Home of the backwards supermarket
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Schöllkrippen is an important hub for the people of the Upper Kahl Valley, a veritable metropolis with pubs, buses, and a supermarket that was built backwards. Let me take you on a quick tour of this amazing place.
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Die Katze hat es wirklich rausgerissen ;)
:-)))
Eine Katze ist immer der perfekte Weg ein Video zu beenden.
This being Germany, I guess, once the new, forward facing Lidl is finished, the new main road will be build soon thereafter :))
Yes. And on the backside - because they´re operating their plans from the middle of the 20th century.
As least this isn't the United States where Lidl would sue ... and win!
Just use both buildings and use both streets. Both, the truckers and the customers will have an easier life. 😉😉🙃🙃
@@renatoherren4217 Well, five supermarkets for some 2000 souls might be a little over the top. But I like the idea.
@@PiscatorLager Add souls from the nearby villages.
Fun Fact: the tractor at 4:19 has a license plate with ALZ standing for the district of Alzenau (Landkreis Alzenau) that ceased to exist in 1972 and was merged with the district of Aschaffenburg (Landkreis Aschaffenburg). There aren’t that many vehicles with ALZ plates anymore.
Just thought it was worth a heads up.
There are more of them now. Germany has been reintroducing some of the old defunct prefixes, and in many districts it's now possible to choose the prefix you want. If you register your car in the Aschaffenburg district, you can choose between AB and ALZ; and a lot of residents of the Kahlgrund are now choosing ALZ.
@@rewboss True.
I forgot to emphasize the fact that the plate is held in the old style which was in use legally until 2000. Since then, only the Euro-Style with the left blue band and the ugly font is allowed.
The seals on the old plates say „Landratsamt Alzenau“ referring to the former Landkreis Alzenau. On the new plates it is written „Landratsamt Aschaffenburg“.
This is, where I am differentiating between the old and the new plates. My statement made before is referring to the old plates.
That is amazing. It means this tractor is (at least) almost 50 years old.
During the 1970s, a number of smaller towns and cities in North Rhine-Westphalia (and in the state of Hesse, I believe) were incorporated into larger entities, cities and districts. In the years and decades after these mergers, you could tell by looking at the license plates when the vehicles were originally registered and you could immediately spot really old clunkers.
@@wolfgangthiele9147 Indeed. And he looks like being so old - and all the car drivers on the street are feeling that he is at least so old...
@@wolfgangthiele9147 It´s not uncommon for farm vehicles to last that long. Especially when owned by part time farmers. In winter they don´t have much to do, so they usually maintain and repair their vehicles in their barns. So they stay in shape for a long time, and costs are low.
4:05 Ah, Lidl missed the opportunity to print "Es geht vorwärts" on that sign 😅
There's a cat in it,
so your sins are forgiven Rewboss.
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NEIN!
Ah, the beauty of trying to plan ahead...
Reminds me of the story about Harlow, a post-war planned 'New Town' in England. The M11 motorway was supposed to pass to the west, so they built all their industrial estates there. Then the government decided to route the motorway to the east instead; one of the planners said it was "like building a seaside town and then moving the sea"
"Wow, a nice but boring village with a Lidl. *Cat appears* LIKE!"
*Here are some things about the village. A brief mention about the subject matter of the video and... "here's a Cat!" :-p
Well, the video is called "Home of the backwards supermarket" and not "The backwards supermarket". So the subject is the home aka the village. ;)
@@Appolyon that's one way to look at it, lol. ;-)
There's a similarly backwards church in Montreal, Canada. It faces onto Gauchetière, which is an older road. But the more modern René Levesque is now the major road in the area. So now you basically always approach this gorgeous neo-gothic church from the back, which is unfortunate. I don`t think they even bother snow clearing the old entrance anymore.
Diese Benzinpreise....
Im so glad for you that you have four whole supermarkets within "walking" distance AND trains
very impressive for the middle of nowhere
For a place remote at this it truly is impressive.
Yes. Catching a flight at Frankfurt Airport from where he lives is doable on public transit. He is lucky in that perspective.
There are other regions where actually there is a bus every 2 hours and school buses in the morning and evenings. That is the only transit then.
Also if you have the luck to live in a greater metropolitan area you will have S-Bahn services every 15 or 30 minutes to the huge metropolitan city.
I lived quite some time in Konstanz, and the small town of 80,000 people had 17 bus lines when I lived there - running from early in the morning to late night. From the train station there were trains to Zürich Airport (Switzerland) and Frankfurt Airport (via Karlsruhe Mannheim). From Zürich rail station you could take the TGV train to Paris ;-)
Yes I am always interested in hearing more about life as a non-tourist! Also as a transit buff in the very transit unfriendly USA, it’s very interesting to see the extensive Busnetz in the tiny villages near you.
Public transport can vary - there are a lot of rural areas where buses are more or less "school buses" and don't run at other times. I live in a "medium connected" area in Northern Germany, my district has 150k inhabitants on 300 square miles and going the 20 km to the capital of it takes me an hour by bus. But it is cheap - the monthly ticket for the district is only € 35.
Don´t let him fool you. The villages are tiny, but the area is quite populated and the administrative units are small. 3:00 tells the story: they are surrounded by bigger cities and the area is quite developed with industries. This area is not rural in the sense that people mostly depend on agricultural production, it is only rural in numbers of inhabitants. If you have a closer look you´ll find almost everything you need for life in this place: Not only supermarkets and hospitality, but schools, emergency response, various doctors, post office, banking, entertainment... and all the other things are just a bus ride away in the bigger cities. This is the outcome of the theories of Walter Christaller, this is not by accident, it follows a plan.
That group of teeny villages have better bus and train service than most US cities and suburbs! 😡
@@edwardmiessner6502 because US and Canada developed car centric cities. If you are interested in this topic, I recommend you the channel "not just bikes"
Germany is in some parts good, but really great are the Dutch cities and rual areas!
@@adamabele785 Thanks I'll read up on Walter Christaller!
Totally agree with you on the benefits of walking - It's fun, keeps you fit and costs nothing.
Maybe it worth to point out to any US viewer that the price shown at the gas station were EURO per Liter not per Gallon…
You should also mention, that one Liter is approximately 0.264 gallon or to make it even more American 'roughly a quarter of a gallon'.
@@berndbeispielmensch Imperial gallon or American gallon?
@@qwertyTRiG yes
In the north of Germany gas prices are quite a bit lower. I paid 1.29€/Lieter yesterday. And I still that this is quite much for fuel. December last year I paid less than a Euro per Lieter
@@TJayVariable Diesel or gasoline? Because I paid 1.51€/liter of gasoline yesterday in central/eastern Germany (Leipzig) which was a little below average compared to the last days but still very expensive compared to last year
The internet loves cats! You are off the hook.
We all know the real reason is the architect designed it on opposite day
The workers held the plan in the opposite direction.
Notmad at all there was a relaxed cat so absolutely worth it. :)
Lovely! I hope you can visit more of the nearby villages for a short video too! Thank you for sharing.
Nice save.... the ginger cat enjoying the sun.
In my town there's a MediaMarkt that's backward in the same way, because
cars are supposed to access the parking lot via an access road that
loops around the back. Which makes it very awkward to visit by bike from
the main road...
In Nordhorn there is McDonalds where you access it from the back and drive out from the front onto a running Heavy Traffic Street Junction
Daumen hoch für die Katze!
And in fact a very sleepy cat on a railing that is much too small.😸
Where he fits, he sits.
That cat was very sleepy
I'm a dual citizen of the US and Canada, and have lived in both countries. What I find most impressive about rural Germany is that they have public transport. A town of similar size in North America would never have any bus service.
Turns out Lidl is a quirky supermarket chain. We have a town in Bulgaria which has two Lidl stores. One of them is the ordinary and the other is mirrored. I didn't think of it much the first few times but then I noticed it I spent more time in it finding stuff because I am used to the ordinary layout. Seems like a very smart tactic to increase wandering time and thus random impulsive purchases.
Lidl are also the ones that insist on using a shopping cart in the fiercest of ways, while for the others, it doesn't really matter any more during those times with low incidence values. My theory is that, with a cart, you are slower through their stores, and therefore you buy more. This is supported by the fact that they have only large and extra-large carts, no real small ones (although the large ones are labelled "small"), so if you buy only a few items, they will always look "lost" in that cart. There must be some clever psychiologists at work in Lidl's marketing department! (those manipulative little shits...)
Indeed. :-)))
Just got around to watching ; love little village's and miss Germany .
i was about to type an angry comment, but the cat redeemed the video :)
Oh my the Fachwerkhäuser are beautyfull!
You promised the backwards supermarket, you delivered the backwards supermarket.
*Sees cat *
Worth it
In meiner Kleinstadt stehen gleich zwei Supermärkte nebeneinander "falsch" herum, die wurden aber mit Absicht so gebaut, erst vor einigen Jahren. Dieser Abschnitt der ehemals ganz schönen Hauptstraße sieht jetzt aus wie ein Industriegebiet. Superhässlich!
Vielen Dank für dein wie immer sehr informatives Video, die schöne Landschaft und die liebe Katze 😻
At about 3 minutes, you talk about busses. The frequency of busses surprised me. I live in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois in a town with 30,000 people. The only bus infrastructure around here is one line where each stop is on the grassy shoulder of a six lane road. Germany seems to have great public transport.
And now do video about an Aldi where you have to go through counter clockwise. 😉
Immer gut einen Werksverkauf in der nähe zu haben.
But it is backward or just inovative? As a consumer you are conviently able to drive and enter wherever. But I bet the lorrydrivers praise the very accessable delivery-bay.
Yet anyway, nice to place you now properly. I don't know why, but I always asumed you living near Nürnberg.
We do still have a Backwards Lidl. And since it was renovated just a while ago they will leave it like this for some more years.
Well we have an Aldi facing it's entry backwards too :P
The cat.
You've won me over with the cat.
I was hoping for an explanation, to why our local Lidl, is facing the parking on the back and not the main street.
It is the Lidl here in Copenhagen (Frederikssundsvej, 2700 Brønshøj)
Neat walk through town, if I am not wrong think the gas station use to be know as a Elf station, at least the yellow signed one in Hessen back in the 90’s.
It is a village with regular train and bus service and is very clean. WoW !!!
That was a very good cat.
There is a Trader Joe's on Market Street in Philadelphia, which faces the wrong way. This is center city, with very little parking. The building faces the middle of the block so that it has a small parking lot. The first time I walked down from my office, I searched for the door for about 5 minutes, until a passer-by took pity on me.
Schöne Gegend.
Nicely filmed (good eye for interesting shots!) and I appreciate the humour. I'm from Switzerland and thought I know our neighbouring country in the north pretty well, even a lot of rather obscure places, but I think this is is indeed the very first time I've ever read or heard the name "Schöllkrippen"; that being said, I've never even heard of the Upper Kahl Valley, and this despite being a bit of a railway enthusiast and this valley featuring, apparently, its very own railway line!
Qualitäts-Katzencontent.
Ich habe genüsslich meine Pizza verspeist und mich sehr über die zuckersüße Katze am Ende gefreut. War ein gutes Video! xD
Upvoted for the cat!
So youtube randomly recommended me a channel with videos about my local area, nice
I hadn't thought of it, but there's a grocery store in Indian Land, South Carolina - just barely south of the border with North Carolina on Highway 521 - where the entrance to the store is on the back side of the building when looking at it from the road. However, the loading dock is NOT on the road side of the building. It's also on the side away from the road, but at the other end of the building from the entrance.
It, too, is a Lidl.
www.google.com/maps/place/Lidl/@35.0095167,-80.8529997,154m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x885682fda5be1061:0xeebdde9211b735f5!8m2!3d35.0090378!4d-80.8532411
I thought i have failed at many things in life, but it really is an achievement to build a heckin' Lidl backwards xD
Hört sich an wie ein Schildbürgerstreich.
The Aldi (Süd) in my parent's town also has its entrance at the back. The "front of the building" is facing the Tegut which entrance looks towards the street, but the Aldi is a bit off to the left since there is a MASSIVE parking lot there so I feel like it was intentional since they didn't want people to walk too far to their car.
The entrance to Aldi is on the side of the building, but all the way at the edge, so the doors are facing the parking lot, but the windows by the tills face towards the Tegut.
well, if the entrance is towards the parking lot, then we can probably say this is "at the front side" ... with today's supermarkets, the more important question might (sadly) be "where's the parking lot" instead of "which side is the street "
Next to my train station is a similar situation: There are three stores sharing the parking lot between them, all having their entrance to this area. So, the EDEKA, which is directly located at the street, is facing backwards.
The Aldi in Gerbrunn (next to Würzburg) is also reversed, and it has no adjacent other building, in fact, it is at the end of a cul de sac with the parking lot going around the building. I think this is to lower congestion at the parking lot: If the entrance were at the beginning of the parking lot, people would park at the very first spot, temporarily blocking the road for incoming traffic going to spots further in. But if the entrance is at the back, people drive all the way in before parking, securing traffic flow.
The former Rewe in Königstein i.T. faced the high street but had two extra tills at the back with direct access to car park for patrons arriving by car from smaller villages, and for me who walked across the side street thru it. The new Rewe sits above its parking garage accessed by the lift.
@@mnsegler1 oh that's interesting!
I don't think I've seen Rewe above a parking garage yet. But a Kaufland close to me is on the ground floor of a multistorey apartment complex and they have an underground parking garage.
I also heard they're now building freestanding Aldis that have flats above so that way they're creating more housing space.
I don't think I've ever seen a freestanding Aldi like that, but in my city's centre we have one that is wall to wall with another house and has a parking garage above it.
That's a nice train ... also nice cat!
That's a cute little town. I want to live in a quiet place like that.
The best thing in that village is definitely the cat.
We hat a backwards Lidl up until like 4 years ago, as it faced the big road coming into the middle/southern part of my city. I'm not sure if they build it for the intention of facing the busy road as advertisement or hoped to get a direct connection to it (too busy for that) but the Aldi next to it also faced the other way.
Then they just demolished it and build a brand new Lidl in its place, facing the road it connects to, basically taking a 180° turn.
So this seems to be a bit more common than I thought :D
Of course, after the new building is opened the road you referred to will be built.
4:43 And suddenly a moderately interesting video turns into premium content 😄.
The cat at the end is the most important part as we know. Architectural oddities like the supermarket built in reverse expecting a road that never was built can be neat as well. But yeah, we know the internet likes cats more.
Lower Franconia rules! Greetings from your capital. :D
The greatest tourist attraction I've seen in this video is the Kaugummiautomat in 4:32.
I was going to type an angry comment but then you showed the cat so its okay.
Nice to see that your recordings are relatively new, I don't know why I got your channel in my recommendations, probably because it's my area. (I'm from Feldkahl) and I work as a gas station mechanic and was part of the team who changed the Esso to the Eni.
TRAIN !!!
4 the algorithm
this truly is a magnificent video many thanks Andrew.
I wonder if a tour video has ever ended by pointing out a cat. Definitely approve, I like cats.
so the radio may have a tiny chick that peeps, but RUclips has a cat that sleeps.
You'd think there would be much easier ways to fix the problem than demolishing it.
I think it was already getting old, in a bad state of repair and too small for modern needs. Its orientation wasn't the most important reason they decided to replace it.
€1.549 for E10, dang those are nice prices.
Lol, ist wirklich kurios :D Danke für das Video !
3 moring stars? I would have guessed that they are palm trees at first glance.
Didn't know about the backwards supermarket! I did not know it at the time, but now I will know it in the past!
Also, the cat at the end is cute! Lastly, if I ever go to Germany (or that area of it), I think I would be interested in filming that railroad line for my other, public-transit channel, SleepTrain456. Thanks for the market, cat, and train!
Recently I saw a similar backward Lidl supermarket in Duisburg in the Ruhrgebiet area... not a very seldom thing though. To be fair: the Lidl in Duisburg lies in between two roads, BUT: facing the less frequented one.
For once, you did not mention the Archbishop of Mainz on Schollkrippen's crest.
Liked for the cat.
0:56 beautiful Red Kite
Honestly, choosing a rural area over an urban area in Germany is just a superior decision.
I'm so damn jealous of those busses going to rural areas. And of all the German food lmao
You saved yourself from a dislike with that cat 😄
I thought it was a store that operated backwards, like where you drop off stuff instead of buying things or people can shop for free. The cat wasn't even awake.
the cat looks happy at least
I like how you always research the places featured in videos.
How long is the walk? It looks pleasant.
Schöllkrippen hat eine Katze?! ... ... Sehenswürdigkeit.
Too funny but, always entertaining!
So etwa wie mein Dorf, wir hatten aber eine Eisdiele.
ich fahre, wenn ich arbeite, jeden Tag mit der Bemble aber nie bis Schöllkrippen
Rewboss, i Love your Videos about the kahlgrund. I saw my first one 20 years ago, i think, it was about the "upper kahlgrund". I Love your humorous approach! I grew Up in Königshofen and spent my entire childhood there. I studied in Würzburg and have lived there ever since. I enjoyed your "a day Out in Würzburg as well". Would you be interested in giving me an Interview for my small Würzburg based podcast? Best of wishes, Oli
Really cool
I thought this guy was calling the supermarket Backwoods.
No matter the video, everytime you say Aschaffenburg, I have to think of Afalterbach for some reason.
So that is a backwards supermarket?
Both Lidls I shop at in Belgium are like that...
Well the supermarket was a bit letdown, but the cat made it even.
Good kitty.
The "Kahlgrund Kebab Haus" is really the best kebab! :D
I would have watched it just for the cat
Didn't know where you're hometown / village is located. Wondered about it since the Hösbach-Tunnel video. I've been working near Hanau for about 9 years, knowing the Kahlgrund valley quite well from biking tours. Beautiful region there...
I think hes from Kleinkahl :D
I demand 30% more cats.
Well, S has Berghof, where you can buy goat cheese