What an adorable young lady you are Erika. You've got such a shiny personality. Thank You for taking us on your trip & showing us how lovely Strasbourg is 👍
The Strassburg cathedral was built by an architect from southern Germany called Erwin von Steinbach. The most famous German writer Goethe lauded him as a true genius. It is the greatest cathedral in existence imo
@@jmlepunk Strasbourg is both Germanic and German. The fact that the local German population reacted lately to French colonization is a different story. The region looks as German as the other side of the river. Local dialects in the north are closer to the ones on the other side of the river than in the south of the same region. French as been spoken there for barely 50 years more or less but German/Germanic dialects is/are the indigenous language(s) of the region. The French government needed to make people they were rescued" from the "aggressive" German/nazi regime because they wanted a natural border on the Rhine, so now if you asked the older generation they will simply feel homesick (somehow) for Germany while the younger generation will say anti German things because that what they've been thought at school. Things like "malgré nous, because they sent us to the nazi front in WWII". Do they even know that Hitler sent people from ALL GERMAN REGIONS TO FIGHT IN THE FRONT? France simply needed to make them see the rest of Germany as the bad guy... Saying the Marselaise was also first sung in Strasbourg is also even stupid because nobody spoke French back then.
@@dantedante839 Dude, shut the fuck up. I'm from there, my entire family is from there, and my ancestors are from there. History, languages, and populations evolve. The Francs were a germanic people too. Things change. Get a life moron
sad you bought pastry, croissants... inside industrial chain of shops like Paul, as Strasbourg offers so many real home made stuff... all in all, it is always interesting to see how somebody from the outisde discovers Strasbourg, my birth town. Carry on the good way !!!
Hi guys. Visiting Colmar very soon, maybe Strasbourg too. Is there any jazz, that is apart from the experimental stuff at the Colmar festival? I like the early styles best: Traditional, Swing, Mainstream, Manouche.
Video interessante mais il faudrait arreter d'aller chez Paul ou autres chaines et essayer de manger local. Par exemple dans la petite France il y a un patissier faisant des éclairs salés (avocat et saumon, foie gras....)
English language reporting about Alsace and Strasbourg always dwells on the same clichés : it looks ' German' (which is always reassuring) , while not getting over the fact the Strasbourg is located in France (which is less so), because it doesn't exactly match with other clichés about France. Alsace has been part of France since....1648, which of course is quite recent and admittedly through military conquest, but 'Germany ' as an unified country has existed only since 1870. Actually Alsace is very much part of a Rhenanic, multinational Europe.
Just want to say that Alsace and Lorraine are german speaking and therefore belong to the german ethincal group. Located on the left site of the Rhine has made the french emperors always keen to have them in their power and have the Rhine as a border. So it is fair to say that France has made a huge impact on the people as today most of them speak french. But it is not important that they belong to a country, Germany consists of many ethnical groups, alemanis, swabians, bavarians, franconians and so on, together with non-german speaking like danish in the north and the sorbs to the east. It is important that we all belong to Europe and have the same rights.
@@JakobFischer60 Part of Lorraine is of Germanic language, the south is romance. And, as I said, "Germany " as an unified entity has existed only since 1870. I had a friend from Stuttgart who found Hamburg or Berlin almost "foreign". Note that some regions of France have been French for a a shorter time than Alsace (Nice and Savoie since 1860 only) and they do not feel less part of the country.
@@10akaufmann I happen to have done my military service (in 1982) with many guys from Alsace, from my generation (born 1961). They spoke the Alsacian dialect between themselves, in French barracks. No one raised an eyebrow. Their culture didn't seem to have been eradicated by the evil French state...
Swallow the cream! The french rudeness! LOL I have laughed so hard! The food isn´t very good even at the most expensive restaurants in Strasbourg. If you are a foodie, it´s better to look for places to eat away from the centre near the cathedral. They are very expensive, and really, the food is just awful. At least, that was my experience two weeks ago.
100.000 alsacian guys died during the WWII to keep Alsace in France, this deserves some respect. i've nothing against Germany, as i'm part french, part german,, and part from Hungary. Do not merge the fact that alsacians are near the Rhine, speak an old 5th century german like language, ... and be german? no.... in Italy, you got the High Adiggio county, german speaking people.... but Italian. And also in Texas, Castroville county, 18th century pioneers from Alsace still speaking a kinda alsacian.. but they are americans
No this is French ! Not German ! In this region lot of people are speaking a germanic language who is not really german but a cousin language ! And you must never say to an Alsacian guy that he is german ! Ahah ^^ he will became Angry ! They fought against the germans ! And don't forget, you can see theses wooden houses in other parts of France like : Normandie or somes cities like Troyes ! And to me as a french, your boyfriend seems very ITALIAN ! XD ahahah ^^
@@10akaufmannyou are so stupid... Alsace will never became German poor Nazi sausage boy ! France is the best country of europe ! Germany suck ! You have a good industry but nothing else !
@@10akaufmann yes and i know you well, germans ! You seems polite but its a fake politness ! Your Dream is to dominate Europe and to destroy our economy in order to destroy our health-care system too ! And now you need to destroy our nuclear power energy park by your stupids paradoxal ecologic minds with your polluting coal energy !Since the beginning of the times you were obsessed by domination and now you are the little US sausage Dog ! You are jealous from our energetic self-government actually. Us, the french we had conquered different territories all around the world rather than you who were obsessed by Europe ! And no, "Elsass" as you said will still french until the world' ends ! We dont need your teaching about politness or ecology ! Bye germania !
@@10akaufmann howwww ! I speak english very well, maybe better than you mister sausage ! And yes i never went to Germany, but i mate lot of germans. And i don't want to do a trip there because everything in your country is Ugly ! Its so easy to defend yourself by "wrong grammaticals" etc... i am music composer, sound ingenieer, and passionate by history and lot of things. Yes i do prefer british culture and yes i hate germans like italians because they don't like French people in majority, they are always jealous from us and they are annoying ! But im not angry, i love all of the rest of humanity from USA to Japan and Oceania. Thank you guy im alright and very happy to live in France thank you.
@@10akaufmann your country is a shit ! With boring peoples ! No, thank you ! And you are the little sausage dog of the USA ! So, now lot of peoples across europe hates you because of your arrogance ! And in the future you risk to commit the same errors from the past because of the actual situation ! You must know that us, the french, even if we can be friendly with you, we keep our eyes on you ! I wish you the best in your life ! Bye.
This whole region was always more germany than france. After the first world war and indeed the second world war, france government did everything to erase the german influence in that region. Everything was changed. I dont give a f... about the elsace, but to me its clear.
