Top 10 Places To Visit In Germany (BRITISH REACTION)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- British Reaction To Top 10 Places To Visit In Germany
This is my reaction to Top 10 Places To Visit In Germany
Original Video - Top 10 Places To Visit In Germany - 4K Travel Guide - • Top 10 Places To Visit...
What is your favourite place in Germany? And why?
Subtitles are available in German (and English).
You know that (old) English and German are to 95% equal??
Take todays English word: *"Deer"*
>> Before the change, (yes, the meaning got changed), i was not for specific "animal" but ment "all animals"
>> German: *Tier* (ie = ee) sounds exactly like the german one, bc IT IS orginal, rooted from it with the SAME MEANING ;)
~ Tier = Deer
So wait, there is a "D" in Deer and not a "T" !!
>> Yes, todays English is using the D in (visible) writting.
>> In old English, those were written in? RUNES
Look, at an android mobilphone text keyboard, press the button "T" for a while you get:
*Þ for t* and *þ for T* _(also replcing the "th" in words!_
From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”)
>> So original *Day* was *þæg* which is from german *Tag*
So as we can see, Both sides can now Ignore the letter D for most parts and change it to a T.
Also the "th" switches into a T.
Same goes for *the letter Y,* which was always *a G.*
>> Hence daY is taG
There are some common tricks, to actualy (more read) understand English/German speakers just by switching letters.
>> Our language is so bound to each other, so is our culture. Lit. We are brothers & sisters just like the scandinavia.
Saddly, just like you, we and scandinavians got taken away our main culture by the church.
>> Wich also stole our *Yul(e)-Fest* and renamed it into? *Christmas/ Weihnachten.*
> stole the fest, renamed it and put their "symbols" all over it.
The "Christmas Tree" is ALSO a Germanic culture NOT from the church,.. endless going on.
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If you would *ask me for my fav. place in Germany:*
*>>* Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land
Why?
Bc it is "absolut" in the center of germany located. And *Frau Holle* or *Mother winter,* was actualy a *coverup name* for germanic peoples, bc the church forbit under death punishment to call out THE germanic goddess.
>> Frau Holle, Holla (die Waldfee), Hulda, *Hel,* or in some german regions also Perchte/Perchta are coverup names for the goddess.
>> The forbiten name was:
>> *Frigg(a)*
>> Goddess of Life, Death & Rebirth.
>> *Mother Earth*
>> Later on, *wife of Odin,* after the great wandering happend, when the huge glacier revealed the land in the north (scandinavia was covered under the glacier).
>> There is a lake in Germany called *Titisee*
>> "Titi" means in old germanic *Kindchen* (little child)
>> It was said that Frau Holle/Frigg(a) gifted a child, when a germanic woman was bathing in a *Forest-Lake.*
>> So this "lakes" have a birth and rebirth function for germanics
>> It was also said that Frau Holle/Frigg(a) had a *Aple-tree-garten*
>> When a child died early, it is said Frau Holle/Frigg(a) instantly took this child soul into her whomb (Mutterlaib = Mothers loaf), bc she was *Mother Earth.*
>> there was her Aple tree garten, a much nicer place, protected from evil spirits.
>> The *church* again,.. took her aple tree garten INTO the sky (stole it), to stand over them, and declared who ever eats from (her) this aples, goes down to *Hel(l)* (english) or *hölle > hoelle > Holle).
>> *Demonizing, the germanic goddess*
i will shut it now,.. lol what have i dun =O such a wall of text T-.-T
Cheers
Aichtal-Grötzingen (south west of Germany) ist my favorite place because i live there.And the countryside is very beautifull. Lot`s of castles on the hill tops.
My favourite place is the island of Hiddensee. No cars, 13 km long but less than half a kilometre wide, pristine sand dunes and 3 small villages with reed roofed houses. Magic, esp in winter.
Favourite city is Münster. Highest standard of living in Germany, lots of cycles, lots of history. Cages of rebels from the 16th century still hang from one church tower. Great beer.
I life close to Hamburg and i love it. I like this Flair of the Port and the good publik transport with the farrys.
If germany were a family, then berlin is the teenage punk son, in his rebellious phase, who feels misunderstood by everyone else.
🤣👍
Eine schöne Zusammenfassung!
gut beschrieben /good described . Grüsse aus Berlin
True Berlin is misunderstood by Germans outside of Brandenburg and Berlin.. since I moved out of Berlin I've noticed that Berlin is quite a frequent topic representing "failed" politics.. which in my opinion isn't true at least to the degree it's propagated ^^. In Berlin at least in my bubble Bavaria was a symbol for failed politics ^^
@@cirrus2013 yeah no shit, almost all big cities are more left than smaller cities or rural areas, and Berlin being the most multi-cultural obviously there are more people liking the idea of humane politics... "Antifa scum" I still don't get how you can hate antifascists you dork. Didn't learn a single thing in history class did you?
haha great description
worth mentioning also:
Marburg: old town
Bamberg: old town and residence castle, smoked beer
Nuremberg (+Fürth): big old town, medieval castle, documentation centre, Bratwurst + Sauerkraut, jump from there to Prague for a night or 2
Passau (+ Burghausen): old town, 3 rivers, 1 castle (+ the longest castle of the world)
Sylt island: beaches, seafood
Herrenchiemsee
Altmühltal (Altmühl river and towns)
Second this list, but don't fall for the smoked beer trap.
We only drink those on a dare :D
Jawoll Franggn! 😉☘
simply: we live in a wonderfull diverse country with a lot of beautifull cities......but we love to complain. ;-)
Other places outside of Bavaria are also nice ;) I think Dresden and Potsdam also must be awesome, never been there yet.
Yes, like Marburg, Bamberg and so on: the mid-size towns are the specially Locations.
Freiburg and his region you should visit ❤ - in autumn. Visit a Weinfest in a village like Pfaffenweiler or other small village in the area or in the Pfalz or at the Mosel and so on - the south-west of Germany is a vineyard. Oh: visit a 'Strauße', drink a 'Schorle' and eat a 'Badische Wurstsalat' 😅 .
I come from Hessen, but I love the Lifestyle of the south-west. But the Black Forrest isn't the nicest forrest in Germany. Better ist Pfälzer Wald, Eifel, Hunsrück, Westerwald, Rothaargebirge ... the forrest in the middle region of Germany. I lived 20 years in the south-west and I love the Black Forrest, but the clima of the forrests in the middle is better, the forrests are nicer; it is my tip for Trekking in Germany.
I really don't get why it is always the same locations mentioned in these videos. Okay, these places around Bavaria/Munich are cool and everything I don't know why East Germany is almost never mentioned like the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. Or Dresden. Or the world's most crankiest building close to the city of Emden. What about the islands in the North Sea. What about the city of Leipzig. Ever heard about Papenburg where cruise ships are driving backwards to get to the North Sea? What about Helgoland........
Shh...don't tell everyone how amazing Leipzig is or they'll all move here 😄
As you said, there is a landscape for everyone. Unlike other Euopean countries Germany is a very decentralised country because it was hundreds of years build of many dukedoms and kingdoms and these roots are still strong.
Berlin is the largest city and the capital but is as important like any other city.
Yeah that is a great point about it being decentralised. I now live in a country where that is completely not the case (Malaysia and everything is focused on Kuala Lumpur) but I like the situation in Germany and how there are so many nice livable cities with a lot to do
Berlin is very important about drug sales lol
@@HippasosofMetapontum Every bigger city is. 🙄
@@HippasosofMetapontum none can surpass Frankfurt in drugs sales
@@mandibiedermann2246 I don't like Frankfurt very much ... but the city is "honest" in some way. The banking district is very close to the redlight-district ... and that IS honest.
The point is, there are far too many very beautiful things worth seeing in Germany. A single lifetime is simply not enough. I (as a 47 year old German) didn't even see half of it. Nice greetings from Germany 😁
I'm from the north of Germany and love the north and Baltic sea beaches. For holidays I always traveled somewhere abroad but over the last years I learned to appreciate and visit the beautiful places in my own country.
I would personally recommend Potsdam. The city of castles. It's beautiful and has so much to offer. Unfortunately, it is also quite expensive to live in
07:17 I'm born and raised in Germany and was living through all of Germany places. I have to say, that i've only visited 3 Castle's in and around my home city and in Nürnberg. I think you re right, it is normal to have things where you are raised with and dont spend propper attention to it. Now i'm living in Munich for 17 years and i don't have visited "Schloss Neuschwanstein" or "Oktoberfest"
07:57 i think there must be more than 30.000 Castles in Germany. Nearly every "bigger" city have an own Castle
08:55 All over the world, most people speaking about Berlin when it's about Germany. But in Germany we more like Hamburg, Nürnberg, Munich... because Berlin is a crazy city. If you want to "have all at one place" just move to a bigger city in Germany, you *will* have it all at one place
10:41 Hamburg would be a good choice to live. Nice people, nice city. Frankfurt you would hate i think. There is a lot of crime, the kids are crazy. In my opinion Frankfurt is Germany Ghetto
the eagles nest was part of H1tlers alpine fortress. Whilst the lower part "Obersalzberg" was dismantled the outlook "Kehlsteinhaus" was kept almost intact.
As a german i did visit some of these castles and yes some are quite impressive.
As Berlin is a more international and multicultural City is doesn't totally reflect the rest of Germany. Without offense it's a region of its own in the concert of german regions.
There are many many more places not mentioned like Cologne, Dresden, Rostock and Lübeck on the baltic coast, Nürnberg or Helgoland in the north sea to name only a few !
7:00 I am from germany, but I don't have to visit it... I live next to the Castle. Funfact: while the night, the castle is illuminated but in winter they turn the normal yellow lights into red lights. I guess you guy never seen a original castle in deep red light. It's really stunning also for ppl. who live here.
For me Bavaria is the most beautiful place in Germany, I'm not just saying this because I'm from Bavaria. My Scottish friend always said that and his most beautiful place in Germany is the fairytale castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria. Come to Germany and see everything, especially Bavaria. What I want to say is that every country has its sights.
Compared to Berlin, people from Frankfurt and Hamburg are more welcoming. Berliners are quite a special breed. I personally don't like that too much, but other than that, there's nothing like a best city. Depends on what you like.
Fun fact: Freiburg, which is in the Black Forest, is in the top 3 cities with the highest quality of life in the world. I would consider, taking a look at that beauty ;)
I just had a Google session looking at Freiburg and it looks like a great place. Very beautiful and Freiburg Münster is stunning
I'm from Munich and all these places mentioned close to Munich we used to visit when we were children with our parents as a day trip.
Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne are all worth a trip but in my opinion when it comes to where you want to live your every day live you should come to us in the south ;) Munich is the safest big city in Germany with far less crime than Berlin or Hamburg. I would recommend living in smaller cities around Munich or Stuttgart.
Visiting Berling is great. Living in Berlin is ass
Hamburg is in my opinion a much nicer city both to visit and to live in.
Visit my hometown. The Queen of the Hanseatic League, Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. Built in 1143 by Adolf II, Count of Schauenburg and Holstein, it was the first German port city to be founded on the Baltic Sea. The real NORTH! The land between the seas.
As a german i've been to most of the places in the video and they are nice, but i prefer to visit scotland!! 😄 Been in scotland many many times over the last 25 years and will be back there in 8 weeks. Can't wait to be there once again.
And for your question about Berlin: been there, didn't like it that much, don't want to go there again.
Wow that nice to hear from someone who has been to Scotland many times. I am glad to hear you enjoy it. Hope you have a fantastic time when you visit next and I hope the weather is nice for you.
@@whoismertsalih i always enjoy scotland, even when i was there some years ago during the "beast from the east" (as they called that snowstorm back then). But most of the time i had sunshine and people never believed it until they saw my pictures. It's a running gag now with my friends/family because i get sunburned in scotland more often than i get wet from rain😅
One of the most beautiful cities might me Dresden. Small old town. Lot's it History.
Nice to see that you like videos about Germany and german content. And by the way, your scotish accent is kind of funny 🙂. Greentings from Germany
Hi, 100th subscriber here (yeah, I just had to, seeing 99 😄). For fairness I got to say, Scotland doesn‘t have to hide either, thinking of Cairngorms Natl. Park and the Highlands. You seem to be a very likeable guy, love your accent. I‘m an Austrian (very similiar, mountainous) living in Uruguay since a couple of years and preparing for moving to Germany this year. Saludos, mate and thanks! Mike 🇺🇾👍
Thank you so much Mike. Thanks also for the kind comments about Scotland. I guess when I lived in Scotland I never really appreciated it as much as I should have. Uruguay is a very interesting place to live. What made you go there? What is life like there?
@@whoismertsalih Hi, We went from Austria after retirement (was an eye specialist) because my wife and I were afraid of boredom. Well, after 4 years it‘s starting to bore here too, so we‘ll go back and explore Europe as a whole…. 🤭🇺🇾♥️
6:50 they used this castle for a couple scenes of "a cure for wellness" , solid movie with jason isaacs and dane dehaan
My favourite place in Germany? You can see it at 0:51 far behind the castle, near the left side of the screen.
The place where I was born and grew up.
I'm from a small northgerman town near hamburg, but i'm calling in love with your scotty highlands singe my first trakking Tour 2002 there.😍💙
Berlin: Multi Culture, Too many people, dont try to drive a car use a bike or public transport, great parties.
7:22 I'm living just a few minutes away from "Castle Hohenzollern" right between the "Schwarzwald" (Black Forest) and the "Schwäbische Alb" (Swabian Albs) ,within a few minutes to the "Autobahn" (Highway) which brings you to Stuttgart in about 40 minutes or to the "Bodensee" (Lake Constance) in 60 minutes.
And that's in the greatest of all german "Bundesländer" (States): Baden-Württemberg!!!
I will never leave! There is no place like this (and i've been traveled to 30 countries so far,so i know what i'm talking about ;) )!!!
This video should better be called "Visit Bavaria"
7:50 germany has literally the most castles in the world
FOR YOU IT IS HAMBURG.BIG HARBOUR. NICE IN CITY LAKE (ALSTER). BUT FOR YOU IT IS EPPENDORF (BUILT BY MOSTLY BRITISH). BEST PLACE TO BE IN HAMBURG.
As someone from the black forest I must obviously say that it's the best part of germany :D Make sure to visit "Kaiserstuhl" too :)
Just subtitle wrong and voice not to understand. Berlin reunited on the 3rd of Oktober in 1990.
Not 1999^^
I would start thinking:
what is my budget?
how long will I go?
how will I go within the country (train, rental car, flights)?
do I want to be passive (just looking) or be more active? Hiking or climbing in the nature or mountains, or going on bike in the flat north part of Germany, or wintersports?
Do I like more historical stuff (old towns, museums, castles) or current culture or nature/country side or technical interests like Mercedes-/BMW-Museum/Harbours etc. or sports places and modern architecture. Or night life (Berlin). Or crazy Geman food? 😆
etc.
and then decide for maximum 2 regions.
And not trying to see everything at once like
North (Hamburg) and
"South a)" = Alps with cute Bavarian towns and
"South b)" Munich and
East Germany (Berlin) and
"West a" (Köln, Düsseldorf) or
"West b" River Rhein and River Mosel with wine and castles or
the Center of Germany with (((boring))) Frankfurt or
SouthWest Germany with the town Stuttgart and Mercedes and other castles and medieval towns.
So, all that is too much, pic just 2 regions.
If you want to learn more of Frankfurt(Main) check out the channel "Brit in Germany", he is living there.
Saor Alba gu brath
Hamburg is the BEST, you trust in me, me son!
Outside of Berlin there is a lot of Germans who would call Berlin a "failed state". It simply doesn't work as all the other states in the country and highly relies on financial aid by Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.
There are more castle in Germany as MCDONALD'S in the US
I don't ever want to live in Berlin!!...I've always lived in the north of Germany like Hamburg, Oldenburg and the Northsea....I ain't gonna move to somewhere else 😂😛
Let me know, when you are travelling to berlin.😊
Hohenzollern is just 40 minutes from where I live, I’ve been there numerous times, with family and friends. Another great Castle is Neuschwanstein, it’s where Disney got his inspiration for his theme parks. There’s many many more but these are really beautiful. Berlin is in my opinion a shitty place to live, there are some nice areas, but there is a lot of dangerous places. Where Family Klans run wild, drugs, illegal prostitution, extortion are just a few to mention. I’d rather live in the country, it’s quieter and safer. As well as cheaper to live. I live to the entry of the Black Forest it is beautiful.
I think nobody in Germany but people from Berlin and tourists think that Berlin is the most important, exciting and best place to be 😁 . They're the "Americans" of Germany .... thinking: we're the greatest, we're the best, everyone wants to be like us ..well no 🙃
Top 10 places for Japanese tourists.
Just out of interest about the accent..."British" means scotish in this case? Maybe?
I absolutely adore your accent. You should have put "scottish reaction" in the title, listening to you is pure joy.
Thanks haha. Maybe I will do that
I think the same :-) He sounds so nice when he is talking!
@@whoismertsalih
I like your accent because it sounds very Scottish but I'm still able to easily understand everything, which is really not the case with Scottish people on TV, like Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly or let alone Frankie Boyle, can't even understand half of what he's saying.
I like the way you're speaking Scotish. It's not like we've learnt "English" in school, but quite easy to understand. Since the view of things seem different from Englishmen to Scottishmen, I'd change the title of your topic as well.
He lives in Malaysia, a former BRITISH colony @@ankelenze5696
There is no "best city" in germany. But many "best for..." citys. It depends on what you want from a city. You don't go to Hamburg for the mountains or to Munich for the sea. When you ask for the most beautiful city, the citys of the ruhr area will not be mentioned very often. But when you are looking for a city, where you can visit another concert/theatre/museum/stadium... by public transport every week, the ruhr area is the place to be...
Interesting thanks for letting me know. I will do some more research of the Ruhr area and see what it is like.
There might not be a best city but there clearly is a worst city.
@@nosomusk864 Duisburg🐀
@@stefankaiser3354 Leverkusen
@@marving.8868 I learned that from a @rewboss video.
The most things are in Baveria, but that’s just one state and with Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt, Schwarzwald, you on got places in 5 out of 16 states. Many have a few different cultures within and also charming places. So I would also recommend other cities like Potsdam, Dresden, Rhein and Ruhr area, the middle Rhine valley, Lübeck etc. There are so many places
I would prefer Hamburg over Berlin many times, I find Berlin interesting and multifaceted, but I would not want to live there.
Other than that, there is no best City in Germany anyway, it really depends on your personal preference, likes and dislikes.
Each Region and Cities are often very different.
I will need to do more research of Hamburg but what I have learned it looks like a really nice place
Berlin is a great city to visit but not such a great place to live in.
@@whoismertsalih Born and grown there before i moved to south west. Hamburg and Munich are the most beautifull big citys in my country i say. But it is personel perception.
@@whoismertsalih there is a "joke" about Hamburg that it is the most beautiful city in the world. I dont quite agree, but it is a very nice place to live, although it has become ridiculously expensive over the past decade.
one more vote for Hamburg, "my pearl", the humble and noble beauty of the North ... ❤
I travelled a lot in germany and scotland. And i think it’s not comparable. Both countries are unique in terms of cities, landscape and People. Love both ❤
That true, Nice comment thanks!!
Another american who thinks Bavaria is an equivilant for 16 Status. It bores me to death watching that Stereotype Videos. It's live talkingcabout the uk and than showing Planes weich are stattdessen mostly in london
This video completely ignores places worth seeing in the east (i.e. the former GDR).
look at a report about Quedlinburg. This city is almost completely under monument protection because almost all houses are half-timbered buildings. And this is just one example. ....Dresden, Potsdam, Weimar, ....
Grüße aus dem schönen Vogtland... ;-)
@@blackshark2088 zurückjewunken und Grüße von der Elbe - Höhe Magdeburg
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It is so funny, I am German and I have been planning a trip to Scotland for ages and still haven’t made it there. 😂 still on my to do list!!! I love the Scottish landscape and everything that comes with it
Fair warning, Berlin is a MESS, lol. Seriously, it really is. Among Germans it is infamous for being the capital of crime, poverty, filth, social divide and unrest, and just an overall dysfunctional system. People who love that sort of madness and anarchy are of course very attracted by Berlin, everyone else should stay clear of it though. It makes for an exciting several of days as a tourist destination though. ;)
If you want to live and work in Germany, then I'd urge you to rather go to Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Freiburg... All beautiful, clean, cultured cities with lots of great opportunities.
What I think is a bit of a pity, that often the eastern parts of Germany is ignored except Berlin. I'm living in Weimar a name that is worldwide known but never shown. Here lived Goethe and Schiller, the Weimarer Republic was founded here - our first attempt at a democracy. The Bauhaus is also from Weimar (and Dessau, where I grew up). And yes also a concentration camp (Buchenwald) which was used by the Nazis and the Russians. By the way I was born in Wittenberg, that is an old town every protestant christian person should know, because Luther put his thesis's here and he fled to Thuringia into the Castle Wartburg. Thuringia has also one of the highest densities of castle you can find. There are also Millennia old ones which were never conquered. There is also Dresden, often called the Venice of the east with castles build next to each other. The village I grew up is located in the largest English styled park in the world (Dessau-Wörlitz) and is Unesco world heritage. The black forest is mentioned but as always they forgot the even more beautiful thuringian woods in my eyes. It is way steeper than the black forest, because it is an extremely old fold mountains (like the alps, but much older, it is getting smaller, the alps are young, they are still growing). It is really a shame that most videos of this kind only concentrate heavily of the parts of Germany which are located in the South, West and North and always forgetting the East (except our capital Berlin).
I personally find the list a bit biased with its southern focus and forgetting a bit about the rest further north and east. I would further say that Frankfurt doesn't belong to this list imagining that places like Heidelberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar, Celle, Limburg, Goslar or Quedlinburg are not even mentioned. If you are interested in Berlin, than you should also check Baltic Sea locations, Spreewald and Mecklenburger Seenplatte and the Bastei in Elbsandsteingebirge as more reachable and attractive destiniations.
As a German, I can say that Berlin is the worst of all cities in Germany. I would even rather have to live in the Ruhr area than in Berlin. There are so many nicer cities in Germany. Just to name a few: Dresden, Heidelberg, Schwerin, Hamburg, Freiburg, Erfurt, Munich, Weimar...For me, Baden-Württemberg is the most beautiful state. Many beautiful cities, many wine-growing areas, you have Lake Constance and the Allgäu, you have the Black Forest, you have the Rhine Valley. In many regions you have the mildest winters in all of Germany. You have many university cities, like Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Konstanz and Stuttgart. You can quickly get to Alsace from here. In my opinion, the best state, because of the highest quality of life.
Berlin is sooo overrated 😂 go to Hamburg much more beautiful and you can still party if you want to.
If you grow up in Germany, you get used to having really old buildings everywhere. I just made a little walk through the little town where I live and some 300 to 400 years old houses are nothing extraordinary here. Thank you for videos like this one, that remind me how amazing these things are!
If you asked me about my favourite city in Germany, I wouldn't be sure if Cologne or Hamburg would be number one on my list. They are quite different, but I love both!
What places would you recommend to visit in Scotland?
Rothenburg is definitely famous for it's ancient town. However there is a town nearby called Dinkelsbuehl which has much more history (one that is actually celebrated every year) and is officially the most beautiful ancient town in Germany.
As a matter of fact I told my husband about your videos and we both agree that whenever you feel like going to Germany we'd be happy to give you a tour and make you and your family feel welcome. :)
The Neuschwanstein Castle (literally New Swan Stone) is probably the most iconic castle I know of. Unfortunately the interior is greatly underwhelming, because it never has been finished. Was there once, sadly it has been a bit asian-ated, made a strange tourist space center. Again, the view is unbelievable.
Had the pleasure to visit Berlin for a week. Berlin is many towns packed in one, probably like bigger cities all around the world. You got it all there. Transportation was intuitive as it was in New York too. And London, gods, London with teenytiny between tube walks...
Würzburg and Regensburg (I named it Rainsbourough 😂) are small but lovely towns, each dominated by a wide river with auld walls and bridges, I could feel at home there too.
Munich is a bit of controversy for a franconian (northern half of Bavaria), so I can never say Munich is good. Nah. But big and small all the same. It has some grand buildings, it is a massed pipes and drums, but not drums but buildings. Errh...
Yes, the pictures and video parts are all true, albeit heavily colorized, but this is only fitting. You would not have these extremely vast spaces where you see nothing even with binoculars. If you like mountains: Germany. If you like it flat: Germany. If you want to drive hours through one city after another: Germany. If you want to meet horrifying people: Germany. If you want to meet the gentlest and most humble, honest people: Germany. If you want every fu&%ng hamlet connected with respectable streets: Germany. If you want to meet pride, prejudice, indifference, lazyness and strictness: Germany. Ahhh, and so on.
...we Germans don't destroy our history...you British guys did a good job about that already 😂...we keep our historic buildings...even of the darkest parts of our history...and if it's just to remind us, to never (!) happen again...
Cologne Baby..near the Rhine..very nice City ...the Rhineland is very interesting...the Dome and many Things more .!!!!
you could react to "this is Germany" from D. Ludwig. It is mindblowing.
Ok will do. Thanks for the suggestion Lynn
great idea - just do it! Germany is much more than 3-4 cities. The oldest one is Trier, the nicest one is a list of 50 and more cities all over Germany. Over 25.000 Castles and ruins by the way 😛
Greetings from Germany
Castle Hohenzollern is beautyful, but from the placement and view, the fotress Königstein is nicer imho.
Thank you for showing this video, I really love how intereted you are in our lovely county.
All the shown places are really nice, ok. But in whole the video concentrated far too much on south germany and all the cliché places. Germany is so much more than old cities with cobblestone and mountain places. Whats about all the north? We have a lot of coast, at the north sea and at the east sea. We have 20 Islands. We have the region in the east, called “Elbsandsteingebirge“. What about the region „Spreewald“ with its unique landscape of water and beauty? And there is the „Ruhrgebiet“, Germanys most settles place and economical powerhouse, now, after the change from coal to modern things also a huge place for art and culture. No, man - this video was'n half the way round …
The short glimps on big cities wre also too short and did not pay much credit to the soul of the cities. And what about Cologne, how could he left this one out? If you are intrested, you really should look more films about Germany.
I would suggest Hamburg. Little smaller than Berlin. Has all the cultural benefits. Good party scene. Easy to reach the North Sea or the Baltic Sea.
Worth saying that Neuschwastein castle effectively is a fake. There are a bunch of fake castle in Germany. But that is probobly the largest, and the most expensive.
What do i mean when i say its fake, its clearly there. Yes, it is, but its not a castle. Its a show pice for a really rich industrialist. It was built to show wealth, not to be a defensive structure. It was also built in the 19 century in a 14 century style. Because it was built over 150 years ago, we to day consider it historical, but when it was built, it was still built in a 500 year old style to make it look like what it is not
When I was a teenager, we had lots of exchange pupils from different countries and we showed them all the beauties of our region. So I visited lots of these places as Lake of Constance, Meersburg and it‘s castle, the castle in Sigmaringen, the tallest church in the world in Ulm and much more. Thanks for your interest and your reaction! 👍
Honestly, I never really knew about a lot of these places in Germany and I am embarrassed about that. Really glad to be finding out about them now at least
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Germany is the country with the most castles in Europe (so maybe in the world). There are about 25.000 Castles or ruins of former Castles in Germany. Wikipedia has a list of German castles, I will try to find the link and put it in here.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern_Castle?searchToken=6jgt771su0w9n8tymsfcb7sln
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Burgen_und_Schl%C3%B6ssern_in_Deutschland
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No need to be embarrassed. You put in a lot more time and effort to learn about Germany than most of us do to learn about England or Schottland. You can not know everything. It is fun to watch your videos. I really like your accent 😀
@9:00 Berlin is for tourists great, but it has the most worse bureaucracy in germany. I would not recommend it to live there. In a diplomatic way i would say Berlin is very special. 🙄
Hey, you are British. It's a one hour fly. Don't be afraid, the Germans are nicer than their reputation. There is no such thing as the best city. Depends on what you do professionally. Berlin is maybe too crazy and very diverse. We have 16 federal states with different characteristics. After all, you can't compare a Scot with an Englishman or a Welshman.
Take a vacation and take a look around.
I also like the British landscape, but I only know it from "All Creatures Great and Small" or "Doc Martin" and the people there seem to me to funny, but very narrow-minded and for some reason there are some prejudices among Germans, I don't know why?
Hi, I'm German, and I visited a lot of our castles, but we have so much castles, I don't know how much. I never have seen one Castle in the east of Germany. Hope one day I can visit Dresden, because I've heard this City shall be very beautiful.
For me , and it's my own taste, Hamburg is the most beautiful city in Germany.
I liked Hamburg the most, too….until I visited Dresden. That is hard to top. Go and visit it. It is worth it.
@@nebelland8355 okay, one day I'll visit it. Looking forward . Thank you.
The first lake that "looked like Indonesia" is the Eibsee in Bavaria.
The Main Problem of Berlin is that the City isnt a real German City anymore. If you want to See german lifestyle Berlin isnt the place to be.
its kinda frusttrating, that most so called "beautiful" cities etc are in the south. Its more or less the rich part of germany and there are some really cute towns in the north.
I think they missed the national park Sächsische Schweiz (Saxony Switzerland) in Eastern Germany - it's spectacular! I have not visited the region yet (as you said - one does not travel so much in one's own country ...), but it's on my list. Google it and you will understand ...
I visited Berlin a few times and think it's just ugly XD could never understand why so many people like that city - there are so much really gread cities in Germany, for cool modern cities I'd prefer Hamburg. Rothenburg ob der Tauber however is much more pretty in reality than it looks on those pictures - it really feels like a fairytale gone real. Heidelberg is also really pretty if you like old architecture, also Würzburg. Lake Constance is also incredibly beautiful, it has an almost Mediterranian flair.
I live near Cologne and I love it. So many nice places to discover here, like big cities like Cologne, Duesseldorf aso and beautiful landscapes and on top I can go for a coffee to the Netherlands, Belgium or Luxemburg 😅
That sounds perfect
Berlin is the coolest city, Hamburg the most beautiful, pretty similar to Scandinavian Cities.
Frankfurt is the hub to the world, pretty international and dense, most modern city. Munich is beautiful but really boring.
But we have so much more beautiful places. 1000 of.
You have to travel through the county to discover all the diversity. Each region has its own culture and traditions. It’s one of the most divers countries in the world.
was hab ich aus dem Video gelernt, bis auf Hamburg und Berlin ist nur der Süden Deutschland sehenswert. Bei Nichten, ich ziehe persönlich den Norden vor, sicher als Flachlandtiroler das Meer einfache Liebe und im Norden haben wir die Nord- und Ostsee. Als Brandenburger empfehle ich dir auch mal den Spreewald und denn kannst du in gut 70 min von Berlin erreichen. Man kann sogar den Spreewald mit einem Boot von Berlin erreichen und das über die Spree und nicht mit Boot auf dem Hänger. ;-)
Schau dir Hamburg und Berlin persönlich an und entscheide was dir persönlich lieber ist. Berlin ist einfach multikulti, da gibt es auch mal richtige Schmutzecken aber da wirst du auch Leute treffen die sich da finden und schöne Abende beim Grillen und ein Bierchen treffen...
two words - Potsdam, Sanssouci - I just love the frederican rokoko 😍
fun fact - there are more castles in Germany than McDonald's in the US
You've got to explore the north of Germany and its islands...Beautiful and unique!!!
Hamburg is better than Berlin.
I live in Bonn, Germany. I've visited Lindau, Hohenzollern castle. Definitely worth to visit and hike around.
Cochem and Burg Eltz are not far from Bonn city. Very beautiful places indeed.
i will never move to berlin, nerver in my life.
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Hi, I'm from a small town right in the center of Germany. I think almost all regions, cities and villages have their pros and cons. For example, I regularly visit Hamburg, the villages at North Sea or Baltic Sea cost, if I want to have the "Northern German culture" with sea food, the ocean, and so on. If I want to go hiking, I take a 1 hour trip to the Harz mountains in the center of Germany, the bavarian Alps or even to Italy. Because my home town is seldom host to many concerts, I'll go the neighboring cities in a distance of 30 to 150km and it works fine. In contrast I can leave my home and in 5 minutes, I can spend time in beautiful nature... There are so many interesting places, that a life time will not fit visiting all of them. Same for living in Germany. It depends what each person is searching for. Most cities offer much more to do close by and a much better public transport system, but often you won't get as close to the other people in your town, as in smaller towns. I lived for example some years in the town of Göttingen (about 120.000) and Hannover (about 550.000) in contrast to my home town (about 6.000 / 12.500 with all villages belonging to it). Yeah, living in the greater towns is cool. All you want to do is a short trip by bus or tram away. But while time passes by, for me there was not enough nature near by. So I decided to live in a smaller town and to depend a little more on bus, train and car for visiting events.
So it really depends what you are searching for. There are great places for every interest. And even if living at one place for decades you will always find more cool places and spots, you never thought to be around... ;)
Very interesting, thanks for giving me more insight into Germany. That is a great comment
You don't even need to visit the big tourist spots to explore and be amazed by the most beautiful spots like the oldest villages in the countryside. The best places are in the countryside and the best restaurants are in the countryside itself, be it in the far north or deep east .
Scotland has Amy McDonald 😊 what else do you need? Most beautiful woman.
LOL
Germany is mostly underated by people from the UK . For a lot of other nations we are a touristic hotspot. The people from UK are still "shy". Sometimes i think they still see it a bit as "enemy coutry".
Because of the wars. And constant propaganda also from hollywood.....so that's why...ridiculing...the language...to harrrrsh....ick instead of soft ch...when that is finally stopping a little it might get better. I watched that over the yearrrs
There's so much more I love: Potsdam, Mainz & Wiesbaden, the Nürburgring, Erfurt, Burg Eltz, Burg Cochem, Heidelberg etc.
Dear Mert.
I am late to the party but here are my two cents: Best to live is the western part of Germany, low cost of living, very diverse, friendly people, 30+ connected citys (Ruhrgebiet). The bigger the city the higher the cost of living with the exception of Munich wich tops Berlin. The western part has a lot to offer, industrial culture (Zeche Zollverein, Rheinisches Industrie-Museum, Bergbausiedlungen, etc.), old historical places (Köln, Xanten, Trier, ...), many universitys (Bochum, Essen/Duisburg, Münster, ...), short travel distances to France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, a great and famous football cultur (S04, BVB, Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1FC Köln, VFL Bochum, Bayer Leverkusen, Preußen Münster, Rot Weiß Essen, MSV Duisburg, ...), many places for shopping and spending time with the family (Movie Park Germany, Phantasia Land, Irrland, Düsseldorfer Innenstadt, CentrOberhausen, ...), a ski region called Sauerland with Winterberg as the top address, countless lakes, forests, churches, castles, ...
From here you can visit all the big German Citys for weekend trips, 4 hours to Hamburg and Berlin, 3 hours to Frankfurt or 6 to Munich.
The Ruhrgebiet is home to 12 million people and our state Nordrheinwestfahlen is home to 16 million.
We have lots of bike lanes, hiking trails and each and every variation of sports.
You and your family are welcome to stay forever.
cheers
The original video shows very little - mostly South Germany, and only the former Federal Republic. There is a lot to be discovered in the North and former East Germany, too. I don't even know where to start! The North Sea islands, especially the tiny Hallig islands - the Baltic Sea shore and lakes (Eutin, Plön, Lübeck), and the many lower mountain regions (Mittelgebirge) like Harz, Rothaargebirge, Taunus, Fichtelgebirge... each region with its dialect, cuisine and architecture.
City-wise, Germany was divided into many small states until 1871 and many of the small courts competed intensely for cultural excellence, attracting artists, architects and musician. Former residences are interesting and have their own strong cultural identity.
I visited a number of the places in the video, but not all of them. I don't know enough of my own native country and often, we complain about post-WWII architecture killing the character of the cities, and compared to other countries, that's simply true. We say that architects in the 50s and 60s finished off the job of the bomber pilots... but we have to accept historical responsiblity. If you bomb Guernica and Coventry, you get Dresden. And we have to live with the results of our past.
There are many, many lovely castles, my favourite is probably Mespelbrunn, it's small and lovely. I discovered the positive sides of Germany only after marrying a non-German and moving abroad.
I lived in Berlin for a number of years but I guess the city has changed since then and I probably wouldn't return there. Berlin has some older parts, too, and is surrounded by beautiful lakes and forests, and there is a lot of green also in the centre. It's a chaotic, loud and very interesting city, I like it still even though it doesn't feel like home any more.
Top cities in the east: Dresden, Leipzig, Erfurt, Rostock
I'm from Bavaria, lived about 20 years in Munich, now in Nuremberg. I've been some days in Berlin for work, but I didn't like it a lot. Yes, it's booming, and you can find anything thinkable - but the city isn't a safe place and its dirty streets aren't quite inviting. If I had to move to a large city in the north of Germany, I would choose Cologne or Kiel.
The best city for permanent living is Munich by far - okay, it's quite expensive, but it's called "northernmost Italian city" as it is: great architecture, good way of life and in summer most beautiful parks (and Biergarten).
Better visit Munich than Berlin.
Munich Irish Pub close to Marienplatz best in Germany. 😊
People who made it flee from Berlin (e.g. to Potsdam). Always disappointed from Berlin
Hi, Mert. A ''waschechter'' Berliner here (''waschecht'' literally ''washingproof'', meaning: all your grandparents, parents and you yourself are born in Berlin, sort of a standing term to determin who is a ''real'' one or who is not). This needs to be a bit of a long one. So, pardon me in advance. 😀
The most important thing you need to know in this context about Berlin is that there is nothing like ''one'' Berlin. The town of Berlin has been growing over the centuries, just like for example and for reference London did (City of London [the historical inner City] plus the 32 Boroughs makes for greater London, right !?). Nowadays Berlin is sprawling over an area of roughly 890 km², with 3.7 million citizens. Compared with greater London again, there it is about 1570km² with 9 million citizens. With about double the area and about 2.5 times the population London is more densely populated as Berlin is. Berlin today is similarily including dozens of villages and small cities from the former surrounding areas. Just in a bit of a smaller scale. The last big enlargement of the Cities borders used to happen in 1920.
Like other naturally developing urban regions, Berlin has a major citycenter and many different sub-centers around it. These sub-areas are commonly referred to as ''Kiez'' (sing.) or ''Kieze'' (plur.). And these sub-areas differ widely in their socio-economical structure, wealth, population mix, greenery and density or how they are mainly politicly aligned.
So basically, how you would perceive your living experience in Berlin will probably depend heavily on in wich ''Kiez'' you would choose to live in. The experiences in different areas would definitively differ widely.
And this is the big problem with people moving to Berlin, living there for a certain time, lets say 2 or 3 years, then posting their perception of what it is like ''living in BERLIN'' to everyone asking as ''The truth about living in Berlin''.
That's just clickbaity BS imho. If you don't actually spend a serious amount of time living in the very different parts of the City, you will just be able to state something from a very narrow angle of view.
Sadly you can find many folks out there doing so in the YT comment sections, knowing barely nothing about it (or just not realising the forementioned facts). May these statements come from germans who moved from other places to Berlin, or may these come from expads moving in from other countries. I see a lot of superfical stuff in these kind of statements, generalizing or exaggerating things, just seldomly being able and willing of differentiating. Just some streets away from wherever those things may be the way you will be told to be , things will probably be very different.
Berlin just is super diverse on so many levels. You can for shure find a niche in a Kiez of your liking, and live a happy life there. Just as a totally different guy would be able to in a different Kiez. To each it's own. And there are many to choose from. That's what i call the real benefit of living in Berlin.
But since you are from Scotland, you will probably be very familiar with the concept of naturally grown towns. It is not that unusual for european towns over all. It is more the common style of growth over time in europe.
Mostly folks from countries being used to live in pre-planned chessboard city layouts, *coughing murican*, will find this astounding and noteworthy in some way. For us europeans it is probably just normal.
Apologies again for the rant, but I'm a bit sick of those wanna-be-Berliners acting like ''experts''.
Greetings from Berlin!
To be honest, Neuschwanstein is not an old castle, it's like a fake castle.
You should visit Heidelberg, with the castle, the old town and the flair, very special.
The best city to live in might be Hamburg.
If you like old culture you could visit Speyer, Worms and Mainz, very old cities, old churches and old Jewish history. In Worms, the holy sand is the oldest Jewish burial place north of the Alps, almost 1000 years old. Nearby, in the Palatinate, there is a 2000 year old tradition of wine growing. and a beautiful forest that merges seamlessly with the Vosges in France.
For Roman fans, a trip to Tries is also exciting.
If you're more into baroque, dresen would be a great choice.
In principle, you can find the right region for almost any taste.
Places to visit (long time before 'fridays for future'): Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve
City: Saarlouis
For more informations take a look on their wikipedia-site (english version).
I think you really like Germany, but currently you are located in Kuala Lumpur?`Did I understand right. Have to lived in Germany bevor. Sorry for asking, but I am just interested in. Thank you
You should take 2 weeks vacation and start in Munich, a wonderful town. Then the very romantic places Berchtesgaden, Heidelberg, Rothenburg, Neuschwanstein, where you think you are in a fairy tale of the Bothers Grimm or in an old Disney movie.
Then Cologne, Dresden, the halfisle Usedom at the Eastsea. Finally Berlin, which I don't like because it's so dirty and criminal. But it's historic buildings and the flair is interesting. Don't wonder if you see more strangers than germans...
The cool bridge in Berlin is called Oberbaumbrücke! Located in the Berlin district called Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg!
The best cities to live in are those with an ICE train station. Thus you can visit any Place in 4-6h. The deutsche Bahn is underrated as you can Travel for 17,90€ from Munich to Bremen in 6h 750km.
I’m German and I’m from Düsseldorf, which is nice but my No1 is Munich. It’s proximity to the amazing mountains and other countries like Austria and Italy does it form me!
Me as a german visited all of these places multiple times. All of them were amazing! EXEPT Berlin! I was there in 1982 and it was a mess! And now its even worse! Failed city! Berlin is the slum of Germany. If you look for a big city in germany to live in its even Munich or Hamburg. But consider smaller towns, they are at least as nice or even nicer! Just my opinion.....
No, The Eagles Nest wasn´t the place, where Hitler lived, this was the Berghof at the Obersalzberg. Only ruins (and a museum) of the place are left. But "Eagles Nest" / Kehlsteinhaus is still used as a restaurant and was the place, official meetings took place.