Western Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 4/4
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2022
- On the final leg of the Meet the Germans road trip, Rachel heads to the four westernmost German states: North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Saarland. From coal mining to the Brothers Grimm, Karneval to the French border - there's a lot to get through in this episode, so buckle up!
On her journey around Germany, Rachel has been discovering the unique traditions, characteristics and culture that the different regions have to offer.
Check out the first three parts of the road trip in the Meet the Germans playlist: bit.ly/MtG_UA-camPlaylist
What would you say defines the western region of Germany? Do you have any favorite spots there?
#meetthegermans #northrhinewestphalia #brothersgrimm #travelgermany #hesse #saarland #karneval #rhinelandpalatinate
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Report: Rachel Stewart
Camera: Evgenij Dubnov
Edit: Rachel Stewart
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Can we have one of these for each Bundesland? Come on DW we want to see more of Rachel going through all of Germany :D
Definitely!
and for this - you mean that Burgen udn Schlösser in the South, West and East - go to the "Häuptlingsburgen in Frisian" and to the Burgen in the northern area as in Cuxhaven and Berderkessa
This series could've been easily twice as long. It was a joy to watch and i want more of it. 😄
Thank you! This was actually my longest ever video... :D
Agreed!!
Absolutely! Would love to watch a full hour long programme on each. Thanks for this, Rachel!
For sure! There were many interesting locations and tidbits missing, like the rivalry between Düsseldorf and Köln, the whole area of Westphalia, the Lipperland; and that's only North-Rhine-Westphalia!
This was a well done series. Thanks DW and Rachel!
Western Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 4/4 1559pm 8.12.22 life's pretty grim. and the tales grim are very very entertaining. from a child's perspective. seems kids have had their blood lust tempered somewhat to be allowed to run riot in their insane adulthood much to the world's chagrin. i am liking saarland very much. probably an old settlement of old viking heritage. p.s hermann nitsch probably invented the old in hike or wine press jaunt. and it sounds good to me. that's essentially what i should be doing with my life... hiking and getting drunk.
I always feel the sheer Western-Europeanness of Western Germany, I think. It's the part of Germany I feel at home in most quickly, and where my guesses about how things work are most often right. Especially NRW. I mean, dense population, working class culture, pride in local beer, passionate football supporters, grabbing a kebab on the way home: it's hardly "foreign" at all!
The East is true Deep Germany (and not that long ago, was part of the Warsaw Pact thing, which sets it apart); the North is this special Hanseatic maritime place; and the South has that whole Alps and Tracht deal going, which is great, but very different. But Western Germany is part of the Western European swim of things--and as you point out, has been since Roman times.
I've loved this series, Rachel. Made me determined to see more of one of my favourite countries in the word.
Thanks for your thoughts Phil!
the dense population isn't everywhere though. The Niederrhein is pretty much covered in smaller communities. Way more beautiful than the Ruhrpott.
Starting watching this as I was planning a trip to Germany. Since then, I’ve been to Germany and now back home to the US, and I’m still watching. Makes me want to go back 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
Makes me sad that the road trip series is over, but equally curious what the next episode is going to be. This has been the best journey, so beautifully put so far. I can't help but notice the tremendous effort put to pack so much of information in so less time in such a humorous way.
Thank you! It was a lot of work but very much worth it :)
I am completely fascinated about the way you speak German as well as American English almost accent free. The videos are packed with information, presented in a professional and pleasant manner. I am very impressed. Thanks for your excellent work.
"Prost", Rachel and thank you and your team for this heart-warming (and sympathetic) journey through the South-West of Germany.
Großes Kompliment für die ganze Reihe! Ihr habt die Länder echt toll dargestellt! :) Es ist schön, wenn das einheitliche Bild von Deutschland nach außen hin aufgebrochen wird. Allein über die Eigenheiten in unserer Esskultur und über Dialekte kann man sich tagelang unterhalten. 😄
I lived and worked in the Palatinate for half a year, I was so warmly received, like never again anywhere! Okay they thought I was Swiss (i come from the south of Baden Bodensee), but I did not care. I come back every year and love it there!🍷
Hello Rachel from Canada, we love watching your series on DW. The 4 part travel was excellent. Having lived in the Netherlands, close to Aachen, we hope you might do a future video on that region.
Great clip! Such a pity that Westphalia was not depicted at all - It is so cosy and beautiful! I suppose for someone living in Cologne Westphalia is worlds apart.
Oh Rachel we really really miss you!!!!!!
Was für eine tolle Serie, da muss Wer-Weiss-Denn-Sowas sogar warten. 👏👏👏👏
Greetings from beautiful Rheinland-Pfalz! 🙂
Not only wine, but picturesque villages and landscapes made for hiking.
Hello Barbara how are you doing 😊
Two months on, and nothing new from Rachel Stewart. Her sense of humor, thoughtful comments on Germany and its quirky culture, and her positive attitude to life as an expat is what keeps me watching DW!
Hi Jacqui, thanks for your kind comment about Rachel's reports! Rachel is indeed still with us and working on new material :)
Rachel, thank you once again und Frohe Weinachten from Leipzig. I was down the Mosel Valley this golden October for a wine tasting Weekend. - wonderful, particularly the Eiswein.
I think this series was wonderful! I learned so much. Your editing and the way you included comments from various residents was top notch! Well done! Can't wait to go to Germany and for your next video!
Rachel is the best!
Very nicely made, love it here from the US
Great series! Thanks!
Great series, really enjoyed all these videos!
Excellent all episodes! You did good!
Great series! Love it 🥰
Really nice series.
Excellent series MORE!!!!
I liked your road-trip format very much.
Another thing I love about the Saarland apart from the vines and French baguette specialty is the hillside scenery that shapens the city like a bowl with the city at the centre and the edges as the hills
Great series, super interesting. Could’ve watched loads more. Keep it up! ☺️
Entertaining and informative as ever,
the concept of the series has been very clever.
I think I'm sad the road trip is over and wish for even more of Meet the Germans from Rachel. Thanks so much for the lovely interesting lively work of yours.
A great conclusion to a great series. Thanks to Rachel and her team!
Fantastic series, really enjoyed all four episodes and agree with other comments, would love to see more!
Just want to say, I absolutely love this series. Even being German, I keep learning things. And I got a lot of expat colleagues, wanting to find out more about their new home. This is the go to resource I keep recommending. Public broadcast, job awesomely done. ☺️👍
This was a delightful little series! :D Thank you for all these very intimate and informative glances into our home and culture!
loooved the roadtrip! more travel videos to cities/places/regions please!!!
Great series 👏👏👏
Very sad the serie is ending! Really great serie! Should be even longer!
Danke für's Video! ^^
I loved this series, and yes Frankfurt is my favorite German city. Coincidentally, Alsace is my favorite part of France. The region around the Rhine is wonderful.
That much information about the West in not even 13 minutes - unbelievable.
What a great job.
Viele Grüße an Rachel; ich bin auch ein Kölscher Immi.👋
We like to really pack the info in 😅
@@RachelStewart04
Yep
You make me feel good about my country, Rachel, which I can't say happens too often lately. In a world as crumbling as it is (or at least seems to be) your positive attitude and humour is most refreshing and encouraging!
Thank you for your kind words ❤️❤️!
Thanks for another great Meet the Germans video Rachel and DW. It was fascinating to see all the different parts of Germany, Merry Christmas and Happy 2023.
danke, Rachel und MTG Team!! :) i use all your videos in my high school german classes in the us....keep them coming!!!!!! :)
Cool, thanks Sarah and greetings to your students! :)
Hello Sarah how are you doing
What a series this was! I enjoyed and looked forward to each and every episode, especially this one about the western states. I am somewhat sad that one of my favourite cities, Aachen, didnt get featured in this series, but I loved it nonetheless! Well done!
Beautiful series, thank you Rachel. And I'm always happy to have Trier, my crush from student days, covered anywhere.
ive heard many rumors about cologne's festive personality, but the people truly seemed so happy and friendly. would love to visit and to see Bonn. im glad that your team survived the infamous Frankfurt ;)
as always, great video! thank you all for your creativity and hard work)))
Still love her well researched and presented Videos.
Loved the whole series of videos. So interesting, informing, varied, funny and well done. Absolutely loved visiting parts of the two Rheinlands this year, my first time in Europe, as I attended a conference in Bonn and then had 3 days to travel, I did 4 World Heritage Sites (could have done more, but would have not enjoyed so much immersing in the places and details), extremely enjoyed Cologne and went south to Bingen and Bacharach, allowing me to fulfill a dream of doing at least one day of the Middle-Upper Rhine Valley hiking route. Plus, I loved the food, the beer, the people, and brought home wonderful wine from Oberwesel. Will definitely get back as soon as possible.
Superb episode. Great to see Trier again and learn a little more about Saarland as well as the Roman name of Köln. Have visited Trier, Köln, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Frankfurt am Main. Great to be reminded of those experiences. Have also visited Cochem on the Moselle. Keep them coming. Love Rachel’s presentation style and sense of fun. 😀👍
Thank you Rachel and DW, it was a wonderful tour!! =D
@Rico McSuave Pleasure!
Came late to this series - but that's great, three more to look forward to. Marvellous show! Well done, very entertaining😊
Thanks!
I loved these series!😍 please do a video about German's border relationship with Luxembourg ❤
Thanks for finally showing the region i was born. I liked the series and awaited the west part of it.
Bit disappointed you missed out "my" Aachen, but apart from that, your video was, as ever, fantastic. You always manage to bring out the "essence" of every topic on our adopted country 😊
I enjoyed driving from the airport in Frankfurt to Heilbronn on the country roads and seeing all the beautiful fields with grapes, corn, or other crops!
Thank you for this series. Gave me a great idea of what I'll find on my travels through Germany.
Hi how r u
What a fantastic view of the Wineyards . In all the Video is very informative and can keep people interested in knowing more about the region. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Sagenhaft fabulous video! Right to the point!
Thank you :)
Brilliant, soul love to see more, surely Germany is large enough to do another series 👍👍👍
Well I wouldn't say no to hitting the road again! Or maybe Germany by train... (scrap that, my nerves couldn't take it)
We did a hiking trip on Rheinsteig trail along Rhein valley in Rhineland-Pfalz. It was a beautiful experience, even though we only did 1/3 of the 320 km trail. For those who love hiking, I cannot recommend it enough. The scenery, the quaint little towns, history,…
I'm already excited for the next series! What could that one be, I wonder?
Tell us! 😁
Was für eine tolle Serie … Well done. Greeting from the Sauerland area. Called also Land of 1000🏔️and Home of 🎄
Hello from Virginia USA 🇺🇸 😊
Wonderful finale! Thank you! May I add that things can "rise to a climax"--but they cannot "rise to a crescendo." A crescendo is a gradual, ongoing increase; it *is* the rising. Don't feel too bad; each journalist must add this to their portfolio of practice. I also love the "W" suddenly appearing int points of the compass at the beginning! Touches like that--so good!
Ah the old crescendo debate... fair enough :D
@@RachelStewart04 Not to mention my own typo, "int" . . !
Greatly appreciated this series. But as a born and raised "Rhoihesse", now living on the borders of Taunus and Westerwald, in the beautiful Lahntal, I strongly believe that Lahntal and Mittelrheintal are each worth their own episode. And I'm sure that there are a lot more areas all over the country that are worth their own episode, showing their beauty to the whole world. Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks!
It seems to me that Westphalia and its rather lively culture suits Rachel really well!
Enjoyed this video very much! That's "my" part of Germany! Born near Mainz, emigrated to Canada when I was tiny, but lived several years in Germany in the 60s and 70s. Haven't been back since '75. This vid almost makes me homesick. Gotta put the old "Heimat" on my bucket list. Now I wanna see the other three vids in the series. If they're anything like this one they'll be interesting and well made. And it's very interesting to see how the German language has changed in the last half-century!
Greetings from Mainz and Rheinhessen to Canada 🙂
The spectator next to the player and the cup at 8:57 is my late father, who also managed to storm the field when the final whistle came...
I love dw's video to improve my English ❤ and also learn sth regarding germoney 🇩🇪
Keep going
Great to hear this and good luck!
@@dweuromaxx thanks so much
Nicely done, greets from DownUnder 🇦🇺
12:41 I love this little Karl-Marx stoplight in Trier. I used to cross there almost daily to get to my bus from work to my apartment.
I'm in love with your english expression and language. And das "i-Tüpfelchen" ist deine perfekte deutsche Aussprache der Bundesländer. Wow :)
Thanks for taking us through many parts of Germany. I like how you presented the differences between various areas in Germany and your personal comments on them make the videos even more enjoyable.
It's been interesting to see which places you chose when you got to different areas. I may be mistaken but it seemed to me that you preferred the bigger cities, so I would suggest to do a similar tour again but this time to focus on smaller towns or even villages that may also have interesting things to show. Often, the best gems are hidden outside of the major tourist attractions.
Regarding the Saarland, there is not just Saarbrücken, actually Saarlouis is called "die heimliche Hauptstadt", "the secret capital" since it is much more picturesque and cozy than Saarbrücken. There are also many other interesting places to see like the Schlossberghöhlen in Homburg, the museum "Schwarzenacker" close to them where a Roman village was rebuilt or the Villa Nennig which is a reconstructed Roman villa close to the Saarschleife, another tourist attraction. Another place worth mentioning is the world heritage site Völklinger Hütte where you can visit a pretty unique setting of blast furnaces together with the bulidings needed to keep them running including the wind hall where turbines the size of locomotives gathered enough air to blow it into the blast furnaces to keep the fires burning. There are also varying exhibitions in that hall as well as a biannual graffiti show called "Urban Art".
Maybe you could announce when you plan to do another tour of Germany and ask viewers for ideas on what to see in their region before you go on tour again since local guides can often show you things off the beaten track that you would otherwise never find but that are definitely worth looking at.
Thanks for your Tips!
@@dweuromaxx Gladly any time. I look forward to a second series to explore more of German regions I'm not that familiar with.
Eifel, Niederrhein, Westerwald... So many beautiful reagions missing 😞
Sadly, not much was shown from the Westphalian part of NRW. Münsterland, Sauer- & Siegerland and my home region Eastern Westphalia (not to forget mentioning Lippe) also have interesting spots to visit :)
We'll add them to the list. We know there's a lot of beauty out there :)
Nice! Though I am wondering why you didn't mention Düsseldorf...I was kind of expecting their rivality with Cologne being a topic, as well as their "longest counter of the world". Happy that the Ruhrgebiet at least gotten skipped over for once...
The Rhine also deserved a little bit more attention, especially the Lorelei...
I loved this series also, and I love the Mosel region especially because my daughter and her Hessian husband got married there! ❤
Hello Elizabeth how are you doing 😊
I'd love to see one done on Wuppertal.
I expected it but I was still a little sad that you did not mention Münsterland which is north of Ruhrgebiet. Münster ist the German capital of bikes, has 60.000 students and is also the city of peace because in the 17th century they signed the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' war there. We also have the lowest election results for the far right party in Germany and with Prinzipalmarkt a very nice rebuild city centre. The G7 foreign minister conference was held here recently. Still, I enjoyed the episode but it is always a little annoying when people mention Ruhrgebiet and Rheinland, but then forget the third part of NRW.
very good video, as always.
the guy saying that its "green now" in western Germany clearly hasnt visited the south :D
I really liked cologne, Düsseldorf and the west in general when I was there. I cant imagine living there though, I'd miss the scenery of the south too much.
Translating into American units, 1 Saarland equals about 8/10ths of a Rhode Island.
Don't forget the Weinstrasse in Rheinland-Pfalz.
thank you Ms Stewart (oh alright and DW too), for this highly enjoyable
reise durch Deutschland. (if that is wrong, blame googletranslate)
please ma'am, may we have some more?
I love white german wine here in Mexico is quite affordable and super delicious!
Last one with Rachel. Just found out there is a new presenter. Not sure how I should feel.
you guys should cover more and more regions, all over Germany, and maybe even include neighbouring parts of Germany and how they are connected, like Bavaria and Austria, or Baden-Württemberg and France, or Brandenburg and Poland.
mit Wein im Glas sage ich eher "zum Wohl" als Prost... nur so.. aber Westen ist Heimat. Bonn. Alle Regionen in Deutschland habe ich Vorzüge, das ist ja die Stärke des Landes, dass wir nicht so zentralistisch ausgerichtet sind... Im Rheinland ist es einfach schön, in nur einer Stunde mal nach Holland oder Belgien fahren zu können. Oder die Nähe zu Luxemburg und Frankreich. Herrlich... man ist kulturell definitiv offener als in manch anderen Regionen. Man ist eher polyglott... das merke ich in Berlin lebend, dass dort im Schnitt weniger Fremdsprachen erlernt wurden, zumindest in meiner Generation. Und wie man auch an meinem Kommentar gleich sieht... die Rheinländer sind eher Schwaartlappen und reden und monologisieren gerne.... ein Kläfchen immer gerne.. Konrad Beikircher als Immi aus Südtirol hat jahrzehntelang die Eigenheiten des Rheinländers liebevoll auf's Korn genommen. Alaaf... PS. das einzige, was in dem Beitrag gefehlt hat, war ein Schwenk und Satz zum Mittelrheintal... Lorelei und so. Einer der großen Anziehungspunkte im Westen..
Northrhine - Westfaia / Westfalia is special too...
Love German Resiling 💓
Pls, one for each Bundesland and check out local foods a bit more...
Id love to see you dive in to Handkäs mit Musik ^^
😆🧀
No mention of blue nun? Best German wine :)
Very nicely gallivanted indeed ! Albeit making Kassel a place in Western Germany appears somewhat, shall I say, unusual.
Haven’t seen Rachel on DW in a while, does anyone know where she went?
Berlin has the reputation of being the EDM party city, so i was surprised to find out techno music originated in Frankfurt
"5th season" - everyone in Northern Germany knows that the 5th season is "Grünkohlzeit" (= kale season) ;)
I have an exchange to cologne next august and I’m looking forward to it.
Hope you enjoy it! Sadly not Karneval season...
Not the best time of the year, but you'll enjoy it anyway.
@@RachelStewart04 yeah bit disappointed about that but one day I want to go during the Karneval season
@@Andreas_Cologne what are some things I need to see?
Ganz interessant und unterhaltsam wie immer. Ich war in Dortmund, Düsseldorf und Köln und dieses Gebiet hat mir ganz gut gefallen. Wenn du ein Fussball oder Bier Fan bist dann ist es sicher ein güte Reiseort aber kann irgendjemand mir erklären warum Techno so beliebt in Deutschland ist, ich finde es total schrecklich!! 🤔😂
Zum Wohl!
0:30 Rachel you have my forehead 😍(just that, you´re thousand times prettier) and my kind of humor, your facial expressions omg
Rachel warms you
Another great episode, but you know the best Riesling comes from the Rheingau (in Hessen), not the Mosel... plus the Rheingau has great Spaetburgunder (pinot noir) which the Mosel can only dream of.
Ok maybe we need a wine comparison episode...
Okay, but the best german red wine is Ahrwein.
@@RachelStewart04 If you need any help Rachel...
@@Andreas_Cologne Not even close these days, I'm afraid - Rheingau and Baden produce far better reds.
Nah, from the Nahe.