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65 years i live in netherlands, never knew this, thanx for uploading
Your pronunciation of 's Hertogenbosch was spot on on the first try!
Wanted to say the same
Yeah, well done actually. It translates to "The Duke's Forest"
@@bert2526 Hertog is 'Duke' ! Lol, thanks , I have never looked it up. But now I know that 'Duke ' is Hertog.(Proost Jan!)
For those that would like to understand the logic of the name
's-Hertogenbosch is an abbreviation of
Des Hertogenbosch which in turn is
Des Hertogen bosch which is old Dutch for
het bos van de Hertog aka
the Dukes forest.
Remember the castle they spoke of in the clip it was the hunting castle of the duke. And as in those times the land was physically owned by the duke including the people on that land unless they were free citizens or nobels. The right to build a city wall had to be granted by the Duke.
Edit: the Duke was all to happy to bestow those rights because it meant more protection for his castle.
@@dawnmaster68 cool.. and how about Den Haag? (old name 's-Gravenhage).
What's the story with a 'Graaf' as opposed to 'Hertog'?
And is ' hage' taken from 'haag' (a row of bushes usede to mark the land)?
Ps.. this is much better than google.
The border's complexity results from numerous medieval treaties, agreements, land-swaps and sales between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. Generally speaking, predominantly agricultural or built environments became constituents of Brabant, while other parts devolved to Breda.
Also in Brussels there is also a covered river, the Senne, but that happened in 1871 (year it finished) This is a lot more interresting!
The subtitles on the original video don't match up with the talk, they are often ahead of what is being talked about. That's why it was so hard to keep up.
and the translation is kinda ass
Thank you Charlie we lived in one of the eight zaligheiden villages ( holy ) 'Eersel' which came under the control of the Duke of Brabant and the Bishop. ( look up Edsel a gorgeous little village where we as
Thanks for sharing this! 💡
Because my channel is Dutch, I didn't know about the English subtitles. They didn't sync with the guide, so I fixed it 😊
This city has two names, den bosch and 's hertogenbosch.
Both are correct.
The name comes from bos of the hertog, or translated the forrest of the duke.
An other city that has two names is den haag (the hague) that is also known as 's gravenhage (translates as gated grounds of the count)
Hence it's english name Duketown and French name Bois-le-Duc
@@johanverschure5168 Last week the 50th edition of Jazz in Duketown was celebrated in my home town. Live jazz music on several different stages throughout the inner city
Actually it has 3 names, during carnaval it's named Oeteldonk
broer and broeder are the same like zus and zuster. Kruisbroederkerk = Cross Brother church. Broeder can also be used to discribe a Catholic Theology Student, before he becomes a Priest ;)
Charlie my man, I’ve got one you gotta see. Gonna love it: the aesthetic city/this town proves we can still… etc. I only just stumbled across it, still watching, I wanted you to know.
cool thanks, I added it to my list!
aT 20:01 Forms of ancient punishment.
Hekelen : To pull someone over a hekel. (in this situation, a hekel is a large metal combe used in rope production, meant to cause severe damage to your body as you get pulled over it)
Kielhalen : To pull someone under the hull of a ship. (in this situation, a barnacle infested ship hull, meant to cause severe damage to your body as you get pulled over it)
In general, this was technically a death sentence. Most survive the initial procedure, but die eventually.
I live in this beautiful city and I am still often amazed by how old and beautiful it is here
Lucky! 😊
I live heren too!! I love how the city looks and that it has a unique culture!
Born and still here in this beautiful town. Go to the market square when you come for a visit. "s-Hertogenbosch is a very compact city. Everything you want to see is in walking distance. And visit the house of Jheronimus Bosch. He lived there from age 12 to age 30 when he got married. A unique medieval house. And yes, I work there as a volunteer and we see the whole world pass by in our beautiful house.
If you ever wondered why 's-Hertogenbossch en 's-Gravenhage have these short forms of their names Den Haag en Den Bosch: it is said (although I cannot find any confirmation) that during the revolutionary times at the end of the 18th century when nobility was abolished they also wanted the titles of nobility to be removed from city names. 's-hertogenbosch (the forrest of the dukes) became simply Den Bosch (The Forrest) and 's-Gravenhage (The Hague of the Counts) became simply Den Haag (The Hague).
The strange apostrophe at the beginning of these names is what is called an "omitting apostrophe" what means that the apostrophe stands for someting that was left out. The "apostrophe s" stands in fact for the word "des" what is the genetive of "de" and means "of the". So "des Gravenhage" became 's-Gravenhage and "des Hertogenbosch" became 's-Hertogenbosch.
The Dukes and Counts were already gone in 1581 during the Dutch revolt, those titles belonged to Philips II of Spain, who lost power over the Netherlands after the 'Acte van Verlatinghe'. The abbreviations were already used long before, but were local. Sint Michielsgestel is called Gestel, Sint Oedenrode is Rooij. But because there were multiple Gestels, Rooijs, Bosch's etc., in writing the full specific name is needed.
Sounds very plausible! Even if it is not 'true', it cannot be denied that in both instances the titles of nobility are removed and/or omitted. Even if it is only an abreviation, the nobility part is omitted twice. I have the privilige to live in this beautiful city :) did both the 'Binnen-'Dieze and 'Buiten-'Dieze
I looked it up. The tour costs €11 per adult and for kids between 4 and 12 years it costs €5,50. kids below 4 go for free. The tour takes about 50 minutes.
Yeh indeed it's not for free they just volunteer for free. The company still needs something for maintainance
The boats are called "Whisperboats"the run on electricity not on gas, that is eco friendly and does not make a lot of noise. The wife and I did this last year and it was awesome to see and to listen to the stories of the guide and to learn more about our own country, things we never learned at school.
I'm dutch, never knew this. Thanks for uploading.
Den Bosch, that's my hometown. Never thought I would ever see my house in one of your reactions, haha!
The man explains perfectly, I must admit his "heuuhh" every few centeces makes me laugh a little. I've done the boattour 2 times, it is very beautiful ❤. It's in the province I live in, North Brabant. 's-Hertogenbosch is the capital of our province. 😊
I always love to have a picnic on the city walls of den Bosch. Walking through the city then have such a wide view with the city at your back is always special.
Not sure if anyone already mentioned this. Kruisbroederkerk: A litteral translation would be Cross(kruis) Brother(broder) Church(kerk). However in Dutch Monks are also called Broeder. Basically, Nuns are "Married to Jesus", obviously males can't be married to Jesus (well... they would "technically" be able today of curse but in those days that idea was obviously unthinkable) so Monks wre considerd his "brother". The "Kruisbroeders" were members of a certain religious order called "the order of the Holy Cross). The order originated in Belgium and although I can't find a direct connection or reason, they follow the rules as followed by the monks of the order of Augustine. They had the vow of silence and were only allowed to wear their monk robes.
Het Bosche Broek: The skipper is mentioning this area. You might have encountered the word broek in Dutch with the meaning of "pants" or "trousers". However in this case it is more akin to the English word Brook although not exactly the same meaning. A "Broek" in this case is a low sitting area that is always wet but not necesseraly flooded. They tend to be the floodplains of rivers and streams or "beekjes" (the English "brooks") so I think the best translation for Broek is in this case "wetlands"
I did a small amount of reseach into the etymology of Heckler. It is indeed originating from an old Dutch word "Hekelen" and is indeed connected to both the flax comb and the Hekel as in Den Bosch. According to the language organisation "Onze Taal"
"Hekelen is comparable to the tool of the Hekel. The Etymological Dictionary of Dutch (EWN) states that to Hekel probably first simply followed 'flax combing' and then the figurative meaning 'to criticize' arose.
26:40 Although you can do this technically as a job and people like this skipper (and many many other historical guides all over the country) probably wouldn't mind getting a good pay for doing it, it is not WHY they are doing this. People like him want the history to be preserved and known, they want to show where there town or city is coming from. How it grew, the challenges it overcame, perhaps the role it played in the history of the region or even country. The tell the stories in their own words, they know details you might not find in the museum. You might see a rock or boulder somewhere, they will have a story about betrayal and war and heroism that explains why that specific rock is in that specific plabe and maybe even why a particular side is facing up and not down.
I didn't know this ... love his voice 😊 ... love from 🇧🇪
I live in Zwolle. There is still a little city wall. Zwolle is also very interesting ! I love Zwolle❤
You are right about the beginninh of the video: those are (many) parts of Belgium inside the Netherlands
We call it "Den Bosch" to make it easy. The other name means "the Duke's forest"... the city was built on one.
He was saying back in the days it was so dark, but you had those windows, which are orientated to the turn, so when light shone trough the window, you could clearly see the turn. It was like "go upto the wall", and "follow the light", not bump into the wall ;-) Oh and they didn't have torches, like we do. But they used firetorches at night. At day,however and in any corner of those tunnels, you would have those "light windows" pointing the way
Lifting the ground level was not for defence, but the high water levels of the rivers in (mostly) winter time.
My home town, forget sometimes how beautiful it is
learning new things about my own country with you, thanks! :)
Thanks for show and talk about my City ,Den Bosch .
The way you did say the first time s'-Hertogenbosch was perfect bro , respect 👍🏻
"kruisBroedersKerk " = cross brothers church.
You did ask 14:16 how we did raise the city with 3 meters , look at the map and you see a lot small lakes around Den Bosch , the sand came from there .
When you go with the boat you have to pay a little amound
I love this video Charlie , told you before , visit Den Bosch you will like it 👍🏻
"how do you raise a city by 3 meters?"
with a hell of a lot of dirt and good old Dutch dedication.
Ha, this is where I lived for over fourty years! In days gone by, about thirty years ago, when there wasn't much supervision by the authorities and it wasn't yet a big tourist attraction I clandestinely sailed underneath the city myself with a kayak which was very adventurous and nice. Your pronounciation of 's-Hertogenbosch is very good, by the way. And "Kruisbroeders" means "Brothers of the Cross", a monasterial Catholic order. So "Kruisbroeders kerk" is the church of the Brothers of the Cross.
There are lots of rivers and streams still running under London ...and maybe under other towns in other parts of the country (UK) too...
Not quite sure if they've been enclosed in canals or what, though.
(Uncle Google will know.🤞!)
😏🏴❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖
Very insightful about the heckling of comedians. I connected the dots to having "een hekel" about something but never thought about heckling
The strange enclave is Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. And funny to see also my village in the video (Weelde) :p
you really gotta dive into the Baarle Hertog/Nassau rabbit hole, it's a very crazy and funny part of belgian-dutch border shenanigans you'd think it's made up for laughs, but it isn't :D
I think Tom Scot made a video about the patchwork Dutch/Belgian territories of Baarle-Nassau. You could check that one out.
A literal translation of Kruisbroederskerk, would be Cross brethren church, or something like that.
So many cities in The Netherlands that have their unique thing to them... Yep, as we do in Belgium. I garantee you, that within a day, you could hear potentially (if you stop everywhere in Belgium and The Netherlands) different pronounciations of the same words. In fact In belgium, it is worse, you can go from town to town and maybe understand what one says in town A, but don't understand anything, a few kilometers further (or the very next town, not city) Though we all speak a general Dutch, which is more closely related to the Dutch spoken in the Netherlands (though there are differences)
‘S Hertogenbosch is my favorite city. My dad is from Vlijmen and so when we visit his parents I love visiting the nearby Den Bosch
O wooow Denbosch. The City i did grew up. Do now live at the Border from Belgium. Baarle hertog. Baarle nassau. And yes your correct. The little parts are Belgium. This was great to watch
'Broeder' is an old fashioned word for 'broer'. Kruis means cross. So it translates as cross brothers church, aka church of the brothers of the cross.
We still use the word broeder in 'broederlijk', meaning like brothers and 'broederliefde' love of brothers.
Cool! doing a episode of my home town! Quite recent too, as the new theater building is shown...
I believe a river running below maastricht as well (de Jeker) and London has "the Fleet", but i do not think one can still fully navigate those in a boat
‘s Hertogenbosch was pronounced correctly 👍🏼. Den Bosch has a beautiful cathedral.
The second a in Brabant is pronounced as the a in Darth and not as the a in Vader.
The boat tour is great, I’ve done it.
You really should find out about the Belgian enclaves at Baarle Nassau/Baarle Hertog. Sometimes the border crosses houses or shops.
Love this video, me and some of my colleagues have been monitoring the binnedieze for deformation of the walls each year. We go thru it on a small pontoon boat and put a 3d scanner in the middle on a frame we put in the water.
Its a nice place always, a fun job to do
Yo did you know D'Artagnan the fourth musketeer is buried @ Maastricht?
Den Bosch is the old name for 's-Hertogenbosch, it was changed into 's-Hertogenbosch about 800 years ago but the same Den Bosch stayed in use all this time.
Den Bosch is the capital of Noord-Brabant.
lol I’m watching this from den Bosch while on a bridge over the Dieze.
We were there in 1995 are experienced the floods when the city was under water
Charlie your pronunciation of 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bodch simplified) is 👍👍👍
Indeed, all those borders belong to Belgium. Baarle-Nassau is a well-known village shared by both the Netherlands and Belgium, which led to some peculiar situations during the COVID-19 regulations. For example, within the same store, wearing a mask was required in one section, but taking a step into another section meant it was not necessary.
It was fun to find this Dutch video through your channel, I didn't know about this yet!
'Weet je dat ook weer' means 'now you know this too' sort of (literally "know you that too again"; like: that's kind of nice to know, might come in handy, no big deal )
They are currently raising the height of the roads around the Zaan. While the city sinks, they crick up the houses, repair the damage and carry on.... The Netherlands is wet 😊
your dutch pronunciation is getting better
This is fun, never have seen this. Live in the netherlands myself and seen a lot of city / towns. Oldest are Utrecht and Maastricht from roman times. Tricht or trecht is a shallow piece in a river... yhere is a lot of history over here. A lot is lost too over time, but sometimes things are found again. I love archeology. If you can read some dutch you should get yourself a dutch historybook. There is about 6000 years of history and probably more we don't know about yet. Also the dutch have discovered a lot of places in the world. From far a way lands ljke tasmania, australia, nieuw zeeland, but also parts of azia, africa, and america. We have veen busy 😂
Someone else said it too, but just have to say it too, your pronounciation of 's-Hertogenbosch was really good!! I was born there :)
After the second city wall was build, a lot of area was used for agriculture, to feed the city during sieges. Orchards, stables with cows (milk/meat) and vegetables. And to prevent too wet land, landfill was used to stay dry, anything, waste, broken bricks, sand, mud, layer upon layer the city rose from the moors.
In 1874 Germany and France forced the Netherlands to break down its fortifications. To stay neutral in the conflicts between those two, no strong cities were allowed that could be used by the enemy. Sadly these were empty promises, two world wars would follow between them with devastating results for Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands.
If you're wondering about why and how cities are raised,.... you have your own examples in the US. I very strongly suggest you visit *Seattle* and take the underground tour if you have the chance. The raising of Seattle is world famous and is decently documented with pictures etc. (at least I still hope they still have the tours though, it has been 20 years ago since I went there).
Oh i am happy with this priority request. I am also following Weet je dat ook weer. Good video and interesting topics he has 👍
You have to pay for the tours (and book in advance to get a seat in the the busy seizone). So they finance their hardware and stuff out of those boatrides. They are pretty inexpensive though.
kruis broeders, you know the knights with the white tabart and the red cross that battled in the middle east.
broeder is brother
2.5 = 8.2 feet btw
And yes every city here feels like your in a different country, they all have there own charm. i notice the same in germany you have to travel for hours to see different houses, here 20-40 min train drive and you see a completely unique town or city form your own.
Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau. Worth visiting. Enclaves beginning of the vid.
12:01 broeder = brother = broer = bro = bruh.
20:11 most likely it is derivated from Dutch language 😂
23:20 yes. 150kilometer wide and 250 maybe 300 kilometer long. In 3 hours you can go from north to south of the country. Yet within 50km by 50km you can find 50 local cultures😂
TY, 52 year old brabander and learned something new
Love these video's. I learn a lot.❤ ( 😁 and I am Dutch, born in 1971 but not knowing this)
by using soil ;-) they raised it to reach the level of the market place... He was also telling that houses in those times were built against those inner walls, because at least they had the back wall for free ;-)
I did not know this. Do you know that Arnhem have under the shopping centre old basements and they are al conected. On some days you can do a guided tour under the shop stores.
look up a youtube with Anneke van Geirsbergen Binnendieze sessies she does this tour on this river while singing some of her songs or covers from other known artist.
The town where I live, Stockport, is built over a river. The whole shopping centre is actually a bridge. But it's nothing like this!
This is gorgeous! I think the only thing sailing down the river Mersey under Stockport is rats 😂
There is an American couple that made a great video about Baarle Nassau, they have a channel called “Buncharted” 😊
@11:44 Kruis Broeders Kerk, Cross Brothers Church
We made the same trip with our 30 person mixed a Capella classical choir in two boats; Singing in those tunnels sounds amazing.
As you might have guessed ... that's my stomping ground.
BTW Congrats on your spot-on assumption of the origins of "to heckle someone". It is indeed derived from combing flax or hemp. It's origin is Middle Dutch. (another word the English "stole" from us 😜)
Lol im a Dutchy and i didnt even know this, also those boats are electric 🙂
The name s'Hertogenbosch means "the Duke's forest"
boat sails electrically, so no pollution😊
12:00 Kruisbroederskerk translated Cross-Brothers-Church, and brothers like men at arms, soldiers, knights
Taking down the city walls of many dutch cities after 1874 was a big wish of almost all of these cities. They were not allowed by law to expand for centuries. The cities were unbelievable overcrowded. After taking down the walls the cities could build new neighbourhoods and houses. So it was a destruction of so much history, but a positive thing for the cities and the people.
Aha vandaar dat Den Haag nu dus veel groter is dan bv een Delft en Leiden die vroeger veel groter waren en meer inwoners hadden dan Den Haag. Geen muur dus uitbreiden.
@@RAMDH Dat is weer een beetje kort door de bocht. Den Haag was vanouds de zetel van de graven van Holland en daardoor ook toen al een belangrijke plek. Geen stadsrechten maar in de 17e eeuw werden wel degelijk een aantal verdedigingswallen en grachten aangelegd. Maar er waren geen oude stadsmuren en uiteindelijk was de stad en zijn locatie ook geen reden om in de 17e en 18e eeuw steeds zwaardere verdedigingswerken aan te leggen. Dat gebeurde wel met de steden die strategisch belangrijk waren voor de Hollandse waterlinie en steden die belangrijk waren voor de verdediging naar het oosten en zuiden, zoals ook Den Bosch.
Den Haag was de zetel van de graven van Holland en daarna hadden ook de stadhouders hier hun hoofdzetel. En vanaf koning Willem 1 zetelde hier ook de koning en de regering dus werd Den Haag het bestuurlijk centrum van de republiek en het Koninkrijk en dijde het steeds verder uit.
Delft en Leiden waren vooral steden waar vanaf de 15e eeuw de handel en fabricage van bepaalde goederen welstand opleverden. Zij ontwikkelden zich vooral aan het einde van de middeleeuwen en in de 17e eeuw. Maar in de 18e eeuw sliepen deze steden min of meer in. Armoe en verval was het lot van veel kleinere Nederlandse steden in de 18e en 19e eeuw. Ze werden steeds minder belangrijk en hadden daardoor ook geen behoefte aan grote uitbreidingen. In Leiden zorgde alleen de oude universiteit en in Delft de Technische Hogeschool (vanaf 19e eeuw) voor wat reuring en enige nieuwe aanwas van bevolking. Pas na de komst van de industrie in de 2e helft van de 19e eeuw gingen deze steden weer groeien.
You are getting smarter and smarter, I'll see after following you for a long time...
You had it right broeder is Brother 💪that is old dutch now we say broer most times
Its what u get with cities that are centuries old and were conquered by alot of different countries over time(Spain, the british, france ect) and those all leave their mark in one way or the other in addition to the dangers of water and how we dutch dealt with them.
I did''t know this either about Den Bosch though its a great city to just travel to and just stroll through the city center, something i did quite a few times even though i live more then a hour by train away from it.
Heckling comes from hekel! Thanks bro'. New insight.
Having differnent cultures relatively close to one another is something you find all over Europe. Because most of Europe was build before there were cars. What is nearby now, could be a trip of two days back then. You did not do that, unless you had a very good reason to do so. Because it was difficult and dangerous. So people stayed within their cities/villages and so unique cultures were created within those cities/villages.
's-Hertogenbosch (The Duke's Forest) or Den Bosch. Also try "s-Gravenhage (The Count's Hedge or The Count's Private Hunting Grounds) or Den Haag. The water for the breweries came from deep wells and the soil filters the water. Alcohol of 0.5% doesn't kill bacteria. Only alcohol of over 50% starts to kill bacteria. Kruisbroeders refers to the Order of the Brothers of The Holy Cross).
Kruisbroederskerk:
Kruis -> cross
Broeders -> brothers (in a religious sense, keep in mind that where English has 'th', Dutch often has more or less the same word with a 'd' instead (die/the, dat/that)
Kerk -> church
The enclave shit you saw at the start is Baarle (Baarle-Hertog being the Dutch part, Baarle-Hertog the Flemish part). It is interesting, but it is not as exciting as one would think.
Have a great weekend ✌️🇳🇱
A meter is about 3 feet and 3 inches.
24:50 the bat is ready to attack (2 bats)
At 11:54 Kruisboroederskerk is a word combined of 3 things: Kruis Broeders Kerk
Kruis = Cross
Broeders = Brothers
Kerk = Church
Translated The brothers of the Cross Church.
Fun fact: "Weet je dat ook weer" pretty much means "here's another thing that you know now". (Literally "know you that also again"... Dutch is weird. :D )
Den Bosch's built over canals are not unique in the world... in Bruges (Belgium) you also have some of the canals that are built over. They aren't open to the public though.
Charlie, you ask how you raise a city by 3 meters (so 9 foot) as if it is unique. But in your own country Seattle was raised as high as 22 feet (6,7meter) in some places. I learned about Seattle and its underground levels in an urban fantasy book series a few months ago and googled it. It's fascinating that in a certain part of Seattle there are houses of 2 stories high under the current houses.
yep that Belgium land in the Netherland is the village of Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nasau (Netherlands) interesting thing up there, special when we were in covid time, each goverment had its own rules so the village and even the stores where split in two hahaha
They weren't destroyed because they were neede as protection against the flood water (lowest point in Brabant) recieves the water from three rivers
mindblowing
Lived my whole life next to the Dommel.
De Kruisbroederskerk, translates to "The Church of the Brothern of the Cross."
kerk is dutch for church. 's Hertogenbosch is a beautiful city
's Hertogenbosch - the 's is short for "des" - is a contraction of "des hertogen bosch" - bosch to be pronounced as bos/boss - means wood, so the whole thing means "wood of the duke". There will have been hunting grounds owned by a duke and later this town/city was built on it.
The name is usually shortened to "Den Bosch".
The name compares to the runner-up capital of the NL - the residence of national government - Den Haag that is formally called 's Gravenhage where the "hage" (literally "hedge") is again a reference to enclosed or no access nature/terrain. The "des graven " is archaic Dutch for today's "van de graaf" - "of the count".
The Dutch word "tuin" - meaning garden - is an old Germanic word for something with a fence around it and got bastardised in an island across the North Sea into "town". That's how "hage" (hedge) is meant here too.
Top Video again, thanks
11:55 you were right actually :) "broer" is short for "broeder". Like zus / zuster, the short version is used by most people in their daily language. Broeder and zuster are still used for hospital (or clerical) employees, and by some people who talk in a relatively unusual / 'distinguished' way (e.g. old-fashioned, posh or certain dialects maybe?). And in the symbolic sense the longer versions are used (as in "we're all brothers and sisters" - and it's not about some village in Utah 💀).
Literally it means "cross brothers church". I'd guess the cross brothers / kruisbroeders were some kind of Christian order / 'subdivision'?
Of course I had to look it up now, fml ;) 😂 Seems like it's about these bros: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_Regular_of_the_Order_of_the_Holy_Cross
Seeing the word "Brethren" here now (instead of brothers). That might be comparable in some aspects to the "broer -> broeder" situation :)
"The principal source of information about the origin of the order is in the Chronicon Cruciferorum of Henricus Russelius, Prior of Suxy.[6] Their own sources, and mention of them in non-Crosier sources, usually call them "the Brethren of the Holy Cross," and the French and English words used for them, Croisiers and Crosiers, are derived from the French "croisé",[7] one of the words used for a crusader, and meaning "marked with a cross."
Baarle-Nassau , which you shown as a enclave, is actually a crazy split , some houses in same street , or even a local supermarket is "split" by the border. The erractic pattern is a bit hard to understand, but hey History :p I don't claim to understand it all. I once visited Baarle-Hertog (also an enclave) and it was really funny to observe. But for the people living there it is the normalest thing you would see... All the streets are marked, and you have a visibile line splitting up those communities. But in truth, they arent't split up, it is a sign of "co operation", which neither side, (Belgium nor The Netherlands), I think at least, will ever be about to change. I like thinking that I can visit a belgian farm in the Netherlands, but , one could also see, as them borders be the thing that is absolutely artificial, and not the other way around ;-)
BTW your Dutch pronounciation is improving. At least I like the fact that you even try
They use the boat rides, to pay for the maintenance of those cities undergrounds. And the get money from their governement to maintain the undergrounds too.
thats baarle hertog and baarle nassau.
ow and lol just watched that vid