EXPLORING THE OLDEST CITY IN GERMANY + Most Roman Ruins North of the Swiss Alps! // Trier, Germany 

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Germany and Europe have sooo many old cities and towns. Even my little 60k people town is over 600 years old. Hope you guys enjoy Germany

I lived there for 15 years. I never ever heard the story of the miracle of wine in Trier! The city does not end at the river. It continues on the other side of it and even up the hills you saw.

In Trier it is absolutely worth it to take one of the many guided tours explaining the historic details. It is unbelievable how many interesting and cute little stories are behind the buildings. I remember that the towers of the cathedral have different hights because the citizens of Trier had built St. Gangolf with a higher tower to rival the bishops power. He obviously wouldn't accept that and wanted to build his own towers even higher but (if I remember correctly) just couldn't afford to do it for both towers 😂 And there are many more such stories, I loved them when I was there.

My son lives in Germany and just loves Trier. So glad that he took us there to see the churches & explore the museum (highly recommend!).

Greetings from the second oldest city of Germany, Augsburg, founded by Caesar Augustus in 15 BC.

My dad lives in Trier for over 20 years now so it's basically my second home. Interesting to see it through the eyes of visitors. Thanks a lot

Very nice Video. Enjoyed it so much. Enjoy your time in and while exploring Germany

I'm excited for you guys living in Germany because you can do so many short European trips now. 😍

Wow Trier looks absolutely beautiful. It has been awhile since I was in Germany. Thank you so much for taking us along. Love your video.

Oldest cities in Germany so beautiful, you guys had made a very nice trip, just amazing. Love your video, thanks and stay safe.

About the churches: There can only be one cathedral in one place, so not all the big churches you can see in a place are cathedrals. A cathedral is the church which belongs to a bishop and marks his main seat. In medieval times, normal people were usually not allowed to walk into a cathedral or into the church of a monastery, of which there usually were many within or very close to the towns (and nowadays, they are in the towns, because the city limits have expanded). They had to use their own church for worship, usually called a "Münster" or "Stadtkirche", and which they usually paid for to build. Thanks for this nice video! It is interesting to see the perspective of someone new to Germany.

So beautiful!!! I was just in Germany yesterday! I was so happy to see that you had a new video posted.. You guys do such a good job!

We may check it out this weekend!!

If you’ve not visited Rothenburg ob der Tauber yet - please go you’ll love it! Especially in the winter time It’s like a fairytale village!

Very nice video! Our son will be coming to Trier University this summer to study for the year. Can't wait to get over there and see it all!

Thanks for the video.. I had never heard of Trier or its history before. Not quite sure about the wine story, but fun to think about!

The town centre of Trier had been practically annihilated by Allied bombing in 1944/1945

I was there recently 😁! It's just incredible 👍

Regensburg also has a bridge over the Donau with the original Roman footings still in place! Also near Regensburg is Valhalla, off a bike trail that runs along both sides of the Danube!

The entire Mosel (Moselle) valley between Trier and the Rhine is absolutely beautiful! Try it, you'll love it...

If you go back to Trier drive out into the country and visit Villa Otrang. Roman villa ruins with beautiful preserved mosaic floors. Well worth the time.

Sadly never got to go inside the gate, though did walk under it. One of the stores close to that gate I had gotten a small chess set there.

Well, many churches had their windows destroyed in the thousand years between 1933 and 1945, so to say. And not all churches reconstructed the original window art.

Nice Video, as some habe already pointed out you’ve missed some nice spots in trier. If the corona restrictions and time allows it i am happy to show you around! I’m an English and history student and originally from the Kaiserlautern area :)

If you want to visit a very ornate baroque cathedral, go to Fulda, Hesse, my grandparents' home town! also a lovely city in the Rhoen valley!

If you are interested in the roman empire you can also visit Xanden. Their have a museum with an extremly good preserved part of a roman city. And it is beautyful little town.

The city of Trier looks wonderful. I love all of the Roman influence and all of the history there. That is pretty cool that St. Gangolf's church is sort of tucked away and hidden in the main square. I can't wait to visit Trier and all of its rich history. Thanks for sharing. :). PS- I am happy that you did not get a parking ticket lol.

Nice video 👍👍, beautiful city in Germany..

My cousin's widow is from Trier! Very enchanting city!

Trier is worth to visit. Hope you enjoyed it. Tourists should also try „Rothenburg ob der Tauber“. Magic pure Middle Ages. Too small to be destroyed then, therefore a must see.

I actually live in Trier so it's really funny that I know all those places and recognize every single location (: What I think is the most beautyfull part of trier are the little city districts all around trier

Trier is Amazing i love that city it´s only 40 minutes away from where i live :)

enjoy explore very nice view the camera so clear salamat po

I miss Germany!! We were there for 4 years now we're back to US for 9months now but still missing Europe.❤️ Guys, you should check out the frankfurt. They have some awesome Ramen in the area near the luxury shopping area.😊

The Tourist route you mentioned missed the Amphitheatre!

You guys did my favorite city right 😁

The place is super clean.

My fathers originated from Trier back in Roman time, perhaps that’s why I love Riesling wine. He is from the Roman assimilated Celtic population from that time. We was visiting Koblenz some years ago but we never got down to Trier. Hope we can revisit and target Trier the next time. It looks nice

Miss Trier. Been there twice.

Wenn ihr auf alte Städte steht fahrt Mal nach Xanten :) wurde zur Zeit der Römer gegründet und nicht sehr weit vom Hermann weg.

Google routing (and most other navigation software) use average speeds for city, normal street outside city and highway to calculate the estimated time. Some navigation programs allow to adjust those averages in the setup. Also most car navigation systems adjust the estimated time during the travel all the time if your actual average speed is higher or lower. Most programs i had used an average of 80km/h for highways and 60km/h for normal roads outside of city limits. And surprisingly most of the times it works quite well. Exceptions is mostly going quite fast (>180km/h) for long periods on a traffic free highway. Comfortable speed also depends on the car you drive ;) but yeah i like 140-160km/h most of the time comfortable as well.

North of the alps, not just the swiss alps

In the late Middle Ages up until after the 30 Years War, pilgrimage was the socially accepted form of vacation. Cities therefore had to feature some sort of "holiness" in order to attract pilgrims (i.e. tourists). The Holy Robe of Trier is a famous example for that - in fact, from the 19th century onwards and with common education progressing, people started taking it as a naivety of sorts. (They even sang mocking songs about it, see "Freifrau von Droste-Vischering/zum heil'gen Rock von Trier ging/sie thät sich sehr genieren/sie kroch auf allen Vieren/sie wollte ohne Krücken/durch dieses Leben rücken...")

Hi next time your inTrier, jump on the KD line, you can go as far as Koln but that takes most of the day but you can jump on and off the boats and see some of the towns and villages along the Mosel, Best of luck in Germany!

Your story about wine coming out of the tap is true. It happened in Trier. Couple of months ago, I read about it in a local newspaper at my mum's place who lives about 50km off Trier. Some kind of What-happened-today-30-years-ago-collumn or something like that. I didn't know that either, although I grew up in the wider region of Trier. Pretty interesting story. There are a lot of vinyards alongside the river Mosel, btw, and if that goddamn pandemis is over by fall, you may check out the wine-fests in the villages at the Mosel. There are plenty of those in a normal year.

Come visite Luxembourg :) you might like it

Nice Video, one of my Grandma are from Trier. Visit Aachen, the City of Charlemagne 🙂

The interior of the cathedral was probably destroyed during the war! ;)

Trier... I have been there some 20 years ago and I remember that I made it all on foot: Porta Nigra, Cathedral, Roman Bridge, Amphitheatre, Constantine's Palace, Barbara Thermes etc. I stayed at the youth hostel and went to that Irish pub at the market square that night. I met an American guy who just went to Trier because someone told him that's the oldest place in Germany. And it even was the residence of the Roman Emperor for a short time. And the archbishops of Trier were, like the archbishops of Mainz and the archbishops of Cologne, one of the seven prince electors of the Holy Roman Empire.

You definitely missed the arena! It's not that impressive like Nîmes, Arles or Orange in France, but absolutely worth visiting. And... you can take part in a one-day-gladiator-workshop... 😀

What makes the Porta Nigra special is the fact that it is actually over 1800 years old. And after that there were 1200 years of darkest medieval times from which no buildings are preserved.

Trier! My favorite city in Germany, got to go to the Christmas Market!

Trier is nice, but Xanthen is maybe more worth a visit if one is really into old roman times...there is an open Air museum which is all about archaeology, and where they rebuild a huge chunk of a roman city which used to be there. It both educational and fun to see.

Have you been in the Eifel and Volcanic-Eifel yet? Our state offers a good amount diversity in terms of regions. Greetings from a Hunsrücker.

i live in a very small village and since i can remember there is an old statue of a mining cart, which says that this little village is over 925 years old, pretty baffling imo

nice places .

Trier remained an important city during the early centuries of the Holy Roman Empire, too.

I think most people don´t really think about how taxing it is to drive above 160/180 km/h on the autobahn. It´s more something you do every now and then rather than the entire time.

Whenever you pay another visit to Trier you should check out that one restaurant right on market square that has authentic Ancient Roman dishes on the menu. I forgot the name of the place but you can probably google it. When you’re coming from the Porta Nigra it’s on the left side of the square. It’s very delicious and a very fascinating and different kind of cuisine.

Wonderful! So excited to go see it for myself someday, hopefully soon. Would love to see all these beautiful and historically significant places and ancient monuments. I'm still learning a lot, but already there's so much history I'm learning about Germany -- ancient Celtic and Germanic tribes, Roman colonization, Franks, there's just so much! Side question: I was surprised by the amount of graffiti in the background here; I haven't noticed it as much in your other videos in other places. Is graffiti growing in popularity in Trier or in Germany in general? Is it considered a problem/nuisance or is it considered art, or of it both depending on who's doing it and whether they have permission, like in the US?

Greetings from Trier

Since you guys are in Ramstein, you really need to visit the town of Cochem. This is coming from a German living in the US.

Went on the train both times I went

Trier was founded in 16 BC according to the Roman annales. Had been a huge settlement before already. , inhabited by a Celtic nation who called themselves Treveri. The two nations mixed, so the people of Trier really regard themselves as descendants of the Celts and the Romans, and on sunny days, Trier looks like a Mediterranean town. The official Roman name of the city was Urbs Augusta Treverorum, the city of Emperor Augustus and the Treveri people. Yes, Trier is the oldest city north of the Alps, and shortly after it was officially founded or documented as a city, the city was called already 'urbs splendissima' or 'most splendid city' because of its buildings of massive stone and its large population. Trier, for a few centuries, was the capital of the Roman Empire as to the administration of the part of the Empire which comprised Gallia (France), Belgium and Britain, and Roman Emperors were doing that job in Trier. One of them was the son of Emperor Constantius Chlorus (one of three Roman emperors at that time, one ruled in Rome and one in what is Istanbul now) who died in what is York today, and his soldiers proclaimed the son Constantinus to be their emperor. Constantinus ruled this part of the Roman Empire ca. 10 years from Trier, then went to Rome, fought Emperor Maxentius and became the sole Emperor of the Roman Empire then, called Constantin the Great nowadays. Founder of Constantinople too. Allowed Christianity in the Empire. The video does not show his huge audience hall, the now Konstantin-Basilica and as such a protestant church. When going to Trier and seeing the Karl Marx-Haus, the place of birth of Charlie Marx (we love Groucho Marx better), don't miss to relax a little in the wine bar opposite the Karl Marx-Haus, called Weinhaus. Lovely place for wine and meals, and a wine shop as well. Try the Mosel Riesling, an amazing white wine made of the Riesling grape. You will love the wine and your stay and will want to come back all your life.

Navigation systems and google maps calculate the time with the known speed limits and the "Richtgeschwindigkeit" which is the speed to aim for when you are on a/an motorway/Autobahn when you are driving on it. You are allowed to drive as fast there as you want but you should aim to drive this speed

hi trier is my home town and next time you're there you guys have to check out the basilica of St. Paulinus!!! It's the cutest little church! You'll have to go a little further past the porta nigra tho. Me and my Familie just call it the golden church, its really fucking beautiful!!! Also for lunch you could go to Fischers Maathes it's kinda famous for its "Flieten" which is basically fried chicken trier style.

Hi, Welcome to Germany, I hope you will like it here :) . Where are you guys from?

Did you see the oldest church "Konstantinbasilika" from the 4th century ? I think it wasn't on the video.

Greetings from a student from Trier :D

The oldest city in Germany is Worms in Rheinland-Palatinate. It was founded centuries before by the Celts

I'm surprised you did not mention that Trier was Constantine's residence.

You should visit Koblenz.

If you are interested in to(wtf Grammarly don't know what to do with this into) the Romans than you have to check out Xanten, there they have Roman Castell Town.

0:57: This sign means: "Ende sämtlicher streckenbezogener Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen und Überholverbote". It is not just the speed limit that ends there. ;-)

Yay! Travel video! ❤️ the Karl Marx crossing signal. 😂

what do you mean with “the oldest city north of the Swiss alps.”? Is there an older city north of the Austrian alps?

What did you pin in Google map going there? Was your first stop Porta Nigra?

Really nice video, but one thing has been bugging me as a native to the city (or more specifically, a village really close to it): It's pronounced "Treer", not "Tree-air" ;)

St. Gangolf's church is not a cathedral. In Catholic tradition, a cathedral is the seat of a bishop. Trier incidentally contains a cathedral. It is less than 200 meters away from where you were. In Germany, this is complicated by two things: the word "Dom" which has come to apply to several types of churches, including cathedrals and the protestant traditions that name churches somewhat differently.

Will you be exploring Trier again soon?

When visiting Trier I recommend to join one of the tours with an actor playing a Roman - it's some years ago that I was there and I still remember.

Whhooho🙋🏻‍♀️🤙🥳 welcome to my city

Welcome to Germany :))

Maybe the bee came to join the funeral of the bug??? :-D

Sounds frensh! Tri`er!

1:22 Nobody would guess that Trier is a german town, because the way you say it sounds pretty french ^^ It's more like "tree ah" !

Nice vlog and I really enjoyed watching.... and you both are so nice as well ...but I just want to mention that in german the letter combination "ie" is called "the long i" because the "e" is then always silent but therefore the "i" is a bit longer pronounced than usual...comparable in sounding to the english "ee" like "Beer" which is in german "Bier" (same pronuncation) so therefore the town "Trier" is pronounced like "Beer" just with "Tr" instead of "B" and has just one syllable..just a very little German language lesson for help to pronounce the town Trier or any other word with "ie" (which there are quite a lot) the right way. But is the letter-combination vice versa "ei" then it is a diphthong pronounced like the english letter "i" or the english word "eye" or like "aye" the archaic word for "yes" ..."Ei" standing alone also means "egg" by the way.... and the plural form is "Eier" which is now a bit confusing regarding to my first paragraph but the diphthong always goes first so therefore "eggs" are pronounced proper with 2 syllables like "Ei-er" a bit as like as you pronounced wrongly "Trier" with 2 syllables as well And about the no speed-limit on the Autobahn that´s for the very left lane and if there are more than 2 lanes than the very right lane is the slow lane (usually for trucks or slow cars)...the or those lines in the middle is/are the avarage speed lane and the very left is the fast lane..and just overtake on the left side and never ever do it on the right side that is forbidden by law and causes huge troubles and will put your life and all others around you in highly risk as well....just mentioned for the case you didn´t know that already. And about Cathedrals..churches are only cathedrals if it is a bishop´s seat...which means "no bishop = no cathedral" no matter how big or glorious that church might be. Trier, Cologne and Mainz were the most important bishop´s seats in Germany respectively in the Holy Roman Empire..those 3 bishop´s were together with another 4 specific secular noblemen the 7 prince-electors who elected a german noblemen to become german king with their votes in the old "Holy Roman Empire" and because those 3 bishops represented the will of god the empire was called "holy" which was today´s Germany, Austria, whole Northern Italy almost till Rome (former Lombardian kingdom), Netherlands, the flemish part of today´s Belgium some small parts of Switzerland and Burgundy which is now in south east France and parts of today´s Poland. It was no hertitage thing at all to become german king.... it was always a vote among those 7 german noblemen/bishops called prince-electors to vote for a noble candidate...and the Austrian Habsburg family became german king round about 600 years in a row till it collapsed because of Napoleon Bonaparte...so therefore the german crown and all imperial insignias which is amongst others "the holy lance" also known as "Spear of destiny" also known as "Longinius´Lance" which the Roman soldier Longinius stabbed in Jesus´heart while he was hanging on the cross to confirm his death are in Vienna Austria and not in Germany..just a fun-fact... And now I´m a bit sorry and I apologize for writing nearly a whole essay.

Give us a shout if you make it to Luxembourg!

2:25 Tell that my girlfriend! Her comfort speed is 160-180+ km/h ...

I was stationed in Baumholder from 1994-97. Took in mass in Apr96 while on leave from Bosnia and saw Jesus' tunic. Very cool and moving. Did you ask about the monkeys on the fountain?😏

Pretty interesting and informative. But before you start filming you should clean the windshield and ask on-site how to pronounce the place. It's called Triiiiier, not Triär. Not to be confused with Trieste in Italy. There it is called Triäst.

Muss ich als Wormser wirklich den Streit mit Trier um die Älteste Stadt Deutschland wieder ansprechen oder können wir und darauf einigen das Worms die älteste Stadt Deutschlands ist. :)

I guess this is the town of Orlando...

Dieser Vogelschiss auf der Windschutzscheibe aaaaaaaahhhhhh

The oldest city is the biggest shame of Germany! Trier is a Roman city but we are Germanics!

Not only Trier (quite impressing, no doubt) claims to be Germany's oldest city, but also Kempten (Allgäu), BTW the town I grew up before I moved to Munich. Maybe true or not, but it's worth a visit - check out the homepage: www.kempten.de/pressefotos-12055.html You can visit i.e. the archeological Park of the excavated - and partly restored - old roman city of Cambodunum, which later the current name of Kempten was derived from. Also the landscape is so beautiful ! I also recommend to visit the beautiful and charming city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber !

OK how many went straight to the end to see if they got a ticket??? :)

Trier is NOT the oldest Town in Germany! It was founded between 18 B.C. and 17 A.D. Cologne for example was founded in 38 B.C. , at least 20 years earlier.

Ha!😎 80mph/130km/h is essentially the "recommended" speed limit for the Autobahn. Meaning as long as there is no speed limit, you can go as fast as you want but 130 is considered safe for everyone. Sidenote, in case you didn't already know...if you enter a village/city and pass the yellow sign with its name on it...that sign is also a speed limit sign. Unless stated otherwise 50km/h. And thank you so much for that nice video. Never been there...so much appreciated 🤗