Germany is only 3 miles from my home in the Netherlands, so I allready have seen every state in Germany. It's my favorite holiday country for the last twenty years.
I‘m German and haven’t even visited every state, maybe that’s because I’m already living in paradise aka Bavaria ;) No but seriously, never been to Sachsen-Anhalt.
Sadly he didn't mention the Ruhr Area...densest populated area in Germany, most of the population of NRW is living there, and basically the backbone of German rebuilding (and then struggling due to necessary structual changes when the coal mines closed). Basically the area which does the actual work while Düsseldorf and Cologne are busy sniping at each other...
The people in the masks were celebrating carneval (also called “Fasching”)! It’s a catholic holiday around February/March, just before lent. (Basically your last chance to eat and drink as much as you want before the 40 day fasting period starts, which then lasts until easter.) Love from Berlin!
The true origin is not a catholic festival. it has a long history. it served to drive away the winter. Therefore, it is celebrated loudly and wild to scare the winter spirits. There are whip-like 'Kartätschen' that are as loud as cannons. The witches (dudes/girls with the masks) sometimes "steal" children from their parents during the parades. In the Middle Ages it was then associated with celebrations to use up the less durable food before fasting (merging with catholic festivals). Later, as it is still the culture of the Swabians, the feast was used by the people to oppose the authorities.
Hey guys! If you want to know more about those festival (it´s called Fasching,Karneval or Fasnet,depending on the region) I can highly recommand "Feli from Germany" she made a video about it. It´s celebrating every feburary for about a week and ends with the beginning of the lent,but start on the 11.11 at 11:11 o clock.
Hi there. I am from Mecklenburg Vorpommern. As you can imagaine since we have so many lakes, beaches, coastal towns, the biggest german island and one of the biggest open air theaters we also have the most tourism here next to bavaria. If you visit I would totaly advice you to watch the "Störtebecker Festspiele" its a theater show on that open air stage, where real horses and ships are part of the experiance.
The Grimm Brothers are Hessians. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt. They collected their fairy tales in Kassel, my Hometown. A lot of the the Places are here, for excample the Castle of Snow White, the Sababurg.
Here a *Hessisch Mädche* ! The festivals are called *Karneval, Fastnacht or Fasching* . Depends on region/state. Here in Hessen it's actually called *Fastnacht* . Also called the 5th season. Celebrated before "Fastenzeit" begins (47 days before Easter). Early Thursday, late Wednesday. Before you "fast" (moderate yourself), there is a real big celebration. On balls and also streets. Is a christian religious thing. The wild costumes come from the fact that the Winter should be driven away. That's the short version. The customs encompass regionally too much to describe it here. ✌🏼
Greetings from Lower Saxony. I pretty much grew up here, but was born in Northern Westphalia. I live near Wolfsburg and the building with the blue dome is a planetarium in the middle of a park. It was gifted to the city in 1978 by VW for their 40th anniversary of founding. Oh and we also celebrate Fasching/carnival in Lower Saxony. In the city I live in is a parade every year.
@TK Top TRavel A "Dirndl" is that dress which the woman at 3:21 is wearing. It's like the female pendant to the "Lederhosen". Traditionally men wear "Lederhosen" and woman "Dirndl".
Hey guys 😉 i am living in the state of Bavaria, a dirndl is a traditional Bavarian dress for women and the picture with the masks is from the carnival parades in that state 😉 Keep up the good work and stay safe 🙋🏻♂️
As Arno stated: The mask processions at the beginning are not Bavarian, they are from Baden-Württemberg; part of the Allemanic heritage of that state. Bavarians do other things, especially the Krampuslauf in the Alpine regions, which is a procession around St. Nicholas Day (6 December), where a bunch of young lads dress up as monsters under the control of St. Nick, and go around smacking girls with pigs bladders (which I witnessed in Salzburg, where my then British girlfriend (and now wife) got hit (upon) in the true sense of the word).
Baden-Württemberg is actually the last remnant of the old Duchy of Swabia which was before it was conquered by the Franks around 502/507 AD the Alemannic Kingdom (and included the Alsace, most of Switzerland and parts of Austria as well). The Suebi (or some of the Suebian tribes) were part of the Alemans (which were a conglomerate of different tribes), and "Swabia" refers to them. But the Swabian dialects were actually only spoken in "Old Württemberg" (the region which belonged to Württemberg before Napoleon doubled it): In the valley of river Neckar, at the Swabian Alb and in parts of the Danube valley, but they do slowly expand to the South since then. There is also a small region in the North, where they speak a Franconian dialect, but up to two thirds are speaking High or Lower Alemannic - Swiss German is also High Alemannic. And the masks you saw are not Swabian, but Alemannic culture (or at least part of the "Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet" culture, which includes the overlapping between Swabian and Alemannic) - but this is an error often made by Germans from other states. "Fasnet" is the local version of carnival, by the way, and happens between Epiphany (Jan 6th.) and Ash Wednesday (the wednesday 40 days before Easter), culminating in the last week before wednesday with Schmotziger or Gumpiger Doschdig (Fat or Jumpy Thursday), Rußiger or Bromiger Fridig (Sooty or Blackberry Friday - if you greet someone, you try to leave a sooty or black mark in his face), Schmalziger Samsdig (Greasy Saturday), Fasnets-Sonndig (Carnival Sunday), Fasnetsmondig or Rosenmontag (Rose's monday) and Fasnetsdienschdig (Carnival Tuesday), when in the evening a mourning ceremony is held with eulogies on this year's Fasnet before it is cremated. The Duchy of Swabia was the powerhouse of the Holy Roman Empire (many famous dynasties had their original family seats here, like the Habsburg, the Hohenstaufen, the Welfs and the Hohenzollern), and Baden-Württemberg is often seen as the center of innovation in Germany. The original "Swabian" culture was characterized by becoming Pietestic after the Reformation with a strong hierocracy (= rule of the priests) - they had a law by which you could be dispossesed if you did not care for your estate and your belongings, and denunciators got a share of it. So everyone paid attention to show all neighbors how hardworking, pious and tidy they were, they cleaned everything often, and if they did the laundry, they dried it on lines outdoors at a place where everyone could see it from the street. The Alemans in Baden and Upper Swabia (between the Danube and Lake Constance) - whether Catholic or Protestant - on the other hand had a more joyful way of life, loving to eat well and to celebrate at every occasion. Not only Bavaria had their own king at that time. Napoleon declared the Duchies of Hannover, Saxony, Württemberg and Bavaria to be Kingdoms and the Principalites of Baden, Hessia and Berg to be Grand Duchies, since thoses states had declared their exit from the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and instead founded the Confederation of the Rhine, which allied with Napoleon. While Hannover was conquered and annexed in 1866 by Prussia, the other ones stayed Kingdoms until 1918. Bavaria and Austria are close to another, but also constantly competing and often quarreling. Bavaria consists of very different regions: Upper and Lower Bavaria as well as the Upper Palatinate, where they speak different Bavarian dialects, Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia, where they speak Franconian dialects (and have far more craft breweries as well as some wine regions) and Bavarian Swabia (where they speak a mixture of Swabian-Alemannic and Bavarian dialect) which includes the Bavarian Allgäu. Lower Saxony: 8:54 Wolfsburg is perhaps the youngest city in Germany. Before the 1930s it was only a small rural district with a castle. Then the Volkswagen factory was built here, and now it is the VW city.
Wernher von Braun built the V2 rocket on Usedom near Swinemünde. She was also shot from there towards London. The V2 was practically the basis of the Apollo mission.
I live near Frankfurt - I'm English and therefore an incomer. The people are really nice here - I love how international it feels. Now the pandemic is receding, we're hoping to visit other parts of the country this year.
Visit NRW! It's great. You may stumble across a lot of trash in düsseldorf and köln... literally, visit the area between both cities, like monheim, hilden or erkrath. If you want to visit the cleanest city in germany (as per the german tv show galileo), visit langenfeld, but as far as I have heard there is not a lot going on over there.
Swabian here 😊 Basically only 2/3s of Baden Württemberg are Swabian. Another third (mostly the western part) is historically Baden (which also is another dialect). I myself come from the Swabian part of Bavaria (with Augsburg as it’s capital) so you could say the original Swabian region is from Stuttgart in bw to Augsburg in Bavaria (they just split it up for bureaucratic reasons). Those costumes you saw are mostly worn during the carnival season which in Germany starts at 11:11am on the 11th of November and ends on Ash Wednesday in February. And yes, the dialect is very thick 😅 thank you for your reaction, it was nice to watch
I think it have to be mentioned that the "poor" Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is meanwhile the most popular destination for vacation for all Germans, after Bavaria have had this status over decades before.
Minute 16:03 It is the schwäbisch-alemannische carnival the carnival in southwestern Germany and parts of the North East and Central Switzerland is referred to [1]. There she is usually Fasnad, carnival, carnival or Fasent. It borders away from the Rhenish Carnival, however, is established as a separate form only since the first quarter of the 20th century. During the Carnival in the 18th century developed a new form of carnival and einschwenkte the Swabian-Alemannic carnival landscape out she changed her mind in the 20th century on their traditions of medieval and early modern carnival.
Hey, big thank your for this great video from the beautiful Hessen, Germany! Aside from the financial stuff and the big cities in the rhine/main area, we have some great nature as well such as the volcanic area “Vogelsberg” or the national park “Kellerwald-Edersee” :)
Friedrich Schiller lived in Waimar, but he's from Württemberg, from where he fled coz he deserted the military, for the simple reason that he disagreed on being rented out as a soldier. He was one of the most famous freedom fighters and writers of Germany. You can still find translated books of his.
That carnivals is called Fasnacht in German and we also have that here in Switzerland. It is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typically involves public celebrations, including events such as parades, public street parties and other entertainments, combining some elements of a circus. Elaborate costumes and masks allow people to set aside their everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity. Participants often indulge in excessive consumption of alcohol, meat, and other foods that will be forgone during upcoming Lent. Traditionally, butter, milk, and other animal products were not consumed "excessively", rather, their stock was fully consumed during Shrovetide as to reduce waste. During Lent, lacticinia and animal products are eaten less, and individuals make a Lenten sacrifice, thus giving up a certain object or activity of desire.
East-Frisian here. "Moin" is actually more like a northern Germany thing in general and not only Schleswig-Holstein. There is also a year old debate on which invented the Moin first because everybody up north says it.
Little Fact to Schleswig-Holstein tho: There is a little village called Wacken, and once a year it hosts one of the biggest Heavy Metal festivals in the World, the Wacken Open Air, or W:O:A in short.
the lake Müritz is actually the greatest unified nature protection area in Germany called Müritz national park, so there isn't much room for heavy industry here, yet it's a great place for soft tourism either with a camping wagon or with a boat, there are hotels too, but that's more on the coastal side + we are the only state with two universities Rostock & Greifswald (literal translation hippogriff's forest) - the last one is also the birthplace of the famous painter Casper David Friedrich, oh, and you can call Mecklenburg-Vorpommern MV for short, same goes for Baden-Württemberg BaWü
Saxons only came from Lower Saxony. Nowadays' "Saxony" was still a Slavic country in Anglo-Saxon times. Only the name moved there in medieval times. But thanks anyway, great video. - Oh well, now guess which state I'm watching from ;-)
I live in Eastern Belgium, a 20-minute drive to the German border, into Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate). I've done the beautiful Moseltal (Valley of the Mosel) a number of times between Bernkastel-Kues to Cochem, but I just cannot get tired of it - and of their Eiswein (sweet, late harvest white wine). I also enjoyed vistiting gorgeous Bavaria four times, and I have one anecdote that seems to confirm the Bavarians' independent state of mind. Several years ago I drove across the border from Austria into Germany near Berchtesgaden. On the roadside right after the border was a large, shiny sign in the white and blue colors of Bavaria that proclaimed "Freie Staat Bayern" (Free State Bavaria), you could not miss it. A bit further on the same roadside was an old milestone, half hidden in the grass, that said "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (Federal Republic Germany), I almost missed it. I still wonder if there was a message there. I can get along in German without being really fluent (French being my mother tongue and everyday language), and most of the time I figure out without much hardship what our neighbors in Rheinland-Pfalz say. It's much more difficult with the kind of German spoken by the Bavarians.
J'aime beaucoup la Belgique et j'ai déjà voyagé près de la frontière allemande ( Eupen, Butgenbach, Welkenraedt, Liège, Visé ) et une fois a Namur. Les paysages sont jolis et les gens sympas. J'aimerais connaître Bruxelles, les Ardennes et aussi les Flandres. Comme allemand, j'ai curiosité pour le néerlandais. Zo ben ik ook aan het leren nederlands, is ook mooi.
@@hannofranz7973 Bonjour. Je travaillais à Bruxelles, mais lorsque j'ai pris ma retraite voici presque deux ans nous avons choisi d'aller vivre en Ardenne (je suis un Alter Mann de 65 ans), ma femme et moi préférons la tranquillité de la campagne. Je vis dans une ville francophone mais juste à la limite de l'Ostbelgien germanophone (St-Vith, Burg Reuland) - ich wechsle die Kommune, ich ändere die Sprache. La frontière luxembourgeoise n'est pas loin non plus (17 kms). Nous adorons notre vie transfrontalière, multiculturelle.
if you say "moin moin" here, you already count as a person who talks too much. just one "moin" is enough. and they say we don't have a sense of humor XD
If Keith would have been with Barbs back then he would have named Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Kieler Woche in Schleswig-Holstein and of course Barbs missed our beaches in Travemünde, Timmendorfer Strand, Strande, Schilksee, Kalifornien (California) and Brasilien (Brasil) who are just 2 km (1,25 Miles ) away over here 😁 Schleswig-Holstein is the only Bundesland surrounded by sea. And the most northern Frisians , the Northern Frisians live here. We speak Plattdeutsch too by the way. Oh I am a Northern Frisian btw, but living in Kiel since 1998. And we say only Moin. Moin Moin is allready too much Talk 😉
Hey guys, thanks for your reaction to this video! Let me point out two small corrections, first because I am a German hairsplitter, and also because I am from the state of: - North Rhine-Westphalia (not North-Rhineland-Westphalia), Nordrhein-Westfalen in German - The capital of Lower Saxony is spelled Hannover with two "n's"
@@MoLauer Thanks for your feedback! I wasn't aware of this which is embarrasing because I used to study English at Uni. Well, you never stop learning :)
Hey there, guy from Saxony (or actually: Sachsen, as we call it in german). I feel like we didn't come across very well in that one! 😅 Yes, Saxons are one of the oldest tribes of Germans but they originally settled on the coast of the North Sea. Some went to Enlgand from there like he said and some moved south east and formed modern Saxony. And just like the bavarians we too had our own king once, albeit only from 1806 until 1918. Our best known city is probably the capital Dresden which even though being bombed to rubble towards the end of ww2 still has some of the beautiful baroque era buildings either heavily reconstructed or even rebuilt from scratch to look like their historic counterparts. The largest city would be my home town of Leipzig which has experienced an enormous boom in recent years after the economic collapse reunification had brought. In the last 20 years its population grew by 100.000 people! That's just nuts! 😅 Several universities and colleges as well as a tradition in music and trade which has always made Leipzig a little different from the rest of Saxony also means that it attracts a lot of young people both from other parts of Germany and from abroad while rural Saxony has a huge problem of slow depopulation, futher deepening the divide in mindsets and identity. It's definitely a cool place to live in if you can accept that after telling where you're from you'll have to spend at least 5 minutes explaining, why the bad stereotypes of Saxony don't apply to you. 😅
@@honkytonk4465 granted, it weren't so much the actual people who moved but after several divisions and reorganizations the title "duke of Saxons" ended up in the area that would later become Saxony. And I guess the middle ages are long enough ago for us to count as "real Saxons", don't you think?
By the way, there is also a city of Stuttgart in Arkansas / USA. There are many more cities in the USA with the same name as in Germany, for example Berlin, Ulm, Frankfurt, Hanover. The founders were German emigrants. No wonder, well over 25% of the American population has German ancestors and represents the largest ethnic group.
8:58 This is a planetarium. A planetarium is a building where lights are shone on the ceiling to represent the planets and the stars and to show how they appear to move.
Moin (= Hello) from Schleswig-Holstein, the land between the seas, popular tourist destination for Germans from other states and famous for the Kiel canal which is the busiest canal in the world and connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea so ships don't have to go all the way around Denmark.
Would be nice if he had mentioned the Schwäbische Alb in Baden-Württemberg. It is one of the earliest areas of human sedentariness in the world. The two oldest human artworks, the Löwenmensch (Lionman) and the Venus vom Hohlefels (Venus of the hollow rock), are from here. Both just over 40.000 years old. That’s worth a mention in my opinion. And by the way it’s absolutely beautiful there.
the Carnival celebrations are the German equivalent of Mardi Gras, and the Rhinelanders really go crazy during that time of the year. Other Germans (like me) don't really understand it as well. btw I'm from northern Hesse and we're known in Germany as the grumpy people.
@@m_amen Hi. 2 brothers. Storries in almost 60 communities in 5 states. That was the idea behind it. Collect the regional, local storries (and "Bänkellieder") and after they have been revised assemble them into a collection.
@@m_amen Nein, sehe ich anders. Das Märchen Rotkäppchen lässt sich z. B. direkt auf eine Hessische Tracht ableiten. Und Schneewittchen hat einen klaren Bezug zum Siebengebirge am Rhein. Das kalte Herz spielt im Schwarzwald, ist aber nicht von den Gebrüdern Grimm.
Greetings from saxony, from the town that hosts the biggest mineral collection on display for tourists world wide and has the oldest mining university of the world that still educated students today, me among them: Freiberg (Free-mountain)! Also u can visit many of the old silver mining tunnels below the city.
Here some information abaut carnival. The carnival session, also known as the "Fifth Season", begins each year on 11 November at 11:11 a.m. and finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year (normaly in February) with the main festivities happening around Rosenmontag (Rose Monday). Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_Germany,_Switzerland_and_Austria The Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, Fasnacht (in Switzerland) or Fasnat/Faschnat (in Vorarlberg) is the pre-Lenten carnival in Alemannic folklore in Switzerland, southern Germany, Alsace and Vorarlberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian-Alemannic_Fastnacht
Swabian/Schwäbisch and its culture is directly derived from the ancient Germanic tribe of the Svabs of around 3000 years ago. They settled in that area, were mildly settled by the Romans, later Christianized, and yet still retained lots and lots of their own culture throughout the millenia. They seem to be a very traditional people, settling in one area and then staying there really, really firmly. Dirndl: the traditional female Bavarian folk dress for women, with the Lederhosen/the just above knee leather pants being the male equivalent. You can see a Dirndl as well as the Lederhosen at 3:19. The Dirndl is a fairly long dress cut to reveal quite a lot of cleavage yet still retain enough modesty. Ie showing off "the goods" without becoming too suggestive. If you get my drift. Both, female and male, were usually paired with a blouse or collared shirt, with quite ornate stitching and patterns. Women wore low cut shoes, men quite solid shoes. Men wore bound long socks ending right below the knee, women wore long, white stockings fastened with straps. The front leather applications of Lederhosen were traditionally embroidered leather straps linking both suspenders keeping the pants up. As these pants really were made from quite stout leather they tended to last for decades, possibly even through generations of wearers. But they were fairly stiff, and had virtually no give in them, so they had to be cut fairly wide, meaning they had to be secured with suspenders. The tower at 4:12 in Berlin with the spherical top was the former East German/East Berlin TV and radio broadcast tower. It was the proverbial 'middle finger' of the former Socialist East German government to the West. In the vein of "Yeah, yeah, we know that the West is supposed to be sooo advanced. But look, WE got a larger tower than your western part, so there... nyah, nyah, nyaaaah." Yeah, Berlin is one hell of a touristy city. Yet it still retains a LOT of its original villages' and towns' character that slowly got merged into this huge conurb. By now Berlin has succeeded in straightening out its finances somewhat, and they are able to keep their budget above deficit spending. But to be honest, in 2003 that was a mere 13 years after the German reunification with HUUUUGE amounts of construction still going on trying to bring the East Berlin infrastructure up to snuff. Many old roads that had been cut by the Berlin Wall had to be completely rebuilt. Subway stations had to be reconstructed, sewers reconnected, yada-yada-yada. That was one of THE largest money graves imaginable. The central plaza, the Alexander Platz, had to be completely, (yes, completely) rebuilt, while traffic had to be somehow routed around it. That's almost like saying, lets tear down three blocks including Time Square in New York, routing subways, cars, sewers, electricity, etc, around that full time construction site while NOT collapsing the total of Manhattan with it. Oh, and the rest of the freeways into and out of New York are being rebuilt at the same time. Let's add major lane congestion on the Washington Bridge to that mix. Welcome to the construction hell that was Berlin for nearly two decades. By now, nearly 30 years later, Berlin has become a LOT more prosperous. BER airport in Brandenburg finally opened, right for the pandemic to hit, in 2020. Talk about timing, right? As a Hamburg resident I have to say I am actually proud of my city. While it is most well known for its party culture and red light district it offer sooo much more than that. It is an incredibly green city. It has multiple major parks, each of which is larger than Central Park in NY. Many museums, musical theaters, etc.
6:24 that is our City Bremerhaven. You there the Skyline at the Weser. The northern bush al Arab Hotel😂 here called we this hotel: Sail City Hotel. And Bremen our Federal state have a long history. But our city quarter Lehe is over 700 years old. But my village at the weser here is over 900 years old.
The mask parades are in the winter during carnival. Usually end of January to February, it ends on ash Wednesday when the fasting period (Christian custom) begins.
there is a big mistake in the clip. saxony was not the state that conquer britain, that was lower saxony, the tribe of saxony has nothing to do with the state of saxony, only the name
I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter. Oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 1000 years - very special and unique The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals. defeat the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fight Europe alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again and only lost because of own mistakes Gets divided again Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again. Also a few German inventions: - Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938) - The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887) - The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First rocket (general) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Nazi period) - Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known. The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, primarily the USA, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy. It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all German were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power. We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age. What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same. Most Europeans who settled America were actually German. As a German, I find German names everywhere for famous Americans like Eisenhower. 'Eisen' means Iron in German. But you don't realize it. Many of you are more German than you think, especially on the east coast. It came out that 43 million Germans went to America at the time. Which I also find very interesting.. In your schools you only talk about how great the Americans, actually Europeans, were. But you know not so much about the darkest sides.. Only if you really study history. Here in Germany we talk about everything. No detail is left out. I met an "American" who said he was very proud of his country because he had nothing to do with the extermination of the Real Americans but with the great D-Day. Isn't that absolutely ridiculous? Then, as a German, I say we are the very best because we changed the world with our inventions and almost won twice against the whole world alone. But I have nothing to do with the Holocaust... It's just as stupid as the statement by the "American " Which I always found very interesting. You're only a few hundred years old. It's been a long time for you. But here in Germany, every village is easily over 600 years old. I mean a beer company was founded in 1010 AD... Isn't that crazy.
It's near to impossible to give a correct generalized overview over the states. History in Europe is a complicated thing and almost every state has parts within it, which where at some time in history their "own state/country/area" sorta, but are now combined in a state. For example northern bavaria is quite different in dialect and regional customs then middle or south bavaria and this applies to almost every region in germany (or kinda europe). In some parts of germany you just need to drive to the next village and are unable to understand the dialect they speak
He did the mistake many americans do, by saying that todays Saxony is the land of the germanic tribe of the saxons. That isn't true. The land of the germanic tribe was mostly Lower Saxony, the westfalian part of Northrine-Westfalia an some parts of Saxony-Anhalt. In the middle ages this part became a duchy and for some time they were also the german kings. Later around the year 1200 the duke of Saxony rebeld against the german king and got banned. The duchy got splitted and only the little part of Saxony-Anhalt remaind Saxony. Then later there was no longer a male heir and the house of saxony died out. At that time the nearest relatives received the title of duke of Saxony and that was the ruler of the area that is today called Saxony, but back then it wasn't called Saxony. They decided to took that name, because the title of duke was higher than what they had before and so they became Saxony. First it was called High Saxony, later the high got dropped. At that time the original Saxony got the name of Lower Saxony. That's why todays Saxony isn't the old or original Saxony of the germanic tribe. Culturally the westfalian part of Northrine-Westfalia belongs more to Lower Saxony, but the americans when creating the Bundesländer after WW2 didn't want to split the Ruhr-Valley between two Bundesländer and so they decided to create an artificial Bundesland called Northrine-Westfalia, whithout caring about the historic realationsships of that areas. Originally the boarder between the northrine area and Westfalia is somewhere in the middle of the Ruhr-Valley.
Carnival celebrations have different origins: In Rhineland is having fun the majority purpose and is comparable to Mardi Gras, Carnival in Rio and Halloween celebrations. It has about 2,000 years of history and is based on the last chance of celebrating before easter and the lenten season before easter. You have to get rid of many ingredients like eggs and meat. Therefore you deep-fry donuts and similar dishes. Over the years carneval became political. It is a way to criticise the government without harm or restrictions because you are obsessed by a jester/fool and cannot get punishment for it. There are traditional corps - a parody on military forces. They have guns with a flower in its barrel and the ultimate salute is to show their asses. The two strongholds in North-Rhine Westphalia are the biggest city Cologne and capital Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf governs the Hoppeditz (the local fool) while in Cologne the Nubbel. On November 11th. they awake and take over the city halls until Ash Wednesday. But in charge are the local carneval committees represented by the Elferrat (committee of 11 members) in Düsseldorf and Dreigestirn in Cologne (prince, farmer and maid) in Cologne. The third stronghold is capital Mainz in the Rhineland-Palatinte with slighly different traditions. On the other hand is Fasching in Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland which has a lot more influence by medival folks. Most organizations follow their local fairytales and celebrate them. Origin is the banishment of evil ghosts and spirits of the winter. There are a ton of witches, ogres and all kinds of other monsters. Almost every town has its own historical monster cult. At least in their respective clubs and traditional associations.
😂 It really depends on where you are in Schleswig Holstein and sometimes on how many people you are greeting But most of the times you can't do anything wrong by just saying moin
Do you wanna see an impression of carnival in cologne? These are very short but fun videos (they are from 2017 and 2018 - that were the last years I was celebrating carnival in cologne). 2017 - ua-cam.com/video/MUwkCC_5Xn8/v-deo.html 2018 - ua-cam.com/video/7o126Y3Qyr0/v-deo.html
Germany is only 3 miles from my home in the Netherlands, so I allready have seen every state in Germany. It's my favorite holiday country for the last twenty years.
And we welcome you and your camping-car 😉
I‘m German and haven’t even visited every state, maybe that’s because I’m already living in paradise aka Bavaria ;)
No but seriously, never been to Sachsen-Anhalt.
The Netherlands are my favourite holiday country. 😄 greetz from Bonn
And I'm from far west Germany and my favorite vacation country is the Netherlands. Noordwijk aan Zee for the win!
damn i’m from germany and i’ve only been to like 4 states
Sadly he didn't mention the Ruhr Area...densest populated area in Germany, most of the population of NRW is living there, and basically the backbone of German rebuilding (and then struggling due to necessary structual changes when the coal mines closed). Basically the area which does the actual work while Düsseldorf and Cologne are busy sniping at each other...
Sexy Kohlekraftwerke :)
@@MrAchsas Jap.. sehr.. industriestark (hustet in Energiebranche)
The people in the masks were celebrating carneval (also called “Fasching”)! It’s a catholic holiday around February/March, just before lent. (Basically your last chance to eat and drink as much as you want before the 40 day fasting period starts, which then lasts until easter.)
Love from Berlin!
The true origin is not a catholic festival. it has a long history. it served to drive away the winter. Therefore, it is celebrated loudly and wild to scare the winter spirits. There are whip-like 'Kartätschen' that are as loud as cannons. The witches (dudes/girls with the masks) sometimes "steal" children from their parents during the parades.
In the Middle Ages it was then associated with celebrations to use up the less durable food before fasting (merging with catholic festivals). Later, as it is still the culture of the Swabians, the feast was used by the people to oppose the authorities.
Könnte auch Fasnet gewesen sein, wenns um Schwaben geht oder um Baden
In Germany there is always something to celebrate, around the year some kind of festival is happening. 🥂🍹🍻🍾🥨🍖🍗🍿🎉🎉🎉
yes todays party is because it is friday😅
Nothing to celebrate during the entire summer.
Hey guys! If you want to know more about those festival (it´s called Fasching,Karneval or Fasnet,depending on the region) I can highly recommand "Feli from Germany" she made a video about it. It´s celebrating every feburary for about a week and ends with the beginning of the lent,but start on the 11.11 at 11:11 o clock.
Mainz bleibt Mainz wie‘s singt und lacht!
Being from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock to be exact, you have no idea how accurate the description as a grumpy old man is 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 genius
Hi there. I am from Mecklenburg Vorpommern.
As you can imagaine since we have so many lakes, beaches, coastal towns,
the biggest german island and one of the biggest open air theaters we also have the most tourism here next to bavaria.
If you visit I would totaly advice you to watch the "Störtebecker Festspiele" its a theater show on that open air stage, where real horses and ships are part of the experiance.
The Grimm Brothers are Hessians. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt. They collected their fairy tales in Kassel, my Hometown. A lot of the the Places are here, for excample the Castle of Snow White, the Sababurg.
"The Bavarian is the link between Human and Austrian"
As an Austrian:... I cant argue against that.
We are kinda built different.
Here a *Hessisch Mädche* !
The festivals are called *Karneval, Fastnacht or Fasching* . Depends on region/state. Here in Hessen it's actually called *Fastnacht* . Also called the 5th season. Celebrated before "Fastenzeit" begins (47 days before Easter). Early Thursday, late Wednesday. Before you "fast" (moderate yourself), there is a real big celebration. On balls and also streets. Is a christian religious thing. The wild costumes come from the fact that the Winter should be driven away. That's the short version. The customs encompass regionally too much to describe it here. ✌🏼
In the north you say "Moin" to greet and "Moin Moin" if you also like to have a little chat.
It really depends where you are
There are different rules the different parts of "Schleswig Holstein" but also in lower Saxony and in Hamburg.
Greetings from Lower Saxony. I pretty much grew up here, but was born in Northern Westphalia. I live near Wolfsburg and the building with the blue dome is a planetarium in the middle of a park. It was gifted to the city in 1978 by VW for their 40th anniversary of founding.
Oh and we also celebrate Fasching/carnival in Lower Saxony. In the city I live in is a parade every year.
@TK Top TRavel
A "Dirndl" is that dress which the woman at 3:21 is wearing. It's like the female pendant to the "Lederhosen". Traditionally men wear "Lederhosen" and woman "Dirndl".
Hey guys 😉 i am living in the state of Bavaria, a dirndl is a traditional Bavarian dress for women and the picture with the masks is from the carnival parades in that state 😉 Keep up the good work and stay safe 🙋🏻♂️
"Schwäbisch Alemannische Fasnet" Baden-Württemberg
As Arno stated: The mask processions at the beginning are not Bavarian, they are from Baden-Württemberg; part of the Allemanic heritage of that state. Bavarians do other things, especially the Krampuslauf in the Alpine regions, which is a procession around St. Nicholas Day (6 December), where a bunch of young lads dress up as monsters under the control of St. Nick, and go around smacking girls with pigs bladders (which I witnessed in Salzburg, where my then British girlfriend (and now wife) got hit (upon) in the true sense of the word).
Baden-Württemberg is actually the last remnant of the old Duchy of Swabia which was before it was conquered by the Franks around 502/507 AD the Alemannic Kingdom (and included the Alsace, most of Switzerland and parts of Austria as well). The Suebi (or some of the Suebian tribes) were part of the Alemans (which were a conglomerate of different tribes), and "Swabia" refers to them. But the Swabian dialects were actually only spoken in "Old Württemberg" (the region which belonged to Württemberg before Napoleon doubled it): In the valley of river Neckar, at the Swabian Alb and in parts of the Danube valley, but they do slowly expand to the South since then. There is also a small region in the North, where they speak a Franconian dialect, but up to two thirds are speaking High or Lower Alemannic - Swiss German is also High Alemannic. And the masks you saw are not Swabian, but Alemannic culture (or at least part of the "Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet" culture, which includes the overlapping between Swabian and Alemannic) - but this is an error often made by Germans from other states.
"Fasnet" is the local version of carnival, by the way, and happens between Epiphany (Jan 6th.) and Ash Wednesday (the wednesday 40 days before Easter), culminating in the last week before wednesday with Schmotziger or Gumpiger Doschdig (Fat or Jumpy Thursday), Rußiger or Bromiger Fridig (Sooty or Blackberry Friday - if you greet someone, you try to leave a sooty or black mark in his face), Schmalziger Samsdig (Greasy Saturday), Fasnets-Sonndig (Carnival Sunday), Fasnetsmondig or Rosenmontag (Rose's monday) and Fasnetsdienschdig (Carnival Tuesday), when in the evening a mourning ceremony is held with eulogies on this year's Fasnet before it is cremated.
The Duchy of Swabia was the powerhouse of the Holy Roman Empire (many famous dynasties had their original family seats here, like the Habsburg, the Hohenstaufen, the Welfs and the Hohenzollern), and Baden-Württemberg is often seen as the center of innovation in Germany. The original "Swabian" culture was characterized by becoming Pietestic after the Reformation with a strong hierocracy (= rule of the priests) - they had a law by which you could be dispossesed if you did not care for your estate and your belongings, and denunciators got a share of it. So everyone paid attention to show all neighbors how hardworking, pious and tidy they were, they cleaned everything often, and if they did the laundry, they dried it on lines outdoors at a place where everyone could see it from the street. The Alemans in Baden and Upper Swabia (between the Danube and Lake Constance) - whether Catholic or Protestant - on the other hand had a more joyful way of life, loving to eat well and to celebrate at every occasion.
Not only Bavaria had their own king at that time. Napoleon declared the Duchies of Hannover, Saxony, Württemberg and Bavaria to be Kingdoms and the Principalites of Baden, Hessia and Berg to be Grand Duchies, since thoses states had declared their exit from the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and instead founded the Confederation of the Rhine, which allied with Napoleon. While Hannover was conquered and annexed in 1866 by Prussia, the other ones stayed Kingdoms until 1918. Bavaria and Austria are close to another, but also constantly competing and often quarreling. Bavaria consists of very different regions: Upper and Lower Bavaria as well as the Upper Palatinate, where they speak different Bavarian dialects, Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia, where they speak Franconian dialects (and have far more craft breweries as well as some wine regions) and Bavarian Swabia (where they speak a mixture of Swabian-Alemannic and Bavarian dialect) which includes the Bavarian Allgäu.
Lower Saxony: 8:54 Wolfsburg is perhaps the youngest city in Germany. Before the 1930s it was only a small rural district with a castle. Then the Volkswagen factory was built here, and now it is the VW city.
Wernher von Braun built the V2 rocket on Usedom near Swinemünde. She was also shot from there towards London. The V2 was practically the basis of the Apollo mission.
I live near Frankfurt - I'm English and therefore an incomer. The people are really nice here - I love how international it feels. Now the pandemic is receding, we're hoping to visit other parts of the country this year.
Visit NRW! It's great. You may stumble across a lot of trash in düsseldorf and köln... literally, visit the area between both cities, like monheim, hilden or erkrath. If you want to visit the cleanest city in germany (as per the german tv show galileo), visit langenfeld, but as far as I have heard there is not a lot going on over there.
Swabian here 😊 Basically only 2/3s of Baden Württemberg are Swabian. Another third (mostly the western part) is historically Baden (which also is another dialect). I myself come from the Swabian part of Bavaria (with Augsburg as it’s capital) so you could say the original Swabian region is from Stuttgart in bw to Augsburg in Bavaria (they just split it up for bureaucratic reasons). Those costumes you saw are mostly worn during the carnival season which in Germany starts at 11:11am on the 11th of November and ends on Ash Wednesday in February. And yes, the dialect is very thick 😅 thank you for your reaction, it was nice to watch
Great reaction guys as always! Hi from Stuttgart, capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg - and home to firms as Porsche, Mercedes, Bosch... 😉
Und du bist der Besitzer der Unternehmen oder warum hängen deine Eier so raus ?
I think it have to be mentioned that the "poor" Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is meanwhile the most popular destination for vacation for all Germans, after Bavaria have had this status over decades before.
Minute 16:03 It is the schwäbisch-alemannische carnival the carnival in southwestern Germany and parts of the North East and Central Switzerland is referred to [1]. There she is usually Fasnad, carnival, carnival or Fasent. It borders away from the Rhenish Carnival, however, is established as a separate form only since the first quarter of the 20th century. During the Carnival in the 18th century developed a new form of carnival and einschwenkte the Swabian-Alemannic carnival landscape out she changed her mind in the 20th century on their traditions of medieval and early modern carnival.
3:20 Dirndls are the traditional Bavarian dresses.
Hey, i am from Lower saxony (Osnabrück) and I love your Videos ;)
Hey, big thank your for this great video from the beautiful Hessen, Germany!
Aside from the financial stuff and the big cities in the rhine/main area, we have some great nature as well such as the volcanic area “Vogelsberg” or the national park “Kellerwald-Edersee” :)
Friedrich Schiller lived in Waimar, but he's from Württemberg, from where he fled coz he deserted the military, for the simple reason that he disagreed on being rented out as a soldier. He was one of the most famous freedom fighters and writers of Germany. You can still find translated books of his.
That carnivals is called Fasnacht in German and we also have that here in Switzerland. It is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent.The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typically involves public celebrations, including events such as parades, public street parties and other entertainments, combining some elements of a circus. Elaborate costumes and masks allow people to set aside their everyday individuality and experience a heightened sense of social unity. Participants often indulge in excessive consumption of alcohol, meat, and other foods that will be forgone during upcoming Lent. Traditionally, butter, milk, and other animal products were not consumed "excessively", rather, their stock was fully consumed during Shrovetide as to reduce waste. During Lent, lacticinia and animal products are eaten less, and individuals make a Lenten sacrifice, thus giving up a certain object or activity of desire.
East-Frisian here. "Moin" is actually more like a northern Germany thing in general and not only Schleswig-Holstein. There is also a year old debate on which invented the Moin first because everybody up north says it.
Little Fact to Schleswig-Holstein tho: There is a little village called Wacken, and once a year it hosts one of the biggest Heavy Metal festivals in the World, the Wacken Open Air, or W:O:A in short.
In the case of North Rhine-Westphalia, only Westphalia was shown on the map.
Sanssouci was the castle of Frederick the great. A Prussian king who had a major impact on German history.
the lake Müritz is actually the greatest unified nature protection area in Germany called Müritz national park, so there isn't much room for heavy industry here, yet it's a great place for soft tourism either with a camping wagon or with a boat, there are hotels too, but that's more on the coastal side + we are the only state with two universities Rostock & Greifswald (literal translation hippogriff's forest) - the last one is also the birthplace of the famous painter Casper David Friedrich, oh, and you can call Mecklenburg-Vorpommern MV for short, same goes for Baden-Württemberg BaWü
Saxons only came from Lower Saxony. Nowadays' "Saxony" was still a Slavic country in Anglo-Saxon times. Only the name moved there in medieval times. But thanks anyway, great video. - Oh well, now guess which state I'm watching from ;-)
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I live in Eastern Belgium, a 20-minute drive to the German border, into Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate). I've done the beautiful Moseltal (Valley of the Mosel) a number of times between Bernkastel-Kues to Cochem, but I just cannot get tired of it - and of their Eiswein (sweet, late harvest white wine). I also enjoyed vistiting gorgeous Bavaria four times, and I have one anecdote that seems to confirm the Bavarians' independent state of mind. Several years ago I drove across the border from Austria into Germany near Berchtesgaden. On the roadside right after the border was a large, shiny sign in the white and blue colors of Bavaria that proclaimed "Freie Staat Bayern" (Free State Bavaria), you could not miss it. A bit further on the same roadside was an old milestone, half hidden in the grass, that said "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (Federal Republic Germany), I almost missed it. I still wonder if there was a message there. I can get along in German without being really fluent (French being my mother tongue and everyday language), and most of the time I figure out without much hardship what our neighbors in Rheinland-Pfalz say. It's much more difficult with the kind of German spoken by the Bavarians.
J'aime beaucoup la Belgique et j'ai déjà voyagé près de la frontière allemande ( Eupen, Butgenbach, Welkenraedt, Liège, Visé ) et une fois a Namur. Les paysages sont jolis et les gens sympas. J'aimerais connaître Bruxelles, les Ardennes et aussi les Flandres. Comme allemand, j'ai curiosité pour le néerlandais. Zo ben ik ook aan het leren nederlands, is ook mooi.
@@hannofranz7973 Bonjour. Je travaillais à Bruxelles, mais lorsque j'ai pris ma retraite voici presque deux ans nous avons choisi d'aller vivre en Ardenne (je suis un Alter Mann de 65 ans), ma femme et moi préférons la tranquillité de la campagne. Je vis dans une ville francophone mais juste à la limite de l'Ostbelgien germanophone (St-Vith, Burg Reuland) - ich wechsle die Kommune, ich ändere die Sprache. La frontière luxembourgeoise n'est pas loin non plus (17 kms). Nous adorons notre vie transfrontalière, multiculturelle.
if you say "moin moin" here, you already count as a person who talks too much. just one "moin" is enough.
and they say we don't have a sense of humor XD
Welllll actuallyyy, it's "MOIN MEISTER, WAS GEHT DU SACK!"
Moin Moin , i watch from Low Saxony (Niedersachsen) , in close proximity to the Netherlands.
Cottbus „Castle“ in Brandenburg is actually a Theatre
If Keith would have been with Barbs back then he would have named Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Kieler Woche in Schleswig-Holstein and of course Barbs missed our beaches in Travemünde, Timmendorfer Strand, Strande, Schilksee, Kalifornien (California) and Brasilien (Brasil) who are just 2 km (1,25 Miles ) away over here 😁 Schleswig-Holstein is the only Bundesland surrounded by sea. And the most northern Frisians , the Northern Frisians live here. We speak Plattdeutsch too by the way. Oh I am a Northern Frisian btw, but living in Kiel since 1998. And we say only Moin. Moin Moin is allready too much Talk 😉
Hey guys, thanks for your reaction to this video!
Let me point out two small corrections, first because I am a German hairsplitter, and also because I am from the state of:
- North Rhine-Westphalia (not North-Rhineland-Westphalia), Nordrhein-Westfalen in German
- The capital of Lower Saxony is spelled Hannover with two "n's"
The English word for Hannover is Hanover. As Cologne is for Köln or Munich for München.
@@MoLauer Thanks for your feedback! I wasn't aware of this which is embarrasing because I used to study English at Uni. Well, you never stop learning :)
Hey there, guy from Saxony (or actually: Sachsen, as we call it in german).
I feel like we didn't come across very well in that one! 😅
Yes, Saxons are one of the oldest tribes of Germans but they originally settled on the coast of the North Sea. Some went to Enlgand from there like he said and some moved south east and formed modern Saxony. And just like the bavarians we too had our own king once, albeit only from 1806 until 1918.
Our best known city is probably the capital Dresden which even though being bombed to rubble towards the end of ww2 still has some of the beautiful baroque era buildings either heavily reconstructed or even rebuilt from scratch to look like their historic counterparts.
The largest city would be my home town of Leipzig which has experienced an enormous boom in recent years after the economic collapse reunification had brought. In the last 20 years its population grew by 100.000 people! That's just nuts! 😅
Several universities and colleges as well as a tradition in music and trade which has always made Leipzig a little different from the rest of Saxony also means that it attracts a lot of young people both from other parts of Germany and from abroad while rural Saxony has a huge problem of slow depopulation, futher deepening the divide in mindsets and identity. It's definitely a cool place to live in if you can accept that after telling where you're from you'll have to spend at least 5 minutes explaining, why the bad stereotypes of Saxony don't apply to you. 😅
The Saxons from East Germany didn't come from the North-Sea.They got their name in the middle ages.The real Saxons are the Northern Germans.
@@honkytonk4465 granted, it weren't so much the actual people who moved but after several divisions and reorganizations the title "duke of Saxons" ended up in the area that would later become Saxony. And I guess the middle ages are long enough ago for us to count as "real Saxons", don't you think?
@@michaausleipzig no,there cannot be two real Saxons
@@honkytonk4465 wow ... you're really giving the term "Ewiggestriger" a whole new meaning! 😅
By the way, there is also a city of Stuttgart in Arkansas / USA. There are many more cities in the USA with the same name as in Germany, for example Berlin, Ulm, Frankfurt, Hanover. The founders were German emigrants. No wonder, well over 25% of the American population has German ancestors and represents the largest ethnic group.
Hi I‘m from Rhineland-Palatinate, and he was not wrong about the wine areas here 😊. Greetings!
8:58 This is a planetarium. A planetarium is a building where lights are shone on the ceiling to represent the planets and the stars and to show how they appear to move.
The one with the masks is the Swabian - Alemannic Fastnacht or carnival.
they can use the micorgaritiytower for 18 seconds. 9 sec up, 9 sec down.
Moin (= Hello) from Schleswig-Holstein, the land between the seas, popular tourist destination for Germans from other states and famous for the Kiel canal which is the busiest canal in the world and connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea so ships don't have to go all the way around Denmark.
Would be nice if he had mentioned the Schwäbische Alb in Baden-Württemberg. It is one of the earliest areas of human sedentariness in the world. The two oldest human artworks, the Löwenmensch (Lionman) and the Venus vom Hohlefels (Venus of the hollow rock), are from here. Both just over 40.000 years old.
That’s worth a mention in my opinion.
And by the way it’s absolutely beautiful there.
October fest waiter record is 27 x 1liters beer with glas jugs bring in once to table, = 136 lbs/ 61,74 kg !
Great one again. Greetings from Hamburg. No, I do not like fish that much. 🤣
I'm from Nordrhein-Westfalen and I definitely loved this video too :-)
There were a lot of errors in the video
"Fasnacht" would be a good term for it, generally.
the Carnival celebrations are the German equivalent of Mardi Gras, and the Rhinelanders really go crazy during that time of the year. Other Germans (like me) don't really understand it as well. btw I'm from northern Hesse and we're known in Germany as the grumpy people.
Hey!! Brothers Grimm came from Hesse.
seine Geschichten spielten aber im Schwarzwald.
@@m_amen Hi. 2 brothers. Storries in almost 60 communities in 5 states. That was the idea behind it. Collect the regional, local storries (and "Bänkellieder") and after they have been revised assemble them into a collection.
@@m_amen Nein, sehe ich anders. Das Märchen Rotkäppchen lässt sich z. B. direkt auf eine Hessische Tracht ableiten. Und Schneewittchen hat einen klaren Bezug zum Siebengebirge am Rhein. Das kalte Herz spielt im Schwarzwald, ist aber nicht von den Gebrüdern Grimm.
Greetings from saxony, from the town that hosts the biggest mineral collection on display for tourists world wide and has the oldest mining university of the world that still educated students today, me among them: Freiberg (Free-mountain)! Also u can visit many of the old silver mining tunnels below the city.
Cool video, a few tips on prononciation tho:
for Mainz speak "mines", for Kiel speak "keel".
Hi. I am living in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Come over and visit Germany!
In Wolfsburg is the main seat of Volkswagen.
Here some information abaut carnival. The carnival session, also known as the "Fifth Season", begins each year on 11 November at 11:11 a.m. and finishes on Ash Wednesday of the following year (normaly in February) with the main festivities happening around Rosenmontag (Rose Monday).
Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_Germany,_Switzerland_and_Austria
The Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, Fasnacht (in Switzerland) or Fasnat/Faschnat (in Vorarlberg) is the pre-Lenten carnival in Alemannic folklore in Switzerland, southern Germany, Alsace and Vorarlberg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian-Alemannic_Fastnacht
Swabian/Schwäbisch and its culture is directly derived from the ancient Germanic tribe of the Svabs of around 3000 years ago. They settled in that area, were mildly settled by the Romans, later Christianized, and yet still retained lots and lots of their own culture throughout the millenia. They seem to be a very traditional people, settling in one area and then staying there really, really firmly.
Dirndl: the traditional female Bavarian folk dress for women, with the Lederhosen/the just above knee leather pants being the male equivalent.
You can see a Dirndl as well as the Lederhosen at 3:19.
The Dirndl is a fairly long dress cut to reveal quite a lot of cleavage yet still retain enough modesty. Ie showing off "the goods" without becoming too suggestive. If you get my drift.
Both, female and male, were usually paired with a blouse or collared shirt, with quite ornate stitching and patterns. Women wore low cut shoes, men quite solid shoes.
Men wore bound long socks ending right below the knee, women wore long, white stockings fastened with straps. The front leather applications of Lederhosen were traditionally embroidered leather straps linking both suspenders keeping the pants up. As these pants really were made from quite stout leather they tended to last for decades, possibly even through generations of wearers. But they were fairly stiff, and had virtually no give in them, so they had to be cut fairly wide, meaning they had to be secured with suspenders.
The tower at 4:12 in Berlin with the spherical top was the former East German/East Berlin TV and radio broadcast tower.
It was the proverbial 'middle finger' of the former Socialist East German government to the West.
In the vein of "Yeah, yeah, we know that the West is supposed to be sooo advanced. But look, WE got a larger tower than your western part, so there... nyah, nyah, nyaaaah."
Yeah, Berlin is one hell of a touristy city. Yet it still retains a LOT of its original villages' and towns' character that slowly got merged into this huge conurb.
By now Berlin has succeeded in straightening out its finances somewhat, and they are able to keep their budget above deficit spending.
But to be honest, in 2003 that was a mere 13 years after the German reunification with HUUUUGE amounts of construction still going on trying to bring the East Berlin infrastructure up to snuff. Many old roads that had been cut by the Berlin Wall had to be completely rebuilt. Subway stations had to be reconstructed, sewers reconnected, yada-yada-yada. That was one of THE largest money graves imaginable. The central plaza, the Alexander Platz, had to be completely, (yes, completely) rebuilt, while traffic had to be somehow routed around it. That's almost like saying, lets tear down three blocks including Time Square in New York, routing subways, cars, sewers, electricity, etc, around that full time construction site while NOT collapsing the total of Manhattan with it. Oh, and the rest of the freeways into and out of New York are being rebuilt at the same time. Let's add major lane congestion on the Washington Bridge to that mix.
Welcome to the construction hell that was Berlin for nearly two decades.
By now, nearly 30 years later, Berlin has become a LOT more prosperous.
BER airport in Brandenburg finally opened, right for the pandemic to hit, in 2020. Talk about timing, right?
As a Hamburg resident I have to say I am actually proud of my city. While it is most well known for its party culture and red light district it offer sooo much more than that. It is an incredibly green city. It has multiple major parks, each of which is larger than Central Park in NY. Many museums, musical theaters, etc.
The Saxons that are part of the Anglosaxons were actually from Lower Saxony and have nothing to do with todays Saxony. Confusing I know.
And not forgetting the tribe of Angeln mostly from Schleswig Holstein and Denmark.
After all, Anglo-Saxons...
Bavaria wasn't the only state with a king......
There were also the kingdoms of Prussia, Saxony, Württemberg and Hannover.
6:24 that is our City Bremerhaven. You there the Skyline at the Weser. The northern bush al Arab Hotel😂 here called we this hotel: Sail City Hotel. And Bremen our Federal state have a long history. But our city quarter Lehe is over 700 years old. But my village at the weser here is over 900 years old.
It is the week befor the fasting. So it is in february or march. The Last big Party
16:20 (2 Weissbier)
"It's huge!" 😂
This is standard size = 0,5 L
The big beer is the "Mass" = 1 L
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like wine in Rheinlad Pflaz
come and drink Baltazar bootle *12L Melchior 18L or Melchsedech 30 L XD
The mask parades are in the winter during carnival. Usually end of January to February, it ends on ash Wednesday when the fasting period (Christian custom) begins.
there is a big mistake in the clip. saxony was not the state that conquer britain, that was lower saxony, the tribe of saxony has nothing to do with the state of saxony, only the name
I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter.
Oversimplified:
Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them
Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 1000 years - very special and unique
The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals.
defeat the French, unites into a new empire
Get a colonial empire
Fight Europe alone and almost won..
Is treated badly
Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again and only lost because of own mistakes
Gets divided again
Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again.
Also a few German inventions:
- Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854)
- The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859)
- The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866)
- The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925)
- Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 1938)
- The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969)
- Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864)
- Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873)
- The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887)
- The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879)
- Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902)
- Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903)
- the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg)
- The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz)
- Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928)
- Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929)
- The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929)
- First rocket (general)
- The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936)
- The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886)
- First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941)
- First 3D film (during the Nazi period)
- Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era)
- The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869)
- NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves)
Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art.
Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known.
The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, primarily the USA, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy.
It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all German were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power.
We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age.
What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same.
Most Europeans who settled America were actually German. As a German, I find German names everywhere for famous Americans like Eisenhower. 'Eisen' means Iron in German. But you don't realize it. Many of you are more German than you think, especially on the east coast. It came out that 43 million Germans went to America at the time.
Which I also find very interesting.. In your schools you only talk about how great the Americans, actually Europeans, were. But you know not so much about the darkest sides.. Only if you really study history. Here in Germany we talk about everything. No detail is left out. I met an "American" who said he was very proud of his country because he had nothing to do with the extermination of the Real Americans but with the great D-Day. Isn't that absolutely ridiculous? Then, as a German, I say we are the very best because we changed the world with our inventions and almost won twice against the whole world alone. But I have nothing to do with the Holocaust... It's just as stupid as the statement by the "American "
Which I always found very interesting. You're only a few hundred years old. It's been a long time for you. But here in Germany, every village is easily over 600 years old. I mean a beer company was founded in 1010 AD... Isn't that crazy.
It's near to impossible to give a correct generalized overview over the states. History in Europe is a complicated thing and almost every state has parts within it, which where at some time in history their "own state/country/area" sorta, but are now combined in a state. For example northern bavaria is quite different in dialect and regional customs then middle or south bavaria and this applies to almost every region in germany (or kinda europe). In some parts of germany you just need to drive to the next village and are unable to understand the dialect they speak
in what way is Hamburg the IT Center of Germany? Never heard that one before.
"Moin Moin" is translated something like "g'morning, g'morning'. 🧐🤓
omg i love your videos
The,, Wacken - Festival,, is one great Thing of, Schleswig-Holstein... Check Wacken Trailer 2019 /2018
If Covid is ever done, come to Germany in Carnival times. It's a lot to see there. It's around the time mardi gras is in the US.
There's a saying that the Scotts got expelled from stingy Swabia for being too lavish.
Greetings from Hesse State
Watching from Hamburg
You have to watch German carnival
Umzugs !
The way the guy said "Moin moin" sounded so damn German wtf
I live in Lower Saxony or as the Germans say: NIEDERSACHSEN
03:35 almost every German state had it’s own king back then!
He did the mistake many americans do, by saying that todays Saxony is the land of the germanic tribe of the saxons. That isn't true. The land of the germanic tribe was mostly Lower Saxony, the westfalian part of Northrine-Westfalia an some parts of Saxony-Anhalt. In the middle ages this part became a duchy and for some time they were also the german kings. Later around the year 1200 the duke of Saxony rebeld against the german king and got banned. The duchy got splitted and only the little part of Saxony-Anhalt remaind Saxony. Then later there was no longer a male heir and the house of saxony died out. At that time the nearest relatives received the title of duke of Saxony and that was the ruler of the area that is today called Saxony, but back then it wasn't called Saxony. They decided to took that name, because the title of duke was higher than what they had before and so they became Saxony. First it was called High Saxony, later the high got dropped. At that time the original Saxony got the name of Lower Saxony. That's why todays Saxony isn't the old or original Saxony of the germanic tribe.
Culturally the westfalian part of Northrine-Westfalia belongs more to Lower Saxony, but the americans when creating the Bundesländer after WW2 didn't want to split the Ruhr-Valley between two Bundesländer and so they decided to create an artificial Bundesland called Northrine-Westfalia, whithout caring about the historic realationsships of that areas. Originally the boarder between the northrine area and Westfalia is somewhere in the middle of the Ruhr-Valley.
The Amish do not speak low german(Plattdeutsch)it's the opposite, they speak an upper german dialect which is closer to high german.
No the Anglo-Saxons didn't come from Nowadays Saxony they came from Lower Saxony
My State is not spelling Nordrhineland Westphalia - the name is NORDRHINE WESTPHALIA
Carnival celebrations have different origins: In Rhineland is having fun the majority purpose and is comparable to Mardi Gras, Carnival in Rio and Halloween celebrations. It has about 2,000 years of history and is based on the last chance of celebrating before easter and the lenten season before easter. You have to get rid of many ingredients like eggs and meat. Therefore you deep-fry donuts and similar dishes. Over the years carneval became political. It is a way to criticise the government without harm or restrictions because you are obsessed by a jester/fool and cannot get punishment for it. There are traditional corps - a parody on military forces. They have guns with a flower in its barrel and the ultimate salute is to show their asses. The two strongholds in North-Rhine Westphalia are the biggest city Cologne and capital Düsseldorf. In Düsseldorf governs the Hoppeditz (the local fool) while in Cologne the Nubbel. On November 11th. they awake and take over the city halls until Ash Wednesday. But in charge are the local carneval committees represented by the Elferrat (committee of 11 members) in Düsseldorf and Dreigestirn in Cologne (prince, farmer and maid) in Cologne. The third stronghold is capital Mainz in the Rhineland-Palatinte with slighly different traditions.
On the other hand is Fasching in Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland which has a lot more influence by medival folks. Most organizations follow their local fairytales and celebrate them. Origin is the banishment of evil ghosts and spirits of the winter. There are a ton of witches, ogres and all kinds of other monsters. Almost every town has its own historical monster cult. At least in their respective clubs and traditional associations.
Never say Moin- Moin in Schleswig Holstein ,only say Moin..... 🙂
Moin moin is schon Gesabbel. Grüße aus MV
@@martenwolff426 so ist es
😂 It really depends on where you are in Schleswig Holstein and sometimes on how many people you are greeting
But most of the times you can't do anything wrong by just saying moin
Do you wanna see an impression of carnival in cologne? These are very short but fun videos (they are from 2017 and 2018 - that were the last years I was celebrating carnival in cologne).
2017 - ua-cam.com/video/MUwkCC_5Xn8/v-deo.html
2018 - ua-cam.com/video/7o126Y3Qyr0/v-deo.html
I'm watching from Unterfranken (lower Franconia) and refuse to accept Bavaria, we are nothing alike xD.
Westphalians and Hessians also known for being very loud and out going.
3:36 Never ever our loved king drowned Himself. He was murdered
A Dirndl is a traditional Bavarian dress for women.
It would be awesome if you could react to Geography Now - Suriname :)
Im borning in Sachsen and living in Bremen
The best wine come from Baden
if you want to know more about german festivals: they are called Karneval, carnival and fasching in the south. this should show you a lot of videos.
Bro the airport is in Berlin
I am from Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia
Bavaria isn't the only state which had once a King!
*Johann Wolfgang Goethe*.
Grüße aus Deutschland an alle 🧡👍
bayern is austrias 10th state