Too bad we didn't have smart cell phones, when I lived in Bamberg for nearly three years, back in the early '70's, while serving in the US Army's 2/2 Armored Cavalry Regiment H Company M60A1 main battle tanks ... Prior to the reemerging of Germany, we were responsible for border patrol in the region of Colberg... The wide fenced border was a double fenced area filled with assorted mines, I was told... We'd watch the East German guards in their towers, as they watched us in our guard shacks... We'd also drive several kilometers along the border for the same reasons... I must have walked through that tunnel of the old city hall on the water way, hundreds of times... The buildings, fountains & statuary, the smell of roasting bratwurst, the eating outside of castle's, the glockenspiel in the town square, the October fest, the travel to many cities by train, are amongst the memories that still fill my dream's at night... I must say, I am proud that Bamberg is now a World Heritage Site... And that, I'm also proud to say, those were the best years of my lifetime, living there ...
@BucketListUrbanAdventures7 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing!!! 😎
@Mm-fs1bo6 ай бұрын
This is great information. It is not pronounced “Bam berg” but “Bom berg”.
@BucketListUrbanAdventures6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment! I just checked, I believe the correct pronunciation should be “Barm-Berg”.
@KlausRe-m8c4 ай бұрын
The pronouncation „Bomberg“ is not correct. A born Bamberger says „ Bam(m)bärch“ At the end of the nineth Century, there was a castle of counts named „Babenberger“. In dialect: Bahmbärcher (I cant write the pronouncation in english 😂). That is where the name is come from.