A tale of two towns (sorta): Wörth am Main
Вставка
- Опубліковано 9 вер 2021
- Following a series of massive floods, it was decided that a brand new Wörth am Main should be built on higher land. But things didn't go according to plan, and so Wörth is now, basically, two towns for the price of one.
Museum of Shipping and Shipbuilding: schifffahrtsmuseum-woerth.de/ (German only)
Music:
"On My Way Home"
by The 126ers
UA-cam Audio Library
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com/
Creative Commons Attribution licence
---------
Support me on Patreon for access to bonus content and more:
/ rewboss
Send letters and postcards to:
Rewboss
Postfach 10 06 29
63704 Aschaffenburg
Germany
Please don't send parcels or packages, or anything that has to be signed for.
---------
My website:
www.rewboss.com/
My blog:
rewboss.blogspot.com/
My Twitter feed:
/ rewboss
My Facebook profile:
/ rewboss
„Wörth“ (also spelt „Wöhrd“ or similarly) is an old word describing an island in a river. That’s why there are a lot of towns with this word in their names, mostly near greater rivers. The Low German equivalent is „Werder“; most towns the name of which ends in „-werder“ are in the North.
Oh, thank you! :)
In Switzerland it is "Werd". Many place names ending with ...werd, for example Schönenwerd, are indeed near an island in a river. The other word for island is "Au" as for example in Aarau , the island in the river Aare. An Au can be in a lake as well, like the island of Ufenau in the lake of Zürich, or Mainau in the lake of Constance, but a Werd is always in a river.
@@Bluepeter62 I thought Au is German for a riperian area or 'river flat'
In Eschwege, there is an island in the river Werra called Werdchen.
@@SEPoffical Yes as well. Au originates from the Roman "Aqua" = Water. Au is generally connected to where water meets land.
I like these local history videos. Thanks.
True. Others would ignore those tiny details and here they are well explained.
1:56: So it wasn't really Wörth am Main and more like Wörth im Main?
I'm sorry...
Totally Wörth it!
It can't get any Wörth
@@abgekippt
If it can’t get any Wörth … that’s called a ….
Wörth-case-scenario
It’s kind of ironic that you are teaching me stuff about my homecountry in a different language and I didn’t know it.
you didn't know that he is using a different language? Oo
@@ulliulli no, he didn’t know it’s ironic
Just as Frankfurt am Main is so named so as not to be confused with Frankfurt an der Oder.
Or all the "Neustadt" ones
Frankfurt am Main in the heart of Europe on a fantastic day. On the backside there is nothing you have to fear.
Weil Frankfurt so groß ist, darum teilt man es ein
in Frankfurt an der Oder und Frankfurt am Main.
If they would be named today it would be "Frankfurt with skyscrapers" and "the other Frankfurt no one really cares about"
@@TheParappa or... Frankfurt with the airport, and Frankfurt by Słubice (or Frankfurt beside Poland)
As a german i love your Videos about small german cities and germany in general. I don't know any other format that does this in this manner
When a was a little girl we lived in a town called Kirchhain (near Marburg) and they also had lots of floodmarkings on the old sandstone houses and the only river nearby was the river Ohm and it was just a very small river and I always wondered how such a small river that wasn't even that close could flood such a large area and reach such heights.
Even small streams can turn into giant, dangerous rivers during a flood. In 2002, it happened in several places like Weesenstein in Saxony.
Damn this is an awesome Video! I live in Wörth am Main and have experienced a lot of floods (though only after 2001, since I was born in 2005). I've definitely learned something new from this Video ^^
one thing: The old church used to be a sports hall before becoming a museum
Heya rewboss. Been following your channel since 2015 (and a patreon supporter). Just wanted to drop a note that I really enjoy these small town profiles. I love how you can make the mundane have a life and personality. Keep up the great work!
Nice! A rural rewbit from rewboss! Thank you very much!
I wish you could visit some towns further north. Maybe do a video on how different towns look in Germany.
I have visited a lot of places in the north. The pandemic, however, has made travel difficult and unpredictable; hopefully next year things will be a lot more relaxed.
I really enjoyed this one Andrew well done
Neat! They have something similar in flood barriers in Galena Illinois.
People really don't moving very much. What is a little water, anyway.
Again what learned :-)
Very good story! Nie gehört, aber nicht weit weg.
Interessant
More unknown history for me 🙂 Thx 👍🏾😎
Another excellent video! I love the solution to the flooding.
That TTT Outro was great :D
Going there was wörth it.
😁👍
*badumtiss 😄
Lol
Schönes Wochenende!
I never thought about that, but it makes sense _from the Church's point of view_ that a church, a place of holiness, ought to be _de_ -consecrated before put to non-liturgical use. I wonder if there is an official ceremony, though. Like, does a priest unbless the place? Does he use unholy water?
I believe that a deconsecration ceremony would typically have involved removing all the religious artefacts and relics and transferring them to the new church, probably exhuming any bones to be reburied elsewhere, and either washing or destroying the altar. It's to say because apparently the Catholic Church doesn't have a detailed ceremony prescribed for this, and practices seem to have changed over the years.
Every Catholic church has a "relic", a piece of remains purportedly from the named saint. Usually a tiny sliver. The only relic I saw growing up Catholic in the '80s was the Monsignior's 1970 GMC pickup, mint green and a longbed stepside, bought Lake Wobegon-esquely from Fitzpatrick's GMC whose proprietor was in the Knights of Columbus. (and perfect for altar-moving purposes)
Its funny to see that people that speak english makes videos about our town 👍😂
Thank you very much! :-)
Thanks
I have associations to the Ahr valley and Erft city.
Indeed. I, too.
I like the little quirky 'travel' videos. Reminds of another channel The Tim Traveller
Except that the Tim Traveller is vastly more successful.
@@rewboss Have you tried playing the piano?
"Wörth a. Main" or how not to give official abbreviations.
The other ones have it even worse, though
I guess the most difficulties would probably appear to keep apart Wörth am Main from Wörth am Rhein 😂
Can you something make about Passau
There are three River (Inn Ilz and Danube)
Also a Austrian Painter lived there and was nearly drowned
Napoleon was also there
And Passau was the biggest Diocese
In the Holy Roman Empire
I think Passau is a important city who not many know
Missed opportunity to call the other places Excel and Powerpoint.
2:29 The traffic sign is ingenious! Does it exist elsewhere than in Germany? Please report.
As to your travel directions: "You could swim" but you wouldn't recommend it, but some people will always try. Scuba gear or jet skis, something will work. After all, we've landed a man on the moon.
That is the standard international traffic sign warning of an unfenced riverbank, quayside, or similar.
That stoopid dispatcher over at UA-cam's, Al Gorism, must be sleeping at work. I get the note three days late, if any, recently. How do I keep myself informed about business hours of small museums in the Aschaffenburg area now? Unfair!!!
Lol i knew it was a deich
Was bedeutet "sorta"?
Sort of
@@PianistStefanBoetel Kinda sorta!
Lmao I can See my house
Not far from where you live.
First
as is tradition
Kann bei aller Liebe einfach nicht verstehen, wieso Menschen lieber in einem oft überflutetem Bereich leben wollen, wenn Ihnen sogar ein Ersatz angeboten wird... das zahlt doch keinne Versicherung mehr, oder sehe ich das falsch? 😅 Sooo viel sentimentalen Wert kann das doch nicht haben, dass ich lieber nasse Füße, Schimmel und anderes Gedöns in Kauf nehme.
2:07 Everything due to climate change 😀😂
No one says that flooding only happens because of the climate catastrophy. But they get stronger and more frequent.
It's like saying only people who smoke get cancer. No, everyone can get cancer, but a smoking person is way more likely to get it.