The most pointless tower in Hesse?
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- I made a quick trip to the town of Oberursel in Hesse, where I didn't see a soapbox race and almost didn't see the most pointless landmark I have ever visited.
Chapters:
00:00 Taking the S-Bahn
00:40 Not just a commuter town
00:59 A brief history of Oberursel
01:51 Oberursel today
02:41 Looking for the tower
03:49 Is it even a tower?
04:47 Getting there
Music:
"On My Way Home"
by The 126ers
UA-cam Audio Library
"Serenade for Strings in E♭ major"
by Josef Suk
arr. A Far Cry
UA-cam Audio Library
"Style Funk" and "Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com/
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“I’m not the average tourist” something the average tourist would say. Great video
Exactly what I wanted to write and do not have to do now.
The average tourist doesn't have a UA-cam channel so in that sense he's right.
@@soundscape26... 42 likes so I can't like it now.
... and at the same time, we started building those "Baumwipfelpfad" things - basically towers in the forest allowing you to see the treetops up close and teaching you about forest ecology. This tower could have been a Schillerbaumwipfelbeobachtungsturm!
With a Schillerbaumwipfelbeobachtungsturmaussichtsplattform on top of it.
@@christ2381 Yes!😃
this is a Schillerbaumwipfelbeobachtungsturm
it's a Baumwipfelbeobachtungsturm that Schillers
but actually it should be Schillerbaumwipfelpfadbeobachtungsplattform
this modern trend to shorten words unnecessarily is driving me mad
We have something better in Göttingen: The Bismarckstein was meant to be a basis for a Bismarck statue. They ran out of money when they had built the base. Today we call it the Elephant's toilet since that's what it kinda looks like.
Its a cool stone, though.
I thought the Elefantenklo
was in Gießen?
@@johncrwarner Elephants are big, they need multiple toilets.
@@imrehundertwasser7094
And they do have a high fibre diet too!
Cool story, bro. Not true at all. It is no basis, it is an observation platform. Back in the day, it afforded a great view over Göttingen. But now it is surrounded by trees that obstruct the view.
That is honestly the beauty of the DeutschlandTicket. Pick a direction and find something new!
Übrigens, ist auch Kronberg gut mit der S4 zu erreichen. Dieser Ort hat ebenfalls einen (ausgedehnten) historischen, liebevoll gepflegten Altstadtkern und ist aufgrund seiner verschachtelten Berggässchen und dem häufigen Blick auf den umgebenden Taunus durchaus bei einer Suche nach einer gut erhaltenen, sehenswerten deutschen Kleinstadt ein Volltreffer.
Not far away from Kronberg is the Hardtbergturm, which has recently been reconstructed and, unlike the Schillerturm, does provide a great view over the area.
Auf jeden Fall sehenswerter als Oberursel.
The pointlessness of this shrunken tower is precisely its point! And it's quite aesthetic, I think. I like pretty, pointless landmarks in our time of mostly ugly, efficient and useful things.
The trees - have grown? Who could have seen that coming....
Back in the time, forrests were much more used and abused economically than today, for fire wood or even as pasture to feed live stock. Now they are converted into parcs, ressorts or are otherwise protected and have the chance to grow taller than they used to do. I know several monuments that disappeared in the green.
@@ralfjansen9118Just a little correction (pls don't feel attacked
the original birches were replaced by beeches, which grow taller. This was probably initiated by the son in law of the Burgermeister of the time, who happened to be a scrap merchant. See how we are being played, wake up! you sleep sheep
Since the tower had been taken down due to the trees obscuring the view, there must have been another vantage point nearby that enabled you to get that long distance shot at 4:12 in the video.
Also, it's very thoughtful that you always post the transit routes and stops in your travel videos, even in a quick trip like this one.👍👍
...the 100th anniversary of the death of the German Poet Friedrich Schiller!🙂 Schiller was born in 1759 (!) in Marbach am Neckar and died in 1805 in Weimar.
Thank you very much for taking us with you on this trip to Oberursel!👍
What a great video! Thank you for showing us towns of Germany which tourists usually don't visit
Neat! My best friend married at the Oberursel Rathaus two years ago. They just had their anniversary.
Of the wedding....or the divorce? 😉
If you are looking for pointless landmarks in Hesse, I recommend Bismarck Monument in Marburg. Everybody wonders what this shapeless pile of stone is about.
Thank you for taking us along.
I feel like the opportunity to make a Gipfelpfad along the trees from that tower was lost! Oh well.
Nice video. I like seeing these little-known things.
This would make a great Dönerbude.
I am from Oberursel but never heard of this tower. 😅
Not been to walk around the town, but during the 80’s was there a number of times to Camp King, when I worked for the Department of Defence in Frankfurt.
BTW, I just checked Google maps and there actually is a street view of the Schillerturm there, which I didn't expect to see, although you put out a video titled Street View Comes To Germany.
They were so fast with mapping out the country! I think it was like...a few weeks after the announced date for the process, that every bigger city around here (Rhein-Main region) had been almost completely mapped out by google.
There are a few small and narrow streets that aren't on streetview, probably due to construction sides blocking access. But I'm really impressed how fast and smooth it went. There was barely anyone talking about it, despite the press making such a big fuss about it, drawing comparisons to googles first attempt. It's baffling if you look at the discussion back then and compare it with todays...
Oof! 'pointless!' Is the Alt-Oberurseler Brauhaus the next video?
Love your stuff and I share it with friends & family in England.
Gibt's das noch? Da hatten wir immer unseren Stammtisch von der Maus-HG-Mailbox. Lang ist's her...
The building that's hidden behind scaffolding and netting, and with the commemorative plaque for soap box racing is actually the town's local museum. It's being renovated and brought up to code. It features exhibits show casing the town's medieval textile industry, findings from the former celtic settlement, the Heidtränk-Oppidum in the north of Oberursel's municipal area, and a bit of the history of the town's former motor factory, which stood where there is now the Rolls-Royce Motorenfabrik.
I thought Schiller died in 1805
so it would be a memorial put up
100 years after his death
Or have I got the wrong Schiller?
You're right. I goofed.
Your "Englishness" is slipping! Don't you mean "Sorry!"?? 🙄😜😊@@rewboss
@@theoztreecrasher2647LOL
Orschel! Wie schön!
Hey I've been to that town this year!
Didn't look at anything tho, just went to the well shown in the beginning to get the webcam geocache ☺️
The aircraft engines from Oberuresel that are most known among those who take interest in those items were those rotary engines that a lot of World War I planes used. They are often mistaken for radial engines that are still built for small aircraft. Both designs use a number of cylinders that form a ring around a central crankshaft. The difference is that the crankshaft of a rotary engine is firmly fixed to the plane and the entire set of cylinders swirls around it. Logically the propeller is bolted to the frame that holds the cylinders together. Fun fact: Oberursel is twinned with the town of Farnborough, the centre of aviation in Britain.
Hi Andrew, also dont miss the last station of the U5, it ends in the middle of nowhere inside a forrest.
A little bit strange to find a "Underground" station inside a forrest. But the U5 line is a little bit fake, its more a cross country streetcar and less a underground.
Forest is a bit exaggerated, don't you think? When you look at it on Google Maps, you see it's actually in the middle of a large residential area. Yes, a couple of trees around and a crop field on one side, but that doesn't make it a forest. ;)
That being said I've also seen that it would be a pretty obvious step for city planners to stretch the tracks for just over a straight kilometer to meet up with the S-Bahn at Frankfurter Berg. Which would improve the public transport connection a lot.
Also: There's a debate as to what the U actually means: either Untergrund (underground train), or unabhängig (independent from / uninterrupted by other modes of transport). Both translations are being maintained while underground, but lost when overground. In the city centre all of the U- and S-Bahns are underground and all of them are overground when outside the city centre. I'd be curious about a map of FFM with all the spots where a U/S-Bahn enters/leaves underground. ;)
Did you mean the U3 that terminates at Hohemark? It’s true that is part of the beautiful Taunus forest but also has a nice P&R just off a highway convenient to ride the U-Bahn into Frankfurt. And a Korean restaurant.
upps yes my mistake. The U3 is right.@@mnsegler1
@@dorderre There's this map. It's colour coded with lighter colours for underground segments.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Frankfurt_am_Main_-_Netzplan_Schienennahverkehr.png
@@dorderreThe most useful distinction between U and S is that U uses train cars that are designed for tunnels, while S uses tunnels that are designed for normal train cars. Way fewer exceptions with that one...
A common fate for quite a few of the "Bismarcktürme" which were built during the same period. We have one in my town which is only 8.5 m high and has no view left whatsoever. Maybe some of them have regained theirs now due to climate change and beetles killing swathes of monoculture spruce trees.
They´re an interesting part of the History of German Nationalism.
Thx for mentioning wheelchair accessibility.
Germany is the sort of country where a scaffolding hire company would hold an annual publicity event where they erect a scaffold that reaches up over the trees & people can climb up it for a donation to charity.
As an Everton fan (yes, a German not associated with one of the usual suspects ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea, etc.) I'm not too unfamiliar with overrated towers 😅
only, Schiller wasn't born in 1805...
Germany - a place to make tourists depair🤣
So, the Oberursel airplane engines from the early German tri-planes were actually named after the city.
Huh strong TimTraveller vibes
If you are in Oberursel, try the nougat chocolates of Heller.
Thanks! I visited their online shop and found something I would like to try: dark ginger chocolate. At a price of 4.25€ per 100 grams plus 6.95 shipping and handling... -- But, well, 15% ginger, that sounds like something. Visiting Oberursel by car would mean around 400 kilometers with currently 11 (eleven!) construction sites, according to Google Maps. Not the kind of road trip I'm dreaming of.
omg you are nearly at my home
Welcome to Hessen
4:34 ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
Maybe they could make it a very bougie bus stop?
1905 was the 100th anniversary of Schiller's death, not birth
Great video for a not average tourist 😂
I wonder if anyone ever was/is held responsible for such gross planning mistakes.
Herrlich 😂
Guude und Grüße aus dem Taunus.. Saalburg und Hessenpark wären auch lohnende Ziele entlang der S5 Richtung Brandoberndorf
Vom Bahnhof Saalborsch mussde abber ganz schee weid de Bersch enuffkrabbele.
@@MrTuxracer de bub is doch en fidde
Still an inherently cool looking structure, so it justifies itself
I wonder - is there an "Unterursel"?
There is. It's called "Niederursel" and it's part of adjacent Frankfurt.
Soweit ich weiß, ist "Ursel" der Name eines Flusses, der Teile beider Orte durchfließt. VG
@@vornamenachname823 der Urselbach, ja.
Soap Box race with Rolls Royce turbines?
Can we rename it "Bossum's folly?...." 🐻
3:10 " *death of the poet an philosopher Friedrich Schiller" surely?!
3:06 - death, not birth
Why is the second e in Hesse silent? I thought all vowels are pronounced in German?
it's the anglicised version. In German it's Hessen - with both vowels pronounced.
@@vornamenachname823 dann "hört" man aber das n
@@ppd3bwIch lag gleich 2x falsch!Die erste Antwort oben ist die richtige!
Why not rebuilding the complete tower? In other places they construct "Baumwipfelpfade". So looking at the top of trees is something interesting now. 🙂
Probably due to cost and the need to cut back the trees appropriately to ensure safety. Also, as you can see plants are already growing on the top, so the structural integrity would have to be checked too. At this point, it probably would be cheaper to just build a new one, so I think it's fine to just leave it like this and provide some context on a sign. Sure, it's not a story the town can be proud about but it makes a nice destination for tourist marketing imo, since people always look for unusual and strange travel destinations.
It´s called Hessen ;)
It's called "Hessen" in _German,_ but I wrote the title in English.
@@rewboss Sorry😁!
They should just have marketed is as Germany's shortest "Baumwipfelpfad" ;-)
The oldest part of town ... *blafasel* (playing music that clearly is from hundreds of years later; baroque music would have been correct, it's romantic music instead)
Ich komme auch aus der Oberruhr selbst.
Looks like a German Worcester.
May be the most obsolete tower in Hesse
German Engineering haha!
The tower seems to be a product of bureaucracy.