Reaction To 50 Photos That Prove Germany Is Not Like Any Other Country
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Reaction To 50 Photos That Prove Germany Is Not Like Any Other Country
This is my reaction to 50 Photos That Prove Germany Is Not Like Any Other Country
In this video I react to different photographs that show why Germany is such an interesting and unique country, looking at it's culture and lifestyle
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About the graveyard: you have to remember that most English graveyards are just the stones with grass all over the graves themselves, while in Germany, the grave in front of the stone is normally covered with a raised flower bed - which of course needs some more maintenance (like watering the flowers or brushes growing there) by their relatives than just cleaning the gravestone once a year. ;-)
On the graveyards I know they have a similar system like shopping carts where you need 1€ to get a can
@@jwider96I don't know about big cities, but I've never seen a deposit system for watering cans on the countryside 😮
@@vide-grenier6879 i live in a really small town and we have that deposit as well because people kept stealing the watering cans 💀
@@vide-grenier6879 ich wohne in keiner großen Stadt es sind einfach fünf/sechs Kannen, die mit so ner Kette wie am Einkaufswagen, die man mit ner Münze öffnen kann, in der Nähe vom Eingang hängen
ich lebe in einer kleinen stadt, und wir haben einen kleinen schuppen mit sämtlichen gartenutensielen, der für alle frei begehbar ist :-:
I live in a small town and we have a small shed with all the gardening supplies that everyone can access
1:45 Female gymnasts often wear a suit that is cut like a swimming costume at the legs. There are many photos of them jumping with their legs spread so that you can see between their legs. Male gymnasts NEVER wear suits like this, only ones with long legs.
They MUST wear those suits without legs! It's the official and only possible suit for a contest. The Germans risk a disqualification.
@@T0MT0MmmmyThat is just wrong.
@@T0MT0Mmmmy yeah the only purpose is so people like you can actually see something once in their lifes
JUst freaking humiliating
@@T0MT0Mmmmy yea they must because of rules. did you know they can just change the rule so noone hast du feel uncomfortable?
@@T0MT0Mmmmy Unitards (full body suits) are actually allowed at international competitions, this rule was changed at some point. I believe it's also allowed for national competitions in Germany.
Coming from Germany and having travelled extensively I can safely say that no country is like any other country ;)
As someone who studies at the technical university of Munich, yes, that slide is in regular use by students and visitors.
Fun fact: It was paid for by the government by declaring it as a Mathematical Object, being a slide representing a parabola y=x^2
😍 love that!
at least the roof your canteen building isn't representing an indicator function and is therefore "worth protecting" and exemt from changes although it REALLY should be rebuild...
greetings from stuttgart
@@joseppedaia3673 Ah is that why the old canteen building is still there? I had no idea. That thing hasn't been used for anything in years 😂
The japanese cherry blossom trees (Sakura) were gifted by the japanese people donating about 140 millions yen (about 1 million EURO) to a project called "Sakura campain", which planted the trees mostly in Berlin and Brandenburg. You can find the trees at places that had a significant meaning during the time Germany was still divided .....
The image is prob taken in the Altstadt, Bonn- North rhine westphelia. Bonn is the former capital of germany :)
In Göttingen are many cherry trees from Japan too, because Otto Hahn practised decades of his life here (invented nuclear fission) and Hiroshima is a sister city.
@@FoxxxyL0ve Google has it flagged flagged as from Bonn, i only checked, because it's my home town and it looked very familiar.
Yes, I think that's the 'Aquadom', the giant aquarium in a hotel in Berlin, that exploded a year ago, and they still haven't quite figured out why.
And haha, yes, I'm pretty sure I wore sandals with socks, as a little kid 40-50 years ago, haven't had any sandals since.
Spiegelartikel 'Was ein Zahn über das geplatzte Riesenaquarium verrät', leider Paywall.
6:21 - I am living in Wuppertal. We commonly use it for day to day commute and it's actually pretty fun. The newest iteration of rails (introduced in 2017) have panoramic windows and are really modern.
Historically the suspension rail (Schwebebahn) became a thing after Wuppertal (technically it was Vohwinkel, Elberfeld and Barmen back then, separate cities but I am getting carried away) grew as an industrial area - far quicker then all the cities around. This meant both more citizens living here, as well as a lot more industrial transportation that was needed, mostly in the form of horse carriages. This lead to a lot of ... animal waste products on the streets. To combat that they started exploring alternative methods of transportation. It was started to be build in 1897 and finished in 1903; the general idea behind the suspension rail came from a sugar factory where the inventor - Eugen Langen - saw sugar roots being transported hanging. It runs a total of like 13-14km (~9 miles).
Additional fun fact at 13:18 - The Lego bridges are also in Wuppertal. :)
You forgot to mention "Tuffy" ... ;o)
Tell him about the elephant
And not to forget. There are one suspension rail that is funktioning and is over 100 years old. It is call Kaiserwagen (imperial carriage) where the laster emperor Wilhelm was there with his to celebrate the introduction of the suspension rail and they drove one round with it.
And Tuffy is another story. A cirques named cirques Althof wanted to promote their stay in Wuppertal 1950 and made the press and Tuffi ride the suspension rail. But Tuffi was so afraid that he/she (i am not sure, every source state something else) broken up the doors and fell into the river Wupper.
He/She was later picked up and lived up to the year 1989.
11:26 You are right, that WAS the Aquadom in Berlin.
Didn't even know that "Spaghettieis" is a german thing, I thought you could find that all over the world. Interesing, you learn something new every day!
5:00 The slide in the math building at TU Munich is actually called 'Parabelrutsche' (= parabola slide) and is part of the mandatory art installations for public buildings (aka Kunst am Bau). It symbolises the curve of a mathematical function (f=x²). I went to uni there. The slide is usually used by visitors, because you have to bring a small carpet cutting to the top first. No spontanious sliding possible! :D
Fun fact: Some years ago a couple of students didn't use those carpets for sliding but used the trays of the canteen you can see in the picture. The plastic was sliding so well, that the student couldn't stop in time and hit the wall in the back of the picture just below the windows below the stairs. The hole in the wall wasn't repaired for quite a while
Just by your own rug and keep it in your bag. Then you just can take the slide whenever.
Lots of my fellow students used to take a rag if they had lessons in the top floor with them. Many students use the slides. So "usually used by visitors" is not a statement I could comfortably get behind tbh
My father was one of the people who build these slides. He was a mechanik at one of the faculties in Garching. As a child we always get sliding after visiting my dad at work :D
Why did you put :D after “No spontaneous sliding”
I am german and i Never ever have seen one of those heat boxes for the homeless 😮 it‘s a pretty nice idea but i fear, defensive architecture is still more pervasive than philanthropic architecture 😒 but maybe i‘m too short-sighted because i wrote an Academic assignment about defensive architecture without researching for this positive Kind of stuff 😅
Nah, you're probably right.
I think so too. I think hostile architecture is way more common in Germany then philantropic architecture. At least i recognize more of that.
Make no mistake - many cities in Germany started using benches with spikes or other homeless-deterrents, the example shown is just one city I think.
But generally I believe we have homeless shelters etc.
Yea, the homeless sleeping pods are really stupid, the money could have been used to actually help homeless people stop being homeless instead of whatever this is
17:22 The own watering can is only happening in cities, in small villages the village has a few watering cans and they are public. A grave in Germany normally consists of a space roughtly 2 by 1.5m in front of the grave stone and is planted with flowers, bushes etc.
2 x 1, denn Särge sind nur 70 cm breit, maximal, daher muss die Grabstelle nicht breiter sein.
Ausnahmen bilden nur Familiengrabstellen, die aber entsprechend teurer sind, oder Urnengrabstellen, die dann quadratisch sind..
The hanging monorail in Wuppertal is still very much in use! The fact that they built much of its track over the Wupper River saved enormous swaths of the city from destruction, as the same train on the ground would take up a great deal of space. It is unique, fun and also everyday practical. // The "electric highway" is a one-off experimental stretch, where electric trucks can put up a connector and take power from the line, until it ends. They can refresh their battery power supply without having to stop to recharge.
There are quite a few mines where the trucks get power from a line to get up the hills faster and cheaper. It's just new for highways.
The foto of the cherry blossoms was taken in Bonn, the old capital of germany, it's beautiful and many people visit the cherry blossom festivities. :)
Du hättest lieber provisorische Hauptstadt Westdeutschlands schreiben sollen. Und das sage ich als rein westdeutsches Gewächs, ohne jegliche Ost- Verwandtschaft...
My father wore sandals with socks. And short corduroy trousers in brown. Mind you, it were the crazy 70s. But the pictures of him in this outfit are priceless.
7:22 The name of the Professor is Hubert Zitt and he has one very famous lecutre every year. It is his annual Star Trek Christmas lecture and it is packed. For the last few years this lecture is also live streamed so that people who are interested in physics but not enrolled into the Uni can also watch it from home.
17:03 German graveyards are not just gravestones. A grave usually has a approx 1sqm big space for flowers and other plants (at least older ones) I remember when I was a kid, I used to go to the graveyard with my granddad to care for the grave of his first wife, my biological maternal grandmother. Every season the grave would get new flowers and special decorations for the catholic holidays. For Spring it would be Daffodils and pansies, for all hallows day it would be heather and other autumn flowers etc. We had oour own watering can and we would just leave it on the rack right at the entrance. We didn't lock it in because we were living in a small village where everyone knew everyone.
thank you for the information about his lecture, do you have a link for it?
@@1auto95 I studied there and his Star Trek lectures were always the highlight. You'll find information about it either on the official Uni side [hs-kl(punkt).de] or at the lecture side startrekvorlesung(punkt).de
Here in BW in the countryside where i live, most graveyards provide watering cans, so you do not even need to bring your own, they are not locked but might sometimes have something engraved on them like "property of town".
@@1auto95 Take a look at my comment.
@@1auto95 ruclips.net/video/VuCCbZQzmYU/видео.html
It's in German, though, so all you get is auto-translate sadly.
The „Neustadt Künstlerhofpassage“ is my hometown, Dresden. A very beautiful city in the eastern part of Germany. I’ve been there a lot, because my mom and my sister used to dance there right around the corner of this picture. It’s a place for artists of all kind and that’s what “Künstler” means - artist. Stunning.
I live in Germany, but haven't seen most of the stuff here either.
The problem with selling vegetables in packages for specific dishes is, that vegetables don't last very long. If nobody wants to make Guacamole for a while, the vegetables will just rott. Even though, they could have been bought by customers for other dishes, if they were sold separately. This could work with ingredients that don't expire so fast or with things, where you know, that you will sell it in masses.
Especially with avocados, famous for going from unripe to rotten within hours.
What is generally sold in packs is vegetables for vegetable stock (soup). It's probably the only way to buy a quarter celery root.
The house in the Botanical Garden of Gießen is not covered by Ivy, which is green over the whole year, but by Parthenocissus tricuspidata "Veitchii", which is a common species of wild Vine to cover houses... walls etc....
... in a lot german supermarkets you can buy packages with ingridients for some dishes. Most famous and almost everywhere avaible might be "Suppengrün", which is a pack with fresh carrots, celeriac, parsley and leek to create the basic soup-dish.
Eschenheim Turm is part of the old Frankfurt city walls that were torn down in the 19th century. It now marks the entry to Hauptwache, one of Frankfurt's main shopping districts. Thankfully, it survived WWII, during which almost all of Frankfurt's beautiful old architecture was destroyed. In the south of Frankfurt, there is actually a small mountain created out of the cleared rubble of the carpet bombings that destroyed the city, called "Monte Scherbelino" (Mount Shatters).
As a "Frankfurter" (not sausage) I've learnt in school to know the story of the 9 in the flag on the roof of the Eschenheimer Tor/Turm... U2?
Is there not one in Sachsenhausen? I do not live so far away from the Friedberger Warte. Have seen old maps. Four, altogether, or? ❤😊😊
@@melodykruck8692 Yes I live in Sachsenhausen and we have the "Sachsenhäuser Warte" ;)
Its like 100m away from the forrest-border to Neu Isenburg
12:28 - It's technically not a highway. Also, it was meant as a test track for electric trucks where they would be powered just like trains, but only Scania offered to build a few test vehicles. The overhead cables are now no longer in use with no power running through them
It was a Test at the A1 between Hamburg and Lübeck.
trains do the same thing, just way more efficient
And here's the German guy watching videos from you to learn more about Germany. 😄
Same here 😂
In diesem Video lernt man nichts über Deutschland. Das sind alles EXTREME Ausnahmen, die es eigentlich üblicherweise gar nicht gibt. Ein solches Video kannst du über jedes Land machen (wenn du genug Geduld/Zeit hast alle Raritäten eines Landes aufzuspüren).
@@maholicsja, ganz genau. 50 extreme Ausnahmen. Alles Einzelfälle, nicht wahr? Wenn du nichts aus dem Video mitgenommen hast, liegt der Fehler vielleicht eher bei dir.
It's funny how much I learn about my own country just by watching your videos 😂 My son is a big Japan fan, so I will definitively get him to Bonn 😮❤
I've been to the TUM, with my daughter. The slide is awesome. You have to use a carpet to slide down. I don't know who picks the carpets up an replace em back on the 4th floor. We've been there during the corona-lock down, but they had a plenty amount of carpets on the 4th floor.. They had obviously a good housekeeping during that time. It was a great experience anyways. About the "rescue-lane".. It doesn't really work as good as shown in the picture, I wish it would. But I'm a cop and experienced it not working so well, some drivers cause huge trouble by blocking the way with their vehicles quite often. But building a rescue lane for the rescue vehicles can definitely safe lives. P. S. I really appreciate and like your videos about german Satire.. They are mostly hilarious 😂
OMG I did not know there's a tampon book XD this is hilarious. I could never wear tampons due to my endometriosis induced cramps and now my uterus is thankfully gone, but I totally would have bought this! :'D
And yes, that's the poor collapsed aquarium tank with the poor fishies!!!
The shopping carts are not "dirty" dirty, they are "germ feast" dirty :'3 And that sucks when we've switched to buying loose veggies rather than having them in plastic bags, so they get in touch with the germ infested trolleys. So some places offer cleaning + during Covid germ & virus spreading was quite the concern!! So companies came up with solutions just to push the government to plz let them open stores again.
The light bulbs thing is probably a matter of the streetlamps being of different build. But we have a big change in which traditional light bulbs were more or less taken off the market and replaced with halogen and LED ones, so I suppose they must have changed things then??
There is no ambulance cost for ppl with insurance, so this was likely for an uninsured person or someone who's overseas insurance doesn't cover ambulance.
Gaveyards are full of flowers and stuff that are frequently planted by the family or the companies they hire. So they have watering cans in order to be able to water those plants, cause we can have very hot and dry summers. Smart ppl will plant low maintenance plants but some people enjoy visiting their loved ones a lot and they plant all sorts of different stuff for each season while internally having a chat with their lost ones.
Regarding the crosswalk lights:
There are more and more cities that change from the official traffic light pedestrian symbol (or in German "Ampelmännchen") to locally inspired version. It started after Reunification, when the "Ampelmännchen Ost" became an official variation opposed the "old Ampelmännchen West". You should google for them to see the difference. 😉
Examples are:
Otto-Waalkes-Ampelmännchen in Emden
Rattenfänger-Ampelmännchen in Hameln (Pied Piper of Hamelin)
Martin-Luther-Ampelmännchen in Worms
Mainzelmännchen-Ampelmännchen in Mainz
and many more.
The problem is that they are officially not allowed and some cities had to fight to keep them.
Addition: On the German Wikipedia page "Ampelmännchen" ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelmännchen ) there are some more examples
Karl Marx in Trier
There are gay ones in Braunschweig
As an Australian who has lived and worked in both the UK and Germany, I share your joy in discovering the nuances of German culture.
I take photos of things that interest me, and German peculiarities are among them. If I find the time to collate them, I'd love to share them with you.
Keep up the good work. I'm in Kassel, also known as Hessisch-Siberien. I love it here... und ich lerne Deutsch...
nice, buddy! i am from hamburg, i love kassel tho. hills and shit, stuff we don´t have in the north. the first time i drove south into the alps, i got serious emotional seeing the zugspitze with my own eyes. you are awesome, just by the way^^
I was on the Autobahn from Düsseldorf last week and it was the first time I was caught in heavy traffic when emergency vehicles came through. Sure enough, everyone pulled over to let them pass through the middle. It's exciting as an outsider to witness. It kinda sums up what I love about Germany, how cohesive it is in social cooperation, that I don't see anywhere else I've lived.
2:42 - I live "near" that actual place and I always wondered, why it is SO popular, that even people from Japan spent their small amount of holidays here in Germany for cherry blossom, I just learned now, that these trees were given to us by Japan, so that makes sense, and to answer your question, this picuture must be filtered and you can see, that it is by default not a standart picture, it was taken at night, as the streetlights are turned on, so that might play a role in why the lightning and colors looks so intense, so it does not look like this in real life, but it's still very beautiful. You will find this place in former west German capital city of Bonn in the "Heerstraße".
4:00 They changed the tax to 7% in 2020, guess what happened? The companies increased the price of tampons
Well, a few small companies tried. When almost all those who wanted to raise prices were threatened by the big chains with being priced out and a shit storm blew against them from social media and politics, they let it go. The few companies that did go through with it almost all went under afterwards.
The house being moved was an art action to attract people coming back to the city center. Because people were frustated by all of the construction sites around the city, especially the new tram/subway which took years longer to finish than expected. :D
Der Eschenheimer Turm was part of the city fortifications in 1333 and is a preserved gate tower of the Gothic city wall. It is now considered one of Frankfurt's trademarks.
The tower is actually from 1426-1428 and replaced a previous tower which was built in the 1340s. 1333 was when the Neustadt was finished, the fortifications came 10 years later. The stonemason who built the new tower was also the same guy who later built the Westturm of the Frankfurt Cathedral/Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus.
1:48 Yeah, the difference between male and female gymnastics is actually pretty crazy, looking at it from an outside perspective. I hadn't heard of this but I do welcome it.
2:50 I used to live near that street. Looks fake. Not nearly enough tourists. :D
Watering cans in German grave yards are there for waterineg the plants, flowers etc. unlike in the UK or Ireland where there put on plastic flowers and not the real McCoy,!!
Electric Highway is pure nonsense. There are two Autobahn strips that have these I think. It's an immensely expensive experimental project to recharge electric trucks while driving.
One day they will find out that it is more economic to make the trucks longer, put them on rails and call them trains.
5:19 Bad in german means bath. City's or villiges that historical have a medical spa are named that way. It has nothing to do with the english word bad.
The towns, which are allowed to, put the title "Bad" in front of their name for reasons of proudness. They would not do this if it has the meaning of english "bad".
There is a plumber in Munich who has written "BAD DESIGN" on his car. Looks funny 😀
Du musst kein "Spa" haben, damit der Ort das "Bad" führen darf, denn Luftkurorte dürfen das auch.
"Heilbad" bedeutet halt nicht zwangsläufig, dass es mit Wasser zu tun hat.
@@Eysenbeiss
Ich hatte Schwierigkeiten, das Wort Heilbad zu übersetzen, und habe daher für das Wort Google benutzt.
Aber gut zu wissen, wieder was gelernt.
Ich habe den Kommentar auch nur geschrieben, weil er es im Video so lustig fand, dass das Dorf "Bad" hieß, was er wohl als "schlecht" im Namen interpretiert hat.
Und es außerdem noch niemand anderes erwähnt hatte^^
@@Julian-re2ey Ist eben so, dass die US-Amerikaner nicht mal die einfachsten Ableitungen herstellen können, obwohl sie wissen müssten, dass ihre Sprache immer noch zu großen Teilen auf einem (nieder)deutschen Dialekt basiert. Selbst die Engländer bekommen den Sprung von "Bath" zu "Bad" nicht hin, jedenfalls nicht alle ...
Das mit dem "Bad" in Deutschland hat sich durch die Kneipp-Kuren eingebürgert, wie man so sagt, weil man dazu halt wiederum Wasser braucht ... und versuch bloß nicht einem Engländer oder US-Amerikaner zu erklären, was "Wassertreten" bedeutet ;-)))
3:10 Many German cities do what you are saying. What we see there is really an exception. Hostile architecture has become a big problem in Germany.
hey... I've been following your channel for a few days. I think it's great how you deal with our culture and especially with our comedy. To Wuppertal and its suspension railway. I was born there and used to drive it to school/work every day. It is the best means of transport for this city because the streets are always full of cars. There are some good short videos on RUclips. Thank you for your efforts and all the best.
The picture of the Cherry Blossom was taken in Bonn. And yes, it looks like this, but just at night. At daytime this street is packed with tourists 😁
12:40 They tested the compatibility on this road section. More Projects were planned, but right now everything is cancelled because it just didn't worked as planned
16:20 The owner of this house actually got heavy problems with the city administration because of this :D
Usually every parking garage here has womens only parking. An are thst is closer to the exits, brighter lit, and monitored with cameras. Don't know if it is mandatory, but most, if not all, parking garages have it.
By now they actually changed the tax on tampons here in Germany. Tampons now are sold with 7% tax aswell.
There's a Japanese cherry tree in my parent's garden in south Germany and it's growing a lot of blossoms in spring. They seem to enjoy the climate here.
11:33 Yes. This aquarium was located inside a Hotel in Berlin until it colapsed.
Ok, last comment. There was definitely some regional and personal interest bias in that collection. So it's not really about germany, but about a hessian boating enthusiast carpenter showing off his love for cherry trees. I don't think you'd even need to be an investigator to find out who made that based on the video alone. :D
Those Cherry Bossoms are located in the City of Bonn, the Old City has one street that is completly covered with cherry trees, every year the hotels in bonn are completly booked for all the tourists coming to look at it...
HAHAHA i did not expect to see the uni escalator in this video that's amazing 😂😂😂 I've had to walk up the stairs next to that thing several times and the only thing making that experience better is the countless memes xD they even get taken down regularly and soon reappear like magic ahaha
I am so thankful to all the people who wrote those fantastic comments. I learned so much about my country. Most shown pictures I have never seen before. I really would like to have the „ping-pong thing“ at the traffic lights in my city. That would be fun.
havin lived in wuppertal for 10+ years, yes its still in use since it started in the 1900s. a few of the first wagons are still driving, especially the "Kaiserwagen" that the kaiser used when first riding it. there was an elephant that dropped from the schwebebahn into the river beneath. in the last few years they fucked it with trying to be cheap on maintenance. the lego bridges are also wuppertal
The anti homeless people architecture is actually also very big in Germany. A lot of big cities are building spikes to stop homeless people from sleeping in public places
11:30 that aquarium doesn't exist anymore. "At 5:43 am on 16 December 2022, the outer wall of the acrylic glass cylinder burst and the contents of the aquarium devastated the hotel's hall with reception, waiting and breakfast areas and washed furnishings out onto the street. Two people were taken to hospital with injuries. Most of the water drained into the sewerage system, but it also penetrated several cellars and other areas of the building, including the GDR Museum. The hotel was evacuated in a large-scale operation by emergency services." - Wiki
The thing at 1:35 is called "Rettungsgasse", which translate to rescue lane. Its by law - yes. But most people do it more because of good manners and humanity then by the law, which says so. People even have stickers on their car which say "When traffic jams, build a rescue lane!".
This was introduced like 10-15 years ago I think in Germany and I'm proud to say that in most times in functions so well, that even when the traffic gets only slower on the highway and you already think "uhhm maybe something couldve happend in front of us", the people already start making these lanes, even while still moving and they keep it until traffic runs free again. Many lives that have been saved by this.
I'm german and haven't heard or seen about 95% of these 😅
Translations for everyone who's interested:
1. Neustadt Kunsthofpassage: Neustadt (literal name of the area, but also "Neu" => new; "stadt" => city); Kunsthofpassage is 3 words: "Kunst" => Art; "hof" => yard or court; "passage" => way or street (this is also rather a name than a word, because "Kunsthof" is not a common term for "art in public"... we'd usually call this "Ausstellung" or even "Open Air-Ausstellung")
2. Botanischer Garten: botanical garden
3. Eschenheimer Turm: Eschenheim (literal name of the area, but also "Eschen" => ash tree; "heim" => home or hostel; would read it as "home of the ash trees"); "Turm" => tower
4. Regensburg: "Regen" => rain; "burg" => fortress or (rarely) castle; (this is also the name of the city itself)
5. Gesellenstück: "Geselle" => licensed worker, who finished his/her educational phase, similar to "senior", but Geselle is usually a little earlier; "stück" => piece or thing; (Yes! It literally means "Thing, the senior crafted" 😅)
P.S. Spaghettieis is the best german invention ever 😋
the broken escalator at the uni stuttgart stop really hit home for me.. but usually the sbahn was on strike when I had to go there anyways lol
2:59 The sleeping pods for the homeless are located in the city of Ulm, one is called the Ulmer Nest
9:35 The former blimp hangar is so big that sometimes there are little clouds inside under the ceiling.
Austria has those emergency lanes too. They have been introduced about 20 odd years ago I would say. Before that the hard shoulder was used for emergency vehicles.
There are some interesting legends about some medieval watchtowers. I remember that my father once told me about the 'Eierturm'(egg tower) when i still was a child. According to the legend, when said tower was built there was a shortage of material, so they used raw eggs in the mortar to finish construction. There's a similar legend about another tower, where butter was used and the tower is called 'Butterturm'(butter tower). Don't remember where they are located, but i like such kind of local legends.
13:25 The cleaning machine appeared during the Corona Pandemic so that people were not afraid that they could get infected on the handles.
Tips for pronouncing: v = f (like "Bud Filbal") and ie = engl. ee (like "Freedberg"). Both are cities very close to here.
5:38 good point about bridges as buildings
The burst Fish tank was in Berlin, and it was the one in the photo.
15:47 The standing wave surfing is in my hometown Osnabrück.😊
8:07 - Yes, it is common. These are areas close to the entrance, often brightly lit.
11:15 - I never saw this.
12:25 - This is only a very short stretch of highway for test purposes.
14:35 - Sandals with socks are seen not so often in Germany nowadays.
2:30 I don't know about that image in particular, but it is true, that Japan gifted a bunch of Sakura tree's for reunification. I used to live very close to a set streets that are line with them, and it looks really beautiful in spring.
That picture is probably from Düsseldorf which has the largest Japanese community in Germany for many decades (at least 60 years). There also close ties to Japan with partner cities. While I can't specify which street that is I seem to recall that, yes, this was a real street with real cherry blossoms.
@@RustyDust101 looks more like Bonn.
This is the Altstadt in Bonn and every year those streets are crowded with tourists.
Berlin Prenzlauer Berg also has got many of those trees.
@@yoshys9752 You are right, I stand corrected. Thanks, learned something new (wieder was gelernt.)
15:54 this store with the waves is in my hometown, osnabrück. Its called L&T, its very large and that part of the store is a seperate house that was exclusively built for the sports section
doing a German thing now, the Gießen pic with the overgrown building wasn't ivy, ivy is evergreen that's either wild wine or maiden vine
yes that is the aquarium which collapsed, problem was that it is in an unheated atrium but the water was heated and when it was very cold outside the tension in the glass from being warm inside and cold outside made it structurally fail
the electrified highway is the A1 on a piece between Hamburg and Lübeck, and a part of the A5 between Frankfurt and i think Aschaffenburg or Darmstadt, it's a pilot project, where feasibility is tested (i think it's way better than battery powered trucks, you can use smaller batteries)
ambulance rides are free in Germany, this fee applies if you don't have insurance, for example as a tourist
Fun fact about Hamburg: This city has more bridges than Venedig (Venice, Italy).
pretty sure someone wrote that, but here it is anyway.
in the 1950 an elephant fell out of the suspending train in Wuppertal.
her name was Tuffi and she was fine after the incident.
Bad Vilbel s Library Bridge also serves as a normal pedestrian and cycling bridge and has a very nice Café with yamyam cakes.
12:38 as far as i know these electric highways are just prototypes yet
there is one near frankfurt but its not in use
there are also only a handful of them
Yeah 😊 Gießen is my hometown! Yes this beautiful house is very popular. A friend of ours is a professor of biology. His office is in that house. You pronounced Gießen perfect!
Friedberg where Elvis served is close by 45 kilometres south. It’s pronounced Freedberg.
I studied at the University of Stuttgart about 15 to 20 years ago. Before exiting the S-Bahn, we bet on which of the three escalators were broken today. "None broken" was always a bad guess...
There is also another city in Bavaria, where the nobles didn't gave thecitizens space to build a townhall, and so the citizens build the town hall on a bridge.
"Kunsthofpassage" is a compound word made up of three words. Kunst = art, Hof = (in this instance) a court, passage = pedestrian passage through other buildings. So this was a passage through the court of an art display.
Edit 1: "Bad" is the title of any city with hot springs and associated baths. It was granted in the 19th and 20th century for any kind of (purported) spring with health benefits. So, no, it's not bad as in lacking qualities, but simply the German word for bath. As in public baths.
Edit 2: these parking spots for women are a) usually very close to the entrances of the shops or malls they are in, and b) they are usually very well lit as well as under constant surveillance. While surveillance in Germany is usually very restricted due to the privacy laws, these are some of the exceptions where the surveillance is accepted by the general public.
Edit 3: the electric highway was between Frankfurt and Darmstadt. It was only a short prototype stretch. Recently it has been shut down as the effect for such a short stretch of highway was negligible.
Falsch, jedenfalls was das "Bad" angeht, denn dazu bedarf es nicht einer Quelle irgendeiner Art, da auch Luftkurorte den Beinamen tragen.
11:33 - not anymore! 😂 it cracked 16th december 2022. And the elevator was inside the aquarium, not the other way round... 😅
The cherry blossom 🌸 picture is taken in Bonn, the former capital of western Germany. It is a famous motive for insta
Ahhh McBoat in Hamburg! I used to go there with my friends shortly before they close, so we could get some mcd's, sit next to the water and smoke without getting bothered
Wait, it's closed? :c
Nah it's still open. I meant after opening hours at night.
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Germany has spikes to prevent homeless people from sleeping in certain places as well.
Genauso sieht es leider aus! Obdachlose werden meist vertrieben - denen wird nicht geholfen! U d erst recht nicht vom Staat!
8:58 - it is very common nowadays here. I think wider parkinglots for disabled people are nearest to the entrance, then the women and family spaces and then everybody else, although I learned recently, that only the parking lots for disabled people will cost you a fee, if you park on them, the ones for women and families are more like a "nice to do thing" if you leave them empty, but technically by law you are also allowed to park on them as a male...
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Women only parking is quite common in Germany I would say, living in the south, I see that everywhere on a daily basis, also for family cars and for handicapped persons of course.
The "watering at graveyard" question: In Germany it is common that individual graves are like mini gardens for the diseased. The relatives plant flowers and other small plants on the grave and then come on a regular bases to maintain the plants.
The thing about the watering cans in the cemetery is very important. In Germany, a gravestone is not just placed on a piece of grass, but often an entire flower bed is created. It's like a small garden that is regularly maintained (at least that's how it should normally be). Of course you can also let yourself be buried under green grass, but from a German perspective that is too poor and also cheaper. You want to be able to offer something to your deceased even after death
Yes, they built a three-Kilometer long overhead electric line for trucks between Hamburg an Lübeck. Nice idea, but quite obviously forgetting, that we already have electrified highway, called railways….but of course, the automotive industry still rules in Germany…..
16:00 is in a sports store in Osnabrück. You can learn Wave Surfing there. In my opinion its very difficult standing on a wave board. :D
About the graveyard thing: In germany, the remaining relatives plant plants on the grave. But I've never seen a "Watery Can Rack." I only know it this way: that the watering cans are simply standing at the well in the cemetery. The watering cans are provided by the church or community. You simply take a can and, after using it, leave it refilled for the next person.
sadly, the aquarium bursted in December of 2022. A lot of fish died, and 3 people got mildly injured. it was a total of 1 Mio. liters of Water
4:16 That is in my home town. 😁There is a patio for artists (Kunst=art, Hof=courtyard). I guess, that is not unique for Germany. But this installation might be pretty unique, though.
Around 4:30 I live the city where you can find this music playing building. It is not playing music, although not many know it doesn’t. I’ve been there during heavy rain and I asked residents. No music… But it looks nice.
the wuppertal suspension railway is Very convenient as far as public transport goes
i use it quite often, and most of the time there’s one departing every 5 minutes or so
14:20 Gesellenstück = lit. bachelor's piece. It's part of the practical bachelor's (or journeyman's) exam for craftsmen. After this exam you can then apply for the master exam. In some trades still only master craftsmen are allowed to open their own business.
also the reason why there are so many different kinds of bread in Germany, but i think it's the Meisterstück, the master piece you submit when doing the exam to become a baker master, it has to be your own invention and can't be an already existing recipe
@@Bioshyn You do a Gesellenstück for becoming a Geselle (bachelor), and in some (but not all) you have also to submit a Meisterstück for the master exam - but some other trades have abolished this practical part of the exam.
Falsch. Als Geselle hast du drei bis fünf Jahre Berufstätigkeit in dem entsprechenden Beruf nachzuweisen, bevor du dich zum Meisterlehrgang anmelden kannst und in vielen Berufen ist das heute gar nicht mehr möglich. Der Meisterlehrgang dauert wiederum zwei bis fünf Jahre.
@@Bioshyn Das ist Unsinn, denn dann hätte es in der langen Geschichte Deutschlands nur etwa 3000 Bäckermeister gegeben, obwohl es tatsächlich eher 50.000 waren.
Das Meisterstück muss, im Gegensatz zum Gesellenstück, nur ein gewisses Maß an Kreativität aufweisen, also handwerkliche Fähigkeiten, die schlicht über den Standard hinausgehen. Einzigartig muss nichts sein, kann es auch nicht, weil, genau wie in der Musik, alles schon mal dagewesen ist.
@@Eysenbeiss Das gilt in einigen Handwerken. In anderen wurde dieses Erfordernis mittlerweile reduziert oder ganz ersetzt.
Didn't expect my hometown Bad Vilbel and its libary to be so special but it's such a cool fact. Didn't know that, also friedberg, i go to school there
9:43 tropical islands is near Berlin in Brandt. You get free entrance if it's your birthday 🎉
12:39 it's a test running on the Autobahn A5 between Darmstadt and Frankfurt under the supervision of TU Darmstadt. But it's out of order for months...
12:57 the things on top of the trucks you also find on buses. They take electricity from the wires hanging above the street so they don't have to use fuel-engines. And they also dont need to stop to charge batteries in that way.
The Aquadome is in Berlin and yes, it is exactly the one that burst. But unfortunately the electric trucks are not common.
The Wuppertal Suspension Railway is pretty old. It was build 1901 it is still in use and a importan public transport since then. I got renewed of course in the years. Most of the train is over the river (the river Wupper), some part go over normal ground too. I never was in it myselfe but you can see the railway from other trains traks too it always so fun. I really want to visit it :D
I learned too in research that a elefand fell out of it (the elefant surfived it fell into the river)
The woman only parking became a rule in garages. There got more light they have more cameras I belive and there mostly closer to an exit.
we got more now too, the disapility parking of course, then we got parking for familys with kids too on some shopps.
That lift with the aquarium is in Berlin and yes, it did collapse a while ago. It was all over the news in Berlin.
The Aquarium was in a hotel in Berlin, and yes, it collapsed recently.