From Vienna to Unification: Mapping the German Confederation

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[@shubhanjalshukla3879]

Man just speedran 41 German states in just 8 minutes? Impressive.

[@genovayork2468]

Dude, he obviously talked about like 13.

[@TMoritz11]

41 german states any% speedrun 8:02 World Record

[@Robert_L_Peters]

The good old days...

[@AlaukikDevkota0]

yeah

[@mateuszlinke7469]

​@@TMoritz11damn... He was soooo close to sub 8 minutes....

[@memesd4675]

1. Maybe do Italy or the Balkans next 2. Anhalt looked like Austria but smaller when it fully united

[@christurner6330]

I knew it wasn't only me who saw that!

[@oooshafiqooo]

Thats why we love Anhalt

[@eminmerzihic9330]

I also thought that it looked like austria

[@bobagingo_]

Fun fact: for about a year, the Kingdom of Saxony was still not apart of the North German Confederation due to fears of what happened to Hannover, but then it would join in 1867.

[@shubhanjalshukla3879]

The Enrestein Reshuffle is quite clearyly very much ignored whilst discussing not only German history but World history as a whole, this massive change in borders would not only be the centre reason for many wars such as the Franco-Prussian war and events such as German reunification, and of course it is well known they were the main reason for the outbreak of both world wars, this event was so mind boggling that Possible History himself could not hold back his fascination which he let ouf with a quite simple yet absolute word, 'wow'.

[@AmadoDom]

I would love to see a full documentary of the entire history of Anhalt, from 1212 to this year

[@folton12]

It's so satisfying to see such familiar borders emerge on the map

[@Arminius1901]

Actually you forgot quite a lot of things, to be fair most of them were minor border changes but still, that was the point of the video, right? 1. Bavaria lost small territories to Prussia in 1866 2. Oldenburg sold a small area to Prussia which became Wilhelmshaven 3. Hessen-Darmstadt lost territories to Prussia including Hessen-Homburg 4. Oldenburg got areas near Lübeck

[@sofiaormbustad7467]

Oh, it's Arminius! Hi!!! Thanks for the corrections, I really enjoy learning about niche border changes like these 💖

[@KonstantinValentix]

Also iirc the dutchy of limburg wasn't a part of the confederation at first but was a compensation for the half of Luxembourg.

[@pasbaf]

New video idea: what if everything went perfect for italy? I really enjoy your 'what if' videos!

[@wheatyes2104]

What if Anhalt united Germany?

[@kira-kitty4769]

Nobody seemed to have complained about it yet, so... ... you've got a minor error in the 1839/Belgian Revolution part: Prior to that, the whole of Luxemburg (= Luxembourg and Belgian Luxembourg combined) was part of the German Confederation. With the split of Luxembourg, the western (now Belgian) half left the Confederation, but to have it not loose in size (and shrinken the importance of the king of the Netherlands in that Confederation), the Dutchy of Limbourg was created out of thin air and added to the Confederation as well.

[@kira-kitty4769]

... and there was the strange case of Hesse-Homburg, which was recreated in 1815 (but after the congress of Vienna) and officially joined the German Confederation in 1817.

[@pedrophobiastudios]

what if: the soviet union never annexed tannu tuva? how would the gigantic change in borders affect the world?

[@anthonyn.7379]

So glad he gave the dynastic shifts of Anhalt the attention it deserved

[@korakys]

What If: Germany formed into two roughly equal sized states (northern and southern)? Say, after WW1.

[@kenos911]

Both would probably still unify if the funny mustache man follows the same timeline, but it’d probably create a slightly weaker Germany by the time ww2 rolls around (delayed by a few years? Idk)

[@bathamsteryt]

Like Bavaria and Prussia?

[@chinesetaxevader]

with or without austria

[@korakys]

@@chinesetaxevader with Austria. Bavaria is essentially just Northern Austria anyway.

[@korakys]

@@kenos911 I think you might be right, but after WW2 what happens? I think they would de-unified and that could have big implications on EU and especially France's stance towards Germany since it would be clearly more powerful than either country. Especially if nothern germany went back to speaking their native language rather than the southern german they currently do now.

[@CC-re9df]

Finally, my home state of Anhalt, now part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, gets some much earned attention! 🎉

[@saifors]

I don't know if it's a possibility with the way you edit but in the future could you possibly make some kind of intermittent flashing animation on the state you are talking about? At least for cases like this where there's so many small states all around the map it becomes a bit hard to tell which one you're talking about especially with ones that have lands disconnected from one another

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

Imagine the massive historical ramifications if Anhalt hadn't unified!

[@tamaz88]

Anhalt is just Austria pocket edition

[@MarcosArranzSoriano]

You should have mentioned all states when they were anexed by Prussia

[@Calibornian]

Congrats on 50K PH!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Great video! Next can you do one on a Habsburg lead Germany?

[@Loumiya]

pls a video about all border changes in the HRE

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

4 hour video

[@anonymouspsychedelicsuser8109]

this was surprisingly good for an 8 minute video

[@ash_11117]

I would like to recommend an alternative history video: What if Prussia was weak and Bavaria united Germany.

[@ddddddddddd5354]

Bavarians on the Internet be like

[@SirBoggins]

Congrats on 50K. Let's see if you cam get 100K this year!

[@charlieduke6393]

I loved this video, the information was delivered in very easy to digest.

[@Predanator99]

Always nice to see new stuff😍

[@matthewsetlak5589]

Good video but you forgot the Bentinck succession dispute and Inn-and-Kniphausen but also they were so insanely small it’s understandable.

[@springlink3188]

Bro when he said "When the saxagoda line of the Wetin dynasty" I knew I was in for a treat

[@Oacka]

Gotta say this is the best work you have done, I don’t know why, but nobody focusses on the holy Roman Empire ( or German confederation ) this part of history is the most interesting part of Europe, Germany is definitely the main character of Europe

[@Deridus]

Imagine a Total War: HRE.

[@faze_fox2092]

Austria Habsburg (aka Austrian Empire): *bullies Prussia (or Germany)* 56 years later..... German 2nd Reich (German Empire) or former Prussia: *bullies Austria and later France*

[@sandigessandan]

Origin of the name of Anhalt: The name originated, because in the middle ages the count Esico wanted to replace the existing wooden castle with one made out of bricks. He said, that the castle should be build "ohne Holz" ("without wood"), but because this was a 1000 years ago the way he said it sounded more like "ahne Holt". That's how the got the name for Anhalt. GLORY TO THE MIGHTY DUCHY OF ANHALT!!! 🟥🟩⬜🐻

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Yeah I think that might just be a legend

[@LT.KiraHertling1701]

It makes me sad that Hanover allied with Austria and later the Kingdom of Hanover was dissolved and annexed by the Prussians. They should have become a member of the North Germanic Confederation, and the Duchy of Limburg and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg should have become member states of a unified Germany.

[@CrisisHedgehog]

We f*cking love United Anhalt

[@ludwigschneider2258]

the German Empire of 1848-1849 which lasted roughly a year

[@FaZeAnneFrank1945]

Nice video

[@Ma_ksi]

Kinda disappointed you didn't go in depth about the history of the micro states in central and east Germany

[@AntarcticLP]

Limburg wasn‘t part of the German Confederation before Belgian Luxembourg became part of Belgium.

[@shzarmai]

What if a Caucasus Federation was created after the Cold War/the USSR's collapse?

[@BjarkeLund-c2s]

The isle Fehmarn is coloured as Danish after 1864, the same as isle Als. You are correct, that Fehmarn was not a part of Holstein, but a part of Schleswig. Only after 1866 the Prussians annexed it to Holstein. Oldenburg also got some parts of Holstein, as mentioned by some other.

[@SirBoggins]

I'd love to see a video on if those Austrians 🇦🇹 had united German people instead of the Prussians and how that'd effect the rest of Europe, the international relations at the time and what it would have on the Grest War in just a few years after reunification.

[@TheGold1knight]

He's already made a video on this topic but he chose 1648 so I'd be interested in another one too, if Austria United Germany after winning the bruderkrieg. Or, an alternate cool scenario, if the war ended in a stalemate with southern German states supporting Austria's claim and northern German states supporting Prussia's claim, so you'd have a north and south Germany. Both would border France too which would be quite funny.

[@SirBoggins]

@@TheGold1knight cool

[@artlemagne]

can you do a "what if everything went perfect for spain" starting from the union of castille and aragon.I think it would be interesting.

[@AmirSatt]

Idea for a future video: what if *Ulm* unified Germany?

[@florianjongejeugd3902]

limburg only became part of the german confederation after belgian independence as compensation for the teritory luxembourg lost

[@trogil775]

Hanover should've unified Germany

[@StalkerX426]

*_British Germany💀💀💀💀💀💀💀_*

[@trogil775]

@@StalkerX426 British Germany I'm all for it 🗣️🔥🔥

[@thevirtualpug3d868]

@@trogil775 LOL Same.... They would literally be untouchable with the combined might of Germany and Britain.

[@Bob-fh4ht]

How long did It take you to draw the 1815 border gore in Germany?

[@bigfootjinxthecat8696]

0:40 bavaria is just a lake

[@moonlanding5117]

Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, despite siding with Austria, was not fully annexed but lost a token strip of land to prussia while gaining some exclaves. This change was not represented in your video

[@The_Creamster]

Remember when possible history actually mad alternate history videos but great vid keep it up

[@QUEfrang]

0:32 the group of small german states inside east prussia aprox. modern day berlin with purple green and blue if they united ressemble a tiny mini austria

[@Totomy2011]

That’s Anhalt

[@Slavic_Gopnik69]

Video idea: What if USSR annexed Slavic countries and became USSSR United Soviet Socialist Republic and none Slavic countries will be established as satellite: Romania Hungary

[@DoSLG]

LAUENBURG MENTIONED YIPPEEEE

[@User20398]

Köthen mentioned

[@michaelthomas5433]

Now do the entire history of H.R.E states. I'll give you a whole 15 minutes.

[@derdude6214]

What if Wilhelm II. died before or during the first world war?

[@generalfeldmarschall3781]

Bavaria acatally lost a bit of Territory after the franco prussian war

[@moredac2881]

What if: Bismarck was a liberal, and made Germany a democracy?

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Prussia got strong son!😂😂😂😂😂

[@SirBoggins]

Based

[@neilyoung4554]

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the Prussian Kulturekampf lead to the Catholic states in Germany rebelling with aid from the Austrians, a second thirty years war? a Two state solution? What do you think?

[@bathamsteryt]

We love Anhalt lets gooo

[@radored7750]

Awesome

[@Jack-pf6lv]

Bismarck could sees how germany changes much in just one video

[@whiggles9203]

Why was East Prussia excluded from the Confederation, whereas Czech majority Bohemia and Moravia were included?

[@CliffCardi]

Finally. No more border gore.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

No their internal borders were still pretty bad until after ww2

[@Mr_OogaBooga]

Yay another video

[@numlocky4592]

I thought of a question and I think that it might make a good video: why was Czechia part of the German confederation

[@sharkronical]

0:45 wow

[@yoshikagekira9781]

Now 1700-1814

[@DerEiserneBuerger]

Next video: Radical changes in the map of Germany from 1914 to now.

[@UnluckyCantaloupe4]

Beautiful

[@kareemabdul1]

what if everything went perfect for the russian empire? (they get everything they wanted in 1814 in poland romania and finland) maybe if they got to keep tarnopol krakow and poznan and they could push to their ambitious claims on the city of danzig bukovina moldavia wallachia and the rest of galicia

[@AverageSyrianGeneral]

based 50k subscribers 🗣🗣🗣

[@rithvik119am6]

do it for india from 1700 to 1947

[@samwill7259]

The ongoing German...reconsideration of Bismark as a figure is fascinating to watch. He used to be considered an untouchable figure, larger than life and beloved from every angle. Now? Now he's seen as an autocrat who stepped on centuries of German tradition of democracy, diplomacy and mutual defense and replacing it with a ravenous Prussian militarism that got them into 2 massive world wars they lost. Reunifying Germany is neat from a history perspective but one wonders about the cost.

[@LouisMcK]

grat vod

[@jugnot_was_taken]

rare alhat dub

[@Kerguelen.Mapping]

am i the only one who thinks anhalt looks like the part of austrian empire in The German Confederation?

[@unpluggedlamp1]

what if hitler invades hell? (Churchill makes a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons)

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of The RADICAL Changes In The Map Of Germany From 1815 to 1871 momentum 100

[@officalchanneloffrill]

New idea, what if everything went good for Hungary

[@zacharymetz4634]

What if Anhalt formed The German Empire

[@shiny180_]

What if germany had a civil war at the end of ww2 As the soviets approach berlin in 1944 the As the soviets approach berlin in 1944 the German people went into a state of panic and 3 new groups arose to power the communists in Saxony called s.p.r then a capitalists one in balvaria called the balvaria Republic know as t.b.r and finally a monarchist one in Hesse called the German empire or ge for short. The alies as well as the ussr agreed that the civil war would not be stopped and the alies would do no more than support the side's they wanted to win this beginning the s.p.r by the soviets and the t.b.r by the usa the comman wealth and France. As the civil war progressed the s.p.r would be conquered by the t.b.r The monarchists would make a dell with the t.b.r to split germany into two countries with the same borders as east and west Germany but instead of Berlin being split the monarchists would be allowed to control All of berlin. After 2more years the Germans would finally beat the nazis and at the peace treat europe would be split the same way it was in our time line but germany would have no communism in the east since the monarchists took over this would cause the new german states to have to pay huge amounts of money to the soviets. But sadly for the monarchs they would never would get a country in Germany because in 1948 when the country was set to be created the alies changed there mind and caused the monarchs to be replaced with a Republic but the two German states would never unit due to the alies fearing for a 3rd world war against the Germans. In this time line the cold war would be mostly the same except for the need for Germany to be split into two. German people went into a state of panic and 3 new groups arose to power the communists in Saxony called s.p.r then a capitalists one in balvaria called the balvaria Republic know as t.b.r and finally a monarchist one in Hesse called the German empire or ge for short. The alies as well as the ussr agreed that the civil war would not be stopped and the alies would do no more than support the side's they wanted to win this beginning the s.p.r by the soviets and the t.b.r by the usa the comman wealth and France. As the civil war progressed the s.p.r would be conquered by the t.b.r The monarchists would make a dell with the t.b.r to split germany into two countries with the same borders as east and west Germany but instead of Berlin being split the monarchists would be allowed to control All of berlin. After 2more years the Germans would finally beat the nazis and at the peace treat europe would be split the same way it was in our time line but germany would have no communism in the east since the monarchists took over this would cause the new german states to have to pay huge amounts of money to the soviets. But sadly for the monarchs they would never would get a country in Germany because in 1948 when the country was set to be created the alies changed there mind and caused the monarchs to be replaced with a Republic but the two German states would never unit due to the alies fearing for a 3rd world war against the Germans. In this time line the cold war would be mostly the same except for the need for Germany to be split into two.

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

For someone who made a video about the tiny states of Germany you shore didnt learn to read german.

[@celdur4635]

And Napoleon consolidated hundreds of German states no? just a few years before 1815.

[@theChaosKe]

I didnt know about the small dutch and belgian parts. Were they german speaking before?

[@DerMghh]

Anhalt ❤!!!

[@bladefox-ik5iy]

What if the Von Habsburgs were Protestant?

[@genovayork2468]

"had turned"

[@bladefox-ik5iy]

@@genovayork2468 I think my meaning is clear

[@genovayork2468]

@@bladefox-ik5iy It is wrong.

[@spaghettiking7312]

We've got to thank Napoleon.

[@dengronebaronen5260]

What if France won the Franco prussian war.

[@PossessedPotatoBird]

Anhalt survives!!1!!1

[@bones6448]

What if everything went perfect for Austria next!

[@lookie4448]

what if everything went perfect for Poland?

[@danever159]

man put 5 seconds of effort explaining where the hell he is talking about.

[@dengronebaronen5260]

What if Sweden won the great northern war.

[@vb3playz66]

my god

[@donpollo3154]

I can't even see half of the changes I have to play it back lol German states are something else

[@darknessyouroldfriend3258]

Hi

[@cutetestcatindaworld]

Damn

[@tavishnundoo6002]

Hallo

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

1:40 Hanover was not the forth largest state. Clearly you are overlooking The Nederlands.