No use, there's basically nothing on this side of town where pedestrians could go over to on this viaduct coming from the railway station. Going over, you would just arrive right behind some residential backyards blocked on the other side by the newer railway tracks, finally being blocked by the road between Friedberg and Dorheim. It would literally lead you into a dead end if you could even make it that far without a machete. 😅
You know this is kinda creepy. I've had an interview _two days ago_ that might lead to me moving to Friedberg, a place I know very little about. And just now I happen to get this video in my sub box about exactly this town.
You now know more than the average tourist, without actually knowing all the tourist stuff, because that's not what Rewboss is doing. It's kind of within the "Schrödinger theme" of the video though.
Confirmed non-average tourist, hah! Went on a bike-tour across Germany last year and just so happened to travel along that railway line, roughly Gießen, Butzbach, Bad Nauheim and Friedberg. Passed right under this viaduct. Knew nothing about it, but certainly noticed it, took a little break under it. Afterwards I continued on to the Main river and made it to Aschaffenburg that day. Spent the evening exploring that based on some of your videos! I discovered one of my now-favourite dishes in Aschaffenburg: Brizza. Pizza made with pretzel dough.
I quite often use this new railway bridge as I frequently take the train to Frankfurt. One very good recommendation I can make is to visit Wetzlar. It has a beautiful old town and a (special and local history!) never finished cathedral (Wetzlarer Dom). Also Dillenburg should be worth a visit. The City centre is nothing you could call vibrant but it has a really interesting history as well. It even had one of the largest castles on the whole of Hesse and you nowadays still can visit its remainings and explore the so called "Kasematten" as well as the history of "Wilhelm von Oranien".
It is always a sight passing through Friedberg on my way home/on the way back to the airport, seeing the old viaduct and the towers and turrets in the back while my train crossed the new viaduct.
I live right next to Friedberg my whole life and went by the viaduct a thousand times....always wondering for what it was. And thanks to your channel i finally got an explanation. Strange how that came to be.
You never fail to surprise me with anectotes about curiosities hitherto unknown to me, Andrew. When you have exhausted your area, why not come over to my neck of the woods? I'd be curious what stories I never heard about places I pass by regularly you would dig up...
I guess that I must have not been your average tourist in my younger days. Visited both Friedberg and Bad Nauheim over 30 years ago in walking along the old Roman Limes.
You should visit Stuttgart-Nordbahnhof. There are old houses inbetween the arches of the viaduct. They are so close to the arches that one has to wonder how they've accomplished that?
Among the gaming community Friedberg is known as the seat of @pegasusspiele , publisher - among many board games - of the German _Shadowrun_ and _Call of Cthulhu_ lines.
All very well researched, but I think one tiny thing is off: It is not dorms that are in the castle, it is a fraternity of FH Mittelhessen in the actual entrance and adjacent building. Another not so well-known fact about this FH is that in 2005 during the discussion of renaming the FH from Giessen-Friedberg to Mittelhessen, it was briefly discussed to call it Konrad Zuse Hochschule. ;-)
The disruptions on the line will continue into the future, well past 2024. The current constructions are only for the first half of the track from Frankfurt to Friedberg, the second half will come under construction soon™ and it could still take a decade to be finished.
My father went to school in the Friedberg castle, and i always liked Friedberg as a town. Sadly it has gone very far downhill over the last two decades. Its also a shame that the old viaduct was not restored or repaired. The new Viaduct is simply ugly.
Rewboss's revenge showing that some small whiff of excentricity isn't completely foreign to Germany. And after all quantum mechanics has been developed in Germany by Heisenberg, Jordan and Born and in Austria by Schrödinger. And in England by Dirac. However, this viaduct is a tad bit too macroscopic to apply quantum physics to it. (In a letter to Albert Einstein his friend Max Born complained once: "These quanta are a hell of a pig's mess."/"Die Quanten sind eine heillose Schweinerei." - while dealing with something much smaller than a railway viaduct.)
I rather like Everett's Many Worlds interpretation ("just believe the formulas are correct") which says that nothing is too large to be in a superposition. (Once Schrödinger opens the box, Schrödinger himself is in a superposition between seeing a dead cat, and seeing an alive cat.)
Ha, this is so German bureaucracy, with an emphasis on "bureauCRACY" XD Not only do we have 3 different viaducts/bridges instead of just one, the state is simultaneously trying to destroy and preserve one of them. Bahahahha. I get why there's 3, like, I am all for preserving the viaduct. They are kind of cool, and, as we've seen in the video, the supports are spaced in a way that even allow roads to be run in between. So it's not a hinderance. But this is typical: this building will exist in "construction limbo" until it actualyl starts to fall apart and rain brickwork down on cars or walkways, and then something will need to be done. Either, it will have crumbled enough to be fixed or demolished, or we will simply install nets or a sort of roofed tunnel to catch the offfall and wait until it is further crumbling so we can demolish it. A similar approach is taken with old buildings that have to be torn down, but which contain toxic materials that are very expensive to get rid off. Some poor soul owns the building, theoretically, but can't actually do anything with it because nothing they would be able to build in its place could justify the steep toxic cleanup of like asbestos, lead paint, old chemicals (like leaky tanks of a gas station, ex factory, etc.). We actually got an old insane asyslum / nunnery in Cologne that was infected with some type of parasite or bacteria. The problem is that, the spores I guess?, infect concrete and so the whole thing has to be expensively deconstructed in a way that does not allow dust to get out, which is not impossible, but so expensive that nobody wants to do it.
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Ha, ironically: no. the old, cold war nato defense plans would basically sacrifice everything east of the river rhein with copious carpet bombing to stop the invading russians. they'd sacrifice germany to create a buffer zone too hot and toxic for the russians to cross, which would buy the allies time to mobilize. the irony is that the cursed asylum is on the left side of the rhine and would be left standing XD
You've got some interesting videos. Here's a topic for you: The Germans are known for rule following. On the roads. With paperwork. Showing up on time. But one thing is never enforced: graffiti. It's everywhere! Now why is this? It seems so out of character. Please let us know....
I wish! My landlord makes me pay about 10€/month for Graffiti removal from the building. Which is otherwise ugly and not exactly well-maintained. Anyway, my landlords are in London, so their priorities may not be typically German.
There is one more in Friedberg. In the old town area there is a preserved jewish mique which is driven down into the rocks. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikwe_in_Friedberg_(Hessen)
You came quite close to a Tim Traveller “But we’re not here to see any of that” and I love it. :D
The viaduct should be made into a pedestrian bridge if it’s still in salvable condition, in my opinion.
bike trail
Won't happen in Germany. Kids might fall down from it.
Natrual selection
@@jamesalles139 it's already a nice location to practice abseiling, since nobody seems to care about it.
No use, there's basically nothing on this side of town where pedestrians could go over to on this viaduct coming from the railway station. Going over, you would just arrive right behind some residential backyards blocked on the other side by the newer railway tracks, finally being blocked by the road between Friedberg and Dorheim. It would literally lead you into a dead end if you could even make it that far without a machete. 😅
I was born in Friedberg in 1951. I love the old viaduct. I miss being there. This is a great video.
Excellent! As a german I always enjoy learning something about my home country on your channel! Thank you!
You know this is kinda creepy. I've had an interview _two days ago_ that might lead to me moving to Friedberg, a place I know very little about. And just now I happen to get this video in my sub box about exactly this town.
You now know more than the average tourist, without actually knowing all the tourist stuff, because that's not what Rewboss is doing. It's kind of within the "Schrödinger theme" of the video though.
Confirmed non-average tourist, hah! Went on a bike-tour across Germany last year and just so happened to travel along that railway line, roughly Gießen, Butzbach, Bad Nauheim and Friedberg. Passed right under this viaduct. Knew nothing about it, but certainly noticed it, took a little break under it. Afterwards I continued on to the Main river and made it to Aschaffenburg that day. Spent the evening exploring that based on some of your videos!
I discovered one of my now-favourite dishes in Aschaffenburg: Brizza. Pizza made with pretzel dough.
When in Friedberg, see its well-preserved 13th century mikveh. It is a bit hidden, but absolutely worth a visit!
I agree, totally worth it. Also visit its sister mikveh in Speyer.
I quite often use this new railway bridge as I frequently take the train to Frankfurt. One very good recommendation I can make is to visit Wetzlar. It has a beautiful old town and a (special and local history!) never finished cathedral (Wetzlarer Dom). Also Dillenburg should be worth a visit. The City centre is nothing you could call vibrant but it has a really interesting history as well. It even had one of the largest castles on the whole of Hesse and you nowadays still can visit its remainings and explore the so called "Kasematten" as well as the history of "Wilhelm von Oranien".
Another charming excursion. Thank you!
It is always a sight passing through Friedberg on my way home/on the way back to the airport, seeing the old viaduct and the towers and turrets in the back while my train crossed the new viaduct.
I live right next to Friedberg my whole life and went by the viaduct a thousand times....always wondering for what it was. And thanks to your channel i finally got an explanation. Strange how that came to be.
As a Friedberger, thank you for your great video showing my home town. 😊
This is another excellent story told by rewboss...
Greetings from Karben!
Interesting to learn so much new stuff about a city I've been living close to for all of my life, thanks for this! :)
You never fail to surprise me with anectotes about curiosities hitherto unknown to me, Andrew. When you have exhausted your area, why not come over to my neck of the woods? I'd be curious what stories I never heard about places I pass by regularly you would dig up...
Great storytelling. Interesting as usual.
1:40 „ at the time Friedberg was a provincial backwater to the north of Frankfurt”
The more things change, the more they stay the same….^^
Very nice quantum mechanics reference!
Hey Rewboss, kommst du auch Mal in das schöne Wetzlar? Und auch das Braunfelser Schloss ist da nur ein Katzensprung von Wetzlar entfernt ;)
I guess that I must have not been your average tourist in my younger days. Visited both Friedberg and Bad Nauheim over 30 years ago in walking along the old Roman Limes.
You should visit Stuttgart-Nordbahnhof. There are old houses inbetween the arches of the viaduct. They are so close to the arches that one has to wonder how they've accomplished that?
Among the gaming community Friedberg is known as the seat of @pegasusspiele , publisher - among many board games - of the German _Shadowrun_ and _Call of Cthulhu_ lines.
3:38 More cat content, please! Where did that nice one come from?
Interesting video. Great outro
All very well researched, but I think one tiny thing is off: It is not dorms that are in the castle, it is a fraternity of FH Mittelhessen in the actual entrance and adjacent building. Another not so well-known fact about this FH is that in 2005 during the discussion of renaming the FH from Giessen-Friedberg to Mittelhessen, it was briefly discussed to call it Konrad Zuse Hochschule. ;-)
Delightful!!
Where can I find pictures of the viaduct in the 50's and 60's?
I invite you to come to Chemnitz - a city perfect for a non average tourists and therefore I am sure youll like it there!
Selling anything for short term profits is such a classic Deutsche Bahn moment
I feel I have to point out that Elvis' red light suspiciously looks like he is relieving himself.
That's what we locals here always make fun of as well. 😂 (He's supposed to be standing on a microphone, though 😊)
@@rabebaer9536 Herr Pelvis Pissley?
The disruptions on the line will continue into the future, well past 2024. The current constructions are only for the first half of the track from Frankfurt to Friedberg, the second half will come under construction soon™ and it could still take a decade to be finished.
My father went to school in the Friedberg castle, and i always liked Friedberg as a town. Sadly it has gone very far downhill over the last two decades. Its also a shame that the old viaduct was not restored or repaired. The new Viaduct is simply ugly.
like Schrödinger's cat it exists in a superposition of two States: namely, the Electorate of Hesse and the Grand Duchy of Hesse
Rewboss's revenge showing that some small whiff of excentricity isn't completely foreign to Germany. And after all quantum mechanics has been developed in Germany by Heisenberg, Jordan and Born and in Austria by Schrödinger. And in England by Dirac. However, this viaduct is a tad bit too macroscopic to apply quantum physics to it. (In a letter to Albert Einstein his friend Max Born complained once: "These quanta are a hell of a pig's mess."/"Die Quanten sind eine heillose Schweinerei." - while dealing with something much smaller than a railway viaduct.)
I rather like Everett's Many Worlds interpretation ("just believe the formulas are correct") which says that nothing is too large to be in a superposition. (Once Schrödinger opens the box, Schrödinger himself is in a superposition between seeing a dead cat, and seeing an alive cat.)
I thought I was buying a cat. Ah found it 3:38
American s would call that castle a 'fort'
Thanks
Tanzt man hier auch Samba?
-> ua-cam.com/video/A1oDU4_WLlo/v-deo.html Friedberg
Literally a very Friedberg story... 😅
Ha, this is so German bureaucracy, with an emphasis on "bureauCRACY" XD
Not only do we have 3 different viaducts/bridges instead of just one, the state is simultaneously trying to destroy and preserve one of them. Bahahahha.
I get why there's 3, like, I am all for preserving the viaduct. They are kind of cool, and, as we've seen in the video, the supports are spaced in a way that even allow roads to be run in between. So it's not a hinderance.
But this is typical: this building will exist in "construction limbo" until it actualyl starts to fall apart and rain brickwork down on cars or walkways, and then something will need to be done.
Either, it will have crumbled enough to be fixed or demolished, or
we will simply install nets or a sort of roofed tunnel to catch the offfall and wait until it is further crumbling so we can demolish it.
A similar approach is taken with old buildings that have to be torn down, but which contain toxic materials that are very expensive to get rid off. Some poor soul owns the building, theoretically, but can't actually do anything with it because nothing they would be able to build in its place could justify the steep toxic cleanup of like asbestos, lead paint, old chemicals (like leaky tanks of a gas station, ex factory, etc.).
We actually got an old insane asyslum / nunnery in Cologne that was infected with some type of parasite or bacteria. The problem is that, the spores I guess?, infect concrete and so the whole thing has to be expensively deconstructed in a way that does not allow dust to get out, which is not impossible, but so expensive that nobody wants to do it.
Give Vlad another poke or two and he might arrange to have the job done for free?!! 😜😁
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Ha, ironically: no.
the old, cold war nato defense plans would basically sacrifice everything east of the river rhein with copious carpet bombing to stop the invading russians.
they'd sacrifice germany to create a buffer zone too hot and toxic for the russians to cross, which would buy the allies time to mobilize.
the irony is that the cursed asylum is on the left side of the rhine and would be left standing XD
The bloke wanted taxpayers money to be used for his own personal debt? Hmmm,… sounds almost like Boris Johnson, doesn‘t it? 😝
w3lc0me tO Germany.
You've got some interesting videos. Here's a topic for you: The Germans are known for rule following. On the roads. With paperwork. Showing up on time. But one thing is never enforced: graffiti. It's everywhere! Now why is this? It seems so out of character. Please let us know....
Because its not hurting anyone. If it's not on their private property, germans dont care about it.
I wish! My landlord makes me pay about 10€/month for Graffiti removal from the building. Which is otherwise ugly and not exactly well-maintained. Anyway, my landlords are in London, so their priorities may not be typically German.
There is one more in Friedberg. In the old town area there is a preserved jewish mique which is driven down into the rocks. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikwe_in_Friedberg_(Hessen)