Imagine a top 10 list of places to visit in Hamburg without mentioning the Reeperbahn or other places rich in history and culture (like the Gängeviertel or the Krameramtsstuben). As someone who lives in Hamburg, I find that almost insulting. 😅
Aber dafür Hafencity, Speicherstadt und Elbphilharmonie jeweils ein Punkt bekommen und gefühlt auch 3 mal Jungfernstieg/Alster. Da hätte man lieber, Sternschanze, Reeperbahn, Park Future und große Freiheit aufzählen können. Aber vielleicht sieht er ja St. Pauli als eigene Stadt.
As a German I understand why no one bothers to pronounce German words. It's just hard and weird if you are not native or practiced a lot. Still one of the coolest languages but the grammar is so stupid that not native speakers even after years have problems here and there.
@@ryanwass 15:00 min Blankenese is the "Beverly Hills of Hamburg": German celebritries (actors, singers, comedians) and rich, long-established families with "old money" (some of them already earned their fortune as shipowner or trader with the colonies 150 years ago). Partially they live in exclusive "palaces" with a park around it. My grandparents were not rich, but they had the luck to get an apartment in Blankenese 10 metres away from the beach (for a fairly low rent in the late 1930, at this time Blankenese was not so exclusive yet). They stayed their whole live there, so my father "grew up on the beach". Nowadays, you cannot afford the rent in Blankenese any more, the properties and houses there cost millions of Euros.
the last one (treppenviertel) is an entire area that is so hilly that instead of roads you have a bunch of staircases everywhere. it's not just one staircase it's a maze of staircases. it's a very charming and fascinating place and right next to the river that people love to visit and go on walks at, my family went on a walk there on christmas day and despite all the cafes and restaurants being closed there were still a lot of people there just enjoying the unique scenery
And if you don't want to take so many stairs you can still ride the "mountain goat". First time using that bus I felt like I was back in the Pfälzerwald with all its narrow and steep streets. Only the view on the Elbe river and the giant cargo terminal told me that I was not. 😅
The Elbphilharmonie is actually quite cheap. It was meant to enable literally EVERYONE to experience it's art/music. So tickets are usually (when pre-ordering about 2-3 months in andvance) mostly around 20$, sometimes for the more wanted ones 50-70$, but if you plan maybe a year ahead, it's really cheap, like 12$. And I'd recommend going up there to enjoy the place and the view.
Prices depend entirely on what group is performing and (at times) what the program is. Prices for visiting world-class orchestras (Vienna or Berlin, for instance) will be very high, approaching $250. Tickets for either of the Hamburg orchestras will nearly always be well under $100 (I‘m speaking of top prices here in all these cases). Concerts involving a large orchestra, choir, soloists (Mahler 8) will be a little more expensive than usual. The biggest problem is getting ANY ticket! However, the hype is finally settling down a bit and it has become easier to get tickets on short(ish) notice.
@@DaGuys470 Absolutely! That is why I pointed out that I was quoting prices for top seats. I was trying to avoid implying that less expensive tickets were not available. These were just examples of how prices for the same seat can vary widely; some concerts are indeed very expensive, others are very affordable.
What should definitely be mentioned are the horrendous costs and the construction time. The cost estimate started at 77 million euros and in the end the taxpayer ended up paying a whopping 800 million euros! We also had to say goodbye to the 4-year construction period, because in the end it took 10 years.
Yes, Hamburg is on the Elbe river, which is one of the main rivers in western Europe. The city is lcoated roughly 70 km from the coast, so that the river is tidally influenced when the North Sea experiences its tides. In Hamburg the river splits into several different river arms, with a total width of well over 2 km, roughly 1.4 miles wide. So yes, the Elbe is a BIG and very important river. Speicherstadt literally means warhouse city. What's so cool about it is that it was built on artificial pontoons create from ramming huge tree trunks deep into the river sludge. Upon those were built the houses and streets of the Speicherstadt. Due to the constant flooding and draining of the canals between the buildings they lean toward and away from each other between high and low tide by up to 30 cm/ one foot on the top floors. Next interesting thing is that the architects created a perfect airflow with the muddy and often flooded basements that results in a very constant air temperature, no matter what the outside temperature. The temperature vairance throughout the year is a mere 8° C, roughly 14° F, completely without any electric AC. The canals also allowed for rapid transfer of tax free goods since 1888 from ships into this area without reyling on carts or later trucks. It was a tax free enclace with only a few bridges that were controlled by the tax brigade of the border police for a long time. Since the Freihafen was officially dissolved in 2013 no more offical controls had to be done. But the Freihafen / tax free area had already been moved to the south of the Elbe river a few years prior. How do you discover a new room? Weeeell, start a world war, have everything bombed to hell, barely do any repairs, brick over holes that might impair the structural integrity, then forget about covering those holes. Presto, you can discover a new room 40 years later after everyone remembering those shoddy repairs has died or at least stopped working.
The oldest part of Hamburg (Hammaburg around 1200 years old) wasn't on the Elbe. It was on the Alster and Bille. A few hours berets of years are needed to reach the Elbe 😛
Individual houses in Germany must be constructed by a certified architect. You assumed that absolutely correctly. And about new vs. old: German cities are often older than 1,000 years, some older than 2,000 years. So "new" is often attributed to neighbourhoods for over 20 years. For most of the time it is until there is something newer. I my village a neighbourhood from the late 1970s was “new” until the 2010s, because it was the newest.
To be honest, over 2000 years is very rare. While many cities have traces of people living there for a long time, we have very few sources that confirm permanent settlements. We don't even know where some roman places were located, we only know the names.
@@kraeuterzucker9863I guess it depends where you live. Wenn have here places that goes back 10'000 years and is yet settled. Would be interesting to see a map of settlement's ages
@@christianbrecht4680 10000 I am throwing a doubt on. Thats the Neolithic era iirc, no city of germany can be traced back that far. At most we find archelogical evidence of another settlement having existed in around the same place at one time. 1000 to 2000 (medival to roman) are fair estimates for the age of a lot of places. Given, our oldest buildings tend to be just a few centuries (Most less because bombing). Or are castles & Cathedrals, and despite how many we have of them, I believe they really should not counted as they are quite special as far as buildings go and not representative of the cities as a whole.
@@dasirrlicht5415 Well, I had a wrong thinking. You are right. I had something different in mind. We have here a place where a neolothic settlement was found close to a village. It has likely nothing to do with the village itself. So you are right 👍
Moin from Hamburg =D To answer your last question about the "Treppenviertel", you need over a million euros for a small house. The Treppenviertel is in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city. You won't find normal earners there. But it's a wonderful place to go for a walk and enjoy the scenery. Hafencity really is still new, as construction and planning are still ongoing. =) But as a Hamburg resident, I miss various sights that are better than those presented: the Michel, the Chilehaus, the Reeperbahn, Landungsbrücken, the fish market, the old Hamburg town houses on Deichstraße ... As a native of Hamburg, the video leaves me a little sad.
Na, you wont find any home for sale in Treppenviertel. Same as in other rich districts. Nothing is ever on sale there, no matter how rich you are. The ones that live there did inherit their property from their family.
The Term "Hamburger" is coming from Hamburg! In Hamburg we had the Fastfood called "Rundstück warm", a Breadbun with a slice of warm roastmeat and sauces. When People from Hamburg came to the US, it changed into the modern Hamburger meat and (German!) Heinz-Ketchup! ;)
8:51 I had to stop, rewind and turn captions on to confirm if I‘m going insane or the narrator really has said „Frankfurt“ instead of „Hamburg“. 🤔 The more than 2500 bridges also mean that there are a large amount of canals where you can attend many different water activities like canoeing, stand up paddling, paddling, etc. On the greater lakes you can also go on a ride with a sail boat.Also Hamburg has (had?) the only McDonalds that is accessible from a canal. So it‘s technically a paddle through. 😉
Also many bridges dont go over water. There are bridges crossing bigger roads for pedestrians only. There is also public transportation under and over ground with trains, which also uses bridges to cross streets and pedestrian bridges crossing railways and more.
The Speicherstadt is UNESCO heritage. There are now appartments inside (the renit is from 1.400,-€ up to 15.000,-€ a month). Planten und Blomen (plants and flowers) used to be a Jewis Cementry up until the 1930. The Nazis ordered to build the botanical garden there. There is a hugh place on the Cementry Ohlsdorf where you can see all the ols Jewis gravestones from Planten und Blomen. Ohlsdorf is one of the biggest cemetrys in the world. I think, the 2nd largest. And its the greenest city in the worlds. We have a lot of strange animals here, like nutrias, black swans and so on. The swan is our crest bird and we have an own state organization here only for taking care about the swans.
Attending a Concert at Elbphilharmonie is not that expensive - if you do not insist to sit in the front row. An C or D category seat can easily be afforded even by student. It is part of the concept, that everybody shoud be able to enter.
I would say that in general the arts are rather affordable in germany. A lot (if not most) of theaters/opera houses/etc offer reduced prices to kids/students/the disabled and elderly and have rather cheap seats available.
Just looked it up and the cheapest tickets to a concert in the elbphilharmonie that I could find are 9,90€ and you can also attend exam concerts of the music university (conservatorium?) for free
2 times a year, an audience orchestra takes place and used to cost 5 euros. You really need to be fast, if you want to get a ticket, because the audience orchestras are quickly sold out. I've been there once and really liked the relaxing atmosphere. Was the mountain of tax money worth it to build the Elbphilharmonie? I'm not sure. At least every visitor can enter the "visitor platform" for free - and the orchestra halls are gorgeous. So there's that... But if you really want to get rid your money at Elbphilharmonie, then I suggest spending a night at the hotel inside the Elbphilharmonie or rent an apartment there.
@@lulaa123 aaand in hamburg there are special suscription deals for people who like to visit the classical arts very frequently. I saw some ad that was 70 euros per month for free entrance into anything that provider organised in terms of theatre and music. I might be wrong, but that sounds like a pretty good deal for someone who's really into that stuff
they could have easily combined several numbers like Speicherstadt/Hafencity/Elbphilharmony or Alster Lake/Jungfernstieg. There is so much more to see in Hamburg as all of these guides pinpoint. For example the entire course of the Alster river get's increasingly more magical as further you follow it to the north east until you find yourself in incredible end-moraine forests, or the whole coast along the elbe river... or the rolling hills in Hamburgs south etc.
Hello and good morning, Ryan! I'm from Hamburg, and I think the recommendations are a little random.. 😂 If they mention Hafencity, they could've included Elbphilharmonie, and if they mention Jungfernstieg, they could've included the Alster... They missed to mention St. Michaelis Church. You can climb up the stairs (or use the elevator) to the top and enjoy a great view. Stadtpark is also a nice place and you can visit the planetarium. There is also a natural swimming pool nearby. (Now they struggle with an algea problem..) Also the Treppenviertel in Blankenese isn't just a nice place because it's many stairs, but there is also the Elb beach with a wonderful view. As the river "Elbe" goes through Hamburg. :) I do recommend the infamous redlight District "Reeperbahn." It's not as bad as people think, and if you're lucky, there is the "Hamburger Dom" taking place nearby. There you can buy cotton candy or hop on a huge ferris wheel. ❤ And get well soon! You seem a little sick. :(
I am a German who has lived in China for some months. I visited Chongqing, which has more than 30 Mio inhabitants, much, much more than both Hamburg (which I have visited often) and Pittsburgh ( where I have not been). I am quite sure the large number of bridges in Chongqing is not due to "fallen trees" but because this is one of the largest urban areas in the world, build on multiple hills and crisscrossed by the massive Yangtze river and tributaries.
Chongqing als größste Stadt der Welt und Ihre Brücken ist etwas irreführend. So als ob die Deutsche Regierung den ganzen Norddeutschland zu Hamburg-Stadt erklären würde. Dann wäre wahrscheinlich viel mehr Brücken als Chongqing-"Region". Chongqing as the largest city in the world and they bridges is a bit misleading. If the German government were to declare the whole of northern Germany to be Hamburg City. Then there would probably be a lot more bridges than Chongqing-"Country".
@@nboyxs Richtig. Die Flächenausdehnung ist mit 82,3 tsd qkm enorm, das ist fast soviel wie Baden-Württemberg + Niedersachsen oder das 1,15-fache von Bayern.
Well... FYI, Hamburg happens to be one of the biggest harbours in Europe. :D Because of that, Hamburg also has some really strange features. Some of the older apartments really have incredible redwood floors. A big load got stuck there in some way, and they used it to make floors. I hope they don´t use redwood in that way anymore. Today these floors are priceless.
@@CEntertainArt, I haven´t checked the statistics for a long while, and when they are mentioned briefly in a video, it is always problematic. Is it big in cargo or passengers? Both? Hamburg is HUGE, especially when it comes to cargo. My point was that it definitely is a very big harbour in Europe. The OP seems somewhat surprised that there is so much water in Germany. No worry, we have lots of water here too! :D
@@CEntertainArt Duisburg is relatively small in comparison to Hamburg, as Hamburg has the third largest harbour in Europe after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Duisburg however is the largest "non sea" port in Germany, still big, but way smaller than Hamburgs sea port.
@@CEntertainArt Hamburg is a seaport. Megamax class container ships can sail through the port through the Elbe River to Hamburg with a draft of 16 m. That's 100 kilometers from the river mouth (Nordsee) to the harbor. Duisburg is an inland port. Only smaller cargo ships sail there via the rivers Rhine, Maas and some canals to seaports such as Rotterdam and Hamburg. Duisburg is also known as a seaport - more because of the important transshipment point for goods from the seaports. Only smaller inland vessels sail there. Depending on the destination and width of the rivers and canals, even the largest inland vessels.
The name Hamburger actually comes from the German city of Hamburg. There is the traditional Rundstück warm snack in Hamburg. This consists of a wheat roll (“round piece”) with a slice of roast in it and gravy that is poured over it. Another variant of this “hamburger piece” consists of a wheat bun with a minced meat patty made from beef steak and egg yolk. This recipe came to the USA with German immigrants. Meatballs with rolls were also a popular dish on the emigrant ships that often left Hamburg. At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, such minced meat rolls - still without the "er" ending - were demonstrably sold as "Hamburg".
Ryan, I‘m sorry that you watched this bad video. It‘s confusing, badly explained and doesn’t always have its facts together. Yes, Hamburgs a great place to visit. And a great starting point for cruise around Europe. Right at the start, it said that Hamburg was a former city state. Wrong. Hamburg is still its own state. It’s one of Germany‘s 16 federal states, being one of three city states (The others are Berlin and Bremen). The old Elb tunnel (Alter Elbtunnel) is a tunnel under Elbe for pedestrians, yes. It’s really spectacular to walk. But those two huge elevators you saw in the video (with the wooden doors), they are vehicle elevators. The old tunnel was opened in 1911 for regular car traffic from one side of the Elbe to the other, paying a toll. It was closed for vehicle traffic only in 2019 because of necessary maintenance. Pedestrians and Bikes can still use it for free. Once reopened it will remain car-free (the exception being emergency services like police etc).
@@nikibordeaux Actually there was a historical zoo at the place of todays "Planten & Blomen" park but it was NOT "Hagenbecks Tierpark". It is a little know fact. There was a recent podcast by somebody who did research on the history of Hamburg´s first zoo. There is indeed a small remains of the former zoo: The "Tiergartenstraße" which runs between the rails and the park and is overlooked by most people.
8:45 The Alster Lake was built in 1190 as water reservoir for the water mills in the town. As the city expanded and needed new fortifications it was parted by a dam supporting the new walls, built between 1616 and 1625, into the (bigger) Outer and the (far smaller) Inner Alster. 10:30 Some story about the city hall: The old city hall was blasted during the Great Fire of 1842 in order to make a fire lane (which only partly worked because the blasting did not bring down the whole building). The city council used then for some decades the city orphanage as city hall and since 1847 also the big hall of the house of the Patriotic Society which had been built at the place of the burned down city hall. After multiple architectural competitions the construction of the new city hall started in 1884 and was finished in 1897. More than 4,000 oak posts provided the foundations. 11:59 Very strange pronunciation. Jungfer is an old word for maiden, derived from "jung vrowe", young mistress, and 'j' is rather pronunced like 'y' in English, 'u' like 'oo' in English. 14:55 Most bigger animals unique to Europe were long ago hunted to extinction. Some were recreated by backcrossing (at least regarding appearance), like aurochs, tarpan horses and others. Some European wolves and (brown) bears survived in the balkans and were later resettled in the Alps region.
8:19 That weird stuff in the background are two mountains made of fiberglass that have a lot of slides and in the summer even a pool you can slide into. The part shown is only the small separated toddler playground. The rest features said mountains, water cannons and a lot of climbing and jumping stuff like a house with a net as floor or a house with movable floor and wallboards. Too bad they didn't show the Japanese garden with tea house. It's my favourite place in Planten un Blomen (Lower German for plants and flowers) and it's just next to the big playground. In the main season they hold a traditional tea ceremony every second Sunday. Also they talked about but didn't show the tropical green houses. They even grow bananas and cocoa in it as well as oranges and green tea. In front of it are terraces made from slate which heat up in the sun and allow growing mediterranean plants in the wet cold Northern German climate. There are even turtles living in the pond beneath it which used to be a part of the old town moat. All the streets ending in -wall are on the line of the old town wall by the way and a big part of Planten un Blomen (the Wallanlagen) is located in the Western town moat that was leading from the Alster pond to the harbour. (The Eastern town moat now holds the train tracks leading south from Central station.) If you walk through that part of the park you come along the court houses, an old music hall, a street with old half timbered buildings that house the Lower German Library and a composer museum and the museum for Hamburg's history. The exit of the park is right next to St. Pauli subway station at one end of the infamous Reeperbahn (red light and party district that has it's name from the rope making industry) and when you head into the direction of the grey big guy with the sword (statue of Otto von Bismarck) you end up just above the Landungsbrücken and have a great view across the harbour from the Stintfang vineyard (a present from Hamburg's twin town Stuttgart) just above the city rail station of the same name. Also they didn't show what the water concert looks like. Just imagine a smaller version of the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas but with a colourful light show (after dawn) in a natural surrounding and with classical music or movie soundtracks playing. For example when they play the James Bond theme (you know, the one where you see someone through the barrel of a gun) they have the central fountain grow higher and higher with a white light and when the point comes when the person in the intro turns and shoots and blood runs down tge screen they switch to the red light and shoot water out of the diagonal fountains. The shows are still operated by hand from two technicians. One for the lights and the other for the fountains.
"Does Germany have unique animals?" European nations are generally too small to entirely contain a species to themselves. However, Germany does have a handful of fish species that exist only there, I assume confined to lakes and such. That said, Germany is the origin of a number of well known dog breeds, such as the German Shepherd, Boxers, Dachshunds (Wienerdogs!), Dobermanns, the Great Dane, Schnauzers, Pomeranians, Poodles, Rottweilers and many others.
Don't forget the Leonberger dogs, the greatest metaphor for the German existence. From wikipedia> The modern look of the Leonberger, with darker coats and black masks, was developed during the latter part of the 20th century by reintroducing other breeds, such as the Newfoundland.[24] This was necessary because breeding stocks of the Leonberger were seriously affected by the two world wars. Only five Leonbergers survived World War I[28] and were bred until World War II when, again, almost all Leonbergers were lost. During the two world wars, Leonbergers were used to pull the ammunition carts, a service to the breed's country that resulted in the Leonbergers' near-destruction.[29] Karl Stadelmann and Otto Josenhans are credited as the breed's saviors, bringing them back from almost extinction.[25] Leonbergers today can have their ancestry traced to the eight dogs that survived World War II.[28]
In terms of domesticated animals, there are plenty of originally local breeds. Cows (the most famous black and white one: Holstein), pigs, chicken, sooo many horse breeds...
The Tunnel is also a great way to get one of the best views of Hamburg. You can go down the stairs or use the elevators to get down (last time I checked the elevators worked during weekdays only, so be aware if you want to cross by car or bike). The pictures with the people in it: that's the street 😀 >So, that's were cars drive through. Even for european standards it's a really slim fit on the sides. I used it about 30 years ago with a van and... lets say: I got a little bit of sweat in the elevator and had problems to pass pedestrians in the tunnel. But if you go through the tunnel and up on the south side you have the best panoramic viev of the harbour and the city behind it.
Most of those large houses are sub divided into apartments or house more than one generation of a family, some have 3-4 generations living under the same roof.
By the way: "Planten un Blomen" is the North German dialekt, "Plattdütsch" (stands for "flat German" - the North of Germany isn't famous for many mountains or even mounts...). In normal German you would say: "Pflanzen und Blumen", "plants and flowers" in English.
Platt in that context meant clear or understandable (klar und deutlich), when the word Plattdeutsch was first created. It's not about geography but rather the way it is spoken, that it gets its name from.
Here in Germany you usually see buildings that are not older than 30 years as "new". What's really old here is something that's 200 years old or older. And really, really old things are things that are older than 600 years
Hi Ryan, you should definitely watch the video from Dr. Ludwig, this is Germany view ☝️Even I, as a German, often forget how incredibly beautiful and diverse my country is. And every time I watch this video, I feel an even deeper love for my country I am really very happy to have been born in this beautiful country, including its rough edges😎 Kind regards from Hanover 🤗
Because of the Video you mentioned, I'm planing to do a roadtrip through germany to see those and other places with my own eyes. Can't wait to start. 😊
Elbphilharmonie concert tickets can often be purchased from around €50. As is often the case, it depends on the artist. Musical tickets can often be purchased for as little as €50. Culture (concerts, theaters, museums, etc.) are supported, so that fellow citizens with lower incomes may have opportunities to experience these things. (reduced prices for students, pensioners, groups, etc.) Some employers also book theater performances (for example: Christmas Fairy Tales) and then pass these tickets on to their employees at a cheaper price. Or employers can agree on a general discount with zoos, theaters, amusement parks, etc. for their employees, who can then book these tickets through the employer.
@@sollte1239 It depends on what day and time you want to see the musical. Shows at lunchtime are usually cheaper on weekends and during the week (Tuesday to Thursday) too. * By the way, the price mentioned comes from the event page in Hamburg.
Hello Ryan, my comment today is for your health and against the high amounts you have to pay for the doctor and the medicine. It's a so called "Hausmittel" from my grandmother, who was also bothered by bronchitis. It is effective and almosr free. Boil the skins of about three potatoes, drain them a little and wrap them in a piece of cotton fabric that will no longer be used. Then wrap an old towel around it, place it on your bronchi and cover it with a scarf so that the heat is retained for as long as possible. After using it several times, your bronchitis should clear up and you should feel better. Best regards from Bremen
Hi Ryan, Hamburg is a very nice, maritime town worth living in. I have the privilege of growing up in „Övelgönne“, directly at the beach, opposite of the harbour yet very fashionable…Seeing 400m Containerships manovered in front of your garden is only possible in Hamburg…. Regards, J.
Get well soon. I love your videos and especially your reaction to Miniatur Wunderland. Maybe you can respond to a newer version of this, particularly the new part of Patagonia. It's incredible what they did there. Nowadays already more than 1 million working hours! Greetings from Celle, Germany.
9:22 If you mean the building in the centre of the frame - no. It's the headquarter of the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. But there are shops in the basement of the building facing the street. If I remember correct one of them sells traditional clothing (Tracht in German) from various German regions - like Bavarian dirndl and lederhosen. Most shops and malls are in the small alleys between the town hall and the Gänsemarkt (geese market) and along the Mönckebergstraße (monk hill street) leading to Central Station.
Als Hamburger tut mir das "The Elbe Tunnel" weh. Der alte Elbtunnel konnte mal mit dem Auto durchfahren werden. Er war für Kutschen gemacht. Dort gibt es große Aufzüge und natürlich auch Treppen ;-) Die Spielplätze in Planten und Blomen sind legendär! Zeig sie bloß nicht deinem Kind, sonst musst du nach Hamburg reisen😅
Hamburg lies in the Elbe river delta (far away from the sea caused by the wide river mouth and the tidal range). That's the reason, Hamburg seems to be within a river. Some points are missing like the Reeperbahn, the entertainment an red light district with the Davidswache and a lot of shows and musicals. The U3, the subway with the best view (on bridges above the roads).
6:00 Definitely recommend the Elbphilharmonie, i've been twice and will be going there a bunch more times, tickets are actually really cheap for what you get, they range from 14€ to 90 or 120€, the first time i went, i got seats right in front of Ray Chen in the first row for 90€, the second time i got "worse" seats (sound is the same at every seat) for 20€ and it was still soooooo good. people under 30 often times get 50% off aswell (wasnt the case for the 2 times i visited tho, it's only for concerts organized by the Elbphilharmonie itself). It's like the most amazing sound experience i can imagine and i've ever experienced.
True. Today it is ridiculous that is was so controversial in the beginning, there was a lack of imagination in so many people. Yes it was expensive to build, and it had time issues, but today only very few people wouldn't like it.
Hamburg is by far the coolest city of Germany. Forget about Berlin. Pfft. Whats missing in the vid is the famous Reeperbahn and the great graffiti art all over the town.
Have you ever seen one of these "whats the dumbest thing an american has ever said to you" where somebody said "The US is the whole world, countrys like Egypt do not exist" ? I guess if you think like that, then Pitsburgh has the most bridges since Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna doesn't really exist.
Gardening: our raw -models are the English and French gardenings. Yes, Germans love gardening. Sea -food is supposed to be phantastic in Hamburg, and of course in all over the north. I am north German from Bremerhaven and love all kinds of seafood 😋
Concerts in the Elphilharmonie are actually quite affordable, since they try to get a lot of variety in there. If you want spending, there are apartments above the Elbphilharmonie, which'll have you spending an arm a leg and your newborn to aquire.
Hamburg is a Port City, build on the banks of the River Elbe. This is why it was Important and rich enough to become it's own seperate entitty for a long time and to this day, the City is it's own german county. We also have the Alster, a second river, much of which flows within the Citylimits and it's great to take a boat on
There is a theory that the “Hamburger” the world knows actually comes from Hamburg. In the 17th century, a “round piece” bun (Rundstück) was baked that is very similar to today’s hamburger bun. In 1901, a Hamburg innkeeper took advantage of the need to have only one roll, two slices of roast and some gravy. The idea is to bake the bun, place the roast slices in between and dip the whole thing in the sauce. That was very well received at the time. That not just one host used the recipe, but many hosts. This is how the dish “Rundstück warm” became the most popular food in Hamburg. Especially the dock worker. You could eat the dish quickly. The original food is still similar to the hamburger of fast food chains, which is now sold with meatballs, cheese and tomatoes. That's the story...
Finally!! In videos about germany, Northern germany really tends to fall short. I know we don't have the rolling hills of Southern germany, but our lands are beautiful too. especially the Coast, hersh but beautiful. I grew up on the Outskirts of Hamburg, went to School in Altona and to Uni in Sülldorf, so this is near and dear to my heart. Hamburg is interesting insofar that it has very few old builings as the city got pretty much leveld during WWII, being an important port and all. It also got completly evacuated, my Grandma has many story from that time
Technically Northern Germany does not fall short, because of Berlin which - in difference to what people believe - is also a Nordic city (just Eastern-Northern - you also have a lot of that red brick building style - also in the German cities at the Eastern sea/Baltics in the regions which were once Prussia/Baltics. Berlin was btw. also member of the Hanse (since 1360) for some time, the first harbor was the today old/historic harbor at the Mühlendammschleuse/Fischerinsel. And the Berlin dialect also has a strong Lower German/Niederdeutsche Influences (in fact you had already around 1500 additionally some migrants from Flandern/Flamen and the Netherlands (and Northern Germans/Germanic ppl which added to the East-Northern Lower German influences). But yes, in general cities like Bremen, Hamburg, Luebeck etc. have a lesser focus than Berlin and Munich/Bavaria.
@@publicminx While you would be correct on a technical level, Berlin is so very, very different i it's ways and people from the other Schleswig-Holstein Cities and Hamburg that it really doesn't count as being part of the Northern german feel. Ask any Hamburg person if they consider Berlin to be Nordic and watch them either laugh histerically or glare at you and turn away.
8:20 There also is a Kindergarden at planten un Blomen, or rather the entry is outside of it. But it has Backdoors where the Kids can Go outside directly into planten un blomen. Source: I used to be one of those kids.
11:28 Hard to see due to the size of the image, but I think that's a passenger tricycle, basically a bicycle taxi (named Velotaxi). You'll mostly see them in places with lots of tourism and few hills like Hamburg, Berlin, or Cologne.
My sister used to life in blankenese, treppenviertel is cool for a walk. its essentially only stairs. no roads or something. houses have lifts and ittle railways to get their groceries in the house. But one big thing is missing, Reeperbahn, Kiez. Best Party. Atferwards the fishmarket ;)
6:15 some evenings might be expensive but in general the approach is to open up culture for everyone no matter what economic or societal background. I saw a 4 and half hour Beethoven Concert there for 20 bucks
And there is so much more to see in Hamburg. The Elbtunnel was actually built for pedestrians and cars. Therefore they also built those big elevators which could move one car. Now that cars are way bigger than back in the days and they are also renovating one of the 2 tubes, cars are not allowed in the tunnel anymore (since 2019), just pedestrians and cyclists. A lot of harbour workers are using it and people who live in the southern parts of Hamburg (it's my daily way to work). I would recommend taking a ferry to Blankenese, too, take a harbour tour in one of the small boats (not the big ones, they'll take the same routes like the ferries, the ferries are way cheaper because they are part of the public transport system). A visit in the tower of St. Michaelis (they took a lot of shots in the beginning of this video from there). The Reeperbahn if you want to party hard, the Schanzenviertel, if you like to go from bar to bar, cafe to cafe and restaurant to restaurant and visit little shops. Maybe a canoe tour on the Alster. And if you want to see more of the city just by looking out of the window, just hop into the underground train U3. It circles around the whole city, and actually most of the times it's elevated and you'll be able to see the harbour, the rich part of Hamburg, a lot of green, and where "normal" people are living.
…2 Millions? In Blankenese for a whole house? Very unlikely nowadays…..at the beach or with a view directly at the river, 4 to 9 Mio are more of the range…
Oh man! Walk at a fast pace for 30 minutes every day (for a week and every day thereafter); this boosts your immune system. It kept me away from bronchitis for years and I'm a heavy smoker.
My father-in-law was born in the Treppenviertel. In the older days seamen and ship captains have their homes there. His family sold his birth house in 1990st and the next owner invested a lot in restoration. In the last sale the price tag was 1,5 million euros. And in this quarter a lot of houses are in this price range. A lot of high society and famous persons from Hamburg live in the quarter of Blankenese.
German here 😂 Tea is a popular home remedy for bronchitis: the warmth is good for the respiratory tract and keeps mucus fluid. Herbal teas such as sage, thyme or fennel are particularly suitable. Ginger tea can also have an anti-inflammatory effect and help reduce pain. In many cases, onion juice has an expectorant effect and is therefore also suitable as a home remedy for bronchitis, as it makes it easier to cough up the secretion. To make it, you need to chop two onions into small pieces. Put these in a glass and then add some honey. The whole thing has to steep for several hours (preferably overnight), then the juice can be poured off. You can take a spoonful of it several times a day. Gargling with salt water relieves the urge to cough and soothes the irritated throat. To make a gargle solution, dissolve a teaspoon of salt in 250 milliliters of warm water.
The reason the Elbe Tunnel (or just Elbtunnel) is partly for pedestrians is that it is so old only few people could afford to own a car when it opened.
old household remedy: bowl with hot water, chamomile and/or some peppermint in it, nice long steam bath to let your nose run freely, good for the throat: sage tea with a little honey, chamomile for a sore throat and important: if you have a cough -> put on a scarf I'm 56, I'm old enough to tell you that 😁
Blankenese is a good place to relax and there is a small beach at the river (not recommended to swim, but can take a break there nontheless). A big part of the City is its wide range train, underground and bus system, so there is no need to take a car when moving through hamburg, hence you can see many ppl go by foot from the stations to the sights. i personally recommend to visit all sides of hamburg: the very old one, the industrialised one, the modern one and the „this is my hometown“ one. the old one: - visit the Rathaus - visit the Michel (if you‘ve never seen a european church, else skip it) - visit the university district the industrial one: - visit the old Elbtunnel - visit the Speicherstadt - visit the Fishmarket - take a „Tretboot“ on the river‘s side arms the modern one: - visit Planten und Blomen (park) - visit the Alsterarkaden - visit the Elbphilharmonie the „hometown“ one: - take a train a little outside of the center (don‘t worry there are stations everywhere, you‘ll find back) and just walk around there. (2-3 stations before the final station should be fine as long as you stay north of the river) - visit the Reeperbahn at night - buy groceries
I agree with most comments this is a poor video about Hamburg and many valuable remarks have been already made by my folks in the comments. There is so much more to see in Hamburg and it would take too long to mention all of them. And keep in mind Hamburg is a university city so you can find several areas with great spirit and much more affordable restaurants, bars and shops than at the tourist hotspots. My personal favourite place is the concert hall "Laeiszhalle", not only due to the fact it is from inside and outside so beautiful but also because I could enjoy many great concerts there. Zoo "Hagenbeck" is worth to visit but if you prefer to see more native animals then I recommend a huge park with animals called "Schwarze Berge" (black mountains) located in the very south of Hamburg. Very beautiful because it is centered inside a forest with wide compounds for the anmimals including one lovely meadow where you can walk through with close contact to fallow deer which is a lot of fun especially for kids. Regarding the Elbtunnel: In fact you can find 2 of them. The ancient one which is shown in the video and a new tunnel but this is located more at the west of Hamburg and it is part of the Autobahn 7, so you only can drive through it by car. However it is an interesting journey because behind the tunnel at the south you are conneted to the great harbour and you can go back over one of the most famous and tallest bridges in Hamburg, the Köhlbrandbrücke. And btw: at timestamp 11:27 you see a rickshaw which is a kind of tourist attraction. You can find a few of them but only downtown. If you want to have a ride then I think the best way is to go to the square in front of the city hall. Finally get well soon!
Going to classical concerts doesn't necessarily cost you a Fortune in Germany, as many orchestras and opera houses are publicly funded by cities or states. You can see the local (professional) orchestra play in the famous new Elbphilharmonie from 15€ upwards, in less affluent places it can be even cheaper (from 10€ in Duisburg, for example). If you wanna know more about this topic, I recommend this DW video: ruclips.net/video/W_RS0IXsnXc/видео.htmlsi=RxTaVlgsKDVltmVM ruclips.net/video/W_RS0IXsnXc/видео.htmlsi=IWUV7c-8pMg1y3d3
I don't think Germany, or central europe in general, has any truly unique or rare animals. Most animal species here have like a close cousin in many parts of the world, including North America. I think the most notable are European Badgers that look quite different from American ones, and Eurasian Lynxes, which are a lot bigger than those found in NA.
there are actually animals who only live in Germany, even some only in some regions. Examples of German only animals are the 'Elbebiber' (a sub of the Beaver family), the Mosel-Apollofalter (a Butterfly - lives only regional in a Mosel region) etc... you also have 11 endemic sorts of fishes, some plants etc.
The thumbnail about "this much water in Germany?" hits differently, when you are living in Bremen, Lower Saxony and other parts of Germany, which are drowning at the moment ...
I've been in the highest bridge in Europe in Milau (France) mind blowing 😳! and a fascinating Tunnel/bridge between Danemark and Sweden. it is a tunnel under the sea and came out in the middle of the sea into a beautiful bridge.
They always forget to give a hint to the large Ohldorf cemetary which is crossed by a bus line to help people get to the gravesite they want to see. It is said that Ohlsdorf cemetery is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. People are often unsing it for recreational walks.
My 2 cents: Planten and Bloomen is not the nicest park in Hamburg, I would recommend Parkfriedhof Ohlsdorf (Europe's largest cemetary park) or Loki Schmidt Garten. But yeah, lots of water. One of our favourite hobbies is to Kayak in the summer. You can explore the city from the water. There are even some cafés and bars with boat drive-ins.
I worked 5 years in Hamburg. Its´truly a beautiful and interesting place to live! My trainstation was direct next to Planten un Blomen so I visited it often. And a good amount of my time I also spend with all these wonderful musicals.
Well, quiete an American view - " 16 Years is not new " , Hamburg was founded in the 9 th century b.C , i was surprised that its not older as i googelt it , its quiete a new City ... Köln or Cologne was founded by the Romans in 38 or maybe 19 b e f o r e Christ called " Oppidum Ubiorum " and 50 b.C it was already called " Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium " which was used until the 5th Century b.C , then the former mighty roman Empire crippeled and Cologne and later Köln appered as Name of the Town .
Hello! I like that you try to find out about other countries and lern something from it. Respekt for that! First Hamburg is a Hansestadt and part of the Hanse which was formed in 1400 AC. This means its still part of a trading-alliance in Europe and for this fact it is a german state and a capital of this state. A city state like some others in europe. The different unique houses are because different cultures settled in Germany and its different building years. Some are frensh romantic or gothic, we have Scandinavia wood houses but also some from the Alps and the black forest. Bauhaus is the modern era I like a lot which was from 1919 to 1933 here you will find buildings all over the world. It started in Weimar in Germany. Hauses at the Elpchaussee are very expansive and normally nobody sells a property there. But I think you will not find something under 2 Million and it will go up to 40 Millions. The most expansive villas you will find in Hamburg and München but in Europe Monaco is extremely expansive. Famous german animals are the lynx and the Steinadler. Very rare is the Eisvogel and Wulfs are coming back to Germany. The thing that places are not so crowded than in the US is because the cities have many centre’s and are not so focused only on one spot. Hamburg is a quite modern city because it was destroyed to 80% after WW2. You will find more historical cities in little cities in Germany or in towns like Schwäbisch Hall. My best wishes from the Bodensee in Germany.
Chongquing is actually more like a state but with a city in the middle that grew so big, it now entails the entire state. So depending on where you set the city borders, it is the biggest city in the world or just in the top 20. So if you count every bridge in the state of Chongquing, you’ll get 10k. But the city centre is juts at one big river and has maybe 5 bridges
As a German it's so much fun listening you pronouncing German words. Seems quite hard to do, the Vid you're commenting is not doing better. 😅 Keep on going 💪
Hafencity (Harbour City) is new because started in 2008 but still in extending and construction as it is increasing still... The Elbtunnel is actually the old Elbtunnel. It was build to ensure that the workers of a ship yard could get to work better and properly on time. Hagenbeck was originally a kind of warehouse for selling animals and from this is the zoo developed. Treppenviertel houses can't be bought, you can only passed over. It was former the home of all the captain of the ships which had been in the 18th and 19th century worked to ensure their families are safe. Get well!
I suppose this in reference to the times when it was actually independent (between the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire, and the founding of the North German Federation and the German Empire), or also the long stretches of time when imperial power in the Holy Roman Empire was so weak it was effectually independent.
Don't laugh at the Jungfernstieg, man. I proposed to my wife there. ;) But the video left out soooooo many good stuff. Treppenviertel? Really? You go there at your third or forth visit. Before that you other things to do for sure. And where is the nightly stuff? Reeperbahn, anyone? Herbertstrasse? Only for the men, sorry ladies ;) St Pauli and Sternschanze. You will have a hangover for two days from just visiting the place. Take a Alster Boat Tour to sober up. ;)
@@greentoby26 It's not about missing out on something. Of course they don't. What's to miss out on a bunch of hookers behind windows? But for the girls it's kind of a dare. To see if the stories with the buckets are true ;)
Blankenese = is the most expensive residential area in Hamburg. You could call it the Beverly Hills of Los Angeles. Hamburg is 150km from the coast. All large ships have to cross the Elbe. Hamburg Container Port is the third largest in Europe. The "Elfi" is the most modern opera house in Europe. The design was chosen to offer the best sound experience. A dream for all classical music fans.
I think that the Hamburg town hall also needs this size because it also manages that city. In addition, Hamburg was founded in 500 AD, so it had enough time to develop.
The "Miniatur Wunderland" was forgotten. One of the famous new sights in the "Speicherstadt". It is an amazing miniature train plants ever. You must visit it, if you are in Hamburg.
That is actually hillarious. The City is building a new City Hall from scratch and 70/80 years later they are like "damn.. there is a new room we didn't even know about" 😂
nothing is really be build in germany from scratch, if you dig into the ground, you find 10.000 years, then thousand years, old stoneage tribal artifacts, villages and later germanic tribal villages and buildings and then came the roman empire , building bathes and walls and villas, and wars came and went and medieval ages arrived, people build in every inch something and more wars came and went, and you have piles upon piles historical artifacts, and partly exisiting buildings under and on surface level. also, every inch was covered in bombs after ww1 and ww2 and before anything can be build, the ground must be searched for left over bombs, which can be activated, its a national wide mandatory law and every other months, they discover bombs from ww2, and parts of streets or cities get evacuated to remove the bombs from the wars decades ago. so, finding rooms, walls, paintings, bombs, complete new villages under farming lands is nothing special even in germany. there is something "sensational" every month that no one has capacity to care anylonger.
I wouldve changed the last one to St. Pauli including the reeperbahn tho because its literally such an iconic place and Blankenese are js a buncha humongous houses where all the rich people live so idk myb go there for a quick look cuz it looks sorta stunning ngl but idk if its worth to be in this video actually. My biggest recommendation i would give to anyone coming here is the chocoversum which basically means chocolate universe and I mean ig i don’t even have to say more abt it and then the U-Bahn stop called überseequartier which can loon very nice when they turned all the lights on. Kinda missed footage of the christmas market in front of the town hall too.
Imagine a top 10 list of places to visit in Hamburg without mentioning the Reeperbahn or other places rich in history and culture (like the Gängeviertel or the Krameramtsstuben). As someone who lives in Hamburg, I find that almost insulting. 😅
I think some other nice things like the michel, which I think is very nice, were left out too
Chile Haus und MiWuLa
No one needs the Reeperbahn or historical places if u can go to the zoo /s
Elbstrand und dessen Bars und Co.
Aber dafür Hafencity, Speicherstadt und Elbphilharmonie jeweils ein Punkt bekommen und gefühlt auch 3 mal Jungfernstieg/Alster. Da hätte man lieber, Sternschanze, Reeperbahn, Park Future und große Freiheit aufzählen können.
Aber vielleicht sieht er ja St. Pauli als eigene Stadt.
I love how the narrator is not even trying to pronounce the German names correctly and Ryan tries to repeat this gibberish 😂
"Häidschnbäck" (Hagenbeck) 🤣😂
im pretty sure the narrator is an AI
As a German I understand why no one bothers to pronounce German words. It's just hard and weird if you are not native or practiced a lot.
Still one of the coolest languages but the grammar is so stupid that not native speakers even after years have problems here and there.
Hahahah
@@ryanwass 15:00 min Blankenese is the "Beverly Hills of Hamburg": German celebritries (actors, singers, comedians) and rich, long-established families with "old money" (some of them already earned their fortune as shipowner or trader with the colonies 150 years ago). Partially they live in exclusive "palaces" with a park around it. My grandparents were not rich, but they had the luck to get an apartment in Blankenese 10 metres away from the beach (for a fairly low rent in the late 1930, at this time Blankenese was not so exclusive yet). They stayed their whole live there, so my father "grew up on the beach". Nowadays, you cannot afford the rent in Blankenese any more, the properties and houses there cost millions of Euros.
the last one (treppenviertel) is an entire area that is so hilly that instead of roads you have a bunch of staircases everywhere. it's not just one staircase it's a maze of staircases. it's a very charming and fascinating place and right next to the river that people love to visit and go on walks at, my family went on a walk there on christmas day and despite all the cafes and restaurants being closed there were still a lot of people there just enjoying the unique scenery
And if you don't want to take so many stairs you can still ride the "mountain goat". First time using that bus I felt like I was back in the Pfälzerwald with all its narrow and steep streets. Only the view on the Elbe river and the giant cargo terminal told me that I was not. 😅
Sounds like an americans nightmare.
@@Notmyname1593 I mean, there is a bus running from the train station and back.
@@mijos3 For that stereotype buses would be scary also
@@Notmyname1593 Fair point
The Elbphilharmonie is actually quite cheap. It was meant to enable literally EVERYONE to experience it's art/music. So tickets are usually (when pre-ordering about 2-3 months in andvance) mostly around 20$, sometimes for the more wanted ones 50-70$, but if you plan maybe a year ahead, it's really cheap, like 12$. And I'd recommend going up there to enjoy the place and the view.
Good to know! I always assumed I'd never be able to afford it and didn't even check prices.
Prices depend entirely on what group is performing and (at times) what the program is. Prices for visiting world-class orchestras (Vienna or Berlin, for instance) will be very high, approaching $250. Tickets for either of the Hamburg orchestras will nearly always be well under $100 (I‘m speaking of top prices here in all these cases). Concerts involving a large orchestra, choir, soloists (Mahler 8) will be a little more expensive than usual. The biggest problem is getting ANY ticket! However, the hype is finally settling down a bit and it has become easier to get tickets on short(ish) notice.
@@michaelmedlinger6399 Depends on where you want to sit. I've seen world-class soloists for around 40-50€.
@@DaGuys470 Absolutely! That is why I pointed out that I was quoting prices for top seats. I was trying to avoid implying that less expensive tickets were not available. These were just examples of how prices for the same seat can vary widely; some concerts are indeed very expensive, others are very affordable.
What should definitely be mentioned are the horrendous costs and the construction time. The cost estimate started at 77 million euros and in the end the taxpayer ended up paying a whopping 800 million euros! We also had to say goodbye to the 4-year construction period, because in the end it took 10 years.
"There's so much water in Germany?" Well, right now there's even more with flooding especially in the North ;)
Yes, Hamburg is on the Elbe river, which is one of the main rivers in western Europe. The city is lcoated roughly 70 km from the coast, so that the river is tidally influenced when the North Sea experiences its tides. In Hamburg the river splits into several different river arms, with a total width of well over 2 km, roughly 1.4 miles wide. So yes, the Elbe is a BIG and very important river.
Speicherstadt literally means warhouse city. What's so cool about it is that it was built on artificial pontoons create from ramming huge tree trunks deep into the river sludge. Upon those were built the houses and streets of the Speicherstadt. Due to the constant flooding and draining of the canals between the buildings they lean toward and away from each other between high and low tide by up to 30 cm/ one foot on the top floors. Next interesting thing is that the architects created a perfect airflow with the muddy and often flooded basements that results in a very constant air temperature, no matter what the outside temperature. The temperature vairance throughout the year is a mere 8° C, roughly 14° F, completely without any electric AC.
The canals also allowed for rapid transfer of tax free goods since 1888 from ships into this area without reyling on carts or later trucks. It was a tax free enclace with only a few bridges that were controlled by the tax brigade of the border police for a long time. Since the Freihafen was officially dissolved in 2013 no more offical controls had to be done. But the Freihafen / tax free area had already been moved to the south of the Elbe river a few years prior.
How do you discover a new room? Weeeell, start a world war, have everything bombed to hell, barely do any repairs, brick over holes that might impair the structural integrity, then forget about covering those holes. Presto, you can discover a new room 40 years later after everyone remembering those shoddy repairs has died or at least stopped working.
No, Main river is a stream that goes from Frankonia to Hesse in the middle of Germany. 😉 #SCNR
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The oldest part of Hamburg (Hammaburg around 1200 years old) wasn't on the Elbe. It was on the Alster and Bille. A few hours berets of years are needed to reach the Elbe 😛
Main in the sense of mayor - and mayor not meaning Bürgermeister ;-)@@Al69BfR
Warehouse, not warhouse!
Individual houses in Germany must be constructed by a certified architect. You assumed that absolutely correctly.
And about new vs. old: German cities are often older than 1,000 years, some older than 2,000 years. So "new" is often attributed to neighbourhoods for over 20 years. For most of the time it is until there is something newer. I my village a neighbourhood from the late 1970s was “new” until the 2010s, because it was the newest.
To be honest, over 2000 years is very rare. While many cities have traces of people living there for a long time, we have very few sources that confirm permanent settlements. We don't even know where some roman places were located, we only know the names.
@@kraeuterzucker9863I guess it depends where you live. Wenn have here places that goes back 10'000 years and is yet settled. Would be interesting to see a map of settlement's ages
@@christianbrecht4680 10000 I am throwing a doubt on. Thats the Neolithic era iirc, no city of germany can be traced back that far. At most we find archelogical evidence of another settlement having existed in around the same place at one time. 1000 to 2000 (medival to roman) are fair estimates for the age of a lot of places. Given, our oldest buildings tend to be just a few centuries (Most less because bombing). Or are castles & Cathedrals, and despite how many we have of them, I believe they really should not counted as they are quite special as far as buildings go and not representative of the cities as a whole.
@@dasirrlicht5415 Well, I had a wrong thinking. You are right. I had something different in mind. We have here a place where a neolothic settlement was found close to a village. It has likely nothing to do with the village itself. So you are right 👍
we calling new settlers as long they are not here for over 100 years, my family is living here since 15th century...so we are kind of new, too!
Moin from Hamburg =D
To answer your last question about the "Treppenviertel", you need over a million euros for a small house.
The Treppenviertel is in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city. You won't find normal earners there.
But it's a wonderful place to go for a walk and enjoy the scenery.
Hafencity really is still new, as construction and planning are still ongoing. =)
But as a Hamburg resident, I miss various sights that are better than those presented:
the Michel, the Chilehaus, the Reeperbahn, Landungsbrücken, the fish market, the old Hamburg town houses on Deichstraße ...
As a native of Hamburg, the video leaves me a little sad.
a million euros would get you maybe a one bedroom apartment in New York.
Na, you wont find any home for sale in Treppenviertel. Same as in other rich districts. Nothing is ever on sale there, no matter how rich you are. The ones that live there did inherit their property from their family.
you need a million for a small house in the outskirts of hamburg, no way you get even a flat in blankenese for a million.
The Term "Hamburger" is coming from Hamburg! In Hamburg we had the Fastfood called "Rundstück warm", a Breadbun with a slice of warm roastmeat and sauces. When People from Hamburg came to the US, it changed into the modern Hamburger meat and (German!) Heinz-Ketchup! ;)
8:51 I had to stop, rewind and turn captions on to confirm if I‘m going insane or the narrator really has said „Frankfurt“ instead of „Hamburg“. 🤔
The more than 2500 bridges also mean that there are a large amount of canals where you can attend many different water activities like canoeing, stand up paddling, paddling, etc. On the greater lakes you can also go on a ride with a sail boat.Also Hamburg has (had?) the only McDonalds that is accessible from a canal. So it‘s technically a paddle through. 😉
Also many bridges dont go over water. There are bridges crossing bigger roads for pedestrians only. There is also public transportation under and over ground with trains, which also uses bridges to cross streets and pedestrian bridges crossing railways and more.
The Speicherstadt is UNESCO heritage. There are now appartments inside (the renit is from 1.400,-€ up to 15.000,-€ a month).
Planten und Blomen (plants and flowers) used to be a Jewis Cementry up until the 1930. The Nazis ordered to build the botanical garden there. There is a hugh place on the Cementry Ohlsdorf where you can see all the ols Jewis gravestones from Planten und Blomen. Ohlsdorf is one of the biggest cemetrys in the world. I think, the 2nd largest. And its the greenest city in the worlds.
We have a lot of strange animals here, like nutrias, black swans and so on. The swan is our crest bird and we have an own state organization here only for taking care about the swans.
Planten un Blomen is also part of the rampart units.
And has great marks on Germany Happy places to live in.
about ohlsdorf: according to their website, they are the largest park cementary in the world. apart from that they are "just" pretty high up there
Attending a Concert at Elbphilharmonie is not that expensive - if you do not insist to sit in the front row. An C or D category seat can easily be afforded even by student. It is part of the concept, that everybody shoud be able to enter.
I would say that in general the arts are rather affordable in germany. A lot (if not most) of theaters/opera houses/etc offer reduced prices to kids/students/the disabled and elderly and have rather cheap seats available.
Just looked it up and the cheapest tickets to a concert in the elbphilharmonie that I could find are 9,90€ and you can also attend exam concerts of the music university (conservatorium?) for free
2 times a year, an audience orchestra takes place and used to cost 5 euros. You really need to be fast, if you want to get a ticket, because the audience orchestras are quickly sold out. I've been there once and really liked the relaxing atmosphere.
Was the mountain of tax money worth it to build the Elbphilharmonie? I'm not sure. At least every visitor can enter the "visitor platform" for free - and the orchestra halls are gorgeous. So there's that...
But if you really want to get rid your money at Elbphilharmonie, then I suggest spending a night at the hotel inside the Elbphilharmonie or rent an apartment there.
exactly didn’t regret spending a couple euros on my visit. it was a blast.
@@lulaa123 aaand in hamburg there are special suscription deals for people who like to visit the classical arts very frequently. I saw some ad that was 70 euros per month for free entrance into anything that provider organised in terms of theatre and music. I might be wrong, but that sounds like a pretty good deal for someone who's really into that stuff
they could have easily combined several numbers like Speicherstadt/Hafencity/Elbphilharmony or Alster Lake/Jungfernstieg. There is so much more to see in Hamburg as all of these guides pinpoint. For example the entire course of the Alster river get's increasingly more magical as further you follow it to the north east until you find yourself in incredible end-moraine forests, or the whole coast along the elbe river... or the rolling hills in Hamburgs south etc.
Hello and good morning, Ryan! I'm from Hamburg, and I think the recommendations are a little random.. 😂
If they mention Hafencity, they could've included Elbphilharmonie, and if they mention Jungfernstieg, they could've included the Alster...
They missed to mention St. Michaelis Church. You can climb up the stairs (or use the elevator) to the top and enjoy a great view.
Stadtpark is also a nice place and you can visit the planetarium. There is also a natural swimming pool nearby. (Now they struggle with an algea problem..)
Also the Treppenviertel in Blankenese isn't just a nice place because it's many stairs, but there is also the Elb beach with a wonderful view. As the river "Elbe" goes through Hamburg. :)
I do recommend the infamous redlight District "Reeperbahn." It's not as bad as people think, and if you're lucky, there is the "Hamburger Dom" taking place nearby. There you can buy cotton candy or hop on a huge ferris wheel. ❤
And get well soon! You seem a little sick. :(
Moin 😊
Besides the Stadtpark and the Planetarium I think that the Schanzenviertel and Reeperbahn should be mentioned as well.
I am a German who has lived in China for some months. I visited Chongqing, which has more than 30 Mio inhabitants, much, much more than both Hamburg (which I have visited often) and Pittsburgh ( where I have not been). I am quite sure the large number of bridges in Chongqing is not due to "fallen trees" but because this is one of the largest urban areas in the world, build on multiple hills and crisscrossed by the massive Yangtze river and tributaries.
Chongqing als größste Stadt der Welt und Ihre Brücken ist etwas irreführend. So als ob die Deutsche Regierung den ganzen Norddeutschland zu Hamburg-Stadt erklären würde. Dann wäre wahrscheinlich viel mehr Brücken als Chongqing-"Region".
Chongqing as the largest city in the world and they bridges is a bit misleading. If the German government were to declare the whole of northern Germany to be Hamburg City. Then there would probably be a lot more bridges than Chongqing-"Country".
@@nboyxs Richtig. Die Flächenausdehnung ist mit 82,3 tsd qkm enorm, das ist fast soviel wie Baden-Württemberg + Niedersachsen oder das 1,15-fache von Bayern.
Well... FYI, Hamburg happens to be one of the biggest harbours in Europe. :D Because of that, Hamburg also has some really strange features. Some of the older apartments really have incredible redwood floors. A big load got stuck there in some way, and they used it to make floors. I hope they don´t use redwood in that way anymore. Today these floors are priceless.
I think the only inland harbour that actually surpasses the one in Hamburg was the one in Duisburg, right? At least when talking about Germany.
@@CEntertainArt, I haven´t checked the statistics for a long while, and when they are mentioned briefly in a video, it is always problematic. Is it big in cargo or passengers? Both? Hamburg is HUGE, especially when it comes to cargo. My point was that it definitely is a very big harbour in Europe. The OP seems somewhat surprised that there is so much water in Germany. No worry, we have lots of water here too! :D
@@CEntertainArt Duisburg is relatively small in comparison to Hamburg, as Hamburg has the third largest harbour in Europe after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Duisburg however is the largest "non sea" port in Germany, still big, but way smaller than Hamburgs sea port.
@@CEntertainArt Hamburg is a seaport. Megamax class container ships can sail through the port through the Elbe River to Hamburg with a draft of 16 m. That's 100 kilometers from the river mouth (Nordsee) to the harbor.
Duisburg is an inland port. Only smaller cargo ships sail there via the rivers Rhine, Maas and some canals to seaports such as Rotterdam and Hamburg. Duisburg is also known as a seaport - more because of the important transshipment point for goods from the seaports. Only smaller inland vessels sail there. Depending on the destination and width of the rivers and canals, even the largest inland vessels.
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The name Hamburger actually comes from the German city of Hamburg. There is the traditional Rundstück warm snack in Hamburg. This consists of a wheat roll (“round piece”) with a slice of roast in it and gravy that is poured over it. Another variant of this “hamburger piece” consists of a wheat bun with a minced meat patty made from beef steak and egg yolk. This recipe came to the USA with German immigrants. Meatballs with rolls were also a popular dish on the emigrant ships that often left Hamburg. At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, such minced meat rolls - still without the "er" ending - were demonstrably sold as "Hamburg".
Ryan, I‘m sorry that you watched this bad video. It‘s confusing, badly explained and doesn’t always have its facts together.
Yes, Hamburgs a great place to visit. And a great starting point for cruise around Europe.
Right at the start, it said that Hamburg was a former city state. Wrong. Hamburg is still its own state. It’s one of Germany‘s 16 federal states, being one of three city states (The others are Berlin and Bremen).
The old Elb tunnel (Alter Elbtunnel) is a tunnel under Elbe for pedestrians, yes. It’s really spectacular to walk. But those two huge elevators you saw in the video (with the wooden doors), they are vehicle elevators. The old tunnel was opened in 1911 for regular car traffic from one side of the Elbe to the other, paying a toll. It was closed for vehicle traffic only in 2019 because of necessary maintenance. Pedestrians and Bikes can still use it for free. Once reopened it will remain car-free (the exception being emergency services like police etc).
I mean the voice-over is definitely AI,
I don't think it's too far-fetched to assume that the entire rest of the video is as well
So it's a reminder of the ancient borders that were moved in 1937.
Another mistake was placing Hagenbecks Tierpark at Planten & Blomen. Or have I misheard something?
@@nikibordeaux Actually there was a historical zoo at the place of todays "Planten & Blomen" park but it was NOT "Hagenbecks Tierpark".
It is a little know fact. There was a recent podcast by somebody who did research on the history of Hamburg´s first zoo.
There is indeed a small remains of the former zoo: The "Tiergartenstraße" which runs between the rails and the park and is overlooked by most people.
8:45 The Alster Lake was built in 1190 as water reservoir for the water mills in the town. As the city expanded and needed new fortifications it was parted by a dam supporting the new walls, built between 1616 and 1625, into the (bigger) Outer and the (far smaller) Inner Alster.
10:30 Some story about the city hall: The old city hall was blasted during the Great Fire of 1842 in order to make a fire lane (which only partly worked because the blasting did not bring down the whole building). The city council used then for some decades the city orphanage as city hall and since 1847 also the big hall of the house of the Patriotic Society which had been built at the place of the burned down city hall. After multiple architectural competitions the construction of the new city hall started in 1884 and was finished in 1897. More than 4,000 oak posts provided the foundations.
11:59 Very strange pronunciation. Jungfer is an old word for maiden, derived from "jung vrowe", young mistress, and 'j' is rather pronunced like 'y' in English, 'u' like 'oo' in English.
14:55 Most bigger animals unique to Europe were long ago hunted to extinction. Some were recreated by backcrossing (at least regarding appearance), like aurochs, tarpan horses and others. Some European wolves and (brown) bears survived in the balkans and were later resettled in the Alps region.
8:19 That weird stuff in the background are two mountains made of fiberglass that have a lot of slides and in the summer even a pool you can slide into. The part shown is only the small separated toddler playground. The rest features said mountains, water cannons and a lot of climbing and jumping stuff like a house with a net as floor or a house with movable floor and wallboards.
Too bad they didn't show the Japanese garden with tea house. It's my favourite place in Planten un Blomen (Lower German for plants and flowers) and it's just next to the big playground. In the main season they hold a traditional tea ceremony every second Sunday.
Also they talked about but didn't show the tropical green houses. They even grow bananas and cocoa in it as well as oranges and green tea. In front of it are terraces made from slate which heat up in the sun and allow growing mediterranean plants in the wet cold Northern German climate. There are even turtles living in the pond beneath it which used to be a part of the old town moat.
All the streets ending in -wall are on the line of the old town wall by the way and a big part of Planten un Blomen (the Wallanlagen) is located in the Western town moat that was leading from the Alster pond to the harbour. (The Eastern town moat now holds the train tracks leading south from Central station.) If you walk through that part of the park you come along the court houses, an old music hall, a street with old half timbered buildings that house the Lower German Library and a composer museum and the museum for Hamburg's history. The exit of the park is right next to St. Pauli subway station at one end of the infamous Reeperbahn (red light and party district that has it's name from the rope making industry) and when you head into the direction of the grey big guy with the sword (statue of Otto von Bismarck) you end up just above the Landungsbrücken and have a great view across the harbour from the Stintfang vineyard (a present from Hamburg's twin town Stuttgart) just above the city rail station of the same name.
Also they didn't show what the water concert looks like. Just imagine a smaller version of the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas but with a colourful light show (after dawn) in a natural surrounding and with classical music or movie soundtracks playing. For example when they play the James Bond theme (you know, the one where you see someone through the barrel of a gun) they have the central fountain grow higher and higher with a white light and when the point comes when the person in the intro turns and shoots and blood runs down tge screen they switch to the red light and shoot water out of the diagonal fountains. The shows are still operated by hand from two technicians. One for the lights and the other for the fountains.
"Does Germany have unique animals?" European nations are generally too small to entirely contain a species to themselves. However, Germany does have a handful of fish species that exist only there, I assume confined to lakes and such. That said, Germany is the origin of a number of well known dog breeds, such as the German Shepherd, Boxers, Dachshunds (Wienerdogs!), Dobermanns, the Great Dane, Schnauzers, Pomeranians, Poodles, Rottweilers and many others.
Und die einzige Rassekatze aus deutscher Zucht, die Deutsche Langhaarkatze. Sehr seltene Rasse.
Der Alman lebt nur in Deutschland. Sehr einzigartig!
We have an Oger in Germany name Dragonlord Rainer Winkler.Maybe he is the species we looking for🤔
Don't forget the Leonberger dogs, the greatest metaphor for the German existence.
From wikipedia>
The modern look of the Leonberger, with darker coats and black masks, was developed during the latter part of the 20th century by reintroducing other breeds, such as the Newfoundland.[24] This was necessary because breeding stocks of the Leonberger were seriously affected by the two world wars. Only five Leonbergers survived World War I[28] and were bred until World War II when, again, almost all Leonbergers were lost. During the two world wars, Leonbergers were used to pull the ammunition carts, a service to the breed's country that resulted in the Leonbergers' near-destruction.[29] Karl Stadelmann and Otto Josenhans are credited as the breed's saviors, bringing them back from almost extinction.[25] Leonbergers today can have their ancestry traced to the eight dogs that survived World War II.[28]
In terms of domesticated animals, there are plenty of originally local breeds. Cows (the most famous black and white one: Holstein), pigs, chicken, sooo many horse breeds...
The Tunnel is also a great way to get one of the best views of Hamburg.
You can go down the stairs or use the elevators to get down (last time I checked the elevators worked during weekdays only, so be aware if you want to cross by car or bike).
The pictures with the people in it: that's the street 😀
>So, that's were cars drive through. Even for european standards it's a really slim fit on the sides. I used it about 30 years ago with a van and... lets say: I got a little bit of sweat in the elevator and had problems to pass pedestrians in the tunnel.
But if you go through the tunnel and up on the south side you have the best panoramic viev of the harbour and the city behind it.
Classical orchestras in Germany are often subsidized. You can get tickets to the
Elbphilharmonie for less than 10€.
The houses in Blankenese, that I could find, start at around 1.5 million Euros and went up to almost 15 million Euros.
Gute Besserung!
Most of those large houses are sub divided into apartments or house more than one generation of a family, some have 3-4 generations living under the same roof.
Na, not the houses he showed there...
By the way: "Planten un Blomen" is the North German dialekt, "Plattdütsch" (stands for "flat German" - the North of Germany isn't famous for many mountains or even mounts...). In normal German you would say: "Pflanzen und Blumen", "plants and flowers" in English.
Platt in that context meant clear or understandable (klar und deutlich), when the word Plattdeutsch was first created. It's not about geography but rather the way it is spoken, that it gets its name from.
Blomen, Blumen, Bluehen and the English word 'bloom' are related ...
Hamburg… our greatest, beautiful and magnificent City in Germany. I‘m glad to live here 😍🥰
kiel is still better tbh but hamburg is still a perl
Same ❤
It's without any doubt the most beautiful city in Germany.
Here in Germany you usually see buildings that are not older than 30 years as "new". What's really old here is something that's 200 years old or older. And really, really old things are things that are older than 600 years
There are actually buildings that are close to 2000 years old like the Roman "Porta Nigra" and the "Aula Palatina" in the city of Trier.
Hi Ryan, you should definitely watch the video from Dr. Ludwig, this is Germany view ☝️Even I, as a German, often forget how incredibly beautiful and diverse my country is. And every time I watch this video, I feel an even deeper love for my country I am really very happy to have been born in this beautiful country, including its rough edges😎
Kind regards from Hanover 🤗
Because of the Video you mentioned, I'm planing to do a roadtrip through germany to see those and other places with my own eyes. Can't wait to start. 😊
Hamburg is a beautyful City, so sad the tv tower is closed. The view was awesome back then.
Snd thats why Hamburg has so many bridges because there is so much Water. I love my hometown ❤❤❤
Elbphilharmonie concert tickets can often be purchased from around €50. As is often the case, it depends on the artist.
Musical tickets can often be purchased for as little as €50.
Culture (concerts, theaters, museums, etc.) are supported, so that
fellow citizens with lower incomes may have opportunities to experience these things. (reduced prices for students, pensioners, groups, etc.) Some employers also book theater performances (for example: Christmas Fairy Tales) and then pass these tickets on to their employees at a cheaper price.
Or employers can agree on a general discount with zoos, theaters, amusement parks, etc. for their employees, who can then book these tickets through the employer.
Musicals became quite expensive. Most tickets cost 100€
@@sollte1239 It depends on what day and time you want to see the musical.
Shows at lunchtime are usually cheaper on weekends and during the week (Tuesday to Thursday) too.
* By the way, the price mentioned comes from the event page in Hamburg.
Hello Ryan, my comment today is for your health and against the high amounts you have to pay for the doctor and the medicine. It's a so called "Hausmittel" from my grandmother, who was also bothered by bronchitis. It is effective and almosr free. Boil the skins of about three potatoes, drain them a little and wrap them in a piece of cotton fabric that will no longer be used. Then wrap an old towel around it, place it on your bronchi and cover it with a scarf so that the heat is retained for as long as possible. After using it several times, your bronchitis should clear up and you should feel better. Best regards from Bremen
Hi Ryan, Hamburg is a very nice, maritime town worth living in. I have the privilege of growing up in „Övelgönne“, directly at the beach, opposite of the harbour yet very fashionable…Seeing 400m Containerships manovered in front of your garden is only possible in Hamburg….
Regards,
J.
Get well soon. I love your videos and especially your reaction to Miniatur Wunderland. Maybe you can respond to a newer version of this, particularly the new part of Patagonia. It's incredible what they did there. Nowadays already more than 1 million working hours! Greetings from Celle, Germany.
9:22 If you mean the building in the centre of the frame - no. It's the headquarter of the shipping company Hapag-Lloyd. But there are shops in the basement of the building facing the street. If I remember correct one of them sells traditional clothing (Tracht in German) from various German regions - like Bavarian dirndl and lederhosen. Most shops and malls are in the small alleys between the town hall and the Gänsemarkt (geese market) and along the Mönckebergstraße (monk hill street) leading to Central Station.
Als Hamburger tut mir das "The Elbe Tunnel" weh.
Der alte Elbtunnel konnte mal mit dem Auto durchfahren werden.
Er war für Kutschen gemacht.
Dort gibt es große Aufzüge und natürlich auch Treppen ;-)
Die Spielplätze in Planten und Blomen sind legendär!
Zeig sie bloß nicht deinem Kind, sonst musst du nach Hamburg reisen😅
Ich hab erst gelesen „Er war für Knutschen gemacht“ 😂
@@caccioman ich will auch nicht wissen wieviel Felgen da den Bordstein geknutscht habhen.
Hamburg lies in the Elbe river delta (far away from the sea caused by the wide river mouth and the tidal range). That's the reason, Hamburg seems to be within a river.
Some points are missing like the Reeperbahn, the entertainment an red light district with the Davidswache and a lot of shows and musicals. The U3, the subway with the best view (on bridges above the roads).
You should look into the port of Hamburg. Its germanys most important port for containers
6:00 Definitely recommend the Elbphilharmonie, i've been twice and will be going there a bunch more times, tickets are actually really cheap for what you get, they range from 14€ to 90 or 120€, the first time i went, i got seats right in front of Ray Chen in the first row for 90€, the second time i got "worse" seats (sound is the same at every seat) for 20€ and it was still soooooo good. people under 30 often times get 50% off aswell (wasnt the case for the 2 times i visited tho, it's only for concerts organized by the Elbphilharmonie itself). It's like the most amazing sound experience i can imagine and i've ever experienced.
True. Today it is ridiculous that is was so controversial in the beginning, there was a lack of imagination in so many people.
Yes it was expensive to build, and it had time issues, but today only very few people wouldn't like it.
Hamburg is by far the coolest city of Germany. Forget about Berlin. Pfft. Whats missing in the vid is the famous Reeperbahn and the great graffiti art all over the town.
Yes the houses are architected and build on their own. That is true for the majority of houses in Germany.
Have you ever seen one of these "whats the dumbest thing an american has ever said to you" where somebody said "The US is the whole world, countrys like Egypt do not exist" ?
I guess if you think like that, then Pitsburgh has the most bridges since Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna doesn't really exist.
They do acknowledge other parts of the world, as long that they're lessers.
I think it has something to do with the definition of a bridge. For cars or for humans
Gardening: our raw -models are the English and French gardenings. Yes, Germans love gardening. Sea -food is supposed to be phantastic in Hamburg, and of course in all over the north. I am north German from Bremerhaven and love all kinds of seafood 😋
Concerts in the Elphilharmonie are actually quite affordable, since they try to get a lot of variety in there. If you want spending, there are apartments above the Elbphilharmonie, which'll have you spending an arm a leg and your newborn to aquire.
Hi there. Hamburg is on the North Sea - Delta of the river Elbe
Hamburg is a Port City, build on the banks of the River Elbe. This is why it was Important and rich enough to become it's own seperate entitty for a long time and to this day, the City is it's own german county. We also have the Alster, a second river, much of which flows within the Citylimits and it's great to take a boat on
There is a theory that the “Hamburger” the world knows actually comes from Hamburg.
In the 17th century, a “round piece” bun (Rundstück) was baked that is very similar to today’s hamburger bun.
In 1901, a Hamburg innkeeper took advantage of the need to have only one roll, two slices of roast and some gravy. The idea is to bake the bun, place the roast slices in between and dip the whole thing in the sauce. That was very well received at the time.
That not just one host used the recipe, but many hosts. This is how the dish “Rundstück warm” became the most popular food in Hamburg. Especially the dock worker. You could eat the dish quickly.
The original food is still similar to the hamburger of fast food chains, which is now sold with meatballs, cheese and tomatoes.
That's the story...
I was born in Hamburg and it's the best city in Germany in my opinion! And my aunt played in the Elbphilharmonie once.
Finally!! In videos about germany, Northern germany really tends to fall short. I know we don't have the rolling hills of Southern germany, but our lands are beautiful too. especially the Coast, hersh but beautiful. I grew up on the Outskirts of Hamburg, went to School in Altona and to Uni in Sülldorf, so this is near and dear to my heart.
Hamburg is interesting insofar that it has very few old builings as the city got pretty much leveld during WWII, being an important port and all. It also got completly evacuated, my Grandma has many story from that time
Technically Northern Germany does not fall short, because of Berlin which - in difference to what people believe - is also a Nordic city (just Eastern-Northern - you also have a lot of that red brick building style - also in the German cities at the Eastern sea/Baltics in the regions which were once Prussia/Baltics. Berlin was btw. also member of the Hanse (since 1360) for some time, the first harbor was the today old/historic harbor at the Mühlendammschleuse/Fischerinsel. And the Berlin dialect also has a strong Lower German/Niederdeutsche Influences (in fact you had already around 1500 additionally some migrants from Flandern/Flamen and the Netherlands (and Northern Germans/Germanic ppl which added to the East-Northern Lower German influences). But yes, in general cities like Bremen, Hamburg, Luebeck etc. have a lesser focus than Berlin and Munich/Bavaria.
@@publicminx While you would be correct on a technical level, Berlin is so very, very different i it's ways and people from the other Schleswig-Holstein Cities and Hamburg that it really doesn't count as being part of the Northern german feel. Ask any Hamburg person if they consider Berlin to be Nordic and watch them either laugh histerically or glare at you and turn away.
8:20 There also is a Kindergarden at planten un Blomen, or rather the entry is outside of it. But it has Backdoors where the Kids can Go outside directly into planten un blomen.
Source: I used to be one of those kids.
Pittsburgh has the most bridges in the "American World" 😜
11:28 Hard to see due to the size of the image, but I think that's a passenger tricycle, basically a bicycle taxi (named Velotaxi). You'll mostly see them in places with lots of tourism and few hills like Hamburg, Berlin, or Cologne.
My sister used to life in blankenese, treppenviertel is cool for a walk. its essentially only stairs. no roads or something. houses have lifts and ittle railways to get their groceries in the house. But one big thing is missing, Reeperbahn, Kiez. Best Party. Atferwards the fishmarket ;)
Good timing to put out this video cuz we have a little water problem currently over here. 😂
6:15 some evenings might be expensive but in general the approach is to open up culture for everyone no matter what economic or societal background. I saw a 4 and half hour Beethoven Concert there for 20 bucks
And there is so much more to see in Hamburg.
The Elbtunnel was actually built for pedestrians and cars. Therefore they also built those big elevators which could move one car. Now that cars are way bigger than back in the days and they are also renovating one of the 2 tubes, cars are not allowed in the tunnel anymore (since 2019), just pedestrians and cyclists. A lot of harbour workers are using it and people who live in the southern parts of Hamburg (it's my daily way to work).
I would recommend taking a ferry to Blankenese, too, take a harbour tour in one of the small boats (not the big ones, they'll take the same routes like the ferries, the ferries are way cheaper because they are part of the public transport system). A visit in the tower of St. Michaelis (they took a lot of shots in the beginning of this video from there). The Reeperbahn if you want to party hard, the Schanzenviertel, if you like to go from bar to bar, cafe to cafe and restaurant to restaurant and visit little shops. Maybe a canoe tour on the Alster. And if you want to see more of the city just by looking out of the window, just hop into the underground train U3. It circles around the whole city, and actually most of the times it's elevated and you'll be able to see the harbour, the rich part of Hamburg, a lot of green, and where "normal" people are living.
houses in Blankenese? Well you should probably have at least 2 Million Euros... and probably no upper limit.
…2 Millions? In Blankenese for a whole house? Very unlikely nowadays…..at the beach or with a view directly at the river, 4 to 9 Mio are more of the range…
I love about Hamburg how green it is. Everywhere are trees at the streets and there are a lot of parks.
Ich empfehle Ihnen 1.Salbeitee und Weißdorn,2. Hagebutte, Ingwerzitrone .Gut lüften,Baustoffe und Einrichtung sind voller Chemikalien.
Oh man! Walk at a fast pace for 30 minutes every day (for a week and every day thereafter); this boosts your immune system. It kept me away from bronchitis for years and I'm a heavy smoker.
If you are visiting Hamburg you should also visit the fish market. It is worth it.👍🌹
But you have to get up early 😊
My father-in-law was born in the Treppenviertel. In the older days seamen and ship captains have their homes there. His family sold his birth house in 1990st and the next owner invested a lot in restoration. In the last sale the price tag was 1,5 million euros. And in this quarter a lot of houses are in this price range. A lot of high society and famous persons from Hamburg live in the quarter of Blankenese.
German here 😂
Tea is a popular home remedy for bronchitis: the warmth is good for the respiratory tract and keeps mucus fluid. Herbal teas such as sage, thyme or fennel are particularly suitable. Ginger tea can also have an anti-inflammatory effect and help reduce pain.
In many cases, onion juice has an expectorant effect and is therefore also suitable as a home remedy for bronchitis, as it makes it easier to cough up the secretion. To make it, you need to chop two onions into small pieces. Put these in a glass and then add some honey. The whole thing has to steep for several hours (preferably overnight), then the juice can be poured off. You can take a spoonful of it several times a day.
Gargling with salt water relieves the urge to cough and soothes the irritated throat. To make a gargle solution, dissolve a teaspoon of salt in 250 milliliters of warm water.
The reason the Elbe Tunnel (or just Elbtunnel) is partly for pedestrians is that it is so old only few people could afford to own a car when it opened.
old household remedy: bowl with hot water, chamomile and/or some peppermint in it, nice long steam bath to let your nose run freely,
good for the throat: sage tea with a little honey, chamomile for a sore throat
and important: if you have a cough -> put on a scarf
I'm 56, I'm old enough to tell you that 😁
Blankenese is a good place to relax and there is a small beach at the river (not recommended to swim, but can take a break there nontheless).
A big part of the City is its wide range train, underground and bus system, so there is no need to take a car when moving through hamburg, hence you can see many ppl go by foot from the stations to the sights.
i personally recommend to visit all sides of hamburg: the very old one, the industrialised one, the modern one and the „this is my hometown“ one.
the old one:
- visit the Rathaus
- visit the Michel (if you‘ve never seen a european church, else skip it)
- visit the university district
the industrial one:
- visit the old Elbtunnel
- visit the Speicherstadt
- visit the Fishmarket
- take a „Tretboot“ on the river‘s side arms
the modern one:
- visit Planten und Blomen (park)
- visit the Alsterarkaden
- visit the Elbphilharmonie
the „hometown“ one:
- take a train a little outside of the center (don‘t worry there are stations everywhere, you‘ll find back) and just walk around there. (2-3 stations before the final station should be fine as long as you stay north of the river)
- visit the Reeperbahn at night
- buy groceries
If you are awestruck by the Hamburg Rathaus you should have a look at the Viennese town hall ; )
And 16 years is considered brand new in Europe 😄
I agree with most comments this is a poor video about Hamburg and many valuable remarks have been already made by my folks in the comments.
There is so much more to see in Hamburg and it would take too long to mention all of them. And keep in mind Hamburg is a university city so you can find several areas with great spirit and much more affordable restaurants, bars and shops than at the tourist hotspots.
My personal favourite place is the concert hall "Laeiszhalle", not only due to the fact it is from inside and outside so beautiful but also because I could enjoy many great concerts there.
Zoo "Hagenbeck" is worth to visit but if you prefer to see more native animals then I recommend a huge park with animals called "Schwarze Berge" (black mountains) located in the very south of Hamburg. Very beautiful because it is centered inside a forest with wide compounds for the anmimals including one lovely meadow where you can walk through with close contact to fallow deer which is a lot of fun especially for kids.
Regarding the Elbtunnel: In fact you can find 2 of them. The ancient one which is shown in the video and a new tunnel but this is located more at the west of Hamburg and it is part of the Autobahn 7, so you only can drive through it by car. However it is an interesting journey because behind the tunnel at the south you are conneted to the great harbour and you can go back over one of the most famous and tallest bridges in Hamburg, the Köhlbrandbrücke.
And btw: at timestamp 11:27 you see a rickshaw which is a kind of tourist attraction. You can find a few of them but only downtown. If you want to have a ride then I think the best way is to go to the square in front of the city hall.
Finally get well soon!
you need to see city hall Hannover, that is a palace!
Going to classical concerts doesn't necessarily cost you a Fortune in Germany, as many orchestras and opera houses are publicly funded by cities or states. You can see the local (professional) orchestra play in the famous new Elbphilharmonie from 15€ upwards, in less affluent places it can be even cheaper (from 10€ in Duisburg, for example).
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I don't think Germany, or central europe in general, has any truly unique or rare animals. Most animal species here have like a close cousin in many parts of the world, including North America.
I think the most notable are European Badgers that look quite different from American ones, and Eurasian Lynxes, which are a lot bigger than those found in NA.
don't forget the birds... eg the Red Kite is almost exclusive to Europe :)
Und die Eichhörnchen!
there are actually animals who only live in Germany, even some only in some regions. Examples of German only animals are the 'Elbebiber' (a sub of the Beaver family), the Mosel-Apollofalter (a Butterfly - lives only regional in a Mosel region) etc... you also have 11 endemic sorts of fishes, some plants etc.
The thumbnail about "this much water in Germany?" hits differently, when you are living in Bremen, Lower Saxony and other parts of Germany, which are drowning at the moment ...
Passt auf euch auf!
I've been in the highest bridge in Europe in Milau (France) mind blowing 😳! and a fascinating Tunnel/bridge between Danemark and Sweden. it is a tunnel under the sea and came out in the middle of the sea into a beautiful bridge.
I'm sorry that you really look sick, please get well soon! Take your time and take care, best wishes from Germany!
They always forget to give a hint to the large Ohldorf cemetary which is crossed by a bus line to help people get to the gravesite they want to see. It is said that Ohlsdorf cemetery is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. People are often unsing it for recreational walks.
My 2 cents: Planten and Bloomen is not the nicest park in Hamburg, I would recommend Parkfriedhof Ohlsdorf (Europe's largest cemetary park) or Loki Schmidt Garten.
But yeah, lots of water. One of our favourite hobbies is to Kayak in the summer. You can explore the city from the water. There are even some cafés and bars with boat drive-ins.
I worked 5 years in Hamburg. Its´truly a beautiful and interesting place to live! My trainstation was direct next to Planten un Blomen so I visited it often. And a good amount of my time I also spend with all these wonderful musicals.
Well, quiete an American view - " 16 Years is not new " , Hamburg was founded in the 9 th century b.C , i was surprised that its not older as i googelt it , its quiete a new City ... Köln or Cologne was founded by the Romans in 38 or maybe 19 b e f o r e Christ called " Oppidum Ubiorum " and 50 b.C it was already called " Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium " which was used until the 5th Century b.C , then the former mighty roman Empire crippeled and Cologne and later Köln appered as Name of the Town .
Hello! I like that you try to find out about other countries and lern something from it. Respekt for that! First Hamburg is a Hansestadt and part of the Hanse which was formed in 1400 AC. This means its still part of a trading-alliance in Europe and for this fact it is a german state and a capital of this state. A city state like some others in europe. The different unique houses are because different cultures settled in Germany and its different building years. Some are frensh romantic or gothic, we have Scandinavia wood houses but also some from the Alps and the black forest. Bauhaus is the modern era I like a lot which was from 1919 to 1933 here you will find buildings all over the world. It started in Weimar in Germany. Hauses at the Elpchaussee are very expansive and normally nobody sells a property there. But I think you will not find something under 2 Million and it will go up to 40 Millions. The most expansive villas you will find in Hamburg and München but in Europe Monaco is extremely expansive. Famous german animals are the lynx and the Steinadler. Very rare is the Eisvogel and Wulfs are coming back to Germany. The thing that places are not so crowded than in the US is because the cities have many centre’s and are not so focused only on one spot. Hamburg is a quite modern city because it was destroyed to 80% after WW2. You will find more historical cities in little cities in Germany or in towns like Schwäbisch Hall. My best wishes from the Bodensee in Germany.
It‘s funny to me how the AI doesn‘t know that there is no „th“ in the german language.
The AI butchered pretty much all names.
I'm still laughing about its pronunciation of "Elbe" as "Elbow" xD
Well, the video is over 1 year old. I am actually quite confused that they managed to make a video this presentable with AI over 1 year ago.
Yeah, I stopped adding that to my comment. The pronunciation as well as timing was atrocious.
That building at the alster with the green copper roof is the HQ of Hapag-LLoyd, one of the worlds top 10 largest container carriers.
2:00 Hamburg is Not only a Former, but still today a City State
15:21 "an ancientt neighbourhood? What do u do here?" answer: being rich
Chongquing is actually more like a state but with a city in the middle that grew so big, it now entails the entire state. So depending on where you set the city borders, it is the biggest city in the world or just in the top 20.
So if you count every bridge in the state of Chongquing, you’ll get 10k. But the city centre is juts at one big river and has maybe 5 bridges
As a German it's so much fun listening you pronouncing German words. Seems quite hard to do, the Vid you're commenting is not doing better. 😅
Keep on going 💪
Yes, I did not unterstand 'Hagenbeck' until I read the sign. There must be better Videos in YT
@@noname-xw4uk "Häidschnbäck" 🤣😂
@@schaerfentiefe1967 😂😂😂
Hafencity (Harbour City) is new because started in 2008 but still in extending and construction as it is increasing still...
The Elbtunnel is actually the old Elbtunnel. It was build to ensure that the workers of a ship yard could get to work better and properly on time.
Hagenbeck was originally a kind of warehouse for selling animals and from this is the zoo developed.
Treppenviertel houses can't be bought, you can only passed over. It was former the home of all the captain of the ships which had been in the 18th and 19th century worked to ensure their families are safe.
Get well!
2:03 the „former“ city state? It’s still a city state in Germany
I suppose this in reference to the times when it was actually independent (between the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire, and the founding of the North German Federation and the German Empire), or also the long stretches of time when imperial power in the Holy Roman Empire was so weak it was effectually independent.
@@roerd probably correct but then I realized I just hate auto generated voiceovers so I’d hate the original video anyway :D
Don't laugh at the Jungfernstieg, man. I proposed to my wife there. ;)
But the video left out soooooo many good stuff.
Treppenviertel? Really? You go there at your third or forth visit. Before that you other things to do for sure.
And where is the nightly stuff? Reeperbahn, anyone? Herbertstrasse? Only for the men, sorry ladies ;)
St Pauli and Sternschanze. You will have a hangover for two days from just visiting the place.
Take a Alster Boat Tour to sober up. ;)
"Herbertstrasse? Only for the men, sorry ladies ;)"
The ladies ain't missing out on much except desperation and cattle market athmosphere.
@@greentoby26 It's not about missing out on something. Of course they don't. What's to miss out on a bunch of hookers behind windows? But for the girls it's kind of a dare. To see if the stories with the buckets are true ;)
given that most regions, cities, buildings and areas are several hundred years old, 16 years is new.
Blankenese = is the most expensive residential area in Hamburg. You could call it the Beverly Hills of Los Angeles.
Hamburg is 150km from the coast. All large ships have to cross the Elbe. Hamburg Container Port is the third largest in Europe.
The "Elfi" is the most modern opera house in Europe. The design was chosen to offer the best sound experience. A dream for all classical music fans.
Wow, those German place names could not have been more mispronounced. Unrecognisable.
I think that the Hamburg town hall also needs this size because it also manages that city. In addition, Hamburg was founded in 500 AD, so it had enough time to develop.
No way you reacted to my hometown. Damn… thats so cool🤩🤩🤩
BTW: I love your channel❤️ Keep up the good work👍
The "Miniatur Wunderland" was forgotten. One of the famous new sights in the "Speicherstadt". It is an amazing miniature train plants ever. You must visit it, if you are in Hamburg.
11:24 This is shot from the Elphi down on a stream of tourists/visitors who come from the subway to get on the platform.
Fun to watch, nice channel.
Greetings from Hamburg 😅
That is actually hillarious. The City is building a new City Hall from scratch and 70/80 years later they are like "damn.. there is a new room we didn't even know about" 😂
nothing is really be build in germany from scratch, if you dig into the ground, you find 10.000 years, then thousand years, old stoneage tribal artifacts, villages and later germanic tribal villages and buildings and then came the roman empire , building bathes and walls and villas, and wars came and went and medieval ages arrived, people build in every inch something and more wars came and went, and you have piles upon piles historical artifacts, and partly exisiting buildings under and on surface level.
also, every inch was covered in bombs after ww1 and ww2 and before anything can be build, the ground must be searched for left over bombs, which can be activated, its a national wide mandatory law and every other months, they discover bombs from ww2, and parts of streets or cities get evacuated to remove the bombs from the wars decades ago.
so, finding rooms, walls, paintings, bombs, complete new villages under farming lands is nothing special even in germany. there is something "sensational" every month that no one has capacity to care anylonger.
I wouldve changed the last one to St. Pauli including the reeperbahn tho because its literally such an iconic place and Blankenese are js a buncha humongous houses where all the rich people live so idk myb go there for a quick look cuz it looks sorta stunning ngl but idk if its worth to be in this video actually. My biggest recommendation i would give to anyone coming here is the chocoversum which basically means chocolate universe and I mean ig i don’t even have to say more abt it and then the U-Bahn stop called überseequartier which can loon very nice when they turned all the lights on. Kinda missed footage of the christmas market in front of the town hall too.