Imagine a top 10 list of places to visit in Hamburg without mentioning the Reeperbahn or other places rich in history and culture (like the Gängeviertel or the Krameramtsstuben). As someone who lives in Hamburg, I find that almost insulting. 😅
Aber dafür Hafencity, Speicherstadt und Elbphilharmonie jeweils ein Punkt bekommen und gefühlt auch 3 mal Jungfernstieg/Alster. Da hätte man lieber, Sternschanze, Reeperbahn, Park Future und große Freiheit aufzählen können. Aber vielleicht sieht er ja St. Pauli als eigene Stadt.
they could have easily combined several numbers like Speicherstadt/Hafencity/Elbphilharmony or Alster Lake/Jungfernstieg. There is so much more to see in Hamburg as all of these guides pinpoint. For example the entire course of the Alster river get's increasingly more magical as further you follow it to the north east until you find yourself in incredible end-moraine forests, or the whole coast along the elbe river... or the rolling hills in Hamburgs south etc.
Hello and good morning, Ryan! I'm from Hamburg, and I think the recommendations are a little random.. 😂 If they mention Hafencity, they could've included Elbphilharmonie, and if they mention Jungfernstieg, they could've included the Alster... They missed to mention St. Michaelis Church. You can climb up the stairs (or use the elevator) to the top and enjoy a great view. Stadtpark is also a nice place and you can visit the planetarium. There is also a natural swimming pool nearby. (Now they struggle with an algea problem..) Also the Treppenviertel in Blankenese isn't just a nice place because it's many stairs, but there is also the Elb beach with a wonderful view. As the river "Elbe" goes through Hamburg. :) I do recommend the infamous redlight District "Reeperbahn." It's not as bad as people think, and if you're lucky, there is the "Hamburger Dom" taking place nearby. There you can buy cotton candy or hop on a huge ferris wheel. ❤ And get well soon! You seem a little sick. :(
Well... FYI, Hamburg happens to be one of the biggest harbours in Europe. :D Because of that, Hamburg also has some really strange features. Some of the older apartments really have incredible redwood floors. A big load got stuck there in some way, and they used it to make floors. I hope they don´t use redwood in that way anymore. Today these floors are priceless.
@@CEntertainArt, I haven´t checked the statistics for a long while, and when they are mentioned briefly in a video, it is always problematic. Is it big in cargo or passengers? Both? Hamburg is HUGE, especially when it comes to cargo. My point was that it definitely is a very big harbour in Europe. The OP seems somewhat surprised that there is so much water in Germany. No worry, we have lots of water here too! :D
@@CEntertainArt Duisburg is relatively small in comparison to Hamburg, as Hamburg has the third largest harbour in Europe after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Duisburg however is the largest "non sea" port in Germany, still big, but way smaller than Hamburgs sea port.
@@CEntertainArt Hamburg is a seaport. Megamax class container ships can sail through the port through the Elbe River to Hamburg with a draft of 16 m. That's 100 kilometers from the river mouth (Nordsee) to the harbor. Duisburg is an inland port. Only smaller cargo ships sail there via the rivers Rhine, Maas and some canals to seaports such as Rotterdam and Hamburg. Duisburg is also known as a seaport - more because of the important transshipment point for goods from the seaports. Only smaller inland vessels sail there. Depending on the destination and width of the rivers and canals, even the largest inland vessels.
Hamburg lies in the Elbe river delta (far away from the sea caused by the wide river mouth and the tidal range). That's the reason, Hamburg seems to be within a river. Some points are missing like the Reeperbahn, the entertainment an red light district with the Davidswache and a lot of shows and musicals. The U3, the subway with the best view (on bridges above the roads).
There is a theory that the “Hamburger” the world knows actually comes from Hamburg. In the 17th century, a “round piece” bun (Rundstück) was baked that is very similar to today’s hamburger bun. In 1901, a Hamburg innkeeper took advantage of the need to have only one roll, two slices of roast and some gravy. The idea is to bake the bun, place the roast slices in between and dip the whole thing in the sauce. That was very well received at the time. That not just one host used the recipe, but many hosts. This is how the dish “Rundstück warm” became the most popular food in Hamburg. Especially the dock worker. You could eat the dish quickly. The original food is still similar to the hamburger of fast food chains, which is now sold with meatballs, cheese and tomatoes. That's the story...
6:00 Definitely recommend the Elbphilharmonie, i've been twice and will be going there a bunch more times, tickets are actually really cheap for what you get, they range from 14€ to 90 or 120€, the first time i went, i got seats right in front of Ray Chen in the first row for 90€, the second time i got "worse" seats (sound is the same at every seat) for 20€ and it was still soooooo good. people under 30 often times get 50% off aswell (wasnt the case for the 2 times i visited tho, it's only for concerts organized by the Elbphilharmonie itself). It's like the most amazing sound experience i can imagine and i've ever experienced.
True. Today it is ridiculous that is was so controversial in the beginning, there was a lack of imagination in so many people. Yes it was expensive to build, and it had time issues, but today only very few people wouldn't like it.
I worked 5 years in Hamburg. Its´truly a beautiful and interesting place to live! My trainstation was direct next to Planten un Blomen so I visited it often. And a good amount of my time I also spend with all these wonderful musicals.
They always forget to give a hint to the large Ohldorf cemetary which is crossed by a bus line to help people get to the gravesite they want to see. It is said that Ohlsdorf cemetery is the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. People are often unsing it for recreational walks.
Don't laugh at the Jungfernstieg, man. I proposed to my wife there. ;) But the video left out soooooo many good stuff. Treppenviertel? Really? You go there at your third or forth visit. Before that you other things to do for sure. And where is the nightly stuff? Reeperbahn, anyone? Herbertstrasse? Only for the men, sorry ladies ;) St Pauli and Sternschanze. You will have a hangover for two days from just visiting the place. Take a Alster Boat Tour to sober up. ;)
@@greentoby26 It's not about missing out on something. Of course they don't. What's to miss out on a bunch of hookers behind windows? But for the girls it's kind of a dare. To see if the stories with the buckets are true ;)
8:20 There also is a Kindergarden at planten un Blomen, or rather the entry is outside of it. But it has Backdoors where the Kids can Go outside directly into planten un blomen. Source: I used to be one of those kids.
The "Miniatur Wunderland" was forgotten. One of the famous new sights in the "Speicherstadt". It is an amazing miniature train plants ever. You must visit it, if you are in Hamburg.
6:15 some evenings might be expensive but in general the approach is to open up culture for everyone no matter what economic or societal background. I saw a 4 and half hour Beethoven Concert there for 20 bucks
The reason the Elbe Tunnel (or just Elbtunnel) is partly for pedestrians is that it is so old only few people could afford to own a car when it opened.
all: while the assocation water city and bridges is understandable and often relates to each other keep in mind there are also other kind of bridges like for pedestrians, cars, bikes, trains to just cross over a street - or tracks or highways over highways and whatever. also bridges from buildings to buildings ...
I don't know how in English, but in Czech, we make difference between actual bridge and light bridge meant only for pedestrians or bicycles, we don't call it a bridge even when it can be pretty big. I saw the most amount of bridges in Wroclaw, Poland.
yes, it is known that bridges are differently count but no, Wroclaw (Breslau) has by far less than Hamburg or Berlin. Depending on how one counts Wroclaw has something like around +/- 100-150 while Berlin rather +/- 1900-2200 (Hamburg just slightly more). Wroclaw is known for its bridges (city of the 100 bridges) due to other reasons (not quantity). and keep in mind, bridges does not just mean over-crossing water. there are also bridges for pedestrians, cars, bikes, trains to cross streets on a higher level etc.
@@publicminx I meant from cities I visited, I've never been to Berlin or Hamburg, but when you look at map of Hamburg, it makes sense that they have so many bridges. But for me as land rat from Czechia, even amount of bridges and amount of water channels in Wroclaw was impressive. It's crazy that massive river in Hamburg is our Elbe river (Labe in Czech), but on it's way to Hamburg, it turns to something totaly different than how it looks here in Czechia. In some years, we had problems with drought and Elbe was totaly empty that you could see bottom and few hundred km far from here, it looks almost like a see, crazy. We even have a port in Hamburg, becuase river Elbe connects us with Hamburg.
These big detached houses are possibly in Blankenese, which is a posh part of the city, although some of the old city dwellings can be quite posh too. But WAIT, hold it...why does the guy state at 8:53 "enjoy one of FRANKFURT's top hostels nearby"? And Ryan - sounds like you need to rest with that cough. Get well soon!
Culture is subsided in Germany, so tickets for the Elbphilharmonie are available from 20 Euros or so. It's meant to prevent gatekeeping classical music, theatre and art.
we have german native species in zoo's too. but less often, as zoo's are for exotic or endangered species. we have animal parksile the "wisentgehege" (european bison park) where there are boars, stags, deer, foxes, wolves, european bison, native birds, otters, etc. in truely animal friendly large enclosures.
The port of Hamburg is a seaport, located on a river (Elbe) and a good 100 kilometers from the sea. The third largest in Europe after Rotterdam and Antwerp. Megamax class container ships arrive there in Hamburg. The goods are distributed by feeder ships and also inland waterway vessels. Given the size of the port, these ships also make up a large part of the operation. Duisburg has a really large inland port. It's even the largest in the world.
About the Hafencity: "15 years is not new". Of course it's not, but compared to other buildings which were built hundreds of years ago, those can truly be considered as new.
Hamburg is the most beautiful city in Germany and it was even more beautiful before the Brits burned it to ashes, especially all the living areas that didn't have any military use at all.
But much of the bridges in Hamburg you dont see /feel them. You see only the street. Nice bridges are in venice, italy. But HH built at a river, elbe , and a smaller river go to the elbe. The alster. So much water there. On historical reason for the grewing from HH since the 12. Century [ first named around 800) are the river elbe that go to the northsee and so there was much economy frim the city around and over the river. Hanse ist in the middle age a imprtant economy group. And since know is a center of economy and culture.
Unfortunately the video doesn’t mention some of the most famous parts of Hamburg like Hamburg harbor und the famous red light and party district Reeperbahn.
You do not neet to spend so much mony on a ticket in the elbphalomonie. It starts at about 10$ depending on the programm and the artists prices can go up to 60$. It is fundet by the goverment.
🫶 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩶🤍🫶 Hamburg my pearl You beautiful city You are my home, you are my life You are the city that I can, that I can Go boys? Hey! If you come from the south Hamburg is right in front of Greenland If you come from the north Hamburg is in Africa If you come from the Balkans It can happen to you that you don't even get noticed If you come from China The people here look strange When I'm far, far away Whether in Sydney or Rome Then I think Hamburg is my pearl And sing "Home Sweet Home" Hamburg my pearl You beautiful city You are my home, you are my life You are the city that I can, that I can If you come from Frankfurt Is Hamburg the revelation If you come from the capital You don't want to leave here anymore Would I sing about Munich? I would have to lie that the beams bend Let the others do that Honestly, that wouldn't be for me? And when I'm far, far away Whether in Sydney or Rome Then I think Hamburg is my pearl And sing "Home Sweet Home" Hamburg my pearl You beautiful city You are my home, you are my life You are the city I can go to Michel and Hans Albers The fans, the stadium This is me, this is my life And I really don't want to live anywhere else Really don't live If you figure it out Tamara's real name is Klaus-Dieter When you come out of the pub Is Hamburg as round as Kiel? When you no longer know where you come from Then Hamburg is your new home When you come from university You can drive a taxi in Hamburg Oh, Hamburg my pearl You beautiful city You are my home, you are my life You are the city I can go to Oh, when I'm far, far away Whether in Rio or Prague Then I think about all the things That I like so much about you Michel and Hans Albers The fans, the stadium This is me, this is my life And I really don't want to live anywhere else The city park and the Alster The harbor, my Reeperbahn This is me, this is my life This is the city that I can, that I can' Hamburg my pearl You old port city You are my home, you are my life You are the city that I can, that I can. 🎶 🛳️ 🎶❤🎶
The whole biggest non-capital part is only true if you don't count Istanbul and St. Petersburg as Europe. Also, if you go by agglomeration, there are a few bigger ones, e.g. Barcelona, Milan, Manchester, ...
In Germany, you only get the steroids-antibiotics-combination if you have COPD or something, so I hope that‘s not the case here. Either way, get well soon!
As a German I understand why no one bothers to pronounce German words. It's just hard and weird if you are not native or practiced a lot. Still one of the coolest languages but the grammar is so stupid that not native speakers even after years have problems here and there.
@@ryanwass 15:00 min Blankenese is the "Beverly Hills of Hamburg": German celebritries (actors, singers, comedians) and rich, long-established families with "old money" (some of them already earned their fortune as shipowner or trader with the colonies 150 years ago). Partially they live in exclusive "palaces" with a park around it. My grandparents were not rich, but they had the luck to get an apartment in Blankenese 10 metres away from the beach (for a fairly low rent in the late 1930, at this time Blankenese was not so exclusive yet). They stayed their whole live there, so my father "grew up on the beach". Nowadays, you cannot afford the rent in Blankenese any more, the properties and houses there cost millions of Euros.
the last one (treppenviertel) is an entire area that is so hilly that instead of roads you have a bunch of staircases everywhere. it's not just one staircase it's a maze of staircases. it's a very charming and fascinating place and right next to the river that people love to visit and go on walks at, my family went on a walk there on christmas day and despite all the cafes and restaurants being closed there were still a lot of people there just enjoying the unique scenery
And if you don't want to take so many stairs you can still ride the "mountain goat". First time using that bus I felt like I was back in the Pfälzerwald with all its narrow and steep streets. Only the view on the Elbe river and the giant cargo terminal told me that I was not. 😅
Yes, Hamburg is on the Elbe river, which is one of the main rivers in western Europe. The city is lcoated roughly 70 km from the coast, so that the river is tidally influenced when the North Sea experiences its tides. In Hamburg the river splits into several different river arms, with a total width of well over 2 km, roughly 1.4 miles wide. So yes, the Elbe is a BIG and very important river. Speicherstadt literally means warhouse city. What's so cool about it is that it was built on artificial pontoons create from ramming huge tree trunks deep into the river sludge. Upon those were built the houses and streets of the Speicherstadt. Due to the constant flooding and draining of the canals between the buildings they lean toward and away from each other between high and low tide by up to 30 cm/ one foot on the top floors. Next interesting thing is that the architects created a perfect airflow with the muddy and often flooded basements that results in a very constant air temperature, no matter what the outside temperature. The temperature vairance throughout the year is a mere 8° C, roughly 14° F, completely without any electric AC. The canals also allowed for rapid transfer of tax free goods since 1888 from ships into this area without reyling on carts or later trucks. It was a tax free enclace with only a few bridges that were controlled by the tax brigade of the border police for a long time. Since the Freihafen was officially dissolved in 2013 no more offical controls had to be done. But the Freihafen / tax free area had already been moved to the south of the Elbe river a few years prior. How do you discover a new room? Weeeell, start a world war, have everything bombed to hell, barely do any repairs, brick over holes that might impair the structural integrity, then forget about covering those holes. Presto, you can discover a new room 40 years later after everyone remembering those shoddy repairs has died or at least stopped working.
The oldest part of Hamburg (Hammaburg around 1200 years old) wasn't on the Elbe. It was on the Alster and Bille. A few hours berets of years are needed to reach the Elbe 😛
Moin from Hamburg =D To answer your last question about the "Treppenviertel", you need over a million euros for a small house. The Treppenviertel is in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city. You won't find normal earners there. But it's a wonderful place to go for a walk and enjoy the scenery. Hafencity really is still new, as construction and planning are still ongoing. =) But as a Hamburg resident, I miss various sights that are better than those presented: the Michel, the Chilehaus, the Reeperbahn, Landungsbrücken, the fish market, the old Hamburg town houses on Deichstraße ... As a native of Hamburg, the video leaves me a little sad.
Na, you wont find any home for sale in Treppenviertel. Same as in other rich districts. Nothing is ever on sale there, no matter how rich you are. The ones that live there did inherit their property from their family.
The Elbphilharmonie is actually quite cheap. It was meant to enable literally EVERYONE to experience it's art/music. So tickets are usually (when pre-ordering about 2-3 months in andvance) mostly around 20$, sometimes for the more wanted ones 50-70$, but if you plan maybe a year ahead, it's really cheap, like 12$. And I'd recommend going up there to enjoy the place and the view.
Prices depend entirely on what group is performing and (at times) what the program is. Prices for visiting world-class orchestras (Vienna or Berlin, for instance) will be very high, approaching $250. Tickets for either of the Hamburg orchestras will nearly always be well under $100 (I‘m speaking of top prices here in all these cases). Concerts involving a large orchestra, choir, soloists (Mahler 8) will be a little more expensive than usual. The biggest problem is getting ANY ticket! However, the hype is finally settling down a bit and it has become easier to get tickets on short(ish) notice.
@@DaGuys470 Absolutely! That is why I pointed out that I was quoting prices for top seats. I was trying to avoid implying that less expensive tickets were not available. These were just examples of how prices for the same seat can vary widely; some concerts are indeed very expensive, others are very affordable.
What should definitely be mentioned are the horrendous costs and the construction time. The cost estimate started at 77 million euros and in the end the taxpayer ended up paying a whopping 800 million euros! We also had to say goodbye to the 4-year construction period, because in the end it took 10 years.
8:51 I had to stop, rewind and turn captions on to confirm if I‘m going insane or the narrator really has said „Frankfurt“ instead of „Hamburg“. 🤔 The more than 2500 bridges also mean that there are a large amount of canals where you can attend many different water activities like canoeing, stand up paddling, paddling, etc. On the greater lakes you can also go on a ride with a sail boat.Also Hamburg has (had?) the only McDonalds that is accessible from a canal. So it‘s technically a paddle through. 😉
Also many bridges dont go over water. There are bridges crossing bigger roads for pedestrians only. There is also public transportation under and over ground with trains, which also uses bridges to cross streets and pedestrian bridges crossing railways and more.
The Term "Hamburger" is coming from Hamburg! In Hamburg we had the Fastfood called "Rundstück warm", a Breadbun with a slice of warm roastmeat and sauces. When People from Hamburg came to the US, it changed into the modern Hamburger meat and (German!) Heinz-Ketchup! ;)
Attending a Concert at Elbphilharmonie is not that expensive - if you do not insist to sit in the front row. An C or D category seat can easily be afforded even by student. It is part of the concept, that everybody shoud be able to enter.
I would say that in general the arts are rather affordable in germany. A lot (if not most) of theaters/opera houses/etc offer reduced prices to kids/students/the disabled and elderly and have rather cheap seats available.
Just looked it up and the cheapest tickets to a concert in the elbphilharmonie that I could find are 9,90€ and you can also attend exam concerts of the music university (conservatorium?) for free
2 times a year, an audience orchestra takes place and used to cost 5 euros. You really need to be fast, if you want to get a ticket, because the audience orchestras are quickly sold out. I've been there once and really liked the relaxing atmosphere. Was the mountain of tax money worth it to build the Elbphilharmonie? I'm not sure. At least every visitor can enter the "visitor platform" for free - and the orchestra halls are gorgeous. So there's that... But if you really want to get rid your money at Elbphilharmonie, then I suggest spending a night at the hotel inside the Elbphilharmonie or rent an apartment there.
@@lulaa123 aaand in hamburg there are special suscription deals for people who like to visit the classical arts very frequently. I saw some ad that was 70 euros per month for free entrance into anything that provider organised in terms of theatre and music. I might be wrong, but that sounds like a pretty good deal for someone who's really into that stuff
Ryan, I‘m sorry that you watched this bad video. It‘s confusing, badly explained and doesn’t always have its facts together. Yes, Hamburgs a great place to visit. And a great starting point for cruise around Europe. Right at the start, it said that Hamburg was a former city state. Wrong. Hamburg is still its own state. It’s one of Germany‘s 16 federal states, being one of three city states (The others are Berlin and Bremen). The old Elb tunnel (Alter Elbtunnel) is a tunnel under Elbe for pedestrians, yes. It’s really spectacular to walk. But those two huge elevators you saw in the video (with the wooden doors), they are vehicle elevators. The old tunnel was opened in 1911 for regular car traffic from one side of the Elbe to the other, paying a toll. It was closed for vehicle traffic only in 2019 because of necessary maintenance. Pedestrians and Bikes can still use it for free. Once reopened it will remain car-free (the exception being emergency services like police etc).
@@nikibordeaux Actually there was a historical zoo at the place of todays "Planten & Blomen" park but it was NOT "Hagenbecks Tierpark". It is a little know fact. There was a recent podcast by somebody who did research on the history of Hamburg´s first zoo. There is indeed a small remains of the former zoo: The "Tiergartenstraße" which runs between the rails and the park and is overlooked by most people.
Individual houses in Germany must be constructed by a certified architect. You assumed that absolutely correctly. And about new vs. old: German cities are often older than 1,000 years, some older than 2,000 years. So "new" is often attributed to neighbourhoods for over 20 years. For most of the time it is until there is something newer. I my village a neighbourhood from the late 1970s was “new” until the 2010s, because it was the newest.
To be honest, over 2000 years is very rare. While many cities have traces of people living there for a long time, we have very few sources that confirm permanent settlements. We don't even know where some roman places were located, we only know the names.
@@kraeuterzucker9863I guess it depends where you live. Wenn have here places that goes back 10'000 years and is yet settled. Would be interesting to see a map of settlement's ages
@@christianbrecht4680 10000 I am throwing a doubt on. Thats the Neolithic era iirc, no city of germany can be traced back that far. At most we find archelogical evidence of another settlement having existed in around the same place at one time. 1000 to 2000 (medival to roman) are fair estimates for the age of a lot of places. Given, our oldest buildings tend to be just a few centuries (Most less because bombing). Or are castles & Cathedrals, and despite how many we have of them, I believe they really should not counted as they are quite special as far as buildings go and not representative of the cities as a whole.
@@dasirrlicht5415 Well, I had a wrong thinking. You are right. I had something different in mind. We have here a place where a neolothic settlement was found close to a village. It has likely nothing to do with the village itself. So you are right 👍
The Speicherstadt is UNESCO heritage. There are now appartments inside (the renit is from 1.400,-€ up to 15.000,-€ a month). Planten und Blomen (plants and flowers) used to be a Jewis Cementry up until the 1930. The Nazis ordered to build the botanical garden there. There is a hugh place on the Cementry Ohlsdorf where you can see all the ols Jewis gravestones from Planten und Blomen. Ohlsdorf is one of the biggest cemetrys in the world. I think, the 2nd largest. And its the greenest city in the worlds. We have a lot of strange animals here, like nutrias, black swans and so on. The swan is our crest bird and we have an own state organization here only for taking care about the swans.
Most of those large houses are sub divided into apartments or house more than one generation of a family, some have 3-4 generations living under the same roof.
"Does Germany have unique animals?" European nations are generally too small to entirely contain a species to themselves. However, Germany does have a handful of fish species that exist only there, I assume confined to lakes and such. That said, Germany is the origin of a number of well known dog breeds, such as the German Shepherd, Boxers, Dachshunds (Wienerdogs!), Dobermanns, the Great Dane, Schnauzers, Pomeranians, Poodles, Rottweilers and many others.
Don't forget the Leonberger dogs, the greatest metaphor for the German existence. From wikipedia> The modern look of the Leonberger, with darker coats and black masks, was developed during the latter part of the 20th century by reintroducing other breeds, such as the Newfoundland.[24] This was necessary because breeding stocks of the Leonberger were seriously affected by the two world wars. Only five Leonbergers survived World War I[28] and were bred until World War II when, again, almost all Leonbergers were lost. During the two world wars, Leonbergers were used to pull the ammunition carts, a service to the breed's country that resulted in the Leonbergers' near-destruction.[29] Karl Stadelmann and Otto Josenhans are credited as the breed's saviors, bringing them back from almost extinction.[25] Leonbergers today can have their ancestry traced to the eight dogs that survived World War II.[28]
In terms of domesticated animals, there are plenty of originally local breeds. Cows (the most famous black and white one: Holstein), pigs, chicken, sooo many horse breeds...
Here in Germany you usually see buildings that are not older than 30 years as "new". What's really old here is something that's 200 years old or older. And really, really old things are things that are older than 600 years
I am a German who has lived in China for some months. I visited Chongqing, which has more than 30 Mio inhabitants, much, much more than both Hamburg (which I have visited often) and Pittsburgh ( where I have not been). I am quite sure the large number of bridges in Chongqing is not due to "fallen trees" but because this is one of the largest urban areas in the world, build on multiple hills and crisscrossed by the massive Yangtze river and tributaries.
Chongqing als größste Stadt der Welt und Ihre Brücken ist etwas irreführend. So als ob die Deutsche Regierung den ganzen Norddeutschland zu Hamburg-Stadt erklären würde. Dann wäre wahrscheinlich viel mehr Brücken als Chongqing-"Region". Chongqing as the largest city in the world and they bridges is a bit misleading. If the German government were to declare the whole of northern Germany to be Hamburg City. Then there would probably be a lot more bridges than Chongqing-"Country".
@@nboyxs Richtig. Die Flächenausdehnung ist mit 82,3 tsd qkm enorm, das ist fast soviel wie Baden-Württemberg + Niedersachsen oder das 1,15-fache von Bayern.
By the way: "Planten un Blomen" is the North German dialekt, "Plattdütsch" (stands for "flat German" - the North of Germany isn't famous for many mountains or even mounts...). In normal German you would say: "Pflanzen und Blumen", "plants and flowers" in English.
Platt in that context meant clear or understandable (klar und deutlich), when the word Plattdeutsch was first created. It's not about geography but rather the way it is spoken, that it gets its name from.
8:45 The Alster Lake was built in 1190 as water reservoir for the water mills in the town. As the city expanded and needed new fortifications it was parted by a dam supporting the new walls, built between 1616 and 1625, into the (bigger) Outer and the (far smaller) Inner Alster. 10:30 Some story about the city hall: The old city hall was blasted during the Great Fire of 1842 in order to make a fire lane (which only partly worked because the blasting did not bring down the whole building). The city council used then for some decades the city orphanage as city hall and since 1847 also the big hall of the house of the Patriotic Society which had been built at the place of the burned down city hall. After multiple architectural competitions the construction of the new city hall started in 1884 and was finished in 1897. More than 4,000 oak posts provided the foundations. 11:59 Very strange pronunciation. Jungfer is an old word for maiden, derived from "jung vrowe", young mistress, and 'j' is rather pronunced like 'y' in English, 'u' like 'oo' in English. 14:55 Most bigger animals unique to Europe were long ago hunted to extinction. Some were recreated by backcrossing (at least regarding appearance), like aurochs, tarpan horses and others. Some European wolves and (brown) bears survived in the balkans and were later resettled in the Alps region.
…2 Millions? In Blankenese for a whole house? Very unlikely nowadays…..at the beach or with a view directly at the river, 4 to 9 Mio are more of the range…
Hi Ryan, you should definitely watch the video from Dr. Ludwig, this is Germany view ☝️Even I, as a German, often forget how incredibly beautiful and diverse my country is. And every time I watch this video, I feel an even deeper love for my country I am really very happy to have been born in this beautiful country, including its rough edges😎 Kind regards from Hanover 🤗
Because of the Video you mentioned, I'm planing to do a roadtrip through germany to see those and other places with my own eyes. Can't wait to start. 😊
The name Hamburger actually comes from the German city of Hamburg. There is the traditional Rundstück warm snack in Hamburg. This consists of a wheat roll (“round piece”) with a slice of roast in it and gravy that is poured over it. Another variant of this “hamburger piece” consists of a wheat bun with a minced meat patty made from beef steak and egg yolk. This recipe came to the USA with German immigrants. Meatballs with rolls were also a popular dish on the emigrant ships that often left Hamburg. At the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, such minced meat rolls - still without the "er" ending - were demonstrably sold as "Hamburg".
I don't think Germany, or central europe in general, has any truly unique or rare animals. Most animal species here have like a close cousin in many parts of the world, including North America. I think the most notable are European Badgers that look quite different from American ones, and Eurasian Lynxes, which are a lot bigger than those found in NA.
there are actually animals who only live in Germany, even some only in some regions. Examples of German only animals are the 'Elbebiber' (a sub of the Beaver family), the Mosel-Apollofalter (a Butterfly - lives only regional in a Mosel region) etc... you also have 11 endemic sorts of fishes, some plants etc.
Als Hamburger tut mir das "The Elbe Tunnel" weh. Der alte Elbtunnel konnte mal mit dem Auto durchfahren werden. Er war für Kutschen gemacht. Dort gibt es große Aufzüge und natürlich auch Treppen ;-) Die Spielplätze in Planten und Blomen sind legendär! Zeig sie bloß nicht deinem Kind, sonst musst du nach Hamburg reisen😅
Hamburg is by far the coolest city of Germany. Forget about Berlin. Pfft. Whats missing in the vid is the famous Reeperbahn and the great graffiti art all over the town.
8:19 That weird stuff in the background are two mountains made of fiberglass that have a lot of slides and in the summer even a pool you can slide into. The part shown is only the small separated toddler playground. The rest features said mountains, water cannons and a lot of climbing and jumping stuff like a house with a net as floor or a house with movable floor and wallboards. Too bad they didn't show the Japanese garden with tea house. It's my favourite place in Planten un Blomen (Lower German for plants and flowers) and it's just next to the big playground. In the main season they hold a traditional tea ceremony every second Sunday. Also they talked about but didn't show the tropical green houses. They even grow bananas and cocoa in it as well as oranges and green tea. In front of it are terraces made from slate which heat up in the sun and allow growing mediterranean plants in the wet cold Northern German climate. There are even turtles living in the pond beneath it which used to be a part of the old town moat. All the streets ending in -wall are on the line of the old town wall by the way and a big part of Planten un Blomen (the Wallanlagen) is located in the Western town moat that was leading from the Alster pond to the harbour. (The Eastern town moat now holds the train tracks leading south from Central station.) If you walk through that part of the park you come along the court houses, an old music hall, a street with old half timbered buildings that house the Lower German Library and a composer museum and the museum for Hamburg's history. The exit of the park is right next to St. Pauli subway station at one end of the infamous Reeperbahn (red light and party district that has it's name from the rope making industry) and when you head into the direction of the grey big guy with the sword (statue of Otto von Bismarck) you end up just above the Landungsbrücken and have a great view across the harbour from the Stintfang vineyard (a present from Hamburg's twin town Stuttgart) just above the city rail station of the same name. Also they didn't show what the water concert looks like. Just imagine a smaller version of the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas but with a colourful light show (after dawn) in a natural surrounding and with classical music or movie soundtracks playing. For example when they play the James Bond theme (you know, the one where you see someone through the barrel of a gun) they have the central fountain grow higher and higher with a white light and when the point comes when the person in the intro turns and shoots and blood runs down tge screen they switch to the red light and shoot water out of the diagonal fountains. The shows are still operated by hand from two technicians. One for the lights and the other for the fountains.
Get well soon. I love your videos and especially your reaction to Miniatur Wunderland. Maybe you can respond to a newer version of this, particularly the new part of Patagonia. It's incredible what they did there. Nowadays already more than 1 million working hours! Greetings from Celle, Germany.
Hi Ryan, Hamburg is a very nice, maritime town worth living in. I have the privilege of growing up in „Övelgönne“, directly at the beach, opposite of the harbour yet very fashionable…Seeing 400m Containerships manovered in front of your garden is only possible in Hamburg…. Regards, J.
The Tunnel is also a great way to get one of the best views of Hamburg. You can go down the stairs or use the elevators to get down (last time I checked the elevators worked during weekdays only, so be aware if you want to cross by car or bike). The pictures with the people in it: that's the street 😀 >So, that's were cars drive through. Even for european standards it's a really slim fit on the sides. I used it about 30 years ago with a van and... lets say: I got a little bit of sweat in the elevator and had problems to pass pedestrians in the tunnel. But if you go through the tunnel and up on the south side you have the best panoramic viev of the harbour and the city behind it.
Gardening: our raw -models are the English and French gardenings. Yes, Germans love gardening. Sea -food is supposed to be phantastic in Hamburg, and of course in all over the north. I am north German from Bremerhaven and love all kinds of seafood 😋
Hello Ryan, my comment today is for your health and against the high amounts you have to pay for the doctor and the medicine. It's a so called "Hausmittel" from my grandmother, who was also bothered by bronchitis. It is effective and almosr free. Boil the skins of about three potatoes, drain them a little and wrap them in a piece of cotton fabric that will no longer be used. Then wrap an old towel around it, place it on your bronchi and cover it with a scarf so that the heat is retained for as long as possible. After using it several times, your bronchitis should clear up and you should feel better. Best regards from Bremen
Have you ever seen one of these "whats the dumbest thing an american has ever said to you" where somebody said "The US is the whole world, countrys like Egypt do not exist" ? I guess if you think like that, then Pitsburgh has the most bridges since Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna doesn't really exist.
