American reacts to a Beautiful Small German Town

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[@petramueden7170]

I visitid Bernkastel Kues and there was a group of american tourists blocking the street. They listened to a Tour guide who spoke about the age of the old timbered Houses and an older Lady said to her husband " He don't tell us the truth, he is telling us lies. It can not be wood because it would be rotten after 500 years. It has to be plastic Honey." I could not stop myself and burst out in laughter.

[@CavHDeu]

😂

[@pracharm5094]

Typical intelligence of a everyday person made in USA 🤣😂

[@random.3665]

I think the funniest part about it isnt that they thought they were being lied too, its that someone would lie about the material, instead of the age^^. Also, yeah, plastic. plastic from 500 years ago. Sure......^^

[@mickroom7603]

Many of them are super naive

[@schmidtchristian1401]

😂😂😂😂 ich glaube dir das . .

[@DJJUmp3]

The houses with the wood in their walls are called "Fachwerkhaus" if you want to research that. :)

[@irminschembri8263]

......aka half-timbered houses in English . :))

[@buddazanetti3240]

@@irminschembri8263 Klugscheißen was xD XD

[@emanuelneutronium]

For everyone not willing to look that up: The Wood provides structure and stability to the house. That's basically the main reason why they were build. I still recommend to look that up thou.

[@prunabluepepper]

hahahaha, just wanted to comment Half-timbered house or frame house :D You both have a happy easter

[@gvoluto2816]

In Amerika sind sie komplett aus Holz 😅😅😅😅

[@CriticalPoliteness]

The windows are small because the houses are several hundred years old. There was no central heating at that time. Often just a fireplace. Glas was extremely expensive. Big windows = you will freeze to death in winter.

[@ryanwass]

[@thkempe]

@@ryanwass The purpose of these small windows was simply to bring some light into the attic. So no one lives there. It's a storage room.

[@CriticalPoliteness]

​@@thkempeHe mentioned the tiny windows in the context of the old city hall (rebuilt in the 15th century).

[@sokolo161]

Glass was not extremely expensive. Most houses in cities had glas windows some in villages even. There was a huge variety of glass and a price range. Embedded with art they were a luxury, windows made from "butzen" were less expensive and "Waldglas" was also less expensive. Look at some medieval houses in Brügge at the market and see for yourself just how much glass can be built into a medieval house.

[@CriticalPoliteness]

@@sokolo161 Of course, it was expensive. Obviously, it was possible to use it for the City Hall but that does not mean it was cheap. That they had a lot of glas in Brügge - one of the richest medieval cities in the world - is as logical as saying that the rent in New York must be cheap because so many people are able to live there. Of course, glas became cheaper over the time but still it was expensive. ("Fensterglas war im Mittelalter ein Luxus, den sich nur der Hoch- und Kirchenadel leisten konnte. Erst im späten Mittelalter konnten sich GUT BETUCHTE Bürger an einer eigenen Fensterscheibe erfreuen."). Correcting each other... so typical German... .

[@randolphb3620]

Dear Ryan, my wife and me are long term subscribers of your Channel and love your videos. This one was our Highlight because we live in Bamberg. If you ever come to Germany let us know and we show you the city and we will have a couple of Rauchbier, Pretzels and Schäuferla 😁 but never forget: we are Franconians not Bavarians 🤘

[@quaipau]

Hey neighbour! We should do a Ryan party if he ever comes visit Bamberg :)

[@randolphb3620]

@@quaipau absolutely Sir 😁

[@NinaHagen-ym7ng]

I am in on the city tour and the party, also living in Bamberg🎉

[@c3LeVr4]

i'm so glad that you said "looks so bavarian" and not looks german, you are no noobi to german culture. TY!!! 😄

[@paha4209]

I believe the Franconians beg to differ and would rather take "looks german".

[@heha6984]

@@paha4209 "..... looks Franconian" - to be truly honest lol

[@chiggnBS]

"[Franconian city] ... looks so Bavarian" ... every time that sentence is said the Club looses once more ...

[@pauleyroot9438]

@@heha6984 I´m from Franconia. And thx for your true words 😘😅👍

[@heha6984]

@@pauleyroot9438 Bidde bidde, basst scho, gell? 🤣☘

[@durrcodurr]

4:35 It's sweet mustard, tastes great especially with white sausage.

[@thespacexplorer6552]

couldn't agree more. White sausage, bavarian style, with sweet mustard and a pretzel is one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast

[@alinadornieden8411]

Wolter says it like 6 seconds before Ryan asks what that is........classic lost Ryan

[@embreis2257]

I have yet to find another application for sweet mustard other than white sausages. any ideas?

[@DeadpoolTesla]

@@embreis2257I work in lower bavaria and there it is totaly normal, to put the sweet mustard on the "Leberkässemmel". In other regions they use normal mustard...

[@HyperQbeMusic]

And with Leberkäs, too! 😅

[@martinstock]

Biggest cities around 1500 AD in the HRE 1. Prague 70,000 2. Cologne 40,000 3. Nuremberg 38,000 2x. Bamberg 10,000 3x. Rothenburg ob der Tauber 5,500 What you're looking at was a big and rich medieval city.

[@CriticalPoliteness]

I have to add my beloved Regensburg: 12,000. (Far bigger than Berlin at that time.)

[@FreeOfFantasy]

Or Lübeck with 25000 inhabitants.

[@alpenhuhn1]

My hometown Augsburg had 40000 and was one of the richest towns in Europe!

[@DaweSlayer]

I'm from village 0,5km behind Prague border, est. before 1088 that had like 20(+-19) population in 1500.

[@lorenzsabbaer7725]

dinkelsbühl also had 5500 ppl, why is only rothenburg obT mentioned and never dinkelsbühl???

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

Bamberg is Franconian, and true Franconians don't like to be called Bavarian. It is the fifth biggest city in the Bavarian(-occupied 😉) part of Franconia. In the early middle ages (around 718 AD) it was called Babenberg. In the 9th century it was ruled by the Frankish House of Babenberg, also called Poppones after Poppo I of Grabfeld, a descent of the Robertian house, which was also ancestral to the French Capetian dynasty. Henri of Babenberg was instated by Charles III the Fat as Margrave (Marquis) of Franconia and dux Austrasiorum (Duke of Austrasia), but died in the battle of Paris against the Normans in 886. Charles successor Arnulf of Carinthia preferred the rivals of the Poppones, the Conradines (his wife was from that House), fired Henri's brother Poppo II as Margrave from Thuringia, replacing him by a Conradine. Henri's sons started a feud against the Conradines which get them killed (one died in battle, one was beheaded after battle, and the third was later killed for treason), and Bamberg became a Royal estate, until Emperor Otto II the Red gave the castle to his cousin Henry II the Quarrelsome, Duke of Bavaria. The son of this Henry became King Henry II of Germany and founded a new Archdiocese of Bamberg; the castle became the seat of the bishop. In the 13th century Bamberg became a Prince-Bishopry, ruling wide parts of the former Duchy of Franconia. It was then sometimes called the "Franconian Rome" because of the seven churches on the seven hills of the city.

[@TheJohnnycab5]

Wait, can you repeat that please! Who's cousin was it? 😁

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

@@TheJohnnycab5 The Red and the Quarrelsome were cousins, but they quarreled often. 😁

[@velvet6923]

that's funny coming from a culture that isn't even an actual culture, your only identity is not wanting to become an insignificant part of bavaria XD stupid, outdated jokes aside i do respect you guys and as a bavarian even with all our disputes i'm glad you guys still have your identity and are actually really important in bavarian politics and the economy beside we wouldn't be germans if we wouldn't have stupid disputes over things that happened gerations ago, or overall disputes and complains aboit everything and everyone XD

[@Birgit0210]

Ich lebe in Bamberg, es ist ein wunderschönes kleines Städchen❤

[@WolfgangSoeder]

Bamberg as Town is founded 1007! You mean the Castle of the house of Babenberg.

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

My son was born there , too, whyle we were stationed there. Now we live near Baden - Baden, in the Black Forrest. Living in Bamberg, strolling through the "used" Book marked, held on in he bridge , in front of theTown hall over the Regnitz river, smoked Beer in the medivel Schlenkerla pub,great experience. Behind the mighty Dome, there is a footpath all the way up to the mighty Altenburg Castle. The kids loved it.If you asked, you even received the key to the tower, to climb up and have a look all over the city. I love Bamberg.❤

[@pixelbartus]

You should also react to the small village of Wacken in germany. It has less than 300 inhabitants (but much more cows). Is there more about it...? Only the 80.000 metalheads that are visiting the village every year.

[@marcromain64]

I would love to see Ryan's reaction to this very moment in the life of the otherwise tranquil Wacken.

[@franhunne8929]

@@marcromain64 Or the fire brigade orchestra opening the festival ...

[@charis6311]

About you wondering what's the deal with the wooden beams in the house. They ARE the structure. So you would start with these wooden beams acting as framework. Then the spaces between these beams were filled with clay and straw or a mixture of those which provides good insulation and were materials that were near at hand anywhere. Then, as a last step, those spaces got painted over with chalk or something similar. If you were poor, your Fachwerk (wood construction) was simple and functional because in this way you didn't need much wood. If you could afford it, you used the wood to create beautiful patterns and - if you were really fancy - added carvings which were painted in different colours to add a relief kind of impression.

[@norrinradd2364]

Bamberg is not a small town by German standards. The population is not very high at 70,000, but Bamberg has several things that set it apart from other comparably sized cities. It has a long history and well-preserved evidence of its history, which is attractive for tourism. It has a university, which brings young people to the city and keeps the population from aging. It has some major employers, e.g. Schaeffler, Bosch, Brose and others, which offer good jobs. These are locational advantages that make it a livable and colorful city that is a pleasure to live in. There are comparably large cities that are absolutely boring because they don't fulfill one or two of these points.

[@aphextwin5712]

Yeah, I’d say it is a smaller town.

[@EngelWolfgang]

Hello Ryan, "Fachwerkhäuser" are not a German topic, they were the constuction method in the (late) middle ages for hundred of years. Have a look at Chester (England), a town founded by the romans, with tons of socalled black and white buildings - the wood painted black, the rest of it white. The wood framework makes up the whole stability (static) of the building, even for the celings. Concrete was not a common material then. Look at American houses nowadays - they are constructed out of wood frameworks - you just cannot see them, they are hidden. Greetings, Wolfgang

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

But you forgot the German clue... Our Fachwerkhäuser are designed, to be moved...

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

Ever seen how the Amish people in merica build timber framed houses or barns? Fachwerk is basically the same, only with fachwerk, the gaps are filled in with brick and plaster instead of nailing planks to the outside of the frames.

[@palantir135]

You will find those houses also in the south of dutch province of Limburg.

[@AP-RSI]

"The common half-timbered technique in house construction has only been recorded in Central Europe since the first half of the 12th century, and from the High Middle Ages until the 19th century, half-timbered construction on sill beams was the most widespread construction method for buildings north of the Alps in Germany, parts of France, England and Scandinavia. However, half-timbered buildings are also known from the timber-rich regions of the former Ottoman Empire from Bulgaria to Syria." Wiki

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

Ryan: "Small town called Bamberg" Bamberg: "We do have 80.000 citizen, that ain't small"

[@franhunne8929]

Bamberg knows that the definition of bigtown (Großstadt) is at least 100.000 inhabitants.

[@AdamMPick]

@@franhunne8929 You know full well that the 1887 definition of a small town in Germany is between 5k and 20k.

[@QuentinPlant]

@@franhunne8929 So it's a town - not small, not big.

[@Orbitalbomb]

it’s small bye any means of the word town

[@advi2824]

Greetings from Bamberg, it's still nice here.

[@OiDepp]

I am born in Bamberg an it is very very nice there you can get a lot of the romatic feeling of small medival towns without over-tourismlike - like you would have it in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, it is much more crowded and much much more tourist-shops etc

[@Entspannungskatze]

I studied in Bamberg, looooved the town, it's so beautiful!

[@chiggnBS]

Getting Schlänkerla (the "smoked beer") should actually be relatively easy. I've seen it in London, St. Andrews, Bangalore and Tokyo now. They literally export worldwide ;)

[@rhysodunloe2463]

The wood in those half-timbered houses is not embedded in the walls but the walls are in between the timber. You first build a timber frame (very similar to many American homes) and then weave a mesh of thin flexible branches like hazel or willow in between the thick beams. In English this weaved walls are called wattle, in German it's "Flechtwand" (weaved wall). Then you press a mix of clay and straw (and sometimes horse manure because it's a great binding agent) - so called daub - into the wattle. The straw prevents the clay from crumbling apart after it's dried. After the clay surface is smoothened out with wet hands and left a few days to dry the greyish brown wall segments can be coloured with a lime wash and the beams are painted to make the walls more weather resistant. In Northern Germany they began to use ceramic bricks instead of wattle and daub very early on. But the building method is pretty similar. First construct the wooden frame and then fill in the gaps. Only by building small brick walls in this case. Often different sections of the wall are highlighted by not putting the bricks in straight but in a diamond or heringbone pattern. Those buildings are called "Fachwerkhaus" (half-timbered house). "Vach" was a medieval word for those wattle walls in between the timber. It meant compartment or part. It evolved into the modern German word for compartment - "Fach". "Werk" means the product of one's work (but also work plant). And "Haus" is simply house. So it's a house (-haus) which is built (-werk-) by filling the compartments (Fach-) in between the timber. When you use bricks instead of wattle and daub its called "Ziegelfachwerk" (brick half-timbered).

[@Gandhiweasel]

Weisswurst mit senf is Not Frankonia...More Bavaria-lower and upper Bavaria..Frankonia is famous for "Schäufele" or more Nürnberger Bratwurst!!;)

[@asaris_]

The original versions of Fachwerk used to be for stability purposes, but after a while it actually grew into a decorative element and was kept visible and with more wooden beams than necessary for stability. (Deco versions are called Zierfachwerk) Which also resulted in different styles throughout different regions.

[@DKlegacyRS]

Thats a pretty Small town 😮. 77k population, that is bigger than the 5 biggest city in Denmark, Esbjerg that has 71k population. I live in a small town with 7700 people 😅

[@Caddl123]

Bamberg is for Franconia a big city. It does have 80 000 habitants. I would say "little town" is all under 25 000 habitants.

[@leviquentin1134]

25k? that's a small city. i grew up in a small town with about 600 people edit: I got it. I confused town with village. thanks for the explanations

[@klamin_original]

@@leviquentin1134 Well that's more like a village. I'd say as soon you pass the 1000 mark you can start calling yourself little town and obviously many small towns got awarded the city law right back in medieval times exactly because of that rough limit. The more people there were in one place the more important the settlement probably got.

[@leviquentin1134]

@@klamin_original okay...so what exactly is the difference between a village and a town? I always tought "town" was just a different word for a village?

[@wolfmanAl]

@@leviquentin1134Here in Germany it is actually quite clear set. Everything under a population of 2000 is a Dorf, a village. 2000 to 50,000 is a Kleinstadt, a small town, 50,000 to 100,000 is a Mittelstadt, a medium town, and everything over 100,000 is a Großstadt, a city.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@leviquentin1134 Well... That is what we call a village...

[@ela_emma]

on your way to 100K, well deserved, love your channel

[@ThomasEhrenberg-gp9dk]

The way houses were build 400 or 500 years ago was a wooden frame filled with a straw clay mixture. It kept the houses dry and warm. Windows were‘nt that good but expensive. So they are tiny. Modern houses for sure have much bigger windows because their isolation is very good.

[@nixwissen6564]

2:10 yes this pattern buildings called "Fachwerkhaus" and the oldest i visit was in Neuffen (small town with very big castle) and it`s from 16xx, dont remember exact date just too long ago.

[@Nikioko]

The Romanesque Bamberg Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

[@Apophis1966]

The town hall was built in 1461, 31 years before America was discovered. Back then it was structurally easier to build tall buildings using half-timbering. That's why you often find old half-timbered houses here. Something else funny about this town hall, in order to give the population more space to build in the city walls, the town hall was built on a large rock in the river

[@JakobFischer60]

Wooden benches? Plastic tables and chairs have been forbidden by most german cities at the time the monobloc was invented. We europeans are united in understanding that a certain level of culture and beauty are essential.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

4:34 That substance is sweet mustard. It's crushed mustard seeds with the shell - so it's "whole grain" mustard - sweetened with brown sugar. It's great with "white sausage" (Weißwurst) - which you see in the picture - or "liver cheese" (Leberkäse). Weißwurst is mostly made from veal and pig lard They are traditionally made first thing in the morning and only served until noon. But with refrigerators you can have them any time if the day now. They are cooked in hot but not boiling water and then left in that water until served - or else they turn grey pretty quickly. Typically you serve them with a pretzel and sweet mustard (and a half liter glass of wheat beer). Leberkäse neither has liver nor cheese in it - unless you buy it in Palatinate where it's called "Fleischkäse" (meat cheese) and you can also get a version with cheese cubes, one with liver mixed into the sausage meat and a "pizza" version with cheese cubes, bell pepper bits and herbs. It's simply very fine sausage meat which is put in a box shaped baking pan (like the ones used for American sandwich bread) and baked in the oven. It's then cut in thick slices and served in a bread roll as a snack to go or baked a second time in a pan and served with a fried egg on top and sided with fried potatoes.

[@_qlone]

Smoke beer is so good! It's as if smoked Black Forest ham and a very good pale ale had a child. And this child is the happiest on earth and happily explores the most beautiful places in the world.

[@barjel7951]

I agree, but what Wolter mentioned is also correct. The first Schlenkerla tastes ... well ... interesting, but after that it's great.

[@_qlone]

@@barjel7951 I fell in love with the first sip and have been totally enchanted ever since (you can probably tell a little 😄). I usually always have a crate or two in the basement, and I have it specially ordered from the local retailer

[@Livak18]

The smoked bear actually is called "Schlenkerla". And there is a saying here "it starts to tastes good after the second one" :) But actually it means it tastes so different than anything you ever drank that you need to get used to it first to enjoy it. You can even drink it on the street next to the local there. Many people do it and it is a fun way to communicate with each other and find familiar people.

[@Herzschreiber]

"What is this.... substance?" I don't like Weisswurst but I know that it traditionally is served with sweet mustard. So this substance is a little heap of sweet mustard :) Many people commented about the houses and told you to google "Fachwerkhaus". I guess that will not be very efficient because the result will be mainly in German when googling a German term. Try "half-timbered houses" or "timber-framed houses" instead if you are interested! German tourists don't only travel around Germany to see "old buildings"....... even in the towns where some got destroyed during the war, some will be still undestroyed. Sure there were cities which were completely destroyed but in rural areas, where nothing relevant for logistics or industries was situated, there were not much bombs. What I want to say is: Since Germany has such a big variety of landscapes, architectural styles and museums, lots of Germans love to travel within their own country to see the places "different from home".

[@billyo54]

Undestroyed???

[@Herzschreiber]

@@billyo54 Sure. Some cities were totally destroyed, some to a certain percentage, depending how important they were logistically. You know that a war party throws bombs especially on industrial facilities, infrastructure or military and administrational locations. Villages, towns and cities without much of this got rarely bombed, so the historical houses are still there. What is so surprising about it that you have to ask back?

[@marsultor6131]

@@HerzschreiberIt’s also fair to point out that the restructuring of cities into car dependent areas in the 50s to 70s destroyed so much more of our old buildings than the war did.

[@TheBurwi]

I was a University Student in Bamberg in my 20s. The best time of my Life, 20 years ago.

[@Tingeltangel312]

Another really recommendable city is Heidelberg, there is also a beautiful old town with a beautiful castle. Many Americans know Heidelberg because of the army base.

[@TackerTacker]

2:21 It's called a "Fachwerkhaus" in case you want to search for it

[@akl9354]

@2:09 look up 'half-timbered house'. It's not wood embeded in the wall, but the other way round! It is a skeletal structure made of wood, in which the spaces (compartments) are filled with a wooden mesh plastered with clay or with masonry.- you are welcome 😂

[@blondkatze3547]

Ryan I agree with you, that many Germans love to make their gardens beautiful, To have flowers and plants in the house and spend their free time outside in the botanical gardens, forests, parks, etc. Bamberg looks very beautiful with its half timbered houses and the cathedral Bamberger Dom. I wish everyone a happy Easter. 💜🐣🐔🐰

[@nicholasmorris3416]

Yes, Bamberg is in Bavaria - but it's complicated. It's in the 'north' of the 'south'! People who come from Franken, that region of southern Germany, are more likely to understand themselves as 'Franks' first and 'Bavarians' second, if at all. To Germans, the accents, food and culture are very distinct from what you find south of that region (for example in 'Upper Bavaria', which is actually lower on the map. Sorry! I told you it was complicated). For one, the wine culture in Franken is far stronger than the beer culture and there are many traditional Frankish wines among the oldest in Germany.

[@berndlamprecht5341]

2 days left for 100000 subscribers ,congrets

[@TobiasRieperGER]

Some info for the planked fassades. They aren't planked walls. It's the opposite. They build the wood frames first, and then fill the spaces with clay, or stone, put some coverin above it and you get this look. If you have 1-2 floors, the whole building is made this way. If you have more floors, the groundfloor is build from big stones and blocks, and the upper floors have the "planked" structure. Cause it's lighter and cheaper. And if i am honest, it's a bit like you americans build your wood houses, but the germans used better fill materials. You can find this kind of structure everywhere and it'c called Fachwerk.

[@nicholasmorris3416]

- and thank you for the compliment about German gardens! But it is still funny: Germans tend to think about public gardens as being mostly either in the much-admired 'English' or 'French' styles.

[@jojo1541]

No mention of the Altenburg? You get a beautiful view of the whole city from there.

[@klarasee806]

I love that you said the waitress looks "very Bavarian" - and not "very German". You are officially a Germany expert now (although it’s Franconian and not Bavarian, to be exact).

[@afjo972]

0:38 actually not. Towns with more than 20.000 inhabitants are classified as mid-size towns. Towns with more than 50.000 inhabitants are classified as large mid-size towns

[@overlordofducksandbroccoli]

You could do a Video about "Schrebergarten". They are little colonies of gardens inside of cities where you can rent your own little garden and grow food

[@MrGaldor123]

Bamberg is in Franconia, and I don't think Franconians like to be called Bavarians :D

[@daveking3494]

Maybe Americans should change the state name Indiana to “Native Americanna”. 😂😂😂

[@blablubb4553]

"That substance" near the white sausage on the plate was honeyed mustard.

[@Junction1978]

Hey Ryan, you can get the Bamberger Beer (Schlenkerle) in some Liquerstores. I found it when I was in the States last year

[@jeansh7325]

The substance near Weißwürste is sweet mustard.

[@Elite-Y-]

My Hometown Some funfacts: only pope grave north of the Alps most brewerys per square mile back in the day the town alone had 150 nerly becoming the capital of germany because of Emperor Heinrich the churches form a cross over the town

[@alexanderjernejcic7461]

The "substance" to the white sausages is a special kind of sweet mustard

[@Livak18]

Carefull not many people here (in Bamberg) like it to call their cities or their tradition "Bavarian" ;) Bamberg is in a region north of Bavaria but almost all people there feel of themselves more Frankonian = Franken than Bavarian. "Franken" is devided in 3 seperate regions Oberfranken, Unterfranken and Mittelfranken and even in those regions people strictly devide themselves to one or the other region. Also the food here is so much better than anything you will get in the famous tourist cities like Munich and Berlin. We have established the art to enjoy life and food/drinks is one of the many things we really enjoy and have a high standard. So if you ever wanted a really good german traditional food Bamberg is your city to go. Everyone else in Germany has their own traditonal meal and many argue it is their best but I traveled a lot in Germany and many just cannot compeat with our price/quality. I am mainly talking about the middleclass food and overall quality not the expensive restaurants which also excist in big cities.

[@selisa4]

The town with the intimidating name "Rothenburg ob der Tauber" is also really really nice!

[@TallisKeeton]

In old building tiny windows are obvious thing. In winter you dont have too much heat going outside through wide modern windows, its better for staying warm in times when the only option of heating was wood and coal. Look it that way - the more north you go the smaller windows - compare it to those big, wide windows in Spanish, Italian or southern French palaces and villas - usualy with patios and verandas with tall windows and winter gardens protected only by tall glass windows?

[@vomm]

Yeah much got destroyed in the world wars but to be honest much, much more got demolished after the wars by Germans themselves, especielly in the 70s and 80s much more old buildings got destroyed to make room for "modern" projects than the wars ever could. It's not much talked about, but it's a fact.

[@markushahn3215]

One time, you should come for franconia, eat and drink, and see the surroundings, towns, villages and the landscapes for yourself ☺

[@Bramfly]

In the south of the Netherlands there are some of those houses as well. Vakwerk huizen.

[@ninieh5336]

Bamberg is beautiful, but Rothenburg would have been even more beautiful and special. But I think Rothenburg was somehow already part of one of your reactions!

[@neutronenstern.]

he thought Rothenburg ob der Tauber is too intimidsting

[@haukeachilles9030]

I love these little nice coincidences, like when you were talking about the benches and there sits one guy staring at the camera wearing a "bench." t-shirt 😄 Coincidence or the matrix saving capacity? 🤨

[@stephankugler2285]

We are Bamberger and we are not Bavarian we are Frankonian👍, if you come to visit us just remember😊 we are Occupied by Bavaria😢.

[@KrisThroughGlass]

The houses are "Fachwerk" houses. They are basically the ancestors of your houses in the US while people in Europe stopped building them over 100 year ago.

[@eattherich9215]

Ryan, you really should get out of America. 😂 It's a big world out there with lots to see and learn about.

[@bea66s]

A part of the "Three musketeers" (2011) directed by P. Anderson with Luke Evans and Matthew Macfadyen was filmed in Bamberg

[@platonios4666]

That rose garden is actually made in french style. This highly engineered and introcate gardening style spred in europe after Ludwig the fourteenth I think

[@stefankaiser3354]

Kann dem Ryan bitte irgendwer ein Rauchbier zukommen lassen? Na ihr Franken, zeigt mal ein bisschen mehr Engagement in Sachen "Deutsch-Amerikanischer-Freundschaft"! 😉

[@jancleve9635]

7:40 Some of us even rent a garden in a so called "Schrebergartensiedlung". Also I bet, starting on April the first A LOT of stoners will get into "gardening".

[@mob8451]

For sure they will - but after harvesting once, they will realize that outdoor growing mostly doesn't deliver good results. No - I neither smoke nor grow.

[@JanoBanano1996]

My hometown and still living there 😃

[@bennosimpson]

If you believe or not, we are right here in Bamberg for the very moment! Some vacation days over Easter holidays. We enjoy all the delicious franconian food and beers as Walter explains.

[@stefankaiser3354]

Guten Appetit! 🍖

[@kuessebrama]

My home town was not detroyed as well. Allot of building from 1400-1500. We have a lot of tourists too, most are german but yeah beautiful town and i love to life here and i think i will stay here.

[@SoDStony]

NOT BAVARIAN ;) greetz from Bamberg

[@CriticalPoliteness]

That's confusing for foreigners.

[@rudibauer4585]

And a Scotsman isn't an Englishman, too. What is difficult about it?​@@CriticalPoliteness

[@CriticalPoliteness]

@@rudibauer4585 Scotland is a country. England is another country. Scotland is not a part of England. England is not a part of Scotland. Franconia is an official part of Bavaria. You do not like that fact. Many Bavarians don't like that fact. But still Ryan made no mistake and I was really impressed that he differentiated between Germany and Bavaria (as for many Americans Germany = Bavaria). But I oversaw that SoDStony put a smiley besides his comment.

[@rudibauer4585]

Not the best example, I am sorry. But in Germany, "England" is often used pars pro toto for the whole UK. Many Scots don't like just being included. It's similar here. I guess most Franconians like it being a part of the federal state of Bavaria. But lots of them don't want to be included, too, when talking about the Bavarians and especially they don't want to be called Bavarians. Maybe it is a little more difficult as i thought first.

[@MarcHaunschild]

The substance is sweet mustard. If the Weißwurst really has to be eaten for breakfast and is something special, then maybe this restaurant serves traditional Weißwurst with brain in it? In former times without fridges you had to kill the animal and eat the brain immediately, because especially on warm days you couldn’t keep it fresh. That’s why there is a saying that Weißwurst must not hear the 11 o’clock bells. But I think brain in Weißwurst is not allowed anymore because of the fact that it easily gets bad - for safety reasons. By the way about the architecture of the old houses: the wood you can see is the actual static structure. The white parts are clay and straw which keeps the inside insulated. That’s why they look this way. The windows on the one hand hand couldn’t be bigger than the space between the wood that carries the structure, but also there was a window tax in the Middle Ages (these houses are more than 500 years old). So windows were only for the rich people. And even they had small windows. Also glass was extremely expensive. Many houses had some kind of paper to keep the cold out. So you didn’t want to have big windows.

[@bendjohans3863]

ohhhh you have to look at the first one, rothenburg ob de tauber oder rothernberg an der tauber is world heritage as its a nearly complete conservered medival town with city walls included its magical

[@bendjohans3863]

that *substance* is the famous Bavarian sweet mustard which is perfect with the white sausage mhmmmmmmmmmyummmy

[@jassidoe]

I've lived in Bamberg for over 10 years and it's really a nice town. Especially if you like history... and/or beer. The cathedral is interesting because you can see 2 different epochs in the way it's built. Two towers look more like stocky castle towers, intended to defend against an attack and the other two are more like spires with lots of air and very delicate structure. The first one is romanesque style and the second one is gothic style and you can see the transition from the first to the second even in the cathedral, especially if you look at the arches. The university is all over town. The theology is located in an old building (I think it was a monastery once upon a time) and the library looks like something straight out of Harry Potter. Humanities has a library almost completely made out of glass with class walls and ceilings. History and Art History are right next to the river etc etc. They reconstructed the rose garden after the original in the ~1700s? 1800s? Not sure. They even researched the types of rose that was growing there at that time. You can really go back in time. Castle Seehof is really pretty as well. Btw I live in a house that was built in 1701 😅 Another thing: Bamberg was meant to be "Rome of the north" quite an ambitious claim and it obviously did not work out, but you can always find some little things that go back to this idea. For example it was built on 7 hills and has the only pope north of the alps buried here and so on. Things to do in Bamberg: history, eat, drink beer, more history, more beer and even more history. And a few clubs and bars 😅

[@maraeni]

MY HOMETOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aperfect42]

If you like having a party, go in August while they celebrate Sandkerwa in the old town. Not quiet Oktoberfest but nice anyway.

[@daveking3494]

The wooden pattern in the houses, that type of house is called a Fachwerkhaus. That makes the building process easier as you set up the frame first.

[@delqyrus2619]

Nah, it doesn't make it easier at all. But it makes it more stable. The pattern creates tension, what creates stability. You see this basically everywhere - from bridges to transmission towers to houses.

[@dnswhh7382]

The wood you can see at the walls is actually carrying the entire roof. It’s called ‚Fachwerk’. The bricks in between are just there to fill up the gaps, they don’t carry anything. You could remove them and nothing would happen to the construction. Those houses are usually between 150 and 250 or maybe even up to 500 years old. That may also explain to you,why the windows are so tiny, as glas was very expensive in the past. Often a lot of constructional changes and adjustments happened over the centuries, as you can image.

[@e.albrecht4033]

Bamberg is a very old franconian episcopal city in northern bavaria with a beautiful old town center and an imperial cathedral with 4 towers and the Altenburg castle on top of a hill and the new residence of the former prince bishop. Bamberg is situated on 7 hills like Rome. Bamberg is a very touristy town. Bamberg has the most breweries of germany. The names are: Schlenkerla (Smoke beer), Spezial (Smoke beer) Greifenklau, Fässla, Mahr, Keesmann, Ambräusianum, Klosterbräu, Sternla, Ahörnla, Kaiserdom, Hopfengarten, Kronprinz, Landwinkl, Weyermann. Some breweries are very small. Bamberg lies on the River Regnitz with some canals and many bridges and the big Main-Danube canal which is used by river cruise ships. So Bamberg has also an harbour.

[@volkhardhenschel1863]

Bamberg town hall, the house with the small windows, is built in 14th century. So your "small tiny windows" were built 600 years ago. No ac or central heating in that times, understand?😊

[@eyeofthasky]

2:18 the traditional way to construct houses EVERYWHERE NORTH of the alps, _before_ the romans came with their -- for the climates here -- idiotic idea of building houses with stone (that was reserved for resting places of the dead, see dolmens): pluck at least 4 thick posts into the ground, between them some normal stiff long sticks, take willow branches, they bend very well, and fumble them horizontally inbetween those rods bending alternatingly left and right around those rods untill u have a nice fence/lattice :.. now the fun part: use ur feet to stomp on wet clay mixed with sand and chopped straw until it gets well blended i.e. take some days off until its done. then, take this nice paste and THROW it onto these lattices, so that it really sticks between those sticks (pun intended), and to it until u get a really nice dense wall without any gaps or air in it. repeat it for every of the four walls (hope u didnt forget the opening for the door xD), let it dry, and done -- u have ur house! _(how to construct a roof is not part of this lesson, come back another time!!!)_ this got more refined by using sturdy wooden beams instead of posts, and also adding these diagonal beams inbetween for better stability when having more storeys (normally u would NOT have seen them, they were considered just a construction aid, so in the end houses got plaster all over them, hiding all wooden parts and giving a flat continous surface). ... during the late middle ages, people used the roman technique of burnt clay bricks to "fake" the whole procedure -- instead of filling all these compartments with bending willows and loam, they did it the quick way and used burnt loam/clay bricks that where already made, and plastered the whole thing. ... it is more of a modern thing to expose the wood for looks. it also poses problems for the preservation of the wood if its exposed to the elements, but people used many different chemical treatments to fix that issue. while the best working method, if u want it still to be there in some hundred years, and not gone weird due to some "unforeseen" chemical reactions / interactions with sunlight, is this: just use plain plant oil and rub it into the wood thorougly so that the wood can absorb it. that prevents moisture from getting in, does not change the colour of the wood -- and in contrast to a paint seal, its not just the surface. if such a paint seal gets cracks, water can seep in the wood, but never vaporize out again, so the wood will rot from the inside. fail

[@EnraEnerato]

Hmnn Bamberg sure looks nice, but may I introduce you to the town "Lauenburg"? It's roughly seven times smaller but something like a "secret" trip destination, lot of old houses along the river Elbe and a few sights to see as well.

[@bananenmusli2769]

Funny thing is: I was in Bamberg 2 years ago and as someone from another small Franconian town, I didn't even notice that Bamberg was particularly beautiful. Maybe I'm used to that already. For me it's just a normal town. So I'm quite surprised that Americans and other Germans find that town to be "tourist-worthy".

[@QuentinPlant]

Regardless where you live - you visit the touristy things when you have people visiting. Otherwise it's just normal background :)

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

4:40 That "substance" is Bavarian sweet mustard - the Munich Weißwurst is traditionally served with it.

[@GoetzFamilyAsia]

Bamberg is an old imperial and episcopal city. The Old Town Hall is a “half-timbered house”. And the area is called “Little Venice”. The smoked beer is originally served in the Schlenkerla. The Aufseesianum is located below the Michelsberg. When I was a teenager it was a boarding school. I was a student at this institution at the time. There were also very famous people at this boarding school back then. In the USA one would speak of an elite boarding school. The picture with the Franconian food is called “Schäufele with dumplings”. I am Franconian and was born in Forchheim. Forchheim was also Imperial Palace, so I know Bamberg. Today I live in Thailand. Can be seen on my YT channel. Greetings from Chonburi.

[@HelgaJanso-mt1ex]

In the North of Germany, East Frisia, we have a saying: There is no bad weather, you are only wear the wrong clothes.

[@machinegod3000]

in that town, sandals and white socks are a must!

[@RubenKelevra]

The type of construction is called "Fachwerk". It's by far the oldest construction method still used today to build houses. So houses built in this style are called "Fachwerkhaus". Literal translation is "house with constructed compartments", because the walls are small compartments between the wooden beams. On the bad weather side those walls would usually be cladded with wood or stones, depending on the availability of material in the region.

[@nak223]

Open Windows= lüften And normally we like to have really big windwos, floor to ceiling, to let as much daylight in as possible. Only the old townhouses and farmhouses have this traditional small windows. 😉

[@24darush]

Schenkerla, Bambergs smoked beer, is SO DELICIOUS! Absolutely one of my favourites! And you should check out the other suggested towns Rothenburg and Quedlinburg too, especialy Quedlinburg!

[@freddycalzone]

"Very german, tiny windows." Yeah. Dude, that building is more than twice as old as the United States. The "Fachwerk" part is called "Rottmeisterhäuschen" (-> city guard). First mentioned in 1387... so of course these windows were small. Heating, cold, you know...

[@Stefan_W69]

It's not a small town

[@rykmat2542]

The whole of Europe is full of such small cities and little towns. Even villages are often pretty beautiful places. You can spend the whole life travelling around Europe and you will not be still able to see one quart of beauty which Europeans built throughout the millennia.

[@bepomg]

Hey Ryan, I'm from Bamberg and on my visits in the U. S. I saw "Schlenkerla Rauchbier" in liquor stores. It's a little bit expensive in the U. S. but you should definitely give it a try. You even hate it or love it, but you must try it.

[@raphi154farel5]

The Bamberger Dom (Bamberg Kathedrale) was start Building in 1004 A.D.

[@BrokenCurtain]

There are multiple channels dedicated to "city walks" (just people walking through a city) and "führerstandsmitfahrten" (tram videos). You should check those out.

[@DeadpoolTesla]

Look up "Wurzburg Germany Travel Guide: 12 BEST Things To Do In Würzburg" from the Channel "Before You Go"...

[@dudoklasovity2093]

Ryan, if this yearning for a better place "Germany" is not just to make money, but you genuinely feel like it would be a better place to live for you and your family, why don't you move? Or, have you even visited the place? Just curious.... 🙂