Go easy on the Lifestyle Hal, he did a good job, also the title says 12 Beautiful, not most beautiful, acknowledging that there are more and not just 12. :P Thanks for introducing my country to the world. My favorite towns in the north are Goslar, a witch town and birthplace of Siemens; Lueneburg, a salt mine town; and Luebeck, historical Hanse city
Lived in Germany for almost 12 years and consider it a second home. I would suggest a road trip along the Mosel river from Trier (I believe the oldest city in Germany, originally built by the Romans, birthplace of Karl Marx) all the way to Koblenz. You wind your way through one pretty little village after another all wine towns along the river with vineyards lining the way along the hills that fall to the river. Stop in Bernkastel-Kues and sample wine, drive onto Cochem, take sometime to see Castle Berg Elz Rick Steve’s considers the best castle in Germany, find a room (zimmer frei, B&B type rooms) in a village along the way. Take about 3-5 days so you have time to stop and experience the village’s and at least a half day in Trier and Koblenz (confluence of the Rhine and Mosel).
Trier is the oldest Roman city in Germany, but not the overall oldest city. There were already some Celtic cities in the South and along the Rhine as the Romans came, but they destroyed most of them (because they did come primarily to defeat the Celts for all times).
Was stationed in Germany twice and it was my favorite of everywhere I have been. I second a trip up both the Mosel and Rhine Gorge River Valley. Another great road trip is the Deutsche Alpenstrasse from Berchtesgaden to Lake Constance. Both are GREAT road trips.
Don't forget, there're Germans living in Germany. Grandmasters of rudeness and arrogance. I know what I'm talking about, I'm a German wanting to leave Germany (but cannot yet).
@@oliversteiner0815 Yes, there are people like that ... But only you are like that. Germans are friendly and helpful and there is no reason not to travel to Germany to experience it for yourself 👍🏼
@@oliversteiner0815 I'm also a German wanting to emigrate. But I'm not trash talking my own country or people. There is the good and the bad like in every country.
In Rothenburg the inner old Centre is meanwhile occupied from Chinese’s, in Heidelberg you cannot move in the crowd of Tourists, I would invite you to towns with G: Güstrow, Görlitz, Goslar, Gelnhausen and with an A there could be Aachen, Augsburg, Anklam. Aschaffenburg. Please come, younare welcome❤️❤️
Well sadly many of the major cities were destroyed in WW2, some of the old towns have been restored but most haven’t with modern steel office buildings and high rises taking their place. Thankfully, many of the small towns survived unscathed during the war and many still retain their original medieval architecture.
He focused on largely untouched by time and war towns in this video. Aachen is very historic, yes, but it isn't as well preserved as the other towns in this video, since Aachen was quite badly destroyed in the last WW2, and you can unfortunately easily tell today.
True. Von Meersburg kann man auch mit der Fähre nach Konstanz fahren. Da kann man auch ein bisschen mehr machen als in Meersburg oder Lindau, weil es nicht ganz so klein ist.
I live in Marburg since 2007. I studied here and couldn't leave it. It's people are friendly, the city is amongst the most beautiful in europe and living here is just an outstanding experience
Look on google maps. Every 8-12km in the whole region between Stuttgart and München there are small cities which still have their old flair and often even (parts of) their city wall. Not that Dinkelsbühl is not beautiful, it's just that there are so many little "fairy tale" towns between Stuttgart and München, you can't do them all justice. We Germans should pay fare more attention and visits to our direct neighborhood ;)
One of my favourite destination in Western europe is Germany after UK and Switzerland. I ❤ the medieval towns in Germany, the best in entire europe. Hope will visit this beautiful country one day. Thanks for highlighting these places.
Danke! War auch mein Gedanke. Aber das Video ist offensichtlich sehr Süddeutschland - lastig. Vielleicht ist es noch wegen der Geschichte so, dass sich die Amerikaner mehr für die Regionen der ehemaligen US Besatzungszone interessieren (Bayern, Hessen und Teile Baden-Württembergs)
Emil Bruns. I was 20 and my first time in Germany was Trier, love it. Drove south and began to love Germany more. I've been to many places in Germany but I really love Bavaria and Munich. Love to Deutschland from me in England. Ps, Mia San Mia Bayern. X
@@stephenord3403 I think the little villages in Germany are especially beautiful. Absolutely love and terribly miss the market squares and medieval fountains.
There is certainly a lot more, but it's very good for first impressions. I also discovered Dinkelsbühl and was amazed at the completeness of the medieval and original Bavarian city. It`s like entering another world.
From the comments I will also remember to check out "Binz, Sellin, Heiligendamm or Kühlungsborn with its classical spa architecture or Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Bremen and of course Hamburg with its Hanseatic architecture as well as colorful cities like Husum, Hannover, Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock or even Buxtehude or Greetsiel." "Goslar and Hameln" "Lüneburg!" "Germany also has cities from the antiquity, notably Trier with lots of Roman ruins or Mainz with it’s ancient theatre." "I miss Aachen in all this ... a city with the most historic "old town" with Original Stone Gates, Cathedral, and Charlemagne's Palace." "Wismar" "Erfurt? Dresden? Leipzig?" "My favorites would have been Stade, Lüneburg, Hameln in the North, Monschau, Münstereifel, Altenahr & Koblenz in the West, Limburg, Weilburg, Idstein in Central Germany." "Look on google maps. Every 8-12km in the whole region between Stuttgart and München there are small cities which still have their old flair and often even (parts of) their city wall." "Weimar" "Monschau" "Neuenburg near Pforzheim"
Really nice video. Germany as a holiday destination is vastly under rated in my opinion. We've been doing a lot of travel there and have visited a number of these places. We've done a lot of cycle touring and they've been some of the best holidays ever. One of many was cycling from lake Bodensee to Passau along the Donau
Maybe people think Germany got totally bombed out and thus there is no or next to no old architecture left. Everything modern. Then I say ‘little do they know’. Germany is a treasure chest, full of beautiful medieval towns and villages with lovely market squares and gorgeous fountains.
I was born and grew up in Dinkelsbühl and in my eyes it's the most beautiful town in the whole world. I'm currently away at university but seeing it in your video made me very lucky, thank you 😊 (I don't know at which time of the year you visited, but in mid-july when we celebrate our city not being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War the city is very crowded and there are tourists everywhere. It's definitely worth another trip!)
The sad thing is that if our forefathers had not listened to that Austrian dwarf with the funny mustage there would be many more of these beautifull place still around in Germany.
Imagine if he had just become a mediocre artist and left it at that. Millions of people would be alive today, cities would have been preserved, vibrant Jewish culture in many places... really a shame we were so easy to seduce into cruelty.
I have been in Lindau, Rothenburg and one more from these. But Neuenburg near Pforzheim, Uberlingen, Konstanz (and probably lot more) were just as great!
It's a beautiful video with beautiful towns, but as others have pointed out: it transports a certain cliche about German traditional culture that is reduced only to southern German and middle German halftimber houses. There really should have been at least two examples for the hanseatic culture and architecture in cities or towns like Wismar, Lüneburg, Stralsund... The towns are as old and historic as the mentioned towns in the south, but they look totally different and in their ways just as beautiful.
I have visited Goerlitz. It's an amazing town partially restored/redeveloped. You can walk across a footbridge and be in Poland. And what about Bautzen?
Very charming places, I hope I can visit again sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!
I spent A very short but glorious 3 weeks in Germany only went to Marburg, of the places listed here, I sincerely hope I can visit again…the food is amaaazzzzing !🤤🤤
A great video, thank you very much. I don't even know most of the places you introduced and have never heard of them. But Lübeck or Stralsund is missing from the list, and in any case the North and Baltic Seas with Sylt and Usedom as well as Hiddensee.
Nice video. It is only Part 1. The list of famous beautiful places in Germany will be indeed very long: Schwangau, Baden-Baden, Freiburg im Breisgau, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Goslar, Oberammergau, Konstanz, Meersburg, Trier, Tübingen, Hannover, Göttingen, Bremen, Lübeck, Würzburg, Bayreuth, Dresden... Sababurg and German Fairy Tale Route, all the Romantic Road (Romantische Straße), Germany World Heritage List, Romantic Rhine Valley (Lorelei valley), Mosel Valley, etc
@@bengemeister I felt something ironic in your answer, sorry if I'm wrong. I' m not from USA or any other land where they speak English. Not for a religious purpose but I only drink soda.
Go to Germany at least once a year, usually Obersdorf for winter holiday and then towards the east for summer. At least before Covid-19....wonderful country and friendly people.
Great collection! Some I have already seen, some are on my list to visit but there were a few new ones too, like Fritzlar and Marburg (otherwise mostly notorious for the virus...) I was in particular happy to see that you put Dinkelsbühl so early on your list, really a lovely city completely devoid of tourist (well, when I was there. It might change now)
Of many lovely towns not included here I particularly love Bad Wimpfen and Hirschhorn on the Neckar, Oberammergau and Mittenwald in Bavaria, Bernkastel-Kues on the Mosel and Sankt Martin on the Deutsche Weinstrasse.
Q is an interesting and historic city. Especially if you know about the Q treasures. A GI from Texas "liberated" priceless church treasures from Q. A soap opera followed to get the artifacts back to Germany for a low 7 didget number. I saw the treasures on display in Dallas before being returned and later at the Cathedral in Q. Very satisfying. Some of these items were national treasures of unestimal cultural value.
I think Gemany is same every where every city is beautiful clean and well equipped with 1st class facilities. beautiful people and friendly too. living in Germany since years and Germany is the beautiful country
I was in Cochem and in Bamberg. There is a beautiful palace near Bamberg - Seehof. I also like Würzburg, Coburg, Weimar, Trier. Potsdam is highly recommended because of the Sanssouci and it's not far from Berlin.
Make it twelve and add at least the midsize towns of Lübeck close to the Baltic Sea and Regensburg on the river Danube!!! They would absolutely deserve a spot in this Top Ten list. For a Top Twenty list also add Münster and Osnabrück in Westphalia, Neuburg an der Donau and Coburg in Bavaria, Meersburg and Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, Naumburg and Rostock or Schwerin in East Germany as well! Those smaller towns are often way prettier than the large cities as they weren't bombed to rubbles in WW2. While many things have been rebuilt in the last 75 years such as the Frauenkirche in Dresden, others have gone forever.
Some suggestions of medieval style southern German towns (would probably not be on a list of the most beautiful ones but are still pretty nice) Kirchberg an der Jagst: Pretty small but a nice little palace and gorgeous paths along the River Jagst. Also close to Hornberg, with another castle (not open to public) Vellberg: also small, but with a wall you can walk in and a great viewing platform Schwäbisch Hall: the old-town part is along the river Kocher and are also half-timbered
I noticed you focused on the medieval towns mainly in the south. Since I'm from Germany, I can tell you there is no town in Germany which doesn't have some historical rich context. And you can easily stumble into one, which is like a fairytale. It's a perfect country for a roadtrip. But be warned smaller towns are seldomly touristically developed. But you can always find somebody who speaks English. Anyway I want to share some other towns, which are imho also very beautiful, touristically developed and very worth to visit: East: Weimar (Goethe, Schiller, Bauhaus), Wittenberg (Luther), Leipzig (J.S.Bach), Dresden (Frauenkirche), Erfurt, Eisenach, Königsstein, Bad Schandau (the last three are very nice for hiking) Northwest: Hildesheim, Hameln, Göttingen Northeast: Rostock, Wismar, Schwerin, Stralsund (the North is historically slightly different, so is the architecture)
I love your Bavarian bent: five out of your top seven towns are in Bavaria. However, check out Landshut for your next video. And if Heidelberg qualifies as a town, so should Regensburg - which would make my top list too. Finally, whoever says Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl (props for the latter) should also say Nördlingen...
Yeah, especially as the towns in Northern Germany have a totally different beautiful architecture than those in the rest of Germany, like Binz, Sellin, Heiligendamm or Kühlungsborn with its classical spa architecture or Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Bremen and of course Hamburg with its Hanseatic architecture as well as colorful cities like Husum, Hannover, Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock or even Buxtehude or Greetsiel. I also don’t know, why no one ever mentions them. It’s as if Northern Germany doesn’t even exist. 😅🙈
@@LifestyleHal My comment probably came out wrong. You did a pretty decent job with your video by mentioning lots of German cities that are often overlooked. But nonetheless it’s a bit disappointing for a Northerner that no RUclipsr ever mentions the Northern part of Germany and very few ever mention the Western part. Like Stella F. said, it’s like saying that there are only beautiful sites to visit in the South. But the South just doesn’t represent Germany as a whole as the North is totally different from the South in culture, architecture and in the landscape. And don’t get me wrong, the South is beautiful but so is the North. 😄
Rothenburg ob der Tauber was a good place to start. A few years back, I spent an entire summer there. However, I'd say that Heidelberg is the most idyllic *mid-size* city in the country. The best place to stay is in the residential area on the side of the River Neckar facing the old town. Finally, I may be partisan, but if I were you I would take a look-see at Lörrach, which is right on the border with Switzerland. Yours was a great list, though!
My hubby lives in Germany. But he isn't aficionado of travelling. He tends to speak about us when we are on the phone than talking about beautiful places in Germany lol. Wish to go there after pandemic
Just a slight correction - Passau is not a medieval town, but a typical late Renaissance town. In a 1662 fire the medieval town completely burned down and the city was rebuilt in the at that time fashionable "Italian Reneaissance" style. The second little correction is that Heidelberg has not the oldest German university. The oldest German university is found in Prague, until 1919 part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has its roots in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
Kudos, with few exceptions like Rothenburg, Heidelberg and Dinkelsbuehl (even commented otherwise) you managed to stay away from most of the known tourist traps. I am sure every German would add a few places and so would I: Regensburg, where I went to university (and there is argument between Heidelberg and Regensburg which university is older) belongs on the list. So does Oldenburg, Olli where I went to grad school. Then there would be Kiel (as I am a sailor) and any of the old cities of the Hanse but the biggest oversight hands down is Dresden, Elbflorenz, Semper Oper... and now all rebuilt.
i live in marburg and i was hoping that my beautiful city would show up on this list! Not only is it very picturesque but it's also a great city to study in as over a third of the population of the city consists of university students. We have lots of bars and outdoor activities and the city is just full of live :)
i have been to all these towns. I love love love Germany. Rothenburg is beautiful,but as you said it is way too touristy for me. I much prefer Dinkelsbuhl. When in Bamberg,one must try a rauchbier
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Wow, I visited most of them before. Just looked into an old photo album from pictures as a child in the 80s and a few were from Ramsau. It looked exactly back then as nowadays. I think thats the charm for most of these little towns, that you can forget the time...
Indeed, Rothenburg has a reputation, but Dinkelsbühl is as beautiful to say the least. If you want to visit Rothenburg, do it in the month of May. The weather is good, and the crowds are still small. A must do in Rothenburg is a walk on the city wall that surrounds the town. You forgot a few very beautiful towns, like Schwäbisch Hall, Tübingen, Ulm, and Regensburg.
@@zzausel I have actually, about ten years ago I walked across the bridge with shops and houses (bit like Florence but much less touristy) and the magnificent cathedral with the other church next door overlooking the square down the steps. I really liked it and should have included it in my list. We did a day trip from Naumburg where I was staying and stopped in Weimar on the way back,. I totally get that Weimar has enormous cultural significant for Germans, but actually I preferred Erfurt. That said there is lot in Germany I would still like to see and I know I could easily add another 20 -30 stunning towns to this list. My favourite place is probably the Bodensee I have had three holidays there, but I also love a lot the Baltic coast and the Hartz.
@@zzausel thanks and you are so right. The East in particular has so many wonderful places Gorlitz and Quedlinburg are both amazing. Unusually for someone from UK, I have no family or military connections.I am just well travelled in Germany with my parents who had a caravan from quite an early age. I love history and I am a total Germanophile, and think it is a really great society that has got some much right. Any country that sells beer by the crate in giant beer supermarkets and plays football like the Germans is great in my book. My own family in more recent times have had some wonderful holidays on the Bodensee, Black Forrest and Bavaria. However in the Bodensee in particular where we have stayed three times for two weeks we did stand out as there weren’t many people from UK and they had no idea what they are missing. I was in Berlin last year and after lockdown down plan with my wife soon to do a couple of weeks driving around Brandenburg. Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony I really want to see Dresden again now so much of the centre has been rebuilt, Meissen again, Leipzig, Magdeburg Cathedral and also Potsdam. I am also very fond of Poland (much of the North and West of which was of course historically German until 1945) I have been to Krakow, Poznań, Gniezno, Gdańsk, Malbrok, Szczecin and Wroclaw. I intend to go back to Wroclaw this Dec with a friend of mine as I think it is a terrific city, and do a day trip to Zagan to see the Great Escape museum and maybe Ksiaz Castle if it is open.
Wow,this little city is looks like one little city here in Brazil, it calls ‘Monte Verde’,state of Minas Gerais,have a lot of house in Monte Verde have fireplace
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Wow you guys are brutal on RUclips 🤣 THE NORTH !! What about the north!! I’m sure there’s another video on northern parts in part 2 somewhere ......
Thx for this great insight!!
Just correct Werningorode for Werningerode!
Great
@@willloveyoumore Wernigerode, you mean? ;)
Exactly! You're either Nord-Deutsch or you're Not-Deutsch!
But where's Speyer :(? (It's not the North, but so much prettier than Heidelberg)
Go easy on the Lifestyle Hal, he did a good job, also the title says 12 Beautiful, not most beautiful, acknowledging that there are more and not just 12. :P
Thanks for introducing my country to the world.
My favorite towns in the north are Goslar, a witch town and birthplace of Siemens; Lueneburg, a salt mine town; and Luebeck, historical Hanse city
Lived in Germany for almost 12 years and consider it a second home. I would suggest a road trip along the Mosel river from Trier (I believe the oldest city in Germany, originally built by the Romans, birthplace of Karl Marx) all the way to Koblenz. You wind your way through one pretty little village after another all wine towns along the river with vineyards lining the way along the hills that fall to the river. Stop in Bernkastel-Kues and sample wine, drive onto Cochem, take sometime to see Castle Berg Elz Rick Steve’s considers the best castle in Germany, find a room (zimmer frei, B&B type rooms) in a village along the way. Take about 3-5 days so you have time to stop and experience the village’s and at least a half day in Trier and Koblenz (confluence of the Rhine and Mosel).
Trier is the oldest Roman city in Germany, but not the overall oldest city. There were already some Celtic cities in the South and along the Rhine as the Romans came, but they destroyed most of them (because they did come primarily to defeat the Celts for all times).
Was stationed in Germany twice and it was my favorite of everywhere I have been. I second a trip up both the Mosel and Rhine Gorge River Valley. Another great road trip is the Deutsche Alpenstrasse from Berchtesgaden to Lake Constance. Both are GREAT road trips.
did it on bicycle, would do it again (Canadian)
This is a very good recommendation, for the whole trip you will feel like your in a fairytale! Such a romantic landscape!
Augsburg is the oldest city
My fondest memories are those of my trips to Germany 🇩🇪
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Germany is literally a 2 hour flight for me yet I've never been, I 100% will visit after the pandemic!
Yes let’s hope that can happen
Don't forget, there're Germans living in Germany. Grandmasters of rudeness and arrogance. I know what I'm talking about, I'm a German wanting to leave Germany (but cannot yet).
@@oliversteiner0815 Yes, there are people like that ... But only you are like that. Germans are friendly and helpful and there is no reason not to travel to Germany to experience it for yourself 👍🏼
@@oliversteiner0815 I'm also a German wanting to emigrate. But I'm not trash talking my own country or people. There is the good and the bad like in every country.
German cities and towns are all so incredibly beautiful that I would gladly live in any of them. Warm regards from Finland:)
dont listen to oliver... we are pretty friendly people and our cities are often very beautifull.
In Rothenburg the inner old Centre is meanwhile occupied from Chinese’s, in Heidelberg you cannot move in the crowd of Tourists, I would invite you to towns with G: Güstrow, Görlitz, Goslar, Gelnhausen and with an A there could be Aachen, Augsburg, Anklam. Aschaffenburg. Please come, younare welcome❤️❤️
@@oliversteiner0815 oh, you Must have been in Berlin. That is more than ugly.I live here 😂😂😂
Would be even more, if we hadn't made some poor political decisions at some point in history! ;)
Well sadly many of the major cities were destroyed in WW2, some of the old towns have been restored but most haven’t with modern steel office buildings and high rises taking their place. Thankfully, many of the small towns survived unscathed during the war and many still retain their original medieval architecture.
I miss Aachen in all this ... a city with the most historic "old town" with Original Stone Gates, Cathedral, and Charlemagne's Palace.
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He focused on largely untouched by time and war towns in this video. Aachen is very historic, yes, but it isn't as well preserved as the other towns in this video, since Aachen was quite badly destroyed in the last WW2, and you can unfortunately easily tell today.
Germany also has cities from the antiquity, notably Trier with lots of Roman ruins or Mainz with it’s ancient theatre.
Meersburg am Bodensee is another gem.
You're wright.
But a little bit overcrowded in the summer.
True. Von Meersburg kann man auch mit der Fähre nach Konstanz fahren. Da kann man auch ein bisschen mehr machen als in Meersburg oder Lindau, weil es nicht ganz so klein ist.
I live in Marburg since 2007. I studied here and couldn't leave it. It's people are friendly, the city is amongst the most beautiful in europe and living here is just an outstanding experience
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Having Dinkelsbühl - which is a insider's tip even for most germans (like me) - on your list proofs, that your video is very well researched.
Look on google maps. Every 8-12km in the whole region between Stuttgart and München there are small cities which still have their old flair and often even (parts of) their city wall.
Not that Dinkelsbühl is not beautiful, it's just that there are so many little "fairy tale" towns between Stuttgart and München, you can't do them all justice.
We Germans should pay fare more attention and visits to our direct neighborhood ;)
Not to forget Nördlingen. It is not so far from Dinkelsbühl.
One of my favourite destination in Western europe is Germany after UK and Switzerland. I ❤ the medieval towns in Germany, the best in entire europe. Hope will visit this beautiful country one day. Thanks for highlighting these places.
Vermisse HAMBURG, Lübeck und Schwerin😉
Hamburg? Did you miss the "Beautiful" in the title?
Hamburg is not a small town.
Und Wismar nicht vergessen, die Perle an der Ostsee, meine Liebe, meine schöne Hansestadt!
@@bellejohannsen4469 ich wohne jetzt in HS Wismar! hahaha
Danke! War auch mein Gedanke. Aber das Video ist offensichtlich sehr Süddeutschland - lastig. Vielleicht ist es noch wegen der Geschichte so, dass sich die Amerikaner mehr für die Regionen der ehemaligen US Besatzungszone interessieren (Bayern, Hessen und Teile Baden-Württembergs)
I'm English, been to lots of countries but I just love 💘 Germany. I love the people 💕. Hope to be in Deutschland soon. Love from me in England. X
Emil Bruns. I was 20 and my first time in Germany was Trier, love it. Drove south and began to love Germany more. I've been to many places in Germany but I really love Bavaria and Munich. Love to Deutschland from me in England. Ps, Mia San Mia Bayern. X
@@stephenord3403 I think the little villages in Germany are especially beautiful. Absolutely love and terribly miss the market squares and medieval fountains.
I love England too I visited 3 times was amazing the old history around every where and the most I like the villages how beautiful ☺️
I’m an Aussie, love Germany also, have been there 3 times planning to go back soon 🍻🥨
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There is certainly a lot more, but it's very good for first impressions. I also discovered Dinkelsbühl and was amazed at the completeness of the medieval and original Bavarian city. It`s like entering another world.
Plus, almost none of the souvenir shops that have filled up Rothenburg.
0:41 Rothenburg ob der Tauber
1:38 Dinkelsbuhl
2:37 Lindau
3:18 Cochem
4:20 Ramsau
5:05 Bamberg
5:57 Passau
7:10 Fritzlar
8:08 Quedlinburg
9:08 Heidelberg
10:18 Wernigerode
11:11 Marburg
From the comments I will also remember to check out "Binz, Sellin, Heiligendamm or Kühlungsborn with its classical spa architecture or Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Bremen and of course Hamburg with its Hanseatic architecture as well as colorful cities like Husum, Hannover, Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock or even Buxtehude or Greetsiel." "Goslar and Hameln" "Lüneburg!" "Germany also has cities from the antiquity, notably Trier with lots of Roman ruins or Mainz with it’s ancient theatre." "I miss Aachen in all this ... a city with the most historic "old town" with Original Stone Gates, Cathedral, and Charlemagne's Palace." "Wismar" "Erfurt? Dresden? Leipzig?" "My favorites would have been Stade, Lüneburg, Hameln in the North, Monschau, Münstereifel, Altenahr & Koblenz in the West, Limburg, Weilburg, Idstein in Central Germany." "Look on google maps. Every 8-12km in the whole region between Stuttgart and München there are small cities which still have their old flair and often even (parts of) their city wall." "Weimar" "Monschau" "Neuenburg near Pforzheim"
@@ixlnxs I recommend Bautzen and Tübingen!
And Schwäbisch Hall
Bad bentheim
Really nice video. Germany as a holiday destination is vastly under rated in my opinion. We've been doing a lot of travel there and have visited a number of these places. We've done a lot of cycle touring and they've been some of the best holidays ever. One of many was cycling from lake Bodensee to Passau along the Donau
The lake is really nice there 👌🏾
Maybe people think Germany got totally bombed out and thus there is no or next to no old architecture left. Everything modern. Then I say ‘little do they know’. Germany is a treasure chest, full of beautiful medieval towns and villages with lovely market squares and gorgeous fountains.
I was born and grew up in Dinkelsbühl and in my eyes it's the most beautiful town in the whole world. I'm currently away at university but seeing it in your video made me very lucky, thank you 😊
(I don't know at which time of the year you visited, but in mid-july when we celebrate our city not being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War the city is very crowded and there are tourists everywhere. It's definitely worth another trip!)
I live in Germany and know a lot of travelling-worthy destinations. But some of yours were completely new to me. Thanks man!
My pleasure 👍🏾
Thank you so much for showing us these beautiful towns. I’d like to visit them someday.
The sad thing is that if our forefathers had not listened to that Austrian dwarf with the funny mustage there would be many more of these beautifull place still around in Germany.
The Austrians have a lot to answer for!
Imagine if he had just become a mediocre artist and left it at that. Millions of people would be alive today, cities would have been preserved, vibrant Jewish culture in many places... really a shame we were so easy to seduce into cruelty.
@@lraaijman1710 yeah i think so too
...yes, but they would probably speak Russian here.
You are so right.
There are videos of city like Frankfurt and many more, that show the city before that fucking war. Man, these cities were beautiful.
I have been in Lindau, Rothenburg and one more from these. But Neuenburg near Pforzheim, Uberlingen, Konstanz (and probably lot more) were just as great!
A quite piece of history
Oh lovely Marburg I miss you and your damn like 5 churches, waking me up each hour every night...
It's a beautiful video with beautiful towns, but as others have pointed out: it transports a certain cliche about German traditional culture that is reduced only to southern German and middle German halftimber houses. There really should have been at least two examples for the hanseatic culture and architecture in cities or towns like Wismar, Lüneburg, Stralsund... The towns are as old and historic as the mentioned towns in the south, but they look totally different and in their ways just as beautiful.
Absolutely stunning, I like Germany as been many times as have friends there . Food beer all good lol . What a great video mate cheers
Welcome mate
Germany is really beautiful. Amazing and impressive!
Goerlitz is the number 1 destination for Hollywood movies in Germany and should be on the list.
I have visited Goerlitz. It's an amazing town partially restored/redeveloped. You can walk across a footbridge and be in Poland. And what about Bautzen?
Very charming places, I hope I can visit again sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much!
Thanks! A roadtrip in Germany is on top in my bucket list. Much to see and discover. Just waiting for this coronashit to end. Cheers from Sweden 🇸🇪
Germany can be so beautiful !!
Wow....Beautiful country
If I was rich I’d be permanently touring the world, seeing all the culture, architecture, history, and Mother Nature
Ditto!
I love Lindau . It is exactly located between south east and south west Germany and you can feel it when you are there.
Thanks for this. Germany is so underrated.
"underrated " ?. 😳 by who? it is one of the most highly rated countries in the world for a visit .
I went to university in Passau, crazy beautiful city
Absolutely ,what a beautiful place Passau is.
Quedlinburg! 🙏 Da bin ich zur Schule gegangen 🤩 wirklich etwas ganz Besonderes 🙌
beautiful shoot my friend, I hope I can visit there, greetings from Indonesia,... thx for sharing
Thanks for Heidelberg! I live Here and Love it very much
Have a look at Speyer with its Dom & Dompark. In the Spring you can Perfectly relax in the sun there
My one like from India for beautiful German cities
My grandfather lived in Fritzlar. It’s so beautiful
Very nice video! Further recommendations: Lübeck, Münster and Tübingen. Cheers!
I spent A very short but glorious 3 weeks in Germany only went to Marburg, of the places listed here, I sincerely hope I can visit again…the food is amaaazzzzing !🤤🤤
Let’s hope for 2022
Very beautiful Architectural places to visit 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
A great video, thank you very much. I don't even know most of the places you introduced and have never heard of them. But Lübeck or Stralsund is missing from the list, and in any case the North and Baltic Seas with Sylt and Usedom as well as Hiddensee.
I was born in Lübeck and you are right, thanks!
Nice video. It is only Part 1. The list of famous beautiful places in Germany will be indeed very long: Schwangau, Baden-Baden, Freiburg im Breisgau, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Goslar, Oberammergau, Konstanz, Meersburg, Trier, Tübingen, Hannover, Göttingen, Bremen, Lübeck, Würzburg, Bayreuth, Dresden... Sababurg and German Fairy Tale Route, all the Romantic Road (Romantische Straße), Germany World Heritage List, Romantic Rhine Valley (Lorelei valley), Mosel Valley, etc
Rüdesheim was one of the most beautiful place I went tô know in Germany. One Summer week-end there and you will never forget It.
Yes, you will probably meet an American tourist from your home town. But it's OK. Take the lift up to the monument and enjoy a beer.
@@bengemeister I felt something ironic in your answer, sorry if I'm wrong. I' m not from USA or any other land where they speak English. Not for a religious purpose but I only drink soda.
Go to Germany at least once a year, usually Obersdorf for winter holiday and then towards the east for summer. At least before Covid-19....wonderful country and friendly people.
Obersdorf is amazing! Already seen the new skilifts?
@Joachim Harms everytime we go to our appartments (annualy) we recieve a massive hug from the owners ;)
Been to Bonn and Cologne only, hopefully can visit these beautiful classic towns when I retire someday 😍
Rothenburg ob der Tauber is truly beautiful, I highly recommend 😍
This was a little glimpse on the beautiful towns in Germany, thank you. You didn’t choice only touristic hotspots like Heidelberg and Rothenburg irg
I miss Münster im Westphalen, I was the happiest when I studied there.
Wow. Very nice scenes. Thank you for share my new friend. I'm proud so much people like my country. Greetings from Germany.
Great collection! Some I have already seen, some are on my list to visit but there were a few new ones too, like Fritzlar and Marburg (otherwise mostly notorious for the virus...)
I was in particular happy to see that you put Dinkelsbühl so early on your list, really a lovely city completely devoid of tourist (well, when I was there. It might change now)
Bro your content is even better than before. Hope you get a vaccine as travelling can be risky. Great job man and greetings from a Polish dude👋🏻
Thank you bro !
Of many lovely towns not included here I particularly love Bad Wimpfen and Hirschhorn on the Neckar, Oberammergau and Mittenwald in Bavaria, Bernkastel-Kues on the Mosel and Sankt Martin on the Deutsche Weinstrasse.
Il add these
I love your picks! Quedlinburg is kind of my 2nd home (I live in Bonn though), and I absolutely fall in love with the town every time I visit.
Q is an interesting and historic city. Especially if you know about the Q treasures. A GI from Texas "liberated" priceless church treasures from Q. A soap opera followed to get the artifacts back to Germany for a low 7 didget number. I saw the treasures on display in Dallas before being returned and later at the Cathedral in Q. Very satisfying. Some of these items were national treasures of unestimal cultural value.
I think Gemany is same every where every city is beautiful clean and well equipped with 1st class facilities. beautiful people and friendly too. living in Germany since years and Germany is the beautiful country
Not true.
So aesthetically pleasing! Love your traveling videos, especially this european line. After watching them I feel like I was there! Super
I’m very happy it does that for ya
I was in Cochem and in Bamberg. There is a beautiful palace near Bamberg - Seehof. I also like Würzburg, Coburg, Weimar, Trier. Potsdam is highly recommended because of the Sanssouci and it's not far from Berlin.
thanks. Very nice... there are so many more beautiful towns to visit. Looking forward to the next video ☺
I live about half an hour away from Rothenburg ob der Tauber (in Dinkelsbühl, also featured on this list
Make it twelve and add at least the midsize towns of Lübeck close to the Baltic Sea and Regensburg on the river Danube!!! They would absolutely deserve a spot in this Top Ten list.
For a Top Twenty list also add Münster and Osnabrück in Westphalia, Neuburg an der Donau and Coburg in Bavaria, Meersburg and Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, Naumburg and Rostock or Schwerin in East Germany as well! Those smaller towns are often way prettier than the large cities as they weren't bombed to rubbles in WW2. While many things have been rebuilt in the last 75 years such as the Frauenkirche in Dresden, others have gone forever.
Some suggestions of medieval style southern German towns (would probably not be on a list of the most beautiful ones but are still pretty nice)
Kirchberg an der Jagst: Pretty small but a nice little palace and gorgeous paths along the River Jagst. Also close to Hornberg, with another castle (not open to public)
Vellberg: also small, but with a wall you can walk in and a great viewing platform
Schwäbisch Hall: the old-town part is along the river Kocher and are also half-timbered
I noticed you focused on the medieval towns mainly in the south. Since I'm from Germany, I can tell you there is no town in Germany which doesn't have some historical rich context. And you can easily stumble into one, which is like a fairytale. It's a perfect country for a roadtrip. But be warned smaller towns are seldomly touristically developed. But you can always find somebody who speaks English.
Anyway I want to share some other towns, which are imho also very beautiful, touristically developed and very worth to visit:
East: Weimar (Goethe, Schiller, Bauhaus), Wittenberg (Luther), Leipzig (J.S.Bach), Dresden (Frauenkirche), Erfurt, Eisenach, Königsstein, Bad Schandau (the last three are very nice for hiking)
Northwest: Hildesheim, Hameln, Göttingen
Northeast: Rostock, Wismar, Schwerin, Stralsund (the North is historically slightly different, so is the architecture)
I did two videos - one was more towards the south and the other had more northern parts
@@LifestyleHal Fair enough. I guess, I have to watch the other one too, then... :D
💐Beautiful 💐 Germany 💐
What a gorgeous video. Thank you very much for the
I love your Bavarian bent: five out of your top seven towns are in Bavaria. However, check out Landshut for your next video. And if Heidelberg qualifies as a town, so should Regensburg - which would make my top list too. Finally, whoever says Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl (props for the latter) should also say Nördlingen...
Clean cinematography 👌
Old Heidelberg, y must se it, thats Beautiful, smal way an left and right playes music an many Cafes an Bars
And another list of beautiful towns in Germany, where Northern Germany has been totally disregarded ...
Yeah, especially as the towns in Northern Germany have a totally different beautiful architecture than those in the rest of Germany, like Binz, Sellin, Heiligendamm or Kühlungsborn with its classical spa architecture or Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Bremen and of course Hamburg with its Hanseatic architecture as well as colorful cities like Husum, Hannover, Flensburg, Kiel, Rostock or even Buxtehude or Greetsiel.
I also don’t know, why no one ever mentions them. It’s as if Northern Germany doesn’t even exist. 😅🙈
It‘s probably better no one knows that there are beautiful towns in the North. This way we have those towns all for ourselves. 😉👍
Now now let’s put the claws away .. plenty of videos along the way and plenty of places in every country to highlight
@@LifestyleHal He's right, tho? It's feeding into a specific stereotype instead of giving an actual overview.
@@LifestyleHal My comment probably came out wrong. You did a pretty decent job with your video by mentioning lots of German cities that are often overlooked.
But nonetheless it’s a bit disappointing for a Northerner that no RUclipsr ever mentions the Northern part of Germany and very few ever mention the Western part.
Like Stella F. said, it’s like saying that there are only beautiful sites to visit in the South. But the South just doesn’t represent Germany as a whole as the North is totally different from the South in culture, architecture and in the landscape. And don’t get me wrong, the South is beautiful but so is the North. 😄
Rothenburg ob der Tauber was a good place to start. A few years back, I spent an entire summer there. However, I'd say that Heidelberg is the most idyllic *mid-size* city in the country. The best place to stay is in the residential area on the side of the River Neckar facing the old town. Finally, I may be partisan, but if I were you I would take a look-see at Lörrach, which is right on the border with Switzerland. Yours was a great list, though!
wow
Love your videos!
My hubby lives in Germany. But he isn't aficionado of travelling. He tends to speak about us when we are on the phone than talking about beautiful places in Germany lol. Wish to go there after pandemic
Greetz from our beautiful Heidelberg ❤️❤️☀️
Just a slight correction - Passau is not a medieval town, but a typical late Renaissance town. In a 1662 fire the medieval town completely burned down and the city was rebuilt in the at that time fashionable "Italian Reneaissance" style.
The second little correction is that Heidelberg has not the oldest German university. The oldest German university is found in Prague, until 1919 part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has its roots in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
I thought exactly the same, when he said this is the oldest German university. "No, it's in Prague." LOL
Great video!
Just in case somebody is looking in vain for Wernigorode on a German map: it's actually Wernigerode.
Danke für die Richtigstellung. Es wird ja auch gerne mal Werningerode daraus gemacht. Da bluten mir die Ohren.
Kudos, with few exceptions like Rothenburg, Heidelberg and Dinkelsbuehl (even commented otherwise) you managed to stay away from most of the known tourist traps. I am sure every German would add a few places and so would I: Regensburg, where I went to university (and there is argument between Heidelberg and Regensburg which university is older) belongs on the list. So does Oldenburg, Olli where I went to grad school. Then there would be Kiel (as I am a sailor) and any of the old cities of the Hanse but the biggest oversight hands down is Dresden, Elbflorenz, Semper Oper... and now all rebuilt.
All the best are there...👍👍👍
Also Dinkelsbühl hosts one of Germany's all-time greatest Metal festivals each year \m/
Great video! Cheers 😍👍🏼
*so beautiful travel video*
i live in marburg and i was hoping that my beautiful city would show up on this list! Not only is it very picturesque but it's also a great city to study in as over a third of the population of the city consists of university students. We have lots of bars and outdoor activities and the city is just full of live :)
Hello beautiful how are you doing today and how is the weather over there and hope you have a great day
Awesome video 👍
Very useful and interesting, thank you.
i have been to all these towns. I love love love Germany. Rothenburg is beautiful,but as you said it is way too touristy for me. I much prefer Dinkelsbuhl. When in Bamberg,one must try a rauchbier
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I would recommend Heidelberg, Konstanz, Meersburg, Lüneburg, Munich, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Wow, I visited most of them before. Just looked into an old photo album from pictures as a child in the 80s and a few were from Ramsau. It looked exactly back then as nowadays.
I think thats the charm for most of these little towns, that you can forget the time...
Jus to add Nr. 13: Königsberg in Bayern and it's neighbor village Unfinden in the northern part of Bavaria.
Dinkelsbuel ... my hometown ...
Great video! How did you manage to make drone footage in most of the places? There are lots of limitations in Germany
I life in Heidelberg an i love it, thx Brother 4 show, Part 2 wanna se this Place y find
Indeed, Rothenburg has a reputation, but Dinkelsbühl is as beautiful to say the least. If you want to visit Rothenburg, do it in the month of May. The weather is good, and the crowds are still small. A must do in Rothenburg is a walk on the city wall that surrounds the town.
You forgot a few very beautiful towns, like Schwäbisch Hall, Tübingen, Ulm, and Regensburg.
What about Schwerin, Naumburg, Goslar, Wismar, Stade, Celle, Lunenburg,Rotweil, Merseburg, Trier, Eisenach, and Gorlitz
@@zzausel I have actually, about ten years ago I walked across the bridge with shops and houses (bit like Florence but much less touristy) and the magnificent cathedral with the other church next door overlooking the square down the steps. I really liked it and should have included it in my list. We did a day trip from Naumburg where I was staying and stopped in Weimar on the way back,. I totally get that Weimar has enormous cultural significant for Germans, but actually I preferred Erfurt.
That said there is lot in Germany I would still like to see and I know I could easily add another 20 -30 stunning towns to this list. My favourite place is probably the Bodensee I have had three holidays there, but I also love a lot the Baltic coast and the Hartz.
@@zzausel thanks and you are so right. The East in particular has so many wonderful places Gorlitz and Quedlinburg are both amazing. Unusually for someone from UK, I have no family or military connections.I am just well travelled in Germany with my parents who had a caravan from quite an early age. I love history and I am a total Germanophile, and think it is a really great society that has got some much right. Any country that sells beer by the crate in giant beer supermarkets and plays football like the Germans is great in my book.
My own family in more recent times have had some wonderful holidays on the Bodensee, Black Forrest and Bavaria. However in the Bodensee in particular where we have stayed three times for two weeks we did stand out as there weren’t many people from UK and they had no idea what they are missing. I was in Berlin last year and after lockdown down plan with my wife soon to do a couple of weeks driving around Brandenburg. Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony I really want to see Dresden again now so much of the centre has been rebuilt, Meissen again, Leipzig, Magdeburg Cathedral and also Potsdam.
I am also very fond of Poland (much of the North and West of which was of course historically German until 1945) I have been to Krakow, Poznań, Gniezno, Gdańsk, Malbrok, Szczecin and Wroclaw. I intend to go back to Wroclaw this Dec with a friend of mine as I think it is a terrific city, and do a day trip to Zagan to see the Great Escape museum and maybe Ksiaz Castle if it is open.
@@zzausel sounds wonderful when I was in Naumburg there were a lot of people canoeing on the Saale.
They did great restauration work in Quedlingburg, which was left to rot by the GDR.
Danke für die Impressionen über Romantik Deutschland........ liebe Grüße aus Düsseldorf Germany im Westen von Deutschland 🌍🇪🇺🇩🇪
Please make more such small town videos.
Il still make them
Wow,this little city is looks like one little city here in Brazil, it calls ‘Monte Verde’,state of Minas Gerais,have a lot of house in Monte Verde have fireplace
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