. 😅
I grew up in the Palatinate Forest in the South of Rheinland-Pfalz. It's a very rural woodland area that lives from lumber (obviously), small industry (until the 90s we were the industrial center for shoe making) and tourism (lots of interesting sandstone formations, a large net of hiking trails and small valleys with winding roads that are very popular among motor cyclists). We have lots of medieval castle, most of them ruins that were either destroyed in the 30 year war or used as building materials by the locals afterwards.
The inhabitants of the villages and towns in that region often have a collective nickname - along with family nicknames that get handed down over generations - that either comes from an old trade (like Pirmasens had a lot of shoe factories therefore "Schlabbeflicker" - shoe fixer, Clausen had coppersmiths that make pots and pans "Haawe" - cookpot, women from Rodalben sold soup vegetables "Grienesputsche" - bundle of soup greens...) or a weird incident (like the vicar of Merzalben calling his community a bunch of n...ers, after someone glued some tacks on the railing of the pulpit that he always slapped while preaching - I don't want to repeat their nickname here but it rhymes with "Feger"). The latter is of course used to mock each other.
My village has two nicknames: Kienholz (pinewood or fatwood) comes from the people selling tinder sticks and Rehbock (roebuck) comes from a poacher who tried to smuggle a roebuck into the village in a pram. He was spotted by the forester from the neighbouring village who told his friends at the pub about it. It didn't take long until people claimed the women of Münchweiler can give birth to three different sexes - boys, girls and roebucks.
Apart from rivalries among neighbouring towns there's of course the arch enemy in the west - the Saarland. Or as some call it "The bad substitute for Alsace-Lorraine". We tell jokes about each other, mock our slight differences in our dialects - like the Saarländer say "it" instead of "her" or "Sonwife" (Suhnsfra) instead of "daughter in law". It doesn't help that a famous TV series from the 90s called Familie Heinz Becker plays with those stereotypes and portrays the simple minded, poorly educated, slightly xenophobic, but yet know-it-all Saarländer. Although I must say that Saarländer and Pfälzer love this series both the same - even if sometimes for different reasons.
Im from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the things id add to mention are Rostock, a former Hanseatic city and also the biggest city (Schwerin is 2nd). Its a very beautiful coast city and the beaches at Warnemünde are worth visiting during summer. Arguably way better as a state capital than Schwerin. A beautiful thing in Schwerin is its castle wich houses the state parlament.
We also have quite the fascination with sports and Neubrandenburg (my town) hosts a very important football event every year (Knabentunier) where many national and international football teams scout and show off young talents in games against eachother.
Personally i find my town very beautiful with its big lake, park and gothic city center. In general this state can be very beautiful with its lakes and forests. Its much more than just fields and has quite a charm away from all the dense cities.
Other than that some famous ppl from Mecklenburg are Otto Liliental who made the first ever glidefight in human history, Materia as a german rapper, Toni Kroos a national footballer, Fritz Reuter a poet and author and lastly Friedrich Jahn who was the father of gymnastics.
I live in Saarland. I love my state because we are cultural close to France although we are germans. Most people in Germany think that we all speak very well french - but we don't. On the other hand we call the rest of Germany the "Reich". I love the rest of Germany too. I would like to visit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern because I've never been there and I think it's beautiful.
When I go to the Saarland Ikea everything is in French as well as German and you hear so much French. Sadly an IKEA worker said that they didn’t speak French and that the French didn’t speak German. Maybe they communicate in English?
@@scarba french people didn't speak English as well.
@@musikausdemosten schlimm, nur mit Händen und Füßen!
@@scarba swedish ;-)
@@PeterBuwen Ikeaisch
Fun fact. I learned as a child follow saying in German : Schwaben sind die Schotten Deutschlands - Swabians are the Scots of Germany 😂❤ and you confirm that 😂 thanks for your content. As a German Croatian sometimes I forgot Germany has good sights. Because it’s feels like we had many bad years.
And interestingly not only do Swabians and Scots share the stereotype of being stingy. Their accents sound astonishingly similar as well. 😊
Scots are Swabians that got kicked out for their prodigality.
Wow that is so interesting about Swabia. I will need to do more research and learn about the region. I never knew that
Let's not forget that the Swabians are also the inventors of Germany. The Swabians invented the first car, a Scotsman build the first steam engine...
The reason why Swabia had so many inventions was the inheritance law. The parents property was split evenly between the children which meant that families quickly didn't have enough land to live of. So everybody needed a side hustle. In Northern Germany it was more a winner-takes all for the eldest son. This meant that the others had to become sailors or factory workers or soldiers(!) to make means end.
@@Warentester Interesting, in Bavaria the firstborn inherited the farm and tried to acquire more property through marriage. If the family had money the second born son would become a priest and the third born a schoolteacher. The daughters married for prestige or joined a convent. In farms with less money the siblings often became servants to their older brother, worked on other farms, left for the next town or joined a convent. This tradition secured the agricultural basis of Bavaria and only started to change significantly after WWII. And yes, I know that this is an oversimplification and does not apply to all Bavarian regions.
One of the Rival Parts between Düsseldorf and Köln is also the Beer-Culture .... in Düsseldorf and their Neighbor-Town they drink a dark Beer called "Alt" and in the Köln-Influences Area they drink a Beer called "Kölsch" both have individuell Glass-Tyoes too
I grew up in Lower Saxony, moved Schleswig-Holstein and in my experience, the Danish and Dutch are both really easy-going people ...provided you dont mess with their bicycles and respect their bicycle infrastructure. Dutch and danish cyclists are forces of nature.
I grew up at the border of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria but on the side of Baden-Württemberg and the rivalry was present every day. :D Crossing the bridge in Ulm (BW) to Neu-Ulm (Bavaria) over the Donau would be like crossing into the "enemies" land. :D Now I live a bit further south and on the Bavarian side and being now a Bavarian and feeling represented when people speak about Bavaria feels so wrong. My heart belongs in BW and I feel so foreign here although I am still in a swabian part and the cultural difference is not that big from the also swabian little town one street and 2km away on the other side of the Iller (river) in BW. :D
I love the people of Rheinland-Pfalz, people there were the nicest I've ever met and the landscape is beautiful. And I have a soft spot for the coastal region in Germany. I love to visit the north sea and would like to visit the "east sea" once. From what I've heard I also feel more drawn to the people in the north. Although I love the landscapes, dialects and food from the south I don't really like the mindset of the people here. But taking a one week long hike through the otherwise loved north sea region made me a bit depressed. :D As nice as it is when you go over the dam and look into the sea I found it quite understimulating walking through the always the same landscape near the dam. I remember my friend writing me that I should maybe hug a tree to feel better or something and I desperately answered that I didn't come across a tree I could hug all day long! I could see some singular trees in the distance but I never came across one.^^
I also lived a year in Brandenburg and it is so interesting how the forests, the grass, the soil, ... is so different! I usually despise summer, not a summer person at all but I miss the summer I had up there. Going for a walk barefoot in the sand through the forest, picking up fruits from all the fruit trees along the way who didn't belong to anyone, the little farmer stands (?) in front of the farms in the little villages with homemade marmelade etc.... A few more stories to tell but I will end it on this. :)
Hi Mert, I'm from Trier and YES we have the best wine :) The city is full of Roman buildings, we have (in rare occasions) Karl Marx on our pedestrian traffic lights and all in all a very picturesque city.
To answer your travel question, I don't have a specific german city I travel the most and make more use of the the "Dreiländereck" (threecountrycorner) and go to France, Luxembourg and subsequently Belgium and especially the Netherlands.
I've been to a couple of Technofestivals in the "Völklinger Hütte" (Völklingen ironworks" and It's a pretty cool place to host such a event.
Love your Videos! Greetings from Trier
Mert: where does your tremendous and deep and warm interest In Germany come from? I find it amazing that a person wants to get so deep down into our mentality, peculiarities, differences of our Bundesländer and their affinity to those countries they share a border with. You are such a nice Scot, honestly. It is people like you that have been a foundation of my decade-long love and appreciation of Scotland!!!
I am from the countryside of Bavaria and I love visiting the North Sea and I enjoy the differences in language and lifestyle very much. We always try to speak a proper High German but it sounds so funny with a bavarian accent😆. Its just similar to your scotish English anyway
If you want to do a deep dive into one of the states, start with Northrhine-Westphalia.
Biggest population and most diverse of all the states. In the west you got the former capital of the Holy Roman Empire, Aachen, neighbouring the volcanic region of the Eifel. Going east you'll enter the rhine and wine region, following the river there is former sleepy capital city Bonn, which still houses lots of it's ministries, followed by Cologne with it's own type of beer/language/way of life, Leverkusen born out of a chemical plant, Düsseldorf (Capital of NRW, upstart backwater wannabes, snobs, culturally very distinct parts of the city, the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan, etc.), and Duisburg marks the start of the Ruhr-metropolis which extends east.
Stereotypical lots of manufacturing, coal, dust, smog, immigration and low education standards was used in movies and jokes up to the 90s, with the area slowly progressing into other types of business over the year, Essen transforming into one of the greenest cities, cuisine reveling from so many different influences of all the foreign workers who came during the 50s and later on.
Former industrial complexes get transformed into new areas for living and leasure, like Phönixsee in Dortmund.
But enough of that, to the north is the Münster region, more agricultural, slower, more Dutch along the border. Further to the east you can see more spa areas, where people go after they get a new hip or knee.
To the south-west it gets more hilly, with a few small mountains and skiing during winter. Great region for hiking, but the people might be a bit thin lipped and cold, afer all if you haven't lived there for at least two generations than you're still the new ones in the village.
If you really want to get more of a visual expression, look up the regional public broadcaster WDR, they often do little friday evening programmes about how beautiful NRW is, showing the low mountains ranges, following rivers from the spring up to their termination into bigger rivers, visiting rural festivities. Even if they might not be subtitled, the gist of it is pretty much understandable and it's really all about that scenery.
Come on if you are already referring to the southwest at least name drop the "Sauerland". But first of all thanks for putting a spotlight on NRW. It is indeed a very diverse region and peoole tend to summarize it always with there is the Ruhr agglomeration, Cologne and Düsseldorf. But as someone who was born in a village in the aforementioned "Sauerland" and now studies in Aachen, I always feel it refreshing when someone takes the time to differentiate the regions and also gives the not so well known parts of our country a mention.
I'm from NRW too, originally living at the border of Sauerland and Ruhrpott, but I lived in Düsseldorf for 6 years and travelled around a bit. It's very full of differences, almost every middle sized city or village groups have their own spin to it. I find it fascinating how the pott is looking like one giant city but can be seen so different if you look at the details
Sorry, but Aachen wasn't "the capital" of the HRE, just the place, where the coronation took place. The HRE didn't have a capital and the Emperor was moving from palace (Pfalz) to palace all the time. That's quite important for understanding german history and why it was never fully centralized
The island of Helgoland also belongs to Germany, is located in the North Sea and can only be reached by ship; this is always forgotten. Uch is known for the "Lange Anna", a high rock needle where hundreds of seabirds breed.
Also the German national anthem was written on Helgoland, back when it was a british ruled island. Later (1890) it was exchanged for some colony in Africa and Helgoland became German. It is now part of the district of the city Pinneberg which is located right outside of Hamburg and doesn't share any natural border whatsoever with Helgoland so I don't know, how exactly this happened, but as someone coming from Pinneberg, it makes me a bit proud to say that our national anthem was written in my district area. :)
It's Berlin that has more bridges than Venice. There is so much water in Berlin and Brandenbrug 💕
Thank you for this video - I learned some interesting things I didn't even know as a German about my country
I would describe Hamburg more like the no-nonsense seafarer of the family that likes to have a good night out ;) (and possibly drives a Porsche…)
I think the whole IT thing is a new development. I am from there and have not even heard that!! 😅
3:35 funny he mentions half timbered houses , as ( southern ) Bavaria is one of the regions in Germany without any half timber houses . There are many though in Franconia and Hessen, which also were part of the US. occupation zone .
Funny sidenote, the seven "mountains" (more like hills) were not far away, from a village where I used to live as a child. And in said village is an old castle, which people mostly joke, it's the one of the evil queen.
Best greetings from Lowersaxony ✌🏼
The Hanse is a very big and exciting part of european history itsself and worth a look. Even Edinburgh and Aberdeen have been part of it for some time.
Something that may not be obvious to you: Unlike the UK, where the national border also is a cultural border (that watery stuff really stops you from having a chat with your next-door neighbour on the other side), in the German region of the continent, they rarely line up. Also, cultural borders are more like a spectrum, not a hard line. And when you add often-shifting or late-established borders to it...
That is a great point Henry. Thanks for raising it
I actually had to change my view on oceans as borders. They are more like connecting highways, transporting ideas and culture (see Hamburg) then borders. Mountains on the other hand are often much more efficient in separating cultures than one might think based on the distance between two valleys on a (2D) map.
@@Warentester The Alpine region produced a distinctive culture from the French Alps all the way into Slovenia, covering Switzerland, Austria and parts of Northern Italy. Not just Southern Tirol, but all along the border with Switzerland and parts of France. Of course there are a many differences in languages and dialects and local traditions, but they all have a distinctive Alpine flavour.
@@ludicrousone8706 True, but the differences in local language and customs can be astounding, while cultures "connected" via water often share suprising similarities despite much longer distances.
Like your content, you can break down the differences much further, many of these states are one in their current borders, but culturally much more divided than can be explained in a video, for example, in Hesse alone there are 4 major dialects that have little in common. do not tell a Franconian that he is Bavarian or a Baden he would be Würtemberger and so on and so forth. And the hardest dialect is in no case Swabian, I personally understand all very well only with Frisian there could be problemes 😂
Frisian is different with it's viking words and different forming of words, more like scandinavia and anglo saxony mixes. School here is written skuul, island is eilun, beach is struun, not is ei, together is tup. Nothing to do with platt or low german, that is spoken here as well
Very interesting and it shows I still have a lot more to learn about Germany. Such a diverse place
It is strange that Franconia was not made its own state. Bavarians have a strong and treasured identity, tradition and independent streak and don’t view Franconia as a proper part of Bavaria
9:58 Plattdeutsch isn't just a German dialect but actually it's own language and has more in common with Dutch and English than with German.
16:25 You can greet people with "Moin" in most places in Northern Germany. But just say "Moin". Only tourists say "Moin Moin". (Also, "Moin" means "good day", don't let people convince you that it means "good morning".)
Die englische Sprache basiert teils aus dem Plattdeutsch und niederländisch, nicht umgekehrt :-)) Weshalb wohl englisch auch eine einfacher aufgebaute Sprache ist als eben deutsch.
@@wallerwolf6930 Ich denke, keine der Sprachen basiert auf einer der anderen. Sie sind gemeisamer Abstammung. Genauso wie der Mensch nicht vom Affen abstammt, sondern Mensch und Affe gemeinsamer Abstammung sind.
@@seb0rn739 Es gibt darüber (Entwicklung der Sprachen) wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Forschung). Ich habe mir meine Zeilen nicht aus den Fingern gesogen. Norddeutsches Platt ist mit den Menschen, auf die Insel gezogen und ist auch vergleichbar, nachweisbar. Andere Einflüsse sind auch anderen Volksstämmen zuzuordnen, wie die der Kelten u.a..
unlike other nations like France and England, Germany at first was not ment as a single nation, it was an area where people lived in different nations (with different cultures and religions) but they all spoke german dialects. The idea to unite all these little german kingdoms came up first after the end of Napoleon Bonaparte and the "Reihnbund", It was Prussia who finaly added bavaria and created the 1. united form of germany ...
Yes, BER (the new Berlin-brandenburg airport) eventually opened.
And closed a week later because covid.
But it's open now.
I'm from Bremen but never hard of chocolate beer. :D We have some brewerys here in Bremen (besides Beck's which now belongs to a belgium Brewery) and we had chocolate factory (but they put the production to poland). That's it. ;)
And it was nice to listen to a scottish man. My last english teacher was from scotland!
Half timbered houses can be found in many regions in Germany. And regarding King Ludwig II. - they had him declared as mad in order to keep him in sk e sorts of house arrest, as he was spending too much for their liking.whether he kilked himself or whether he was killed is disputed.the only fact known us that he drowned, anything else is mere speculation. Oh and not only Bavaria has lots of breweries, the whole county has
Our Federal State of Bremen. My city Bremerhaven. But all forget that our City was a link to the New World in the 19. Century. Over 7 million people going over Bremerhaven to america. Our skyline looks like the hotel in Dubai. And Our port is the biggest place for cars in the world.
Just to clear up the old brother Grimm tales didn´t just come from Baden-Württemberg. They were collected from all over the German-speaking areas. The brothers Grimm actually came from Hessen.
this one was a test run of the final clip i believe that you can watch on youtube now, but thanks, i didn't know this one before..what do you say in scotland again? right "There can be only one".
11:51 I wonder if there is a reason they split North Rhine-Westfalia in two? Being from North Rhine-Westfalia, I never realised that the Southern-most point of NRW and the Northern-most point of Bavaria are roughly on the same geographical height. I always referred to Bavaria as the deep South.
edit: and I just read that the southern-most point of NRW is South of the northern-most point of Bavaria. I'm kinda shocked I didn't know that
I'm from lower saxony really close to the border to hesse where I study. And that was a complete culture shock even though we live close together, they almost speak a different language sometimes.
I'm from Lower Saxony, the state known for their Hochdeutsch. I grew up in a really small settlement with maybe 20 houses which the half of it were farms. Basically Siedler of Cartan, everyone was focused on making something else, like wool or milk production (on a small scale, not like nowadays), my grand and grand grand parents were growing veggies and produced sausages and spoke one of the most lovely dialects in Germany: Plattdeutsch.
2:10 The costumes are from Fasnet/Fasching/Karneval the Schwäbisch Alemannische Fasnet. There are many Zünfte/ Guilds in the different places. They are a old tradition, bevore the lent 40 days bevore easter. Where all the food was eaten, which is fortbidden during the lent bevore easter. (That it don‘t get rotten)
2:00 this is one of the „Scherbenzunft“ in Freiburg
2:05 this are the „Schuttig“ from Elzach, they had many snail shells on the hat.
I'm originally from Jena, the 2nd largest city in Thuringia. There is a heavy rivalry against the city of Erfurt. But it's mainly because of their soccer teams FC Carl-Zeiss-Jena and FC Rot-Weiß-Erfurt.
If you want so visit Thuringia, i can recommend both citys. Nearly every settlement here has a long history. So is the area of my homevillage settled for more than 3000 years and the village itself is around 1100 years old.
May be you should dive deeper into history, by learning more about the Hanse. The Hanse was a cooperation of cities, based on their common interest in trading basically all over Europe. The Hanse was founded in the late high medival time. Over time it consisted of the most important trading cities, all the way from the Atlantic ocean to the east Baltic sea, and lasted for several hundred years. It had a great influence on the developement of those cities and even the cultural connection between them.
It is quite interesting to learn about it and explains many things of todays society in those regions. Compared to that, todays german states are mostly pretty young and also somewhat artificial. Most of them were established after WW2, and the east german ones even after 1990. Some contain several culturally diverse regions, like Northrhine-Westphalia for example. But to understand tthat, you need to look at the situation of the old Germany before 1871, when there were dozens of different little duchies and independant towns and whatever. Then it gets really complicated...
went into the comments to see if anyone had suggested learning about the Hanse (aka Hansa teutonica) yet, wasn't disappointed. :)
That'd definitely help with understanding the way hanseatic cities see themselves even today and also why Bremen & Hamburg are their own states rather than being absorbed into the Flächenländer around them
@@LeyCarnifex The story of the Hanseatic League is the success story of these cities and not to describe in a few words. Similar to that of the Fugger.
The Saxons who traveled over to the British Isles were the Lower Saxons. As someone from Lower Saxony that always bothers me.
indeed, it bothers me (being from Saxony) too. Saxony is only called that way because saxon nobility got to rule over it for some time and only after the tribes played a role in regional divides. Most of the people in Saxony are of slavic origin, the Saxon tribe never really got to the region of Saxony in any significant number.
Oh yes, local and regional rivalries are a thing. And yes, those states used to be their own nation in a somewhat loose union for a while. Which also explains why there are so many regional cultures and why those cultures tend to be a bit like neighboring countries.
The north has some danish, the north west dutch, the west belgian and french, the south french and swiss, the south east austrian, the east czech and the north east polish influence.
Man... your dialect is everything. Could listen to it all day long🙃
What also should be mentioned: in some legal categories the states / the state parliaments (Landtage) are pretty independent, some categories are ruled only by the all over german parliament (Bundestag), and in some categories laws can only be ratified when that majority of the all over german parliament (Bundestag) and the majority of the states (Bundesrat, each state has one vote, regardless of inhabitants) voted for it.
Who decides on which category is defined by the constitution.
You should make your own video about the different UK regions. Would love to see that!
Greetings from Hessia or Hesse, from a city about 20 minutes drive from Frankfurt called Offenbach am Main. I am originally from South Africa and came to Germany in 1994 and it’s become my home even though the rest of my family moved to Wales. I would love to go to the North Sea, maybe even retire there… I also love Allgaeu in Bavaria.
Sorbians are in my area in Brandenburg too. We have the name for cities or sometimes roads in sorbian language as extra. My hometown Forst is called "Baršc" in sorbian.
I live 12km from the border to Poland. Those Polish people living at the border are displaced Russians and others by Katharina the Great and later Stalin.
Another famous region in Brandenburg is the Schwarzwald with lots of small cannels.
Danke für das Video, thx for your reaction. 😀
When you ask a German where they're from, the answer will differ if they perceive you as German or as foreigner. A foreigner will always get the answer "Germany", because nobody will assume you know any German cities besides Munich and Berlin. If they think you're from Germany, they'll say their hometown or at least the next largest city to it - "Hey, I'm from Stolberg, near Aachen!" or "I'm from Bielefeld!" (although then you will almost certainly hear some dead dad joke like "You're lying, Bielefeld doesn't exist!"). The Bundesländer play a minor role here for our sense of home; mostly, it's City > Region > Nation > Bundesland. That's due to the fact that most of the Bundesländer (except for the city-states) are composed of a myriad of former smaller counties, earldoms, baronies etc.
Sometimes it even goes deeper:
If I get asked by a German where I'm from I would say Duisburg or Lower Rhine region. But actually most of the people living in the part of Duisburg which is left to the Rhine don't feel as Duisburgians. 😊
The parts left of the Rhine were additionally put to the city in 1975 due to a reform.
I feel like it’s a bit different depending on where you’re from. For example in my home city of Regensburg most people see themselves as Bavarians more than Oberpfälzer even though Regensburg is the capital of the Oberpfalz. It’s because Regensburg was a free city until it came to Bavaria. That’s why the people of the city don’t really allign themselves with the people from the rural areas to the north but see themselves more as Bavarians.
@@chcucivtxzclccucifudohzfu6766 Of course there will be exceptions, mostly due to historical reasons like you mentioned. Still, I think it will be the majority of cases that someone values their region more than their Bundesland. To give an example: I'm from the Rhineland area west of Cologne, and show most of the traits that are accredited to Rhinelanders - I`m outgoing, bubbly, emotional and don't know when to stop talking. My husband is from OWL - a "Westfale" as if copied from the rulebooks: chill, reserved, and when he is angry, I have to search for clues, because I would have exploded into a bazillion pieces when he just states "No, that's not right, I have to talk to my boss about that!" But, we're technically both from NRW. The Bundesland doesn't describe its inhabitants enough. Regions do far more.
The Saxony, where the saxons invading GB from, came from was Lower Saxony though. Actually the Saxony of today only is called Saxony because they had a saxon King, who wanted his people to be called saxons too now (thats how it worked in those days. They were the 'Wettiner" before).
The 'Hanse' (you asked about that) was a band of cities, that made sure their ships and loads weren't occupied by pirates or robbing knights (Raubritter).
And the rivalries between German cities can get pretty intense. Even though not as intense as rivalries between different football clubs with different political influences.
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You asked where i'am from.. Thüringen or in English: Thuringia. They call it "the green heart of Germany" - I love Scotland and your dialect. Slàinte Mhath. ♥
Thank you very much
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Edinburgh and Glasgow. It's the same thing here. Freiburg and Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. We talk shit about each others, but if i met a person of the bespoken cities in South Africa, we'd consider to be from the same place...its more of a friendly trash-talk. Unless when it comes to football...Karlsruhe vs Stuttgart, you want a lot of police there, same with Freiburg vs Stuttgart or Freiburg vs Karlsruhe...its insane
The saxons came from Lower Saxony. The Bundesland Saxony is for some reason named Saxony. So the people who moved to Egnland were from Lower Saxony.
16:24 Yes, you CAN greet people by saying "Moin Moin", but then you have already become a chatterbox by the standards of Schleswig-Holstein. They usually just go with "Moin".
Here, where I’m from, a little fleck between Düsseldorf, Bochum and Wuppertal, my small city here has a rivalry with the city next door. Those love hate relationships seem to be common on all scales xD
I was at many places in Germany already. The place I like the most is Baden-Württemberg. The food, landscape, people. It’s so awesome.
Im from braunschweig ( lower saxony), our rival is hannover and the rival goes as far it gets. For example football fans threw a pigs head above a fence at the training ground of the other team.
When they play against each other both cities are filled with cops. But there is also just banter, like harmless but funny jokes like: Whats the best thing about hannover? - the autobahn leading to braunschweig
Moin as they say in Schleswig-Holstein, according to the happiness atlas, the happiest people in Germany live here in Schleswig-Holstein. Maybe because we are more similar to our Danish neighbors? But it's a quiet spot in the north, the people here are a bit quieter, but still very warm. And we greet each other with Moin at any time of the day. Moin derives from the Low German word moi, which means "pleasant, good, beautiful". Incidentally, Low German is not a dialect, but a language of its own, which is mainly spoken in the north of Lower Saxony via Schleswig-Holsten and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Unfortunately, Low German is dying out as a language, although the federal states are doing great things to preserve this old language. So greetings from the happy state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
Ask a German to say one sentence and you can spot where in Germany he/she grew up.
Hello from Bavaria. Like in the north, the dialects have a great variety here. So the dialect in Upper Bavaria ist quite different to the dialect in Franconia or in Palatine. Usually, we do understand each other, but there are some words, you simply need to know. The dialect in Lower Bavaria is quite harsh, and if you meet one who is mumbling a lot, it can be quite difficult to unterstand what he says.
13:15 grew up in Mainz which is in a love-hate relationship with Wiesbaden on the other side of the Rhine. Mostly because they snatched three of our districts after WW2 and, although they're a much younger city, they're also wealthier, which is obviously insulting. Köln vs. Düsseldorf is rooted in the 30-year war, where the cities have found themselves on opposite sides. Other notable rivalries are Frankfurt vs. Offenbach and Bavaria vs. Germany.
13:21 As someone who lives in Hesse it's really interesting to see what a non german video had to say about all the different states (wouldn't agree with all that was said but it was quite entertaining). A big part of my family lives in Mecklenburg Vorpommern so I've been there quite a lot my whole life. It's definitely very poor compared to where I live, even though there's actually a lot of tourism there because it's right at the sea. I actually love going on vacation there as nature there is absolutely amazing.
9:04 In Hesse we actually have another fairly important city called Darmstadt which is/was quite famous for its science. There's actually an element in the periodic table named Darmstadtium because it was discovered there along with 5 other elements. The GSI in Darmstadt is a big player in the research of Ions and there is the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt as well. So yeah in Hesse there's not only a bunch of business bros but also science stuff. We also have alot of nice landscapes and little mountains and forests and probably many more things but I am actually quite bad in geography and only really know about Darmstadt because I like chemistry ,:)
18:36 typo there, it should be "Klöße" = German dumplings made from potatoes, usually served with gravy and roast pork.
We really have ancient breweries here. Tegernseer is a monasterial brewery and it was founded in 746 a.c..
No typo! 746, not 1746!
There are so many small things to add here and there, but I'll just say this: I've recently been to Jena in Thuringia and learned that that's where Goethe and Schiller did a lot of work too to get out of Weimar because supposedly it was a very small village with lots of gossip, so they tried to get out into a more "metropolitan" town.
Pretty short Hessen part.
Hessen - Home of the Brothers Grimm (Hanau) ... and also of the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollow. 😆
It's also #1 federal states together with Rheinland-Pfalz regarding woodlands (nearly half of the area are forests) and a lot of regions and smaller cities have a medieval touch.
10:06 the Amisch speak Plattdeutsch? No, that's completely wrong. Pennsylvania Dutch is a High German dialect based on dialects much farther to the south. Mostly Rhineland-Palatinate.
@superaids generally speaking, it is also wrong to equate Hochdeutsch = Standard German. Sure, Standard German is a form of Hochdeutsch, but PA Dutch, as well as all dialects of Saarland, are dialects, but belong to the High German group as well. (whereas actual Dutch, in this classification, would clearly belong in the "Low" group)
These are details you need to watch out for when discussing language on a scientific level.
I‘m from Wiesbaden, the capital of Hessia/Hessen. There’s a big rivalry between Wiesbaden and Mainz (capital of Rhineland-Palatinate/ Rheinland-Pfalz). They’re really close to each other geographically. Both cities tend to call the other one „die ebsch Seit“ which means (more or less) „the wrong site“ because they’re both located on the opposing sites of the rhine river.
The rivalry can also be found in smaller villages, my home village and the direct neighbor (< 3km) are always trash talking the other one and that’s quite common (at least in many villages I know)
good job my friend ich muss sagen als Thüringer sehr gut zusammen gefasst ^^ aber kann dir empfelen als Schotte schau mal nach den kelten und germanen in Mitteldeutschland und ja selbt in irland kahm das gut an weiter so machst ne gute Arbeit
Greetings from *Hessen* to Malaysia!
It's always a shame for me to hear that Hessen is only associated with Frankfurt and the financial world. I live about 90 km from Frankfurt in a region called the Goldner Grund (golden soil). The name derives from the particularly fertile loess soil in this area. There are many mineral springs here. Our town has historical first mention in 1018 and city rights since 1281. That means that we have a historic old town where history is still cultivated. Even our carnival association has existed since 1832. We Hessen love "Babbeln" (talking) and our "Äppler" (cider) and most of them are said to wear their hearts on their sleeves. For me, Germany is still a "poet and thinker" even if many forget that because they simply don't read anymore. - I like all of our federal states and have been to every one of them, ... except in fact Berlin 😂
... Handkäs/ "marinated hand cheese" with music (onions 🙄😃) comes from Hessen either
I so agree, even as someone from Frankfurt, who loves the city Hessen has so much more to offer. But alas, a short video can't feature it all, hell, in Bavaria, they just completely ignored anything Franconian.. so
The BER airport is at leat operational for the last two or three years. i am not sure if it is fully done but it seemed like a normal airport to me when i was there in January .
Im from Hannover. The King of Hannover became king of UK later. There is even a Hanover Street in Edinburgh
Greeting from Dresden, Saxony 🖖