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Willkommen! My name is Sean Huggins, an American living in Germany. Watch as I learn about German culture and life in Europe!
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[@M0ralAp0stel]

We people in Germany are used to living with such old and historic buildings that we no longer realize how unique and beautiful they are. But through reactions like yours, we see that we have something great that is unique in the world and definitely needs to be preserved. Thanks for that.

[@reactwithhuggs]

Thank you for the nice comment! I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😁

[@hansmeiser32]

I live in Bochum in the middle of the Ruhrgebiet and I'm pretty ignorant about history, culture and stuff. 3 years ago I started cycling and more or less by accident found all this castles, palaces, churches and other historic places near where I'm living I never heard about: Haus Langendreer Haus Weitmar Dorfkirche Stiepel Haus Kemnade Schloss Strünkede Schloss Bladenhorst Haus Goldschmieding Schloss Bodelschwingh Schloss Herten Burg Altendorf Burgruine Isenberg Burg Blankenstein Burgruine Hardenstein Schloss Steinhausen Henrichenburg Schloss Berge Haus Dellwig Burgruine Hohensyburg Schloss Westerholt Schloss Westhusen They are not as amazing as the ones shown in the video but they are all less than 30 km away from my home.

[@embreis2257]

well; I lived in cities first built by the Romans so I walk on ground which have been walked for over 2,000yrs on a daily basis. buildings usually don't go back that far (only roughly 1,000yrs) but you are reminded of the past ever so often when a new building is being built and the work stops for archeologists to secure the site and safe artifacts. this feeling of being part of something ancient going back to the Romans or in quite a lot of places around the Mediterranean, the ancient Greeks or even further back to Phoenicians or Egyptians, is baked into our sense of self. you tend to take it for granted until an American shows up and reminds you otherwise.

[@rahzoriel2103]

NEVER take from granted what your ancestors built. Its not just for you guys; the entire world will see its greatness and follow, eventually. Have faith, bruder.

[@simonsays2774]

One life is not enough to see everything beautiful in this country.

[@mgerdes255]

This little River city is Hamburg with a Popolation of nearly 1.9 Million people 😂

[@Arltratlo]

and its his own state!

[@alexanderzippel8809]

Ach, nichts wichtiges. Nur einer der größten Häfen Europas und die zweitgrößte Stadt Deutschlands

[@hartmutwrith3134]

US people are very ignorant, don`t you think? My Hamburg a nice little.........I could kill him for that. (Joking). ;-)

[@performancegold8562]

​@@alexanderzippel8809Das beste an Hamburg ist die Autobahn Richtung Bremen

[@Frankamaria]

​@@performancegold8562eher die Autobahn aus Bremen

[@akyhne]

There are only a little over 20.000 castles in Germany, so if you start now, and visit one castle per day, you'll be done in 55 years.

[@reactwithhuggs]

Well it looks like I have a lot of traveling to do! 🤣

[@MichaelZandt-r2d]

dont talk about, do it!!!! you wont regret it@@reactwithhuggs

[@deyzacvincent3091]

45000 castle en France 😂

[@achimkunisch8619]

Wich is more than there are Mcdonalds in the Usa

[@norrinradd2364]

Just to answer a few questions. Germany has around 24.500 catholic and 21.100 protestant churches, around 20.000 of them under monument protection. Germany has also 2.389km shoreline and 77 islands in the northern and baltic sea additionally 10 Halligen. The Halligen are small, unprotected or on slightly protected marsh islands off the coastthat can be flooded during storm surges. Northern Germany seems very underrated by Americans maybe because of the fact that all US-Bases in Germany are in the South.

[@JanCramer-uj9hl]

...ausser das Bundesland Bremen,daß gehörte auch zur amerikanischen Besatzungszone,weil die Amis halt einen Seehafen zur Versorgung brauchten. Aber Bremen ist im Vergleich zu Bayern winzig und dort waren nicht viele Amis stationiert - im Endeffekt haste recht,die Tatsache,daß Amis bis heute Deutschland fast ausschließlich mit Lederhosen,Blasmusik,Weißbier, Brezeln und Oktoberfest gleichsetzen rührt von der Tatsache her,daß fast alle G.I.s damals in Bayern und der Pfalz stationiert waren (mit,wie gesagt den knapp 5000 die als Ausnahme in Bremen stationiert waren).

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

0:23 That view you can see often at Nalf's channel. 0:27 Reichsburg Cochem in the Mosel Valley. 0:55 not so little - Hamburg. 0:57 Cologne. 1:03 Munich 1:07 Berlin - huh, that's quick jumping. 1:12 Koblenz, Deutsches Eck, where the Mosel flows into the Rhine. 1:15 Burg Eltz 1:20 Bavaria 1:26 Bamberg (the old town hall in 1:33, built on a partly artificial island in river Regnitz) 1:49 Back in Berlin (1:57 shows the Museum Island and the Alexanderplatz TV tower, 1:59 Charlottenburg palace) 2:14 Now we jumped to the North, to the Holsten Gate in Lübeck, and without pause again to Cologne Cathedral in the far West. 2:20 Schwerin palace, built as seat of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, now housing a museum as well as the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 2:28 And now a big jump to the South of Bavaria. 2:33 Marksburg castle in the town of Braubach am Rhein (near the Loreley rock), built in the 12th and 13th century with some additions and modifications in the 17th and 18th century. 2:37 Burg Rheinstein (Castle Rhinestone) was originally built in the 14th century, but became a ruin during the 16th century (and was therefore not blasted by the French army like some others nearby during the Nine Years' War 1688-1697). In 1823 it was rebuilt in the Romantic style by Prince Friedrich of Prussia. 2:58 Rothenburg o.d. Tauber 3:02 the old town of Lübeck. 3:09 Monschau in the Eifel, a hilly landscape west of river Rhine, also known as Volcanic Eifel (the last big eruption was about 13,000 years ago, but there is still some activity). 3:27 The Hermann Monument in the Teutoburg Forest range, constructed between 1838 and 1875 to commemorate Arminius, war chief of the Cherusci tribe, who destroyed in the Teutoburg battle three Roman legions in 9 A.D. (That battle however took place near Kalkriese about 100 km northwest of the monument - the region got the name Teutoburg forest only in the 18th century due to mislocation by some regional historians.)

[@Zinokhana-r5m]

2:43 is the beautiful little Erfurter Cathedral with the Cathedral Place in fron with a little but one of the most beautiful Christmas markets in Germany

[@EvDiener]

14.26 Goslar/ Harz

[@claas2212]

07:45 Townhall of Hannover 07:51 Opera of Hannover 07:53 Marketchurch and historical City of Hannover 08:00 Mainstation of Hannover 08:03 Herrenhäusener Gärten (here the "great Garden" the most important baroque garden in Europe) also in Hannover 11:17 Lüneburger Heide

[@linkundfieber419]

I forget the time but there was the Frauenkiche in Dresden, Kyffhäuserdenkmal in Bad Frankenhausen ( he say its from skyrim XD)

[@NeronSanktumOros]

Yeah Germany is like a Fairytale land all over. There are so many Places here... Just Awesome Landscape.

[@petersmiling9494]

Germany has fantastic beaches. Very many islands in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Unfortunately, the weather is suitable only three months a year, from mid-June to mid-September. And in this high season it is quite crowded and quite expensive...

[@arnebollsen]

Moin ut noorddüütschland ( north Germany) vun de waterkant Bremerhaven 😁 Check north Germany 😁 We have 77 Islands. Big an very small and offshore Island Helgoland. And many very big white Sandy beaches in northsea and Baltica sea. Island: Rügen, Usedom, Wangerooge, Langeoog, Spiekeroog, Borkum, Sylt, Fehmarn, Norderney, Helgoland, Juist and many more with very great and big beaches 👍 White cliffs of Rügen. Similar Dover 😁 Cities to Check,... Bremen, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Stralsund, Wismar, Lübeck, Kiel, Flensburg, Lüneburg, Rostock and more. Allerbest ut Bremerhaven 👍 Hool di wuchtig mien keerl 👍

[@reactwithhuggs]

Wow that sounds awesome! I'll see if I can find some videos. Thanks for the comment 😁

[@free4fire]

For the islands you forgot to mention Neuwerk, a little island a few Kilometers out from the coast that you can actually walk (or take a horse carriage) to across the mudflats when the tided goes out and then a boat for the way back.

[@steffent.6477]

Bremerhaven has some nice parts? I live there for almost 6 years now but I haven't found anything remarkable and a lot of ugly places (looking at Lehe^^).

[@DJone4one]

@@steffent.6477 Dann bist du wohl nie weit gekommen, wenn du nur in lehe warst. Was ist mit dem neuen Hafen, Fischereihafen und Weddewarden?

[@steffent.6477]

@@DJone4one Neuer Hafen bin ich fast täglich und haut mich schon lange nicht mehr vom Hocker. Weddewarden war ich wirklich noch nicht. Hab die Innenstadt nur geringfügig verlassen.

[@jaynecobb8356]

Germany looks like a Fairy Tale, because Germany is the Homeland of many Fairy Tales like Snow White, Hänsel & Gretel, Red Riding Hood...

[@hamdepaf6686]

it's not Germany that looks like Fairy Tales, it's the Fairy Tales that look like Germany

[@jurgenjung4302]

Die Gebrüder Geimm,hatten ihre Märchen aus Deutschen u. Nordischen Sagen.Jede Sage beinhaltet Wahrheit, mal mehr mal weniger./KZbin:"ROLANDS VOLKSKUNDE" und "DER SAGENFORSCHER."

[@deyzacvincent3091]

Chaperon rouge france ❤️🇫🇷

[@jancleve9635]

10:00 Fun facts regarding castles in germany. Go down the rhine river on a boat and you see a castle every 15 minutes. A lot of the older castles are open to vistit. People were hobbits in the medivial ages, everything is build for 5,2 feet people. We have different words for it. Burg = build for war/defense/garrison Schloss = Build more for represantation/social gatherings Feste = smaller castle build for taxation/lookout/defense

[@Anson_AKB]

just looked up on google some of the answers to some facts and questions from the video... ~25000 castles, palaces and mansion houses (from perfect to ruins) ~21100 protestant and ~24500 catholic churches (50% of population are christians) ~2500 mosques (5% of population are muslims) and 4% for other religions (eg ~40 temples for 0.1% hindus)

[@JoachimSchneider-v9q]

Die Türen in Burgen , sind deshalb so nieder , damit ein Feind nicht so schnell durch kann.

[@jancleve9635]

@@JoachimSchneider-v9q Ich würde dir recht geben ABER sind die Betten auch so klein gewesen damit der Feind nicht darin schläft?

[@Frightspear]

Fun fact: Germany has far more castles (ca. 20,000) than the U.S. has McDonalds restaurants (ca. 15,000)!

[@Salzbuckel]

That little river city is Hamburg with 1, 8 million people and the third largest port of Europe right in the middle of the city

[@kermitfrosch6559]

Hamburg with its almost 1.9 million inhabitants does not look as spectacular as Frankfurt/M. with its 800000 (2.6 mio. in the urban area) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gojCcpWoZtSfnJo Might be that the new Elbtower will correct this a bit... 😊

[@Salzbuckel]

@@kermitfrosch6559 imitating multiple skyscraper cities is not spectacular in any kind. Hamburg is a port to the world , and that is noticeable in the spectacular port, the buildings, the waterways, the inner cities beaches, the Rathaus ( built by the people , and the mindset of the people . No need in any way to add up the surroundings to increase the number of inhabitants. There is a flair, no other german city has or even nearly can compete.

[@kermitfrosch6559]

@@Salzbuckel Hamburg is without doubt a beautiful city. Frankfurt just looks like from another time, because of its cityscape for many it's looking simply "more progressive" than other German cities. And the new skyscrapers are really eye-catchers.

[@alexanderzippel8809]

Hamburg ist und bleibt die schönste Stadt der Welt

[@jancleve9635]

9:30 Yes, we have beaches and islands. And they are usable 4 month in the year. Exeptions are frisian germans, they seem to have channeld the spirit of the polar bear when it comes to swimming in icecold water.

[@juwen7908]

Why americans allways be soo surprised when it comes to the fact that germany has beaches??🧐 Actually, if you add all of our over 70 islands, germany has a longer coast line then portugal 😎 Greetings from Berlin 😎

[@reactwithhuggs]

Greetings! Thank you for the warm welcome to your lovely country. I'm excited to learn more about it!

[@andreavonfalkenhayn2793]

I am living in nothern germany between the north and baltic sea, and we have a lot of Islands 🥰

[@entenigelpfau]

We are proud people, no racists at all. This is the Land of my Heritage, my Grandfathers and my Moms - i will never leave my roots!

[@TheGamingCrow]

You didn't know it, but the video you were reacting to actually has subtitles showing you exactly the name of the building or city you're looking at. Maybe if you want to rewatch it, make sure to turn on the subtitles. Weird thing, when you think about it, that a video just with background music and no words spoken out loud actually has subtitles. Edit: 2:58 the first music in this video is "Victory" by Two Steps from Hell. I'm not sure what the other songs are called, but they also have been made by TSfH. They also produce music for hollywood, they wrote several songs for LotR, the Hobbit, and also for videogames like BioShock, just to name a few. And they have a YT channel, too. The best thing: they usually allow youtubers and other custom content creator to use their music, even in commercial videos. Of course, not every song, and they want to know about it.

[@schlupauge5883]

If you want to know where this is activate subtitles

[@barbelschneider500]

In the fairy tale castle lives a family since 34 generations. Burg Eltz was built before 900 years.❤

[@dagmarszemeitzke]

7:00 - 7:12 This is Freiburg im Breisgau, the public transportation also. At 7:10 you can see Breisach with the church up on the hill

[@Shritistrang]

I mean, it makes sense for castles to be built on top of mountains or hills. Makes them easier to defend against attackers.

[@SeanHuggins]

Banger video!

[@reactwithhuggs]

Thanks dude. I like your channel!

[@wakeupcall2665]

Arminius of the Cheruski tribe, who destroyed three Roman legions in the year 9 AD in the battle of Varus in the Teutoburger Forest. There is a lot of history in Central Europe and I love that statue of Hermann der Etrusker, as you can spot it from miles away, and your imagination goes back 2000 years and you’re standing on the very same soil they fought so many years ago. This video clip has really awesome footage of German heritage sites and buildings and landscape. The ZDF, the second German TV channel, has a brilliant series called ‘Deutschland von oben’ with amazing information and graphics telling nineties stories of the vast historical facts over many hundred years. I love in particular the story of the cities of Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund, Unna, Werl, Soest, Lippstadt over to Paderborn, all spaced out about a days travel by horse/carriage along the important merchants route of the Westphalia Hellweg. Even for me as a German I can’t get it all in my head, as there is so much of history for each city and area, from the North to the South. And all other European countries have the same. Your reactions are genuinely, and it is noticeable that your brain has difficulties to process it all. Isn’t history fascinating?

[@reactwithhuggs]

I'm very happy to be living here in Germany. I always loved learning history, and Germany is a perfect place for that. I'm glad I started making these videos because I already learned so much and I'm excited to keep learning more 😁

[@frauboot3866]

I live nearby. It's a great place and the Externsteine ​​are nearby. Also very worth seeing!

[@svenmalchow501]

Absolutely, I've been watching nothing but "Amerikan Reaction" for two days. We have this beauty right on our doorstep and we're doing so well. Unfortunately, we don't see the beautiful things as consciously anymore. It brings tears to my eyes and makes me proud when I see these videos. THANK YOU!

[@brittakriep2938]

The reason, why most castles are surrouded by water or on hills is natural fortification.

[@biloaffe]

Yes, Germany has beaches too! The entire coast of the German North Sea and Baltic Sea mainland is 1,585 kilometers long; 621 kilometers on the North Sea and 964 kilometers on the Baltic Sea,

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

3:40 The Bastei bridge in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains south-east of Dresden (also marketed as Saxon Switzerland), built in 1851 for sightseeing, replacing an older wooden bridge. 3:46 Heidelberg in the Neckar valley. The palace-castle of the count palatine was conquered by French troops during the Nine Years' war and then partly destroyed. It was partly restored and rebuilt afterwards, but was hit by lightning in 1764, causing a fire. The count palatines of the Rhine then moved their seat to their new palace in the new-built city of Mannheim. 3:54 Cologne again. The railway bridge (called Hohenzollern-Brücke after the Prussian dynasty who ordered its construction) leads to the main station directly beneath the cathedral. 4:05 Sanssouci palace near Potsdam, the summer residence of Frederick II King in Prussia, called the Great, who was also the Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg. Until 1772 his title was "King in Prussia" and declared himself "King of Prussia" after the First Partition of Poland (he won Silesia from Austria in the war of the Austrian succession and the Seven Years' war, but later allied with Austria and Russia in annexing parts of Poland, in his case the province of Royal Prussia (belonging to King of Poland) and some neighboring regions, connecting his part of Prussia with Brandenburg.) 4:09 the Abbey of Weltenburg in a bend of river Danube in Lower Bavaria, since the 8th century belonging to the Order of Saint Benedict. 4:28 Mainz cathedral 4:33 Dresden, the Catholic court church built by the son of August the Strong, Elector of Lutheran saxony, who had to convert (at first secretly) to Catholicism in order to become elected as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1697. The following shots are also from Dresden; 4:59 shows Dresden Zwinger (a Zwinger was originally the part of fortress between the outer and the inner fortifications, but August the Strong planned to rebuilt it as forecourt of a new palace with baroque gardens. The new palace was never built, but the Zwinger gardens were finished about 100 years after August' death. 5:08 The Frauenkirche (= Notre Dame) of Dresden, the Lutheran church built during August's regency, destroyed in WW II and rebuilt after reunification, funded by citizens (the blacked stones in the facade are the original ones). 5:19 Limburg cathedral, a Romanic church built in the 11th and 12th century, replacing an earlier church. You can see it from the Lahntal bridge of Autobahn route A3 between Frankfurt and Cologne. 5:33 Back in Munich. 5:47 The city palace of the Bavarian kings (residence and court garden) 5:58 The New Town Hall of Munich, built 1867-1909 in the Neogothic style. 6:17 The Bavaria statue at the Theresienwiese (Therese's meadow) where the Oktoberfest is held (which is the anniversary of the marriage of crown prince Ludwig and princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1810). 6:21 The Kyffhäuser monument, built 1892-1896 in commemoration of Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor, at the ruins of the Imperial castle where according to legend the medieval Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa sleeps within the mountain to awake some day to save Germany. (In reality he drowned in 1190 in the river Saleph (now Göksu in Turkey) during the 10th crusade; his intestines were buried in Tarsos, his meat in Antiochia and his bones in the cathedral of Tyrus.) This monument was meant to underline the legitimacy of the new-founded Prussian-dominated empire as successor of the Holy Roman Empire of the Germans; therefore it borrowed style elements from the castles of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. 6:38 Now we are in Hamburg again. 7:05 And now in Freiburg, way in the south, near the Black Forest. 7:15 Frankfurt am Main 7:23 Römer square (mostly reconstructed facades) 7:41 the Saarschleife in the state of Saarland. The river Saar is a tributary of river Mosel, which is a western tributary of river Rhine. 8:21 the Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea) at the North Sea coast reaching from the Netherlands over Germany to Denmark, an intertidal zone with tidal flats and wetlands, protected by the chain of the Frisian islands (like shown in 8:26). Germany has about 40 islands in the North and Baltic sea (and some more in its lakes). 8:40 We are now in the Harz region in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The castle is Wernigerode Castle, built by the counts of Wernigerode. It lost is military value in the 16th century and was rebuilt as baroque residence in the 17th century and again restructured in the 19th century, including the then new built palace church. The train is the Harz railway from Wernigerode to Nordhausen south of the mountain Brocken; the Brocken railway which climbs up the mountain is a side branch. 9:00 Zugspitze mountain 9:28 Helgoland / Heligoland; a Frisian island, originally Danish, then British, then German, about 43 miles from the German coast. 9:32 Stuttgart, the palace of the Kings of Württemberg. 10:11 the Moritzburg Palace (original a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Saxony, extended by Elector John George II of Saxony between 1661 and 1671, remodelled as country seat in the baroque style by August the Strong 1723-1733. 10:28 The island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea with its white cliffs and its 19th century sea promenades. 11:21 That is a Heide (heath) 11:24 The Wartburg castle in Thuringia, where Martin Luther went in hiding (protected by the Duke of Saxony) while finishing his translation of the Bible. Before that it was the seat of the Landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse and housed for some time Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, born as Princess of Hungary. 11:44 Burg Eltz. 12:00 Nördlingen in the Nördlingen Ries (a very old Meteor crater, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2q9o5ubfLuCY9U ) 12:17 Sigmaringen, the palace of one of the older Hohenzollern branches (the younger branch became King in Prussia). 12:41 Augsburg, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum.

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

One fun fact to Heidelberg. Not only was the castle destroyed in the 7 year war, it was destroyed because the french general Melaque didnt like the kings mistress. When there were problems with germany he attacked her hometown. Only problem, Liselotte von der Pfalz / Liselotte of palantine was very popular in france and the bombing backfired. No pun intended... The french people still remember Liselotte to this day. She was popular for wearing furr coats. and a coat with furr around the neck is still called "le palantine" in french. In germany he also bombed his reputation and the german insult "lackel" is short for Melaque

[@hsyeswellitsme]

WOW, thanks for listing so many!

[@annag.6343]

Und das ist lange noch nicht alles … 😅

[@biloaffe]

In Germany we have 65 cathedrals, 24,500 Catholic churches and 21,100 Protestant churches.

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

That castle at 11:44 is Burg Eltz. It's probably the most real unreal looking castle you can find. It has been built, owned and maintained by 34 generations of the same family for 900 years. It was once was besieged, where the attackers even built another castle on an opposing hill, but always evaded destruction by force and diplomacy, and so survived until today. This is a "real" castle that was built to rule their lands and to protect and defend the inhabitants.. The story is like a fairytale itself. There is lots of documentaries on it, maybe take a look! Well worth a visit while you are in the country!

[@margaretenubaum9089]

If you turn on the subtitles, the names of the places are mentioned. Wenn man die Untertitel einschaltet, dann werden die Namen der Orte genannt.

[@YezaOutcast]

we have several hundred small islands in germany and over 2300km of coastline :D

[@biloaffe]

Germany has more than 12,000 natural lakes, of which around 750 are larger than 50 hectares. There are also a total of 969 natural and artificial standing bodies of water that are larger than 0.5 km². We also have 7,000 km of inland waterways in Germany, of which 5,250 km are rivers and 50 navigable canals with a length of around 1,750 km. As of March 14, 2022

[@fritztraubeneiche3395]

You got the east and west coast we got the northcoast :D BTW you can get books about behaving like knights ^^ When you say thats a fairy tale castle it was "Castle Eltz" "Burg Eltz" in Germany build up from a family, I hope you got the chance to visit it.

[@balex55lp]

most famous Fairytales come from germany like : snow white, cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and more

[@johncrwarner]

At 2:20 you went "What is that!" and the answer is Schwerin Castle where the parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sits

[@jancleve9635]

8:00 Every village has at least 2 churches ... the catholic one usually being the old one. Btw, with old I mean around 500 years on average. Some are a even older. So we have thousands of churches. And their bells will toll every saturday and sunday from 8:00 to 8:15 and than from 9:00 to 9:15 to tell the faithful to get their as up... I hate it. I work as an eventmanager, 6-7 in the morning is my "come home try to sleep time". Oneday, I will break into my churchtower with a can of construction foam and make some changes to the damm bell. But a some of them are repurposed into restaurants, office space or art gallerys. The particular old and big ones are still in use but also tourist hotspots.

[@manub.3847]

Ringing Bells: Depends on where you live. Sometimes the ringing of the bells does not depend on the announced service, often the bells ring at 6 a.m., at 9 a.m., at noon and 3 p.m. and then at 9 p.m. ;) And on Sunday and other days also for the service, but the time depends on the parish. In some cities, the church bells also ring in emergencies: floods, fires, etc.

[@ndwmix]

Neuschwanstein Castle looks even more beautiful on the inside than it does on the outside.

[@hobbyamixd6801]

yes we have Beaches and Islands, on the North and Eastsee. Islands fe are Borkum, Norderney, Helgoland, Juist, Sylt and more

[@odunhops7727]

11:46 Burg Elz ... I visited with my motor bike club 40 years ago ..... 😀

[@borntoclimb7116]

8:20 yes we have a lot of beaches on the Nordsee, Ostsee and the islands

[@tobiwan001]

Sometimes when you said "this must be Köln", it actually was Köln...

[@LucaFuchs2]

European city’s are often over 1000 years old, that’s why there are so wonderful and why there are so many castles and churches. and Germany is located at the north- and Baltic-sea, has the 4 big rivers rhine, Elbe, Weser, Donau. The biggest city’s are berlin(capital), Hamburg, München, Köln , Frankfurt and Hanover.

[@JanCramer-uj9hl]

This was the best reaction from the ca 50 American KZbinrs who react of this Dr. Ludwig Video! Funfact: Most of these US KZbin reactors are surprised,that there are many islands in Germany! I think the reason is, that the Americans occupied southern Germany and Bavaria after WWII. But my country Germany got it all - beaches, islands and Ocean in the far north,hills and industrial Citys in the west,many fairytale castles all over the country but also modern cities with skyskrapers, and also too big wooden mountains - fact: Germany got over 25000 medieval castles, and 1/3 of our country is overgrown with old forests! Sorry for my bad english, great reaction!

[@DJone4one]

But then you'll have a lot to do, with over 26,000 castles and palaces. In Germany there are about 20,000 church buildings. And the islands are not integrated into Germany, they are on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. On the North Sea coast: Amrum, Baltrum, Borkum, Föhr, Helgoland, Juist, Langeoog, Norderney, Pellworm, Spiekeroog, Sylt, Wangerooge. There are six inhabited islands off the German Baltic coast: Rügen, Usedom, Fehmarn, Poel, Ummanz and Hiddensee. A seventh, the 94-hectare island of Vilm, is purely a nature reserve, but can be visited. And yes that was Cologne, Munich, among others. And the one with the lake and harbour flair was Hamburg. And at 3:18, that was Bremen, our smallest federal state, one of three city states in Germany. And the skyscrapers are in Frankfurt. And the big statue sitting in the mountain is Frederick Barbarossa. Former Roman-German Emperor.

[@deires77]

3:19 is Bremen....my home sweet hometown 🥰

[@Shabbadu]

Dude I really like your videos and comments. Look at the map of germany and to the north - I live in Kiel, 500m from the coast. Here in Schleswig-Holstein we have coasts, beaches, islands. Take a trip to the 'land of the horizons' man!

[@mayamar529]

Germany has around 25.000 castles and around 20.000 churches. Lot's of places to visit.

[@UlliStein]

Fun fact: That is more than the McDonald's restaurants in the USA.

[@deyzacvincent3091]

France 45000 châteaux 120000 monuments religieux 😂

[@Benman2785]

0:38 - Germany has the Northern and Baltic Sea - and many Islands :)

[@vincentallkamper6472]

The city at 0:30 sec. with the castle looking over it is called Cochem. It is a fairly small city (around 5000 citizens) and the castle is the Imperial Castle (Reichsburg) of Cochem. On a personal note, this castle is where I work as a tourguide (German and English tours) and it is a lovely small town located on the river Mosel

[@snakeoilaudio]

About the German "Statue of Liberty" the Hermann Denkmal. Do you remember the opening scene from the movie "Gladiator"? Well in reality the movie ended right there because in the real world all the Romans were killed and the statue is to celebrate the victory over Rome.

[@dannyf359]

That statue is the Herman Denkmal it stand in Detmold

[@manub.3847]

"Belongs somehow to Rome" -> ever heard of "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation"? Started in 962 with Emperor Otto I (Holy Roman Empire), documented under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa (1157 and 1184) the addition "German nation" was added at the end of the 15th century. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ended in 1806. ;)

[@12tanuha21]

But the HRE was not Roman

[@wallerwolf6930]

@@12tanuha21 Of course not, only the Pope made a German (Otto the First) ruler of it and this lasted through hereditary succession for around 800 years.

[@steffent.6477]

The Bismarck monument at 6:55 just got restored and cleaned^^

[@santaclaus0815]

That was the Kaiserburg in Nuremberg. The house near the river was the Kloster Weltenburg (monastery) near the Donaudurchbruch. That "cool town" is Landshut.

[@FSK100]

6:50 "Speicherstadt in Hamburg, is the largest warehouse district in the world and Unesco World Heritage since 2015

[@ReinholdWygas-sq1zm]

Take a look at "Speicherstadt#Hamburg# Miniaturwunderland

[@zwiderwurzn5908]

Ha ha, the gigantic building by the river that you would like to have as a house is a monastery (Kloster Weltenburg) 🤣🤣

[@dagmarszemeitzke]

0:30 This is the Reichsburg Cochem

[@stupsi01]

Thank you for your reaction

[@reactwithhuggs]

Thank you for watching and for the comment 😁

[@BigBenGermany1983]

The statue is indeed the Statue of Liberty for the Germans. It is called Hermann and symbolizes Arminius, who defeated the Romans in the Teutoburg Forest, granting freedom to the Germans from Roman invasion, also known as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest under Varus. It represents the freedom of the Germans.

[@biloaffe]

We have more than 20k castles and palaces in Germany. However, most of the castles are ruins.

[@andreasnagowski6368]

The village with the Wall around is my Hometown. Nördlingen ❤

[@juwen7908]

You definitely need to go on vacation to the north of germany 😉 Have fun 🥳

[@reactwithhuggs]

I agree!! 🥳

[@sytax1]

yes we have beaches and arround 50 islands. just visit the true north ^^

[@HansEgonMattek]

I don't think anyone really knows how many churches there are in Germany. Fun Fact: There are over 370 churches and chapels in Cologne alone, which means you can go to a different one every day of the year.

[@matzeb.2540]

The fairy tale land you dont believe is in Germany is the Elbsandsteingebirge or sächsische Schweiz its on the border to Czech Republic and east of Dresden, one of the most beautiful regions and Unesco World heritage.

[@biloaffe]

It's really fun to watch your enthusiasm!😀

[@steffent.6477]

Dude, we have 2 coasts and a lot of small islands. Of course there is a beach^^

[@chrismacaber4531]

And on the next episode of "This is Germany" infamous: B-Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Duisburg-Marxloh, Frankfurt train-station district and other cool places 😅

[@hy-drenalin8211]

Exactly what I was thinking! Just film this in bad german weather and horror music...that would be fun...

[@herm7566]

If you pay attention, you'll notice that the churches are always the tallest buildings in a city, well most of the time.

[@blackangel9594]

We have 20.000 tausend Casles, Palastes und ruines. And we have Islands, beaces , Mountains and snow-capped mountains, lakes, two seas, the North Sea and the Eastsea ...we have more as 2000 jeahr old History ...

[@reactwithhuggs]

A little bit of everything! I am excited to learn more! 😄

[@steven03048]

Activate the subtitles, I believe they tell you what are you seeing!

[@uwestalp5580]

We have 25.000 castles in Germany. The most in the World.

[@berzerk1450]

09:26 This is Heligoland On 18 April 1947, exactly two years after the bombing raid, the Royal Navy detonated the bomb. Stacked were about 4,000 torpedo heads, nearly 9,000 depth charges and over 91,000 shells of various calibres. The blast was set off by British engineers aboard HMS Lasso from a distance of about 17 kilometres. The British staged this blast for the German public; there was a separate brochure about it. Almost 20 journalists watched directly from the steamer Danzig. A smaller explosion was used to scare away the birds. The main explosion occurred a few minutes later. A huge jet of fire and tons of rock shot into the sky. The tremors could still be felt in Cuxhaven, 70 kilometres away. The mushroom cloud rose about nine kilometres, according to other sources, one kilometre, into the air. The explosion shook the island base to a depth of several kilometres. The island survived the blast, but the southern tip of the island, the rubble of which makes up today's Mittelland, was blown away.[7] Parts of the cliff also collapsed, and many craters were created. The harbour facilities and coastal protection walls remained intact, and the surviving civil air raid shelters today attract up to 10,000 tourists annually. The only building to survive the blast was the Flakturm, today's Heligoland Lighthouse.[8] The detonation could be registered seismographically in Germany and used to study the earth's crust.[9] In 1952, after protests by the residents, the people of Heligoland were allowed to repopulate the island. Today, on the anniversary of the demolition, a memorial service is held in the civil defence bunker. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqXEpYmJYrmeacU

[@alexanderzippel8809]

*Helgoland

[@rumms5000]

yepp, we've got some trees over here in germany 😂around 90 billions

[@Boredofmostofit]

The music, by the way, is made by "two steps from hell". It's pretty much what they do: epic music.

[@ulrichbahr1531]

greetings from Kiel born in Lübeck and I saw 70% in real and some other Cities in EU ;) Bergen, Oslo, Danzig, Krakow, Prag, Venedig, Salzburg, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Brüssel, Kopenhagen , Donostia (St. Sebastian) and Lapalma de Mallorca were i can spend my holidays on a Finca of a Friend

[@WasserstoffheizungYT]

The big green Stature was Arminius Herrmann (Herrmannsdenkmal) in Detmold and Externtsteine..my home...netflix series "barbarians" tell the story. Its well made i can tell you as a real descendant cherusker...he justify what is called germany today :)

[@haggihug3162]

1:50 -> That cool building is the Reichstag in Berlin and the place where the parliament is working. You should really inform yourself about Berlin, this city is worth more than one video to react to.

[@reactwithhuggs]

I would love to learn more! Maybe I'll make some videos on just Berlin history 😁

[@haggihug3162]

@@reactwithhuggs I hope you know that Berlin was once the Capital of Germany, was divided into 2 after ww2 (one side belonged to the DDR and the other to the BRD). During this time the capital of BRD was Bonn and the capital of DDR was Berlin. After reunion Berlin now is again the capital of united Germany.

[@stirbjoernwesterhever6223]

If you turn on the subtitles you'll see to which places the pictures belongs

[@reactwithhuggs]

Danke!

[@tobiasschwabe1670]

why are you so surprised about the beaches and islands. Germany has a good deal of coast with beaches and island out there. Google "Helgoland", "Fehmarn, "Rügen", "Ostfriesische Inseln" and "Nordfriesische Inseln"

[@mah1ro267]

Germany has ~ 25 000 castles and over 45 000 churches/cathedrals Well, in the medieval times every city wanted their own protection and church, so here we are now 😂 - and what do you think where all the fairytales come from? 😉

[@gaairaa1465]

Welcome to all that Sean’s houses 🏠🏔️🏰🌊

[@theoderich1168]

You can see the name of every place by activating the subtitles....!!!!!!

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

10:12 This is the German Cinderella castle. Scenes of the Cincerella movie "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" was filmed there. It's very famous in Germany and gets repeated everey year at Christmas time.

[@claudiakg8749]

Hi Sean, welcome in Germany. Yes Germany is beautiful. You mentioned that you visited Lindau and that you like the inside of churches. There is a beautiful church by the Bodensee in Birnau, the inside is worth a visit. And do you know the longest castle in Germany, it is also the longest castle in the world: Burghausen, 1051 km long. I have seen many places in Germany but there are still so many on list. Enjoy Germany. 🤩 Grüße aus dem Bergischen Land. 🙋🏼‍♀

[@Heisenberg-Blue]

Of course, Germany has a coast to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

[@the_ravenous]

i am really baffled how many americans are suprised that there are beaches in germany, do you think we got the submarines into the sea in ww2? carriying them on the back?

[@tinesickert]

How cool, even my hometown is in the video!🎉 Shout out from Erfurt. ✨💖

[@reactwithhuggs]

So cool!

[@Attirbful]

How many churches are there in Germany? I have no idea, but let’s just say that I live in a village of 350 inhabitants and we have a church. Most villages only a little bigger will have two or more, some several for different denominations…

[@manub.3847]

Just looked it up for the Evangelical Lutheran and Catholic Church. approx. 22,400 protestant churches, 24,000 catholic churches (of which 22,800 are under monument protection) So that's a total of 46,400 places of worship without the churches of the orthodox communities and other Christian religious communities.

[@Attirbful]

@@manub.3847 And the figures for America (as of 2020) are: According to the National Congregational Study Survey, there are an estimated 380,000 churches in the U.S. America has ROUGHLY 3 times as many inhabitants as Germany. I now places in the U.S. where houses have several have churches in their hood. If they all rang church bells, I think even Germans would go crazy…

[@BlackWater_49]

8:18 Mate, we have coasts both at the North- and Baltic seas so what did you expect? That there were just cliffs there or something?! Of course we've got beaches and not only normal ones but also FKK beaches which you probably won't find in the US... 😉

[@dotMSOffice]

0:34 that castle is the Reichsburg in Cochem

[@marcuszaja6589]

There are over 44.000 churches in Germany.

[@wanderlust9081]

Fairy tale Castle? Yes - Germany is home of Lots of famous fairy Tales ...

[@herm7566]

Germany has the most castles in Europe, many are ruins but some can still be found. Since Germany was mainly Catholic for many centuries, there are also a lot of churches

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

To give numbers, there are about 24500 catholic and 21100 protestant churches and about 25000 castles and palaces is Germany.

[@ingvarjensen1088]

You were right with Berlin ❤

[@conjunctivius8552]

Btw, Germany has about 50 Islands😂

[@tvubermensch808]

Btw... Germany has the most Castles in hole Europe...

[@achimkunisch8619]

"That looks like a fary tale, no way that is in germany" You don't seem to know that moste fary tales are FROM Germany (Snowhite, Cinderella, Rapunsel,...).