I'm Scottish and spent three years in Germany when I was young (two years in Munich and an year in Nuremberg). It's an astoundingly beautiful country with amazing history (including the Hasbergs and Prussia etc) I still hold Germany close to my heart I had a great time with great people.
For me it's exactly the other way round. I'm German and I went on holiday with my then partner on motorbikes to Scotland three times. I discovered my love for the Highlands in the Highlander films. and ever since I was there I have had Scotland in my heart. My Heart’s in the Highlands My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow, Farewell to the straths and green vallies below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. Robert Burns
I met a lot of scots during the EM in germany. And although they werew all football fans I made so many fun memories! I've been to scotland a few times and honestly I've never met such welcoming people before
I'm a Brit and I lived in Germany for 3 years. I also spent time managing a team in Frankfurt so lots of trips there from London. Its an amazing place, very under-rated. Also, one of the things he doesn't mention are the people. I found them to be charming, funny and very welcoming contrary to the usual stereotype put forward. I'd recommend a visit there to anybody doing a trip to Europe.
I'm from the UK love my country, but for pure stunning places to see are mainland Europe. Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and so much more Europe is stunning guys. Happy new year guys , hope you get to visit Europe soon ❤
I'm from England and I've lived in Germany for 5 years now. I haven't even scratched the surface of the places I want to visit here. Amazing , beautiful country...........even if it's taking me forever to get to grips with the language :)
If you're interested in watching more of my homelamd I highly recommend the videos of Meet the Germans Road Trip Parts 1-4 by Rachel. She did a very good job in presenting the 4parts of Germany talking about people, culture, environment, histoy and much more. Happy new year to you from Germany!🎆
Rachel Stewart is ONE presenter of the DW broadcasting channel. DW stands for Deutsche Welle (German Wave). Don't confuse it with NDW, Neue Deutsche Welle, which was a German music era in the '80th where for instance 'Nena - 99 red balloons' is from.
Living in the UK, it is relatively easy to visit all these wonderful places he filmed - mountains, lakes, cities, small villages. It really is as beautiful as the video shows. I have had the privilege of visiting, Germany, Austria and Switzerland many times. I hope you get to see it all soon!
Hello both of you. First of all, I wish you a happy new year 2025. With over 25,000 castles and palaces, Germany has more than McDonald's restaurants in the USA. And what has inspired you so much here is only a small part of what Germany still has to offer. If you are interested in seeing more of Germany, then I can only recommend the video by Dr. Ludwig “This is Germany”, which will also absolutely inspire you. Greetings from Germany
In everyday life, people often fail to recognize the beauty and history of this wonderful country. Thank you for reminding me. I often fail to recognize how lucky I was to have been born and raised here! Thank you and Happy New Year, best wishes from Munich
Great reaction video. I’m from the UK and have been lucky enough to visit an area of the Rhine close to Koblenz, Hamburg and only a few weeks ago the Christmas market in Frankfurt. Now I have to plan so many more trips.
I went to Berchtesgaden last year for the first time and it really is as magical as it looks. The water in the lakes & streams is so clear and the air is the same. Definitely one of the best places I’ve been.
I'm from England but I was actually born in Germany because my dad was stationed over there in the 60's he was in the army. Also my sister lives in Hamburg she moved there when she was 19 and is now 67 obviously I have visited her many times over the years. The lake is beautiful there is boat trips up and down it during the summer and in the winter when it's frozen over people go ice-skating on it
A tip: the Eagle's Nest is closed during the late autumn and winter, so you'll need to go to Germany twice! Once in late Nov - Dec for the Christmas markets (and enjoy the snowy landscapes!) then again during the late Spring - Summer - early Autumn for the sunshine and trails and Eagle's Nest. There are heaps of tourist Straße / Strasse (roads) to do. I've just done the Alpenstraße from Berchtesgaden to Lake Constance in November, then the Black Forest include a number of Christmas markets (include Colmar in France), Ravennaschlucht / Ravenna Gorge, Baden-baden, and Ulm back to Munich. Oh and doing a road trip in an electric car is perfect in Western Europe as there's chargers everywhere (including at accommodation). Also check out the Romantic Road, Schwarzwaldhochstraße or Black Forest High Road, and many others!
I studied German [I'm Irish] and spent a year in Passau on my year abroad. It's a beautiful little place and reminds me a little of my own home village. It's well worth a day trip if you're ever over there. I visited Rothenburg while I was there [also gorgeous] and Nürnberg at Christmas for the market and yes, I got some Nürnberger Lebkuchen !! I've also been to Berlin and had a fantastic time, such an incredible city. As to the German language sounding harsh, the narrator unfortunately mangled the pronunciation a bit, but it's not as harsh as it seems if you pronounce it a certain way ...
After the war my dad was stationed in the black Forrest .He went back with my mom in the 90s and still knew his way around, and was speaking fluent German , something my mom didn’t know he could do.
It still looks unreal when you finally see the mountain backdrop in real life. I grew up in the Swedish forests and plains so when I first visited my relatives in Slovenia as an adult I remember being blown away by the mountain scenery.
We lived in Germany for 8 years whilst I served in the British Army. Part of my job was to help organised Ex Snow Queen. I spent most of the winter down in Bavaria. Summer is beautiful as is winter.
Watching people reacting to Germany makes me appreciate it even more to live here ☺️🫶🏻 We live only one hour away from Cochem and the area is really beautiful ❤ I can't think of not having those old architecture (castles, old houses, cathedrals,...) around 👍🏻 In movies the "Germans" are always shouting, the "normal Germans" are not speaking like this 😂 But I had a hard time learning it when I moved from Belgium (frenchspeaking part) to Germany in 2008 🙈
Living in the Uk but have been lucky enough to have visited all these places over the last 30 years. The most perfect place, in my opinion, to be based (and I will be heading there in a couple of months time) is Lindau on the shores of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). From the balcony of my hotel room, I can see 4 different countries - not only Germany, but Austria (10 minutes on the train), Switzerland (20 minutes on the train) and Liechtenstein (35 minutes on the train). Added to that, Muenchen (Munich) and Zurich are only a 2 hour train ride away and I can be in Innsbruck in 3 hours! The food is to die for and the beer is even better (one year, I was in Lindau for 19 days and sample beers from 21 different breweries - all local).
Greetings from Radolfzell (Lake Constance), lived in Überlingen, Unteruhldingen near Meersburg, Konstanz and now here. Can't live anywhere else, have tried.
Hi Peeps, I spent 8 years living in northern Germany while in the RAF such a beautiful country two of my children were born there our favourite trips were to Munich, Austria and Switzerland we miss the scenery so much even living in Canada is not the same x
yes, they are beautiful - but not only.... with open eyes you will find massive beautiful spots all over Europe. The landscape of Skagen in Denmark, Copenhagen, as well as Madeira, Algarve, Lisbon, Porto, or Ireland (landscapes of Connemara, Donegal) Wales, Scotland, Southbrittain or Lake District, as well as Dolomites in Italy, the beautiful Amalfi Coast and Cinque Terre, Umbria, Toscana..., as well as Brittany, St MIchel, the Castles of France..., or the mountains and mediterrain spirit of Corse (what a lovely island!) So - use your time to visit and experience Europe. Also the East with Prague, Budapest mostly underrated... i cannot stop... it needs years to visit them all and you will not be able to pack them into 2 or 3 weeks. Back to Germany: welldone pictures, top saturated, top angles, (for the use of drones often you need permisson) but wheather isn't sunny every day. As a photographer you must be patient to the less but special days of a year to get a row of perfect pictures like this. 14 days in Bavaria can be beautiful but also rainy. Not only Ireland is that wonderful green without any rainy days...
@berndmaier5491 Depends what you like. It's really in the eye of the beholder and I'm not overly keen on desolate expanses like Skagen or the sheer bleakness of the Scottish moors. I grew up in places like this so it doesn't really do much for me)
The house shown is not the Eagles Nest, but the Kehlsteinhaus, it was the guest house of the complex. Almost everything of the Eagles Nest has been destroyed, bombed and blown up, only a few remains of the walls still exist. The view from the restaurant is breathtaking.
No, Kehlsteinhaus is the eagle's nest. His home Berghof, further down on the mountain where you take the bus up to eagles nest, was bombed along with many other buildings.
@fikonfraktare Other names for the Kehlsteinhaus, which is also said to have been called Teehaus (2nd Teehaus), D-Haus (Diplomatenhaus) or T-Haus (Haus T) during the Nazi era, are no longer clearly documented. The French ambassador André François-Poncet, who visited Hitler in the Eagle's Nest on October 18, 1938, first referred to the place as the Eagle's Nest (French: Nid d'Aigle). Poncet was the only foreign visitor of note that Hitler received in the Kehlsteinhaus.[4] The English equivalent, Eagle's Nest, became the standing term for this house throughout the English-speaking world after the end of the war at the latest and has also found its way into other languages. In German, however, Adlerhorst refers to the Führer's headquarters at Adlerhorst in Hesse.
I’ve been to Munich and then Berlin and loved both but preferred Munich, I got on with everyone I met they’re good people. I’ll have to go back to Germany and investigate other areas soon.
As a close neighbour to the west (Nordrhein Westfalen) of the country I have to say Germany is truly one of the most beautiful and diverse countries, only second to France and Italy perhaps and the most friendly, pleasant and decent people you'll ever meet anywhere. Not sucking up to our neighbours, just my honest opinion. Mind you they are a strange bunch.
As a German, I have to correct. Most of the Grimm's fairy tales come from central and northern Hesse, many from the area around Marburg city. This is also a beautiful area and worth a video
Hi. Iam German. I love you love Our Country Side. Look to the This is Germany Video. 😂 Thank you for this Kind reaction. Ill hope my English is Not to bad😢
I am from the UK and spent a short time in Germany when I was 16 years old. I stayed in Rheinhausen, Duisburg and I love the country and the people. The family I stayed with, Herr und Frau Buchler and their son Arno, even took me to Rheindahlen Military cemetery where my uncle is buried (despite not knowing which plot he was buried in I walked directly to the exact spot and his headstone was the first one I looked at; a very odd since no one in my family had been able to visit before me) and they also sent me some photographs of his grave in the summer after I'd returned to the UK as it had been winter when I was there. It is many years since that time, but I have never forgotten their kindness and the generosity of everyone I met there.
Visited the Hohenzollern Castle, went to the xmas event in 2022. was mind blowing. and i have been to quite a few residences and castles in Germany. i still have many to go. i can speak the language so travelling is much easier.
So folks - what's keeping you in your seats? Pack your bags as quickly as possible and head off to Germany. Take a tour of the sights you've just seen, sample our excellent food...! Come on come on - 25,000 castles, fortresses and palaces are waiting for you, as well as over 3,600 different types of bread and sausages of all kinds - beer until you drop and lots and lots of fun...! We're waiting for you and look forward to serving and entertaining you...!
Hey Mike n Jess, I am the same as pdevs1966. I live in Scotland and we have beautiful scenery and castles as you know but Germany, the Black Forrest Region and is absolutely stunning, we also did the tour round the lake bordering Switzerland Denmark Italy etc. It took my breath away.
As others have said his German needs some work, but an amazing video showcasing some of the best things to see in Germany. Every time he said the River Elbe, a little bit of me died inside, which does make me wonder if he's actually been to some of these places or just got video footage. As you said I wish he could have spent just a little longer on some of the places, but pretty good as an introduction. I'm fairly new to your channel and even though I've watched a number of videos don't know that much about you guys, but the vast majority of people in the US have done German ancestry and I'm wondering if you guys have (you'd probably have mentioned it if you had, but I thought worth asking, although maybe you do without even realising it a few generations back). Anyway, amazing reaction, keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!!! May 2025 be a great one!!!
For many Americans, “Bavaria” is the epitome of Germany - the stereotypical idea when it comes to folklore, food, traditional clothing and much more! If you are more interested in Germany, then I recommend the miniseries “Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 1 - 4”! In each of these four episodes, the different regions of Germany, their peculiarities and diversity are presented (landscapes, regional cuisine, dialects, traditions, folk festivals, etc.) - have fun! Part 1: Northern Germany ruclips.net/video/K-AbtBU3WzE/видео.html Part 2: Southern Germany ruclips.net/video/Td8yxkH5XzE/видео.html Part 3: Eastern Germany ruclips.net/video/jZtJdtXnOf4/видео.html Part 4: Western Germany ruclips.net/video/zJBf9cTa_eI/видео.html On the "Zugspitze" the weather can change quickly and if you are unlucky you will only see a wall of fog instead of a beautiful view! "Königssee" means "King's Lake"! The "Königssee" is also known for its “echo wall”! During a boat trip, the echo is demonstrated to the passengers with trumpets! The Lübeck “Holsten Gate” was depicted on the earlier 50 DM (Deutsche Mark) banknote, as a symbol of German civic pride! The "Obere Mittelrheintal"/"Upper Middle Rhine Valley" (UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 27, 2002) has over 60 castles, fortresses and palaces (many of them in ruins) over a length of 67 kilometers (≈ 41.6 miles) - that doesn't sound like much, but it is the highest density of these buildings in the world per kilometer! Hamburg's "Speicherstadt" ("Warehouse city") is the world's largest warehouse complex and home of "Miniatur Wunderland" ("Miniature Wonderland"), the largest model railway in the world - and they're still building!!! ruclips.net/video/yi6co_r1PfU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/WYycikG0CJI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/CqT0u6QDJtg/видео.html In Germany there are two cities called “Frankfurt” (which means something like: The ford over which the Franks came/the ford of the Franks)! 1. “Frankfurt am Main” (Frankfurt on the river Main) - when people talk about "Frankfurt" in general, THIS is what they mean - and 2. “Frankfurt an der Oder” (Frankfurt on the river Oder)! "Frankfurt am Main" has the nickname "Mainhattan" (a play on words from the river "Main" and "Manhattan"/Wall Street) as an allusion to its importance as a financial center! Another special feature of "Frankfurt am Main" is that 13 of Germany's 14 "skyscrapers" ("Wolkenkratzer"/"Cloudsscratches" in German) are there! "Neuschwanstein" ("New swan stone") by Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (also known as the fairy tale king), as a romanticized ideal of a medieval knight's castle - it inspired Walt Disney to create his Cinderella Castle. The construction of Neuschwanstein was started in 1869 but never completed! Today it is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Germany! There are some videos that talk about how the German language is supposed to be harsh and aggressive - also some in which people make fun of the German language - here's an opposite example: ruclips.net/video/dHeOooHTwcY/видео.html
ppl always ask me, why they never heard of german wine, cause we drink it all ourselves, we nearly dont export any, cause we dont want to share them. i would recommend a white rießling! or a bocksbeutel from frankonia. hard to get your hands on one of these outside germany
Guys, I very much enjoyed that you enjoyed those impressions of my country. You really have to come over some day, but you need to have an itenerary beforehand 'cause otherwise you will definitely be lost in time if that makes any sense. For a plethora of further impressions of Germany, you might also like to watch the video “This is Germany”. Oh, and that "language thing" really is largely due to those WWII movies... I'm confident that you'll be positively surprised. BTW, I'm always greatly enjoying your reactions. Have a marvelous new year -- and very best wishes from Germany
Hi folks love your video's and your laughter is infectious 😂 Visited most all the places mentioned, ended up moving there with my family 8 years ago! Never looked back and have only scratched the surface, such lovely people. Moved from Yorkshire now live in the Green heart of germany Thüringen wald "The Thuringen forest". If your intrested in history, Geography now- Germany is excellent?
Happy new year you loveable guys,one advantage we have is that we can fly from London to Berlin in 1h 50m and 8 other european cities within 2 hours,please visit this year if you can.
Happy new year to you both. Another thing which definitly will blow your mind it´s Miniatur Wunderland. It is the worlds largest model railroad display. It is located in Hamburg and has amazing details. I would love to see you reacting to it. Greetings from Austria.
one has to keep in mind that Germany is not just today the (also economical and population wise) heart/center of Europe with most borders to other relevant countries (and indirectly more) but this became already more and more the case since the decline of the Western Roman Empire. At first as part of the Germanic Frankish Empire which has its base in Western Germany, parts of Belgium and the Netherlands (this core region was called 'Austrasia (with the city of Aachen as center)). This Empire later split in three parts. The Western part became France (which kept the name: France = Frankish, just like Frankfurt, Franken/Bavaria, Frankenstein, the name Frank like Frank Sinatra etc. - all refers to that old Germanic Frankish tribe confederation), the Eastern and most Middle part became the Holy Roman Empire which was the most populated and most of the time most powerful Empire in Europe (it stretched from Italy (including Rome/Papal states which is why it was also called 'Holy' and 'Roman' - because it was seen as the continuation of the classic Roman Empire in competition with Byzantium/Eastern Roman Empire). Those two Empires (Frankish and the Holy Roman Empire) had many neighboring countries and regions included and created not only all renaissances and reforms but also by far most castles (in the world), most cities in Europe, most churches (and most of the tallest ones - till today, Germans has the highest amount of the tallest churches - a result of the many city states and a certain competition. Btw, most big churches were not created by the 'church' but by citizens), most innovations, most reforms, most trade, most traffic of all kind - till today, as heart/center of Europe, which is also the main reason why the train network is under special pressure in the 21. century, the general traffic from internet to train tracks to streets/highways rose immensely since most parts of Europe is also crossing through or has it as economic destination. And till today one can also see the structural importance of the Frankish and later Holy Roman Empire if one looks at the night satellite map of Europe: you can clearly see the most dense parts from Northern Italy through Germany to the Netherlands (all of that was part of the Holy Roman Empire and the main transit/trade route of Europe, between the Northern maritime trade Empires (for instance at medieval time the Hanseatic League) to the Mediterrean like Venice, Geneve etc. - all connected by land and especially water highways like the Rhein/Rhine river. Btw. when Hitler/NationalSocialist talk about the 3rd Reich then they automatically also refer to the older existing Empires/Reichs. And the first one was that Holy Roman Empire while the 2nd one was the later German Empire (created by Bismarck) ...
The church at 10:06 is the „Frauenkirche“ („her lady‘s church“), which was totally turned into rubble in the air raid that burnt down the whole city. Only after the unification of Germany it was decided to rebuild it base on old pictures and plans. The few dark bricks visible in the facade are sthe few original parts that were reused…
You haven't seen snow? For some reason it made me emotional. When we were kids we used to take a handful of snow and go to a friend or class mate in front of you, grab their jacket and put that snow under the jacket @ the "lower neck". Icy cold water will run over the persons back. Everyone did that to each other and running away laughing🤣
I spent 5 years in the British forces in Germany. A 3 year then a 2 year tour of duty. I met my wife whilst serving there. She was English, daughter of a British soldier. My wife's step mother was German, so we had many great holidays visiting the German side of the family. Bavaria in the south is such a beautiful place to visit and very traditional German. Lots of beautiful scenery and castles and the like. Sadly like all countries it does have it's less enjoyable places. But sadly that's the world today.
He makes great videos, with great picks and beautiful footage, but pronunciation and spelling are not his forte, so don't use him as a guide for that. 😅
yup! I don't understand why travellers on RUclips don't make an effort to say the place-names properly - especially when they know that thousands of people will be watching and listening! Sometimes it makes me cringe.
Definitely. Pronunciation you can sort of understand if you’re not a native speaker in that country, but there’s no excuse for the spelling. I mean, just copy it from somewhere 😂
@@ianb8656 well I don't speak fluent German, but when I visited Austria for a few days I learned how to pronounce the place-names and some basic phrases. It really isn't that difficult for English speakers. Glückliches neues Jahr!
@@soozb15 Ahhhh, perhaps you need to keep to your own standards rather than expect them of other people and criticise them when they don't do it your way.
I've been to all this places! And it's a great list ... but: in my opinion there are some even more stunning places in Germany not shown in his video! So pack your suitcases and come over to Germany ... soon! :)
Small hint: 'Z' is in German spoken as 'ts', not as some kind of 's'. Berchtesgaden (roughly "Perchta's garden" - Perchta being the Celto-Germanic goddess also portrayed as "Frau Holle" in Grimm's tales) was since the 12th century an ecclesiastical state around the abbey of Berchtesgaden, since 1380 an Imperial Abbey with seat and vote in the Reichstag (Imperial diet), since 1559 a prince-provostry and thereby its own state between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Prince-Bishopry of Salzburg (which surrounded Berchtesgaden on 3 sides). That is the main reason for the many churches there. Hitler visited the Berchtesgaden region since the 1920s regularly for holiday; in 1928 he rented for the first time the chalet "Berghof" in Obersalzberg. After 1933 the Nazis seized the region around the village of Obersalzberg and declared it a restricted zone; the villagers had to leave. "Königssee" translates to "King's Lake", but it was originally "Kuno's See" (Kuno's lake) after Kuno of Horburg, who together with his half-brother Berengar I of Sulzbach had founded the Berchtesgaden abbey. You should also check out the channel "Near from home"; their video about Königssee would be ruclips.net/video/0DCNKQ62z7o/видео.html 9:47 shows the Frauenkirche, the Notre-Dame of Dresden. In 1990 it was still only a heap of rubble - the GDR regime had not been interested in rebuilding it. (The palace of the Saxon kings was also still in ruins with birches growing on the top of the walls, but at least the walls were still there.) Afterwards it was rebuilt with private donations and the artwork hidden by Dresden citizens for decades. The blacked stones in the facade are the original ones, the others came from the same quarry as the original ones. Interesting video about Dresden and rebuilding the city: ruclips.net/video/mc9PScONCSo/видео.html 13:15 The "wealthy businessman from Berlin" was Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené, a descendant of French Huguenots, whose ancestors had fled France during the rule of Louis XIV whose troops had destroyed the castle during the Nine Years' war. The earlier history of the castle has also some quirks: In belonged first to the Count Palatines of the Rhine. After count Wilhelm of Ballenstedt died in 1140 without children an inheritance dispute arose, which was solved by King Konrad III by seizing the castle in 1151 and making it an Imperial castle (belonging directly to the Imperial government). In 1294 King Adolf of Nassau mortgaged it to Archbishop Bohemond I of Trier to fund his coronation celebration. Adolf's successor Albrecht I of Habsburg did not want (or could not) redeem the loan and therefore made the Archbishop of Trier the Burgrave of Cochem; this title was then inherited by the successors of the Archbishop. 15:05 Hohenzollern castle was the hereditary seat of the Hohenzollern family, but they lost it early in history. The first castle on the hill was destroyed by the Swabian League on order of the Emperor in 1423 to punish Friedrich XII of Zollern; his cousin Count Eitel Friedrich had allied with the League. It was rebuilt around 1454; the second castle was taken by Swedish and Württemberg troops during the 30 Years' War in 1634, but Württemberg lost it due to a cunning of war (including falsified orders) to Imperial troops in 1635, who however did not give it back to Hohenzollern, but to Habsburg. During the War of the Austrian Succession it was occupied by French troops in 1744/1745, then taken back by Habsburg, but abandoned in 1798. In 1819 the Prussian crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Brandenburg visited the ruins. After he became king, he came to an understanding with his Swabian relatives of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to rebuild the castle (1850 - 1867) in the romanticized historicistic style of the time. 15:43 In the background of this shot you see the Catholic and Protestant church of the old town of Lindau side by side. Lindau became wealthy as part of one of the main trade routes between Germany and Italy. 15:55 Meersburg became the seat of the Prince-Bishops of Constance after they had to leave this town on the other bank of the lake after Reformation. The Old Castle sits on the left (the grey building before the church); according to legend it goes back to the 7th century. The New Palace (the red-and-white building in the center) was finished in 1750. The yellow building right of it was the riding and stable yard (now used by the state winery), the red one on the outer right the priest seminary (now used as high school). The shot in 15:59 is mirror-inverted, by the way. 16:32 The Oberbaum bridge was between 1948 and 1989 a border checkpoint, since 1961 only to be used by pedestrians (some of them ransomed political prisoners). 18:35 The Alster lakes served since 1190 as reservoir for the town's mills. It was split by the new city walls built between 1616 and 1625 into the Binnenalster (inner Alster) and the bigger Außenalster (outer Alster). 21:25 On the right edge of this engraving of old Cologne's skyline you can see Cologne cathedral with a wooden crane on top of the unfinished towers. Building of the cathedral started in 1248, but in the 1520s the funding run out, followed by Reformation as well as multiple other political crisis, so work stopped then. In the early 1800s a campaign was started by Cologne art collector and trader Sulpiz Boiserée to finish the building. He got support by Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm V; Prussia had annexed the Rhine provinces in 1815 after the Napoleonic wars and saw this as a way to improve its relations with the large number of Catholic subjects it had gained then. Construction started in 1842 and was finished in 1880; for ten years the twin towers were the tallest church towers in the world, but in 1890 the Protestant citizens of Ulm finished the tower of their minster (for which work had rested 1543 - 1844) and made it 4m more tall. 22:55 The Brothers Grimm never visited the Black Forest. They collected their fairy tales in northern Hesse and maybe neighboring Thuringia (especially the Harz region) as well as from French Huguenot families; some may also be originate from their correspondents in Westphalia. 24:00 Rothenburg is only one of three well preserved medieval towns along the border between the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, but the most touristy. The others are Dinkelsbühl about 35 km to the South (like Rothenburg a Franconian town) and Nördlingen (a Swabian town about 35 km south from Dinkelsbühl, see also ruclips.net/video/fe243BRIcFs/видео.html). Another well preserved town would be Quedlinburg (ruclips.net/video/Wt1o7BOJvgM/видео.html), the seat of the Easter Palace of the first German kings in the 10th and 11th century.
I’m from Germany near the Dutch border. But don’t think of Germany as just one country-explore Europe! The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and so on have so many amazing places to visit!
You guys have to do Freddy mercurys last song these are the days of our life I know you are huge fans and do living thing from Elo at the same concert as telephone line your a great couple greetings from England and happy new year to you
German dad, born in Hamburg and lived there for most 6 years before parents separated and we moved to England (mum is English and American). Still go back as often as possible, both to Hamburg and to visit other places 😊 Nice seeing other people discover the country-it really is beautiful and would recommend anyone to visit. Re: this video, please don’t take the pronunciations of the narrator as gospel…😅
Nuremberg was a high-tech city in the Middle Ages. When the robber baron Götz von Berlichingen had his hand cut off by a cannonball, he went to Nuremberg where he was given a movable prosthesis in which the fingers could be moved and locked and unlocked using springs. This technology has been perfected to today's level using microtechnology. This cost him a small fortune at the time. However, he could use it to lift a beer mug and open a window. This prosthesis can still be seen in the museum today.
10:05 Interesting fact about that building. That is the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). The church was completely destroyed during the bombings in WW2, and the remaining ruin and rubble pile stood at this place for decades. Only after the reunification of Germany began efforts to rebuild the church. The black stones you see on the facade are the only remaining original stones from the original building. Everything else is new. As you can see, only a small part of the wall on the left was still standing until the rebuilding began.
If you want to visit your brother, the first region has already been decided. Of course there are many other beautiful regions. the crucial thing is time. Most US citizens want to visit Europe in 10 days. So take your time and if you like it you'll come back anyway. Greetings from Nuremberg 🌍
When I was at school I used to spend my 6 week holidays in Masson in Germany on the military base where my Brother in law was stationed and I absolutely loved it. Harry from the UK. ❤❤❤❤
If you're planning a visit to Europe you had better make it a long visit. Most of Europe is beautiful, each country has it's own charms. Obviously, it's all quite old (quite old to me is 500/600 years) but there are many places much older. The greenery is because most of Europe have a fair bit of rain. France is beautiful, as is Italy, Croatia, Hungary etc. You should look at other places in Europe, it really is an amazing place
yes please visit our country, and maybe do a Vlog :) it would be awesome! If you need help let me know, I live around Munich area and could show you some places here!
A lot of spots are missing. We also have some nice places for people are interesting in ice age archeology for example. The most beautiful ice age arts you can find in Germany.
Hello, a nice reaction video, with nice comments, the kind you rarely hear! What I don't like about the commented video are the very shortened sequences. Many of these places have a lot more to offer than what was shown. Perhaps the video would have been a bit too long even then. There are numerous videos that take a closer look at some of these places, showing more interesting details. For example, if you're going to show the Cologne Cathedral, then please also show the interior, just to show the dimensions and the architecture behind it! That's how it was with many of the individual places that were shown, although not all of them.
Funny, subbed to your channel a long time ago when you started reacting to Angelina Jordan, and now you came virtually visiting my place (I'm Bavarian), glad you liked it, would be fun to meet you when you come visiting, I'd definitely take a day or two to show you around. I'm living close to the alpes Zugspitze / Schloss Neuschwanstein, but I could catch you in Munich, which is my place of birth, which has a lot to offer, from there most of the destinations in the south of Germany shown in the video are within reach by car in not more than a couple of hours to the max (Rothenburg, Black Forest, many lakes...), just let me know when you're coming... Could also give you a tour in my permaculture garden in the Allgäu region... Happy new year to you, peace and love from Bavaria! Btw., please react to RAYE covering Ella Fitzgerald "Cry Me A River" at the Kennedy Center Honors 2024, released shortly before Christmas. Cheers!
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I'm Scottish and spent three years in Germany when I was young (two years in Munich and an year in Nuremberg). It's an astoundingly beautiful country with amazing history (including the Hasbergs and Prussia etc) I still hold Germany close to my heart I had a great time with great people.
For me it's exactly the other way round. I'm German and I went on holiday with my then partner on motorbikes to Scotland three times. I discovered my love for the Highlands in the Highlander films. and ever since I was there I have had Scotland in my heart.
My Heart’s in the Highlands
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Robert Burns
Now, isn't that a most beautiful exchange between the two of you...!
I met a lot of scots during the EM in germany. And although they werew all football fans I made so many fun memories! I've been to scotland a few times and honestly I've never met such welcoming people before
Scots are always welcome in Germany Deutschland 🇩🇪 😊
We should do an official announcement Scotland and Germany gonna be close Partners in the Future!!!
I'm a Brit and I lived in Germany for 3 years. I also spent time managing a team in Frankfurt so lots of trips there from London. Its an amazing place, very under-rated. Also, one of the things he doesn't mention are the people. I found them to be charming, funny and very welcoming contrary to the usual stereotype put forward. I'd recommend a visit there to anybody doing a trip to Europe.
I'm from the UK love my country, but for pure stunning places to see are mainland Europe. Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and so much more Europe is stunning guys. Happy new year guys , hope you get to visit Europe soon ❤
I'm from England and I've lived in Germany for 5 years now. I haven't even scratched the surface of the places I want to visit here. Amazing , beautiful country...........even if it's taking me forever to get to grips with the language :)
If you're interested in watching more of my homelamd I highly recommend the videos of Meet the Germans Road Trip Parts 1-4 by Rachel. She did a very good job in presenting the 4parts of Germany talking about people, culture, environment, histoy and much more. Happy new year to you from Germany!🎆
Rachel Stewart is ONE presenter of the DW broadcasting channel. DW stands for Deutsche Welle (German Wave). Don't confuse it with NDW, Neue Deutsche Welle, which was a German music era in the '80th where for instance 'Nena - 99 red balloons' is from.
I was just going to recommend that series on DW. It gives a lot more depth and background to what you just watched.
Living in the UK, it is relatively easy to visit all these wonderful places he filmed - mountains, lakes, cities, small villages. It really is as beautiful as the video shows. I have had the privilege of visiting, Germany, Austria and Switzerland many times. I hope you get to see it all soon!
Hello both of you. First of all, I wish you a happy new year 2025.
With over 25,000 castles and palaces, Germany has more than McDonald's restaurants in the USA. And what has inspired you so much here is only a small part of what Germany still has to offer. If you are interested in seeing more of Germany, then I can only recommend the video by Dr. Ludwig “This is Germany”, which will also absolutely inspire you. Greetings from Germany
Second the recommendation. But don't forget to put on the subtitles when you watch it!
Yes, excellent recommendation -- as well as the advice by @sweety1746
I have been to many of these places in Germany...... you guys simply MUST go as it is a real treat and you will enjoy it completely..
Happy new year to you both
Same to you friend!
In everyday life, people often fail to recognize the beauty and history of this wonderful country. Thank you for reminding me. I often fail to recognize how lucky I was to have been born and raised here! Thank you and Happy New Year, best wishes from Munich
Great reaction video. I’m from the UK and have been lucky enough to visit an area of the Rhine close to Koblenz, Hamburg and only a few weeks ago the Christmas market in Frankfurt. Now I have to plan so many more trips.
When I was in the army (British) we went down to Bavaria for two weeks every year. I’ve seen all those wonderful sights.
I went to Berchtesgaden last year for the first time and it really is as magical as it looks. The water in the lakes & streams is so clear and the air is the same. Definitely one of the best places I’ve been.
I'm from England but I was actually born in Germany because my dad was stationed over there in the 60's he was in the army. Also my sister lives in Hamburg she moved there when she was 19 and is now 67 obviously I have visited her many times over the years. The lake is beautiful there is boat trips up and down it during the summer and in the winter when it's frozen over people go ice-skating on it
A tip: the Eagle's Nest is closed during the late autumn and winter, so you'll need to go to Germany twice! Once in late Nov - Dec for the Christmas markets (and enjoy the snowy landscapes!) then again during the late Spring - Summer - early Autumn for the sunshine and trails and Eagle's Nest. There are heaps of tourist Straße / Strasse (roads) to do. I've just done the Alpenstraße from Berchtesgaden to Lake Constance in November, then the Black Forest include a number of Christmas markets (include Colmar in France), Ravennaschlucht / Ravenna Gorge, Baden-baden, and Ulm back to Munich. Oh and doing a road trip in an electric car is perfect in Western Europe as there's chargers everywhere (including at accommodation). Also check out the Romantic Road, Schwarzwaldhochstraße or Black Forest High Road, and many others!
I studied German [I'm Irish] and spent a year in Passau on my year abroad. It's a beautiful little place and reminds me a little of my own home village. It's well worth a day trip if you're ever over there. I visited Rothenburg while I was there [also gorgeous] and Nürnberg at Christmas for the market and yes, I got some Nürnberger Lebkuchen !! I've also been to Berlin and had a fantastic time, such an incredible city. As to the German language sounding harsh, the narrator unfortunately mangled the pronunciation a bit, but it's not as harsh as it seems if you pronounce it a certain way ...
After the war my dad was stationed in the black Forrest .He went back with my mom in the 90s and still knew his way around, and was speaking fluent German , something my mom didn’t know he could do.
It still looks unreal when you finally see the mountain backdrop in real life. I grew up in the Swedish forests and plains so when I first visited my relatives in Slovenia as an adult I remember being blown away by the mountain scenery.
We lived in Germany for 8 years whilst I served in the British Army. Part of my job was to help organised Ex Snow Queen. I spent most of the winter down in Bavaria. Summer is beautiful as is winter.
Watching people reacting to Germany makes me appreciate it even more to live here ☺️🫶🏻
We live only one hour away from Cochem and the area is really beautiful ❤
I can't think of not having those old architecture (castles, old houses, cathedrals,...) around 👍🏻
In movies the "Germans" are always shouting, the "normal Germans" are not speaking like this 😂
But I had a hard time learning it when I moved from Belgium (frenchspeaking part) to Germany in 2008 🙈
Living in the Uk but have been lucky enough to have visited all these places over the last 30 years. The most perfect place, in my opinion, to be based (and I will be heading there in a couple of months time) is Lindau on the shores of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). From the balcony of my hotel room, I can see 4 different countries - not only Germany, but Austria (10 minutes on the train), Switzerland (20 minutes on the train) and Liechtenstein (35 minutes on the train). Added to that, Muenchen (Munich) and Zurich are only a 2 hour train ride away and I can be in Innsbruck in 3 hours! The food is to die for and the beer is even better (one year, I was in Lindau for 19 days and sample beers from 21 different breweries - all local).
Greetings from Radolfzell (Lake Constance), lived in Überlingen, Unteruhldingen near Meersburg, Konstanz and now here. Can't live anywhere else, have tried.
@@arnodobler1096 totally understand why ... visited the Lake multiple times this year alone ...
Hi Peeps, I spent 8 years living in northern Germany while in the RAF such a beautiful country two of my children were born there our favourite trips were to Munich, Austria and Switzerland we miss the scenery so much even living in Canada is not the same x
You guys deserve a corporate sponsorship to visit Europe! Great reaction as always. ❤
I had just the same idea when watching them viewing the video. 🙂
And a 20-25 minute drive from Cochem is petrolhead nirvana……the Nürburgring 😍
Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Norway are the most beautiful countries in Europe in my opinion.
yes, they are beautiful - but not only.... with open eyes you will find massive beautiful spots all over Europe. The landscape of Skagen in Denmark, Copenhagen, as well as Madeira, Algarve, Lisbon, Porto, or Ireland (landscapes of Connemara, Donegal) Wales, Scotland, Southbrittain or Lake District, as well as Dolomites in Italy, the beautiful Amalfi Coast and Cinque Terre, Umbria, Toscana..., as well as Brittany, St MIchel, the Castles of France..., or the mountains and mediterrain spirit of Corse (what a lovely island!) So - use your time to visit and experience Europe. Also the East with Prague, Budapest mostly underrated... i cannot stop... it needs years to visit them all and you will not be able to pack them into 2 or 3 weeks.
Back to Germany: welldone pictures, top saturated, top angles, (for the use of drones often you need permisson) but wheather isn't sunny every day. As a photographer you must be patient to the less but special days of a year to get a row of perfect pictures like this. 14 days in Bavaria can be beautiful but also rainy. Not only Ireland is that wonderful green without any rainy days...
@berndmaier5491 Depends what you like. It's really in the eye of the beholder and I'm not overly keen on desolate expanses like Skagen or the sheer bleakness of the Scottish moors.
I grew up in places like this so it doesn't really do much for me)
The house shown is not the Eagles Nest, but the Kehlsteinhaus, it was the guest house of the complex. Almost everything of the Eagles Nest has been destroyed, bombed and blown up, only a few remains of the walls still exist.
The view from the restaurant is breathtaking.
No, Kehlsteinhaus is the eagle's nest. His home Berghof, further down on the mountain where you take the bus up to eagles nest, was bombed along with many other buildings.
@fikonfraktare Other names for the Kehlsteinhaus, which is also said to have been called Teehaus (2nd Teehaus), D-Haus (Diplomatenhaus) or T-Haus (Haus T) during the Nazi era, are no longer clearly documented. The French ambassador André François-Poncet, who visited Hitler in the Eagle's Nest on October 18, 1938, first referred to the place as the Eagle's Nest (French: Nid d'Aigle). Poncet was the only foreign visitor of note that Hitler received in the Kehlsteinhaus.[4] The English equivalent, Eagle's Nest, became the standing term for this house throughout the English-speaking world after the end of the war at the latest and has also found its way into other languages. In German, however, Adlerhorst refers to the Führer's headquarters at Adlerhorst in Hesse.
@@arnodobler1096 So in short Kehlsteinhaus is what's commonly referred to, and know as, the eagle's nest.
AND don't be afraid of the language - many Germans, especially younger Germans, can converse with you in perfect English.
Went to Munich and couldn’t get over how clean the place is! Great city,and the beer was great, well worth a visit
I’ve been to Munich and then Berlin and loved both but preferred Munich, I got on with everyone I met they’re good people. I’ll have to go back to Germany and investigate other areas soon.
As a close neighbour to the west (Nordrhein Westfalen) of the country I have to say Germany is truly one of the most beautiful and diverse countries, only second to France and Italy perhaps and the most friendly, pleasant and decent people you'll ever meet anywhere.
Not sucking up to our neighbours, just my honest opinion. Mind you they are a strange bunch.
Beautiful country great people love Berlin
Peace and love from England ❤
As a German, I have to correct. Most of the Grimm's fairy tales come from central and northern Hesse, many from the area around Marburg city. This is also a beautiful area and worth a video
Hi. Iam German. I love you love Our Country Side. Look to the This is Germany Video. 😂 Thank you for this Kind reaction. Ill hope my English is Not to bad😢
Wunderbar
I am from the UK and spent a short time in Germany when I was 16 years old. I stayed in Rheinhausen, Duisburg and I love the country and the people. The family I stayed with, Herr und Frau Buchler and their son Arno, even took me to Rheindahlen Military cemetery where my uncle is buried (despite not knowing which plot he was buried in I walked directly to the exact spot and his headstone was the first one I looked at; a very odd since no one in my family had been able to visit before me) and they also sent me some photographs of his grave in the summer after I'd returned to the UK as it had been winter when I was there. It is many years since that time, but I have never forgotten their kindness and the generosity of everyone I met there.
Better than the video commentary's German pronunciation.
@@gozza7199 🙂
Don't worry, you're doing OK.
Visited the Hohenzollern Castle, went to the xmas event in 2022. was mind blowing. and i have been to quite a few residences and castles in Germany. i still have many to go. i can speak the language so travelling is much easier.
So folks - what's keeping you in your seats? Pack your bags as quickly as possible and head off to Germany. Take a tour of the sights you've just seen, sample our excellent food...!
Come on come on - 25,000 castles, fortresses and palaces are waiting for you, as well as over 3,600 different types of bread and sausages of all kinds - beer until you drop and lots and lots of fun...! We're waiting for you and look forward to serving and entertaining you...!
Hey Mike n Jess, I am the same as pdevs1966. I live in Scotland and we have beautiful scenery and castles as you know but Germany, the Black Forrest Region and is absolutely stunning, we also did the tour round the lake bordering Switzerland Denmark Italy etc. It took my breath away.
As others have said his German needs some work, but an amazing video showcasing some of the best things to see in Germany. Every time he said the River Elbe, a little bit of me died inside, which does make me wonder if he's actually been to some of these places or just got video footage. As you said I wish he could have spent just a little longer on some of the places, but pretty good as an introduction.
I'm fairly new to your channel and even though I've watched a number of videos don't know that much about you guys, but the vast majority of people in the US have done German ancestry and I'm wondering if you guys have (you'd probably have mentioned it if you had, but I thought worth asking, although maybe you do without even realising it a few generations back).
Anyway, amazing reaction, keep up the good work, and Happy New Year!!! May 2025 be a great one!!!
For many Americans, “Bavaria” is the epitome of Germany - the stereotypical idea when it comes to folklore, food, traditional clothing and much more! If you are more interested in Germany, then I recommend the miniseries “Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 1 - 4”! In each of these four episodes, the different regions of Germany, their peculiarities and diversity are presented (landscapes, regional cuisine, dialects, traditions, folk festivals, etc.) - have fun!
Part 1: Northern Germany ruclips.net/video/K-AbtBU3WzE/видео.html
Part 2: Southern Germany ruclips.net/video/Td8yxkH5XzE/видео.html
Part 3: Eastern Germany ruclips.net/video/jZtJdtXnOf4/видео.html
Part 4: Western Germany ruclips.net/video/zJBf9cTa_eI/видео.html
On the "Zugspitze" the weather can change quickly and if you are unlucky you will only see a wall of fog instead of a beautiful view!
"Königssee" means "King's Lake"! The "Königssee" is also known for its “echo wall”! During a boat trip, the echo is demonstrated to the passengers with trumpets!
The Lübeck “Holsten Gate” was depicted on the earlier 50 DM (Deutsche Mark) banknote, as a symbol of German civic pride!
The "Obere Mittelrheintal"/"Upper Middle Rhine Valley" (UNESCO World Heritage Site since June 27, 2002) has over 60 castles, fortresses and palaces (many of them in ruins) over a length of 67 kilometers (≈ 41.6 miles) - that doesn't sound like much, but it is the highest density of these buildings in the world per kilometer!
Hamburg's "Speicherstadt" ("Warehouse city") is the world's largest warehouse complex and home of "Miniatur Wunderland" ("Miniature Wonderland"), the largest model railway in the world - and they're still building!!!
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In Germany there are two cities called “Frankfurt” (which means something like: The ford over which the Franks came/the ford of the Franks)! 1. “Frankfurt am Main” (Frankfurt on the river Main) - when people talk about "Frankfurt" in general, THIS is what they mean - and 2. “Frankfurt an der Oder” (Frankfurt on the river Oder)! "Frankfurt am Main" has the nickname "Mainhattan" (a play on words from the river "Main" and "Manhattan"/Wall Street) as an allusion to its importance as a financial center! Another special feature of "Frankfurt am Main" is that 13 of Germany's 14 "skyscrapers" ("Wolkenkratzer"/"Cloudsscratches" in German) are there!
"Neuschwanstein" ("New swan stone") by Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (also known as the fairy tale king), as a romanticized ideal of a medieval knight's castle - it inspired Walt Disney to create his Cinderella Castle. The construction of Neuschwanstein was started in 1869 but never completed! Today it is one of the biggest tourist attractions in Germany!
There are some videos that talk about how the German language is supposed to be harsh and aggressive - also some in which people make fun of the German language - here's an opposite example:
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Top tier comment right here
@@tinino8947 Wow, thank you very much! 😀😄
ppl always ask me, why they never heard of german wine, cause we drink it all ourselves, we nearly dont export any, cause we dont want to share them. i would recommend a white rießling! or a bocksbeutel from frankonia. hard to get your hands on one of these outside germany
During WW2, the British and Americans stopped importing German wine. It used to be more expensive than Bordeaux.
Guys, I very much enjoyed that you enjoyed those impressions of my country. You really have to come over some day, but you need to have an itenerary beforehand 'cause otherwise you will definitely be lost in time if that makes any sense. For a plethora of further impressions of Germany, you might also like to watch the video “This is Germany”.
Oh, and that "language thing" really is largely due to those WWII movies... I'm confident that you'll be positively surprised.
BTW, I'm always greatly enjoying your reactions.
Have a marvelous new year -- and very best wishes from Germany
Thanks for your reaction..:-) Best wishes from Hamburg, Germany. Michael
Happy New Year from Bonnie Scotland!
Pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired. It's not the Radenburg Gate in Berlin but the Brandenburg Gate. Beautiful country from top to bottom.
His worst pronunciation is the word "world"
Yes, it is the same in all his video commentaries; I think he may have a speech issue generally but his video photography is outstanding.
The Berlin wall was a tragedy. Families were cut in half and after a few years, travel out or into the east was forbidden.
Hi folks love your video's and your laughter is infectious 😂
Visited most all the places mentioned, ended up moving there with my family 8 years ago! Never looked back and have only scratched the surface, such lovely people. Moved from Yorkshire now live in the Green heart of germany Thüringen wald "The Thuringen forest".
If your intrested in history, Geography now- Germany is excellent?
I lived in Wurzburg in Franconia which is norther Bavaria. A beautiful city, with baroque architecture. Worth a visit.
This Cable car on Zugspitze was actually in the Movie :) Kingsman - Golden Zircle
Happy new year you loveable guys,one advantage we have is that we can fly from London to Berlin in 1h 50m and 8 other european cities within 2 hours,please visit this year if you can.
Omg they showed Passau!! I been there when I went to Austria 🇦🇹 with my family. We’re from the uk and used fo go to Austria annually
Happy new year to you both. Another thing which definitly will blow your mind it´s Miniatur Wunderland. It is the worlds largest model railroad display. It is located in Hamburg and has amazing details. I would love to see you reacting to it. Greetings from Austria.
one has to keep in mind that Germany is not just today the (also economical and population wise) heart/center of Europe with most borders to other relevant countries (and indirectly more) but this became already more and more the case since the decline of the Western Roman Empire. At first as part of the Germanic Frankish Empire which has its base in Western Germany, parts of Belgium and the Netherlands (this core region was called 'Austrasia (with the city of Aachen as center)). This Empire later split in three parts. The Western part became France (which kept the name: France = Frankish, just like Frankfurt, Franken/Bavaria, Frankenstein, the name Frank like Frank Sinatra etc. - all refers to that old Germanic Frankish tribe confederation), the Eastern and most Middle part became the Holy Roman Empire which was the most populated and most of the time most powerful Empire in Europe (it stretched from Italy (including Rome/Papal states which is why it was also called 'Holy' and 'Roman' - because it was seen as the continuation of the classic Roman Empire in competition with Byzantium/Eastern Roman Empire). Those two Empires (Frankish and the Holy Roman Empire) had many neighboring countries and regions included and created not only all renaissances and reforms but also by far most castles (in the world), most cities in Europe, most churches (and most of the tallest ones - till today, Germans has the highest amount of the tallest churches - a result of the many city states and a certain competition. Btw, most big churches were not created by the 'church' but by citizens), most innovations, most reforms, most trade, most traffic of all kind - till today, as heart/center of Europe, which is also the main reason why the train network is under special pressure in the 21. century, the general traffic from internet to train tracks to streets/highways rose immensely since most parts of Europe is also crossing through or has it as economic destination. And till today one can also see the structural importance of the Frankish and later Holy Roman Empire if one looks at the night satellite map of Europe: you can clearly see the most dense parts from Northern Italy through Germany to the Netherlands (all of that was part of the Holy Roman Empire and the main transit/trade route of Europe, between the Northern maritime trade Empires (for instance at medieval time the Hanseatic League) to the Mediterrean like Venice, Geneve etc. - all connected by land and especially water highways like the Rhein/Rhine river. Btw. when Hitler/NationalSocialist talk about the 3rd Reich then they automatically also refer to the older existing Empires/Reichs. And the first one was that Holy Roman Empire while the 2nd one was the later German Empire (created by Bismarck) ...
My German ears start bleeding when Americans say "Zugspitze" 😂😂.
The church at 10:06 is the „Frauenkirche“ („her lady‘s church“), which was totally turned into rubble in the air raid that burnt down the whole city. Only after the unification of Germany it was decided to rebuild it base on old pictures and plans. The few dark bricks visible in the facade are sthe few original parts that were reused…
You haven't seen snow? For some reason it made me emotional. When we were kids we used to take a handful of snow and go to a friend or class mate in front of you, grab their jacket and put that snow under the jacket @ the "lower neck". Icy cold water will run over the persons back. Everyone did that to each other and running away laughing🤣
We would love for you guys to come to Europe and make some vlogs.. Happy New Year you 2
Dont miss the Europa-park in Rust near Freiburg 😊🎢
I spent 5 years in the British forces in Germany. A 3 year then a 2 year tour of duty. I met my wife whilst serving there. She was English, daughter of a British soldier. My wife's step mother was German, so we had many great holidays visiting the German side of the family. Bavaria in the south is such a beautiful place to visit and very traditional German. Lots of beautiful scenery and castles and the like. Sadly like all countries it does have it's less enjoyable places. But sadly that's the world today.
Wishing you two and your family a Happy New Year! from Stuttgart in Southwest Germany near the Black Forest 👋
He makes great videos, with great picks and beautiful footage, but pronunciation and spelling are not his forte, so don't use him as a guide for that. 😅
yup! I don't understand why travellers on RUclips don't make an effort to say the place-names properly - especially when they know that thousands of people will be watching and listening! Sometimes it makes me cringe.
@@soozb15Yeah I really hate it when tourists don't learn fluent German before visiting and making videos. Some people are just so unbelievably lazy.
Definitely. Pronunciation you can sort of understand if you’re not a native speaker in that country, but there’s no excuse for the spelling. I mean, just copy it from somewhere 😂
@@ianb8656 well I don't speak fluent German, but when I visited Austria for a few days I learned how to pronounce the place-names and some basic phrases. It really isn't that difficult for English speakers. Glückliches neues Jahr!
@@soozb15 Ahhhh, perhaps you need to keep to your own standards rather than expect them of other people and criticise them when they don't do it your way.
Nürnberg and Kulmbach are very nice citys to visit.special for awesome fresh brewed Beer 🍺
I've been to all this places! And it's a great list ... but: in my opinion there are some even more stunning places in Germany not shown in his video!
So pack your suitcases and come over to Germany ... soon! :)
Lake Chiemsee and Tegernsee are so beautiful
Small hint: 'Z' is in German spoken as 'ts', not as some kind of 's'.
Berchtesgaden (roughly "Perchta's garden" - Perchta being the Celto-Germanic goddess also portrayed as "Frau Holle" in Grimm's tales) was since the 12th century an ecclesiastical state around the abbey of Berchtesgaden, since 1380 an Imperial Abbey with seat and vote in the Reichstag (Imperial diet), since 1559 a prince-provostry and thereby its own state between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Prince-Bishopry of Salzburg (which surrounded Berchtesgaden on 3 sides). That is the main reason for the many churches there.
Hitler visited the Berchtesgaden region since the 1920s regularly for holiday; in 1928 he rented for the first time the chalet "Berghof" in Obersalzberg. After 1933 the Nazis seized the region around the village of Obersalzberg and declared it a restricted zone; the villagers had to leave.
"Königssee" translates to "King's Lake", but it was originally "Kuno's See" (Kuno's lake) after Kuno of Horburg, who together with his half-brother Berengar I of Sulzbach had founded the Berchtesgaden abbey. You should also check out the channel "Near from home"; their video about Königssee would be ruclips.net/video/0DCNKQ62z7o/видео.html
9:47 shows the Frauenkirche, the Notre-Dame of Dresden. In 1990 it was still only a heap of rubble - the GDR regime had not been interested in rebuilding it. (The palace of the Saxon kings was also still in ruins with birches growing on the top of the walls, but at least the walls were still there.) Afterwards it was rebuilt with private donations and the artwork hidden by Dresden citizens for decades. The blacked stones in the facade are the original ones, the others came from the same quarry as the original ones. Interesting video about Dresden and rebuilding the city: ruclips.net/video/mc9PScONCSo/видео.html
13:15 The "wealthy businessman from Berlin" was Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené, a descendant of French Huguenots, whose ancestors had fled France during the rule of Louis XIV whose troops had destroyed the castle during the Nine Years' war. The earlier history of the castle has also some quirks: In belonged first to the Count Palatines of the Rhine. After count Wilhelm of Ballenstedt died in 1140 without children an inheritance dispute arose, which was solved by King Konrad III by seizing the castle in 1151 and making it an Imperial castle (belonging directly to the Imperial government). In 1294 King Adolf of Nassau mortgaged it to Archbishop Bohemond I of Trier to fund his coronation celebration. Adolf's successor Albrecht I of Habsburg did not want (or could not) redeem the loan and therefore made the Archbishop of Trier the Burgrave of Cochem; this title was then inherited by the successors of the Archbishop.
15:05 Hohenzollern castle was the hereditary seat of the Hohenzollern family, but they lost it early in history. The first castle on the hill was destroyed by the Swabian League on order of the Emperor in 1423 to punish Friedrich XII of Zollern; his cousin Count Eitel Friedrich had allied with the League. It was rebuilt around 1454; the second castle was taken by Swedish and Württemberg troops during the 30 Years' War in 1634, but Württemberg lost it due to a cunning of war (including falsified orders) to Imperial troops in 1635, who however did not give it back to Hohenzollern, but to Habsburg. During the War of the Austrian Succession it was occupied by French troops in 1744/1745, then taken back by Habsburg, but abandoned in 1798. In 1819 the Prussian crown prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Brandenburg visited the ruins. After he became king, he came to an understanding with his Swabian relatives of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to rebuild the castle (1850 - 1867) in the romanticized historicistic style of the time.
15:43 In the background of this shot you see the Catholic and Protestant church of the old town of Lindau side by side. Lindau became wealthy as part of one of the main trade routes between Germany and Italy.
15:55 Meersburg became the seat of the Prince-Bishops of Constance after they had to leave this town on the other bank of the lake after Reformation. The Old Castle sits on the left (the grey building before the church); according to legend it goes back to the 7th century. The New Palace (the red-and-white building in the center) was finished in 1750. The yellow building right of it was the riding and stable yard (now used by the state winery), the red one on the outer right the priest seminary (now used as high school). The shot in 15:59 is mirror-inverted, by the way.
16:32 The Oberbaum bridge was between 1948 and 1989 a border checkpoint, since 1961 only to be used by pedestrians (some of them ransomed political prisoners).
18:35 The Alster lakes served since 1190 as reservoir for the town's mills. It was split by the new city walls built between 1616 and 1625 into the Binnenalster (inner Alster) and the bigger Außenalster (outer Alster).
21:25 On the right edge of this engraving of old Cologne's skyline you can see Cologne cathedral with a wooden crane on top of the unfinished towers. Building of the cathedral started in 1248, but in the 1520s the funding run out, followed by Reformation as well as multiple other political crisis, so work stopped then. In the early 1800s a campaign was started by Cologne art collector and trader Sulpiz Boiserée to finish the building. He got support by Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm V; Prussia had annexed the Rhine provinces in 1815 after the Napoleonic wars and saw this as a way to improve its relations with the large number of Catholic subjects it had gained then. Construction started in 1842 and was finished in 1880; for ten years the twin towers were the tallest church towers in the world, but in 1890 the Protestant citizens of Ulm finished the tower of their minster (for which work had rested 1543 - 1844) and made it 4m more tall.
22:55 The Brothers Grimm never visited the Black Forest. They collected their fairy tales in northern Hesse and maybe neighboring Thuringia (especially the Harz region) as well as from French Huguenot families; some may also be originate from their correspondents in Westphalia.
24:00 Rothenburg is only one of three well preserved medieval towns along the border between the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, but the most touristy. The others are Dinkelsbühl about 35 km to the South (like Rothenburg a Franconian town) and Nördlingen (a Swabian town about 35 km south from Dinkelsbühl, see also ruclips.net/video/fe243BRIcFs/видео.html). Another well preserved town would be Quedlinburg (ruclips.net/video/Wt1o7BOJvgM/видео.html), the seat of the Easter Palace of the first German kings in the 10th and 11th century.
I’m from Germany near the Dutch border.
But don’t think of Germany as just one country-explore Europe!
The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and so on have so many amazing places to visit!
Awesome!!!
the black forest is beautiful ,i went there with the army a few times
You guys have to do Freddy mercurys last song these are the days of our life I know you are huge fans and do living thing from Elo at the same concert as telephone line your a great couple greetings from England and happy new year to you
Ryan is not much better in his German pronunciations than the AI, but it's definitely better to have a real voice for sure.
Ha... Hope his Spanish is better.
Idstein and Wernigerode are beautiful towns to visit
Quedlinburg and Meppen are beautiful old towns
You should definitely check out video's about German reunifcation!
German dad, born in Hamburg and lived there for most 6 years before parents separated and we moved to England (mum is English and American). Still go back as often as possible, both to Hamburg and to visit other places 😊
Nice seeing other people discover the country-it really is beautiful and would recommend anyone to visit.
Re: this video, please don’t take the pronunciations of the narrator as gospel…😅
I think u will love❤ switzerland... u get views in summer...like carribean blue lakes with lush green hills and snowy mountain in the background!
The Islands of Sylt and Rügen are beautiful
Nuremberg was a high-tech city in the Middle Ages. When the robber baron Götz von Berlichingen had his hand cut off by a cannonball, he went to Nuremberg where he was given a movable prosthesis in which the fingers could be moved and locked and unlocked using springs. This technology has been perfected to today's level using microtechnology. This cost him a small fortune at the time. However, he could use it to lift a beer mug and open a window. This prosthesis can still be seen in the museum today.
Frozen was inspired by Norway. :) Love your reactions.
10:05 Interesting fact about that building. That is the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady). The church was completely destroyed during the bombings in WW2, and the remaining ruin and rubble pile stood at this place for decades. Only after the reunification of Germany began efforts to rebuild the church. The black stones you see on the facade are the only remaining original stones from the original building. Everything else is new. As you can see, only a small part of the wall on the left was still standing until the rebuilding began.
If you want to visit your brother, the first region has already been decided. Of course there are many other beautiful regions. the crucial thing is time. Most US citizens want to visit Europe in 10 days. So take your time and if you like it you'll come back anyway.
Greetings from Nuremberg 🌍
Greetings from Hamburg/Germany!
The Schwerin Castle actually is shown in the "Kingsman" movie....
Get to the mountains...breathe truly fresh air.....this video makes me want to return......
Berchtesgaden and Füssen are beautiful towns
It’s his drone footage. This is the amazing quality you get from all of DJI drones nowadays and not expensive.
Marburg and Kassel are beautiful citys
Trier is a lovely town in southwest of Germany
When I was at school I used to spend my 6 week holidays in Masson in Germany on the military base where my Brother in law was stationed and I absolutely loved it.
Harry from the UK. ❤❤❤❤
if you are interested in the mountainous landscapes of this video, then you should really watch his videos about austria and switzerland too.
If you knew the original Grimm fairy tales (not the Disney adaptations), you’d be even more terrified 😃
I´am from Lindau on the Lake of Constance. It is a beautiful city. ♥
Greetings from Radolfzell 🖐
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If you're planning a visit to Europe you had better make it a long visit. Most of Europe is beautiful, each country has it's own charms. Obviously, it's all quite old (quite old to me is 500/600 years) but there are many places much older. The greenery is because most of Europe have a fair bit of rain. France is beautiful, as is Italy, Croatia, Hungary etc. You should look at other places in Europe, it really is an amazing place
The City of Dusseldorph and Neuss are worth a visit
yes please visit our country, and maybe do a Vlog :) it would be awesome! If you need help let me know, I live around Munich area and could show you some places here!
A lot of spots are missing. We also have some nice places for people are interesting in ice age archeology for example. The most beautiful ice age arts you can find in Germany.
Happy New Year to your lovely family..❤.
Hello, a nice reaction video, with nice comments, the kind you rarely hear!
What I don't like about the commented video are the very shortened sequences. Many of these places have a lot more to offer than what was shown. Perhaps the video would have been a bit too long even then.
There are numerous videos that take a closer look at some of these places, showing more interesting details. For example, if you're going to show the Cologne Cathedral, then please also show the interior, just to show the dimensions and the architecture behind it! That's how it was with many of the individual places that were shown, although not all of them.
Funny, subbed to your channel a long time ago when you started reacting to Angelina Jordan, and now you came virtually visiting my place (I'm Bavarian), glad you liked it, would be fun to meet you when you come visiting, I'd definitely take a day or two to show you around. I'm living close to the alpes Zugspitze / Schloss Neuschwanstein, but I could catch you in Munich, which is my place of birth, which has a lot to offer, from there most of the destinations in the south of Germany shown in the video are within reach by car in not more than a couple of hours to the max (Rothenburg, Black Forest, many lakes...), just let me know when you're coming... Could also give you a tour in my permaculture garden in the Allgäu region... Happy new year to you, peace and love from Bavaria!
Btw., please react to RAYE covering Ella Fitzgerald "Cry Me A River" at the Kennedy Center Honors 2024, released shortly before Christmas. Cheers!
Happy new year to you and your family from Asturias
Mainz and Bonn and Coblenz are interesting Citys to visit