Cologne has its very own kind of dialect "kölsch". It is different to dialects like Bavarian, Friesan, Northern, etc. and has a specific "melody", that gets easily recognized by other Germans. Even if I try to speak my best standard German, people can immediately tell that I am from the Rhineland region or even Cologne. - And yes, you get to taste the chocolate at the chocolate museum. Not during the pandemic, but usually there is someone at the chocolate fountain with shortfinger waffles, that get dipped into the molten chocolate of the chocolate fountain. It is the highlight for all the kids.
As many said. Platt is spoken in Hamburg and the north. Cologne speak Kölsch, wich ist totaly different. Also Platt is its own language and Kölsch is a dialect.
@@pascalrange2275 yes, and there are more Kölsch and Platt Styles....my Grandma spoke Sauerländer Platt. There were times Kölsch was an own Langauge, not only an dialect like today
I live in Cologne and if you ever come... then you are most welcome & Hamburg is at least as worth seeing and cannot be compared with Cologne! That means... you have to see both cities! So see you soon 🙂
Hi, Dwayne! My home city! YEAH! 🤗 This city is more than 2.000 years old! Before Word War II it must have been very beautifull. (I saw a few paintings). During "Corona" the people`s opinion were split into two! But I think the majority of the people were “in line” with the media. In any case, my experience was that many people were skeptical and found everything exaggerated. Others were totally scared. Btw, we also have a mustard museum! 😄 Oooooh, many things are not shown in this video! ....SO, YOU HAVE TO COME! 🤗😆 Hamburg is a world city and cool. Cologne is cosmopolitan and also cool. Both have water and much green. ...It is said, that Cologne is "a feeling"!!!
We have some nice "Irish Pubs" in the "old town" of cologne. I met a lot of people from Britain there. I met a group of guys that explained to me that it is cheaper for them to fly to Cologne and have fun than travel to London 🤣. And a night with British folks is always funny 🤣like you guys (and girls)
I live near the center of CGN and can not deny. For me it is exactly like you said, a perfect medium. The happiest, most open city I ever lived in. Full of old traditions, buildings, history, well mixed up with the ultra modern. The rhine river always gives me some calming, free feelings, a place to relax, do some running, crossing the rhine sides and, of course, fresh air. I❤CGN and pretty sure you will too.
Pity the vid does not mention that Cologne is one of the oldest German cities: it was founded in Roman times. That is also where the city name comes from as the Latin name is Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
The Romans founded the city as Colonia Claudia, for the wife of the first governor. This gave rise to the name Cologne, in German Köln. After 625 years of construction, Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880. In the 16th century, construction was interrupted and the unfinished cathedral became a landmark. Construction was not resumed until 1842. When the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris, the builders decided to build an iron roof structure into the cathedral. But this is not visible from the outside. After WW2, Cologne was in ruins, but the cathedral remained almost undamaged.
Hi i think it was because of Corona that the chocolate fountain in the chocolate museum was not shown😢 usually its the highlight of the visit😊 We live near cologne and have relatives in Hamburg so both cities are worth visiting because different in their special way an typical for different regions of germany
many forget to mention that not just the known Cologne Cathedral is interesting but that Cologne has also the maybe highest density of big old Romanic Churches/Cathedrals (12 of them form a half circle). "Romanic" is the older style referring back to the Roman Empire. Many cities in the world have many churches. But not many cities have many big old Romanic Churches. It is a bit of a difference if you visit an ordinary church or such old ones. Rome has also many Romanic churches but not that many "big" ones with this density.
1:50 Kölsch (could be translated to Colognish maybe?), to my knowledge, is a Middle German dialect. A hundred or maybe a couple hundred years ago, you could actually divide German speakers into High, Middle and Low German speakers (the latter being Platt, literally flat, like the northern landscape) but High German has absolutely taken over. I am not that familiar with Middle German bc you barely hear the term these days but I believe that it has largely become a substrate to the High German that is spoken today (meaning High German replaced Middle German but the latter did influence the former, as spoken by the locals, in the process). So the vast majority of people there will speak a version of High German (the language, not necessarily the dialect). I also believe most people in Cologne don't speak the local dialect, at least from experience (I used to live nearby) but I could be wrong on that. Platt used to be spoken in Westphalia (the other major region in NRW, the same state as Cologne, where I grew up and live now) but virtually no one knows how to speak it anymore. It's almost extinct here. People who actually still speak it are usually found well up North. 3:50 Cranes and pulley systems have been a thing since Roman times (maybe earlier, dunno). But yeah, would have used manpower or some beasts of burden then and obviously weren't nearly as effective as modern cranes. Anyways, I never wonder that because I know how people did it: throw more money at it ^^ There's a reason it's always churches and palaces being this ridiculously intricate. 12:00 I'd say only if there were controls. You simply had to put on a mask to enter a supermarket, for example, so people did it. But a train packed to the brim with people, so the ticket inspector can't move through the train and see if people had on their masks? Yeah, no one put them on and the ticket inspector didn't give a fuck either, despite DB regulations.
Best City - how do you want to compare cities, that's not possible, each one is different. A similar comparison would be which color is better, blue or orange. -
There is a legend about Cologne, I don't know whether it was real or invented. But after the Second World War there were plans to abandon the city of Cologne and preserve it as a memorial because it was completely destroyed. Cologne was to be rebuilt a little outside. However, since the cathedral was hardly damaged, it was considered a miracle for the people of Cologne and the people of Cologne saw it as a sign to rebuild Cologne. As I said, it's a legend, so I can't guarantee that the story is true, but it's a beautiful story. In addition, in the Middle Ages there were cranes that looked more like a wheel in a hamster cage, only very large, whereby two or more men could move this wheel by running and use it to pull loads to greater heights. And even today, repair work is constantly being carried out on Cologne Cathedral, as the sandstone from which the cathedral was built weathers over time. There are still cathedral craftsmen there who work as stonemasons and make all the new parts. By the way, the tallest church tower in the world is in Ulm in southern Germany. Koblenz, further south of Cologne, also has a cable car that goes over the Rhine. I think that's a very good thing.
the cologne cathedral was an anker point for flights like bombers, shooters and everything else... Without RADAR and only flying by sight, you need some marks on the land. Therefore, during the war(s) it was forbidden to attack the chuch 'couse it's a POI object. Never the less it is still under conscruction like 800 years ago and still needs maintaince for 20 decades
@@not7205 That is not completely right. Back then there were no precision attacks, only area bombings. The light Gothic building with its huge window areas reduced the destructive power of bomb strikes, the iron roof structure could not catch fire and a large number of volunteers worked as fire watchers in the cathedral throughout the war in order to immediately extinguish fires that had broken out. The cathedral was nevertheless badly damaged in several bombing raids. Especially by the British, who attacked at night. This isn't meant to be a blame game, it was just a war and something like that happened. I'm glad that it remained standing and is a landmark of Cologne.
If you google Cologne bombed after WW2 you can see that the cathedral was basically the only structure left intact after the bombing. Cologne was razed to the ground so it is a miracle that the cathedral was left unharmed.
Moin, Dwayne. "Platt" or Plattdeutsch can refer to many different dialects depending on who you ask. Most Northerners exclusively think of Northern Low German dialects when they hear the word "Platt" while there are some other regions in Central Germany that refer to their own dialects as Platt as well (Kölner Platt, Aachener Platz, Hunsrücker Platt etc.). The Low German dialects of the North, together with Frisian, are the closest to English you can get in Germany. If you want to listen to more of it, check out "en lütt Paket Plattdüütsch" with Yared Dibaba, texts like "De Buurnhoff" by Ina Müller, or "Junge Lüüd stellt sik vör" with Dieke Günther (the guy from the Meet the Germans road trip video), or low German songs like "Danz op de Deel" and "De Wind vun Hamborg", all on UA-cam.
Du hast schon recht. Hier gibt es Barmer Platt. Aber eigentlich weiß in Deutschland doch jeder, was gemeint ist, wenn man über Plattdeutsch spricht, oder? Platt ist offiziell anerkannt. Der Rest ist einfach nur lokaler Dialekt.
The dialects spoken in the Rhineland, which the Cologne dialect "Kölsch" is also part of, belong to the same dialect group as Plattdeutsch does, the Low German dialect group. And they share similarities, but they are not the same per se. Many people in the Rhineland do refer to their dialects as "Platt" (e. g. like Düsseldorfer Platt) but they are different to Plattdeutsch spoken in the north. "Platt" is cognate to English "flat", refering to its belonging to the Low German dialect continuum. And that "Low" doesn't refer to social status, as one could might think, but to elevation of the land. On the contrary High German dialects are spoken in the south where the landscape is hillier and montainous. Low German dialects are closer related to Dutch and English. Standard High German is closer to the High German dialects.
1:55, in Hamburg the old people speak Plattdeutsch, in Cologne the people speak Kölsch, a completely different dialect. I did work in Cologne for far over 10 years and I also know Hamburg and I can tell you, Hamburg is by far more beautiful. Hopefully you believe what I say because you should start with Hamburg, the most beautiful German city with charming people. Then you can look Cologne, Munich (I am born there) and Berlin (I live really nearby Berlin).
@@PPfilmemacher, in case of the houses and buildings I’m fully on their side. But the structure is still from Roman. And all the Roman parts like parts of the street and things in the museum I think alone is quite interesting. The beer is weird and not tasty at all, but also no alcohol inside so you can drink and drink and drink without getting fuzzy . The people are cool and openhearted. And the club scene is also good. So visiting Cologne is only because of the cathedral and the people, I would summarize this shortly.
@@anonymus390, come on, you can technically get drunk but in real you pee all out because you have to drink dozens of pints to get drunk. It is much to much liquid for your body. If you are a young person you might get drunk, but an adult… If you can‘t stand Kölsch you shouldn‘t taste any other beer for sure.
A few years ago "Ritter Sport" (chocolate brand) wanted to release a sugar free chocolate in Germany. But they were not allowed because there is a law that says that there MUST be sugar in it to call it "chocolate". Otherwise you can't call it "chocolate". 😆
Hi Dwayne ,when you will come to Cologne and if you like -contact me early enough an i would like to show you my Cologne ;) i live here nearly for 20 years and know every corner of City and places they didnt show in video ;) best wishes from Cologne ;)
If you are looking for the coziness of Munich, the grittiness of Berlin and Plattdüütsch, then Bremen is probably the city you are looking for. But to be honest, you won't find the perfect mix. Low German is still spoken today mainly in the countryside in Schleswig Holstein, in the area of the North Sea coast and on the German islands, but there are no larger cities that can be compared in any way with Berlin or Munich. So if you're looking for the real deal, then you have to go to the lion's den. All parts of Germany are sometimes so extremely different from each other, that the only thing they have in common is the German language. I would recommend visiting every part of Germany starting from the north to the south.
Berlin definitely also has done very fancy areas. Cologne has indeed the impressive cathedral, but the overall city is not that pretty. Hamburg would be a good mix of Berlin and Munich, but maybe is a bit too close to some British architecture with brickstone gothic etc. The advantage of Munich is, depending on how long you aim to stay, that you are relatively fast in the Alps to the south or cities such as Nuremberg, Bamberg or Rothenburg, which are amazing Medieval cities beside others in this region.
Berlin doesn't even have a city center... and like Hamburg and Munich, Berlin full of unfriendly people. If I had the choice, I would always go to Cologne. And I say that as someone who grew up in Mönchengladbach.
@@philippprime6844 Mitte ofc is a center, beside that big cities often have several centers, such as Berlin. And sure, everyone outside of the Rhineland is an unfriendly person. 🙄
@@bastyaya "Mitte" is not 'the' center. It has also not the most busy shopping street. It is even not the geographical center - thats a spot in Kreuzberg. No, Berlin is indeed poly centric and while many big cities have sub centers and kind of poly centric structures most big cities have still a clear center (Munich, Hamburg, Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Warsaw, Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York, Liverpool, Athens and so on). True is that in HAD in the past once a kind of center in what is now 'Mitte'. This was back then at the time of the double city Coelln-Berlin but in difference to most other cities which expanded from such a center in Berlin the gravity shifted towards other and multiple centers, not just because 'formally' during the cold war the the East had its center at Alexanderplatz and the West in Charlottenburg but already before. A good measurement is also how people in the everyday speak: they dont say in Berlin that they go now to the downtown or center or something like that. They refer from a more peripherical view to the 'city as such' without now meaning in particular 'Mitte' or address certain districts directly ...
@@publicminx I can follwow some of your argumentation, but definitely not all of it. I would still say that Mitte is kind of a "center" of Berlin although yes, it is poly centered. That the center should be geographically in the center as well, is not the case in so many cities. And that it should host the most shopping streets... that maybe often comes along with each other, but this is not an argument for defining a center. Also in many other cities it is difficult to define where exactly it is. I lived in Paris and Rome for instance. In Paris everyone is referring to arrondissements rather than saying the center. And I would not even know where exactly that should be in Rome. In Centro storico? Around Piazza Navona or maybe around Via del Corso where the most shopping streets are. No clue. I think that is very much related to definitions and perceptions in many many cities.
The cathedral survived the war simply because the Americans and the British used it's towers as marking points so they could find the city even in the fog of war so they could bomb the surrounding areas and the industrial outskirts of Cologne. But even they they didn't bomb the cathedral intentionally, it was still hit several times by allied raids.
If you want to hear Plattdeutsch (Low German), you have to go to some small villages in northern Germany where old people live. And even then it will be difficult. 30 years ago you would have had a much better chance of listening to native speakers.
Could well be that Cologne is a good starting point of your Germany experience. People are friendly and open-minded and there is a lot of museums, concerts, and of course the Kölner Dom. But me personnally, I like Hamburg more. Btw. if you want to visit Berlin but don’t want to party all the time, just do not visit the party-aerea and you will be perfectly fine.
Corona does one job gratefully . The rate of possibility homeworking places rise up. If you want to settle in cologne, take care to choose the right side: It is the left side. The right side is called "De scheel sig". And don`t drive in Cologne by car. Hamburg is a little bit more international and bigger than Cologne. For my opinion one of the nicest Towns in Germany. But for a UA-camr is Cologne ore Berlin the place to be.
Standard German is the language that all Germans understand. A Frisian and a Bavarian would have difficulty understanding each other, the German dialects are so different. That's why Hochdeutsch (Standard High German) is taught in every German school.
Almost no one speaks Plattdeutsch anymore, even not in the north. Maybe some older people over 60 years. And even german people cant really understand what older people in Plattdeutsch would say ^^" Plattdeutsch is also spoken near cologne btw. That shouldnt be a factor to choose a city in any way. I was in both cities already 2 times and i love both, Cologne and Hamburg. But Hamburg is a lot more expensive in my opinion, and a got a bit more snobby over the time. And from Cologne, you can visit many other cities easier, since the most populated area is near cologne.
Don't know where you got the idea of Cologne and Plattdeutsch from - but Kölsch (as their dialect is called) may have relations with Platt - but is very much its own thing! So, on the language side, I don't think Köln would be your best place. However, everyone speaks English anyway (or almost everyone). Köln is certainly a good place to go, I'd say. Have a look at James Bray's videos, he was in Hamburg as well as cologne...
Are you aware that Cologne is also known as "The Gay capital of Germany"..? I don't mean it in any bad way or anything - just as a random fact! :) Anyway - I am not gay, but I lived around 40-50km next to cologne and went there frequently. Especially -> German carnival celebrations are huge there! Around 1.5 million people attending on the streets! A lot of fun! :) Btw: To build the "Kölner Dom" took over 600 years! Imagine how many people worked there over the years! *unbelievable_and_mind_blowing!
How did they build a cathedral like that? With human resources and an incredible loss thereof. Workforce was cheap back then and the death of a worker meant nearly nothing.
What is the difference of people from Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne? People of Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne say also nice things about other cities and stats. Most people from Munich only say nice things about Munich and Bayaria. Other towns and german states they talk badly about. If you want life in a city or state, where everybody everday swarm to life in paradise and all other people are lazy ones and failure, then munich and bayaria is your thing (the best people, the most beautiful town, best food, best nature, best bla bla bla everything).
This may be!!! A bit snooty.... (Doesn’t have to apply to all Munich residents)! 🤫 But I tell you something about Cologne: No one should say bad things about Cologne, just people from Cologne themselves are "aloud" to do that! 😂🤣😂
But I tell you something about munich. Even people from munich themselve doesn't say bad things about munich, because it is infallible. That's why it has the reputation to be a little bite boring, like a richt model student. And if you're honest, Munich isn't particularly known for having that little bit extra. Being perfect or wanting to be perfect is boring in the long run. Like people.
Remember: Everthing south of Hanover is... Well... South. 😉 So, No. Cologne definitely doesn't qualify as north. If you want to experience a real northern town, go to Flensburg, Lübeck or Emden. Those are nice. (I Like Emden. ☺️ (Hamburg ist a hanseatic city. Some might argue, that disqualifies it, too.) 🤫 Also, Frisian ist not a dialect, people. It's a language. Plattdeutsch ist not Frisian. They're two different things.☝️ (I hear that the Platt spoken in the region around Butjadingen and the Cuxhavener Land is the best preserved from its original form in medieval times. All the other versions were influenced by modern languages one way or the other. - Not sure if this is true, but east Frisian Platt certainly took a lot from dutch.) If you absolutely want to visit a big city, I'd probably recommend Hanover.
no, they dont talk plattdeutsch in köln. their dialect is called kölsch. you asked if learning german by using plattdeutsch is a good idea, chinese would be the option i guess.
Language: In Cologne, Kölsch is spoken as a dialect (the dialect has the same name as the regional beer). Kölsch belongs to the Ripuarian language and is part of the Lower Franconian language family. In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Low German (Westphalian and Eastphalian belong to the Lower Saxon languages within Low German) is spoken up to just above Cologne. Low German is spoken in northern Germany and is so diverse that they are hardly understandable among each other. I live in Remscheid in NRW, where "Remscheider Platt" is spoken (the last people who can still speak it) and is part of Westbergian and Lower Rhenish. Westphalian, Lower Rhine and Ripuarian meet here. Bergisch Low German is dying out. Ripuarisch is well cultivated in Cologne, especially in songs, as evidenced by the many carnival songs. Coronavirus: Many people blindly followed the regulations and restrictions of coronavirus protection measures. There were critics who agreed with the measures in principle, but wanted them to be well dosed and justified with expertise. I was one of them. We didn't deny coronavirus, but we wanted measures to be handled sensibly. I'm not talking about the first few months, when nobody knew how to deal with it, but the later course of events, when other countries were already easing measures. We were defamed, insulted and labeled as conspiracy theorists, corona deniers and anti-vaccinationists. It was a terrible time in which many people suffered and were indoctrinated: "Children, don't visit your grandparents - if you visit them, you'll kill them." Depending on the federal state, relatives were not allowed to visit people in hospitals and/or old people's homes - sometimes for up to two or three years. At my place of work, the last restrictions were lifted last summer.
1:09 Leipzig! Periodt. The only city that comes close to Berlin in terms of scene and party. However, it’s safer, cleaner and greener. And luckily it’s not as uptight as Hamburg and München because it’s in the East.
moin!...... hier op plattdüütsch, ik bün anspannt, of du dit hier lesen un verstahn kannst. Ik un mien famile kaam ut noorddüütsland ruum cuxhaven un deels vun de eiland usedom vun de oostsee ( baltic sea) as ok ut noordfreesland in sleswig holsteen. da weer all plattdüütsch snackt😊👍 de ollen lüüd snack dat noch. de kinners lern dat bi tied in de school up'n land. so ik hoop du verstahn dat😅👍 dat plattdüütsche is de spraak vun de neddersassen (low saxony germany). heimat de saxen is noorddüütsland. ok nedderdüütsch nömmt, dat oolt engelsch entstammt ut dat plattdüütsch. de angelsaxen hebbt de spraak mit nah england brocht. allerbest un hool di goot un wuchtig mien keerl👍
Are you speaking Plattsdeutch it looks different from German. I'm trying to read it, I think you have said that you speak Plattdeutsch. Your family come from north Germany? Something about kids learning it at School. Something about Plattdeutsch being spoken in low saxon germany and you said something about old english and plattdeutch being from the anglo saxons. I could be completely wrong, but from my English trying to interpret it, that's what I read. How wrong am i? lol!
@@dwayneslens moin👍😁! your translation is absoutly correct👍, perfect! ..yes, ..low german( plattdeutsch) is a very old german language, the usual high german only developed when the brothers grimm developed high german from all dialects for their fairy tales and legends. so that every educated german could read the stories. the plattdeutsch dialects are little bit difference from region to region in north germany. plattdeutsch its easyer to learn as high german👍😁. so dat weer up engelsch , ik hoop mien engelsch kannst du verstahn😁. dat plattdüütsche kannst du ok in’t Internet dör Schoolprogramm lehren. dat weer wat för di😁👍. allerbest un goote 👍😁
Cologne got its name from the brand name “Kölnisches Wasser/4711”… the 4711 being the street address of their store.Also, the Cologne dialect is nothing like Plattdeutsch which is spoken at the Northwestern coast, whereas Cologne is wedged between central Germany and the Netherlands, much further South!
@@B-Dx OMG, B-DX….! Have you SEEN the actual video and understood what they are talking about? I was referring to the same thing the video talks about! Of course Cologne got its name from the Romans. I was talking about “cologne” as in “fragrance/scent/perfume”!!!! That’s why colognes by every producer of fragrances today is referred to as a “cologne” to distinguish them from their lines of perfumes!
On the one hand its fantastic to see this kind of architecture, on the other hand i also always think about how bad some people would have been exploited in slave like conditions to work there. And now i wonder, are there even movies or reports abut that ? I remember at least that i see sometimes about the work at the Pyramids, but not sure about stuff about Cathedrals.
moin vun de waterkant😊,..westphahlen platt hörrt to de nedderdüütsch spraak un is mit dat plattdüütsch verwandt. de spraak höört to dat germaansch ooldsächsisch. allerbest un goote 👍
Cologne is one of the oldest cities in Germany. Unfortunatly they never learned how to brew a decent beer, not even after such a long time. That's why in most cases they will offer you a Kölsch. The only positive effect is, the glasses are quite small.
As high german speaker "kölsch" and platt deutsch is the worst german to listen to :D it's not even close to a clear german. it took 632 years of building the cologne cathedral.. it was finished in 1880.
Well, Plattdeutsch is not even close to standard German because... it's indeed not very closely related to standard German. From a linguist's point of view, it's closer to Dutch and English. On the contrary, Kölsch is a just a dialect of standard German. And about beauty? Well, it's in the ear of the listener, I reckon.
As somebody living in Cologne for over 40 years now, i have to say... You are right. Cologne is a bit "worn out". However, i like the people living here. There are also other places worth mentioning. But this all depends on personal preferences. For me Berlin is to big, Munich to fancy, Hamburg to cold....
Berlin has the most green spaces and parks. Just google it, there are also many lakes, such as Wannseee, Müggelsee, Tegelersee etc. Also the Havel, the Spree, the Dahme etc. Don't talk nonsense. There is also the Grunewald, the Tegelerforst etc., the cities you mentioned cannot keep up in terms of area, the green areas, water areas and forest areas in Berlin, make up almost the entire area of Munich, simple google it.
It depends, what you like. I love the sea. Mountains are nice but the sea I love. So for me Hamburg its nicer then Munich. Even Berlin is closer to the sea.
Btw. the tallest church in the whole world isn't that far away in Ulm, and actually looks very similar, only it has just one tower instead of twin towers. And since Ulm isn't as big a city as cologne it stands out even more in the skyline. Both were finished only about 130ish years ago. And the cologne cathedral is even the first church with steel roof truss.
ua-cam.com/video/PZ00ZloBS7w/v-deo.htmlsi=linBLY8RHsaxVSDk Köln is nice... but i love Heidelberg! (I'm from the north but my region isn't that impressiv like Heidelberg)
Cologne has its very own kind of dialect "kölsch". It is different to dialects like Bavarian, Friesan, Northern, etc. and has a specific "melody", that gets easily recognized by other Germans. Even if I try to speak my best standard German, people can immediately tell that I am from the Rhineland region or even Cologne. - And yes, you get to taste the chocolate at the chocolate museum. Not during the pandemic, but usually there is someone at the chocolate fountain with shortfinger waffles, that get dipped into the molten chocolate of the chocolate fountain. It is the highlight for all the kids.
As many said. Platt is spoken in Hamburg and the north.
Cologne speak Kölsch, wich ist totaly different.
Also Platt is its own language and Kölsch is a dialect.
kölsch is one of the Central German dialects. platt deutsch is spoken in the north.
Yes, it's confusing because there is also Eifeler platt, which morves into kölsch with no clear borders, but it's not the same as Plattdeutsch
@@pascalrange2275 yes, and there are more Kölsch and Platt Styles....my Grandma spoke Sauerländer Platt. There were times Kölsch was an own Langauge, not only an dialect like today
I live in Cologne and if you ever come... then you are most welcome & Hamburg is at least as worth seeing and cannot be compared with Cologne! That means... you have to see both cities! So see you soon 🙂
Hi, Dwayne! My home city! YEAH! 🤗 This city is more than 2.000 years old! Before Word War II it must have been very beautifull. (I saw a few paintings).
During "Corona" the people`s opinion were split into two! But I think the majority of the people were “in line” with the media. In any case, my experience was that many people were skeptical and found everything exaggerated. Others were totally scared.
Btw, we also have a mustard museum! 😄
Oooooh, many things are not shown in this video! ....SO, YOU HAVE TO COME! 🤗😆
Hamburg is a world city and cool. Cologne is cosmopolitan and also cool. Both have water and much green. ...It is said, that Cologne is "a feeling"!!!
The thing is... this cathredal was started to be build in 1248 and was completed in 1880... 😳
We have some nice "Irish Pubs" in the "old town" of cologne. I met a lot of people from Britain there. I met a group of guys that explained to me that it is cheaper for them to fly to Cologne and have fun than travel to London 🤣. And a night with British folks is always funny 🤣like you guys (and girls)
They were telling the truth lol! London is seriously expensive. I might have to start doing that myself lmao
@@dwayneslens You are welcome 😄🤙
I live near the center of CGN and can not deny. For me it is exactly like you said, a perfect medium. The happiest, most open city I ever lived in. Full of old traditions, buildings, history, well mixed up with the ultra modern. The rhine river always gives me some calming, free feelings, a place to relax, do some running, crossing the rhine sides and, of course, fresh air. I❤CGN and pretty sure you will too.
As long as you don't order an Altbier!😂
It took roundabout 600 years to finish the Cathedral. Talk about a long time project.
...well. 295 years of that were a break.
And it's one of those projects that's never "finished" due to constant maintenance.
@@walkir2662 Old saying: On the day the cathedral is finished, the world will end.
Pity the vid does not mention that Cologne is one of the oldest German cities: it was founded in Roman times. That is also where the city name comes from as the Latin name is Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
Yes, definitely the best German city. No discussion. Period.
The Chocolate Museum has a great Lindt Shop and also a good Café with chokolade cakes and hot chocolades
The Romans founded the city as Colonia Claudia, for the wife of the first governor. This gave rise to the name Cologne, in German Köln.
After 625 years of construction, Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880. In the 16th century, construction was interrupted and the unfinished cathedral became a landmark. Construction was not resumed until 1842. When the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris, the builders decided to build an iron roof structure into the cathedral. But this is not visible from the outside.
After WW2, Cologne was in ruins, but the cathedral remained almost undamaged.
FunFact: The construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and was completed in 1880.
Hi i think it was because of Corona that the chocolate fountain in the chocolate museum was not shown😢 usually its the highlight of the visit😊
We live near cologne and have relatives in Hamburg so both cities are worth visiting because different in their special way an typical for different regions of germany
many forget to mention that not just the known Cologne Cathedral is interesting but that Cologne has also the maybe highest density of big old Romanic Churches/Cathedrals (12 of them form a half circle). "Romanic" is the older style referring back to the Roman Empire. Many cities in the world have many churches. But not many cities have many big old Romanic Churches. It is a bit of a difference if you visit an ordinary church or such old ones. Rome has also many Romanic churches but not that many "big" ones with this density.
Köln ist einfach Liebe 🫶🏻
Fun fact: What one sees of Cologne Cathedral is only one half of the stones moved. The other half was buried underground as foundation.
The tallest church in the world is in Germany, too! ...in Ulm 😉
1:50 Kölsch (could be translated to Colognish maybe?), to my knowledge, is a Middle German dialect. A hundred or maybe a couple hundred years ago, you could actually divide German speakers into High, Middle and Low German speakers (the latter being Platt, literally flat, like the northern landscape) but High German has absolutely taken over. I am not that familiar with Middle German bc you barely hear the term these days but I believe that it has largely become a substrate to the High German that is spoken today (meaning High German replaced Middle German but the latter did influence the former, as spoken by the locals, in the process). So the vast majority of people there will speak a version of High German (the language, not necessarily the dialect). I also believe most people in Cologne don't speak the local dialect, at least from experience (I used to live nearby) but I could be wrong on that. Platt used to be spoken in Westphalia (the other major region in NRW, the same state as Cologne, where I grew up and live now) but virtually no one knows how to speak it anymore. It's almost extinct here. People who actually still speak it are usually found well up North.
3:50 Cranes and pulley systems have been a thing since Roman times (maybe earlier, dunno). But yeah, would have used manpower or some beasts of burden then and obviously weren't nearly as effective as modern cranes. Anyways, I never wonder that because I know how people did it: throw more money at it ^^
There's a reason it's always churches and palaces being this ridiculously intricate.
12:00 I'd say only if there were controls. You simply had to put on a mask to enter a supermarket, for example, so people did it. But a train packed to the brim with people, so the ticket inspector can't move through the train and see if people had on their masks? Yeah, no one put them on and the ticket inspector didn't give a fuck either, despite DB regulations.
Best City - how do you want to compare cities, that's not possible, each one is different. A similar comparison would be which color is better, blue or orange. -
There is a legend about Cologne, I don't know whether it was real or invented. But after the Second World War there were plans to abandon the city of Cologne and preserve it as a memorial because it was completely destroyed. Cologne was to be rebuilt a little outside. However, since the cathedral was hardly damaged, it was considered a miracle for the people of Cologne and the people of Cologne saw it as a sign to rebuild Cologne. As I said, it's a legend, so I can't guarantee that the story is true, but it's a beautiful story. In addition, in the Middle Ages there were cranes that looked more like a wheel in a hamster cage, only very large, whereby two or more men could move this wheel by running and use it to pull loads to greater heights. And even today, repair work is constantly being carried out on Cologne Cathedral, as the sandstone from which the cathedral was built weathers over time. There are still cathedral craftsmen there who work as stonemasons and make all the new parts.
By the way, the tallest church tower in the world is in Ulm in southern Germany.
Koblenz, further south of Cologne, also has a cable car that goes over the Rhine. I think that's a very good thing.
the cologne cathedral was an anker point for flights like bombers, shooters and everything else... Without RADAR and only flying by sight, you need some marks on the land. Therefore, during the war(s) it was forbidden to attack the chuch 'couse it's a POI object. Never the less it is still under conscruction like 800 years ago and still needs maintaince for 20 decades
@@not7205 That is not completely right. Back then there were no precision attacks, only area bombings. The light Gothic building with its huge window areas reduced the destructive power of bomb strikes, the iron roof structure could not catch fire and a large number of volunteers worked as fire watchers in the cathedral throughout the war in order to immediately extinguish fires that had broken out. The cathedral was nevertheless badly damaged in several bombing raids. Especially by the British, who attacked at night. This isn't meant to be a blame game, it was just a war and something like that happened. I'm glad that it remained standing and is a landmark of Cologne.
If you google Cologne bombed after WW2 you can see that the cathedral was basically the only structure left intact after the bombing. Cologne was razed to the ground so it is a miracle that the cathedral was left unharmed.
Moin, Dwayne. "Platt" or Plattdeutsch can refer to many different dialects depending on who you ask. Most Northerners exclusively think of Northern Low German dialects when they hear the word "Platt" while there are some other regions in Central Germany that refer to their own dialects as Platt as well (Kölner Platt, Aachener Platz, Hunsrücker Platt etc.).
The Low German dialects of the North, together with Frisian, are the closest to English you can get in Germany. If you want to listen to more of it, check out "en lütt Paket Plattdüütsch" with Yared Dibaba, texts like "De Buurnhoff" by Ina Müller, or "Junge Lüüd stellt sik vör" with Dieke Günther (the guy from the Meet the Germans road trip video), or low German songs like "Danz op de Deel" and "De Wind vun Hamborg", all on UA-cam.
Du hast schon recht. Hier gibt es Barmer Platt. Aber eigentlich weiß in Deutschland doch jeder, was gemeint ist, wenn man über Plattdeutsch spricht, oder? Platt ist offiziell anerkannt. Der Rest ist einfach nur lokaler Dialekt.
The dialects spoken in the Rhineland, which the Cologne dialect "Kölsch" is also part of, belong to the same dialect group as Plattdeutsch does, the Low German dialect group. And they share similarities, but they are not the same per se. Many people in the Rhineland do refer to their dialects as "Platt" (e. g. like Düsseldorfer Platt) but they are different to Plattdeutsch spoken in the north. "Platt" is cognate to English "flat", refering to its belonging to the Low German dialect continuum. And that "Low" doesn't refer to social status, as one could might think, but to elevation of the land. On the contrary High German dialects are spoken in the south where the landscape is hillier and montainous. Low German dialects are closer related to Dutch and English. Standard High German is closer to the High German dialects.
The DW reports on Germany are great.
Awww my Hometown❤
1:55, in Hamburg the old people speak Plattdeutsch, in Cologne the people speak Kölsch, a completely different dialect. I did work in Cologne for far over 10 years and I also know Hamburg and I can tell you, Hamburg is by far more beautiful. Hopefully you believe what I say because you should start with Hamburg, the most beautiful German city with charming people. Then you can look Cologne, Munich (I am born there) and Berlin (I live really nearby Berlin).
In case of Architecture and city planning, Cologne has the reputation worldwide to be one of ugliest European cities
@@PPfilmemacher, in case of the houses and buildings I’m fully on their side. But the structure is still from Roman. And all the Roman parts like parts of the street and things in the museum I think alone is quite interesting.
The beer is weird and not tasty at all, but also no alcohol inside so you can drink and drink and drink without getting fuzzy .
The people are cool and openhearted. And the club scene is also good.
So visiting Cologne is only because of the cathedral and the people, I would summarize this shortly.
@@FlorianH0867 People do get drunk on Kölsch (the local beer), even over the top so.
@@anonymus390, come on, you can technically get drunk but in real you pee all out because you have to drink dozens of pints to get drunk. It is much to much liquid for your body. If you are a young person you might get drunk, but an adult… If you can‘t stand Kölsch you shouldn‘t taste any other beer for sure.
A few years ago "Ritter Sport" (chocolate brand) wanted to release a sugar free chocolate in Germany. But they were not allowed because there is a law that says that there MUST be sugar in it to call it "chocolate". Otherwise you can't call it "chocolate". 😆
the best in the museum is the chocolate fontain the you get a waffel with fresch fluid warm chocolat to eat. it tast so good
Great video my man keep up the amazing work ❤ much love
Thanks man, It's nice to have another YTuber reach out. I appreciate it :)
Hi Dwayne ,when you will come to Cologne and if you like -contact me early enough an i would like to show you my Cologne ;) i live here nearly for 20 years and know every corner of City and places they didnt show in video ;) best wishes from Cologne ;)
Aw that's nice of you to offer. I may take you up on it Keep an eye out, i will be travelling to Germany at some point :)
@@dwayneslens would be a great pleasure ;) have a nice weekend :
I feel like Hamburg is a mix of creativity and safety aswell! Would love to see u react to this beautiful city
That's definitely the next City I will react to :)
The towers of the cathedral were actually only finished in 1880. After almost a 400 year pause in construction.
If you are looking for the coziness of Munich, the grittiness of Berlin and Plattdüütsch, then Bremen is probably the city you are looking for. But to be honest, you won't find the perfect mix. Low German is still spoken today mainly in the countryside in Schleswig Holstein, in the area of the North Sea coast and on the German islands, but there are no larger cities that can be compared in any way with Berlin or Munich. So if you're looking for the real deal, then you have to go to the lion's den. All parts of Germany are sometimes so extremely different from each other, that the only thing they have in common is the German language. I would recommend visiting every part of Germany starting from the north to the south.
Berlin definitely also has done very fancy areas. Cologne has indeed the impressive cathedral, but the overall city is not that pretty. Hamburg would be a good mix of Berlin and Munich, but maybe is a bit too close to some British architecture with brickstone gothic etc. The advantage of Munich is, depending on how long you aim to stay, that you are relatively fast in the Alps to the south or cities such as Nuremberg, Bamberg or Rothenburg, which are amazing Medieval cities beside others in this region.
Berlin doesn't even have a city center... and like Hamburg and Munich, Berlin full of unfriendly people. If I had the choice, I would always go to Cologne. And I say that as someone who grew up in Mönchengladbach.
@@philippprime6844 Mitte ofc is a center, beside that big cities often have several centers, such as Berlin. And sure, everyone outside of the Rhineland is an unfriendly person. 🙄
@@philippprime6844 da hat wohl jemand mitte vergessen
@@bastyaya "Mitte" is not 'the' center. It has also not the most busy shopping street. It is even not the geographical center - thats a spot in Kreuzberg. No, Berlin is indeed poly centric and while many big cities have sub centers and kind of poly centric structures most big cities have still a clear center (Munich, Hamburg, Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Warsaw, Stockholm, Amsterdam, New York, Liverpool, Athens and so on). True is that in HAD in the past once a kind of center in what is now 'Mitte'. This was back then at the time of the double city Coelln-Berlin but in difference to most other cities which expanded from such a center in Berlin the gravity shifted towards other and multiple centers, not just because 'formally' during the cold war the the East had its center at Alexanderplatz and the West in Charlottenburg but already before. A good measurement is also how people in the everyday speak: they dont say in Berlin that they go now to the downtown or center or something like that. They refer from a more peripherical view to the 'city as such' without now meaning in particular 'Mitte' or address certain districts directly ...
@@publicminx I can follwow some of your argumentation, but definitely not all of it. I would still say that Mitte is kind of a "center" of Berlin although yes, it is poly centered. That the center should be geographically in the center as well, is not the case in so many cities. And that it should host the most shopping streets... that maybe often comes along with each other, but this is not an argument for defining a center. Also in many other cities it is difficult to define where exactly it is. I lived in Paris and Rome for instance. In Paris everyone is referring to arrondissements rather than saying the center. And I would not even know where exactly that should be in Rome. In Centro storico? Around Piazza Navona or maybe around Via del Corso where the most shopping streets are. No clue. I think that is very much related to definitions and perceptions in many many cities.
No one throws the keys in the River.
The cathedral survived the war simply because the Americans and the British used it's towers as marking points so they could find the city even in the fog of war so they could bomb the surrounding areas and the industrial outskirts of Cologne. But even they they didn't bomb the cathedral intentionally, it was still hit several times by allied raids.
Cologne is not the cleanest city in germany, but it is the most lively and the most open city. Cologne is the “heart” of Germany.❤
IMO Hamburg ist the most beautiful of the cities (1M+) in Germany ...and I'm fron the South!
If you want to hear Plattdeutsch (Low German), you have to go to some small villages in northern Germany where old people live. And even then it will be difficult. 30 years ago you would have had a much better chance of listening to native speakers.
Could well be that Cologne is a good starting point of your Germany experience. People are friendly and open-minded and there is a lot of museums, concerts, and of course the Kölner Dom. But me personnally, I like Hamburg more. Btw. if you want to visit Berlin but don’t want to party all the time, just do not visit the party-aerea and you will be perfectly fine.
Corona does one job gratefully . The rate of possibility homeworking places rise up. If you want to settle in cologne, take care to choose the right side: It is the left side. The right side is called "De scheel sig". And don`t drive in Cologne by car.
Hamburg is a little bit more international and bigger than Cologne. For my opinion one of the nicest Towns in Germany. But for a UA-camr is Cologne ore Berlin the place to be.
Standard German is the language that all Germans understand. A Frisian and a Bavarian would have difficulty understanding each other, the German dialects are so different. That's why Hochdeutsch (Standard High German) is taught in every German school.
Almost no one speaks Plattdeutsch anymore, even not in the north. Maybe some older people over 60 years. And even german people cant really understand what older people in Plattdeutsch would say ^^" Plattdeutsch is also spoken near cologne btw.
That shouldnt be a factor to choose a city in any way. I was in both cities already 2 times and i love both, Cologne and Hamburg. But Hamburg is a lot more expensive in my opinion, and a got a bit more snobby over the time. And from Cologne, you can visit many other cities easier, since the most populated area is near cologne.
Wer als nicht-Kölner Kölsch versteht, hat kein Kölsch gehört. ;-)
Don't know where you got the idea of Cologne and Plattdeutsch from - but Kölsch (as their dialect is called) may have relations with Platt - but is very much its own thing! So, on the language side, I don't think Köln would be your best place.
However, everyone speaks English anyway (or almost everyone).
Köln is certainly a good place to go, I'd say. Have a look at James Bray's videos, he was in Hamburg as well as cologne...
Are you aware that Cologne is also known as "The Gay capital of Germany"..? I don't mean it in any bad way or anything - just as a random fact! :)
Anyway - I am not gay, but I lived around 40-50km next to cologne and went there frequently. Especially -> German carnival celebrations are huge there! Around 1.5 million people attending on the streets! A lot of fun! :) Btw: To build the "Kölner Dom" took over 600 years! Imagine how many people worked there over the years! *unbelievable_and_mind_blowing!
How did they build a cathedral like that? With human resources and an incredible loss thereof. Workforce was cheap back then and the death of a worker meant nearly nothing.
What is the difference of people from Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne? People of Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne say also nice things about other cities and stats. Most people from Munich only say nice things about Munich and Bayaria. Other towns and german states they talk badly about. If you want life in a city or state, where everybody everday swarm to life in paradise and all other people are lazy ones and failure, then munich and bayaria is your thing (the best people, the most beautiful town, best food, best nature, best bla bla bla everything).
This may be!!! A bit snooty.... (Doesn’t have to apply to all Munich residents)! 🤫
But I tell you something about Cologne: No one should say bad things about Cologne, just people from Cologne themselves are "aloud" to do that! 😂🤣😂
But I tell you something about munich. Even people from munich themselve doesn't say bad things about munich, because it is infallible. That's why it has the reputation to be a little bite boring, like a richt model student. And if you're honest, Munich isn't particularly known for having that little bit extra. Being perfect or wanting to be perfect is boring in the long run. Like people.
How did they do this? Read; Macauly: How they build a cathedral 🙂
Remember: Everthing south of Hanover is... Well... South. 😉 So, No. Cologne definitely doesn't qualify as north.
If you want to experience a real northern town, go to Flensburg, Lübeck or Emden. Those are nice. (I Like Emden. ☺️
(Hamburg ist a hanseatic city. Some might argue, that disqualifies it, too.) 🤫
Also, Frisian ist not a dialect, people. It's a language. Plattdeutsch ist not Frisian. They're two different things.☝️
(I hear that the Platt spoken in the region around Butjadingen and the Cuxhavener Land is the best preserved from its original form in medieval times. All the other versions were influenced by modern languages one way or the other. - Not sure if this is true, but east Frisian Platt certainly took a lot from dutch.)
If you absolutely want to visit a big city, I'd probably recommend Hanover.
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You ask how the cologne Dom survived the ww2. The allies tried not to hit the dom, because they used it as a point of orientation.
Most People complied- the rest behaved so stupid they got them selves forced to comply 😂
yeah, u getting better and closer, BUT look into the "pott" plz
I don't like Berlin
Cologne is great with an phantastique atmosphere
I love the 'Heinzelmaennchen-Brunnen (my name is Heinz(elmann))
Kölsch >>>
Sorry but Plattdeutsch is not spoken in Köln, the dialect is Kölsch and it's completely different to Plattdeutsch.
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no, they dont talk plattdeutsch in köln. their dialect is called kölsch. you asked if learning german by using plattdeutsch is a good idea, chinese would be the option i guess.
Language: In Cologne, Kölsch is spoken as a dialect (the dialect has the same name as the regional beer). Kölsch belongs to the Ripuarian language and is part of the Lower Franconian language family. In North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Low German (Westphalian and Eastphalian belong to the Lower Saxon languages within Low German) is spoken up to just above Cologne. Low German is spoken in northern Germany and is so diverse that they are hardly understandable among each other. I live in Remscheid in NRW, where "Remscheider Platt" is spoken (the last people who can still speak it) and is part of Westbergian and Lower Rhenish. Westphalian, Lower Rhine and Ripuarian meet here. Bergisch Low German is dying out. Ripuarisch is well cultivated in Cologne, especially in songs, as evidenced by the many carnival songs.
Coronavirus: Many people blindly followed the regulations and restrictions of coronavirus protection measures. There were critics who agreed with the measures in principle, but wanted them to be well dosed and justified with expertise. I was one of them. We didn't deny coronavirus, but we wanted measures to be handled sensibly. I'm not talking about the first few months, when nobody knew how to deal with it, but the later course of events, when other countries were already easing measures. We were defamed, insulted and labeled as conspiracy theorists, corona deniers and anti-vaccinationists. It was a terrible time in which many people suffered and were indoctrinated: "Children, don't visit your grandparents - if you visit them, you'll kill them." Depending on the federal state, relatives were not allowed to visit people in hospitals and/or old people's homes - sometimes for up to two or three years. At my place of work, the last restrictions were lifted last summer.
1:09 Leipzig! Periodt. The only city that comes close to Berlin in terms of scene and party. However, it’s safer, cleaner and greener. And luckily it’s not as uptight as Hamburg and München because it’s in the East.
What about Frankfurt, where the crackheads take their hits right next to the banks! Nice place to visit! 😂
Straßentinder lohnt da auch immer
moin!...... hier op plattdüütsch, ik bün anspannt, of du dit hier lesen un verstahn kannst.
Ik un mien famile kaam ut noorddüütsland ruum cuxhaven un deels vun de eiland usedom vun de oostsee ( baltic sea) as ok ut noordfreesland in sleswig holsteen.
da weer all plattdüütsch snackt😊👍
de ollen lüüd snack dat noch. de kinners lern dat bi tied in de school up'n land.
so ik hoop du verstahn dat😅👍
dat plattdüütsche is de spraak vun de neddersassen (low saxony germany).
heimat de saxen is noorddüütsland.
ok nedderdüütsch nömmt, dat oolt engelsch entstammt ut dat plattdüütsch. de angelsaxen hebbt de spraak mit nah england brocht.
allerbest un hool di goot un wuchtig mien keerl👍
Klingt irgendwie nach Fake-Niederlaändisch
@@philippprime6844 fake nedderlannsch? ik snaak nedderdüütsch keen nedderlannsch. dat is al en Ünnerscheed.
wat snaaks du denn????
@@arnebollsen Ich esse gerade Nudeln.
Are you speaking Plattsdeutch it looks different from German.
I'm trying to read it, I think you have said that you speak Plattdeutsch. Your family come from north Germany? Something about kids learning it at School.
Something about Plattdeutsch being spoken in low saxon germany and you said something about old english and plattdeutch being from the anglo saxons.
I could be completely wrong, but from my English trying to interpret it, that's what I read. How wrong am i? lol!
@@dwayneslens moin👍😁!
your translation is absoutly correct👍, perfect!
..yes, ..low german( plattdeutsch) is a very old german language, the usual high german only developed when the brothers grimm developed high german from all dialects for their fairy tales and legends. so that every educated german could read the stories.
the plattdeutsch dialects are little bit difference from region to region in north germany.
plattdeutsch its easyer to learn as high german👍😁.
so dat weer up engelsch , ik hoop mien engelsch kannst du verstahn😁.
dat plattdüütsche kannst du ok in’t Internet dör Schoolprogramm lehren.
dat weer wat för di😁👍.
allerbest un goote 👍😁
Definitely don't come to Cologne if you're looking for cleanliness! 🙈
The dirtiest toilet (with a toilet attendant) I've ever seen was in Cologne.
@@arnodobler1096 If you cleaned your toilet, Cologne wouldn't have this problem
@@philippprime6844 Ich machte sofort eine Kehrtwende, war übrigens ein Burger King.
@@arnodobler1096 Wenns das nächste Mal sauber ist, leg ich dir auch nen Euro hin.
@@philippprime6844Nehme dich beim Wort!
Cologne got its name from the brand name “Kölnisches Wasser/4711”… the 4711 being the street address of their store.Also, the Cologne dialect is nothing like Plattdeutsch which is spoken at the Northwestern coast, whereas Cologne is wedged between central Germany and the Netherlands, much further South!
thats not true, Cologne has it name from the roman colony name which was : Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.
@@B-Dx He means Eau de Cologne
@@B-Dx OMG, B-DX….! Have you SEEN the actual video and understood what they are talking about? I was referring to the same thing the video talks about! Of course Cologne got its name from the Romans. I was talking about “cologne” as in “fragrance/scent/perfume”!!!! That’s why colognes by every producer of fragrances today is referred to as a “cologne” to distinguish them from their lines of perfumes!
Köln is a great city as long as you remember one thing.
Bring enough beer to sustain you over the entire trip.
On the one hand its fantastic to see this kind of architecture, on the other hand i also always think about how bad some people would have been exploited in slave like conditions to work there.
And now i wonder, are there even movies or reports abut that ? I remember at least that i see sometimes about the work at the Pyramids, but not sure about stuff about Cathedrals.
There were no slaves involved. Gothic cathedrals were build by well trained and payed craftsmen.
If it’s between Cologne and Hamburg- go to Hamburg! It looks much better.
Cologne on the other side has a lot of UA-camrs who could show you around
rittersport is better .. more cacaobutter inside
Cologne accent has nothing to do with Plattdeutsch.
moin vun de waterkant😊,..westphahlen platt hörrt to de nedderdüütsch spraak un is mit dat plattdüütsch verwandt. de spraak höört to dat germaansch ooldsächsisch.
allerbest un goote 👍
@@arnebollsen Köln hat auch nix mit Westfalen zu tun. Viel Spaß an deiner Wasserkante, hoffentlich fällst du nicht rein.
...dat platt geiht ja och noch in dat rheinland un noordhesse rien👍 @@philippprime6844
Hate the word cologne, Köln (pronounced "Kuln" in english)
You won't get good beer in cologne. When you want better beer you need to get in the region around Düsseldorf - Mönchengladbach.
Hamburg is better for sure
Cologne is one of the oldest cities in Germany.
Unfortunatly they never learned how to brew a decent beer, not even after such a long time.
That's why in most cases they will offer you a Kölsch. The only positive effect is, the glasses are quite small.
As high german speaker "kölsch" and platt deutsch is the worst german to listen to :D it's not even close to a clear german. it took 632 years of building the cologne cathedral.. it was finished in 1880.
Well, Plattdeutsch is not even close to standard German because... it's indeed not very closely related to standard German. From a linguist's point of view, it's closer to Dutch and English.
On the contrary, Kölsch is a just a dialect of standard German.
And about beauty? Well, it's in the ear of the listener, I reckon.
Germany definitely has more beautiful cities than Cologne, it is unfairly celebrated, the cathedral is everything worth seeing ✌🏻😜
Yes, I'm sure the nice little village you live in has a beautiful chapel aswell
As somebody living in Cologne for over 40 years now, i have to say... You are right. Cologne is a bit "worn out". However, i like the people living here.
There are also other places worth mentioning. But this all depends on personal preferences. For me Berlin is to big, Munich to fancy, Hamburg to cold....
cologne, hamburg and berlin dont have a beautiful nature like Munich or Heidelberg
Berlin has the most green spaces and parks. Just google it, there are also many lakes, such as Wannseee, Müggelsee, Tegelersee etc. Also the Havel, the Spree, the Dahme etc. Don't talk nonsense. There is also the Grunewald, the Tegelerforst etc., the cities you mentioned cannot keep up in terms of area, the green areas, water areas and forest areas in Berlin, make up almost the entire area of Munich, simple google it.
Says someone with little knowledge about the mentioned cities.
It depends, what you like. I love the sea. Mountains are nice but the sea I love. So for me Hamburg its nicer then Munich. Even Berlin is closer to the sea.
Btw. the tallest church in the whole world isn't that far away in Ulm, and actually looks very similar, only it has just one tower instead of twin towers. And since Ulm isn't as big a city as cologne it stands out even more in the skyline. Both were finished only about 130ish years ago. And the cologne cathedral is even the first church with steel roof truss.
köln isnt the best city, münchen is better!
ua-cam.com/video/PZ00ZloBS7w/v-deo.htmlsi=linBLY8RHsaxVSDk Köln is nice... but i love Heidelberg! (I'm from the north but my region isn't that impressiv like Heidelberg)