Latvian Reacts to Southern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip - Exploring Bavarian Culture 

12:03 It is nice that she mentioned that swabians invented the "Kehrwoche" (and also that she used the melody of the "schwäbscher eisebahn"-song). But what she did not mention: This (the region around stuttgart in particular) is where cars where imvented! Both invetors that are nowadays like the godfathers of cars lived and worked in the region (Gottlieb Daimler lived in Cannstadt and Carl Benz in Schorndorf). And the first legendary car ride from Bertha Benz took place in Baden-Württemberg as well. Cars where invented in the swabian parts of germany. This story might have been worth noticing cause it obviously impacted worldwide.

Servus is one of the southern German greetings, mostly used in Austria and Bavaria. It originates from the Latin word for "servant" and was originally used at court as a polite greeting of higher ranking aristocrats in the sense of "I'm your servant". 0:45 The market place in the university town of Tübingen (Swabia) with the town hall in the background. 0:45 Nuremberg (Franconia), directly followed by Munich in 0:52 2:52 Coming from the region I would choose the one that was baked by a local and not too big bakery. If that applies to both, then the Swabian one. The thin arms are really crispy, making the Brezel less boring than the Bavarian one. 3:15 "Tracht" means "traditional clothing". Lederhosen and Dirndl are actually not so traditional - in the early 19th century most original Bavarian "Trachten" included trousers made from loden cloth, not from leather. In 1883 however a teacher and his drinking mates constituted the first "Trachtenverein" (association for traditional clothing) and ordered leather trousers from a local leather craftsman. They were ridiculed by the local population, but supported by the Bavarian king who was in search for a Bavarian national identity. Over time many villages adapted Lederhosen in their "Tracht". "Dirndl" meant originally "girl" or "maid". In the mid 1800s wealthy citizens and aristocrats from Munich started to spend the summer in cooler rural villages; the fashionable summer holiday dress for the wealthy woman of the time was based on the traditional clothing of their maids (who came mostly from rural villages), but more colorful and a "sexier" more low-cut neckline - the "Dirndl" was born. Again that led to a feedback effect in some Bavarian villages (but not all) who made their traditional woman's festive dresses more "Dirndl"-like. The original Tracht was based on relatively uniform festive clothes within a village, which made them more affordable (the local tailor could use the same pattern and the same cloth for all) and also helped to establish a sense of belonging. Those festive clothes were also meant to last for the whole life (and sometimes longer, when the great-grandma bequeathed them to her great-granddaughter) and therefore could be easily adopted to different phases in life - from being a young woman looking for marriage to pregnancy to being an old matron. 4:35 Oktoberfest is the anniversary of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig I with Princess Therese in 1810; it starts usually mid September and ends at the first weekend of October. The Cannstatt Volksfest is celebrated around the same time of the year, but it started in 1818 as part of an agricultural fair, which was itself part of the agricultural reforms introduced by King Wilhelm I of Württemberg after the famines of the "year without summer" 1816 caused by the Tambora eruption in 1815. Beer is served at both festivals in mugs called "Maß" (lit. "measure") of one liter; the mug itself has a weight of about 1 to 1.3kg, a full mug has therefore about 2.3 kg. 5:45 At least Ludwig II used his own money to build his palaces (he built three of them and grew up on one built by his father, which is shown at 5:46) - including some grants he got from Prussia after giving up resistance against Prussian leadership (the Prussians had also decimated the Bavarian army some years before in the 1866 war of the Prussian-Italian alliance against the German Federation). 7:10 "Pfiat di" is short for "Behüt dich Gott" - "may God protect you". "Tschüss" is derived from Walloon "adjuus" (like Spanish "adios" or French "adieu", lit. "to God"), while the older form "ade" used in in Franconia and Swabia is derived from the northern French "adé". 9:25 Bavaria and Czechia are neighbors, and both were members of the Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria as a duchy, Czechia as the Kingdom of Bohemia) - and the name Bavaria originates from the Celto-Germanic Boii tribe who also gave Bohemia its name (the Boii as well as the Germanic tribe of the Marcomanni moved from Bohemia to Bavaria during the dark ages at the end of the Roman Empire). Czechia invented the bottom-fermenting "Pilsner" beer (from the Czech city of Plzen) which is now the most popular type of beer in most of Germany (except the South as well as Cologne and Düsseldorf). 10:14 Franconia became only part of Bavaria after it was given to Bavaria by Napoleon between 1806 and 1810; before that it consisted of some (mostly Protestant) earldoms ruled by branches of House Hohenzollern, some (Catholic) Prince-Bishoprics and some self-ruled Imperial Cities. The same goes for the most-eastern part of Swabia (around Augsburg, Kempten and Memmingen), which became a Bavarian district in 1803.

Servus is a Latin word and means servant. It is a greeting meaning "I´m your servant" or "happy to oblige" and is used mainly in Bavaria and Austria for "hello" or "hi" as well as "good bye".

10:02 just saying that the capitol of Franconia is not Nürnberg, the 'capitol' with the regional administration is Ansbach (and Nürnberg people are still a little mad because of that). Nürnberg is of course by far the bigger city but that does not make it become the capitol.

Czech and German, especially Bavarian brewing cultures are closely linked. Czechia (former Bohemia and Moravia) were very important parts of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations. There were German Emperors from and residing in Prague, which explains the massive palaces / castles there. Pilsen style Lager came about because the people of Pilsen (now Plzeň) hated their local beer so much, that they poured multiple barrels of it on the town square in front of city hall in protest in 1842. The Brewing Master of Pilsen (Martin Stelzer) then called in a Bavarian Brewing Master (Joseph Groll) to fix their beers and create them a new beer. He did, taking into account the different characteristics of the brewing water etc. and you can still find the descendants of this brew in most well stocked stores als "Pilsner Urquell". And Pilsen style Lager is now pretty much the "default beer" variant across the globe.

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9:15 Fun fact: as beer is brewed using hop and malt similar to grain used for baking bread beer is called "liquid bread" in Bavaria and in the Bavarian constitution beer is determined as food.

"Servus" is latin and means servant. We use it here in Bavaria (and Austria) like "Hello" (as well as "Good bye"), but its origin might have been "I'm your servant."

"Guten Tag" in high german or "Servus" in the south, "Moin" in the north or "Grissgodd" in the southwest or "Daach" in the east, "Tachchen" in Berlin - It's all the same, just with regional differences or depending on slang. Then there can also be differences depending on the time of day.

It's a bit complicated, but low German is spoken in the north not in the south, and "Servus" (south) means hello and "Moin" (north) also means hello

There is a Bohemian culinary connection between Bavarians, Czechs and Austrians

'Servus' is Austrian and Bavarian for "Hello"

Your setup is great! Reminds me of the channels of Mark Reicher or Torsten Heinrich, which means you get a subscription from me ;)

And by the way I choose of course the bavarian "Breze" with its thickness all around. 😜 Regards from Munich / Garmisch-Partenkirchen

There are no dumb questions! How would you know? Ask what I know about Latvija...🙈 But I am learning, just as you.😊

I'd like the left one better, but country wise I'd choose Baden- Württemberg, who make the skinny pretzel. Unfortunately I live in Northrhinewestphalia. We don't have pretzels here so much.

You simply have to compare the two most iconic castles of both states. Neu Schwanstein for Bavaria and Hohenzollern for Baden Württemberg. And you cannot miss the impression tha Bavaria is Germany's Disney World whereas Baden-Württemberg is where Germany's real power comes from. Nevertheless both castes were built as romantic ideas of a long gone time.

Oh, you´re a cat owner. Like me. 👍 Or as we say in German: a can opener 😜

The swabian is the better, of course! The skinny arms give a nice crunch, with the belly contrasts being soft. Bavarian Brezen are not bad, bad too soft over all.

Yeah, the Czech Republic hat some nice beer, too! *true In České Budějovice (aka. "Budweis"), for example, they make a quite known beer by the name of "Budweiser". I am pretty sure you've heard of it - mostly from american movies, etc.

If I could do without one state in Germany, it would be Bavaria. If only it would finally be taken over by Austria.