Hidden Gems in Leipzig - Schrebers Biergarten - Americans in Germany
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2022
- Germany is well known for its Kleingärten or Schrebergärten, and our family took advantage of the beautiful spring weather to see where it all started - the original historic Schrebergarten! It was an amazing evening with great food and some cool German cultural history.
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About us: At the end of July, after a long time of hoping, dreaming, and planning, we sold or gave away almost everything we owned and left the United States to begin our journey with four children as an expat family. We moved to Leipzig, Germany, a beautiful city in the state of Saxony. This is our story.
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Ha, even as a German I didn't know that the name "Schrebergarten" comes from Dr. Schreber, and that the Leipzig one was the first one! We have several here in Augsburg, too.
Hey, glad I could provide some helpful info! I mentioned to a friend of mine that we went to Schrebersgarten and she hadn't even heard of it - and she lives here! Definitely a hidden gem.
That's right. Good research! And this place is so close to downtown. Also, there is a public pool with the same name right next to it, and also the Stadthafen where you can rent canoes etc., with beach bar attached (closed for reconstruction though).
I did not know that either! It is always interesting to see your own country through the eyes of someone who has grown up on a different country. I learned a lot today!
Schitzel, Strebergarten and Beer ;-) Congratulation you are already fully integrated! I love this video and I learned so much about Schrebergärter, I didn’t know before! Well done! Seeing you all sitting together and enjoying your time in a Biergarten, made me really miss them!!! You have a beatiful family!
Thanks! It's definitely one of our favorite parts of German culture. I think Germany does a much better job of designing spaces that allow both parents and kids to enjoy themselves. (And the cultural differences between parents helps too).
learned something again and btw lovely family !
Thanks! Glad we can provide some good information!
WOW, what a nice place 😁👍
Oh wow :D And now I have a learned so many new things about the country I grew up in. Thank you. I had no idea about the origin or the name
I think it's always easy for us to overlook things that are in the places where we have lived for a long time. That's what it's always great to get a fresh perspective!
Awesome! This is our neighborhood too :) Learned a lot about Schrebers that I never knew. Love your videos!
Thanks! If you haven't been there, it's worth going!
Nice video.😍 And by the way...your videos become better every new upload, as I believe.
Thank you! That's my goal - to get better with each video we create!
Very nice video great job fully watched keep it up thanks for sharing I am your new friend and Stay blessed and connected
Thanks!
Great video, thanks a lot for sharing this. I wish our Schrebergarten would look half as nice and clean as the ones in the video. Ours is much bigger and a lot of work needs to be done before you can really enjoy it. You don't need a gym membership at all. But in the end it's worth it I think, especially if you live in bigger city and want to escape from the concrete jungle.
Thanks! I think it's a lot more rewarding to get your exercise in the garden instead of in the gym. I assume these Schrebergärten in particular because of the historic location and nature of the place have some pretty strict rules as to how nice they have to stay. And I agree, I think it's absolutely worth it to get that outdoor living space and out of the concrete jungle...
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Thanks and welcome! 😊
Schrebergarten, Bier und Würzfleisch - Congratulations, now you are fully (east)germanized! XD
Some of my favorite parts of our new home!
For fresh beer from the brewery tap you should check out Bayerischer Bahnhof. They also offer the local Gose type.
Oh my, now I see that I confused the bowl with apple sauce for the Kartoffelpuffer with Würzfleisch. Never mind...
@@joachimschwabe3301 Yes, that's definitely on our list of places to go!
@@joachimschwabe3301 Now I have to find and try some Würzfleisch!
looking sharp today MJ
😎 Du siehst gut aus Bro!
We are in a Kleingartenverein.When you are living in a Apartment in Germany, you are lucky to have a place to stay with your Family in such beautyful Garden .🌳🌻🌹
We love that we live in a very green city with lots of great outdoor space, but even here I can appreciate the appeal of the private garden area. I can imagine how much more valuable they would be in a city with less green space and parks!
With a Kleingarten the young Kids lern were the Food is coming from
That makes sense. I'm curious how many Kleingarten are used for food now, and not just as green space to relax? A lot of the gardens I've seen seem to be designed more as spaces to enjoy and less for food production. Maybe I just haven't seen enough of them...
6:10 reminds me of a scene in Fame (the 1980 movie) with Doris at home eating very theatrically. :D
Wow, I haven't seen that movie since I was a kid...But now I have the theme song in my head! "I'm gonna live forever..." 🎶😁
@@OnwardMJ "I'm gonna learn how to fly" :D
One of my all time favorite movies. I recorded it on tape off of TV, way back, and watched it I don't know how often.
One of my favorite moments is, weirdly, when Bruno Martelli manages to trip the building's fuse with all his synthesizers, and his classical music teacher yells "Martelli, Bruno Martelli!" in a dark classroom. Because one could very clearly hear that this was not dubbed (the rest of the movie was) but was just left as is from the OV. :D
@ now I'm going to have to find it online somewhere, I can't remember any of it and I think I'd appreciate it more now.
Hey , first of all great video!
I love how interested you and your family are in our tradtion and especially, since Im from Leipzig myself, your intrest in the "Schrebergarten". So I thought I might give some more background information about Dr. Moritz Schreber. Without a doubt the idea of "Schrebergärten" is genious, however, he has some really dark sights to his personality too. It is said that "Schreber taught his children to worship and fear him as a godlike figure. He maltreated them with various mechanical devices, tied them up, forced them into a frame that forced the children to walk bolt upright with belts and steel springs. Had these devices manufactured and sold. Beatings were already used to discipline infants". All of his own children suffered from mental illness and one son even commited suicide.
I really think this is something everyone should know about but in my experience many people in Leipzig have no clue about that (including myself for a long time).
I dont want to make the impression that Im against enjoying the little outdoor spaces. My family has a "Schrebergarten" as well and I LOVE IT (its where most of my parties during highschool happend) but I thought it might interest you :)
Keep up the great work!
Love from Leipzig!!
Thanks for sharing! Someone else had mentioned some of Dr. Schreber's other "ideas" and after looking up some of it (and you provided more than I found) it's incredibly sad some of the things he was doing. Maybe that's one of the reasons that a lot of people call them Kleingärten instead of Schrebergärten? As an American I know we have plenty of people throughout history that provided something good for society while also having some dark sides. It can always be challenging to appreciate the good contributions while still condemning the negative side of things.
Very great research!!!! I´m a Kleingärtner, but I don´t no that it began in Leipzig! But the music is terrible!😂👍
All of the music or just the more Bavarian Biergarten style? I've found out that no matter what music I use, someone isn't going to like it! 😂 I'll just keep mixing it up so everyone can find something they like sometime. 😁 Thanks for watching!
@@OnwardMJ Yeah, in the mindset Biergarten is bavarian, but in the early 20 century Biergarten were in big Citys with there own beer normal too. Like Berlin, Cologne ..... .Don´t be afraid it was ajoke of me, cause I come from cologne.👍 Sorry for my grammar!
Wow, Leipzig is so beautiful (I had worked there for one year) ..
but your music selection🎶 🤐... Saxony is not Bavaria 😅
🤣 I know, I know...but I couldn't help myself - I just wanted some Biergarten music! I haven't heard any Sächsisch Biergarten music yet, so I just went with it.
@@OnwardMJ 😂😂nöö... I'm born in North Germany (S-H) and grow up in West Berlin ..
(Bairisch) Bavaria is an foreign country, for me...🤫
@@diedruidin having lived in and visited many different parts of the US, I can relate to that! 😂
Rumbie was here 😊😬🙃
PS: This is the very green that should be full of Steam Punks on June 4th, if I am not mistaken
We'll keep our eyes open for them!
6:00 Seeing the whole family at the table in the Biergarten was the most beautiful scene.
I hope that the older children came along voluntarily. 🙃
In Germany, May 26 is Father's Day (not June 19). Then you can go party alone. 😂
Not only that. The question is if he knows what to prepare for on German father's day... :P
@@joachimschwabe3301 Ich wollte nicht ins Detail gehen....... - sonst könnte es ja passieren, dass er sich nach Vatertag und einem Familienstreit ein neues Quartier suchen müsste. Z.B. ein Gartenhäuschen im Schrebergarten.😉
Hehe. But by the way, there is Biermeile (beer mile) again, right at Father's day and the whole weekend, this time in Scheibenholz.
@@joachimschwabe3301 Dann hoffen wir mal, dass die Bollerwagen alle einen Parkplatz an der Galopprennbahn finden.
Bei uns ist die Bierbörse erst "mitten im Sommer" (22.- 24.7.)
@@joachimschwabe3301 only what I've learned from RUclips!
While Moritz Schreber created the great idea of garden allotments for everyone, he also developed rather cruel ideas on how to "improve" education eg the sitting position of children at school:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Schreber
Fortunately, the latter did not really make it into our daily lives.
Oh boy, he had some interesting ideas... Unfortunately I feel like it often happens that people that contribute something really good to society often had other ideas or contributions that would be considered more..."questionable".
@@OnwardMJ Many of the ideas and beliefs of the 19th century are very "interesting". :D
@ Very true.