Latvian Reacts to Southern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip - Exploring Bavarian Culture

[@GernotRutz]

Servus is a Latin word and means servant. It is a greeting meaning "I´m your servant" or "happy to oblige" and is used mainly in Bavaria and Austria for "hello" or "hi" as well as "good bye".

[@publicminx]

btw.: 'good bye' is a shorty of => god be with ya = god be with you

[@GernotRutz]

@@publicminx oh, interesting. Thx for that info 👍

[@morbvsclz]

Czech and German, especially Bavarian brewing cultures are closely linked. Czechia (former Bohemia and Moravia) were very important parts of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations. There were German Emperors from and residing in Prague, which explains the massive palaces / castles there. Pilsen style Lager came about because the people of Pilsen (now Plzeň) hated their local beer so much, that they poured multiple barrels of it on the town square in front of city hall in protest in 1842. The Brewing Master of Pilsen (Martin Stelzer) then called in a Bavarian Brewing Master (Joseph Groll) to fix their beers and create them a new beer. He did, taking into account the different characteristics of the brewing water etc. and you can still find the descendants of this brew in most well stocked stores als "Pilsner Urquell". And Pilsen style Lager is now pretty much the "default beer" variant across the globe.

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Wow nice knowledge bomb thanks!

[@newnyu7763]

12:03 It is nice that she mentioned that swabians invented the "Kehrwoche" (and also that she used the melody of the "schwäbscher eisebahn"-song). But what she did not mention: This (the region around stuttgart in particular) is where cars where imvented! Both invetors that are nowadays like the godfathers of cars lived and worked in the region (Gottlieb Daimler lived in Cannstadt and Carl Benz in Schorndorf). And the first legendary car ride from Bertha Benz took place in Baden-Württemberg as well. Cars where invented in the swabian parts of germany. This story might have been worth noticing cause it obviously impacted worldwide.

[@SweetSchnubbl]

Also i must admit: its true... People from Baden are way more relaxed and open mined than Schwaben. Ive been living in Schwaben ever since...its home, but in almost every other county, people are more welcomming towards strangers, id say

[@PropperNaughtyGeezer]

"Guten Tag" in high german or "Servus" in the south, "Moin" in the north or "Grissgodd" in the southwest or "Daach" in the east, "Tachchen" in Berlin - It's all the same, just with regional differences or depending on slang. Then there can also be differences depending on the time of day.

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Never would guess that german language is so rich!

Both "Servus" and "Grissgodd" (which is BS, it's "Grüss Gott" just in a bavarian accent) are Bavarian greetings.

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

Servus is one of the southern German greetings, mostly used in Austria and Bavaria. It originates from the Latin word for "servant" and was originally used at court as a polite greeting of higher ranking aristocrats in the sense of "I'm your servant". 0:45 The market place in the university town of Tübingen (Swabia) with the town hall in the background. 0:45 Nuremberg (Franconia), directly followed by Munich in 0:52 2:52 Coming from the region I would choose the one that was baked by a local and not too big bakery. If that applies to both, then the Swabian one. The thin arms are really crispy, making the Brezel less boring than the Bavarian one. 3:15 "Tracht" means "traditional clothing". Lederhosen and Dirndl are actually not so traditional - in the early 19th century most original Bavarian "Trachten" included trousers made from loden cloth, not from leather. In 1883 however a teacher and his drinking mates constituted the first "Trachtenverein" (association for traditional clothing) and ordered leather trousers from a local leather craftsman. They were ridiculed by the local population, but supported by the Bavarian king who was in search for a Bavarian national identity. Over time many villages adapted Lederhosen in their "Tracht". "Dirndl" meant originally "girl" or "maid". In the mid 1800s wealthy citizens and aristocrats from Munich started to spend the summer in cooler rural villages; the fashionable summer holiday dress for the wealthy woman of the time was based on the traditional clothing of their maids (who came mostly from rural villages), but more colorful and a "sexier" more low-cut neckline - the "Dirndl" was born. Again that led to a feedback effect in some Bavarian villages (but not all) who made their traditional woman's festive dresses more "Dirndl"-like. The original Tracht was based on relatively uniform festive clothes within a village, which made them more affordable (the local tailor could use the same pattern and the same cloth for all) and also helped to establish a sense of belonging. Those festive clothes were also meant to last for the whole life (and sometimes longer, when the great-grandma bequeathed them to her great-granddaughter) and therefore could be easily adopted to different phases in life - from being a young woman looking for marriage to pregnancy to being an old matron. 4:35 Oktoberfest is the anniversary of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig I with Princess Therese in 1810; it starts usually mid September and ends at the first weekend of October. The Cannstatt Volksfest is celebrated around the same time of the year, but it started in 1818 as part of an agricultural fair, which was itself part of the agricultural reforms introduced by King Wilhelm I of Württemberg after the famines of the "year without summer" 1816 caused by the Tambora eruption in 1815. Beer is served at both festivals in mugs called "Maß" (lit. "measure") of one liter; the mug itself has a weight of about 1 to 1.3kg, a full mug has therefore about 2.3 kg. 5:45 At least Ludwig II used his own money to build his palaces (he built three of them and grew up on one built by his father, which is shown at 5:46) - including some grants he got from Prussia after giving up resistance against Prussian leadership (the Prussians had also decimated the Bavarian army some years before in the 1866 war of the Prussian-Italian alliance against the German Federation). 7:10 "Pfiat di" is short for "Behüt dich Gott" - "may God protect you". "Tschüss" is derived from Walloon "adjuus" (like Spanish "adios" or French "adieu", lit. "to God"), while the older form "ade" used in in Franconia and Swabia is derived from the northern French "adé". 9:25 Bavaria and Czechia are neighbors, and both were members of the Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria as a duchy, Czechia as the Kingdom of Bohemia) - and the name Bavaria originates from the Celto-Germanic Boii tribe who also gave Bohemia its name (the Boii as well as the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni moved from Bohemia to Bavaria during the dark ages at the end of the Roman Empire). Czechia invented the bottom-fermenting "Pilsner" beer (from the Czech city of Plzen) which is now the most popular type of beer in most of Germany (except the South as well as Cologne and Düsseldorf). 10:14 Franconia became only part of Bavaria after it was given to Bavaria by Napoleon between 1806 and 1810; before that it consisted of some (mostly Protestant) earldoms ruled by branches of House Hohenzollern, some (Catholic) Prince-Bishoprics and some self-ruled Imperial Cities. The same goes for the most-eastern part of Swabia (around Augsburg, Kempten and Memmingen), which became a Bavarian district in 1803.

[@ShredAstair]

There is a Bohemian culinary connection between Bavarians, Czechs and Austrians

[@SweetSchnubbl]

Every reagion has several local breweries btw.... And they sre all said to be tasty

[@newnyu7763]

10:02 just saying that the capitol of Franconia is not Nürnberg, the 'capitol' with the regional administration is Ansbach (and Nürnberg people are still a little mad because of that). Nürnberg is of course by far the bigger city but that does not make it become the capitol.

[@AniSkywalker04]

No, Ansbach is only the capital of Middle Franconia, as Bayreuth is of Upper and Würzburg of Lower Franconia. There is no administrative capital of Franconia as a whole because there's no formal administrative region of "Franconia" within Bavaria. Nonetheless, the cultural capital of entire Franconia is Nuremberg.

[@hape3862]

"Servus" is latin and means servant. We use it here in Bavaria (and Austria) like "Hello" (as well as "Good bye"), but its origin might have been "I'm your servant."

[@GernotRutz]

9:15 Fun fact: as beer is brewed using hop and malt similar to grain used for baking bread beer is called "liquid bread" in Bavaria and in the Bavarian constitution beer is determined as food.

[@brianlewis5692]

'Servus' is Austrian and Bavarian for "Hello"

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

thank you :)

[@nettcologne9186]

It's a bit complicated, but low German is spoken in the north not in the south, and "Servus" (south) means hello and "Moin" (north) also means hello

[@fusssel7178]

low and high in germany is about the altitude and not latitude :D

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Thank you for explanation 😊

"South"… _sigh_ I get that Americans and other stupid foreigners think the south of Germany is all Bavaria, but as someone from Cologne (going by your user name :D) you should know better.

[@arnodobler1096]

6:40 is the KZbinr Hayley Alexis

[@feuerwehrmanngrisu9094]

0:53 is Hayley Alexis and 6:40 also 7:06 😂

[@andreasmartin9296]

Your setup is great! Reminds me of the channels of Mark Reicher or Torsten Heinrich, which means you get a subscription from me ;)

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Welcome aboard!

[@Winona493]

There are no dumb questions! How would you know? Ask what I know about Latvija...🙈 But I am learning, just as you.😊

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Haha yes I agree, its better ask than just say nothing. Atleast someone will learn something new.

[@Winona493]

@@thebestman92-rq5xc 👍

[@GernotRutz]

And by the way I choose of course the bavarian "Breze" with its thickness all around. 😜 Regards from Munich / Garmisch-Partenkirchen

[@arnodobler1096]

😜 zahnlose Bajuwaren

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Much love from Latvija!

[@GernotRutz]

@@arnodobler1096 😝

[@arnodobler1096]

@@GernotRutz Der Crunch ist besonder gut für zahnende Kinder, sie lieben es.

[@Winona493]

I'd like the left one better, but country wise I'd choose Baden- Württemberg, who make the skinny pretzel. Unfortunately I live in Northrhinewestphalia. We don't have pretzels here so much.

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Thats sad 😁

[@SweetSchnubbl]

She couldnt be more wrong about the Brezel- story... Bavarian Brezeln are way crosser and saltier, than those from BaWü Of course, Brezeln from BaWü arevthe better choice 😂😊 The reason, why Bavarian Tracht is so well known is, that Bavaria was occupied by the Americans after ww2. And up to this day,Americans seem to think, whole Germany looks like Bavaria 😅 Far from it, my dearest friend. We all kept our regional dialects, dishes, clothing aso The czech Republic used to be bohemia... Rings a bell with you? Bohemian brewed beer...?

[@Kelsea-2002]

If I could do without one state in Germany, it would be Bavaria. If only it would finally be taken over by Austria.

[@brittakriep2938]

Up to 1160, Austria had been a part of Bavaria - the borderland, called the Marken ( Steiermark contains still Mark), a note: Also Englisch/ Scottish borderland is called the marks.

[@Dr_Klops]

You simply have to compare the two most iconic castles of both states. Neu Schwanstein for Bavaria and Hohenzollern for Baden Württemberg. And you cannot miss the impression tha Bavaria is Germany's Disney World whereas Baden-Württemberg is where Germany's real power comes from. Nevertheless both castes were built as romantic ideas of a long gone time.

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

They are really beautiful !

[@GernotRutz]

Oh, you´re a cat owner. Like me. 👍 Or as we say in German: a can opener 😜

[@Winona493]

I think cat- owners (better: cat- rescuers for there are so many suffering cats outside or in animal shelters; no need to "buy" them) are mostly likable persons, because you need a sense of capacity to suffer and not taking yourself too serious. Cats are always the kings and queens in the household and you are mainly there to just serve. Btw, I am a cat- rescuer as well.😂

[@GernotRutz]

@@Winona493 I agree

[@Winona493]

@@GernotRutz My very first boyfriend back in the day was called "Gernot" as well. Never came across this name before or after. So you gave me a little shiver and feeling of nostalgia.

[@arnodobler1096]

I like them both equally, you characterized them correctly. I've had two run into me. A 5-month-old male cat, he was as loyal as a dog and picked me up from work at every night. I miss him since decades. ♥

[@arnodobler1096]

@@Winona493 Gernot Haßknecht, heute show?

[@SweetSchnubbl]

Dunno if you got, whatcthe swabian chef said: The rich teach you, how to save money, The poor teach you, how to cook

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

I think you need both, how to earn and how to save and multiply.

[@SweetSchnubbl]

@@thebestman92-rq5xc it basically means: Rich people teach you, how to be greedy or how to safe money, but poor people know, how to cook, even though theres only little do deal with...

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Yeah, the Czech Republic hat some nice beer, too! *true In České Budějovice (aka. "Budweis"), for example, they make a quite known beer by the name of "Budweiser". I am pretty sure you've heard of it - mostly from american movies, etc.

[@arnodobler1096]

But US Budweiser has nothing in common with Czech Budweiser, just a long legal dispute. 🖐

[@fusssel7178]

@@arnodobler1096 true, iirc the us one was created by german immigrants even. I am not a beer fan but heard the bear in the US is rightly called Pisswasser.

[@arnodobler1096]

@@fusssel7178 or cat pi ss

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

Yes ofc i know its big brand

Which means he hasn't heard of it, at least not from American movies. The "Budweiser" in the US is completely independent of the Budweiser brewed in Czechia. You can buy czech Budweiser in the US, but it's not sold as "Budweiser". Just as US Budweiser can and probably (although I have to wonder *why)* is being sold in Europe… but they don't have the rights to the name "Budweiser" in Europe (no idea what it is being sold as).

[@KurtHögerle]

The swabian is the better, of course! The skinny arms give a nice crunch, with the belly contrasts being soft. Bavarian Brezen are not bad, bad too soft over all.

[@thebestman92-rq5xc]

i love crunch too :)

[@brittakriep2938]

But Attention! Over 50 years ago, the thin arms of swabian Brezgat was totally baken through, is very rare today.