Germany has not the "one big center" like the UK. Beside the 4 cities over a million we have 10-11 more cities between a million and 500.000 citizens and 25 cities between 500.000 and 200.000
also i think england has the exact same amount of cities above 250k as germany around 48. germany just has a shitton of medium sized cities of 100k-200k
Just as a note - 5 million people live in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. The largest cities are Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, each with over 500,000 inhabitants. Dortmund almost 600,000. Bochum 360,000 and Gelsenkirchen 263,000 inhabitants. Bottrop, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Mühlheim a.d. The Ruhr area and Oberhausen have between 120,000 and 210,000 inhabitants. In addition, the Recklinghausen district (most inhabitants in a district in Germany) has 620,000, the Wesel district has 465,000 and the Unna district has 400,000 inhabitants. With the Ruhr area, Germany has a metropolitan region. In addition to NRW with Cologne as a city of millions. Düsseldorf, Münster, Bielefeld, Aachen and some districts have a very large population. Either way, NRW is the most populous federal state in Germany.
@@CoL_Drake ... nonsense. England has not around 48 cities >250k.. Its around 18 cities and thus, way less than Germany (which has 26 - and the lower you get (e.g. >200) the more raises the gap) ...
Fun fact: The construction of Cologne Cathedral took 632 years, from 1248 to 1880. And some people say, it's not yet finished. The construction started when Cologne was the largest city in modern Germany and a wealthy member of the Hanseatic League. Lots of pilgrims came to Cologne and brought money. But then the Hanseatic League declined, and so did the city's prosperity. The construction halted in the 16th century, and for hundreds of years, the Cathedral was famous for its truncated towers with a crane on them. When Cologne fell to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna, the new protestant lords decided to finish the construction. The problem is that they had to rediscover the original plans from the Middle Ages. And they used modern building techniques. The roof got a steel truss, which saved the church from destruction during the bombing of WWII.
And in 1880 the catholic archbishop of Cologne refused to perform the opening service, because the cathedral was finish by a protestant emperor. The people of Cologne knew very well, that by finishing the cathedral the emperor tried to buy their pleasure to be Prussians. They loved their finished cathedral very much anyway - and went on refusing to become Prussians and mocking them instead. By the way: It is not well known nowadays, but Cologne had been one of the founding cities of the Hanseatic League.
So, yes. The construction of the Cologne Cathedral was started almost 250 years, before Columbus stumbled across some carribean islands and was finished more than 100 years after the US gained their independency. If you compare BER with the Cathedral in Cologne, it was mind blowing fast :-D
What I also find fascinating: the two towers of the cathedral only have a height difference of less than 5cm. This is really crazy considering the size and construction time of this building. Even with modern technology, such a deviation would be an absolute success with similar material today!
also, all kids learn early on, that when you stand on the "WaterKant", dont look straight up at seagulls!, if they drop a package at the right time, it can blind you! 😜
Hamburg got its own flair. I can't describe it. :D I live in Bremen, not far away and I love to visit Hamburg from time to time. I don't know, why people think we north germans are unfriendly, but it's not true. I once live in Baden-Württemberg for a couple of years and I was so relieved and happy, when I was back in the north. I felt so ignored in the south and most people only cared about their work. Back in Bremen I felt 'seen' and it can happens someone starts a conversation with you - someone you don't know. Yes, it's not easy to find friends in the north - it takes time. But when you've found friends, they are friends forever!
Same here. Though the northern Germans are known as grumpy and less talkative, I have made quite the opposite experience. I never got into chats and talks with locals as often as at the German coast. And I live at the river Rhine, where people are known as talkative and to make friends fast and easily ...
I think the stereotype of untalkative and "unfriendly" pertains only to the rural regions of northern Germany today. The cities have enough people who originated from different regions that the culture changed significantly in the last decades. I'm from Ostfriesland and can definitely say that, especially the older generation, is that way. I'm in my mid twenties and the amount of words I utter during a day are never in the three digits if I can help it. But I can agree that once you've got to be close to someone, you are friends for life.
My impression of Hamburg is also that they are indeed very honest people that don't talk too much if they don't need to. But they are also very polite and open minded. Kind of like it is said about all of northern Germany with Hamburg probably being the center of that impression.
Yea, being polite and reluctant to befriend everyone goes hand in hand. Before I befriend someone, I need to have some good conversations with that one.
How cold and hectic Frankfurt is depends on what you are looking for and doing in Frankfurt. Like in all big cities. In Frankfurt there are also districts that are like farming villages. There is also the largest forest in Germany that belongs to a city. It is also a large industrial site. Frankfurt is diverse.
Oh they did not do Hamburg justice 🙈❤️ Hamburg is beautiful! I've lived in Hamburg almost 15years and it is an absolutely phenomenal, diverse and absolutely culturally active city. We are ranked no.3 in the world for musical venues after New York and London. ❤
You are sooooo right. I can add the most largest park cemetery … my lung during the Pandemic … an absolutely vivid clubscene … AND it is the most British looking city …. Especially in the quarters of Winterhude, Eppendorf, Rotherbaum, Blankenese … where all those fancy old buildings and villas are located that were built during the 19th early 20th century.
I could recommend the videos from DW Euromaxx, small series - "meet the germans, Roadtrip" west, north, south and east. It's a good way to get to know the different regions.
It's a very nice series. But very important, there's a version with english subs. Both versions are in English, but only one will make you understand the german talking.
Colognes cathedral took 600 years to be finished. There still are 40 workers ,stone masons,carpenters and plummers , working on it every day ( Bauhütte) .This building was financed by the people of Cologne not the church.
20:56 Berlin has three rivers within the city limits, the Spree, Dahme and Havel. They flow through Berlin over a distance of 89 km, and the canals have a total length of 67 km. The smaller tributaries such as Panke, Fredersdorfer Fließ, Tegeler Fließ and Nordgraben, without making the list complete, are approx. 75 km long. 3,000 lakes and well over 30,000 kilometers of flowing water: As the region with the most water in the republic, Berlin and the surrounding area in Brandenburg have bathing spots a dime a dozen - from Wannsee to Müggelsee.
being a naturally born Hamburger, i can tell you that we still have that hanseatic vibe of "Traders" (if that makes sense) we are pretty open to everyone, no matter their origin (who knows what they might have to offer us), but we are also "cold" in the sense that we need to trust outsiders enough to "open up" & that might take a while! PS: plus we are very direct(no smalltalk really, if we have a goal in mind, which might come off as unfriendly, but its not, its just "direct"!)
Few high-rise buildings in Hamburg, 2 reasons: a) there is no stone underground, this requires special statics; b) (allegedly) there is an old building rule that states that no (regular) building can be higher than the tallest church towers.
If I remember correctly, the Hamburg Rathaus foundation rests on 4000 oak trunks that were rammed into the ground. And yes, there is a lot of water in Hamburg and that means, depending on the area, foundations needs special treatment. People know about the Elbe, but there are two more rivers and quite a few springs, channels, brooks and streams. Quite a few channels were filled in with rubble from the bombed out city so once upon a time there were so much more waterways then there are today. Hamburg used to be an independent city in the HRE (fun fact the people of Hamburg might have done a little bit of forging to add the right of self-governing and being a free independent city into a letter the emperor Friedrich Barbarossa "gave" them and it only came out that they cheated in 19something when it was way too late that yeah, they forged some stuff he didn't give them, but they wanted ) and only become part of the Empire after Bismark sweetened the pot with some extra rights. The law that no building could be higher then the church towers did exist, but that was done away quite a while ago. Since Hamburg has quite a long history, there were some "interesting" laws during its existence. Hamburg is also a very green city with quite a few parks and the biggest one is Ohlsdorf cemetery, the biggest rural cemetery in the world. How big? Well it is serviced by 2 bus lines and has, I think, 20+ bus stops. The fish thing.... well I am from Hamburg and I eat at least fish two times a week (only when the temperature rises above 25°C I switch to fruits and reduce my fish consumption to maybe once a week).
fun fact: you say "we're an island" which is why fish and chips are so popular. In fact, there isn't any fish in British waters that the British like. Your beloved fish is imported from Iceland or Norway :-)
Well the Fish used to be plenty on the Waters around Britain, but when everyone surrounding the North sea is a heavy fish eater, overfishing becomes a problem. Cod, which is the most common fish for Fish n Chips, fish fingers and pretty much every other crispy fried fish, used to be available in Abundance in the North sea.
I mean, most tuna in Japan is imported from the Mediterranean nowadays, because the Big Pacific Tuna was almost hunted to Extinction. and The Japanese absolutely love Tuna.
Dwayne, happy to hear you decided to go to Germany. Don't hurry, take your time and try to get the vibes. I for example, originally from the northern part of Germany, havebeen living now for more than 20 years in Munich and still discover new hideouts and hidden gems. Munich consists basically of a number of grown together little towns and villages with a very beautiful center around Marienplatz. Each former entity has its own vibe, so that you can spend easily some weeks here and it is not getting boring. And, Oktoberfest is much better than mentioned here. Its, during the day to some extend, still also a family event. Timing here is key. As a start, my recommendation would be to go to the central "Viktualienmarkt" enter the Biergarten, get a Weissbier and a pair of Weisswurst. The rest will show up from there.
Fun fact: Frankfurt am Main has the worlds biggest internet exchange point by traffic handled. It is a core infrastructure hub in more ways than one, far in excess of its own size.
I used to live in a small town 60 kilometres from Frankfurt before I moved to Switzerland. Frankfurt is a great and beautiful city. By the way: there is a street in Hamburg that women and children are not allowed to enter. "Herbertstrasse" in Hamburg is Germany's best-known street, which is officially used by around 250 women for prostitution.
I lived in Frankfurt and didn't find it particularly beautiful, especially compared to my recent homecity, Hamburg. But tastes are different 😉 Frankfurt itself has under a million inhabitants, but the surrounding area (Rhein-Main-Gebiet) is densely populated and has a population of 2,4 million.
Hi Dwyane, I grew up in Frankfurt am Main. What's also fascinating about the city is that most of the people who work in the city don't live there. The "Speckgürtel" (the many villages and small towns around) of Frankfurt is huge, so during the day there are almost twice as many people in the city as live there. Every district of the citiy has at least one connection to the Autobahn network. Frankfurt is also known for its traditional cuisine and apple wine. As a Frankfurt resident, you can quickly find a place to relax in the apple wine gardens. And if you want to get out into the countryside, you can get out of the city really quickly thanks to the good motorway connections. Thanks for your great videos. Keep up the great work.
F: what I like about "Mainhattan Skyline" is the contrast between these modern buildings and the surrounding old neighbourhoods. And yes, trains are running to all parts of Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich) and abroad (Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Zurich, Vienna). K: how did they build a cathedral those days? By taking time to build it = centuries! The dish can be translated to "heaven and earth" which refers to apples and potatoes. M: "Erlkönig" means prototype, or test vehicle. They usually end up being dismantled and put into a baler after the testing. Oktoberfest is beerdrinking, fairground rides and lots of Schlager music. For many Munich people, the Alps are their back garden. The Sound Of Music was filmed in the Alps around Salzburg, just across the border in Austria. HH: a water city indeed. B: each visit you will discover something new! I visited it in 1988 when the Wall was still there. The yellow car put up is a Trabant (also named "Trabi"). Greetings from the Netherlands.
hi, i live in Frankfurt Germany and can absolutely confirm that it's a very internal place and business oriented. it does look and feel much bigger than it actually is. we joke around saying it's basically a big airport with shopping options around😉
Berlin is for sure a fascinating city. Especially the unique history is incredible (Napoleon/Brandenburg Gate, WWII, cold war and reunification). The Currywurst has been invented by the berliner woman Hertha Heuwer. In the post war time she was experimenting with spices (f.e. with Curry she got from british soldiers) and tomato sauce and combined it with a Bratwurst. By the way the first Bratwurst mentioned in a document was in 1404 in Anrnstadt in Thuringia in a monastery.
Nice to see you´re so interested in Germany´s culture and citizens. I lived in Britain for over one year many,many years ago in a very small village and studied in Bath. Somerset has a very beautiful landscape and interesting places to go. Been to London only twice and my thought was : "Where are the London people ?" 😅 I live near Stuttgart (ranked No.6) , famous for the car brands MERCEDES BENZ and PORSCHE. The museums are worth a visit for sure but sadly the centre of the city has not much to offer anymore. More and more shops and restaurants close and you´ll hardly meet a local. But there are a few nice cities nearby worth to visit such as Esslingen or Tübingen ( with a university) where people are very openhearted and sociable.
If you like water and looking at ships than the coast of the North Sea is the place for you, and , of course, lots of fish. And a town calledBrunsbüttel, the beginning /end of the Kiel Kanal
Most of grand Gothic cathedrals weren't completed in the Middle age, such the ones in Ulm with the highest spire, in Cologne with the largest footprint or in Strasbourg with the most ornate designs. They either didn't have money or technology to realise the grand plan or it took so long that Gothic had already gone out of fashion. The only Gothic cathedral that was actually completed in the Middle age (at least in Germany, as far as I know) is the one in Freiburg, which is much more reasonably sized. All the rest had to wait till the later half of 19th C when the old syles, including Gothic, were revived. By then, they had bit more reliable building skill and experience to actually finish the job.
Berlin is the forest metropolis of Germany! Almost a fifth of Berlin is forested. The Berlin forest property covers a total of around 28,500 hectares. 16,000 hectares of which are within the state border, and another 12,500 hectares are in the state of Brandenburg.
Cologne Cathedral is the most impressive, but for me, the most beautiful cathedral is in Limburg (Lahn). Speyer, Worms, and Mainz have quite nice cathedrals too. Limburg and Mainz are just the corner for me - so to speak. BTW, York Minster takes second place after Limburg in my book.
I lived and worked (as a social-worker) in Frankfurt, so I have some insight in the "other side" of Frankfurt. It's called "Bankfurt" and "Junkfurt" for a reason. Not much inbetween. Pretty rough, pretty high but actually pretty SMALL for an important town like that. As a tourist: Okay for a day or two - try the "Äppler" with sparkling water ("Gespritze"), a quite harsh cider that is excellent in the summer and hardly anyone else drinks that stuff outside the Rhein-Main-Area - nice thing is that Frankfurt is connected to several other towns in the region: Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mainz (where I live now), several smaller ones and a lot of lovely green surroundings...
8:08 They build it longer and they had crane’s. It’s a interesting topic and there are good vids on RUclips about the „Freiburger Münster“ and the rebuilding of Notre Dame after the fire.
i agree with most of the things said about munich, the conservative thing is true but not that bad as it sounds they re just more religious, more old fashioned, they love their city and heritage, lets say they are more patriotic and celebrate bavaria very often :D and the thing with the local friend group i cannot confirm this, i'm orginally from stuttgart with a danish heritage and moved to munich 10 years ago and i have so many friends there and it was easy for me to get in the groups. maybe you have to be more open for the people and the culture there i don't know but it was no problem for me. maybe the older people in munich are this way but the younger generation is quite open minded at least thats my experience. if someone says in the comments they are more racist or don't like foreigners its almost like in any other city i lived in even the AFD isn't that strong there.
If you are interested in the way how they build it you can look at different projects they are doing all over Europe where they try to recreate the building process of medieval times with the methods that they had at that time. Examples that i know of are :"Guedelon" in France,where they build a castle, "Campus Galli" in Germany, where they build a monastery, with medieval methods ( also they have wooden cranes xD).
about the Catherdal in Cologne: it was finally complete around 1880 and it took i think 632 years to build it. one reason for this was that in the 16th century they stopped the construction, because there was no money left and nobody was interested in something looking so unmodern. i dont know if its true but maybe it is the building with the longest construction time.
Oh yes. 😊 I am not the most talkactive person, but trying to talk to an east frisian really turns out to be a monologue from my side. Quite uncommon for me.
We have also such beautiful small towns in Germany, but every tourist semms to visit just the big ones. That's too bad. For example, the Seebäder on the coast are stunning with their unique architecture, but all foreigners only think of the half timber houses from the south when it comes to Germany. So please check the north (and east) as well! Greetings from near Berlin 😎
Your beloved Doner Kebab was found (the modern today all over the world known form with salad and sauce in a pocket) in Berlin in the 1970ies by an Turkish Immigrant who runs a snack bar there. Like in Hamburg the Fish and the HamburgerPaddy, all Germans like eating sausages in a Roll (Brötchen)… and so it was not far putting meat into a small bread. Enjoy. Fun fact: A huge Snack Bar Chain in the US is named „Berlin Doner“
The foundations of the Cologne cathedral dive down into the roman remains of the city. How they built buildings like this, you can watch live in the french town Guedelon, there they build a full scale castle with the medieval techniques of building.
If you go to Dusseldorph and Cologne dont forget to visit the old towns there.many nice Pubs and Restaurants and next to the Rhine River you can take a walk and sit on a bench and enjoy Alt Beer or Kölsch Beer 🍺.its legal to drink Beer in the public in Deutschland.
the chirch of cologne was build für 600 years and started in the gothic style. the other architects try to hold the style but it got influenced in other styles later. you can see it if you look at the main building, than the roof.
8:20 there are actually some great BBC documentaries on building in the Middle Ages. For example they would use blind people in hamster wheels 60m over the ground to lift weights up. Sometimes they would break and the person would fall down, hence the blind people. Crazy times
That scene of the movie was actually filmed there and not in Austria. I saw a video about the locations and the making and I think Feli from Germany did a video about the movie.
The Main German Stock Exchange is Located in Frankfurt, The European Central Bank and every other Bank of Renown that operates in Germany has their Headquarters in Frankfurt.
19:50 I think the number of cities around the 500k mark we have in Germany is even more noteworthy. And it kinda makes sense, at least for some of our many cities, to exist and to be spread all over the country if you consider our long divided history. So many independent bishoprics (like the city I live in), kingdoms, dukedoms and what have you that all had capitals until rather recently. And then there's the fact that you have almost half of Germany's cities gathered in one state which became the centre of German heavy industry during industrialisation. All these cities along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr and their intersection that, over time, grew into one continuous urban area. In some ways, the state of NRW (or at least a large chunk of it) is one city but it didn't grow around one major city centre and efforts to combine the cities never really went anywhere. So instead of having one city of over 10 million people or maybe 2 cities of 5 million we have dozens of medium sized ones.
You mentioned that cologne looks like a british city and i agree with that...i often encounter the same phenomenon when i visit a big city in germany (im from germany but i live in a small city)...you can clearly see differences in major cities in infrastructure and architecture, influenced by the occupations zones after world war II...like every city in north rhine westphalia was influenced by the british, munich, frankfurt and west-berlin has highways going directly through the city like in america and big social housing complexes in the eastern part of the germany, influenced by the soviets
Hamburg probably is the most British city in Germany. Due to historic trade connections there is a saying: People in Hamburg open their umbrellas when it's raining in London.😂 Hamburg and northern Germany were also part of the British occupied zone after WW2, with the last base of the British Forces being closed in 2020. Within those centuries the Brits became part of the northern German communities, in some cases part of families. Lower Saxony once had a Ministerpräsident called David McAllister - take an educated guess where his dad was from!
Berlin and Hamburg are expected to crack 4 million and 2 million inhabitants, respectively, within the next 10 years. The last time Berlin had well over 4 million inhabitants was back in 1944 (when it was one of the most populous cities in the world) just before WW2 deaths and destruction and then 40 years of Cold War political division drove the numbers down.
Well, and since both Berlin and Hamburg are their own states, extending the city limits would require territory negotiations with the bordering states, and that's a bit more difficult than for most other cities.
8:23: Fun fact: The cologne church is finished roundabout 20 years ago. They did start this version in 1248 and after 3 phases of building it is now finished. In cologne you enjoy life, you don‘t work to hard. 😂
I really liked your video. No wonder you find it hard to differentiate between Bavaria and Austria: Culturally speaking Bavarians and Austrians are one people (Austro-Bavarians) and have very little in common with e.g. Hamburgers. You know which people has a lot in common with Hamburgers? Let's just say that 1500 years ago the Hamburg region was where the Angles and Saxons lived. So many Brits feel right at home in tea-drinking, fish-eating Hamburg, while Munich is like a different planet. As regards Frankfurt: Being from there myself, Frankfurt is a tale of two cities. On the one hand the anonymous international business hotspot, where everyone speaks English and where it's easier to find a sports bar catering to Amercian expat bankers than a traditional Hessian cider joint. On the other hand its a very liveable city, everything is within reach (the airport is just 12 Minutes from the city center by subway), very green and open.
In Hamburg they eat Labskaus. It is a fish dish that is known in northern Germany and Scandinavia. Did you know that Scousers in Liverpool are derived from this very fish dish?
Hamburg and the Beatles: A tour in the footsteps of the Fab Four Hamburg shaped the Beatles like no other city. At the beginning of the 1960s, the young musicians got their first engagement at the Indra Club. From there the story took its course. Many of the places where the hopeful newcomers became rising stars can still be discovered today. You can easily reach it on foot and follow in the footsteps of the Beatles. Around the Reeperbahn and the Große Freiheit on St. Pauli you will find clubs, bars and other places such as the Jägerpassage, the Bambi cinema or the famous Beatles-Platz, which bear witness to the incomparable story of the four boys from Liverpool in Hamburg. Discover the musical heritage of the Fab Four, sometimes quite obvious, sometimes well hidden in the backyards of the colorful neighborhood. Beatles place: A monument to the “Fab Four”. Apart from Liverpool, no other city played as big a role in the Beatles' career as Hamburg. In the heart of St. Pauli on the Große Freiheit, the Beatles Platz commemorates the legendary band.
I was born in Frankfurt, in a hospital close to the Frankfurt Zoo, a little over 50 years ago, I've gone to school and university there, I've been working there for three decades (still with my first employer) and I still live there. And yes, particularly in the center, it is very much an finance city. I bloody love it. ❤ With regard to the social structure and geography, imagine Greater London, but scaled down approximately 1 by 10, situated in a river valley, with the river flowing to the west and a lot further away from the sea than River Thames (= no tidal hub whatsoever). Frankfurt is the size of Leeds, give or take, but Frankfurt's ACTUAL British sister city is Birmingham. The population is VERY diverse, and the city was home to some of Germany's first tennis, football, rugby, (field) hockey and even CRICKET clubs! (The latter have seen a - small - revival after pretty much dropping dead with the advent of World War 1, due to migrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.) In my opinion, Frankfurt is in some respects the most British (as in, post-WW2 British) place outside of the Commonwealth, maybe even outside the UK.
Dwayne you seriously should consider visiting Hamburg. Over the centuries Hamburg has developed strong economical and cultural ties with the UK. It's considered the most British city outside of Britain and as such is Germany's most anglophile metropolis.😊
I was born in Germany, near Stuttgart (Baden Württemberg) and I’m also half hungarian. I came to Hungary last year to make 4 Diplomas in different Massaging Techniques :) Also, in case you want to watch something interesting about hungary, I’m currently here to celebrate a special happening. Busójárás is kind of what other countries call carnival, but it’s only celebrated in my city- Mohács. It also became part of the UNESCO world heritage in the past years :D
Great reaction, Dwayne, as always. 🙂🙃 You are absolutely right in that those cities -- and their populations -- are quite different, so you should actually visit all of them over time. However, you might like to start with Hamburg, which probably is closest to having kind of an English flair in various ways. BTW, while not one single "city" in the sense of its definition, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany is the so-called Ruhr Area. Here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr#/media/File:Locator_map_RVR_in_Germany.svg (compare it to the size of Berlin with its outlines shown in the East of that map). The Ruhr Area is home to over 5.1 m people, and it is highly diverse with much to do and see, even including some beautiful nature.
20:40 it most likely didn't "withstand the war", Berlin was pretty much also leveled, granted it was also bigger than Hamburg to begin with but an enormous amount of money was spent rebuilding select building "to spec", so to speak afterwards.
Yes, England is a very centralized country...like France, Russia or Spain for example(other capitals with waaay to many inhabitants) One thing, you cant forget though, is, that mostly the surroundings of the city (the metropolitan area is included in the size number of one city)
In Hamburg you are Labskaus. It is a fish dish that is known in northern Germany and Scandinavia. Did you know that Scousers in Liverpool are derived from this very fish dish?
There are actually 2 Frankfurts in Germany - Frankfurt am Main (located at the river Main) and Frankfurt an der Oder (located at the river Oder). And a word about my hometown Hamburg: before Brexit the Hamburg redlight district was every weekend flooded by young Englishmen, who came via Ryan Air to party - so I bet Hamburg is well known in the UK ;-)
"how did they do that?" Have you ever watched a WRC rally compilation where fans pull cars out of the ditches within seconds?... you might get the idea Otherwise, in France they build a medieval castle - Guedelon - using only methods and materials available in the middle ages. There's tons of footage about that.😊
also it took over 600 years (had a 300 year break half finished) to build the cologne cathedral ... really not incomprehensible how people managed to build that given the timeframe and that things like cranes already existed since 600 BC or even longer. I never was impressed by the cologne cathedral, its basicly just a sign of catholic megalomania and exploitation, certainly not particular beautiful especially as its rarely seen without scaffolding. If it were finished back in the 1200-1500 it may have been impressive ... but only in the mid 1800 they bothered to finish it, not at all a problem by that time.
21:56 There are now over 18,000 kebab shops in Germany alone. But Berlin is “the kebab capital” with over 1,600 shops. According to the ATDiD association, 250 companies in the German kebab industry supply 80 percent of the EU market.December 21, 2023😋😋😋
I highly recommend reading the novel 'The pillars of earth' by Ken Follett, wich contains a lot of information regarding the building of churches and cathedrals in the middle ages.
i am German, born at the coast! i try to spend my vacations in the Alpes.... from France to Slovenia! with my motorbike..where i drive, no Harley will be there, forever!
German cities have all their own style, architecture and culture. It’s because of Germany is made of allot of different „countries“, that makes it s super interesting. But we have much much more of cities over 100k inhabitants, around 100. So much to discover.
Worth to mention, that the European Central Bank (ECB), so the "home of the Euro" is located in Frankfurt just as the biggest Internet Exchange Point world wide (DE CIX). The DE CIX has an average traffic from more than 12 Tbit/s. As an example how many this is: RUclips has an estimated storage of one exabyte (1,000,000 terabytes), which means the DE CIX could "copy" the whole youtube video data in less than one day
There is one metropolitan area in Germany which is even larger than Berlin: It's the Ruhr Area or Ruhrgebiet with 5.1 million people located about 50 kilometers north of Cologne. Over the last 150 years multiple medium to large cities have literally merged with no spaces in between. But all cities have kept their independence and their names. From my perspective today this contributes to economic weakness due to the decline of coal mining and steel industry.
Hi, Dwayne! Cologne is an old roman city with more than 2000 years of history. Unfortunately destroyed in Word War II. But you can still see many excavations from roman times and remains of the old city wall and of course the Cologne Cathedral!!! There are contemporary testimonies about Jewish life in Cologne and even an old Jewish prison! Cologne is absolutely famous for it`s carnival (Karneval). The city also has a lot of green space!!! Hamburg: I would like to visit it for myself!!! I just have been there for 1 hour or so while driving home from a vacation in Rostock-Warnemünde at the baltic see. Berlin: David Bowie once lived there for some time. Did you know that? I was in Berlin for a couple of days in 1988 (one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall). It was soooo fascinating at that time! In one moment you are in the "real" and "normal" world, which you live in and in the next moment you find yourself in a city that was also called "Berlin", but it was like a foreign country and many years backwards. The cigarettes there tasted "russian". And people`s behaviour was different. CRAZY. After the visit of East-Berlin I first went to Mc Donalds! 😵💫😂
1:05 There are two Frankfurt- am Main and an der Oder - that’s why you should specify wich one you mean… 7:54 The cathedral was and is very important for pilgrims - it houses the „Shrine of the three Kings“… For construction they used “man powered” cranes. Köln is the home of Ford Germany since 1925. 12:58 The Sound of Music was shot in and around Salzburg/Austria, 150km to the south of Munich. 24:07 The centralized, governmental capital cities- like London/ Paris /Rome or Vienna- I call “Water heads” because they are so dominant in their country. Berlin is not one of those. One last remark; have you noticed ? One city in the center -one in the north - east - south and west…. Cities in Germany are all different because the country has been unified in 1871 for the first time…!
We know how churches and castles were built. There is a castle in France that is being built by researchers using medieval methods. For example, of course there were cranes in the Middle Ages, they have been around since ancient times. They were only powered by physical strength. In the High Middle Ages, cranes were operated with “running wheels”.
Düsseldorf is a very liveable City with a Population of about 640.000 Citizens and Stuttgart with 625.000 Citizens makes these City’s Number 6 and 7 in the Top 10 Rankings Dresden,Leipzig and Nürnberg also above500.000 Citizens
I study political and cultural sciences in Munich. It's expensive but i honestly love living here 😊 I like the mix of am major city and lots of Green spaces
ofc frankfurt is a large city, its teh 5th biggest xD and leeds is the 5th biggest in uk so it fits xD i would argue the biggest hub of people is the ruhr area, next to next u have cities there where you not even see when you leave one city and enter the next and have over 5 million people
architectur student from cologne here, they did have cranes back in the middle ages, but they were not powered by electricity just a question of other societal conditions, cheap labor and cities and churches payed a lot for things people today dont want to invest in
the largest population in germany is in Rhein/Rhurgebiet. there isn´t only cologne, which is by far the largst city ther, but every city in that area is so close, that you could say its just one city. and the most big ctys in that area are big enough to fill the other places in the top 15 biggest citys in germany.
The numbers in the list they showed are off; they're probably from around 2019. My city, Dortmund (no.#9) is listed with around 590,000 inhabitants; at last count (31/12/23) we had in fact 612.065 people.
I think Frankfurt is a Alpha city, because it hosts the worlds largest Internet Carrier Hub. 50% of Frankfurt´s whole power consumption is used by data center.
remember BERLIN until 1990 wasnt the capital AND had a wall around half of it, so it was impossible to grow. berlin is also only half the size of london and its a city state so its not even all city xD metro area of berlin has around 6 million so a bit less then half of london wich is also double the size so it fits ^^ we just have a shit ton of medium size citys all over the nation and are just so much bigger then the uk , and all of it can be lived in not like the north of scotland :)
I was raised in a small town very near to Berlin and then worked for 10 years in Frankfurt. I allways thought, how small FFM is compaired to Berlin 😉 But I recommend the smaller cities of Germany, cause on my opinion, big cities are all kind of the same at some point. Greetings from near Berlin 😎
Germany has not the "one big center" like the UK. Beside the 4 cities over a million we have 10-11 more cities between a million and 500.000 citizens and 25 cities between 500.000 and 200.000
well yes and no. munich hamburg bayern are all huge centers but you could argue the big center of germany is the ruhrgebiet with over 5 million
also i think england has the exact same amount of cities above 250k as germany around 48.
germany just has a shitton of medium sized cities of 100k-200k
Just as a note - 5 million people live in the Ruhr area of North Rhine-Westphalia. The largest cities are Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg, each with over 500,000 inhabitants. Dortmund almost 600,000.
Bochum 360,000 and Gelsenkirchen 263,000 inhabitants. Bottrop, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Mühlheim a.d. The Ruhr area and Oberhausen have between 120,000 and 210,000 inhabitants.
In addition, the Recklinghausen district (most inhabitants in a district in Germany) has 620,000, the Wesel district has 465,000 and the Unna district has 400,000 inhabitants.
With the Ruhr area, Germany has a metropolitan region. In addition to NRW with Cologne as a city of millions. Düsseldorf, Münster, Bielefeld, Aachen and some districts have a very large population. Either way, NRW is the most populous federal state in Germany.
@@CoL_Drake ... nonsense. England has not around 48 cities >250k.. Its around 18 cities and thus, way less than Germany (which has 26 - and the lower you get (e.g. >200) the more raises the gap) ...
😂😂😂 Ruhrgebiet vergessen?
Fun fact: The construction of Cologne Cathedral took 632 years, from 1248 to 1880. And some people say, it's not yet finished.
The construction started when Cologne was the largest city in modern Germany and a wealthy member of the Hanseatic League. Lots of pilgrims came to Cologne and brought money. But then the Hanseatic League declined, and so did the city's prosperity. The construction halted in the 16th century, and for hundreds of years, the Cathedral was famous for its truncated towers with a crane on them. When Cologne fell to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna, the new protestant lords decided to finish the construction. The problem is that they had to rediscover the original plans from the Middle Ages. And they used modern building techniques. The roof got a steel truss, which saved the church from destruction during the bombing of WWII.
Fun fact to the fun fact: the hanseatic League has fought and won wars against England and denmark
And in 1880 the catholic archbishop of Cologne refused to perform the opening service, because the cathedral was finish by a protestant emperor. The people of Cologne knew very well, that by finishing the cathedral the emperor tried to buy their pleasure to be Prussians. They loved their finished cathedral very much anyway - and went on refusing to become Prussians and mocking them instead. By the way: It is not well known nowadays, but Cologne had been one of the founding cities of the Hanseatic League.
So, yes. The construction of the Cologne Cathedral was started almost 250 years, before Columbus stumbled across some carribean islands and was finished more than 100 years after the US gained their independency. If you compare BER with the Cathedral in Cologne, it was mind blowing fast :-D
What I also find fascinating: the two towers of the cathedral only have a height difference of less than 5cm. This is really crazy considering the size and construction time of this building. Even with modern technology, such a deviation would be an absolute success with similar material today!
If you're at the waterside in Hamburg and eat a Fischbrötchen, be careful that the seagulls won't snatch the fish off of it 😂
also, all kids learn early on, that when you stand on the "WaterKant", dont look straight up at seagulls!, if they drop a package at the right time, it can blind you! 😜
so true..I wish...this would an lie 🙂
pah Hamburg most beautiful city. nonono its Dresden habt ja keine ahnung
@@OmegamonUI hah, wie komt man da hin? steckst den finger in hintern & drestden!
ganz genau so einfach kommt man hin. denn die Bahn hat ja verspätung. @@mho...
Hamburg got its own flair. I can't describe it. :D I live in Bremen, not far away and I love to visit Hamburg from time to time.
I don't know, why people think we north germans are unfriendly, but it's not true. I once live in Baden-Württemberg for a couple of years and I was so relieved and happy, when I was back in the north. I felt so ignored in the south and most people only cared about their work. Back in Bremen I felt 'seen' and it can happens someone starts a conversation with you - someone you don't know. Yes, it's not easy to find friends in the north - it takes time. But when you've found friends, they are friends forever!
Same here. Though the northern Germans are known as grumpy and less talkative, I have made quite the opposite experience. I never got into chats and talks with locals as often as at the German coast. And I live at the river Rhine, where people are known as talkative and to make friends fast and easily ...
I think the stereotype of untalkative and "unfriendly" pertains only to the rural regions of northern Germany today. The cities have enough people who originated from different regions that the culture changed significantly in the last decades. I'm from Ostfriesland and can definitely say that, especially the older generation, is that way. I'm in my mid twenties and the amount of words I utter during a day are never in the three digits if I can help it. But I can agree that once you've got to be close to someone, you are friends for life.
My impression of Hamburg is also that they are indeed very honest people that don't talk too much if they don't need to. But they are also very polite and open minded.
Kind of like it is said about all of northern Germany with Hamburg probably being the center of that impression.
Yea, being polite and reluctant to befriend everyone goes hand in hand. Before I befriend someone, I need to have some good conversations with that one.
The only big city in europe, where I have been experiencing people greeting strangers on the street (like I just knew from small villages before).
we do our best
How cold and hectic Frankfurt is depends on what you are looking for and doing in Frankfurt. Like in all big cities. In Frankfurt there are also districts that are like farming villages. There is also the largest forest in Germany that belongs to a city. It is also a large industrial site. Frankfurt is diverse.
Oh they did not do Hamburg justice 🙈❤️ Hamburg is beautiful! I've lived in Hamburg almost 15years and it is an absolutely phenomenal, diverse and absolutely culturally active city. We are ranked no.3 in the world for musical venues after New York and London. ❤
I really love Hamburg. I don't know exactly why, if somebody asked me to describe it in 5 words I couldn't. I just love it's "feeling".
@@andrewcoogans471 Feeling that!
You are sooooo right. I can add the most largest park cemetery … my lung during the Pandemic … an absolutely vivid clubscene … AND it is the most British looking city …. Especially in the quarters of Winterhude, Eppendorf, Rotherbaum, Blankenese … where all those fancy old buildings and villas are located that were built during the 19th early 20th century.
@@andrewcoogans471 Beatles played in Hamburg already when they were not famous at all.
And not to forget Hamburgs citizen pride what is the most outstanding part of all - imo.
I could recommend the videos from DW Euromaxx, small series - "meet the germans, Roadtrip" west, north, south and east. It's a good way to get to know the different regions.
It's a very nice series. But very important, there's a version with english subs. Both versions are in English, but only one will make you understand the german talking.
Yea thats really a nice one 👍🏼
Colognes cathedral took 600 years to be finished. There still are 40 workers ,stone masons,carpenters and
plummers , working on it every day ( Bauhütte) .This building was financed by the people of Cologne not
the church.
20:56 Berlin has three rivers within the city limits, the Spree, Dahme and Havel. They flow through Berlin over a distance of 89 km, and the canals have a total length of 67 km. The smaller tributaries such as Panke, Fredersdorfer Fließ, Tegeler Fließ and Nordgraben, without making the list complete, are approx. 75 km long.
3,000 lakes and well over 30,000 kilometers of flowing water: As the region with the most water in the republic, Berlin and the surrounding area in Brandenburg have bathing spots a dime a dozen - from Wannsee to Müggelsee.
being a naturally born Hamburger, i can tell you that we still have that hanseatic vibe of "Traders" (if that makes sense)
we are pretty open to everyone, no matter their origin (who knows what they might have to offer us), but we are also "cold" in the sense that we need to trust outsiders enough to "open up" & that might take a while!
PS: plus we are very direct(no smalltalk really, if we have a goal in mind, which might come off as unfriendly, but its not, its just "direct"!)
Love your german content...you´re so friendly and kind....greetings from Germany 🙃❤
Few high-rise buildings in Hamburg, 2 reasons:
a) there is no stone underground, this requires special statics;
b) (allegedly) there is an old building rule that states that no (regular) building can be higher than the tallest church towers.
If I remember correctly, the Hamburg Rathaus foundation rests on 4000 oak trunks that were rammed into the ground. And yes, there is a lot of water in Hamburg and that means, depending on the area, foundations needs special treatment. People know about the Elbe, but there are two more rivers and quite a few springs, channels, brooks and streams. Quite a few channels were filled in with rubble from the bombed out city so once upon a time there were so much more waterways then there are today.
Hamburg used to be an independent city in the HRE (fun fact the people of Hamburg might have done a little bit of forging to add the right of self-governing and being a free independent city into a letter the emperor Friedrich Barbarossa "gave" them and it only came out that they cheated in 19something when it was way too late that yeah, they forged some stuff he didn't give them, but they wanted ) and only become part of the Empire after Bismark sweetened the pot with some extra rights.
The law that no building could be higher then the church towers did exist, but that was done away quite a while ago.
Since Hamburg has quite a long history, there were some "interesting" laws during its existence.
Hamburg is also a very green city with quite a few parks and the biggest one is Ohlsdorf cemetery, the biggest rural cemetery in the world. How big? Well it is serviced by 2 bus lines and has, I think, 20+ bus stops.
The fish thing.... well I am from Hamburg and I eat at least fish two times a week (only when the temperature rises above 25°C I switch to fruits and reduce my fish consumption to maybe once a week).
People in Europe also tend to dislike skyscrapers, so they aren't allowed in most cities.
fun fact: you say "we're an island" which is why fish and chips are so popular. In fact, there isn't any fish in British waters that the British like. Your beloved fish is imported from Iceland or Norway :-)
Well the Fish used to be plenty on the Waters around Britain, but when everyone surrounding the North sea is a heavy fish eater, overfishing becomes a problem. Cod, which is the most common fish for Fish n Chips, fish fingers and pretty much every other crispy fried fish, used to be available in Abundance in the North sea.
I mean, most tuna in Japan is imported from the Mediterranean nowadays, because the Big Pacific Tuna was almost hunted to Extinction. and The Japanese absolutely love Tuna.
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Dwayne, happy to hear you decided to go to Germany. Don't hurry, take your time and try to get the vibes. I for example, originally from the northern part of Germany, havebeen living now for more than 20 years in Munich and still discover new hideouts and hidden gems. Munich consists basically of a number of grown together little towns and villages with a very beautiful center around Marienplatz. Each former entity has its own vibe, so that you can spend easily some weeks here and it is not getting boring. And, Oktoberfest is much better than mentioned here. Its, during the day to some extend, still also a family event. Timing here is key. As a start, my recommendation would be to go to the central "Viktualienmarkt" enter the Biergarten, get a Weissbier and a pair of Weisswurst. The rest will show up from there.
Fun fact: Frankfurt am Main has the worlds biggest internet exchange point by traffic handled. It is a core infrastructure hub in more ways than one, far in excess of its own size.
I used to live in a small town 60 kilometres from Frankfurt before I moved to Switzerland. Frankfurt is a great and beautiful city. By the way: there is a street in Hamburg that women and children are not allowed to enter. "Herbertstrasse" in Hamburg is Germany's best-known street, which is officially used by around 250 women for prostitution.
I lived in Frankfurt and didn't find it particularly beautiful, especially compared to my recent homecity, Hamburg. But tastes are different 😉
Frankfurt itself has under a million inhabitants, but the surrounding area (Rhein-Main-Gebiet) is densely populated and has a population of 2,4 million.
Im living in Frankfurt. Its a pretty busy city. On Workdays the City becomes a Million-City because so many people commute into Frankfurt.
Hi Dwyane, I grew up in Frankfurt am Main.
What's also fascinating about the city is that most of the people who work in the city don't live there. The "Speckgürtel" (the many villages and small towns around) of Frankfurt is huge, so during the day there are almost twice as many people in the city as live there. Every district of the citiy has at least one connection to the Autobahn network.
Frankfurt is also known for its traditional cuisine and apple wine. As a Frankfurt resident, you can quickly find a place to relax in the apple wine gardens. And if you want to get out into the countryside, you can get out of the city really quickly thanks to the good motorway connections. Thanks for your great videos. Keep up the great work.
F: what I like about "Mainhattan Skyline" is the contrast between these modern buildings and the surrounding old neighbourhoods. And yes, trains are running to all parts of Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich) and abroad (Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Zurich, Vienna).
K: how did they build a cathedral those days? By taking time to build it = centuries! The dish can be translated to "heaven and earth" which refers to apples and potatoes.
M: "Erlkönig" means prototype, or test vehicle. They usually end up being dismantled and put into a baler after the testing. Oktoberfest is beerdrinking, fairground rides and lots of Schlager music. For many Munich people, the Alps are their back garden. The Sound Of Music was filmed in the Alps around Salzburg, just across the border in Austria.
HH: a water city indeed.
B: each visit you will discover something new! I visited it in 1988 when the Wall was still there. The yellow car put up is a Trabant (also named "Trabi").
Greetings from the Netherlands.
hi, i live in Frankfurt Germany and can absolutely confirm that it's a very internal place and business oriented. it does look and feel much bigger than it actually is. we joke around saying it's basically a big airport with shopping options around😉
Berlin is for sure a fascinating city. Especially the unique history is incredible (Napoleon/Brandenburg Gate, WWII, cold war and reunification). The Currywurst has been invented by the berliner woman Hertha Heuwer. In the post war time she was experimenting with spices (f.e. with Curry she got from british soldiers) and tomato sauce and combined it with a Bratwurst. By the way the first Bratwurst mentioned in a document was in 1404 in Anrnstadt in Thuringia in a monastery.
On the map they misplaced Cologne (5:43), more than 100km too far north. They placed it roughly where Münster is.
... and I've been wondering what's wrong with my glasses 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As german I can say your english is very clean and almost no weird accent. Not like people from Liverpool or so 😂.
Nice to see you´re so interested in Germany´s culture and citizens.
I lived in Britain for over one year many,many years ago in a very small village and studied in Bath. Somerset has a very beautiful landscape and interesting places to go. Been to London only twice and my thought was : "Where are the London people ?" 😅
I live near Stuttgart (ranked No.6) , famous for the car brands MERCEDES BENZ and PORSCHE. The museums are worth a visit for sure but sadly the centre of the city has not much to offer anymore. More and more shops and restaurants close and you´ll hardly meet a local.
But there are a few nice cities nearby worth to visit such as Esslingen or Tübingen ( with a university) where people are very openhearted and sociable.
If you like water and looking at ships than the coast of the North Sea is the place for you, and , of course, lots of fish. And a town calledBrunsbüttel, the beginning /end of the Kiel Kanal
Most of grand Gothic cathedrals weren't completed in the Middle age, such the ones in Ulm with the highest spire, in Cologne with the largest footprint or in Strasbourg with the most ornate designs. They either didn't have money or technology to realise the grand plan or it took so long that Gothic had already gone out of fashion. The only Gothic cathedral that was actually completed in the Middle age (at least in Germany, as far as I know) is the one in Freiburg, which is much more reasonably sized.
All the rest had to wait till the later half of 19th C when the old syles, including Gothic, were revived. By then, they had bit more reliable building skill and experience to actually finish the job.
... and they ran out of money several times during construction, or there was some dispute or war or a big fire or the pest or ...
Berlin is the forest metropolis of Germany! Almost a fifth of Berlin is forested. The Berlin forest property covers a total of around 28,500 hectares. 16,000 hectares of which are within the state border, and another 12,500 hectares are in the state of Brandenburg.
Cologne Cathedral is the most impressive, but for me, the most beautiful cathedral is in Limburg (Lahn). Speyer, Worms, and Mainz have quite nice cathedrals too. Limburg and Mainz are just the corner for me - so to speak. BTW, York Minster takes second place after Limburg in my book.
Agree. My ranking:
1 Speyer
2 Limburg
3 Worms or Fulda
Cologne is so dirty and lacks elegance. Impressive and massive...
4:20 : I don't live exactly in Frankfurt, but like a half of an hour away from it.
I lived and worked (as a social-worker) in Frankfurt, so I have some insight in the "other side" of Frankfurt. It's called "Bankfurt" and "Junkfurt" for a reason. Not much inbetween. Pretty rough, pretty high but actually pretty SMALL for an important town like that. As a tourist: Okay for a day or two - try the "Äppler" with sparkling water ("Gespritze"), a quite harsh cider that is excellent in the summer and hardly anyone else drinks that stuff outside the Rhein-Main-Area - nice thing is that Frankfurt is connected to several other towns in the region: Darmstadt, Wiesbaden, Mainz (where I live now), several smaller ones and a lot of lovely green surroundings...
8:08 They build it longer and they had crane’s. It’s a interesting topic and there are good vids on RUclips about the „Freiburger Münster“ and the rebuilding of Notre Dame after the fire.
i agree with most of the things said about munich, the conservative thing is true but not that bad as it sounds they re just more religious, more old fashioned, they love their city and heritage, lets say they are more patriotic and celebrate bavaria very often :D and the thing with the local friend group i cannot confirm this, i'm orginally from stuttgart with a danish heritage and moved to munich 10 years ago and i have so many friends there and it was easy for me to get in the groups. maybe you have to be more open for the people and the culture there i don't know but it was no problem for me. maybe the older people in munich are this way but the younger generation is quite open minded at least thats my experience. if someone says in the comments they are more racist or don't like foreigners its almost like in any other city i lived in even the AFD isn't that strong there.
Oh, Bremen is just #11 with around 560.000, but on the plus side i can live here very cheap for just around 1000€ per month for all at the moment.
Because of the kind of relaxed way of living there, Munich is also oftentimes refered to as the nothernmost city of Italy.
What are talking bro
If you are interested in the way how they build it you can look at different projects they are doing all over Europe where they try to recreate the building process of medieval times with the methods that they had at that time. Examples that i know of are :"Guedelon" in France,where they build a castle, "Campus Galli" in Germany, where they build a monastery, with medieval methods ( also they have wooden cranes xD).
about the Catherdal in Cologne: it was finally complete around 1880 and it took i think 632 years to build it. one reason for this was that in the 16th century they stopped the construction, because there was no money left and nobody was interested in something looking so unmodern. i dont know if its true but maybe it is the building with the longest construction time.
I live 80 km north of Hamburg. We're not unfriendly or impolite, we just only talk when we have something relevant to say. 😷
Oh yes. 😊 I am not the most talkactive person, but trying to talk to an east frisian really turns out to be a monologue from my side. Quite uncommon for me.
We have also such beautiful small towns in Germany, but every tourist semms to visit just the big ones. That's too bad. For example, the Seebäder on the coast are stunning with their unique architecture, but all foreigners only think of the half timber houses from the south when it comes to Germany. So please check the north (and east) as well!
Greetings from near Berlin 😎
Quick Google: Sound of Music was filmed in Salzburg, Austria and in Hollywood
Your beloved Doner Kebab was found (the modern today all over the world known form with salad and sauce in a pocket) in Berlin in the 1970ies by an Turkish Immigrant who runs a snack bar there. Like in Hamburg the Fish and the HamburgerPaddy, all Germans like eating sausages in a Roll (Brötchen)… and so it was not far putting meat into a small bread. Enjoy. Fun fact: A huge Snack Bar Chain in the US is named „Berlin Doner“
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The foundations of the Cologne cathedral dive down into the roman remains of the city. How they built buildings like this, you can watch live in the french town Guedelon, there they build a full scale castle with the medieval techniques of building.
If you go to Dusseldorph and Cologne dont forget to visit the old towns there.many nice Pubs and Restaurants and next to the Rhine River you can take a walk and sit on a bench and enjoy Alt Beer or Kölsch Beer 🍺.its legal to drink Beer in the public in Deutschland.
the chirch of cologne was build für 600 years and started in the gothic style. the other architects try to hold the style but it got influenced in other styles later. you can see it if you look at the main building, than the roof.
8:20 there are actually some great BBC documentaries on building in the Middle Ages. For example they would use blind people in hamster wheels 60m over the ground to lift weights up. Sometimes they would break and the person would fall down, hence the blind people. Crazy times
If you go to Munich also visit Regensburg, its a smaller city, 90min from Munich, with a gorgeus ancient city
I´m born in Frankfurt am Main. We call the City very often Mainhatten.😍😍😁
Actually we don’t!!!!
@@nelsonvh3033Well, maybe not OFTEN, but we really do that on occasion...
I don't live in Frankfurt but I live only a few kilometers from there and it's a big and busy city
That scene of the movie was actually filmed there and not in Austria. I saw a video about the locations and the making and I think Feli from Germany did a video about the movie.
Filming location of the beginning of "Sound of Music": Königssee, Bavaria, Germany
(lakes Königssee and Obersee in opening aerial shots)
The Main German Stock Exchange is Located in Frankfurt, The European Central Bank and every other Bank of Renown that operates in Germany has their Headquarters in Frankfurt.
19:50 I think the number of cities around the 500k mark we have in Germany is even more noteworthy. And it kinda makes sense, at least for some of our many cities, to exist and to be spread all over the country if you consider our long divided history. So many independent bishoprics (like the city I live in), kingdoms, dukedoms and what have you that all had capitals until rather recently.
And then there's the fact that you have almost half of Germany's cities gathered in one state which became the centre of German heavy industry during industrialisation. All these cities along the rivers Rhine and Ruhr and their intersection that, over time, grew into one continuous urban area. In some ways, the state of NRW (or at least a large chunk of it) is one city but it didn't grow around one major city centre and efforts to combine the cities never really went anywhere. So instead of having one city of over 10 million people or maybe 2 cities of 5 million we have dozens of medium sized ones.
Fun Fact: In Berlin was a debt clock that count the debts of Germany
True. Fortunately, it goes back at the moment.
You mentioned that cologne looks like a british city and i agree with that...i often encounter the same phenomenon when i visit a big city in germany (im from germany but i live in a small city)...you can clearly see differences in major cities in infrastructure and architecture, influenced by the occupations zones after world war II...like every city in north rhine westphalia was influenced by the british, munich, frankfurt and west-berlin has highways going directly through the city like in america and big social housing complexes in the eastern part of the germany, influenced by the soviets
Hamburg probably is the most British city in Germany. Due to historic trade connections there is a saying: People in Hamburg open their umbrellas when it's raining in London.😂
Hamburg and northern Germany were also part of the British occupied zone after WW2, with the last base of the British Forces being closed in 2020. Within those centuries the Brits became part of the northern German communities, in some cases part of families. Lower Saxony once had a Ministerpräsident called David McAllister - take an educated guess where his dad was from!
Berlin and Hamburg are expected to crack 4 million and 2 million inhabitants, respectively, within the next 10 years. The last time Berlin had well over 4 million inhabitants was back in 1944 (when it was one of the most populous cities in the world) just before WW2 deaths and destruction and then 40 years of Cold War political division drove the numbers down.
Well, and since both Berlin and Hamburg are their own states, extending the city limits would require territory negotiations with the bordering states, and that's a bit more difficult than for most other cities.
8:23: Fun fact: The cologne church is finished roundabout 20 years ago. They did start this version in 1248 and after 3 phases of building it is now finished. In cologne you enjoy life, you don‘t work to hard. 😂
I really liked your video. No wonder you find it hard to differentiate between Bavaria and Austria: Culturally speaking Bavarians and Austrians are one people (Austro-Bavarians) and have very little in common with e.g. Hamburgers. You know which people has a lot in common with Hamburgers? Let's just say that 1500 years ago the Hamburg region was where the Angles and Saxons lived. So many Brits feel right at home in tea-drinking, fish-eating Hamburg, while Munich is like a different planet.
As regards Frankfurt: Being from there myself, Frankfurt is a tale of two cities. On the one hand the anonymous international business hotspot, where everyone speaks English and where it's easier to find a sports bar catering to Amercian expat bankers than a traditional Hessian cider joint. On the other hand its a very liveable city, everything is within reach (the airport is just 12 Minutes from the city center by subway), very green and open.
12:44 You hit the notes very well. Almost as good as Julie Andrews 👍 Nice
In Hamburg they eat Labskaus. It is a fish dish that is known in northern Germany and Scandinavia. Did you know that Scousers in Liverpool are derived from this very fish dish?
Hamburg and the Beatles:
A tour in the footsteps of the Fab Four
Hamburg shaped the Beatles like no other city. At the beginning of the 1960s, the young musicians got their first engagement at the Indra Club. From there the story took its course. Many of the places where the hopeful newcomers became rising stars can still be discovered today. You can easily reach it on foot and follow in the footsteps of the Beatles. Around the Reeperbahn and the Große Freiheit on St. Pauli you will find clubs, bars and other places such as the Jägerpassage, the Bambi cinema or the famous Beatles-Platz, which bear witness to the incomparable story of the four boys from Liverpool in Hamburg. Discover the musical heritage of the Fab Four, sometimes quite obvious, sometimes well hidden in the backyards of the colorful neighborhood.
Beatles place:
A monument to the “Fab Four”. Apart from Liverpool, no other city played as big a role in the Beatles' career as Hamburg. In the heart of St. Pauli on the Große Freiheit, the Beatles Platz commemorates the legendary band.
i live kinda near Frankfurt it´s quite busy worked there at some ocasions as a Heating and Air condition Mechanic
I was born in Frankfurt, in a hospital close to the Frankfurt Zoo, a little over 50 years ago, I've gone to school and university there, I've been working there for three decades (still with my first employer) and I still live there. And yes, particularly in the center, it is very much an finance city. I bloody love it. ❤ With regard to the social structure and geography, imagine Greater London, but scaled down approximately 1 by 10, situated in a river valley, with the river flowing to the west and a lot further away from the sea than River Thames (= no tidal hub whatsoever). Frankfurt is the size of Leeds, give or take, but Frankfurt's ACTUAL British sister city is Birmingham. The population is VERY diverse, and the city was home to some of Germany's first tennis, football, rugby, (field) hockey and even CRICKET clubs! (The latter have seen a - small - revival after pretty much dropping dead with the advent of World War 1, due to migrants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.) In my opinion, Frankfurt is in some respects the most British (as in, post-WW2 British) place outside of the Commonwealth, maybe even outside the UK.
Dwayne you seriously should consider visiting Hamburg. Over the centuries Hamburg has developed strong economical and cultural ties with the UK. It's considered the most British city outside of Britain and as such is Germany's most anglophile metropolis.😊
I was born in Germany, near Stuttgart (Baden Württemberg) and I’m also half hungarian. I came to Hungary last year to make 4 Diplomas in different Massaging Techniques :)
Also, in case you want to watch something interesting about hungary, I’m currently here to celebrate a special happening.
Busójárás is kind of what other countries call carnival, but it’s only celebrated in my city- Mohács. It also became part of the UNESCO world heritage in the past years :D
Great reaction, Dwayne, as always. 🙂🙃
You are absolutely right in that those cities -- and their populations -- are quite different, so you should actually visit all of them over time. However, you might like to start with Hamburg, which probably is closest to having kind of an English flair in various ways.
BTW, while not one single "city" in the sense of its definition, the largest urban agglomeration in Germany is the so-called Ruhr Area. Here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr#/media/File:Locator_map_RVR_in_Germany.svg (compare it to the size of Berlin with its outlines shown in the East of that map). The Ruhr Area is home to over 5.1 m people, and it is highly diverse with much to do and see, even including some beautiful nature.
20:40 it most likely didn't "withstand the war", Berlin was pretty much also leveled, granted it was also bigger than Hamburg to begin with but an enormous amount of money was spent rebuilding select building "to spec", so to speak afterwards.
Yes, England is a very centralized country...like France, Russia or Spain for example(other capitals with waaay to many inhabitants) One thing, you cant forget though, is, that mostly the surroundings of the city (the metropolitan area is included in the size number of one city)
In the last 15 years I visited Hamburg almost every year, because of the Miniature Wunderland and the beaty of the city.
In Hamburg you are Labskaus. It is a fish dish that is known in northern Germany and Scandinavia. Did you know that Scousers in Liverpool are derived from this very fish dish?
8:20 The construction of Cologne Cathedral took around 620 years.
There are actually 2 Frankfurts in Germany - Frankfurt am Main (located at the river Main) and Frankfurt an der Oder (located at the river Oder).
And a word about my hometown Hamburg: before Brexit the Hamburg redlight district was every weekend flooded by young Englishmen, who came via Ryan Air to party - so I bet Hamburg is well known in the UK ;-)
I visited more than London☺️…. Gillingham, Chatham, Rochester, Rainham and Leeds Castle.
"how did they do that?"
Have you ever watched a WRC rally compilation where fans pull cars out of the ditches within seconds?... you might get the idea
Otherwise, in France they build a medieval castle - Guedelon - using only methods and materials available in the middle ages. There's tons of footage about that.😊
also it took over 600 years (had a 300 year break half finished) to build the cologne cathedral ... really not incomprehensible how people managed to build that given the timeframe and that things like cranes already existed since 600 BC or even longer.
I never was impressed by the cologne cathedral, its basicly just a sign of catholic megalomania and exploitation, certainly not particular beautiful especially as its rarely seen without scaffolding. If it were finished back in the 1200-1500 it may have been impressive ... but only in the mid 1800 they bothered to finish it, not at all a problem by that time.
21:56 There are now over 18,000 kebab shops in Germany alone. But Berlin is “the kebab capital” with over 1,600 shops. According to the ATDiD association, 250 companies in the German kebab industry supply 80 percent of the EU market.December 21, 2023😋😋😋
I highly recommend reading the novel 'The pillars of earth' by Ken Follett, wich contains a lot of information regarding the building of churches and cathedrals in the middle ages.
i am German, born at the coast!
i try to spend my vacations in the Alpes.... from France to Slovenia!
with my motorbike..where i drive, no Harley will be there, forever!
German cities have all their own style, architecture and culture. It’s because of Germany is made of allot of different „countries“, that makes it s super interesting.
But we have much much more of cities over 100k inhabitants, around 100. So much to discover.
Worth to mention, that the European Central Bank (ECB), so the "home of the Euro" is located in Frankfurt just as the biggest Internet Exchange Point world wide (DE CIX). The DE CIX has an average traffic from more than 12 Tbit/s. As an example how many this is: RUclips has an estimated storage of one exabyte (1,000,000 terabytes), which means the DE CIX could "copy" the whole youtube video data in less than one day
There is one metropolitan area in Germany which is even larger than Berlin: It's the Ruhr Area or Ruhrgebiet with 5.1 million people located about 50 kilometers north of Cologne. Over the last 150 years multiple medium to large cities have literally merged with no spaces in between. But all cities have kept their independence and their names. From my perspective today this contributes to economic weakness due to the decline of coal mining and steel industry.
Hi, Dwayne! Cologne is an old roman city with more than 2000 years of history. Unfortunately destroyed in Word War II. But you can still see many excavations from roman times and remains of the old city wall and of course the Cologne Cathedral!!!
There are contemporary testimonies about Jewish life in Cologne and even an old Jewish prison!
Cologne is absolutely famous for it`s carnival (Karneval). The city also has a lot of green space!!!
Hamburg: I would like to visit it for myself!!! I just have been there for 1 hour or so while driving home from a vacation in Rostock-Warnemünde at the baltic see.
Berlin: David Bowie once lived there for some time. Did you know that? I was in Berlin for a couple of days in 1988 (one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall). It was soooo fascinating at that time! In one moment you are in the "real" and "normal" world, which you live in and in the next moment you find yourself in a city that was also called "Berlin", but it was like a foreign country and many years backwards. The cigarettes there tasted "russian". And people`s behaviour was different. CRAZY. After the visit of East-Berlin I first went to Mc Donalds! 😵💫😂
1:05 There are two Frankfurt- am Main and an der Oder - that’s why you should specify wich one you mean…
7:54 The cathedral was and is very important for pilgrims - it houses the „Shrine of the three Kings“…
For construction they used “man powered” cranes.
Köln is the home of Ford Germany since 1925.
12:58 The Sound of Music was shot in and around Salzburg/Austria, 150km to the south of Munich.
24:07 The centralized, governmental capital cities- like London/ Paris /Rome or Vienna- I call “Water heads” because they are so dominant in their country. Berlin is not one of those.
One last remark; have you noticed ? One city in the center -one in the north - east - south and west….
Cities in Germany are all different because the country has been unified in 1871 for the first time…!
We know how churches and castles were built. There is a castle in France that is being built by researchers using medieval methods.
For example, of course there were cranes in the Middle Ages, they have been around since ancient times. They were only powered by physical strength. In the High Middle Ages, cranes were operated with “running wheels”.
Düsseldorf is a very liveable City with a Population of about 640.000 Citizens and Stuttgart with 625.000 Citizens makes these City’s Number 6 and 7 in the Top 10 Rankings
Dresden,Leipzig and Nürnberg also above500.000 Citizens
I study political and cultural sciences in Munich. It's expensive but i honestly love living here 😊 I like the mix of am major city and lots of Green spaces
ofc frankfurt is a large city, its teh 5th biggest xD
and leeds is the 5th biggest in uk so it fits xD
i would argue the biggest hub of people is the ruhr area, next to next u have cities there where you not even see when you leave one city and enter the next and have over 5 million people
Fun fact: 100 years ago, Berlin had more inhabitants than today.
architectur student from cologne here, they did have cranes back in the middle ages, but they were not powered by electricity
just a question of other societal conditions, cheap labor and cities and churches payed a lot for things people today dont want to invest in
the largest population in germany is in Rhein/Rhurgebiet. there isn´t only cologne, which is by far the largst city ther, but every city in that area is so close, that you could say its just one city. and the most big ctys in that area are big enough to fill the other places in the top 15 biggest citys in germany.
The numbers in the list they showed are off; they're probably from around 2019. My city, Dortmund (no.#9) is listed with around 590,000 inhabitants; at last count (31/12/23) we had in fact 612.065 people.
As far as i know, people back then had sum sort of wooden wheel they walked in to lift up things.
It was a manuell krane 😮
Fun Fact: It only took them 623 years to build the Cologne Cathedral. They start 1248 and finished it in 1880
The "Frankfurter" sausages you speak about, in germany are called "Wiener". And in Austria (Vienna) they are called "Frankfurter".
@8:13 obviously they had cranes back then. not that modern ones of course...
I think Frankfurt is a Alpha city, because it hosts the worlds largest Internet Carrier Hub. 50% of Frankfurt´s whole power consumption is used by data center.
remember BERLIN until 1990 wasnt the capital AND had a wall around half of it, so it was impossible to grow.
berlin is also only half the size of london and its a city state so its not even all city xD
metro area of berlin has around 6 million so a bit less then half of london wich is also double the size so it fits ^^
we just have a shit ton of medium size citys all over the nation and are just so much bigger then the uk , and all of it can be lived in not like the north of scotland :)
East Berlin was the Capital of East-Germany.
Im from the 25th place of the biggest cities and we have over 260k inhabitants.
There are over 80 cities with over 100k citizens.
Yes, and b.t.w. THE BEATLES starting they career in Hamburg at the "REEPERBAHN".
I was raised in a small town very near to Berlin and then worked for 10 years in Frankfurt. I allways thought, how small FFM is compaired to Berlin 😉
But I recommend the smaller cities of Germany, cause on my opinion, big cities are all kind of the same at some point.
Greetings from near Berlin 😎