As a young American GI, I was on a 'Bailey Bridge Building Exercise' in Ingolstadt. Have never forgotten how hard we worked to cross the Donau... Ya... I bet there a whole lot of 'Nato Streets' in Germany. I spent 12 fantastic years there as a surveyor. Got to see a whole lot! Excellent Video!
these ramps we have at the Rhine (of course) as well - when I was a child, my grandfather told me "its for the americans to move faster backwards when the russians are coming" xD - some of those ramps are still used today by public ferries
Some parts of the german Autobahn don't have a greenstrip in the middle to seperate the lanes of each direction, but a flat concrete surface with only the guardrails instead... they're built to become emergency airstrips in the "case of defense".
Mot of them have been removed after 1990 when the road was rebuilt, and only 10 or so remain. Wikipedia has a list, search for Autobahn-Behelfsflugplatz.
That devil lies in the detail. You make a small village look like a giant historical place. Your commentary brings life into those otherwise boring lifeless walls.
I happen to live like 2km away from one of these sets of ramps, it's literally down the street (which was referred to as NATO street, but only by mouth; officially it's called different). As our neighbor is a small boat repair company, the ramp on our side is used as as a boat slip from time to time. Until the british troops left our town in 2001, the ramps were once or twice a year used by them for exercising and maneuvers. These British tanks (Chieftains, I think) were quite a sight to see when I was little, and standing like 20m away when they drove by felt like an earthquake. Since then the Bundeswehr did the same just once, but only because we are so far off the next military base. I would have liked to see some Leopard 2 live, but I had to attend my apprenticeship back then...
This is great, I love these mini "destination" videos (this and the one about the autobahn). I'm very much looking forward to the -- triumphant I'm sure -- return of the "full-size" destination videos. They've always been some of my favourite videos on RUclips, and have been sorely missed during this pandemic, even though I understand perfectly why you aren't making them at the moment :)
We have multiple of these at the Kiel-Canal. Also the tunnel underneath the Canal built in my hometown during the 60s had valves in it so it could be flooded to prevent Warsaw Pact troops from using it. Those were apparently removed during the recent renovation works. You can still see where the Pipe Outlets used to be located in the tunnel wall though.
1:46 - I just adore these highly specific working hours: "from 2PM to 5PM on a second Sunday of every month"... Heck, we'll get you night tours into bumheck-nowhere, and you do this... 😂
You could have explored and mentioned the other side, Hanau Groß-Auheim, I often drove around there on my bike as a teen. The Mainufer used to be a beautiful promenade at least during summer, all the way down to the bridge connecting with Hanau Steinheim. You could drive on through the Hanau port until you reached Schloß Philipsruhe in Hanau's west.
Down in the depths of Swabia we have an old military exercise ground in the hills with a massively reinforced concrete tank track. It's now a curious nature reserve because it can't be used for much else due to unexploded ordinance so you have to stay on the trails, and the track is used to test heavy vehicles like cranes and trucks.
We do have those here on the Rhine, though oddly they are not directly opposite of each other on both shores. Check out Woltershofer Str. and Alsumer Steig in Duisburg. That's not exactly an easy crossing there.
Roman ruins and a museum? I’d love to spend a day here! Not that I’ll have an opportunity do do so for a while. And, at risk of a false cognate, I wonder if the name somehow relates to “Great Crossing Fortress”. Could the Romans have also used the same strategy?
Romans could build bridges over rivers really fast. Their army had incredible manpower and forests were abundant, so many trees were available for construction. Some years ago a full scale demonstration was performed: using only technology and tools available to the Romans, a wooden bridge over a substantial river was successfully deployed and tested. IIRC the whole operation took 1 week and it was done in Germany
I live in Großauheim next to Großkrotzenburg in Großauheim there is another NATO-Rampe for another ponton-bridge the local fire service now uses the ramp to slip in boats for emergencies
@@dbenzhuser Well, you could always translate it as Great-Crotchsburgh and our anglo-saxon friends would have even more reason to assume that germans really don't have any sense of humor.
Aschaffenburg ... that's where another of my favorite RUclipsrs lives (works in Frankfurt for DB, makes lots and lots of train videos *with explanations)* - Laufach comes up often, there :-)
There was something like the Fulda Gap. Near Point Alpha, there was a huge geographical gap where the GDR / red army could've fallen into the country very easily and over the most important airport Frankfurt, which was also a huge logistics hub for the US army, so it might've been very important to design access over rivers as temporary as possible.
I don't Look for those for years...but this was verry Common. Look for something Like Grey Stripes Most diagonal ... That are flat Metals to attach special Explosives...don't know the english name... "Schneidladungen"
Fun fact: the ominous manhole-covers concealing explosives were not the only such trap intended to deny pieces of infrastructure to an invader from the East. Parts of the Autobahn were also mined in a similar fashion (with other parts being designed as emergency-airfields).
The same kind of total defence doctrine was in place in at least Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. For example highway bridges were built with charge holes and could be demolished at short notice if the Russians decided to come visit.
Any chance we might get a video on the current substitute traffic going on in Frankfurt on the tram lines 15 and 17? They're operating the old type P high floor trams there on a few slots. If not, I still recommend you go there just for fun. It's a rare opportunity to see those in action. Only caveat: They switched out the old announcement controller for the latest type, and that means the latest announcements are being played, the ones generated via TTS instead of the classic announcements spoken by Ingrid Metz-Neun. The new ones sound awful if you ask most of the enthusiast community. Aside from that, it's all the completely original trams, now over 40 years old.
When I was working in FFM, I noticed the Ebbelwei Express often coming in front of the HBF. Maybe I have seen the substitute traffic once or twice... No idea.
@@Canleaf08 Next to the Hauptbahnhof there's the Betriebshof Gutleut. All of the Ebbelexpress stock are usually stored there when it's not being overhauled. Right now they're using the Depot Eckenheim as a temporary measure as Gutleut is getting new trackwork done.
I am interested in history (including the Cold War), Germany, and Russia, and I find this to be an interesting video! Didn't know about the NATO-ramps!
Thats my neighboring city lmao nice We have/had a couple of bunkers nearby diretcly at the Main nd those ramps are pretty much everywhere here :) Oh u missed out on the Hexeneiche thats a place where ppl got burned for beeing a witch
I wonder how well that'll age in another dozen, or hundred years. "Hopefully abandoning the ramps won't come back on us some day" History has a habit of repeating itself, although not always in the same location, by then we may have floating tanks like star wars so who knows.
I am not exactly sure if the ramps with explosive charges relly had the explosive charges in place all the time. Because even in my childhood days when cold war was still a thing, those ramps were not guarded, and leaving military grade explosives in an unguarded place isn't usually the best of ideas. ;-) I would much rather think that they were prepared with cavities in which explosives could be placed easily to destroy the ramps if needed, but since the war fortunately remained cold, the explosives were kept in a much safer place. I have seen similar about what they called "Sprengschacht" (blasting duct) in roads near the former eastern border, which were cavities designed for that purpose. But they were normally empty.
The Tanks do not need bridges. Most NATO Tank are able to "drive" trough the river. And the hidden explosives were mainly at bridges. Also interesting, most canals in west-germany are going north-south, so that they can use as east-west barrier :-)
Nah. Most canals are way older than the cold war. A few happen to run north south, but a lot dont. However, on those running more or less north south, the western side usually was "fortified" with concrete to make it impossible for soviet tanks to climb the bank of the canal ... By now, most of that has been undone in order to re-naturalize those rivers / canals ...
I thought the canals might be north south as their only connection to the sea is in the north so people shipping commodities would be going to the sea ports or coming from the sea ports mainly?
@@paulmcfeeters5554 Look at a geographical map of Germany. Rivers like Rhine, Weser and Elbe are flowing from the south to the north, into the sea. Most canals run east-west to link those river systems with each other. There are exceptions like the Nordostseekanal (linking Northsea and Baltic but still running East-West) or the Rhein-Main Donau Kanal), of course, and a few of the bigger ones go somewhat diagonally towards the north east, but the general pattern is as described.
After living 25 years in germany, you can tell us whos dishes are better? German or Uk? I was never been in the UK and i think it never happens but i try to imagine how it could be if i were in the UK and want to ear something "British", the only thing i've eat all the day were fish and chips but whitout fish. What you prefer? German kitchen with Schnitzel, Klöße(no plan how it named in englisch) or UK kitchen with mint dishes.
Ah, NATO: Planing a biketour to Etzweiler trying to avoid big citys, when coming from the north, i found 41366 Leloh what a nice small village after the forest...
They had. My hometown had a large french garrison, one of the regiments were engineers/pioniers with amphibous vehicles capable to serve as ferries across the Rhine, which was only a few km away. I witnessed some exercises in my youth. The Bundeswehr also had some materials for river crossings in a depot nearby. The French Army left in the mid 90s, the BW-Depot was abandon shortly after that. What remains were the Nato-ramps, I can remember 6 of them near my hometown. They're still intact and are used for letting/getting leisure boats to/from water.
"open between 14:00 and 17:00 on the second Sunday of each month" is there anything more German than this It is precise it is prescriptive and it is useless if you arrive not on 2nd Sunday of the month
@@rewboss Here in Bielefeld one of our best museums is a volunteer museum Museum Wäschefabrik which has a similar opening schedule which is a great pity as I have never managed to take any visitors round and only managed one trip in fourteen years LOL
Your pronunciation is perfect! And I love curious people discovering the most unusual things. Thank you for visiting Hesse ;) And yeah Großkrotzenburg is quite underwhelming and the town's name is even unappealing lol.
1:34; when the prison was used in medieval times, until the 18th century, it is no wonder, the prison is so tiny. In medieval times (and some of the early modern age) prisons were mostly used as short time solutions. The people would go there if they were harmfull to others (in the like of drunkenness). While Most of the time penalties were a fine, to replenish the relationship between the person who did a crime and that which was harmed by the crime. Prison penalties were rare would be given to nobles or in some cases city people. (executions were also very rare btw.) (the next part is in german, for Iam unable to translate a few words into english, it is based on my notes from University where I study History) Der kleinräumige lebensstil im mittelalter würde bedeuten, dass die Bevölkerung sich selbst bestrafte, sollte sie einen Verbrecher Hinrichten, zugleich war es einfach nicht Sinnvoll, die Arbeitskraft eines Verbrechers, mit einer Gefängnisstrafe einzuschränken und ihn zugleich versorgen zu müssen. An dieser Stelle kamen dann Wehrgelder, wie sie zum beispiel im Hochmittelalterlichen Sachsenspiegel festgehalten sind zur Stelle.
@@rewboss I've just recently discovered your channel, and I quite enjoy your take on the matters. And I've never seen a RUclipsr asking for postcards, that's quite unique! Lovely!
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As a young American GI, I was on a 'Bailey Bridge Building Exercise' in Ingolstadt. Have never forgotten how hard we worked to cross the Donau... Ya... I bet there a whole lot of 'Nato Streets' in Germany. I spent 12 fantastic years there as a surveyor. Got to see a whole lot! Excellent Video!
Nowadays things can be a bit easier ... 350m of bridge in 34 minutes ...
ruclips.net/video/UnVb0GHMuDs/видео.html
In English
ruclips.net/video/L0KYezoyfaQ/видео.html
There is a Baily Bridge in my home town, Rotherham UK: www.life-publications.com/rotherham/the-bailey-bridge-eastwood-rotherham/
Not to forget: the Leopard 2 can do so called deep water wading up to a depth of 4 meters with a snorkel.
And TPZ Fuchs 1 (combat engineer variant) can still swim ...
ruclips.net/video/gx9guWfscCQ/видео.html
Be careful, so can the BMP 2... And it's got a gun!
ruclips.net/video/gxBRb36IVkY/видео.html
these ramps we have at the Rhine (of course) as well - when I was a child, my grandfather told me "its for the americans to move faster backwards when the russians are coming" xD - some of those ramps are still used today by public ferries
Some parts of the german Autobahn don't have a greenstrip in the middle to seperate the lanes of each direction, but a flat concrete surface with only the guardrails instead... they're built to become emergency airstrips in the "case of defense".
As a surveyor with the 94th Engineer Bn out of Darmstadt, I surveyed the autobahn from Darmstadt to Mannheim for this express purpose! (1974)
Most of them are not being maintained since end of cold war
Mot of them have been removed after 1990 when the road was rebuilt, and only 10 or so remain. Wikipedia has a list, search for Autobahn-Behelfsflugplatz.
Classix - Ersatzpiste (1988)
ruclips.net/video/F_cxkF6qSY8/видео.html
Motorways in Singapur have those as well with removable giant flowerpots in the middle.
That devil lies in the detail. You make a small village look like a giant historical place. Your commentary brings life into those otherwise boring lifeless walls.
Like people making videos
about the "least used station in ..."
those stations get visited
and the following year
a new station is the least used.
I do think "open 2pm to 5pm every second Sunday of the month" did put things into perspective.
I happen to live like 2km away from one of these sets of ramps, it's literally down the street (which was referred to as NATO street, but only by mouth; officially it's called different). As our neighbor is a small boat repair company, the ramp on our side is used as as a boat slip from time to time.
Until the british troops left our town in 2001, the ramps were once or twice a year used by them for exercising and maneuvers. These British tanks (Chieftains, I think) were quite a sight to see when I was little, and standing like 20m away when they drove by felt like an earthquake.
Since then the Bundeswehr did the same just once, but only because we are so far off the next military base. I would have liked to see some Leopard 2 live, but I had to attend my apprenticeship back then...
In the city, I was born, there was such a ramp, when I remember correctly. And when I remember really correct, there are several.
This is great, I love these mini "destination" videos (this and the one about the autobahn). I'm very much looking forward to the -- triumphant I'm sure -- return of the "full-size" destination videos. They've always been some of my favourite videos on RUclips, and have been sorely missed during this pandemic, even though I understand perfectly why you aren't making them at the moment :)
I'm amazed again and again what interesting stories one can discover behind seemingly mundane facts. Kudos!
We have multiple of these at the Kiel-Canal. Also the tunnel underneath the Canal built in my hometown during the 60s had valves in it so it could be flooded to prevent Warsaw Pact troops from using it. Those were apparently removed during the recent renovation works. You can still see where the Pipe Outlets used to be located in the tunnel wall though.
There had been soldiers/ officers called ,Wallmeister' , in civilian dress and armed with a pistol, they inspected the prepared locations.
I did not learn anything new about the NATO ramps, but the insight on the history of Grosskrotzenburg was very interesting. 👍👍👍
I first understand: Grosskotzenburg - sorry... :-(
1:46 - I just adore these highly specific working hours: "from 2PM to 5PM on a second Sunday of every month"...
Heck, we'll get you night tours into bumheck-nowhere, and you do this... 😂
You could have explored and mentioned the other side, Hanau Groß-Auheim, I often drove around there on my bike as a teen. The Mainufer used to be a beautiful promenade at least during summer, all the way down to the bridge connecting with Hanau Steinheim. You could drive on through the Hanau port until you reached Schloß Philipsruhe in Hanau's west.
Down in the depths of Swabia we have an old military exercise ground in the hills with a massively reinforced concrete tank track. It's now a curious nature reserve because it can't be used for much else due to unexploded ordinance so you have to stay on the trails, and the track is used to test heavy vehicles like cranes and trucks.
Explosive Verordnungen? WOW! Ah well, as long as the "Maultaschen" don't go off in my face.
I remember them using one of these ramps near Speyer when they transferred a Russian "Buran" shuttle to the Technical Museum in Speyer in the 2000s.
How very interesting the things you find, Andrew!
Einfach bewunderswert, was +rewboss bereits alles ausgegraben hat! - Grüße, Heinz
0:11 I love how you omitted the second 'r' when saying the name of the village...
I absolutely love those Latin street names! Such a nice idea to get people familiarised with / interested in history!
"And remember that river, because it will be a big thing later"
You might say it is the Main event ;)
Oof.
Many of them are also preserved for the transportation of oversized loads.
and for emergency slipping of boats by the local fire services
We do have those here on the Rhine, though oddly they are not directly opposite of each other on both shores. Check out Woltershofer Str. and Alsumer Steig in Duisburg. That's not exactly an easy crossing there.
Greetings from großkrotzenburg!
In the near of Wyhl there is also a NATO-Rampe at the Rhein.
Roman ruins and a museum? I’d love to spend a day here! Not that I’ll have an opportunity do do so for a while. And, at risk of a false cognate, I wonder if the name somehow relates to “Great Crossing Fortress”. Could the Romans have also used the same strategy?
Romans could build bridges over rivers really fast. Their army had incredible manpower and forests were abundant, so many trees were available for construction.
Some years ago a full scale demonstration was performed: using only technology and tools available to the Romans, a wooden bridge over a substantial river was successfully deployed and tested. IIRC the whole operation took 1 week and it was done in Germany
I live in Großauheim next to Großkrotzenburg
in Großauheim there is another NATO-Rampe for another ponton-bridge
the local fire service now uses the ramp to slip in boats for emergencies
Großkotzenburg? That name is hilarious.
You missed an "r". They very much insist on that "r".
Damage done🤮
@@dbenzhuser Oh, now that was a Freudian slip on my part. Thank you very much for pointing that out and apologies to the residents!
@@dbenzhuser Well, you could always translate it as Great-Crotchsburgh and our anglo-saxon friends would have even more reason to assume that germans really don't have any sense of humor.
@@AleaumeAnders But presumably the same kind of names in the US show great American humor?
Aschaffenburg ... that's where another of my favorite RUclipsrs lives (works in Frankfurt for DB, makes lots and lots of train videos *with explanations)* - Laufach comes up often, there :-)
That's really cool! I'm only about 75 miles from this town so I may have to check it out.
Großktotzenburg also has a nice coal power plant ....
coal, gas and biomass to be precise
I sometimes run or ride along the other side of the Main. Very suprised to see a video about that place 😅
also many bridges had provisions for explosives. especially near the former GDR/FRG border.
There was something like the Fulda Gap. Near Point Alpha, there was a huge geographical gap where the GDR / red army could've fallen into the country very easily and over the most important airport Frankfurt, which was also a huge logistics hub for the US army, so it might've been very important to design access over rivers as temporary as possible.
I don't Look for those for years...but this was verry Common. Look for something Like Grey Stripes Most diagonal ... That are flat Metals to attach special Explosives...don't know the english name... "Schneidladungen"
Fun fact: the ominous manhole-covers concealing explosives were not the only such trap intended to deny pieces of infrastructure to an invader from the East. Parts of the Autobahn were also mined in a similar fashion (with other parts being designed as emergency-airfields).
The same kind of total defence doctrine was in place in at least Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. For example highway bridges were built with charge holes and could be demolished at short notice if the Russians decided to come visit.
1:30 ... or very quick executioners.
This is interesting and entertaining: historical candy 🍬! Thank you!
Any chance we might get a video on the current substitute traffic going on in Frankfurt on the tram lines 15 and 17? They're operating the old type P high floor trams there on a few slots. If not, I still recommend you go there just for fun. It's a rare opportunity to see those in action. Only caveat: They switched out the old announcement controller for the latest type, and that means the latest announcements are being played, the ones generated via TTS instead of the classic announcements spoken by Ingrid Metz-Neun. The new ones sound awful if you ask most of the enthusiast community. Aside from that, it's all the completely original trams, now over 40 years old.
Sounds rather like you might be the best person to make this video...
@@philiplawton I can't be in Frankfurt though 😅😆
When I was working in FFM, I noticed the Ebbelwei Express often coming in front of the HBF. Maybe I have seen the substitute traffic once or twice... No idea.
@@Canleaf08 Next to the Hauptbahnhof there's the Betriebshof Gutleut. All of the Ebbelexpress stock are usually stored there when it's not being overhauled. Right now they're using the Depot Eckenheim as a temporary measure as Gutleut is getting new trackwork done.
Is Rewboss a railway nerd ?
Aaaaand the Cold War's back.
this is so cool
I am interested in history (including the Cold War), Germany, and Russia, and I find this to be an interesting video! Didn't know about the NATO-ramps!
I'm surprised they haven't put a ferry there by now.
there are bridges along the Main
Have you ever been to Langenselbold?
bei den Straßen mit den alten römischen Namen wäre ich dafür, die wieder umzubenennen
Thats my neighboring city lmao nice
We have/had a couple of bunkers nearby diretcly at the Main nd those ramps are pretty much everywhere here :)
Oh u missed out on the Hexeneiche thats a place where ppl got burned for beeing a witch
I wonder how well that'll age in another dozen, or hundred years. "Hopefully abandoning the ramps won't come back on us some day" History has a habit of repeating itself, although not always in the same location, by then we may have floating tanks like star wars so who knows.
I am not exactly sure if the ramps with explosive charges relly had the explosive charges in place all the time. Because even in my childhood days when cold war was still a thing, those ramps were not guarded, and leaving military grade explosives in an unguarded place isn't usually the best of ideas. ;-)
I would much rather think that they were prepared with cavities in which explosives could be placed easily to destroy the ramps if needed, but since the war fortunately remained cold, the explosives were kept in a much safer place.
I have seen similar about what they called "Sprengschacht" (blasting duct) in roads near the former eastern border, which were cavities designed for that purpose. But they were normally empty.
Der Moment wenn man mehr über seine Umgebung von einem Engländer lernt als von Freunden und Bekannten 😂
Such Ramps are here and there along the Nord Ostseekanal too. Also these false "Gullis" for destroying them with a load if necessary…
The Tanks do not need bridges. Most NATO Tank are able to "drive" trough the river. And the hidden explosives were mainly at bridges. Also interesting, most canals in west-germany are going north-south, so that they can use as east-west barrier :-)
Nah. Most canals are way older than the cold war. A few happen to run north south, but a lot dont. However, on those running more or less north south, the western side usually was "fortified" with concrete to make it impossible for soviet tanks to climb the bank of the canal ... By now, most of that has been undone in order to re-naturalize those rivers / canals ...
I thought the canals might be north south as their only connection to the sea is in the north so people shipping commodities would be going to the sea ports or coming from the sea ports mainly?
@@paulmcfeeters5554 Look at a geographical map of Germany. Rivers like Rhine, Weser and Elbe are flowing from the south to the north, into the sea.
Most canals run east-west to link those river systems with each other.
There are exceptions like the Nordostseekanal (linking Northsea and Baltic but still running East-West) or the Rhein-Main Donau Kanal), of course, and a few of the bigger ones go somewhat diagonally towards the north east, but the general pattern is as described.
rewboss randomly looking at osm is very relatable
As a german i am thankful that place has a second r in its name
And now for the real question. What were you researching in the first place, when you stumbled over this?
After living 25 years in germany, you can tell us whos dishes are better? German or Uk?
I was never been in the UK and i think it never happens but i try to imagine how it could be if i were in the UK and want to ear something "British", the only thing i've eat all the day were fish and chips but whitout fish.
What you prefer? German kitchen with Schnitzel, Klöße(no plan how it named in englisch) or UK kitchen with mint dishes.
Ah, NATO: Planing a biketour to Etzweiler trying to avoid big citys, when coming from the north, i found 41366 Leloh what a nice small village after the forest...
I thought those ramps were built to lower boats into the water/raise boats out of the water.
Do the military forces have storage halls somewhere with elements for pontoon bridges to be built quickly?
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_Amphibious_Rig
@@Korschtal ruclips.net/video/z3SCycWcE2E/видео.html
French equivalent
ruclips.net/video/D4VXcBPs32Q/видео.html
Both systems can be used as a bridge or as a ferry.
Besides that, there are Tactical Floating Bridges
ruclips.net/video/IUhuADS6wQ8/видео.html
and of course traditional pontoon bridges.
They had. My hometown had a large french garrison, one of the regiments were engineers/pioniers with amphibous vehicles capable to serve as ferries across the Rhine, which was only a few km away. I witnessed some exercises in my youth.
The Bundeswehr also had some materials for river crossings in a depot nearby. The French Army left in the mid 90s, the BW-Depot was abandon shortly after that.
What remains were the Nato-ramps, I can remember 6 of them near my hometown. They're still intact and are used for letting/getting leisure boats to/from water.
you should do a history video about the sudatenlamd
"open between 14:00 and 17:00 on the second Sunday of each month"
is there anything more German than this
It is precise
it is prescriptive
and it is useless if you arrive not on 2nd Sunday of the month
It's a museum in a small village that never gets any tourists, run by unpaid volunteers. But you can book in advance a visit at any other time.
@@rewboss
Here in Bielefeld
one of our best museums
is a volunteer museum
Museum Wäschefabrik
which has a similar opening schedule
which is a great pity
as I have never managed
to take any visitors round
and only managed one trip
in fourteen years LOL
Your pronunciation is perfect! And I love curious people discovering the most unusual things. Thank you for visiting Hesse ;) And yeah Großkrotzenburg is quite underwhelming and the town's name is even unappealing lol.
What an aweful place Great Vomit Castle must be...
This is Grosskrotzenburg with an „1“, not Grosskotzenburg🤮! So improve your translation skills. 😂
@@ron9320 Better tell that to Google. I write “krotzen” and Google replies “vomit”
@@koppadasao 🥴👍
Großkrotzenburg, not to be confused with Großkotzenburg, which is a whole different thing.
Großkotzenburg.....wie kommt man auf so einen Namen!
probley the river bridge the army trained on
NATO Street (NATO Strasse) is not labeled on the Google Maps 😶
1:34; when the prison was used in medieval times, until the 18th century, it is no wonder, the prison is so tiny. In medieval times (and some of the early modern age) prisons were mostly used as short time solutions. The people would go there if they were harmfull to others (in the like of drunkenness). While Most of the time penalties were a fine, to replenish the relationship between the person who did a crime and that which was harmed by the crime.
Prison penalties were rare would be given to nobles or in some cases city people. (executions were also very rare btw.)
(the next part is in german, for Iam unable to translate a few words into english, it is based on my notes from University where I study History)
Der kleinräumige lebensstil im mittelalter würde bedeuten, dass die Bevölkerung sich selbst bestrafte, sollte sie einen Verbrecher Hinrichten, zugleich war es einfach nicht Sinnvoll, die Arbeitskraft eines Verbrechers, mit einer Gefängnisstrafe einzuschränken und ihn zugleich versorgen zu müssen. An dieser Stelle kamen dann Wehrgelder, wie sie zum beispiel im Hochmittelalterlichen Sachsenspiegel festgehalten sind zur Stelle.
Great-vomit-castel...
:-)
Next chapter: Natodraht.
I really enjoy your videos, but I think 10 min videos would be a better format.
Has anyone actually ever send a postcard to rewboss? :)
Yes, loads. A few of the postcards are on the wall.
There's a number of videos titled "Fan mail" featuring those postcards. The latest seems to be from May 2019.
@@rewboss I've just recently discovered your channel, and I quite enjoy your take on the matters. And I've never seen a RUclipsr asking for postcards, that's quite unique! Lovely!
GroßKrotzenburg? who wants to live there?
I dare anyone to dive deeper into the meanings of the name Großkotzenburg. Spoiler alert: you'll laugh both your but cheeks off :)=
ganz schön großkotzig dieser ort..
GrosskRotzig
I assume these could be used with something like the M3 ( ruclips.net/video/z3SCycWcE2E/видео.html )
If you want peace prepare for war
He who forgets his past...
i can't get over how he says gORs instead of gROs.... ~_~
rewboss randomly looking at osm is very relatable