Brit reacts to 'Southern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 2/4'

[@maja-kehn9130]

Semmelknödel are not potato dumplings they are bread dumplings. Kartoffelknödel are potato dumplings.

[@Herzschreiber]

Okay. I wanted to stress that out but you've been faster :)

[@zaphodbeeblebrox9443]

and to add: Bread dumplings are a form of waste recycling. You take old rolls that you no longer want to eat, cut them into pieces and form dumplings with milk, egg, onion and spices. It tastes delicious and the old rolls were still used up.

[@Mapaed]

And still there is another form of dumplings: Breznknödel ... I guess the name says it all.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

And there's also Germknödel and Leberknödel.

[@NeaFrea]

Deutsche Welle is just soooo fake and false in every respect, not only when it comes to dumplings. Just my 2pence.

[@miztazed]

I better be warning you. If you want a real Lederhose you better bring money. The real ones are very expensive. It goes from 200 - 1000 Euros depents on the leather it is made of.

[@olgahein4384]

And if they are already peed on or not :P

[@JohnDoe-xz1mw]

@@olgahein4384 the peeing is a generational effort.

[@einspruch3905]

200 for a Lederhosn is actually pretty cheap ... the good ones go from around 350 upwards

[@Steven91637]

😂😂😂well some people get a Lederhosen from Aldi

[@Steven91637]

The 2 biggest Beer Fairs are in Germany the Wiesn in Munich and the Wasn in Stuttgart.And the Rhine Kirmes in Düsseldorf is the biggest Fair outside of southern Germany

[@bendjohans3863]

funny i have no problem with mountains but i have sometimes problems with human made structures hahaha

[@MrTjonke]

Same

[@alexamurawski4524]

me to. I can climb any mountain ,but i struggle with open stairs you can look through

[@bendjohans3863]

the problem i have is... im doing a lot of handcraft working and ive seen terrible terrible handywork in construction so the question is... do i really trust something build by some bolivian workers which never learned the job overwatched by a professional who doesnt speaks spanish? lol

[@walkir2662]

Yeah, it'S funny how he trusts humans more than nature. Only one side here cares about cost.. but, well. Fears are irrational, news at eleven.

[@NeaFrea]

Me too :D

[@GrafindeKlevemark]

Bavaria cannot only be warm but very cold and snowy. In Munich the snowplows started work around 5 am - ok, they cleaned the roads, but chucked all the snow on to the cars parked along the street. So you took your shovel in the morning to get at your car - of course there were numerous times I "desnowed" my neighbour's car !!! What I loved travelling around the mountains surrounding Munich (spent 1 year there as a university student from UK) is that by car you are in Germany and turning round a corner you are suddenly in Austria; turn around another corner you are back in Germany !

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

9:29 Small error: Semmelknödel are not potato dumplings (which would be "Kartoffelknödel" or rather "Kartoffelklöße"). As they name says, they are made from "Semmeln" which is the Bavarian word for buns (elsewhere in the South, including the Franconian part of Bavaria, they are known as "Weggla", "Weck" or "Wecka") - stale buns are soaked in hot milk, eggs, herbs and salt added, roughly mixed to a dough, from which balls are formed and then boiled. 9:40 Weißwurst was originally a Munich speciality, but came in fashion all over Bavaria and neighboring regions. But there is still the Weißwurst equator - the river Main valley. Only south of it you should eat them. It is a boiled sausage from uncured fine minced veal, pig's back fat, herbs and spices. Using only normal salt instead of curing it with pickling salt causes the white color after cooking, but also reduces the shelf life. There was a saying: They should not hear the midday bells, because in the times before refrigeration sausages produced in the early morning hours would probably spoil in the midday heat. They became a staple for the then wide-spread second breakfast at 10 am, washed down mostly with half a liter of beer. (In those times they often offered some rather low-alcohol beer on tap.) Some people think them rather bland, others love them. They are tradtionally served in a bowl with the cooking water in which they were warmed up, with some Bavarian sweet mustard and a Brezn (pretzel). 12:30 Franconians are to Bavaria what Scots are to Great Britain, except that the Franconians never joined Bavaria voluntarily. Most of Franconia was given to Bavaria by Napoleon 1806, other parts were added until 1814, and many Franconians are still opposed to be subjects of Bavaria. By the way: Nuremberg (which is Franconian) is the second biggest city in Bavaria (more than half the size of Munich); the 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in Franconia, Fürth und Würzburg, are 6th and 7th in Bavaria. 15:03 Württemberg - the part of Swabia she is talking about - was allied with Sweden in the 30 Years' war, so ... there could be some connection. (There are even some stories of villages in the Swabian Jura region resettled by Swedish mercenaries after the war.) Württemberg got in the 17th and 18th century a strong Pietist church, which was in some decades even more powerful than the ruling Duke himself. The part between Danube and Lake Constance however, called Upper Swabia, has a culture more similar to Baden; before Napoleon it was a patchwork of small states (Imperial Abbeys, Imperial Cities, Imperial Counts, Princedoms) and Habsburg estates (also called Vorderösterreich, Further Austria, which encompassed also Freiburg and the Breisgau in the Rhine valley), which was then seized by Napoleon and split between his allies Baden and Württemberg.

[@phirone7499]

Now I'm really hungry. I'm from west Germany and "Käsespätzle" are my favourite food, unfornutately it is hard to find this here.

[@phirone7499]

@@danielkaufmann15 The results never fit my expectations, it's always terrible, so I stopped trying at some point.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@phirone7499 I've usually had them on vacation in Austria, in some place near the upper end of a valley or higher. Mmm ...

[@sternenhimmelfotografierende]

@12:30 The part were she is visiting 'Franconia' (Franken). You tend to think, that "the people from smaler citiies look to the major city with kind of anger". But it is a different story: There is 'old bavaria' a very old region, rouled by kings fore some long centurys. Capital was mostly Munich. Franconia was never part of it and the major city there (Nurnberg) was a free city with its own law, not belonging (fully) to any king. Than Napoleon startet his 'journey' over Europe. (This changed Europe in many ways, but this is a different story). The old classical Bavaria allied with Napoleon and therefor he gave Franconia to the Bavarian Kingdom. Franconia and over all the free city of Nurnberg lost its independence. After this (so felt by the inhabitans) a modern liberate city was doomed to stay under the 'oldschool' rules of the foreign Kingdom of Bavaria. All this happened only 200 years ago, not in anicent times. And still today Franconia is called 'the prey-Bavaria', because it was given as spoils of war the the Bavarian Kingdom. Fun-fact: The actuall leader of Bavaria is from Franconia.

[@sabinebluhmentahl9275]

You sound originally Northern English. Lovely, if you ask me. ❤ I've been to Britain dozens of times, by the way.

[@nettcologne9186]

In the north of Spain there are the Pyrenees, where it is cold not warm, and the Basque Country ( País Vasco ) can also be very cool, rainy and windy. No, the temperatures in the south of Germany are completely different than the north of Spain.

[@waltergro9102]

Depends on elevation. In general southern German temperatures are clearly in a lower class than temperatures in the northern Mediterranean if altitude is considered.

[@einfachisi1401]

Nürnberg is nice, i can recommend that. And we have a small airport which is connected with London. We are not far away ! :-) Greez from Nürnberg

[@onkelhirnisfreund]

Greetings from Bavaria! Neuschwanstein Castle is indeed like a fairy tale: King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who built this castle in the 19th century, is called "the fairytale king" in Bavaria. Ludwig II built several such castles. But many of them were never fully completed because the king ran out of money. Another problem is that Ludwig II built these expensive fairytale castles ONLY FOR HIMSELF. These castles never had a political purpose. State receptions or anything like that never took place here. Ludwig built these sinfully expensive fantasy buildings as his personal retreats, where he wanted to be alone and undisturbed. Ludwig was extremely shy in his personality and hated large crowds. He even had a dumbwaiter in the castle so that he wouldn't be disturbed by the staff while he was eating. In his castles, he often hid in his fantasy worlds of fairy tales, legends and operas ... THIS MEANS: These castles, while expensive fun, had no practical use for the state. In the end, it became too expensive for the Bavarian state parliament. Which is why, in 1886, Ludwig was disempowered by a remote medical report under the pretext that he was mentally ill and incapable of governing. He was taken to a small castle on Lake Starnberg, where the deposed king was placed under guard. But just one day after his fall from the throne, the king was found floating dead on the shore of the lake in the evening. To this day, it is not known whether he killed himself or whether he was drowned or shot while fleeing. But you probably don't want to find out, because his legend also lives on his mysterious death. As well as from his fairytale castles.

[@brittakriep2938]

Much smaller: Lichtenstein Castle next to Reutlingen in Württemberg.

[@zoivac1048]

Lol The woman at 0:54 who says "Die Landschaft" is an American KZbinr who makes videos about Germany and talks about her life in Germany. Her name is Hayley Alexis. Her videos are good too 😅

[@Blackrazor911]

I come from Baden-Württemberg and normally I shouldn't say much about Bavarian cuisine. But I think a “breakfast” white sausage is super tasty, but once you’ve eaten it, you want something else. You can always eat other German dishes without interruption ^^

[@Andi_mit_E]

The highest temperature I ever saw here in Southern Germany was 42°C, the lowest -27°C. Usually the temperatures over the year are in a range of -10°C to 35°C. Snow got rare over the last decades (in my childhood (1980ies) we were able to go to school on a sledge). Spring and fall don't really exist anymore. The last years ...one day in "spring" we had 0°C and two days later 26°C ...that was our spring 😆 ...and vice versa in fall.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Yeah, back in the 1980s, northern Germany never had temperatures above 30°C, not even in summer. How times have changed.

[@MunichChild]

Hi Dwayne. The Weisswurst (white sausage) is made of veal meat and - among other spice and herbs - parsley. It is produced in the morning and should be eaten - served with a Breze and sweet mustard - as long as it is fresh before 12:00 a.m. (the sausage might not hear the tolling of bells at noon). Fun fact: never order a pair of them but 1 or 2 or 3 pieces. And take care both ends of the sausage are not any kind of yellow but white cause this means the sausage is fresh! Having a fresh beer with it this is so delicious. I would die for that! Kind regards from Munich, Gernot

[@Maarc-uy3nz]

Semmelknödel are made using bread rolls which should be 1 day old.. no potatoes… very tasty in goulash with apfelrotkohl…

[@Samcaracha]

The first interview was done in Tübingen at the market place in front of the old town hall. Iconic place, I lived there for over 7 years. The Brezn/Brätzl part is also very true, but it is still unclear, which part of it is "up" and which is "low" since many bakeries hold a Bretzel in their logo, but sometimes with the knot down or up. My idea to that? Since they are often stored hanging on a little rack from one of the two upper holes, this side is "up" and the lower part, which is a little thicker, goes down. 9:20 That's a wrong translation in the subtitle: "Semmel" is a plain bun, white bread bap, that is dry, crumbled and mixed with egg, herbs and onions and sometimes baking and even cheese, which gives it a rough texture and colour. Potatoes dumplings are made from potatoes and potatoe starch, they are usually smaller and smoother, almost chewy and uniform in colour. The Weiß-Wurst are nice, they have a strong taste of spices, like a good stock, though the texture may be confusing. The skin is from natural intestine and so thin, that you could easily eat it without a problem, but some people like to open it on one end and "zurzln" it out of the skin. That's a local term for kind of sucking it out of the skin with your mouth and dropping the skin, but that is not really necessary. And you dip them in sweet mustard, which resembles closely to onion honey sauce maybe, but it is actual mustard. 10:37 It's about the same science as in whiskey from Scotland and there even the same similar ingredients :) 12:49 This has historical backgrounds that also resemble the dialects of southern Germany. You have a diagonal line through Bavaria, north-east to mid-west, where below that is the original Bavarian and Austrian accent and to the north and west there come the "Preißn“, the Prussians, which is now a colloquial term for anyone, who is not truely Bavarian. Goes back to the war from 1866, when Bavaria and the German Union lost against Prussians from the north-east. Don't worry, there seemed to be some war of any kind throughout these days on some front, I don't recall any details. At least this "special place" that Bavaria takes in terms of wilfullness and self perception of some souvereignty (is that a word?) comes from those days. Similar things took place in Swabia and Baden (which is a derivative of "bath" since there are many healing wells in the area due to the geological formations. Many towns have the "Bad" in their name) and you could see the old borders still in dialect or the rivalry of football fans, but in the end... you may reckon, it is (just) history. There is also an area in Bavarian boarders, that is still called Swabia, so you see, county lines don't always meet the historical or cultural identities. 14:43 so this is the famous view of Tübingen. I could go into details that the DNA was discovered in the castle and what else, but interestingly those "Stocherkahn" (lit. poke-barch) are similar to those in Venice. It is easy, if you know how to stear them, but it also took me a second attempt. There is a race with those barches in the summer, a local tradition, where the loser has to drink cod liver oil. So it's more like a soapbox race event than actual sports. 16:32 Curling off those "noodles" with the right dough and technique was a mandatory skill for women in Swabia to be allowed to get into marriage. Sounds funny and outdated, but my greatgrandma still had this tradition and it became less and less mandatory and more of a saying. 17:56 There is also the "Swabia ocean" the Bodensee, which is only a grand lake between Austria, Switzerland, Swabia and Bavaria, but it also has beaches and the "Seenachtsfest" once a year in the summer with big fireworks from each state and party all around the sea. For Christmas markets and medieval towns, I can recommend Esslingen, near Stuttgart with even a medieval market, Tübingen, which is basically a students town with great narrow pathways around old town, a castle and a river and is located not far from Castle Lichtenstein, which looks like a small version of Neuschwanstein. For medieval towns, I'd further have a look at Nördlingen, Dinkelsbühl and Rothenburg (Tauber) near Nürnberg, all within a reasonable distance. If you are more into the renaissance periode, I'd see Ludwigsburg, which has the castle and the "blühendes Barock" and a fairy tale park for the younger. Beautiful architecture and nature to see. But that is only the parts that I really know from living there for a certain time and I could recall so many more, even when thinking about black forest and the other parts of Bavaria. I can't even... 😂 I really enjoy your reactions, you seem genuinely interested and sometimes it is fun to see some similarities between countries, as you mentioned in the northern Germany video. Honestly, when learning about Scotland and Northern Britain, I had the same idea in my mind as you had concerning the kind of people. 😅 Hope you have a chance to visit some day! Greetings from Swabia! Also: Sorry for my bad English, you can see, no one can speak it in Germany, it gets you no where! 😅

[@onnasenshi7739]

Yay Dwayne is back again she made a small mistake in the video, in the dishes she mentioned the Semmelknödel/bread dumplings but in the translation it said potato dumplings

[@martinstock]

Black Forest Cake was not invented in the Black Forest. But in Bad Godesberg near Bonn. It has this name from the Black Forest Cherry Water (a cherry schnapps) used in the original recipe for this cake. Albeit you can find nowadays of course excellent Black Forest Cakes also in the Black Forest.

[@arnolsi]

That's not true. The Schwarzwälder Kirschrtorte comes from Schwaben. In a good Torte is a lot of Kirschwasser (up to 300 ml) because for women it was not alowed to drink in public and it was their way to get a little tipsy evan when the priest was there. And Josef Keller was a Swabian.

[@martinstock]

@@arnolsi It's was created by the Swabian Josef Keller in Bad Godesberg. For the customers there. A typical cake of the cafe culture of spa towns and big cities. "Sweet Josef", as he had been known since his early youth, had spent time in Bad Godesberg before his military service, which explains why he was recruited there. Bad Godesberg was home to the famous café "Ahrend" (now Agner), where he found work and where Bonn students demanded cherries with cream as a fashionable dessert. Later, a shortcrust pastry base soaked in cherry brandy was served with it, gradually giving rise to the cake that is known today as "Black Forest Gateau". Besides his native Swabia (Schwaben) he also worked before in Baden, the Palatinate and the Alscace to gain experience in his profession (confectioner).

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

Dwayne, our mountains are much older than any tall building in Europe 😅

[@digdigktn]

16:04 Spätzle are incredibly yummy! They are like... noodles - but fluffy! They carry so much sauce and have a nice texture.

[@digdigktn]

My tummy sends hungry noises.

[@ceard]

If you don't mind beaches on smaller scales at fresh water lakes then you could look up beaches at lake Constance or look up quarry ponds (Baggersee).

[@scottevil4531]

On the Weißwurst, yes it looks pale, but its seasoned with all kind of herbs and spices so it tastes very nice and not bland as the color suggests.

[@axelk4921]

Fun fact : the French were the first to "invent" sausage that wasn't GRAY OR PALE WHITE "but had a delicate pink color. Nowadays special lamps are installed on store shelves to make meat look nicer, you can test it yourself when you reach in and the toneof your skin gets darker or looks pinker then the special lamps are installed

[@hypatian9093]

It has to be a bit of bland to make it even more yummy when combined with sweet mustard :)

[@eisikater1584]

Dude, I had to laugh so hard when you were talking about heights and crumbling mountains underneath. "You never know", hilarious! That having said, I never was at the Zugspitze because it's not worth it. I once was on a small plane flying back from Rome to Munich, it was a sunny day, and I'm not an anxious flyer, really not, but when we crossed the Alps and I looked down at these mountain peaks, I had the feeling that they would scratch the plane's belly the next second and it would inevitably crash. Dear friends, take my advice: If you fly from Germany to Italy or vice versa, never choose a window seat!

[@Microtubui]

you forgott the scottish kilts....they have different pattern so you could say from where they come from like the lederhosen etc

[@hypatian9093]

Yes, and similar to lederhosen few (close to none) people wear them in everyday life. And I don't know about kilts, but lederhosen + the other traditional garments shown are a "made" tradition (like a lot of them are). They were cobbled together around 1800 from the remnants of traditional garments, which even then corresponded more to the idealised idea of rural clothing than to reality. The whole thing was promoted by the Bavarian royals and even promoted by decree.

[@tessvan1072]

Really enjoyed your reaction 😅

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

0:45 Tübingen marketplace, town hall in the background. Tübingen is an old university with town in Württemberg. 0:50 I'm not sure - Bamberg? 0:54 Munich Southern Germany is generally higher than northern Germany (lowest points around the Main valley, about 180m above sea level, and in the Rhine Valley at the border to France, about 140m above sea level; highest point Zugspitze 2962 above sea level; most cities between 250 and 450m above sea level). It is generally sunnier, but around the Danube valley and Lake Constance you can also get more fog between autumn and spring. The warmest region is around Freiburg, in the Rhine Valley west of the Black Forest. The climate is a little bit colder than northernmost Italy, maybe similar to the French regions from Burgundy to Franche-Comtè.

[@stephanmaxx_]

0:50 is Nürnberg (Franconia)

[@jerbilkonai5081]

the wrong called potato dumpling are Bread Dumpling. but potato Dumpling are also sometimes so you get to a Main Dish.

[@Steven91637]

You mentioned its warm in southern Germany.sometimes it is. The Beaches in northern Germany are clean and during Summer from June until late august its HOT 🥵 there

[@stephaniechbakingtraveler4262]

I live near the border of baden-Württemberg(Basel, Switzerland) and i cook spätzle at home(homemade) and spätzle is a winter side dish. It is served with meat and rotkohl(red cabbage) and it is one of my favourite winter dish. I can understand the swabian german because it is just almost the same i think in swiss german. Yes Schwarwäldertorte(Blackforest gateau) comes from blackforest.

[@afjo972]

1:09 No 😂 and southern Germany is not warmer in general. The warmest area in Germany is in the Rhine Valley in Baden-Württemberg on the French border. The Rhine transports the warmth up to the north (Cologne, Düsseldorf,…) which is why there’s almost never snow there ALTHOUGH it’s much more north. Bavaria on the other hand, is not particularly warmer than other states. Some areas in east Germany are actually warmer and sunnier but they never mention that because it doesn’t fit into the narrative of the bad dark East

[@beachlover7493]

Käsespätzle are great! Mhmmm...:)

[@tobiger3392]

calling nuremberg small town is crazy

[@Andi_mit_E]

they "only" have over 500k citizens 😆

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Well, small town from American viewpoint....

[@barneymcelton1266]

Did you know Feli from Germany ? She has a Channel too, and she is from Munich . Take a look . She's a lovely young woman and sometimes it's so much fun to watch her videos with her friend Ben , espacaly the Oktoberfest videos.

[@AB-sj1oj]

As someone from Heidelberg: we're actually "Kurpfälzer" and have only been "Badener" since Napoleon. Most still consider themselves as seperate from Baden (before that we were even Bavarian for a short time!)

[@Escherichia2003]

3:37 That's so cute.. yea... those black game leather suspensors with Edelweiss embroidery cost up to a thousand Euros (1000€) because they are handcrafted. Only the suspensors, mind you. The actual Lederhosen will come at another grand.

[@JohnDoe-xz1mw]

might be just me but if i had to bet what lasts longer a mountain or a highrise...im betting on the mountain

[@mortanos8938]

I live in Nürnberg and in all my years I have experienced temperatures ranging from minus 26 celcius to 45 celsius. In the South it is definitely way hotter than the North, but it still gets colder than in the UK despite being approx 1000km further South. The reason for this being the difference in altitude. Nürnberg is about 500 meters above sea level but South of Munich the Alps arise. Oh and one last thing, I used to be in the Gingerbread business in various areas so I know where you can get the best. Not only that but I can get it freshly made from the factory at a good price.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

If you are in the south of Germany, check out "Chiemsee". The Chiemsee is a freshwater lake which is also called the "Bavarian Sea" because of its size of around 80 qm² (=over 30 square miles). You'll see crystal clear water with mountains in the background. The lake is so large, that it contains three islands in it! Two of them, named "gentlemen's island" and "ladies' island) can be visited by boat. The island are that large, that people are living there, too! And at the gentlemen's island is a palace, built by Kind Ludwig II in 1878, you can visit. At the ladies' island you'll find the Benedictine nunnery, built in the year 782 (< not 1782, but 782!) as well as a small village. Well, ... maybe you want to check out a video about the "Chiemsee" if you haven't already!? o_O

[@filipieja6997]

You are absolutely right! The north of Germany is freaking cold.

[@sol9255]

Our beaches are not cold 😂 the north german summers can be very very hot. BTW, there is even a big natural sand beach in Hamburg

[@blutwigknochensense3750]

Weisswurst is boiled an not Fried. That is why it so pale

[@abenteuerelektrisch8977]

Baden-Württemberg has so much to offer. It is also an Economic powerhouse, home of BOSCH, Mercedes Benz | Daimler, Porsche and a lot of hidden Champions. ❤

[@KurtHögerle]

Don't expect that you'll have an overwhelming variety of beers in every pub. You will get the beers of one partner brewery, which normally is a Pilsner, a Helles , and a Weißbier. Maybe one or two "TV beers". German drink regionally. But this varies in every town.

[@gudrunnigg5257]

Don´t forget.We have from Mai to Oktober in fast all City s Little kind of "Wiesn" they are realy worth to visit. And you eat Weisswurst with a special Mustand and Brezn and Weissbier.

[@S4ngheli05]

If I ever had to recommend Lederhosn for specific occasions apart from going to a Volksfest, Wiesen etc would be farming related work, gardening, carpentry and all other chores around the house which require sturdy clothing but dont completely mess up the trousers. There are cargo Lederhosen nowadays for around 240 euros which have been designed for this pupose

[@hypatian9093]

As children we wore short lederhosen (even though I'm from Norther Germany) during the summers. So much less work if the kid are outside all the day: dry them, remove any dirt, brush up from time to time - done. They don't tear or get stained, perfect for years of wearing.

[@braunXYZ]

It's nothing like Spain. Southern Germany is just a bit more continental and that means its climate is less regulated by the sea. As a consequence summers can be a bit warmer and winters are usually colder (on average). But it's not enough to have a meaningful effect over local weather. It's far more influential than a couple of hundred miles. If someone said you sound like someone from Southern Germany they are either deaf or fucking with you. You do know Schwarzenegger, right? It's not that but it's close enough.

[@hanes2]

Austria is basically south Germany too. Lol

[@Rick2010100]

The leather shorts are not a cheap tourist item, they have have a hefty price tag.

[@Ati-MarcusS]

was 4 month in franconia in a Stroke Rehabitity Clinic in Bad Kissingen

[@fonkya1431]

Heidelberg ma City !!! A very cool area !!! Close to Mannheim were the car is coming from !!! Baden Württemberg has the most of german patents !!!

[@Hatkeinhals]

LOL there was Haley Alexis in this video :D

[@Humpelstilzchen]

The only difference in different color in white sausage is the salt. Weisswurst uses regular table salt instead of nitrate curing salt. Don't let you scare away because it looks different. That's a mistake many tourists do. Doesn't look familiar maybe not good. 😂

[@jschlund3588]

fun to see "Hayley Alexis" also in the video. she is also doing YT-Videos

[@mucxlx]

White sausage is fantastic. Its one of munichs signature dishes. But only eat those in bavaria or better in the area around munich +/- 100km.

[@SpelliZNX]

"You don't have beaches [in the South]" *Laughs in Bodensee und Baggerseen*

[@waltergro9102]

Southern Germany is just more continental than North and West Germany because it's farther away from the North Sea but separated from the Mediterranean Sea by the Alps mountain chain. Summers are warmer and winters colder than in more oceanic parts of Germany in the North and West. But temperature grew everywhere in the last decades. Stuttgart in Southwest Germany has an average annual temperature of 11.5°C. The German city with the mildest climate in Germany is Freiburg in the southwestern corner (Southern Baden). It has an average annual temperature of 11.6°C. But more to the north immediately on the Rhine Mannheim even has 11.9°C. At the northern Mediterranean Sea Marseilles in Southern France has an average annual temperature of 15.9°C. Milan in Northern Italy south of the Alps mountain chain has 14.1°C. Barcelona in Northern Spain at the Mediterranean Sea has 16.1°C, Bilbao at the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) has 14.7°C. More to the south Rome has 15.8°C, Naples 15.9°C and Athens 19.2°C. Thus average annual temperatures even in low lying parts of Southern Germany are much lower than temperatures even in the northern Mediterranean or south of the Alps. Of course you must always consider altitude for comparision.

[@batonnetdecannelle]

When calculating the surface mean temperature region by region, Bavaria is actually the coldest of the 17 federal states of Germany. Whereas Berlin in the North-east is the warmest state (it's a city state). However, this is a little biased, because the Bavarian mean includes some high-altitude weather stations, whereas Berlin is totally flat and influenced by the heat retention of urban structures. The lower altitude regions of Bavaria und especially the upper rhine valley in the South-west of Germany do indeed enjoy warmer summers than the rest of Germany. And then again, the famous Freiburg claim of being "the sunniest place in Germany" isn't true anymore since... the reunification in 1990. The baltic coast in the former GDR definitely gets more sunshine hours.

[@waltergro9102]

@@batonnetdecannelle Honestly I wasn't sure about the claim about "mildest" climate in and around Freiburg/Breisgau in the southern Upper Rhine plain because other cities have higher average annual temperatures. Maybe the relatively mildest winter In Germany is there.

[@Rabe7223]

but but but... we in the north have lovely places and food too... sniff...

[@SaraBlu]

Watch Part 1 for that 😂

[@matt47110815]

Weird to notice: One.of the interviewed persons talking about Bavaria is another KZbinr, that is now moved back to her native Florida.

[@junotrekki]

07:30 i am the complete opposite. I think: "this mountain has been here for thousands of years - how big is the chance it will collapse when i am on top of it?" But with men builded structures which normally last less than 100 years and where you can see those buildings getting more and more old and weak ... i fear that more when it comes to hights. Sorry for my bad grammar. Greetings from Westgermany (City of Iserlohn)

[@pfalzgraf7527]

If you ever get to Southern Germany, I'd love to be your guide! I'd love to show you a few Southern breweries. BTW: Rachel got something wrong there: "Semmelknödel" are exactly not Potato-Dumplings but breadcrumb-dumplings! Potato-Dumplings would be "Kartoffelknödel". Both are good. Only one is typically Bavarian. Oh and while I'm at it, I have to get my local pride in: I like Swabian Brezeln more than Bavarian ones! Weißwurst CAN be nice if nicely spiced. And no, the class certainly did not drink beer when they were visiting the brewery. South and North in Germany probably show the clearest difference in mentality. The beaches in the North are definitely colder than the Beaches in the South of England - although England is further north. The Gulf Stream being a reason here. But in the summer German North Sea or Baltic Beaches are a very, very good place to be!

[@judywe4941]

No, Surprisingly England's beaches are more south! Look to a map! Hamburg is about the same latitude as Leeds and Berlin is more north than London.

[@nari5025]

Interesting comment you make about heights. I'm not good with them either, but apparently totally opposite to you. Climb onto a rooftop, church or tv tower and I will cling to the rails as my life depends on it. However hiking on top of a mountain range is the best thing ever.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox9443]

As far as traditional clothing is concerned: Lederhosen are particularly common in Bavaria but more so on certain occasions/festivals. I've never been to Scotland, but I think kilts are still worn there on certain occasions, right?

[@BfromG]

How that girl with the really short hair, that said "Landschaft" is actually a well known youtuber 😅👍🏼

[@carobock5683]

Tübingen...my home town...heart of Baden-Württemberg (and geograpfical center). All the tourists are flooding Heidelberg, while Tübingen is so much nicer and more than compareable...but shhhh, do not tell any Heidelberger or Badener that Swabia or Württemberg is better 😅😆🌞

[@philippvonkolln6512]

3:45 These Drindl an Lederhosen you see there are not really traditional. It was invented around 1900 from two guys from Northern Germany who wanted to invent a national dress.

[@onkelhirnisfreund]

Bavaria is the most famous German state in America, isn't it? This is due to the fact that it was part of the American occupation zone after World War II. As a Bavarian, however, I can say that many Bavarians do NOT own lederhosen or dirndls. Something like this is often worn by members of Bavarian traditional costume clubs or some (often older) people wear a traditional costume for special celebrations in relatives or when visiting the Oktoberfest. Also, the traditional costume is not such an old tradition: Lederhosn or Dirndl were only invented in the 19th century, because people in Bavaria absolutely wanted to create something together that would create identity. At the beginning of the 19th century, Bavaria's territory was expanded to include Franconia in the north and a bit of Swabia in the west. As a result, Bavaria doubled its area, but Old Bavaria in the south and Franconia in the north still don't really feel like they belong together. There are also religious differences and differences in dialect. Today, fortunately, the former hostilities between Old Bavaria and Franconia are just fun and people tease each other. Above all, our Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder is a Franconian. (We have just become a tolerant country... xD ) By the way, correction to minute 13:00 Nuremberg is NOT the capital of Franconia. Because there are 3 parts of Franconia, each of which has its own district capital. That's why there is no capital of all Franconia! BUT Nuremberg is indeed the largest city in Franconia. And the second largest city in Bavaria. The largest city in Bavaria ist Munich of course. It's the capital of Bavaria. Bavaria is one of the oldest states in Germany. (Even if its area and boundary changed again and again over time.) In the Middle Ages, Bavaria was a duchy within the German territory of the so-called "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation". (The Holy Roman Empire has NOTHING to do with the real ancient Roman Empire! IThe HRE was a federal confederation of states created in the 10th century with a common emperor as head, who was elected by the dukes. And because at least most of the HRE was German-speaking, from the 15th century onwards it was also called the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation"). And, as I said, ONE of these duchies that belonged here was Bavaria. Bavaria was made an electorate in the 17th. This means that his duke was now allowed to count himself among the emperor's eight electors. In 1806, the HRE was destroyed by Napoleon. Napoleon elevated the Bavarian duke/elector to king. From 1806 Bavaria was a kingdom. And it remained so after the end of Napoleon and remained so until the fall of the monarchy in 1918. Previously, in 1871, when the German Empire was founded as the first modern German nation-state, the Kingdom of Bavaria became a federal state in the German Empire. In 1919, Bavaria was re-established as the "Free State of Bavaria" in the Weimar Republic (the Estonian German Republic). In 1933, Hitler came to power and destroyed democracy and dissolved all federal states, as the Nazis did not want federalism. It was not until after the Second World War, in 1946, that the Free State of Bavaria re-established itself with a new state constitution. And in 1949 it became part of the Federal Republic of Germany, which was founded in that year. Neuschwanstein Castle is indeed like a fairy tale: King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who built this castle in the 19th century, is called "the fairytale king" in Bavaria. Ludwig II built several such castles. But many of them were never fully completed because the king ran out of money. Another problem is that Ludwig II built these expensive fairytale castles ONLY FOR HIMSELF. These castles never had a political purpose. State receptions or anything like that never took place here. Ludwig built these sinfully expensive fantasy buildings as his personal retreats, where he wanted to be alone and undisturbed. Ludwig was extremely shy in his personality and hated large crowds. He even had a dumbwaiter in the castle so that he wouldn't be disturbed by the staff while he was eating. In his castles, he often hid in his fantasy worlds of fairy tales, legends and operas ... THIS MEANS: These castles, while expensive fun, had no practical use for the state. In the end, it became too expensive for the Bavarian state parliament. Which is why, in 1886, Ludwig was disempowered by a remote medical report under the pretext that he was mentally ill and incapable of governing. He was taken to a small castle on Lake Starnberg, where the deposed king was placed under guard. But just one day after his fall from the throne, the king was found floating dead on the shore of the lake in the evening. To this day, it is not known whether he killed himself or whether he was drowned or shot while fleeing. But you probably don't want to find out, because his legend also lives on his mysterious death. As well as from his fairytale castles.

[@emiliajojo5703]

You in Lederhosen would be really cool.😊

[@SebastianSturm-y4l]

♥️Du bist gut ✊

[@Brainreaver79]

lol our fear of heights is exactly opposite.. i am fine on a high mountain peak,.. but man made structures? yeah no... if there is any chance to avoid it,.. i will avoid it

[@JonasReichert1992]

It’s the same for me with heights. Also I have a much bigger Problem with 4-10 meters than with 100-400 meters or even More.

[@Soulscreamer7]

You're really afraid that a mountain that's at least x millennia old will collapse beneath you, but when you look at a thin skyscraper that's not even a 10th as old and certainly not even a hundredth as old, you certainly don't feel SERIOUS!!!

[@batonnetdecannelle]

Climate in southern Germany like in northern Spain? Well, let's check the numbers, comparing Munich (biggest city in southern Germany), Zaragoza (a sizable city close to the Spanish Pyrenees) und good old London on a foggy island in the Atlantic Ocean. 1. Average temperature all year round (winter/summer, day/night) Munich: 10.1 °C Zaragoza: 15.5 °C London: 11.7 °C 2. Average yearly number of days with precipitation Munich: 182 Zaragoza: 51 London: 112 3. Average yearly hours of sunshine Munich: 1841 Zaragoza: 2693 London: 1675 4. Average amount of yearly rainfall (in mm or liters/m2) Munich: 940 Zarogoza: 322 London: 615 All data from the relevant english-language wikipedia pages, mean values over 30 years of continuous and recent measurements.

[@Why-D]

16 federal states with dozens of specialties in each, you need to stay some month only to be able to eat the delicacies, once per day.

[@philippprime6844]

6:10 Neuschwanstein is not much less fake than Disney castles. It was built in 1869 and represents what King Ludwig II imagined as a fairytale castle. The castle could only be realized because modern technologies such as a steel structure were used. So neither its history nor its construction has anything to do with medieval or early modern castles.

[@IIIOOOUS]

warm, warmherzig, oft ? It is 1 or 2 degrees warmer sometimes and that is mostly when it too hot anyways.

[@leobeck8074]

0:54 The woman who says "die Landschaft", isn't that Hayley Alexis(@HayleyAlexis on KZbin)?

[@NephritduGrey]

Seems like it.

[@olgahein4384]

Yep, that's her when she was still living in Germany.

[@barjel7951]

Indeed, it is Hayley.

[@dearseall]

@Beer: This *STRANGE* beer "expert" forgot the true traditional beer of munich and bavaria: the dark beer....

[@Hirnspatz]

If you are afraid of heights you should rather visit East Frisia where the highest elevation is a cow. 🤭

[@walkir2662]

Apparently the Kehrwoche is the last remains of medieval street cleaning rules, so it may as well be the same in Sweden.

[@miamalice8161]

More castles please ❤️

[@Steven91637]

Well its similar to northern spain in case of the climate but more similar to the Pyrenäen 😂mountains

[@ailime500]

It‘s kind of confusing „how“ we learn English, because in school you’re taught British English until 6/7th grade - and suddenly they tell you that Americans have different words for the same things xD so many of us mix up British and American English a lot, because on social media you often don’t really know where the native English speakers come from.

[@Thomasg1404]

Willkommen im Club . Höhe ist auch meine Schwäche.

[@ileana8360]

Sorry, but "Semmelknödel" are NOT potato dumplings. It´s all in the word: Knödel = dumpling Semmel = bavarian for "Brötchen" and this is a BREAD bun, therefore "Semmelknödel" is a bread dumpling Kartoffel = potato, therefore "Kartoffelnödel" is a potatoe dumpling

[@Steven91637]

So what are you waiting for? Grap your Bag and check in at the next international Airport Welcome to Germany Deutschland 🇩🇪

[@JonasReichert1992]

The Women 😢at 8:22 has a KZbin-Channel herself. She is from the USA. Hayley Alexis is her name. And the Channel Name too

[@juyjuka]

Hello Dwayne's Lens, Lederhosen are everything but cute. They feel more like armor then anything else and they incorporate a toilet-function in there design. God are they not-cute. Dirndel is at least a bit cut, but they are so cluncky and many details origin from repressing culture ... but they are old enough and might not be repressiv anymore ... I am not that well informed. I am very impressed that you know that Neu Schwanstein is the original and most/all fairy tails (or so) use it as blueprint. Well done! Greetings Juy Juka

[@YukioHinterland]

Most 'folk-style' clothing or tracht is not wholly traditional and more so a result of the quest for a Bavarian identity in the 19th century.

[@benjaminZ19]

She forgot to name the german car brands bc all of them except Volkswagen are either from Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg (BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Audi)

[@Andi_mit_E]

Weißwurst is tasty ...and don't forget the sweet mustard, the Brezel and the wheat beer. 😉

[@Dark-ts3ox]

*breze

[@Andi_mit_E]

@@Dark-ts3ox NEVER EVER! Brezel is a Swabian invention (1477 in Urach, BW) and it has an "I" at the end. A Breze is it only in Bavaria where it can't compare to a original Swabian Brezel. Breze = thick, soft and not very tasty. Brezel = thick in the middle, thin knot, crispy and worth eating it!

[@Dark-ts3ox]

@@Andi_mit_E Zur Weißwurst gehört aber keine Br*zel sondern eine gscheite Breze.

[@Andi_mit_E]

@@Dark-ts3ox Breze und Brezel sind nicht dasselbe. "a gscheide Breze" kann nicht mal mit einer schlechten Brezel mithalten! 😛

[@torstenschwartz5974]

Some Skyscrapers in NY are older as New Schwanstein. Some parts are made with Krupp Steel.

[@sternenhimmelfotografierende]

And so are some of the 'old' churches in Germany. Most known example is the main church of Cologne (Kölner Dom), which was built with steel not long ago (finally finished in the year 1900).

[@jacquestricatel7055]

Blödsinn!

[@sternenhimmelfotografierende]

@@jacquestricatel7055 Bezogen auf was? Der Kölner Dom wurde offiziell 1880 fertig gestellt, tatsächlich erst 1900 mit der Fertigstellung der Böden.. Davor war er mehrere Jahrhunderte eine Bauruine, in dem teils Schafe gehalten wurden. Sein gesamter Dachstuhl und teile der besonders hohen Aufbauten wurden nach dem damals neusten Methoden errichtet. Der gesamte Dachstuhl ist eine Stahlkonstruktion. Das ist mit eine Grund warum er, trotz zahlreicher Bombentreffer im 2. WK, nicht völlig zerstört wurde. Der Kölner Dom ist beileibe keine mittelalterliche Kirche. Einzige Teile des Unterbaus, bzw. sozusagen die unteren Geschosse sind aus dem Mittelalter. Und genauso ist auch Schloss Neuschwanstein ein 'Neubau' aus Stahl. Es war sogar eines der damals modernsten Gebäude überhaupt, mit allem neusten technischen Schnickschnack. U.a. eine Telefonanlage und eine Warmluftzentralheizung

[@torstenschwartz5974]

Neu Schwanstein its build at the 19th century paid with prussian taxes build with krupp Steel, Bismarck buy the Bavarian King to come into His Empire. Cologne Cathedral its real old.

[@sternenhimmelfotografierende]

@@torstenschwartz5974 The base part/ground levels in Cologne are very old. It was started but than stopped in the year 1528 and left as a half-finished ruin for 300 years. However, the cathedral crane on the stump of the south tower, a more than 25 meter high wooden rotating structure from the 14th century, became a symbol of a backward city.Look up the pictures of that church, without any towers, without a roof. It was just a ruin, were sheeps were kept in. It then was than finished in 1880 (official)/1900 (for real). And yes, with prussian money. :-) Top 'half' is build with modern technology and the construction of the roof is made out of steel.

[@Julge2007]

Auf dem Dorf startet man in der 7. mit trinken😂

[@olgahein4384]

Ja, bei der Traktorfahrt durchs Feld nach Schulschluss (in jeder Schulklasse war ein Kind dessen Eltern nen Bauernhof hatten und das Traktor fahren noch vor Fahrrad fahren gelernt hat).

[@SaraBlu]

I might be wrong but I guess traditional Bavarian Trachten could be compared to the tradition of Kilts?

[@Steeler-wg5zo]

Hayley Alexis @ 0.54😃

[@felixblum]

You just need a pair of those shorts.. no reason needed😄🙋🏻‍♂️

[@felixblum]

🇩🇪❤️‍🔥

[@faketheo3432]

You'd wear the Lederhosen for Oktoberfest. Duh

[@june4976]

I think you could easily spend 3-4 weeks per region in exploring everything. So, better prepare for multiple trips. Or come to live here for a while. The comment about you sounding like somebody from southern Germany might have to do with speech melody, but I'm not sure about it.

[@bendjohans3863]

a fresh weisswurst is delicious speciall with bavarian sweet mostard