Numbering the houses

[@PiscatorLager]

I personally lived in a Verschlimmbesserung of the third system. Our village had been incorporated into the next municipality together with a bunch of other villages and the chance was seized to get rid of the old system villagename + number and introduce road names. But (probably to make things easier for the postman) every house kept its old number when they switched to roadname + number. And because my village was so small it only got one single road called "Dorfstraße". But now there was a huge problem: two other villages decided that it was a great idea to name their only road "Dorfstraße" as well, leading to the fact that our address existed three times in the same postal code, in three different villages. Adding the Ortsteil sometimes helped, sometimes not (and some online shops didn't even offer the option). DHL worked well enough most of the time, but the courier company named after a Greek god (and sounding like Herpes) never even bothered to try and returned every single parcel to the sender with the note "address not unambiguous".

[@BlackAdder665]

"But in places where sanity is a thing..." - that one gave me more than just a good chuckle :'D

[@pangolin83]

Jay Foreman, Tom Scott, Geoff Marshall, The Tim Traveller and yourself have been such great content for interesting places!

[@MerleTrains]

Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

[@Spezialist212]

Yep, proud to say I'm in the same KZbin bubble :D

[@kkkennedykk]

I know all of them except the last one. I think I can see a pattern how we all ended up on here!

[@Dave_Sisson]

Personally, I really like Tom Scott, Rewboss and Geoff Marshall, but Jay Foreman's rather high opinion of himself isn't quite to my taste. KZbin keeps pushing The Tim Traveller at me and I've resisted watching because I don't want to give in to their pressure. But I'll admit that is a bit dumb, one day I'll probably succumb to their relentless marketing of him.

[@ThePixel1983]

And Tim now lives less than 20 kilometers from me! 🎉

[@varana]

2:22 I have no idea which town that beauty is, but house # 24d takes the cake - nowhere near 24a-c, or any 24 at all.

[@martincerveny2284]

2:21 And I can confirm that! Not in Germany, but in Prague, Czech Republic we have this "first-come-first-served" along with "Paris" system. So you can have numbers like "1589/3" (1589 is that old wierd system, but it's unique in the city, and 3 is "Paris"-like street house number.

[@floris3239]

All that matters is winning an argument with your sister-in-law. Because that's like winning an argument with your wife but without nasty consequences like having to sleep on the couch.

[@felixw19]

It´s really nice to see you being compared to big names like Jay Foreman and Tom Scott. Their channels are both way bigger than yours, but I enjoy your content just as much as theirs :)

[@DrHotep]

The same for me. :)

[@bomcabedal]

In Berlin ca. 1900, the Lutherstrasse ran through what was formally three cities: Berlin, Charlottenburg, and Schöneberg. Berlin used the Paris system (IIRC), Charlottenburg horseshoe, and Schöneberg both but Paris in this case. As a consequence, there were three different numbering systems in place, so "Lutherstrasse 10" could be in three locations, and quite a bit apart. To make matters more confusing, Charlottenburg residents referred to their part as "Lutherstrasse W(est)", because Charlottenburg as a city lay west of Berlin. This street, however, was situated to the south of the Berlin part and to the north of the Schöneberg part. One square had two "Lutherstrasse 1" addresses opposite one another (because Charlottenburg numbered from the north, and Berlin from the south). You can imagine the confusion.

[@ThamiorSilberdrache]

The horseshoe system is only usefull on streets that can't expand in any direction because if you build a single extra house on the end of the street, you'll get a mess. The Paris system is therefore obviously better on most situations. As far as I know it's a lot more common. I don't know a single street that is numbered in an other way. Adding a letter or a fracture is not the only way to add numbers in between. The row house in which we are living is numbered 31 - 31/1 - 33 - 33/1. (Paris system, the even numbers are on the other side of the road.)

[@daveemberton5271]

The street I live on here in the outskirts of Stuttgart has only houses on one side, on the right side, and so they're all even numbers starting from number 2. I hadn't really thought about it until I saw this video.

[@elonmush4793]

To be fair, the even/uneven numbers system is so common that I also held the assumption it must be the standard.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Also the "beginning" of the counting usually (but not always) is towards the town. As in they start with the closest house and then continue counting outwards.

[@hartmutbohn]

Living in the historic center of Mannheim, I was wondering whether you would mention this, and was very pleased that you did.

[@saschamohr7970]

Me too, lived there for three years (F2). I was about to post a comment, then saw yours.

[@mats7492]

02:20.. Went to tokyo last year.. They use exactly that "system".. without google maps its impossible to find any house , theyve got a wild mix of no. 11 next to 693, next to 8504..some streets dont even have names at all..did i mention that there are 40 million people living in tokyo? its a mess

[@Anson_AKB]

if i remember correctly, Venice in Italy uses such a system too, but they number every opening of the house, thus a house with one door and 5 windows to the street gets 6 consecutive numbers, with the next few numbers possibly at the other side of town. now imagine what happens when someone later adds an additional window ...

[@s8w5]

Bonus fact: In some places the sign with the street name also tells you what numbers to expect until the next crossing (i.e. within the "block", if it was one) on this side. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Strassenschild_Adolf_Malsch_Spandau.JPG de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Zeppelinstr_Marl_Schild.JPG To my experience, you can't tell from that sign which of the two numbering systems are used - unless the range happens to start with an even and end with an odd number (or vice versa).

[@MirkoC407]

Usually the system numbering all houses of the city was imposed by Napoleon's troops and scrapped after their defeat. The most famous number given to any German house by Napoleon's troops is probably today's Glockengasse 4 in Cologne - they numbered it 4711 and the perfume company located there took this house number as their trademark.

[@SvenjaKuckla]

And sometimes there's no 1 at all. In our village a street begins with 89. That's because the naming of street changed in the 70s and a long street got 2 names, one east and one west of the big intersection in the middle of the village. However the now new beginning was never renumbered and the first house is number 89 as it has been when it was built.

[@HaploidCell]

You're hitting the timing for those puns perfectly in this one. Well done! And yeah, without GPS navigation, google maps, etc. it would be bloody impossible to find anything in most cities that swap between using both systems. Not to mention when you're delivering something to an apartment block that is so massive that the door bells occupy a separate board from the name tags, which are on a separate display board to the side. So now you're looking alphabetically for the name (which might be misspelled on your delivery order because phoning in an order is literally game of telephone) and then you're looking for the number of the doorbell you have to press. Good luck finding it indoors, too, because the example I am thinking of was a complex with 6 elevators and 221 apartments - all numbered.

[@pavolplaysgames3925]

here in austria your house number can sometimes look more like a phone number :) one house usually has only one number(even big apartment buildings). if a new house replaces multiple old houses (pretty common in central vienna) it inherits all their house numbers (for example houses 25, 27, 29 are demolished and replaced by big apartment building numbered 25-29), then each enterance (stiege) is numbered and then follows your apartment number (tur nr.) so in the end you can have an adress like this: Hauptstrasse 25-29/13/125 :)

[@myslithecat]

In Finland we solved that by putting alphabets in, Random street 25-29 A 125, I don't know if it's a rule, but entrances are usually marked with letters here.

[@Oemerich]

Great Video, Andrew. I really like the topics you speak about and those puns were great in this one. Keep up the great work!

[@cmyk8964]

That example you gave of jumbled street numbers reminds me of my college campus. That only had numbers up to about 35 though, and the numbers were in a color-coded list of areas, so it wasn’t as much of a bother to find any given building on the map.

[@KaterMUC]

The third System was used by the French after conquering Cologne - this is where the perfume company "4711" got its name from.

[@vHindenburg]

Up to that point house numbers werent really a thing at least that what I was thought as well that the number one is supposed on the left side. It confuses me when it isnt.

[@vHindenburg]

I mean the story goes that when the Rhineland was ocupied by Napoleon house numbers got intodruced.

[@lukoh5540]

@@vHindenburg How to define the left side of the street???

[@vHindenburg]

@@lukoh5540 a cul de sac makes that obvious usually, and for other streets you will find out the direction where "left" and "right" are from the nubers going either up or down.

[@stevenschwartzhoff1703]

There are Czech some villages where there are no numbers and the address is simply "the house next to the big oak tree" even if that tree fell down decades ago. Of course, there are actual numbers to identify the buliding parcle for property purposes, but post carriers just know what house They are talking about.

[@NicolaW72]

In rural parts of Northern Germany the houses had well into the 20th century House Names, not numbers.

[@alexjenkins1079]

@@NicolaW72 Here in the UK, some houses still have names, and no numbers, especially in rural areas, such as in parts of Cornwall

[@klobiforpresident2254]

I remember that the village I grew up in used the Paris system exclusively and that not all streets started on the same side. There was the case of the Oak Street which, after a junction, turns into Ash Street. Back when I delivered the paper I learned whether or not the house *at* the junction was Oak or Ash because one numbered on the left and the other on the right.

[@Shadow4707]

I have read on Wikipedia that there is also another system where the houses are numbered by the distance between the start of the road and where the plot begins in meters. I'm not sure if this system is in use in Germany, however.

[@niklasd3668]

Proof her wrong in public! She'll like that 😅

[@mickimicki]

Areas settled in the 1960s or 1970s sometimes have "streets" with several "arms" that all belong to the same street (name) and no easily discernible system of numbering. If you're lucky, there are street signs on the corners like "X-Y-Straße 23 - 29" etc. If not, good luck. Also I know that when new houses are built between an existing number "n" and its neighbour "n a", for example between 15 and 15a, all kinds of things are possible, for example "15/1". Which means the inhabitants will have to spend some extra time explaining and spelling their address for the foreseeable future. A friend of mine in a small town used to have a house number that even included Roman numerals, something like "2 III 5." For some reason, it was changed for a slightly "easier" system years ago.

[@frankhooper7871]

There is one street in my town in the form of a T with an extended top-bar. As you go up the vertical bit, it's odds on the left & evens on the right (normal!) - when you reach the top-bar, the odd numbers horseshoe around to the left and the evens to the right.

[@ccityplanner1217]

In Paris, the odd numbers are always on the left & even numbers on the right on streets that run north-south. On streets that run east-west, the even numbers are on the north side & the odd numbers are on the south side.

[@nicosteffen364]

In my city, the streets are numbered away from the old Town Hall, and 1 is always on the left when you are looking away of that Town Hall! There are some that dont, but this part was integrated late! When its a curved street the part thats closer to the Town Hall is the beginning!

[@2712animefreak]

"But in places where sanity is a thing..." Czechia: sweats nervously.

[@ianholder77]

In Albury, New South Wales, Australia, house and buildings are numbered using an address at what was the centre of the city. Its number is 500, and all other houses/buildings are numbered depending on whether they are east, west, north or south of this point [numbers can repeat on streets]. So given any number, you have a good idea of the general area they are in (once you work it out -- moving there it was a shock): so my 622 told people I was relatively close to the CBD and in a westerly direction from it.

[@NikolausUndRupprecht]

And sometimes streets that use the Paris system (I didn't know the name of that system until a few minutes ago) have quite a huge offset: Number one should be directly opposite of number two. But in the street were I grew up number one is opposite of number eighteen (due to the topography of the place).

[@KaiHenningsen]

In my street, it varies. Sometimes the odd numbers are larger, sometimes the even numbers. Wha? Simple. on both sides, some but not all houses are in perpendicular rows, needing more numbers in less space. And those aren't exactly opposite.

[@antoniaweber8074]

In Berlin when you look at the street sing it usually indicates which numbers are in that section until the next crossing.

[@gerdforster883]

Yes, but because we like to confuse people, we don't do it consistently.

[@JakobFischer60]

I did not know the "horseshoe" system and I believe it is quiet rare in Germany. Also, the numbering normally starts at the end of the street which is towards the center of the town.

[@uwehaleksy]

There's one interesting and important thing you missed in your documentation. As the Parisian numbering (with odd left / even right) is by far the most common in Germany, it is also a rule (yes, with exceptions!) that the counting goes from the center of the town toward the outskirts.

What if the street runs parallel to the town centre?

[@uwehaleksy]

@ They tear it off and build it new. Or they toss a coin. But I think most of them go clockwise (not sure).

[@uwehaleksy]

@ and btw: it's concentric, not parallel.

[@moenchii]

My village had numbered every house without caring about the streets. Thankfully it grew into one direction in the past or new houses replaced old demolished ones so the numbers aren as random. My street begins with the 44 and ends with the 52.

[@COPKALA]

BTW the 'strange' numbering scheme is present in the historical city of Venice in Italy. Were numbering is limited within one Sestriere... So "San Polo 3255" is a properly valid address (as well as "Castello 300" or "San Marco 4555")...

[@miriamn9657]

German Bauernschaften are even more confusing. You can have the case where Ostbauernschaft 4 lies next to Ostbauernschaft 101, whereas Ostbauernschaft 4a lies 3 km away from No. 4. This is most often the last relict of the times before the Flurbereinigung, when one farmer could have over 20 little pieces of land, scattered all over the place. German ambulances in those areas still have charts with the numbers penned in to avoid getting confused and 'load in the wrong grandma'.;-)

[@lambda6564]

And there is even another system: In small villages there may be no street names, so all streets just have the villages name. So for example you can live in Jastadt 155 or Neindorf 162. Houses are just numbered as they get built. Good luck finding the right place :D

[@nirfz]

He mentioned that around the 2 minute mark. We had this system, in the village i live in, too until 20 years ago i think. Then it was changed to the system with the odd numbers on the left and even ones on the right and street names for anything that wasn't on the main road through the village. This meant we all had address changes without moving. In my case from 112 to 5a :-D (Oh, and i'm not from germany, but not far from it..)

[@Sleeping_Insomiac]

I remember a little scandal a while back, when someone pointed out that many homeowners numbered their houses in arabic numerals...

[@nirfz]

I think that's in the realm of "How can it be legal for anyone to own an Erdgeschoß, or should it be reservd for Police and Army"?

[@Khamcity]

There is a wonderful exception in Magdeburg. On "Breiter Weg", numbers start in the middle of the street in front of the cathedral and run anticlockwise like this: 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 10 - 11 - 12 - 1 - 2 - 3 Problem is that the street is 2,1 km long and the numbers go from 1 to 267. It took me 3 years to understand.

[@aidtfeldkamp]

A "fehn" is a village all along a canal. In Südgeorgsfehn (South George's Fehn, named after King George IV of England (!) and Hannover) we have a canal with a street on both sides of it. One street is called "Südobenende" (South Upper End), one was called "Nordobenende" (North Upper End). In the middle of that canal is a bridge and behind that bridge the streets were called "Süduntenende" (South Lower End) and "Norduntenende" (North Lower End). The whole village of Südgeorgsfehn is in Ostfriesland (East Friesia), where it is absolutely flat and there surely is no upper or lower village part. Houses in Südobenende have odd, those in Nordobenende have even numbers. In the Süduntenende and Norduntenende it's vice versa. Südgeorgsfehn is part of the community of "Uplengen", which also contains "Nordgeorgsfehn" (North George's Fehn). Nordgeorgsfehn used to have the same street naming conventions, but since they where combined to Uplengen, they share the same postal code and therefor the street names had to be changed to avoid the confusion of two streets with the same name in one community. It appeared logical to change the street names in Nordgeorgsfehn around to "Obenende Nord", "Obenende Süd", "Untenende Nord" and "Untenende Süd", but the people in Nordgeorgsfehn found it unfair, that they had to change all names and Südgeorgsfehn none. So they found the compromise that each village had to change two street names. Now we have Südobenende, Nordobenende, Untenende Nord and Untenende Süd in Südgeorgsfehn and Norduntenende, Süduntenende, Obenende Nord and Obenende Süd in Nordgeorgsfehn. - And Yes! there is also a "Westfriesland" (In Holland), a "Friesland" (without direction and in the east of Ostfriesland) and a "Nordfriesland" (in Schleswig-Holstein even farer east and north from Ostfriesland). Confusingly there is no Südfriesland. Everything is fine as long as there is a system. Wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdgeorgsfehn Map: tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?params=53.241666666667_N_7.7336111111111_E_dim:10000_region:DE-NI_type:city(590)&pagename=S%C3%BCdgeorgsfehn&language=de

[@HalfEye79]

The system with odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other is the norm, wold I say. The horseshoe-system is so rare, I didn't know, the was any.

[@KaterChris]

Used mostly in the old Kingdom of Prussia. In Berlin it was used for numbering until 1929, after which all new numbers were allocated using the Paris system. But existing numbers were left as they were, so both systems coexist in Berlin to this day. I live in House No. 3 of my street, and opposite of me is No. 38. Couple that with the fact that the entrance to my house is around the corner from a different street via a courtyard and no numbers are displayed in the street where my house actually belongs to, getting things delivered is always a bit tricky if the drivers aren't familiar with the area (or don't bother taking a look around the corner) :D

[@uwehaleksy]

@@KaterChris And now imagine not needing a pizza, but an ambulance.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@uwehaleksy they (at least police and firefighters which send their ambulance when you call 112) should have detailed plans and info about houses and access pathes, quite often needing to go/drive through other houses (and their yards) in other streets to access the backside of the house they need to reach.

[@PauxloE]

I've heard (or read) once that in Berlin the general rule is that radial roads use the horseshoe system (starting and ending on the inner end), while tangential roads are using the Paris system. which would explain your example. I currently live on a horseshoe street which is radial (and numbered from the inner end), so that fits. But all other streets around are also horseshoe-numbered, so that doesn't fit. Hmm. Maybe this is only valid for streets numbered after that rule was introduced? Or it was just an urban legend ... elsewhere in the map I see parallel streets with different numbering schemes. In the north-east corner (Prenzlauer Berg), we have for example Greifswalder Straße and Kniprodestraße fitting (radial, horseshoe), but smaller streets between them (in both orientations) are using the Paris system, and the bigger tangential street between them, Danziger Straße, is also horseshoe-numbered one.

[@Trashplat]

I have NEVER understood the system behind house numbering in my village. It makes no sense, because it's built in a patchwork kind of way. And the house numbers obviously stick with the houses and aren't adjusted when new houses are built in between.

[@tobeytransport2802]

In my street in the uk the houses are only on one side and it’s a close (dead end) so it just goes from 1 at the entrance to 7 at the end

[@johncrwarner]

Elgar was once described as the "poor man's Brahms" and one wag suggested that that was one lucky poor man.

[@Arltratlo]

we had here a village with numbered lamp posts, with only one 7km long road and numbers like 12a - m / 27 a - k, that was a lot of fun to look for a adress, especialy for the emergency services... you had to call the ambulance, and someone has to go the the lamp post to be picked up and show the exact way to the house.. now they have new signs on the main road... many of them.. and new lamp posts without numbers..lol

[@PuzzleQodec]

There's another system used in some places which works a bit like the Paris system. It goes upwards from one end of the street to the other, ignores on which side of the street the houses are, and mixes odd and even numbers. For example: www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.08774/6.17831 (around Mounleane, Ureterp, Netherlands)

[@borstenpinsel]

I have never seen a horseshoe system in use except maybe for a rather short cul-de-sac. I will have a look in the future

[@pega17pl]

Always take a look to both sides of street to save a lot of time. - Heinz

[@UltimateAzumanger]

2:00 Fun fact: This system is still widely in use in Polish villages.

[@ScherrHrenner]

I grew in the only street with the horseshoe system that I know of. So for a significant amount of my childhood, I was very confused about the Paris system all the other streets use.

[@mr51406]

The algorithm fortuitously sent me here. Very interesting video! ⭐️ Hello from Montreal. ☮️❤️🇨🇦 I was bemused that London still has some horseshoe-style numbered streets, even quite long ones like Tottenham Court Road! Newer streets further west it seems use the French style. But no renumbering was ever done. Any videos about adresses in Britain? The fact that we use blocks in Montreal always bewilders visiting French people. I grew up at number 12010 on a short street. But Toronto doesn’t use a block system. Quebec City shoehorned itself into one.

[@ErklaerMirDieWelt]

My parents live in one of those chaotic villages. The houses are numbered by date of construction. Their house is number 16 which happens to be next to number 17. Number 15 however is on the other side of the village. There has been, on more than one occasion, a desperate delivery person standing in their courtyard looking for number 15. And my Mom would be like: "Turn around. Look over these fields. You see that roof in the distance there? That's number 15. Good luck and goodbye!"

[@eisikater1584]

I remember my grandmother being strongly opposed to the new numbering system, because our village got, god beware!, street names, and thus, new numbers. Up to the 1970s, houses were numbered by when they had been built, first comes first, and she had the number 64. And suddenly, she had [streetname] .4. And in the postal address, there was no village name anymore. Don't you ever think there will be any sense in house numbering in Germany. I almost went mad in Berlin, because I was used to the Munich scheme, odds on one side, evens on the other, until I found out, Berlin does it differently, and not even consistently. Berlin! You owe me some gallons of gas, do you hear? :o)

[@Anson_AKB]

Berlin is not Bavaria ! :-) usually the signs with the streetnames have an additional little sign below them which shows the housenumbers of that block. just look for that number at one side and have a short look across the street to see which of the two systems is used. that should give you a pretty good estimate how far you have to walk/drive. because there were many separate small towns and villages until they all were incorporated to create today's Berlin in 1920, there also are many roads (for some names up to ten or even more) with identical names.

[@barvdw]

I think in Belgium, horseshoe numbering is quite rare, and generally only used in cul-de-sacs and on squares, can't think of any example where it's not. We mostly use the Parisian style numbering, but I know that my old street used to suddenly shift even and uneven, as well as NNa-b-c. The garden city some family members live is a hot mess, too, with loops, cul-de-sacs and new extensions that make numbering a challenge. But the bilingual street names in Brussels can add to the confusion, there's a Dam(NL) that is Rue du Dam(FR), as wel as a Damstraat (NL), that is translated to Rue de la Digue(FR). Another beauty is Warmoesberg(NL). In French? Wait for it: Rue Montagne des Herbes Potagères. And another translation gone wrong: Onderwijsstraat/Rue de l'Instruction and Onderrichtstraat/Rue de l'Enseignement. Both are synonyms, but they should have been switched. And what to think of the Dit Is Geen straat/Ceci N'est Pas Une Rue? It's a wink to Magritte's work Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe.

[@modelleicher]

Maybe it's just me but of all the places I lived so far at least 2 out of 4 have inconsistend numbering. So its streets and numbers not just numbers for the entire village, but you have number 20 for example and next to it is number 24 and opposite is number 30 :D So if you're looking for number 10 and you found 8 it might just be the next house, it might also be on the other end of the street or anywhere else really..

[@Vaelor.B]

Well it still depends on which side you stand Left and right are relative terms

[@bi0530]

The Paris system becomes really confusing if the lots on either side are not the same size, leading to a major offset. That means 45 is nowhere near opposite of 44 ... again, good luck.

[@fionafiona1146]

Modern subdivision is fun too, the whole alphabet might be employed... Leading to numbers like 10o/10O

[@KaleunMaender77]

Could be worse. In Tokyo, Japan, and most of the rest of the country, streets are neither named (except for main roads within the city) nor numbered (except for main intercity routes). The blocks are numbered. Now, neighbourhoods are a thing, so a neighbourhood will always have a number of blocks (no more than ten - or at least I haven't found one). But the neighbourhood doesn't exactly have a nice order of numbering the blocks. Unless there are only two or three blocks in one neighbourhood, the order isn't logical. Neither are the house numbers. The houses on a block are numbered according to which house was built first (which is what I suspect happened with the block numbering, but I'm not exactly sure). Oh dear indeed.

[@joewickham554]

Is that Okerstraße in Braunschweig? I cycled that every day to work!

[@ThermoMan]

Where my mother lives is a cul de sac, and appears to use the horseshoe system, with the exception of missing out the number 13 (is that common?). However in its wisdom the post office decided that two groups of houses belonged to other streets because technically their front doors faced the other way. So within one cul de sac there are three street names. I’m glad not to be a delivery driver.

[@yetzt]

you might want to check out this data visualization we made some time ago. hausnummern.tagesspiegel.de/ - there is even a street that switches systems. oh and btw, there is a street in augsburg (schärfleinstraße) which has house numbers 12a and 12 1/2, with the postcode boundary exactly in between. berlin has 11 instances of a waldstraße, two of them in the same postcode, therefore one starts at house number 1, the other at house number 70. there is ho connection between them. don't get me started

[@vophatechnicus]

That "thing" with just housenumbers and no street names is very common here (Landkreis AN/WUG). And, well, yeah.. it is... funny.

[@martinschulz326]

I remember the years 2003- 2005. I lived in Krelingen. No Streetname. Just the numbers.

[@BiaZarr]

Also i feel like in some places there are no systems in place at. The house i grew up in was no. 19, next to it was no. 5, next to that no. 11...

[@revolutionarycomrade]

I definitely prefer your content to Jay Foreman's ADD-style

[@adamabele785]

House numbers can be quite messy in Germany, the same with the names of the streets.

[@mauer1]

I know some streets that are like this 1 2 5 6 9 10 3 4 7 8 11 12 or atleast i hope so because I wasnt able to see all of the surrounding numbers.

[@stevebartley8594]

In Mannheim I asked in a bakery where my hotel was and showed the clerks the address. No one knew. It was a half block away!

[@dsuedholt]

Budget Jay Foreman lmao. I'm sorry to admit that I laughed pretty hard at that

[@KaiHenningsen]

Can't be. I know who Rewboss is. I have no clue about Jay Foreman. So if anything, the latter must be a budget version of the former.

[@roberth.5938]

Andrew, as someone who lived in Mannheim for years, I'd like to introduce you to the "square city". Forget Tom Scott. If you accept my invitation, I'll pay you a view coffee and a piece of cake plus a whole dinner in Mannheim. So as a big fan asking: are you accepting my invitation?

[@lukoh5540]

Is there a rule to define the left or right side of the street???

[@cg6511]

I'm honestly confused about this video. As a general rule (exceptions occur in a few cities like you pointed out rightly) the even numbers are always on the right and the uneven numbers are in the left (likely the lone exemption would be Düsseldorf afaik, where ist's actually the other way round like you said). Hence 1 is an uneven number so (almost) always on the left, so your sister was right actually.

[@lhall9697]

I live in a small town in the US and we use the Paris system and I just found out that this isn't normal

[@altair738]

Thanks @rewboss! I suppose I am similarly nerdy about this sort of stuff as well. Do you know of any German-language channel that talks about esoteric stuff like this, particularly trains? (Yes I realise I'm asking you to direct me to a potential competitor of your channel, I just hope you don't see it that way!)

[@Thomas_Bergel]

And then there‘s my street... a mirrored horse-shoe, but only odd number except number 4, which should actually be number 11 (in a normal place, jot even 11...)

[@fubini_yt]

When you order Jay Foreman on Wish... 😅 Just kidding, I never thought about that. I'm subscribed to both KZbin channels, although I have to admit that I've been subscribed to your channel for much longer

[@revolutionarycomrade]

You can show any rewboss vid to a room full of -anyone- and you know it will be safe. Jay Foreman vids have clowns maturbating to map books. I pick rewboss every time.

[@varana]

@@revolutionarycomrade "clowns maturbating to map books" - err, is there anything wrong with that? ;D

[@Offensive_Username]

2:22 Poor postman.

[@cerberaodollam]

Holy backflip. I didn't think the other systems were a thing. Paris only here.

[@firstsecond9569]

Please explain why it is that in Germany, the arrow under the house number nearly always points away from the house door.

[@rewboss]

It points in the direction the house numbers are going up.

[@DarkrarLetsPlay]

Welcher Ort war das denn, der die Zahlen durcheinander vergibt?

[@treebeard4842]

I think you should have a go at Mannheim nonetheless - Tom Scott was a bit superficial in explaining the system. And yes, there is a system!

[@eljanrimsa5843]

You are a grown up Jay Foreman

[@lol-xs9wz]

I really like the Grid Layout, I would wish Germany had this across the country but I dont wanna imagine the costs. :D

[@untruelie2640]

Perhaps you should visit Mannheim...

[@semtext44]

after world war two: if only the marshall plan had included americanisation of the street maps. i mean, in the big cities, most buildings weren't in the way anymore anyway...

[@georgehd7659]

After 40 years the mayor decided to change the number of a house: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2W6q6mhrKqpiNE

[@kiliipower355]

2:20 My workplace is in an area where they had this "great" idea. Every new postman is on the verge of collapse. Not to mention the drivers who are happy to have GPS.

[@chrisgurney2467]

Yes that is all that matters XD

[@torspedia]

KZbinrs... having a family ‘argument’, make a video about it, lol Using What3words, would be a good system to use, to help finding addresses, especially when they use multiple addressing systems!

[@cmyk8964]

Except What3words won’t work in non-English speaking countries. Japan, for example, is known for its sky-high literacy rate, but it is also one of the least English-literate developed nations in the world. As a Japanese person who speaks English, I know I’m an exception!

[@regenorakel]

Not much logic in this town, or on our street, anyway. Number 26 is right across number 11. And the street is a circle, so no horseshoe possible.

[@downhilltwofour0082]

Made me laugh! I needed that!!

[@clemensschlage2243]

OMG yes that's so bloody true, the person who first spotted it, is a genius😂

[@paha4209]

"Mannheim uses a very interesting system". As someone who lives near Mannheim and had the displeasure to tackle their grid system in the inner city a few times in my life interesting isn´t an adjective i would use. More like confusing, annoying and downward insane.

[@actua99]

That's quite interesting :) Oh, hang on, that's not the one.... err... and that's something you might not have known... nope. Map man? Dang. On a more serious note: Try the brainfuck of numbering that is Lelystad in the Netherlands. They have entire neighbourhoods where all the streets have the same name, with a number suffix to indicate which street it actually is, and another number suffix to indicate the house number. Luckily, generally only people from Lelystad will voluntarily go to Lelystad, so it doesn't affect too many people. Edit: I forgot to mention the loosduinseweg/kade in the Hague, which are two streets that look like one street with tram line 2 running down the middle. Each side has its own numbering, but they run in the same direction at completely different speeds :S

[@2712animefreak]

This happens in some neighborhoods in Zagreb, although, to differentiate, the street number is usually written in roman numbers, while the house number is written with arabic numbers, so something like: "Savski gaj XIII 13". Some other neighborhoods (like Trnsko) pretend that all the streets in it are actually the same street. We also have the other thing too, with Ivan Kukuljević street and Radnički dol. But that one is really short and there is no trams in between, just some grass and benches. Radnički dol is basically just a parking lot next to the other street.

[@keidun]

Got to keep those sister in laws straight...

[@Trashplat]

Ah yes, petty sibling relationships. Fantastic.

[@ThamiorSilberdrache]

His Sister-in-Law is not his sibling. It's the sister of his wife. "Schwägerin" is the german word.

[@tuschman168]

Hadn't even heard of the horseshoe system before. ...I don't like it.

[@泉こなた-t2q]

if you think this is complicated, look at Japan