That was a great one. You might want to have a look at the german phone number system. it greatly helps to check out where you might be landkartenindex.blogspot.com/2014/12/telefonvorwahlkarte-von-deutschland-das.html
Finally! As a viewer in Germany (but not a German viewer, haha!) I just had to check... but they didn't drive through my street yet. I can SEE it though - weirdly my car is not there.
For me it was the roof of the Farmshop. That's a clear indicator to look up north, and the names "Watt..." as it comes from the Wattenmeer/Wadden Sea so it's close to the North Sea.
Your German pronunciation is pretty good, you even nailed the ch in Goch! Btw: Kreis has nothing to do with religion, it’s just the German word for municipality where several smaller villages are grouped together
One great thing about Germany in Geoguessr is the fact that the street signs can determine where you are. There are grey, blue, green, yellow, red, white and many other colors which can differentiate between the States, Countryside/City or which type of street it is.
Blue sings is always the Autobahn (Motorway) and yellow is always a normal road (Bundesstraße/Landstraße). White signs are normal street signs. Sometimes the normal street signs are dark blue (way darker than the autobahn blue). Which red signs do you mean?
The colour has nothing to do with the city you're in. White signs are just road names, yellow are official street signs on the usual Landstraße or Bundesstraße, like the normal roads, and blue means Autobahn
To the FreibErg-FreibUrg thing: For every village or city name that ends with "berg", you will also find a similiar named village or city ending with "burg". "Berg" means mountain, "Burg" mean castle. So these are popular things to name your place after.
I'm baffled. I saw the video, clicked on it and was surprised that germany now has street view coverage. First round and I see the village sign of Wattschaukrug, never seen it before. Then Neukrug and I'm like ,,What? I know that place". Then you arrive at the Husby, Hürup, Flensburg crossing... I drive over that corssing regularly when I visit one of my friends. First round and he's literally right next to my home city of Flensburg, what a coincidence. Great Video overall too!
@@Fragenzeichenplatte They are still working on it. They started in June if i remember correctly. Of course it's gonna take a while until everything is added.
12:00 about the railway station confusion: The U stands for U-Bahn/Untergrundbahn which is the subway. Another hint is that it runs under a big street. These have smaller and more frequent stations. While they can run above ground, the stations usually only have two tracks and are minimal in terms of supplementary buildings. If you see more tracks and an actual train station building, it's probably regional trains. edit: And I apologize for our re-using of town names. :D
I should add that while in this particular case, the U *does* stand for U-Bahn, but it is not running underground for big parts of the line. It's basically a tram outside of Düsseldorf and only in Düsseldorf acting as a subway (and even there, only partially)
@@SkaveRat Yeah I had a whole paragraph about that but deleted it because it got too wordy. Here in Hamburg there are also long parts of track where the S-Bahn runs underground and the U-Bahn is on elevated tracks above street level.
17:40 As someone, who is living near Zug: "Zug"+"Langenrinne"+"Rosine" are different parts of a parish/commune named "Zug", thats why it´s on the sign. The terms maps uses are rather regional. It should be all named "Zug"
Easy to miss if you're not a German speaker but Freiberg and Freiburg are even spelt differently. It was right in front of you the whole time, still got it in the end though. Nice video!
For me it was the one in his test round, the Irlandia is a corn maze in Brandenburg where I frequently visited as a kid because it's a super fun activity park so seeing it made me very happy :D
20:20 - "Kreis" (literally Circle) refers to the different districts to which the smaller towns belong. Sometimes it'll also say Lkr. on the signs for Landkreis, or "Stadt x" if it is a part of a larger city. Basically the "Kreis..." is a really useful clue because it points out near which major town or in which general area the village/small town on the sign is. For example "Kreis Kleve" here means it is a smaller town in the district of Kleve.
Doesn't always have to be a smaller town tho. There might be multiple cities in one Landkreis with one of those being chosen as the "namesake" for a many possible reasons. Could be its the biggest city, could be the historically more important one and so on.
@@_aullikYeah for example there is the funnily named Kreis Mettmann, which is named after the Kreisstadt, even though the biggest town in the district is Ratingen
I noticed that too. And at one point he considered Frankfurt to be in "the North", so I guess there's just Bavaria and the rest is "the north". Or as they say in Bavaria: "Die Preißn!"
Okay, as someone from the region I'll make a small comment about 17:30 Zug is a very "spread apart" village. The Rosine is actually a part of Zug, consisting only of a few houses. The name is mostly a local name for that part of Zug. The whole village is kinda messy and constructed in this way partly because people in the past just built their houses there and tried to find silver ore absolutely everywhere (Freiberg had one of the biggest mineral deposits in medieval germany). So there are many areas where people just set up shop and small mines where constructed. This was also possible because everyone was allowed to do that as long as they gave part of their silver ore to the Markgraf of Meißen. This is also why Freiberg is called Freiberg (engl. "free mountain") because you were free to go there and start searching for silver ore. Also, small Fun Fact: The hill Zug is mostly built on is called Zugspitze, the same as germanys highest mountain. PS: It was nice to see a familiar road in this game :)
Im German and i was completely baffled when i tried to check out a place near me and realized that street view was available, then i looked it up and yep, sure enough they finally released street view data taken in 2022. Ive always wanted to see street view of my own house! Although no one from my family was to be found in the photos... for context although street view has existed in Germany, it was only available in some of the biggest cities and decades old, but now its updated and has expanded a lot into tons of smaller communities and towns like one that im at!
thats just not true, at least in the borader sense. Official street view did NOT exist. Google barred themself from releasing any street view footage they did. Because of the insane bullshittery that was the discussion around prublic photos and such and the gov. beeing total F's. And because it was so cumbersome they said to themself, yeah no, not worth the hassle. The only available "street view" was from private person who uploaded their own photos. There might be one or two places where the very first taken street view of google existed but its not really noteworthy. Most viewable photos were from private persons uploading it.
Luxembourger here, having lived in Germany for 25 years now, it can be distressing seeing you on the wrong path, feeling like shouting: "Nooo, it's the other way!" 🙈 And it's good news to see that Germany is finally on the map. Great channel! 👍
Don't worry about the two Schenefelds. I heard some stories about truck drivers and delivery services who ended up in the wrong town. So cool to see you playing the Germany Map and coming out in a place close to where I live.
My uncle had something similar happen about 20 years ago. A truck driver stopped and asked him about where some street was in Steinheim (a place close where I live), that street name didn't exist in our Steinheim though. After that information the truck driver searched on his navi again, only to see that Steinheim (Westfalen) and Steinheim (an der Murr) were available and got white in his face. He accidently drove to the wrong one, which was a difference of around 415 km (around 257 miles).
This is really crazy, I watch the video unsuspectingly and the first thing you end up in is Wattschaukrug. I grew up only a few kilometers away from it and as a child I often went to the farm shop. That brings back memories, thanks for this video, by the way it's impressive how well you pronounced the names of the villages and towns. Keep it up 😊👍🏻
Yes! As german I waited so long for this update and you playing it! "get in" can be translated as "Jawoll" ! At the end of the year new 2023 footage will be uploaded
@@L1ft0ff Google made a blog post about it about 2 months ago in German here: blog.google/intl/de-de/produkte/suchen-entdecken/google-street-view-aktualisierung-deutschland/
LOOOL the first one is kinda between Husby and Flensburt my beloved hometown... i'd never expect to see this exact spot in your videos! I know that "Farm" in the beginning cuz my dad used to by fresh milk and eggs there! And this way to a good frind of mine! so heartwarming to see this!!!
For Germany, you could have a look at a map with either the postal codes or the phone area codes, both of which are neatly laid out geographically. They appear on a lot of the signs, and having memorized where the 04... phone numbers are narrows things down quickly. Memorizing the rough postal and phone code maps should only take a minute or so, as there are distinct geographical patterns.
@@metron0mThe Autobahn numbers also give you a hint how long it is. 3 digits mean it's local to a single federal state, 2 digit ones cross a few states (like 2-4) and single digit ones span across many
Another hint: if the area is flat as a board it’s the north, if you see mountains it’s either middle or south, if the mountains are ginormous, it’s definitely the south
Hi Tom, when you come across thatched roofs in Germany (1:55) they are very commonly found in the North, especially in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. I have also seen them in Northern Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Probably found elsewhere too, but in notably rarer instances. A quick tip from Brit to another :) - And a great vid as always!
Yes. We call it Reetdach-Haus and they are pretty much exclusive to northern Germany, close to the North Sea. This was an immediate giveaway, also the place names :D
@@Sonkh23600 They're not exclusive to Northern Germany. However, I think in the North they are the most well-preserved. Those Reetdach houses are all I see when looking out my window, living in a sleepy Lower Saxon village myself. Hardly a more serene view as far as urban living goes.
interesting, cause they're pretty common in most of The Netherlands as far as I know. certainly where I live, somewhat south. I imagine they can't be common in ALL of The Netherlands though, since Flevoland was created fairly recently :')
@@Sonkh23600 Yeah when I saw all those -by places I was like: This has to be close to Denmark. Also -bek endings sound like a northern thing, not sure though.
That video was absolutely insane. I've been to that very spot in Alfeld many many times and seeing you guess it absolutely perfectly really made my jaw drop.
As a german viewer I'm very happy and excited that finally the Google Street View imagery got updated and expanded in Germany! Very cool that you give it a go as well! Two Little tips: - Kreis (short for Landkreis) = county - Pronounciation of Neuss: You pretty much say it like "Noice"
I guess their neural networks can censor the pictures now and have gotten efficient enough to not bankrupt google, running them. I guess we'll see more updates sooner than later, horray I guess?
Came accross your video by chance, and was really impressed by your skills - and then, at 21:24, you zoomed in my (really small) birth town. What a surprise. That was fun. Thank you so much.
Yeah, it was fun! Germany not having had good geoguessr coverage for a long time means your skills here are maybe a little behind what they'd be otherwise. Some comments: 1) You didn't call that out in the video, so I'm not sure you noticed, but the city in the south of Germany is called FreibUrg, whereas the city you were looking for was FreibErg-- Burg meaning castle, Berg meaning mountain. 2) For the big cities, the street signs tend to have different designs, so maybe worth picking that up. Couple things that tell you immediately that it's Hamburg in that round-- the bus station with the HVV sign, which is the public transportation agency for Hamburg, also a phone number with the 040 area code, which is Hamburg. 3) "Kreis" is not a religious thing-- literally it means circle, but it's really just a unit of local government below the state level. Smaller than a county in England, there's like 400 Kreise and Kreis-equivalent cities in Germany, so probably not worth learning, but most of them are named after the largest city in them.
It's so much fun to finally see you playing Germany! Having grown up in Hamburg I was thrilled about the first two rounds being there and in Schleswig-Holstein. And I didn't know either that we have two Schenefelds! I've only been aware of the one near Hamburg but not the one next to legendary Wacken. Your German pronunciation is pretty good by the way! Danke, tschüs und bis bald!
Huhu, I‘m from Schenefeld, the older one next to Itzehoe. Many visitors coming from south take the first Schenefeld exit from the A23. We’re waiting…a telephone call incoming: „We are in Schenefeld, but can’t find your road, school, whatever “…Ok, back to A23, exit in 50 km…. It still happens, even in times of Google maps.
Little hint: scince germany has many double names, many city's have a river in brackets behind the name like "Alfeld (Leine) meaning it's at the river "leine".
@@huseyx2We German speakers always have a problem with voiced consonants at the end, because German turns all ending consonants to voiceless. For that reason, we say "Tak" but write "Tag" (day), we say "Liet" instead of "Lied" (song) or "Lop" instead of "Lob" (praise). Almost no one is aware of that, and that may be heard as a German accent in English. I admit I would pronouce "noise" and "noice" the same way if I did not strongly pay attention.
This was amazing. As Ive grown up in Hamburg, have friends living near Husby and from Alfeld and have been on a school trip to Kleve this was an absolutely wild round for me. As others have said, phone numbers will help you immensely in Germany, as well as rivers which are commonly used to make distinctions for similarly named cities (e.g. Frankfurt an der Oder / Am Main). The first Hamburg round was brutal to watch because there is an old radio advert, I forgot what business it was but I remember "Halstenbek an der A23" and I immediately knew where it was😂
To expand on that: Phone numbers can immediately tell you the region based on the first digit. 2: West (Dortmund, Cologne and surrounding areas) 3: former East Germany 4: near the North Sea. 5: The region between 2 and 4 6: South-west but not too far south (Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, bit of Baden-Wuerttemberg) 7: South-west (most of Baden-Wuerttemberg) 8: South-east (southern Bavaria) 9: South-east (northern Bavaria)
Germans entering the chat 😀 What a moment seeing post 2009 germany on GeoGuessr and Tom playing and whole germany round .. never thought that would happen. Greetings from Buxtehude (near Hamburg) ✌🏽
I recognized Meerbusch Osterath instantly. It‘s a station I traveled to a lot between 2018 and 2020, and the first time I got there I was so confused because of the names. I can relate to your frustration so much :D Great to finally see Germany on Geoguessr. Much love and great video as always Tom ❤
@@lubocaner1664 last time I was there was back in 2015. I was in Munich for part of Oktoberfest and then started at the top of the Romantic Road and worked my way down through the towns. Munich especially stands out to me as multiple people heard me speaking English and offered to help with ordering, directions, etc. It was really just an all around excellent experience. Girlfriend and I are planning a 3 or 4 week trip in the near future - likely half the time will be in Germany, the other half in Austria.
@dr.oexxenboeck9719 Thats typical for a german. 😉 Dont underestimate Germany, its a big tourist attraction within europe and has beautiful landscape. Millions are visiting every year.
I'm from The Netherlands, however i've never played geoguesser myself. I really enjoy watching your videos. And listening to you speaking English helps me a lot of understanding the language
13:00 Not only do we have many place names multiple times, but we also have some very similar place names. What got you was "Freiberg" (literally "free mountain") vs. "Freiburg" (literally "free castle").
@@anepicjourney Both my parents are Brazilian and they decided to move back to Brazil in 2009 because of the recession. Haven't been able to nor worth it to move back ever since, but hopefully I'll skidaddle next year if I graduate university. 🤠
@@mhsbosco I was gonna ask how much you wanted to go back but I guess that answers the question 😆Not the best place to live, huh? I get it. Hopefully you don't live in a "rough" area and haven't had too many issues with regards to safety, the rest is at least manageable. I hope you're able to go back and everything works out for you my friend. Cheers
@@anepicjourney I've been living in Maringá - PR mostly, which is a surprisingly nice city in general. Still got straight up robbed in the of the day though 😅. Overall, I like it yet can't see myself living out my life here. Thanks for the kind words, cheers!
dude the first location in the beginning is legit where I live! I thought it looked familiar and then I saw Storkow, Bad Saarow and the roundabout and thats the exact roundabout i drive through on my way to uni
@@LeenapantherNorthern Germany doesn't only seem flat, it is in fact very very flat. Especially along the North Sea Coast. That's why the largest intertidal landscape of the world (by quite a margin) is found along the German Bight. And any hill that sticks out 30 m or even less out of the landscape is generally named something-berg :-D Even the local language is called "Platt" ;-)
I am living close to ohne of the drops. And drove through the streets you used probably over 1000 times. This is my favorite moment on RUclips 🎉🎉 loved it
11:00 it's so funny watching you search a railway station on the tram line 😁 The big blue "U" symbol basically means tram, while the red "DB" or green "S" means it's a railway station. Also funny that you got two locations where I have been a LOT, Büderich in Meerbusch, and Freiberg where my grandparents live :D
Greetings from Germany! I have been a fan for years and watched all of your straight line missions. I'm glad I signed up for your patreon because I loved the east cost series! I lived in North Carolina in 2007. Keep up the great work ❤ and congrats on the wedding!!!🎉
Awesome that we finally now also have street view coverage for the whole country! Can't wait to see more of you roaming around in Germany :) In the first round you had a green sign with "Wattschaukrug". Green "city" signs always mean that it's a very small town/settlement, often just part of the next bigger one. So finding this one the map would be quite unlikely given that you would have to zoom in a lot. I am at 14:30 right now. Maybe you noticed it later but the spelling is different. The city here is " Freiberg" (Saxony) and the city you meant is "Freiburg (im Breisgau)". "Berg" means 'mountain' and "Burg" means 'castle'.
If a village has "Watt" in its name, there's a very high chance that you're close to the North Sea. Watt is what the mudflats of the North Sea during low tides are called in Northern Germany.
20:19 "Kreis" in this context referst to "Landkreis" which are the administrative districts that the States (Bundesländer) are made up of. Also Great Video, would love to see more Germany rounds! Greetings from Germany!
German viewer here. While I do welcome Google finally having modern and mostly complete street view in Germany now, they have deleted all the old footage from 2008ish times, which saddens me deeply because I loved just going on Street View and having a look around my city from back then and how much it changed.
There were two immediate hints for Hamburg in your run. For the Halstenbek one, it was the phone number on the van, as 040 is the area code for Hamburg. For the Wandsbek one it was the bus stop of the HVV, which is transport for Hamburg. Can’t believe you were searching a place in the street my girlfriend lives in 😂😂
@@jaydensuter2577 Klar, aber die Hamburger Vorwahl deutet doch wohl dennoch auf die Nähe zu Hamburg 😉 Übrigens schließen sich Vorwahl und Bundesland nicht aus. Ich habe selbst die Vorwahl 040 und lebe in Schleswig-Holstein (aber dicht an der Grenze zu Hamburg) 😊
Cannot believe that you looked at my hometown Schenefeld. I know all these roads and signs. The one at 07:40 is on my way to work and I go there every day! Even for locals it's confusing that there are two Schenefeld's relatively close to each other. Often you have offical name suffixes which clarify the region but in the Schenefeld-case not. I always write Schenefeld (Kreis Pinneberg) which clarifies it. There are some other examples in our region like Tangstedt which exists in Kreis Pinneberg and Kreis Stormarn and are only 15 km separated from each other.
mate, he started right next to the school I went to. I immediatly realized where he was and screamed lol. A bit scary seeing something this familiar in such a video #
Those reed-thatched rooves that you could see in the first round are very indicative of Northern Germany, I've actually never seen them in any other part of the country. I grew up near Hamburg (pretty close to Schenefeld lol) and we had loads of them in my village
I'm from a Southern German metro area and I wish you had encountered a place here in your run. But my girlfriend is from Alfeld so it was quite the eye-popping moment when the little Stadtmuseum popped up. Good vid!
Lovely to finally see you discovering Germany! I shouted to my TV while you were searching Freiburg im Breisgau instead of Freiberg in Saxony (both of them beautiful towns btw), lived there for quite some years, so I recognized the place 😅 anyway your German pronounciation is not that bad for a brit 😉 Keep going 💪❤
Impressive how much you know about my country! You did better than I did on those Hamburg ones. I would definitely love to see some more of that. Btw, Kreis just means municipality or county, Tom. Also, maybe you can start clocking phone number area codes. They are piss-easy in Germany. They're basically 02-09 going counter-clockwise around the country. You had several places in the north with phone area codes xtarting with 04 which is Hamburg. If you're still up to going that deep into the sauce of Geoguessr meta gaming, that is :D 03 is Berlin, 02 is Düsseldorf/Cologne, 05 is Hannover, 06 Frankfurt, 07 Stuttgart, 08 Munich, 09 is Nürnberg (Nuremberg). Also quite common for Anglophones to confuse FreibUrg and FreibErg (or any other city ending in -burg or -berg) because of how similar they look and how they're pronounced in English. One means castle, the other means mountain and they're pronounced differently in German. Hilariously and to make matters worse, there are multiple FreibErgs in Germany xD Btw Neuss is pronounced like "Noice!" ;)
It's a great pleasure seeing you play my home country. I'm really grateful that RUclips recommended the first Straight Line Mission to me all those years back, and you've been my favourite RUclipsr since. You made me discover Geoguessr and it's a joy every time I get a notification due to a new video. Keep up the fantastic work, mate. Greetings from Northern Germany!
Just now I realized how much better your videos are when you are in our neighborhood. I enjoyed your videos already, but as a northern German it was so much more fun to see you struggle with the two Schenefelds around here. Hope to see more German content in the future
as a german i'm very happy to see you play this :) i watched this on the tv and both my german parents joined me in watching lol they kept asking to watch another one 😭 they would be very happy if you made another one
As a German living in the UK, this warms my heart! By the way, for general orientation, it may help to get a sense of the various phone numbers, e. g. 040 is Hamburg, 030 is Berlin, 0351 is Dresden, and smaller towns have progressively longer “Vorwahlen” up to six digits. Also, certain regions will have typical place names, such as -bek or -beck in the north, -ingen in the south.
(Land)Kreise are subdevisions of states, kinda like counties in the US. Usually big cities (>100K, except for the Ruhrarea) are "freie Städte" and do not belong to a Kreis/have their own Kreis. These yellow signs at the town limits usually have the town name at the top and the Kreisname below that in smaller fontsize. But the name of a Kreis is not necessarily the capital. But with Germany being a federally organised country, there are a lot of exceptions to this. :D
love how bavarian music played in the background while you were in northern germany, because of course that's the results when you search for german royalty free music xD glad our street view looks similar to real life now (also I did in fact laugh about the situation with the duplicate name towns, because there's quite a few of those and I did shut up when you told me to)
On the one hand, I kind of liked our outlier status as a country without Street View coverage, but on the other hand, I always wanted to see this exact video on your channel.
That's a cool vid! As a German I of course am at a big advantage. The second one on the van: 040 is the phone area code of Hamburg and they have "-bek" as city parts. So "Halstenbek" obviously was near Hamburg. And: The only 3 cities I can think of that have 3 digit codes are Berlin (030), Hamburg (040) and Munich (089). Phone numbers are a great way to narrow down the search area :)
Kind of wild that we can now land in areas of Germany that we've never even had access to before. Really broadens the scope, especially being able to be stuck in some small towns, villages, on a random country road etc. which previously wasn't possible because only a handful of big metro areas even had street view. Though I don't think that makes Germany any less of a slam dunk as far as easy GeoGuessr maps. There's signage everywhere and notable places are hard to miss.
@@blarfroer8066 yea it does seem to be skewed to the Bremen area... Also when you're in the middle of nowhere, there's just genuinely NO hints even with knowledge of the map and the language that would help you at all
It has to be noted: Those random blurs you see sometimes are mostly not blurred houses but faulty imagery which will hopefully be fixed soon, probably because it is still very new. You can often move a bit and the blur completely vanishes which doesn't happen with blurred properties. But sadly some Germans still think it was necessary to blur their houses, two of them in my immediate neighborhood. But at least it is much much better than in 2009.
The reason for so few blurs is that the new imagery "overrides" old demands of pixelation. You can of course demand a new blur. I already did so for my house. Nobody needs to spy into my garden. Say no to global privacy invasion !
Just checked out the house I live in and in one picture two of our balcony plants are blurred, as well as one of the old "Spielhalle"(Casino) signs, while the second one is unblurred.
It's usually the people you think would do it confirming their reputation . My street doesn't have streetview yet but is visible on the Apple version that nobody really knows exists and even there this guy has blurred his house .
@FeedsNoSliesMusic It kind of feels like digital vandalizing. Of course they have the right to blur their house but it is just so unnecessary. I often love to explore random places in Street View and it is annoying when people without any reason blur their houses, devalueing the beauty and charme of a whole neighborhood.
Thanks for the video and all the best from Germany! I first saw you on Rocket Beans TV with Lars in their Geoguessr format and I have been a fan of your channel ever since!
Cheers from Germany, would love to see many more of these videos! Also, the north of Germany would potentially lend itself to a killer straight line mission, from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. Dunno if you'd wanna do straight line missions in other countries, just throwing it out there!
nicht möglich. Hier gibt es nicht sowas das "right to roam" wie es in norwegen und uk gibt oder das "jedermannsrecht" in sowas wie der schweiz und anderen ländern, wo man privatgelände zum wandern betreten darf. Das gibt es in DE NICHT! Bei uns ist das jedermannsrecht nur das recht einen Straftäter festzuhalten bis die Polizei kommt. ENDE. Und damit hat es sich in diesem dummen abgef.... dreck Land auch schon getan mit Freiheit. Somit ist eine Straight Line Mission nicht möglich. außer du willst wegen unerlaubten eindringens auf privaten besitzt in den Bau....
I find it fascinating how you nail the pronunciation of some of the German words and then completely „englify“ others 😁 Great video, it is really interesting to realize how I have gotten some good intuition about German regions just by having grown up here in comparison to a Pro Geoguesser who applies his general geographic knowledge. Also, some place name endings give good clues about their regions, for example „-büll“ and „-by“ can almost exclusively be found in Schleswig-Holstein because it comes from Scandinavian terms for „village“. This is also a thing you just know if you live here, I guess ^^ I would love to see some other GeoGuessr challenges involving Germany, please! Greetings from Hamburg :)
Lurking viewer from Goch here. Im very exited that you can finally play geoguessr in Germany, especially my home town. Keep up with the entertaining videos and happy geoguessing :)
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Germans: drop this vid a like and let’s show the world how beautiful your country actually is!
Trying to appeal to the Germans’ patriotism - unlikely to work, and unpleasant if successful 😁 (I like the video all the same.)
wow...first geoguesser vid for germany and in the same round you got the city I live in now AND the city I was born in 🙃
Jawohl!
That was a great one. You might want to have a look at the german phone number system. it greatly helps to check out where you might be landkartenindex.blogspot.com/2014/12/telefonvorwahlkarte-von-deutschland-das.html
ty man for all the love .Germany is really beatiful
As a German viewer this is so cool and I am finally happy to experience street view!
the future is now, old man
@@oLii96x Die Zukunft ist jetzt, alter Mann!*
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ach scheiß doch drauf digga, erstmal haus verpixeln lassen.
Finally! As a viewer in Germany (but not a German viewer, haha!) I just had to check... but they didn't drive through my street yet. I can SEE it though - weirdly my car is not there.
Are you fucking kidding me street view is the largest violation of privacy ever
Him seeing Flensburg and immediately knowing to check near Denmark but not seeing it but the way smaller town nearby is classic Tom :D
I love your comment but won’t like it because of the perfect number
@@LuniRocks it has already been ruined :D
@@RetsamX :(
For me it was the roof of the Farmshop. That's a clear indicator to look up north, and the names "Watt..." as it comes from the Wattenmeer/Wadden Sea so it's close to the North Sea.
Thought thats above Hamburg just recognizing by the landscape
Your German pronunciation is pretty good, you even nailed the ch in Goch! Btw: Kreis has nothing to do with religion, it’s just the German word for municipality where several smaller villages are grouped together
Maybe he thought of Gemeinde?
@@flounder6800 Kreis sounds a bit like cross, maybe it's that
@@flounder6800 Probably, since that can mean both parish and (the smallest) municipality.
Maybe he was thinking of Kreese from Karate Kid? I make me laugh...
@@adampustos1155 The direct translation would be 'circle'
He: "not going to pull out my German because it's embarrassing"
Also he: *pronounces almost every word perfectly*
"Kreis is a religious thing"
the wolfgang-bochart-weg was legit perfect spoken, really impressed
he pronounces it right but it sounds terrible tbh
KARTOFFELN
@@xvic1912du weißt aber schon das Aussprache mit Verständnis nichts zutun hat
Cannot believe this day finally came... Thanks Tom, Cheers from Germany. Glad you were recording!
Hi from France !
Hi from Switzerland
One great thing about Germany in Geoguessr is the fact that the street signs can determine where you are. There are grey, blue, green, yellow, red, white and many other colors which can differentiate between the States, Countryside/City or which type of street it is.
Blue sings is always the Autobahn (Motorway) and yellow is always a normal road (Bundesstraße/Landstraße). White signs are normal street signs. Sometimes the normal street signs are dark blue (way darker than the autobahn blue). Which red signs do you mean?
The colour has nothing to do with the city you're in. White signs are just road names, yellow are official street signs on the usual Landstraße or Bundesstraße, like the normal roads, and blue means Autobahn
@@ASMRJey they meant the signs for street names, but you are right to
@@Ajihatzhu Street name signs can be blue as well
To the FreibErg-FreibUrg thing: For every village or city name that ends with "berg", you will also find a similiar named village or city ending with "burg". "Berg" means mountain, "Burg" mean castle. So these are popular things to name your place after.
@@stefans4562and then rivers come in handy
I'm baffled. I saw the video, clicked on it and was surprised that germany now has street view coverage. First round and I see the village sign of Wattschaukrug, never seen it before. Then Neukrug and I'm like ,,What? I know that place". Then you arrive at the Husby, Hürup, Flensburg crossing... I drive over that corssing regularly when I visit one of my friends. First round and he's literally right next to my home city of Flensburg, what a coincidence. Great Video overall too!
Not only did they update the imagery but they are also working on adding the rest of Germany whereas before it was just a few big cities.
Jede 2. Runde damals: Hamburg, Berlin, Allianz Arena, Frankfurter Autobahnkreuz
It's Basicly done. They even did the 200 people city my dad live in ... Expect the part of the road in front of his house they skipped it xD
They didn't add all of Germany. There are still many places and roads that have no Streetview and they are not just small rural roads.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte They are still working on it. They started in June if i remember correctly. Of course it's gonna take a while until everything is added.
@@MPnoir Hopefully! I read they are taking more photos at the moment.
12:00 about the railway station confusion: The U stands for U-Bahn/Untergrundbahn which is the subway. Another hint is that it runs under a big street. These have smaller and more frequent stations. While they can run above ground, the stations usually only have two tracks and are minimal in terms of supplementary buildings. If you see more tracks and an actual train station building, it's probably regional trains.
edit: And I apologize for our re-using of town names. :D
I should add that while in this particular case, the U *does* stand for U-Bahn, but it is not running underground for big parts of the line. It's basically a tram outside of Düsseldorf and only in Düsseldorf acting as a subway (and even there, only partially)
@@SkaveRat Yeah I had a whole paragraph about that but deleted it because it got too wordy. Here in Hamburg there are also long parts of track where the S-Bahn runs underground and the U-Bahn is on elevated tracks above street level.
17:40 As someone, who is living near Zug: "Zug"+"Langenrinne"+"Rosine" are different parts of a parish/commune named "Zug", thats why it´s on the sign. The terms maps uses are rather regional. It should be all named "Zug"
Easy to miss if you're not a German speaker but Freiberg and Freiburg are even spelt differently. It was right in front of you the whole time, still got it in the end though. Nice video!
I wanted to point that out, but you were faster.
@@twinmama42 :P my parents went to university in Freiberg so I had to.
Berg = mountain
Burg = castle
if anyone was wondering
Als gebürtiger Freiburger, der nahe Freiberg wohnt, musste ich darüber schon schmunzeln
@@chrisfromthewoods Das ist aber wirklich interessant. Ich kenn's eigendlich nur anders rum. Also Sachsen die nach Baden-Württemberg zeigen.
What a surprise to not only see Germany but the very first location is so close to home 🥰
me too, living about 5km away from husby
we are 5km away mike
For me it was the one in his test round, the Irlandia is a corn maze in Brandenburg where I frequently visited as a kid because it's a super fun activity park so seeing it made me very happy :D
20:20 - "Kreis" (literally Circle) refers to the different districts to which the smaller towns belong. Sometimes it'll also say Lkr. on the signs for Landkreis, or "Stadt x" if it is a part of a larger city.
Basically the "Kreis..." is a really useful clue because it points out near which major town or in which general area the village/small town on the sign is.
For example "Kreis Kleve" here means it is a smaller town in the district of Kleve.
Perfectly explained
Doesn't always have to be a smaller town tho. There might be multiple cities in one Landkreis with one of those being chosen as the "namesake" for a many possible reasons. Could be its the biggest city, could be the historically more important one and so on.
@@_aullikYeah for example there is the funnily named Kreis Mettmann, which is named after the Kreisstadt, even though the biggest town in the district is Ratingen
@@_aullik Also there are "Kreise" with no City in the name at all, like Märkischer Kreis or Hochsauerlandkreis.
@@SauronGorthaur01 thanks for the additional info, i forgot about that titbit of information
I understand you not live commentating for a faster time but live commentary is one of the best things about the channel.
7:51 Love it how you put the most Bavarian music into a search through Schleswig-Holstein, the most anti-Bavarian Bundesland (state) of Germany
How could a Scotsman like Tom possibly know about such intricate details of Germany
I noticed that too. And at one point he considered Frankfurt to be in "the North", so I guess there's just Bavaria and the rest is "the north". Or as they say in Bavaria: "Die Preißn!"
@@FrotteeVDH Well he's not completely wrong about that. Only Sachsenhausen isn't in the (far) North.
@@Fry_taghe's not Scottish?
@@Fry_tag He's English, not Scottish
Okay, as someone from the region I'll make a small comment about 17:30
Zug is a very "spread apart" village. The Rosine is actually a part of Zug, consisting only of a few houses. The name is mostly a local name for that part of Zug.
The whole village is kinda messy and constructed in this way partly because people in the past just built their houses there and tried to find silver ore absolutely everywhere (Freiberg had one of the biggest mineral deposits in medieval germany). So there are many areas where people just set up shop and small mines where constructed. This was also possible because everyone was allowed to do that as long as they gave part of their silver ore to the Markgraf of Meißen. This is also why Freiberg is called Freiberg (engl. "free mountain") because you were free to go there and start searching for silver ore.
Also, small Fun Fact: The hill Zug is mostly built on is called Zugspitze, the same as germanys highest mountain.
PS: It was nice to see a familiar road in this game :)
Im German and i was completely baffled when i tried to check out a place near me and realized that street view was available, then i looked it up and yep, sure enough they finally released street view data taken in 2022. Ive always wanted to see street view of my own house! Although no one from my family was to be found in the photos...
for context although street view has existed in Germany, it was only available in some of the biggest cities and decades old, but now its updated and has expanded a lot into tons of smaller communities and towns like one that im at!
thats just not true, at least in the borader sense. Official street view did NOT exist. Google barred themself from releasing any street view footage they did. Because of the insane bullshittery that was the discussion around prublic photos and such and the gov. beeing total F's. And because it was so cumbersome they said to themself, yeah no, not worth the hassle. The only available "street view" was from private person who uploaded their own photos. There might be one or two places where the very first taken street view of google existed but its not really noteworthy. Most viewable photos were from private persons uploading it.
Street view has been added only 2 months ago. Its new
Ngl Apple maps still seems to work better for me especially a lot more fluid in comparison.
Welcome to the world
@@Definitely_Melnyx the point is street view, apple maps doesnt have that...
Luxembourger here, having lived in Germany for 25 years now, it can be distressing seeing you on the wrong path, feeling like shouting: "Nooo, it's the other way!" 🙈 And it's good news to see that Germany is finally on the map.
Great channel! 👍
Don't worry about the two Schenefelds. I heard some stories about truck drivers and delivery services who ended up in the wrong town. So cool to see you playing the Germany Map and coming out in a place close to where I live.
Same with Immenstadt and Immenstaad, both located near the Bodensee, but still a 1h+ drive
@@namenlos3679 Although you certainly wouldn't want to get Freiburg and Freiberg mixed up...
And there is Schönefeld where the BER-Airport for Berlin is located :D
There was a band that was supposed to play at a festival in tiny town "sulingen". they ended up taking the train to solingen some 350km away.
My uncle had something similar happen about 20 years ago. A truck driver stopped and asked him about where some street was in Steinheim (a place close where I live), that street name didn't exist in our Steinheim though. After that information the truck driver searched on his navi again, only to see that Steinheim (Westfalen) and Steinheim (an der Murr) were available and got white in his face. He accidently drove to the wrong one, which was a difference of around 415 km (around 257 miles).
This is really crazy, I watch the video unsuspectingly and the first thing you end up in is Wattschaukrug. I grew up only a few kilometers away from it and as a child I often went to the farm shop. That brings back memories, thanks for this video, by the way it's impressive how well you pronounced the names of the villages and towns. Keep it up 😊👍🏻
Yes! As german I waited so long for this update and you playing it! "get in" can be translated as "Jawoll" ! At the end of the year new 2023 footage will be uploaded
Its really cool ! 😄
Are you talking about new street view footage? What's the source for this?
Make it a trend pls. JAWOLL
there is a slang where we say "Rein Da!" actually, which is pretty much the direct translation xD
@@L1ft0ff Google made a blog post about it about 2 months ago in German here: blog.google/intl/de-de/produkte/suchen-entdecken/google-street-view-aktualisierung-deutschland/
LOOOL the first one is kinda between Husby and Flensburt my beloved hometown... i'd never expect to see this exact spot in your videos! I know that "Farm" in the beginning cuz my dad used to by fresh milk and eggs there! And this way to a good frind of mine! so heartwarming to see this!!!
For Germany, you could have a look at a map with either the postal codes or the phone area codes, both of which are neatly laid out geographically. They appear on a lot of the signs, and having memorized where the 04... phone numbers are narrows things down quickly. Memorizing the rough postal and phone code maps should only take a minute or so, as there are distinct geographical patterns.
And Autobahn numbers are either even numbers (horizontal) or odd (vertical)
@@metron0mThe Autobahn numbers also give you a hint how long it is. 3 digits mean it's local to a single federal state, 2 digit ones cross a few states (like 2-4) and single digit ones span across many
Germany is too easy
@@metron0m Odds North South. Evens West East.
Another hint: if the area is flat as a board it’s the north, if you see mountains it’s either middle or south, if the mountains are ginormous, it’s definitely the south
18:00 "it looks northern, Frankfurt"
*me explodes laughing xD
Hi Tom, when you come across thatched roofs in Germany (1:55) they are very commonly found in the North, especially in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. I have also seen them in Northern Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Probably found elsewhere too, but in notably rarer instances. A quick tip from Brit to another :) - And a great vid as always!
Yes. We call it Reetdach-Haus and they are pretty much exclusive to northern Germany, close to the North Sea. This was an immediate giveaway, also the place names :D
@@Sonkh23600 They're not exclusive to Northern Germany. However, I think in the North they are the most well-preserved. Those Reetdach houses are all I see when looking out my window, living in a sleepy Lower Saxon village myself. Hardly a more serene view as far as urban living goes.
@@Sonkh23600 there is one where i live in the very south of Germany. They are not exclusive to the north, but i agree, pretty much so.
interesting, cause they're pretty common in most of The Netherlands as far as I know. certainly where I live, somewhat south. I imagine they can't be common in ALL of The Netherlands though, since Flevoland was created fairly recently :')
@@Sonkh23600 Yeah when I saw all those -by places I was like: This has to be close to Denmark. Also -bek endings sound like a northern thing, not sure though.
That video was absolutely insane. I've been to that very spot in Alfeld many many times and seeing you guess it absolutely perfectly really made my jaw drop.
As a german viewer I'm very happy and excited that finally the Google Street View imagery got updated and expanded in Germany! Very cool that you give it a go as well!
Two Little tips:
- Kreis (short for Landkreis) = county
- Pronounciation of Neuss: You pretty much say it like "Noice"
The only bummer is that they removed the old pictures. Would be really cool to instantly compare the changes that happed over 15 years.
I guess their neural networks can censor the pictures now and have gotten efficient enough to not bankrupt google, running them. I guess we'll see more updates sooner than later, horray I guess?
Came accross your video by chance, and was really impressed by your skills - and then, at 21:24, you zoomed in my (really small) birth town. What a surprise. That was fun. Thank you so much.
Yeah, it was fun! Germany not having had good geoguessr coverage for a long time means your skills here are maybe a little behind what they'd be otherwise.
Some comments:
1) You didn't call that out in the video, so I'm not sure you noticed, but the city in the south of Germany is called FreibUrg, whereas the city you were looking for was FreibErg-- Burg meaning castle, Berg meaning mountain.
2) For the big cities, the street signs tend to have different designs, so maybe worth picking that up. Couple things that tell you immediately that it's Hamburg in that round-- the bus station with the HVV sign, which is the public transportation agency for Hamburg, also a phone number with the 040 area code, which is Hamburg.
3) "Kreis" is not a religious thing-- literally it means circle, but it's really just a unit of local government below the state level. Smaller than a county in England, there's like 400 Kreise and Kreis-equivalent cities in Germany, so probably not worth learning, but most of them are named after the largest city in them.
Great! I liked that video a lot! As a german this gets pretty easy as postcodes or telephone area codes on give a very good indication where you are.
Well done. Btw Kreis translates to District, not related to church --unlike Kreuz. Your pronunciation of Umlauts is very good!
As one of your german viewers I gonna say thank you for all the great work!
It's so much fun to finally see you playing Germany! Having grown up in Hamburg I was thrilled about the first two rounds being there and in Schleswig-Holstein. And I didn't know either that we have two Schenefelds! I've only been aware of the one near Hamburg but not the one next to legendary Wacken. Your German pronunciation is pretty good by the way! Danke, tschüs und bis bald!
Hahaha, I feel you, but since I'm from Itzehoe, I wasn't aware of Hamburg's Schenefeld for the longest time 😂
Huhu, I‘m from Schenefeld, the older one next to Itzehoe. Many visitors coming from south take the first Schenefeld exit from the A23. We’re waiting…a telephone call incoming: „We are in Schenefeld, but can’t find your road, school, whatever “…Ok, back to A23, exit in 50 km…. It still happens, even in times of Google maps.
As an German i have to say that your German Pronunciation is really good
As a German fan this is epic. Love to the UK.
As a German I’m excited that they updated streetview and that you played it immediately
Little hint: scince germany has many double names, many city's have a river in brackets behind the name like "Alfeld (Leine) meaning it's at the river "leine".
That's only helpful if you know the rivers because many places also have a nearby town or region in brackets.
@@RetsamXHalle (saale)
@@kelo17 Essen (Oldenburg)
This was fantastic to watch! Especially because i live in Meerbusch Osterath hahah
That part was surreal and painful to watch
Another lurking German here! Thanks a lot for your videos! 🙂
Btw "Neuss" is actually pronounced like English "noise".
It's more like the slang word "noice", right? "Noise" has a /z/ sound at the end
@@huseyx2correct. Sharp ss in the end. Like in "congress"
@@huseyx2 yes, precisely. 🙂
@@huseyx2 MORE LIKE NONCE!!!!
@@huseyx2We German speakers always have a problem with voiced consonants at the end, because German turns all ending consonants to voiceless. For that reason, we say "Tak" but write "Tag" (day), we say "Liet" instead of "Lied" (song) or "Lop" instead of "Lob" (praise). Almost no one is aware of that, and that may be heard as a German accent in English. I admit I would pronouce "noise" and "noice" the same way if I did not strongly pay attention.
This was amazing. As Ive grown up in Hamburg, have friends living near Husby and from Alfeld and have been on a school trip to Kleve this was an absolutely wild round for me.
As others have said, phone numbers will help you immensely in Germany, as well as rivers which are commonly used to make distinctions for similarly named cities (e.g. Frankfurt an der Oder / Am Main). The first Hamburg round was brutal to watch because there is an old radio advert, I forgot what business it was but I remember "Halstenbek an der A23" and I immediately knew where it was😂
To expand on that: Phone numbers can immediately tell you the region based on the first digit.
2: West (Dortmund, Cologne and surrounding areas)
3: former East Germany
4: near the North Sea.
5: The region between 2 and 4
6: South-west but not too far south (Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, bit of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
7: South-west (most of Baden-Wuerttemberg)
8: South-east (southern Bavaria)
9: South-east (northern Bavaria)
Germans entering the chat 😀 What a moment seeing post 2009 germany on GeoGuessr and Tom playing and whole germany round .. never thought that would happen. Greetings from Buxtehude (near Hamburg) ✌🏽
Bei 5:56 das Straßenschild mit den Häusern dahinter, dachte sofort, dass ist so etwas von Hamburg xDD
Ich aus Neugraben war auch voll geschockt, dass man mein Haus jetzt auf Streetview sehen kann :D
Ich hab das Gefühl, 70-80% der deutschen Viewer sitzen in Norddeutschland 😆
as someone who grew up in hamburg and düsseldorf, i loved to see the places i grew up with. made me happy
I recognized Meerbusch Osterath instantly. It‘s a station I traveled to a lot between 2018 and 2020, and the first time I got there I was so confused because of the names. I can relate to your frustration so much :D Great to finally see Germany on Geoguessr. Much love and great video as always Tom ❤
As a German viewer, I can say that I'm more than happy to see a proper German map! Your pronunciation is quite good! Well done 🥰☺
Germany is by far my favorite country I've visited. So beautiful and everyone was super friendly.
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Where did u find friendly Germans bro... I live there 12 years now, never met them xD
Me, and all my friends are friendly. Maybe you got the wrong friends? ❤️s for you
@@lubocaner1664 last time I was there was back in 2015. I was in Munich for part of Oktoberfest and then started at the top of the Romantic Road and worked my way down through the towns. Munich especially stands out to me as multiple people heard me speaking English and offered to help with ordering, directions, etc. It was really just an all around excellent experience. Girlfriend and I are planning a 3 or 4 week trip in the near future - likely half the time will be in Germany, the other half in Austria.
@dr.oexxenboeck9719 Thats typical for a german. 😉 Dont underestimate Germany, its a big tourist attraction within europe and has beautiful landscape. Millions are visiting every year.
You really nailed my Homestreet (Ahrensburger Straße). I would not have been able to be that fast...
I'm from The Netherlands, however i've never played geoguesser myself. I really enjoy watching your videos. And listening to you speaking English helps me a lot of understanding the language
4:10 I love it. Every german would instantly know wher flensburg is. We all got collective trauma in that regard.
13:00 Not only do we have many place names multiple times, but we also have some very similar place names. What got you was "Freiberg" (literally "free mountain") vs. "Freiburg" (literally "free castle").
At 20:18 Kreis mean something akin to boroughs. It is a Small town that belongs to a bigger city maybe even something like suburbs.
I love this, I'm a brazilian watching a Brit wander around in Germany 😄By the way I speak german and your pronunciation wasn't bad at all. Cheers Tom
The internet is a funny thing. Here I am too, an American living in Brazil watching a Brit wander around Germany lol
@@mhsbosco Nice lol. What's your story, why are you living here?
@@anepicjourney Both my parents are Brazilian and they decided to move back to Brazil in 2009 because of the recession. Haven't been able to nor worth it to move back ever since, but hopefully I'll skidaddle next year if I graduate university. 🤠
@@mhsbosco I was gonna ask how much you wanted to go back but I guess that answers the question 😆Not the best place to live, huh? I get it. Hopefully you don't live in a "rough" area and haven't had too many issues with regards to safety, the rest is at least manageable. I hope you're able to go back and everything works out for you my friend. Cheers
@@anepicjourney I've been living in Maringá - PR mostly, which is a surprisingly nice city in general. Still got straight up robbed in the of the day though 😅. Overall, I like it yet can't see myself living out my life here. Thanks for the kind words, cheers!
dude the first location in the beginning is legit where I live! I thought it looked familiar and then I saw Storkow, Bad Saarow and the roundabout and thats the exact roundabout i drive through on my way to uni
Long time fan from Hamburg, you've been my favourite youtuber for a while now. Hoping for a straight line mission in Schleswig Holstein some day 😏
Straight line mission between two identically named places.
Love it! I’m from northern Germany, so immediately felt at home in those first two:) thanks Tom for the love!🇩🇪
As a Swiss, northern Germany seems so flat and uninhabited (2:40). I watched train videos too and that's always notable to me.
@@LeenapantherNorthern Germany doesn't only seem flat, it is in fact very very flat. Especially along the North Sea Coast.
That's why the largest intertidal landscape of the world (by quite a margin) is found along the German Bight.
And any hill that sticks out 30 m or even less out of the landscape is generally named something-berg :-D
Even the local language is called "Platt" ;-)
I am living close to ohne of the drops. And drove through the streets you used probably over 1000 times. This is my favorite moment on RUclips 🎉🎉 loved it
11:00 it's so funny watching you search a railway station on the tram line 😁 The big blue "U" symbol basically means tram, while the red "DB" or green "S" means it's a railway station.
Also funny that you got two locations where I have been a LOT, Büderich in Meerbusch, and Freiberg where my grandparents live :D
Sorry to nitpick your helpful comment, but the U is for underground :)
Greetings from Germany! I have been a fan for years and watched all of your straight line missions. I'm glad I signed up for your patreon because I loved the east cost series! I lived in North Carolina in 2007.
Keep up the great work ❤ and congrats on the wedding!!!🎉
Immer sehr entspannte Videos
Awesome that we finally now also have street view coverage for the whole country! Can't wait to see more of you roaming around in Germany :)
In the first round you had a green sign with "Wattschaukrug". Green "city" signs always mean that it's a very small town/settlement, often just part of the next bigger one. So finding this one the map would be quite unlikely given that you would have to zoom in a lot.
I am at 14:30 right now. Maybe you noticed it later but the spelling is different. The city here is " Freiberg" (Saxony) and the city you meant is "Freiburg (im Breisgau)". "Berg" means 'mountain' and "Burg" means 'castle'.
If a village has "Watt" in its name, there's a very high chance that you're close to the North Sea. Watt is what the mudflats of the North Sea during low tides are called in Northern Germany.
The first location was just some kilometers away from my home. Realy beautiful area around Flensburg to live at ❤
As a german I now know how I´ll spend the rest of my evening after finishing your video :P
Greetings from Hamburg, i even travelled the street where your location was :)
20:19 "Kreis" in this context referst to "Landkreis" which are the administrative districts that the States (Bundesländer) are made up of. Also Great Video, would love to see more Germany rounds! Greetings from Germany!
German viewer here. While I do welcome Google finally having modern and mostly complete street view in Germany now, they have deleted all the old footage from 2008ish times, which saddens me deeply because I loved just going on Street View and having a look around my city from back then and how much it changed.
There were two immediate hints for Hamburg in your run. For the Halstenbek one, it was the phone number on the van, as 040 is the area code for Hamburg. For the Wandsbek one it was the bus stop of the HVV, which is transport for Hamburg. Can’t believe you were searching a place in the street my girlfriend lives in 😂😂
Halstenbek ist aber SH und nicht HH
@@jaydensuter2577 Klar, aber die Hamburger Vorwahl deutet doch wohl dennoch auf die Nähe zu Hamburg 😉
Übrigens schließen sich Vorwahl und Bundesland nicht aus. Ich habe selbst die Vorwahl 040 und lebe in Schleswig-Holstein (aber dicht an der Grenze zu Hamburg) 😊
@@DonCarlosofFreiburg Mein Großonkel hat halt in Halstenbek gelebt und hatte da auch ein italienisches Restaurant, die Vorwahl da ist 04101
Cannot believe that you looked at my hometown Schenefeld. I know all these roads and signs. The one at 07:40 is on my way to work and I go there every day!
Even for locals it's confusing that there are two Schenefeld's relatively close to each other. Often you have offical name suffixes which clarify the region but in the Schenefeld-case not. I always write Schenefeld (Kreis Pinneberg) which clarifies it.
There are some other examples in our region like Tangstedt which exists in Kreis Pinneberg and Kreis Stormarn and are only 15 km separated from each other.
mate, he started right next to the school I went to. I immediatly realized where he was and screamed lol. A bit scary seeing something this familiar in such a video
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Those reed-thatched rooves that you could see in the first round are very indicative of Northern Germany, I've actually never seen them in any other part of the country. I grew up near Hamburg (pretty close to Schenefeld lol) and we had loads of them in my village
I'm from a Southern German metro area and I wish you had encountered a place here in your run. But my girlfriend is from Alfeld so it was quite the eye-popping moment when the little Stadtmuseum popped up. Good vid!
Lovely to finally see you discovering Germany! I shouted to my TV while you were searching Freiburg im Breisgau instead of Freiberg in Saxony (both of them beautiful towns btw), lived there for quite some years, so I recognized the place 😅 anyway your German pronounciation is not that bad for a brit 😉 Keep going 💪❤
i would love to see you find some more southern locations!! dankeschön :)
Impressive how much you know about my country! You did better than I did on those Hamburg ones. I would definitely love to see some more of that.
Btw, Kreis just means municipality or county, Tom. Also, maybe you can start clocking phone number area codes. They are piss-easy in Germany. They're basically 02-09 going counter-clockwise around the country. You had several places in the north with phone area codes xtarting with 04 which is Hamburg. If you're still up to going that deep into the sauce of Geoguessr meta gaming, that is :D 03 is Berlin, 02 is Düsseldorf/Cologne, 05 is Hannover, 06 Frankfurt, 07 Stuttgart, 08 Munich, 09 is Nürnberg (Nuremberg). Also quite common for Anglophones to confuse FreibUrg and FreibErg (or any other city ending in -burg or -berg) because of how similar they look and how they're pronounced in English. One means castle, the other means mountain and they're pronounced differently in German. Hilariously and to make matters worse, there are multiple FreibErgs in Germany xD
Btw Neuss is pronounced like "Noice!" ;)
a little trick about the first one: you saw those roofs out of straw, these are called "Reetdächer" and are very typical for northern germany
I take having Tom zoom in on my closest McDonalds as an absolute win! 🙌
i legit instantly knew the first location caus i live near düsseldorf, fire that you have tried "new" germany :)
8:50 bitteschön, für deine unterhaltsamen Videos hast du dir deinen Erfolg redlich verdient 😊🤟
didn't expect you to get my home town Goch in your first perfect score success
It's a great pleasure seeing you play my home country. I'm really grateful that RUclips recommended the first Straight Line Mission to me all those years back, and you've been my favourite RUclipsr since. You made me discover Geoguessr and it's a joy every time I get a notification due to a new video. Keep up the fantastic work, mate. Greetings from Northern Germany!
Just now I realized how much better your videos are when you are in our neighborhood. I enjoyed your videos already, but as a northern German it was so much more fun to see you struggle with the two Schenefelds around here.
Hope to see more German content in the future
Geowizard: Gets bested by the twin Schenefelds
Me: Hearty guffaw
Geowizard: "Stop laughing"
Classic
as a german i'm very happy to see you play this :) i watched this on the tv and both my german parents joined me in watching lol they kept asking to watch another one 😭 they would be very happy if you made another one
Your German pronounciation is among the best I have heard from native English speakers so far. You are doing a great job!
I did a gap year in the UK and I always watch your videos, happy to finally see my country in your GeoGuessr videos!!
As a German living in the UK, this warms my heart! By the way, for general orientation, it may help to get a sense of the various phone numbers, e. g. 040 is Hamburg, 030 is Berlin, 0351 is Dresden, and smaller towns have progressively longer “Vorwahlen” up to six digits. Also, certain regions will have typical place names, such as -bek or -beck in the north, -ingen in the south.
Postal codes are also a good hint to locate a city. 0,1,2,3,4 are Nothern Germany; 5,6,7,8,9 are Southern Germany
Just finished my record round for Germany! (6min 25sec with 25k points), keep it going pal, enjoying your content!
(Land)Kreise are subdevisions of states, kinda like counties in the US. Usually big cities (>100K, except for the Ruhrarea) are "freie Städte" and do not belong to a Kreis/have their own Kreis.
These yellow signs at the town limits usually have the town name at the top and the Kreisname below that in smaller fontsize. But the name of a Kreis is not necessarily the capital.
But with Germany being a federally organised country, there are a lot of exceptions to this. :D
love how bavarian music played in the background while you were in northern germany, because of course that's the results when you search for german royalty free music xD
glad our street view looks similar to real life now
(also I did in fact laugh about the situation with the duplicate name towns, because there's quite a few of those and I did shut up when you told me to)
On the one hand, I kind of liked our outlier status as a country without Street View coverage, but on the other hand, I always wanted to see this exact video on your channel.
Not giving power to Google vs. seeing Tom play Germany. It's a hard decision for all of us.
That's a cool vid!
As a German I of course am at a big advantage. The second one on the van: 040 is the phone area code of Hamburg and they have "-bek" as city parts. So "Halstenbek" obviously was near Hamburg.
And: The only 3 cities I can think of that have 3 digit codes are Berlin (030), Hamburg (040) and Munich (089). Phone numbers are a great way to narrow down the search area :)
Kind of wild that we can now land in areas of Germany that we've never even had access to before. Really broadens the scope, especially being able to be stuck in some small towns, villages, on a random country road etc. which previously wasn't possible because only a handful of big metro areas even had street view. Though I don't think that makes Germany any less of a slam dunk as far as easy GeoGuessr maps. There's signage everywhere and notable places are hard to miss.
Nah, I just ended up in bumfuck nowhere somewhat close to Bremen. Nothing but backroads for miles.
@@blarfroer8066 yea it does seem to be skewed to the Bremen area... Also when you're in the middle of nowhere, there's just genuinely NO hints even with knowledge of the map and the language that would help you at all
@@rice_frying_shrimp I looked the place up on Google Maps. They have the village, but the square I landed on doesn't even exist on Google maps
This was amazing, I was completely glued to the screen and cheering you on! Thank you!
22:41 If you find a Townname with brackets next to it, there is a high chance there's a river inside the brackets (here it's the river Leine)
Randomly found a straight line video once and since then I really like to keep watching :) Greetings from Germany
It has to be noted: Those random blurs you see sometimes are mostly not blurred houses but faulty imagery which will hopefully be fixed soon, probably because it is still very new. You can often move a bit and the blur completely vanishes which doesn't happen with blurred properties.
But sadly some Germans still think it was necessary to blur their houses, two of them in my immediate neighborhood. But at least it is much much better than in 2009.
Nah it's gonna be those paranoid birds living in those trees and they demanded just as much privacy as not to unravel their plans to dominate mankind
The reason for so few blurs is that the new imagery "overrides" old demands of pixelation. You can of course demand a new blur.
I already did so for my house. Nobody needs to spy into my garden. Say no to global privacy invasion !
Just checked out the house I live in and in one picture two of our balcony plants are blurred, as well as one of the old "Spielhalle"(Casino) signs, while the second one is unblurred.
It's usually the people you think would do it confirming their reputation . My street doesn't have streetview yet but is visible on the Apple version that nobody really knows exists and even there this guy has blurred his house .
@FeedsNoSliesMusic It kind of feels like digital vandalizing. Of course they have the right to blur their house but it is just so unnecessary. I often love to explore random places in Street View and it is annoying when people without any reason blur their houses, devalueing the beauty and charme of a whole neighborhood.
Thanks for the video and all the best from Germany! I first saw you on Rocket Beans TV with Lars in their Geoguessr format and I have been a fan of your channel ever since!
Cheers from Germany, would love to see many more of these videos!
Also, the north of Germany would potentially lend itself to a killer straight line mission, from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. Dunno if you'd wanna do straight line missions in other countries, just throwing it out there!
nicht möglich. Hier gibt es nicht sowas das "right to roam" wie es in norwegen und uk gibt oder das "jedermannsrecht" in sowas wie der schweiz und anderen ländern, wo man privatgelände zum wandern betreten darf. Das gibt es in DE NICHT! Bei uns ist das jedermannsrecht nur das recht einen Straftäter festzuhalten bis die Polizei kommt. ENDE.
Und damit hat es sich in diesem dummen abgef.... dreck Land auch schon getan mit Freiheit. Somit ist eine Straight Line Mission nicht möglich. außer du willst wegen unerlaubten eindringens auf privaten besitzt in den Bau....
im so happy that the google car finally went through germany since november i think!
Very cool to be a part of this as a german :D
I find it fascinating how you nail the pronunciation of some of the German words and then completely „englify“ others 😁
Great video, it is really interesting to realize how I have gotten some good intuition about German regions just by having grown up here in comparison to a Pro Geoguesser who applies his general geographic knowledge.
Also, some place name endings give good clues about their regions, for example „-büll“ and „-by“ can almost exclusively be found in Schleswig-Holstein because it comes from Scandinavian terms for „village“. This is also a thing you just know if you live here, I guess ^^
I would love to see some other GeoGuessr challenges involving Germany, please!
Greetings from Hamburg :)
Lurking viewer from Goch here. Im very exited that you can finally play geoguessr in Germany, especially my home town. Keep up with the entertaining videos and happy geoguessing :)