More Castles in Germany Than McDonald’s in the USA?! | Feli from Germany
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Does Germany really have more castles than the US has McDonald's locations?! During my quest to find the answer, I also came across an interesting language difference regarding castles and palaces, the history of McDonald's, and the invention of the burger!
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Which of the German castles and palaces would you like to visit the most? Let me know in the comments below! 👇😊
Back when the castles were built we had TiPis :)
I learn so much from your channel about my German heritage. I really hope UA-cam hooks you up for all your hard work in these videos.
Personally. You look good in jeans not a fan of holy jeans, but your neck is "too long" in my taste, that is my only down for your videos. Other than that your attractive to this German in Portland Oregon, like I have said before you really need to come out west to see our mt angel oktoberfest.
Hey friend I think your page is super amazing I’m learning German I just stated and hope to be fluent in a couple of years
There are more McDonalds in Germany than there are castles in the US.
Lol
Ja
Are you counting White Castles?
a wonderfull reply! love it
Unfortunately
"I can reach 10 different McD locations in a 15 minute drive or less." Uh oh, you're measuring distance in car-time. You're full-blown American now!
The American way of life can be very contagious. My daughter and her family (Son and Husband) have just been living for 3 years (Cause of working for a German Carfactory) and I have already noticed some changes in their behavior ;-)
Even worse it was a 15 min reference.
If you do calculations like that, it also depends on where you live in the west of the USA or in the east of the USA, so you can calculate everything nicely :)
@alexanderblume5377 True. I am an American that lived for years in Germany and in Greece and I have seen that in both communities in the USA. America constantly sells its way as the modern correct way when nothing could be further from the truth. America and the English language has been rammed down the throats of the world since WW II and although I am patriotic I am against that. Each nation is entitled to its own culture and language. We need to force ourselves to learn the language of the country we are living in to the best of our ability. I disagree with many of American trends that are increasingly absurd, autocratic, and arrogant. All of these characteristics are opposed to core values of the founders of the USA.
As a Czech, I measure distance in time I can get there by train or walk/bike for shorter distances. But car culture is growing even here for some reason, probably because of many railways are under construction, so there are delays very often (but it's already better this year) and car people believe driving car is cheaper, but not at all, they always count only price of gas, which is only one part of what they have to pay on their cars 🙂
When I visited my German girlfriend, she asked me if I would like to see the American Embassy, to which I replied, sure. She took me to McDonald’s, and we all had a great laugh.
I would have been offended, cause I would have expected at least a trip to Burger King !!! McD is awful ;-(
@@Eysenbeiss I say both of them are terrible
@@Hessen84 Ja, waren früher wesentlich besser, das stimmt.
I've been to a few castles in Germany and I can tell you that each of them left me more fulfilled than any trip to a McDonald's, LOL.
I spent 3 yrs in W.Germany, during the 70's. I was stationed in Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg; regularly saw the "burning of the castle." Being of German heritage, my wife and I took every advantage to travel that we could. (river boats, bus tours and walking tours.) I love how they repurposed the castle in Nuremberg, the "underground city" in Cologne, Bavaria and the Black Forest. Garmisch and Berchtesgaden (Eagle's Nest?) The Army taught me how to ski up in the Zutzpitz (sp?). Skiing in shorts and swimwear during the day, heavy parkas at night. Edelweiss. THE FOOD, PASTRIES, WINE, BEER, MUSIC, DISCOS, FASHIONS (short fur coats and tight, shiny pants) and the PEOPLE, they were the best! Made some good friends near the transit plaza park in Heidelberg, mostly college students. Gently, they gave me a whole new perspective of life and life in the USA, as they saw it. They busted my chops about Nixon and Watergate, and I got 'em back with their Prime Minister's scandal at the time. They helped me with my German, and I with their American form of English. Absolutely lovely people! 🙂 German hand made toys. German furniture. (They threw out better stuff than I ever had) Beer, bread and milk delivered to your door.
Man, I miss it. Thank you for your videos.
Waren Sie im PHV bei Heidelberg? Die schönste Region Deutschlands!
Yes, I worked at Campbell Barracks and my housing was at PHV.@@christianthieltges6953
When I went to visit my best friend in Germany in 2018, he asked me what I wanted to do while I was there. As we drove from the airport to his apartment, I noticed quite a few castle type buildings along the the way. Being from Dayton Ohio originally, I was intrigued by them since we don’t have many buildings like that around the USA. So I told him that I’d like to see some castles. Everyday we went to a different castle. It was really fun!
in a 20 mile radius around my home there are at least 20 of these castles/historic buildings. Apparently moated castles are a thing here - 5 or 6 of these 20.
I was stationed at Spangdahlem Germany from 1998-2001 and during that time I was able to visit some of the castles in Die Eifel region like Burg Eltz, Reichsburg Cochem, Bernkastle, Chateau de Vianden, and Manderscheid to name a few. I absolutely loved my time there and really enjoyed all the history that was everywhere!
Castle of the Food? Is that a literal translation? So it was a true castle AND a food store?
Eltz Castle is very special. It looks like a fairy tale castle but is genuinely medieval, founded in the 12th century. For 900 years the castle is owned by the Eltz family. They are still living there.
@@robertwilloughby8050 Viande (not vianden!) means meat in French.
Burg Vianden is located in Luxembourg. So the toponym Vianden is unlikely to derive from the French language. The original local language there is Letzeburgesch (Luxembourgish) - it is a Germanic language but some call it a German dialect because it is not difficult to understand for a German speaker.
EXCELLENT presentation and production Feli, you have an innate knack for making these types of historical topics so interesting. I especially enjoyed the details about Hamburg since that is where my mother grew up before the war. 😊
Thank you so much! 😊 🙏
@@FelifromGermany Dig your take on the historical tie in to both these iconic references that are part of our past. Keep it coming! :)
Oh no you didn't, why did you have to mention the war!
@@mgntstr I'm not sure if your comment was directed to me or to Feli, but out of an abundance of caution in case your comment was directed to me, I'll give you a simple explanation: I was stating a family FACT. My mother was born in Bremerhaven just outside of Hamburg in January of 1926 and then moved to Hamburg with her parents as a very young girl (she died this past Christmas), so the "before the war" wording was directed at FELI to give her some historical perspective vis-a-vis my familial German-American heritage/roots. Assuming your comment was intended for me, and it appears that it was, it's clear that you are somehow misinterpreting my comment and characterizing it as something it is not, whatever that "something" is in your view.
You could have simply decided to choose dialogue option 1) "What? Don't mention the war?" Like any other reasonable human who encounters unfamiliar dialogue from strangers.
But instead you chose to see malice where there was none just so you get to pretend "this internet Gremling is out to ruin my parasocial relationship with my idol, I will defend my honour with my brilliant wits in a keyboard duel!".
Misinterpretation is all on you, and so is the condescending attitude. Classic projection.
Honi soit qui mal y pense @@craigcraigster4999
Great video, here in Slovenia, population less than 2M, we have 23 McDonald's and over 500 castles
To add to the confusion, there is the word "borough" in English that derives from "burg" and originally refered to a defended/walled town. It occurs it lots of British place names eg. Edinburgh, Middlesborough. Many towns are officially Borough of X where they would be cities in the U.S., although now it's more of an administrative distinction than anything.
A Castle also can be called a Fortress...😂😂😂
You beat me to that. I thought the burhs were originally a series of forts built under Alfred the Great to defend against Viking raids. Maybe that's the same thing.
@@jiros00 Yes, that was what was referring to. Perhaps "town" was overstating their original size, more defended sites that later grew into towns.
Germany has beautiful castles, I've visited some of them (well less than 25,000, that's for sure) and I'm totally impressed. Herrenchiemsee, Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen, but also Lichtenstein, Eltz, Stolzenfels, to name just a few, are absolutely amazing, I'm not afraid to use such superlatives, they totally deserve it.
"Burg" and "Schloss" which are both "castle" in English are two kinds of buildings which have different purposes. The "Schloss" is generally a representative residental buildung of aristocracy or clergy while a "Burg" also is a residental building, but at the same time constructed for defense with elements of a fortress. Both "Schloss" and "Burg" could have been "palaces" ("Palast" in German) if they has been used as residence and office of a ruling aristocrat like an emperor, king or duke or a ruling cleric like a bishop.
And for more confusion: there are "Schlösser" which are look like "Burgen" but they technically aren't a "Burg" cause they never had a purpose of defense.
Yes, they pretty much exist on a continuum rather than being sharply defined distinct entities. I would always count the Festung in Salzburg as a fortress, but then I look at castles in Japan that have defensive measures but also served as imperial residences so could be any one of the three all at the same time!
Well, in the video are several buildings mentioned with either "Schloss" and "Burg" in their names. Such as "Schloss Drachenburg". Whats with them?
@@HalfEye79 Well, Schloss Drachenburg was built in late 19th century. It's actually a "Schloss" which was built in style of a "Burg". Similar to Neuschwanstein castle btw. It had never the purpose to be a defense facility. Others with the Name "Schloss XYZburg" had predecessor buildings which were "Burgen".
@@mosmarb Hohensalzburg technically is a "Burg" cause it was a residence and not only military used, like fortresses usualy are. Strictly speaking Hohensalzburg is a so called "Wehrstadt". There is no english word, but literally a "weir town" with multiple buildings, some military, some residentally used surrounded by fortifications.
There are also many Schlösser that never had the purpose for either defence or posh living. Vorhängeschlösser!
As a Hamburger (citizen of the city of Hamburg of cause), I am sometimes asked what the origins of the hamburger are. There are several possible explanations. One, I think,is quite plausible based on the fact that Hamburg (along with Bremen and Bremerhaven) was the most important port in continental Europe for emigrants to the USA until well into the 20th century. In the harbour area there were so-called "Kaffeklappen" (literally: coffee flaps), where the dock workers could buy not only coffee, but also something to eat. In addition to stews and the hot sausages that are inevitable in Germany, “Rundstück Warm” was particularly popular. This was a slice of warm roast with sauce in a bun (which is also called a "Rundstück" in northern Germany). There was also a variant with a fried flat meatball, the original form of the burger patty, so to speak. It is not unlikely that many emigrants had become acquainted with this dish, which also was served in addition to plenty of stew in the emigrant accommodations. There is, however, indeed an old menu from a transatlantic liner in which a "meatloaf Hamburger style" is called.
Hab ich unter mindestens zwei ihrer anderen Videos ausführlich erklärt.
Hamburger was named after that guy who was forced to emigrate from Hamburg after inventing that "food"! 😁
ihr geht zum McDoof und bestellt euch selbst und esst euch selbst?! ;-)
I love how the Germans maintain their buildings. Even regular houses and building still have character.
One, in Stuttgart, a friend was taking me on a tour in Stuttgart Koening Strasse. He pointed out a red castle to the side of the street and said, this is the Parliman building and added that it was rebuilt after the war. Feeling a little uncomfortable about the mention of the war, I still asked, the first or the second, he said, "The Napoleonic War". This for me summed up Germany. It is a country with history that is deep, and people keep it preserved through their buildings and other heritage symbols.
As for the Hamburger, yes, its origin is Russian/German and was consolidated in Hamburg. Russian sailors visiting the city somehow were fed shredded beef patties instead of a steak and that how the naming was started (AS THE STORY GOES)
The German form of the Hamburger “Frikadelle” already existed in the 17th century
In the United States we have many claimants to the creator of the hamburger. One being from a few German immigrants that came to Seymour, Wisconsin. I don’t think we’ll ever know the full truth but I got to imagine that it was probably invented over in Germany and brought over here to the states and the newspapers probably just made the claim “new invention” and the guys who made it were like “Sure! Free press!” 😅
@@arnodobler1096 Thing is, back then, it was ONLY made of fish.
@@TheMasonK I hae explained it vastly under one of Felis other Videos.
Short form: It was not invented IN germany, but by german immigrants FROM germany and if they were from Hamburg, or just on a ship going from Hamburg over to the US will never be clarified.
This thing is common sense and knowledge, also that the first "Cheeseburger", not Hamburger, is indeed an US-"Invention", but a Cheeseburger is not a Hamburger and one could argue, that the principle ist the same, yes and that's why it is best to speak of "original hamburger" and "modern hamburger" - first thing being a german thing, second an us-american one.
@@Eysenbeiss Maybe on the coast, not otherwise.
The concept of "Chateau" (castle/Schloss) in french has the same problem, for similar historical reasons ahah
Your production value is excellent, especially for a semi niche channel.
I'm really glad to see you going strong after the whole name change bullsht, usually that destroys a channel but you just keep going with amazing energy. Respect.
Cheers, Prost!
I'm a Canadian who visited my first McDonalds Restaurant in Freiberg Germany in 1976. I remember being 14 and ordering a Big Mac and a beer.
I went to Burg Eltz when I was an exchange student in 1985. 🙂
One of the better preserved ones!
I think it's really funny that as we are discussing castles and McDonald's you cite a book about fast food written by Eric SCHLOSSER🤣
Just before the pandemic, I spent a week in Munich - mainly to visit castles. Loved the visit - I wish I could have stayed longer than a week.
Oh Google, I love you! Try asking "how many castles in France". Google comes up with 45,000 (which sounds correct to me, btw), but just below that, it suggests "Which country has the most castles?" and comes up with Germany and 25,000. C'mon Google, do your math!
One more thing that crossed my mind: Feli, could you imagine that one day in the future, there could be a McDonald's building under monument protection law like many castles are? I was thinking about it and thought, well, maybe.
Oh, I wasn't alone in Googling the number of castles in the Hexagon. Chambord and Blois are among the most famous ones.
But I didn't think we (both France and Germany) would have more castles than there are McDonald's in the US.
France is a lot bigger than Germany. Maybe that’s what they counted.
In der Auflistung der bekanntesten Schlösser und Burgen fehlte aber definitiv Schloss Bellevue :D
… das per Definition eigentlich ein Palast ist. :D
We have the same in Swedish, Slott, borg, fästning, skans, fornborg, pallats. But we often call a building that is a residens a Slott or pallats. Borg is oten both a residens and a military fortress from the middleages. Fästning
(fortress) is often a big defensive structure. Skans is a small defensive structure. fornborg is a defensive struktire from early middle ages or prehistoric times.
I lived 6 years in Germany, loved the castles for their history and architecture. My wife and I stayed overnight in a castle along the Rhine river.
Thank you for addressing the confusion of nomenclature on castles, fortresses, and palaces. As a girl growing up in the U.S., mostly learning these things from fairy tales, I tended to use the words castle and palace interchangeably. When I arrived in Germany, a Burg fell into that category as well as the older, more utilitarian versions! You did a great job laying out accepted definitions.
Even in Ireland they seem to casually throw the word castle around, as when I visited Clare Island, we went to see Grace O Malley's "Castle" which had me scratching my head with how small it was, and I just found out is also considered a "tower House"
The concept of European castles originates from just "fortified houses" in the early middle ages, so its not wrong to consider those houses castles aswell. But that image might not add up to what Americans think of a castle.
it's pretty much the same in Germany, there are buildings that stretch the meaning of castle very far, yet they are still considered one.
@@Skyfighter94right. In times when houses mostly were what we nowadays may call huts, shacks, or cabins, in the best way having a stone foundation and the rest being a half-timbered construction, buildings entirely made of stone were considered somewhat fortified, and that for a purpose. Just like the "Family Towers" in Italian cities...
I've a suggestion for a video. I'm quite a fan of the Aldi grocery chain. Particularly their Deutsche Kuche brand. I thought that it would be interesting, being Oktoberfest season, if you were to sample some of their food offerings, give your opinion and do the origin, history and what region of Germany the food is most popular. As always, I enjoy the enthusiasm and information in all your videos.
They also had another function: they were customs stations along the rivers.
From my perspective there is a timeline in the different names of the same:
It started always as a "Burg", because in the very early days a ruler always had to fortify his "house". There were castles at the height of a hill ("Höhenburgen") e.g. in the south of Germany due to the terrain there or castles in the flatlands - often surrounded by water. The hill or the water were additional safety features of these castles.
Within these castles there were "Palas" buildings for the ruler if it was the dedicated house of this ruler. If not, it would be only a fortification to safeguard the rulers castle nearby or to collect taxes or tolls for that ruler.
In the later times there was no sense in that style of fortification anymore. It became quite easy to destroy such buildings so they stopped to build them. But of course the "Palas" as a building for representation of power and wealth stayed in use - but without fortification and often within a strongly fortified residence town ("Festung"). This is, what we call "Schloss", it is the former "Palas" of a "Burg" without the fortification of a castle around it.
And you forgot another term :) There is "Pfalz" as an additional term for a very old building inbetween "Schloss" and "Burg". It was a building for the use of the "Kaiser" on his travel through the medival central Europe. Every couple of miles there was such a building (or a cloisture) for the convenience of the traveling Kaiser with his staff (could be thousands of people, he had to travel, because nobody could feed such a crowd longer then a couple of days or weeks). There are a couple of these Pfalzen or Kaiserpfalzen left in Germany, e.g. Forchheim north of Nuremberg ...
Thanks, Feli. You always have very informative videos. Someday I will make it to Germany. I want to see Wewelsburg and Neuschwanstein Castle. And I want to walk through the Black Forest and bring home a cuckoo clock. I might also check out Cologne Cathedral, too.
The castle that you mentioned "Schloss Neuschwanstein" I read somewhere that that one was the model for the castle in Cinderella and later as a model for Disneyland castle.
Yes Walt Disney was in Germany in the 30th. 🤔
That's true, Neuschwanstein was already a romanticization of middle age castles, so Disney just romanticized it even further.
Interesting, ground beef is referred as hamburger, but once it's made into a patty, cooked and put in the middle of a bun its called A Hamburger.
German: Berliner, Hamburger= sth/ sb from the city of Berlin, Hamburg.
Hot dog or hot dog sandwich? (With a frankfurter of course)
The name "Schloss" was originally used for a "key" fortress or castle, dominating some valley, road or river. Since those buildings were usually the seat of some higher/richer noble and therefore had more comfortable facilities (including guest rooms), the term was later used generally for the seat of the ruler of a region, even if it was not so heavily fortified after medieval times.
The word "palace" ("Palast" in German) goes back to he Palatine Hill in Rome, where starting with emperor Augustus the imperial palaces were erected. The German word "Pfalz" has the same origin; it originally meant one of the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Emperor (who was migrating from one to the next during the year). The "Palatinate" in the state of Rheinland Palatinate was the most important of that estates, the Palatinate of the Rhein, managed by a Count Palatinate who was also a member of the Electorate which had to elect the next German-Roman king (by the way: since 1214 the Count Palatinate or the Rhine was of House Wittelsbach, whose other branch(es) ruled the Duchy of Bavaria). Also the same origin has the word "Palas" which referred to the main residential building of a bigger castle (which served not only as military outpost, but as residence).
A "Festung" or fortress was a bigger and better fortified castle which a stronger military presence. Starting with the 16th century a fortress could also include a whole city, like Mainz (imperial/federal fortress 1619-1918), Luxembourg (imperial/federal fortress until 1867). (They were called "Federal fortress" between 1815 and 1867, since the HRE had been dissolved by Napoleon and replaced by the German Federation in 1815; the fortifications of the federal fortresses of Ulm, Koblenz and Cologne were built during that time, while the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein opposite to Koblenz at the other bank of river Rhine was a large castle, destroyed in 1801 by French troops and rebuilt in the 19th century.)
Regarding the number of 25,000 castles: That number also counts the many ruined castles, of which are sometimes only a heap of stones left or which were later overbuilt with other structures, but keeping the "Burg" denomination. There are also many big, medium and small palaces, some of which originally built only as hunting lodges or country estates, as well as some former abbeys and monasteries respectively convents, which were converted into palaces after 1806 (and in some cases looked like baroque palaces even before).
10:54 It is often said that Germany did not become a unified country before 1871, but that is a bit of a national(istic) myth. Germany started out as the Kingdom of East Francia, combined from the tribal duchies of Saxony, Francia, Swabia/Alemannia, Bavaria and Carinthia, the duchies of Upper and Lower Lotharingia, the duchy (later kingdom) of Bohemia and the margraviates (=border provinces) of Lausitz, Meissen, Austria and Verona. Around 1000 AD this became the German Kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire under the "King of the Romans" (and Duke of Saxony) Otto I the Great who won also the Kingdom of Italy (by marrying Adelheid of Burgundy, widow of the King of Italy, which would later led to the merge of the Kingdom of Burgundy into the HRE). By internal politics and local nobles striving for sovereignty this clear structure became muddy later, especially as the Swabian duchy was dissolved after the extinction of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (because each noble grudged his peers that powerful position) and the Saxon and Bavarian duchies were divided between heirs. Reformation and the 30 Years' War (with involvement of nearly any other European power) caused a further dissolution of central power as well as the independence of the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Italian provinces, the title of German king had no power anymore. But formally a united German crown existed until 1806 as Napoleon forced the formal dissolution of the HRE. He then started to distribute promotions to "king" and "grand duke" between his allies - by this Saxony, Bavaria and Württemberg became kingdoms for the first time. The German states then constituted the German Federation in 1815, which had its federal seat in Frankfurt, but this federation was defeated by Prussia and Italy in 1866.The "unification" of 1871 was actually more of a new, but somewhat closer federation. It did not change the borders of the states nor their governments or their heads of state - the German Emperor (who was not allowed to call himself "Emperor of Germany") was the president of the federation, but the other kings were his peers, and Bavaria even kept its own embassy in the USA.
Many of the mentioned palaces were built either in the 18th century (so during the slow dissolution of the German kingdom) or in the 19th century (the time of historicism) as representative statements of one noble House or the other (or by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, because he loved building such things); Schloss Drachenburg was built 1882-1884 for German-French business analyst and investor Stephan von Sarter.
The historic Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida, Castillo de San Marcos, translates literally to Castle of St. Mark.
I live in an area of Germany, where almost every village has a castle. My best friend lives right next to one, and on the 15 minute ride to him, I pass 3 castles - and not a single McDonalds. 🤣 I remember my parents talking about the war, and they sometimes measured the time on when which castle in the neighbourhodd was on fire. "That was the night when the castle in xxx burned down" "Not it was the night when castly yyy burned down" "It definitely was after castle zzz was on fire"... That made me realise that we had quite a few castles in our area. But not as many as the area in which I live now.
So the 25,000 castles in Germany could be about right.
Are you living in the "Pfälzer Wald"?
In England the vast majority of Schloss in Germany would be called Stately Homes. If it's not a major military fortification with space inside for permanent dwellings made before the 15th century (gun powder) it isn't going to be called a castle in England.
@@michaelburggraf2822 No, in Hesse in the Lahn valley.
By the way, Mannheim Castle is the second largest baroque castle in Europe, second only to Versailles in size (but it is said to have one window more than Versailles). Unfortunately, the castle gardens had to make way for railway tracks and streets in the 19th and 20th century.
In English English Mannheim Castle would not be a castle it would be a palace. If it didn't have a Royal connection it would be a Stately Home.
The "Mannheimer Schloss" was built starting 1720 and had no defensive function, so I would translate it as "Mannheim palace". Unfortunately it was almost completely destroyed in WW2. It was rebuilt after the war, and they rebuilt the large entry hall and ballroom and some of the old interiors from different epochs. I agree the view from the windows is kind of sad today, and most of the castle is used by the university today.
TBH it's probably only worth an actual visit if you're nearby for some time. If you're into art from after 1900, the "Kunsthalle" art museum is also worth it. Otherwise, the nearby Heidelberg castle is much more impressive for foreign tourists IMO.
Greetings from Mannheim!
I also often come across "Herrenhäuser"or "Gutshäuser" that are called "Schloss" (castle). That doesn't help the confusion with this topic.
😅
I've been living in Germany a little over a year. I love to hike and check out castle ruins, so I googled burgruine and a decent list popped up. It took me a while to look them up on the map to see if any of them are close to where I live, I finished the list after about an hour, and noticed "click to see more" at the bottom. Evidently they were in alphabetical order and I'd only gotten to the E's!
I love the quirkiness of your channel. One day talking about historic Oktoberfest, the next comparing castles to McDonalds.😃
I’m loving the new video style for this. Much more engaging instead of you just sitting in front of the camera.
I'm glad you did something on Castles! I know one of my recommendations was a video on the history of the Neuschwanstein Castle and its connection to Disney World. As always, I enjoy your content and learning about German culture!
I would have liked it if you used Battenberg as an example of a "berg" considering its name is strongly associated in the UK with a cake which was actually a British invention supposedly named to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria's granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg. Also, the name "Mountbatten" in the British royal family is an anglicisation of Battenberg which was unfortunately changed amid anti-German sentiment during the World Wars and not because of association with the cake. I would still recommend you try the Battenberg cake if you get the chance.
Thanks for making the connection between Hamburg and its sandwich namesake. That the Hamaburg looks round a flat in the aerial view gives you bonus points. Maybe Hamburger sandwich was named for that city because the inventor thought it would have more sales appeal than gehacktes Fleisch sandwich.
My younger brother is retired from the USAF and one of his benefits is free airplane flights around the globe, but with some limits. They call the flights "space available" which means if there is a scheduled aircraft going to a place that might have room for a passenger (including cargo planes or generals and dignitaries) he can go in person to the base operations building and ask for space on the flight. He does have to pay for meals in the form of a "box lunch" and if he want lodging he has to check-in at the Bachelor officers quarters for a room. That is how my brother visited Germany and toured several castles there. I'm jealous but he earned it by his service to our country.
I’ve only been to four Schloss (so far):
1) Nürnberg
2) Nymphenburg
3) Heidelberg
4) Neuschwanstein
I live in Koblenz and when I have a look from my roof balcony I can see 5 castles and one Mäckes 😆
Keep it that way!
This is the most fun fact I"ve ever learned about Germany. ❤
There are no 100 % matching translations.
In the original sense a Burg (or castle) is a medieval fortified home of a lord. Burgen are usually (but not always) quite small and are exclusively from the medieval period (that's about 500-1500 AD).
The translation for a Festung is fortress btw, not castle. The main difference between a Burg and a Festung is that Festungen/fortresses are military structures, not homes of nobles, and they are usually larger than Burgen. Both Burgen/castles as well as Festungen/fortresses are fortified against attacks.
Palaces (Palast in German) are usually not fortified. There is no direct translation for the German Schloss; these are usually called palaces or castles in English.
A Herrenhaus is just a large and usually luxurious mansion. Herrenhäuser usually belong to what is called a Gut in German - the best translation would be an estate.
That said - there are many buildings that cannot be strictly classified as one type or the other. The fortified home of a lord built in the 17th century is not actually a Burg even though it fullfills the same role and might even look the same way...however it is not from the medieval age. The same is true for some surviving older structures from the Roman era - these are usually not Burgen/Castles, they are almost exclusively military fortresses.
In the end all classifications are used more or less simultaneously and sometimes even interchangeably for many buildings.
The only true difference is that a Burg/Festung (castle/fortress) is always fortified against attacks, while Schlösser/Paläste (palaces) are rarely fortified and even if they have some fortifications it is not the primary function.
One interesting piece of information about castles is that approximately 50 % of the castles don't exist at all anymore, not even as ruins. The reason for this is that they where wooden structures which simply didn't survive the centuries. This is especially true for northern Germany where stone castles are actually quite rare.
PS: Shadiversity has quite a few videos about this topic on his channel.
That was so interesting! I never really thought about the differences between those words, either German or English. I haven't really traveled much in Germany, but I spent a year abroad in Salzburg and saw a few castles and fortresses. I appreciated your diving into this. It makes the number of Mickey D's in the US seem small, hahaha.
Nice to see the book "Fast Food Nation", from which you show some clips, is written by Eric Schlosser. 🤔😉🙋♂️
It doesn't matter what your video is about it's awesome you are so easy to watch and listen to , you remind me of my grandmother ( you are much easier on the eyes ) she was German. But they lived in Budapest Hungary , she was sent to the USA. When Hitler started his crap. She never saw anyone in her family again , I love what you put on you tube. THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA...
I listened to a podcast some time ago (Norwegian) where someone talked about Schlesien, there are thousands of empty castles there, formerly German ones, which are just falling into disrepair, and you can buy a castle relatively cheap if you want. Big beautiful castles, with large land too.
Rare wide shot of Feli! You’re looking amazing in them. The new shots make the narrative more dynamic and fun to follow.
New sub here, I've always been interested in Germany and the language (same goes for Russia and the language) I really like the videos I've seen so far 🙂
The Old English word “burh” which gives us the modern place name endings -burg, -bury, -burgh, -boro, and -borough did indeed mean “fortress”. Alfred the Great had a huge system of burhs built to defend Wessex/England from Viking incursions.
I have to say kudos for all the work you put into this video. Thank you, Feli!
Love the new production format, another nice a addition to an already great channel 😊
Hi Feli, ich mag deine Vids, dieses war sehr beeindruckend, besonders gefiel mir der Perspektivwechsel, von indoor zu outdoor, super professionell! Du könntest in jeder TV Sendung bei jedem Sender erfolgreich sein, super profi!
Das Video hat mir auch sehr gut gefallen, hat viel Spaß gemacht zuzuschauen, besser als statische Kamera :)
That was so fun!
i like the new video style! it looks a lot more professional and looks like it took a lot of work!! The hard work didn’t go underappreciated
Awesome editing!
And let's not forget Schlösser that once were Burgen, like the Schweriner Schloss. It was originally a slavic castle, which is understandable since the island it's on is a defenders paradise, which grew over time until the modern building came in the 19th century
Enjoyed the video, nice job !!
Hi Feli, please make a video about the differences about German home walls and American home walls.
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Yes please cause in the movies the americans run and fist always thrue there Walls. If you want to go thrue a stonewall in a germans home, you'll need a tank an excavator, some serious tools or explosives
I think many walls in American homes are made of plaster.
The was quite informative. Danke!
Very interesting episode!!!!!
thank you Feli💗💗 for your input on the Castles, I love to hear from you
Another great video! So informative. Love your enthusiasm .
Loved the new style of this video!
This was a fun video Feli.
Thanks for the history lesson. Keep up the good work Feli. - Chuck
Congrats on 500K subs
Love the information and subject.
Hi Feli, glad to watch your video!
This video is an example of how my mind works most days. It was fun to watch it. Thank you 😊😉
This is a very interesting video. Enjoyable.😊❤
The Best way to look at Castle definitions in English is just to look at England. If there isn't a large permanent structure in the middle of defensive walls it's a fort. Such as the Iron age Hill forts, Roman Forts and from the Palmerston follies (large 18th forts North of Portsmouth). A small very small fort less than 500 years old is typically called a Battery. Then you have Castle, a castle is a well fortified place with a dwelling/structures inside used by an authority. Then you have palace which are fairly rare in English English are are only for Royal Family members and Bishops. However the largest category you didn't mention are Stately Homes which would probably make up the majority of "Schloss" in Germany. Which is basically just a big old mansion, sometimes they can look at bit like castles, but if there defences are just for show (or are follies) they are still just Stately homes. Even in England it does get confusing as the terms are often used incorrectly in names.
A concert in the great hall of Wartburg castle at mid- summer is like being set bag in time 800 years.
Lol, GREAT sticker: Holla the woodfairy!
Feli, thank you so much, I'm stuck here in Columbus (Ohio) till Tuesday before I can finally get home, your smiling and laughter infected me for a bit
This video was very interesting.
I went to Herrenchiemsee when I was stationed in Germany back in the early nineties. Beautiful country wish I could have been there longer than the two years I was there.
Delightful, thanks.
This is a great video.
Thank you for the video. I can't wait for the next show.
We also have the word fort. It's usually smaller than a fortress.
Hi! I am from Portugal, and I've been watching your videos and loving it. Keep up the good work. I also went to Bavaria in 2016 and loved it. It was my favorite holiday trip so far.
Also, since Burg was used as a synonym for town in the middle ages, that's where we get the word Bürger (citizen) from.
I think a town was named after a burgs name. Like Duisburg. I am sure there was a town, someone builded a burg, the Duisburg and then the town around the Duisburg was called Duisburg aswell.
Feels like an improved Feli to me. I like the changing perspectives and narrative modes.
I liked this video's style a lot!
Your best video. Thank you.
Hi Feli… love your videos they are Interesting and fun.
Great information and cute presentation as always.
I can't get enough of you, love you and your personality. Germany has never been on my bucket list until I found your channel :D
Your videos are so interesting and addicting
Like this informative video
There was a “keep” in my grandfather’s garden (Invergorden, Scotland).
I am visiting my daughter in Stuggart and I have visited Lichtenstein Castle, Freiburg Castle on the Schlossberg, Castle Hohentübingen In Tubingen, Burg Lichtenstein Castle, Freiburg Castle on the Schlossberg and this week going to see Burg HOHENZOLLERN.
One of your best videos! I was as shocked as you were about the ratio of McDonalds to Castles... and thank you for going over the different names and types of castles. This was just packed with information!
Oh Feli, Deine Art ist so mitreissend, positiv und sympathisch. So nebenbei sortierst Du übersichtlich einige Fakten und schickst viele tolle Bilder unseres Kontinents in die Welt. Danke dafür, bitte weiter, bravo!
Very interesting video