Southern Germany: Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 2/4 

Where would you like to visit in southern Germany and why?

I just wanted to stop in and say hello and thank you for letting me be a part of this fun video! it was so awesome bumping into DW/Rachel here in Munich (all by luck and chance) ❤❤❤❤ Time to go eat some Weisswurst now!!

Ahhh, I can't believe Hayley is in the video as well! 🤩🥰We love to see it!

As someone born and raised in Stuttgart, I think you've done a great job conveying the essence of Baden-Württemberg and Southern Germany as a whole. Awesome series and glad to tune in again for the next episode (living in Eastern Germany for 5 years now, so that's something to look forward to)

Love the guy's analogy about the different types of beer yeast. He made it sound so poetic 😅

I loved living in Germany while in the military. I was fortunate to live there for 6 years. One day I’d love to go back.

I love that you dont just talk about Bavaria and show how Baden, Franken, Schwaben und Bayern have very different but also Same culturs. Great work!

Although I am not German, I grew up in Swabia, lived there for almost half of my life and regularly visit as my parents still live there. The region and the culture hold a special place in my heart, and there's really not much more comforting than "a schlonzig's Kässpätzle".

It's always a great day when Rachel posts a video 😍

I moved to Bavaria for a change, to stay a couple of years and see something different. That was 21 years ago, the children are born-Münchner and I don't know if I will ever leave. It is one of the best places I have ever seen to live a happy life.

Shoutout to HayleyAlexis, did not expect that cameo.

Seeing a DW video with Rachel is literally the highlight of my week!

I spent a few weeks of this summer in Bavaria. I was blown away by how friendly the people are, especially after just having spent five days in Berlin!

In the late 80's I was a student In Leuven (Belgium) and we often made visits to Heidelberg with my student organisation. So did the students from Heidelberg to Leuven !. Great friendships still exist till today. My best friend is from Östringen (Baden). I visit southern Germany several times a year, and really love the friendship and culture. (Bart from Antwerp.)

When I started watching German TV online WAPO Bodensee was the first show that caught my attention. Looks like a good place for a base camp to explore a lot of beautiful places.

Walked into a shop in München and was greeted by a hearty " Grüß Gott". Found Bavarians wonderful friendly people, from the first shop to the rest of my stay.

Living in Stuttgart now. Wow. Amazing place. The food is awesome and the bier is delicious.

When we, a busload of middle-class American Mennonites mostly from Virginia, visited Ludwig II's Neuschwanstein castle, we were allowed to sing in the singing room. We sang a polyphonic anthem, all of us sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses. The suspended fir-panel ceiling made us sound gorgeous. I have never sung in a place with better acoustics, unless it was my one time at Carnegie Hall.

Again, I really can’t imagine anyone else doing DW Meet the Germans, but or our dear Rachel here 😊. Great impressions though 😍

I live in Switzerland, but my favorite day-trip destination is Bad-Säckingen, right on the border on the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg. It's a gem of an old town with great food and friendly people. And it even has a Woolworths, something many Americans have become nostalgic for since the chain closed in the USA in 1997.

That's the best explanation of the difference between Hellem Beer and White Beer that I've ever heard!

Beautifully presented. The bodensee, the schwarzwald region, the Frankonian region, swabian region, the zugspitze. Covered everything in such a small time frame.

Thank you. Loved your presentation. I was born in Niederbayern. My heart is weiß blau.🤍💙

I've lived in southern and northern Germany. Southern Germany is by far the best place.It's cleaner, has a more relaxed culture and the landscape is really beautiful.

Wunderbar!! I'm really enjoying this series, thank you DW!! =D

another great episode. I'll be traveling to the south this upcoming summer, so this video is much appreciated!

Thanks for another great video DW and Rachel always look forward to the: Meet the Germans videos.

Rachel, your videos are so good! You should make a new one every other week, at least!

Hayley!!! And Rachel 😍😍😍😍

Look towards to see the next eps of this road trip! The vídeos are great 🥰

Great video Rachel! I have to watch part 1!

Honestly, my highest praises for these two episodes about the North and the South! It really shows, that you're not talking about strangers as outsiders. Rather you've clearly been talking to a lot of locals to get your narrative right! Great work!^^

This is a wonderful statement of love to (Southern) Germany!

I love your series!

A great overview of southern Germany. Thanks Rachel - I want to visit now!

Es siempre muy interesante saber mas de Alemania, me encantan los videos de Meet the Germans son mis favoritos en DW

Can't wait to see the East and West episodes! :D

Lindau and Fussen were both my favorites small towns in 2009 and 2010. I had great time in Stturgart too.

I lived in Freiburg in 1984. Greatest year of my life.

Recently been on a road trip of my own across Bavaria Austria and Switzerland and I can say everything you mentioned in theis video is to the point! 😇

I'm new here and glad I found your channel. I love travel and you cover so much in your videos. I'm excited to follow your adventures.

Wonderful intro to southern Germany

Please make more frequent Meet the Germans episodes! Each of them is so good!

Thanks for this! Not German but I had the very good fortune to live in Lahr in Baden Wurttemburg for 2 years as a child. The man who said the locals are friendly and warm hearted was exactly right.

Absolutely LOVED our visit to Bayern! Thanks for all the nostalgic scenes 😊

Super video! My favorite parts of Germany!

What an excellent video; thank you! I was in Bayern earlier this year - loved especially Tegernsee - and hope to visit Baden-Württemberg next summer!! 🤓✨

Traveled both of these regions over the years and I can say you were spot on! So much to do and eat in these regions which always felt like home rather than a vacation. Well done!

Käsespätzle are one of the best comfort foods there are...

Always nice to see your videos

As usual a great video to show a bit of southern Germany. I love how you always add that bit of historic contextualization regarding politics and war references. That helps people to sort of connect the dots around a bit better. I wanted to visit Rothenburg ob der Tauber, and I was pleasantly surprised when I went there last year. Nuremberg is also lovely. I am missing Heidelberg, and I am really looking forward visiting there. And regarding people, I think indeed people from Southern Germany are the most welcoming and happy ones there. I have been 4 times in that region and I always had a great time there.

Well done on the video. Really diverse with a lot of different aspects covered. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Good job Rachel and team.This really gives off some nice summer vibes. ;)

Really great video for an overview of southern Germany. Finally there is someone explaining that there is a difference between Swabians and Badner. So many people don't even know that Baden exists. But also overall a great and well researched video, without mixing up stuff! Grüße ausm Allgäu (aber eig. vom Bodensee und im Herzen Badner)

Wow Rachel you visited Tübingen! 👍Best choice! The segue from the Zugspitze to Bavaria was perfect 😅

Ich vermisse wirklich viel Rachel. Sie erklärt alles lustig, klug und hilfreich. Sie ist Prima

As a Bavarian, I say this is REALLY well made!

I live right on the border of Bayern in Baden-Württemberg on the Donau. I have been here for over two decades first more north in BaWü, now quite south. The further south the more in love I fall.

Love it!!! Thank you

Brilliant. . Great video. . Now I wish to visit southern Germany. . . 👍😁

Hi, Bavarian here, living in Northrhine Westfalia. Thanks for your video! But now I'm a little homesick. :-D

Hello Rachel,just to correct you without trying to be a" Klugscheisser",Semmelknödel are made from Semmel which is the bavarian word for Brötchen -bread rolls.Made from Bröthen from a few day before.Soaked in hot milk.Mixed with eggs herbs and seasoning.Either form a ball like a normal potatoe dumpling or a roll using cling film and the either steam or put in boiling water ,turn off heat and let simmer until they swim on top.If you cool down the roll you can then unwrap and slice it and fry with bacon in a pan.Or you put the mix them in a big ball and in a linen napkin and then cook.Then you have Serviettenknödel.And I know this because I`m a chef,just in case somebody is wondering.

Nice. On point.

Wow, I love the explanantion of that beer sommelier Mr Staudinger.

How could you not mention Karlsruhe as being in Baden!? 😮 It’s the capital and has the high court.

I grew up in the north of Baden-Württemberg but since my father is from south Bavaria I also spent a lot of time there. Thanks for teaching me the differences in brezels. I didn‘t know, that this is a regional thing, I always missed the crusty center 🙈😂

My wife and I just came back from that region in September it's beautiful we went to Munich Garmisch and fussen. Her family was base in Wiesbaden

I was in Heidelberg some years ago and really loved it.

You forgot to mention Karlsruhe, which was at one point the capital of Baden

This summer I spent in one of the most beautiful places in the world “Baden-Württemberg” particularly I lived in Freiburg. I fell in love with this astonishing city. So pretty and atmospheric🥹❤️Konstanz is also very beautiful place and absolute top is Neustadt Titisee 😁😍 I miss Seepark in Freiburg and can’t wait to be back there asap✨!!! Strongly recommend to visit this region of Germany I am sure everyone will find here something special !

I am living in Karlsruhe (Baden) for more than 3 years now and I love being so close to the Black Forest and the French border!

0:19 hey i've seen some of her Yt videos! Beautiful video, Rachel and team!

I’m German and when it comes to the south, I know way more about Bavaria than Baden-Württemberg. So I did learn quite a bit too from this video.

I have never been to Germany, but from this documentary section, I love the "we are who we are" motto of the Bavarians and the funny phrase of the Baden meal, "God cheater". One key note is the Franconians who refused to be called Bavarians. This shows that Germans are have a strong character, language and culture of being who they are and not blending into other people's culture

Pretty sure the shot of "Freiburg" does not show Freiburg at all, but rather Colmar. One can clearly identify the French writing in the bottom left and Hôtel Le Maréchal on the right.

Fantastic !!!!

I have lived un Bad Kreuznach, Heidelberg, and Karlsruhe. I am leaving Thursday, October 20 and taking a Viking Rhine River cruise to Switzerland, France, Germany, and Holland. I am so excited to get back to get back to my favorite country, Germany. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

best area by far!

It is interesting, that from my perspective as somebody who grew up in the North, the Southern nations have many similarities, but from their perspective, they have so many differences. When I moved to Freiburg, it was really a cultural shock

Much of my family left Swabia nearly 300 years ago for the then British colony of Pennsylvania. The Swabian Alps in particular are quite similar to the mountains of Central PA. I can see why many of my ancestors came to this part of America; it reminded them of their heimatland.

Favourite place is Heidelberg! Must visit for a day or two. Also, nice to have bumped into Rachel in Saarbrücken! Maybe there's a video coming along on Saarland? :P

I very like your live channel.

It’s so exciting to see such a diversity in Germany ❤

Salüüüü Rachel, from Freiburg. Great video as usual!! Yes, the "Freiburg's" photo is from Colmar in France. "La petite Venice" is the name given to the course of the Lauch (the river in the photo). Smth to laugh: The Freiburg's Christmas market in 2021 was cancelled due to covid but the Christmas market in Colmar was open! Needless to say, almost half of Freiburg's population during these days was drinking Glühwein in Colmar 😂😂

As an Upper Swabian I capitalize the "upper", because the Swabian cliché does not apply to Upper Swabia. Württemberg consists actually of three parts: Old Württemberg, Hohenzollern (which was under Prussian rule 1850 - 1945) and Upper Swabia; Hohenzollern and Upper Swabia except Ulm, but including Tübingen and Reutlingen from Old Württemberg were in the French occupation zone after WW II and formed the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern until 1952 (capital was Tübingen in Old Württemberg). Upper Swabia was before 1805 a patchwork consisting of Catholic Vorderösterreich (Fore Austria) and the territories of multiple Imperial Cities and Imperial Abbeys. The Imperial Cities were either Protestant or 'parity' - Catholics and Protestants on equal terms, each with their own mayor, who governed together. The other territories were mostly Catholic in contrast to Protestant-Pietist Württemberg, so the culture was more like in Baden (which was at that time also far smaller). Then came Napoleon and redistributed Upper Swabia, Fore Austria and Tyrol to his allies Baden, Wüttemberg and Bavaria (doubling their respective territories). There are still some cultural differences between Upper and Lower Swabia - Upper Swabians are (mostly) less workaholic and like to enjoy a more "baroque" life style.

I, a simple guy from Schleswig-Holstein, have to admit: Maultaschen are the one thing I can not get enough of!

My go to place every time I go to Germany. The food, the people. Nothing better. It also helps that all my relatives live in that area. Oh the food………..

Hayley!!

Schloss Neuschwanstein, I've been there! Well, only once and for a very short time. We passed it in the winter darkness while tour skiing our way up. It was more or less down in the valley while we were going up and down the mountains on our telemark skis.

As Always a very nice done video. I'm a Germany original cultur lover

I think y'all used a pic of Colmar for Freiburg otherwise great video❤️

DW-How iss it going?. Love it,pro ! all the best~ =))

1974, Berchtesgaden, Germany, Bavaria - I was 19, living and working in Berchtesgaden on the bobsled track on the Konigsee. That was a "dream life" come true for me. I had studied German for 3 years before coming to Germany. First, I worked on a farm in far northern Germany, then I hitchhiked around Germany and eventually ended up in Berchtesgaden. My German improved in northern Germany, but not much in deep southern Germany. Germans could understand me fine, but I had difficulty understanding the German dialect/s in the Alps. It was a glorious time for me there, in spite of working out in the cold, rain, snow, and slush. I loved ice skating outside and cross-country skiing, and the special friendships I had in Berchtesgaden. Later that year, I lived and worked briefly in the Swiss Alps. The Swiss German dialect was even more difficult! That was 50 years ago, and it changed my life. John, northern California

"weil es hier guten Wein gibt" In general a very true statement. But quite ironic with the Tübingen backdrop.

I am going to be an Erasmus exchange student in Esslingen, and now I'm planning to visit every place in South in my spare time(My plans were about visiting Netherlands, France, Austria and Italy before, wasn't aware of Germany's touristic value).

It broke my heart a bit that Rachel didn't talk about Kaiserschmarrn... but it completely shattered my heart that I didn't bump into her while she was in München 😅😂

A strange question, but may I ask what microphone you are using for this video? Your outside sound is always exceptional. Great work to the whole team!

Ha....Next time you're down here in the southwest, call in at the "Zollernalb".....we've got a quite impressive castle here (not as fancy as Neuschwanstein) and its very pictoresc here...without the bustle and hectic of all the "main" tourist places......cheers......good video...😅

Now this one really brought back memories as I have had many holidays in Konstanz and have visited Heidelberg a few times where I have friends. I have an aunt who lives in Stauffen near Freiburg. Last year I cycled from Donaueschingen to Passau across BW and Bayern. Previously I’ve cycled from Konstanz to Salzburg, visited Füssen and Schwangau a couple of times and have bern a frequent visitor to München. So a trip down memory lane though it’s a long time since I’ve been to Nürnberg so I must revisit it sometime. Bayern has at least one brewery in every town it seems and the quality is consistent though I have my favourites which are Augustiner, Andechs and Bayreuthe Helles. Baden-Württemberg is arguably less well travelled than Bayern by British tourists but it’s a great state and this year’s cycle trip took me from Heidelberg over the Schwäbische Alb to Konstanz via the Danube gorge and Signaringen. I can recommend so many places to visit in Germany. Keep these progammes coming… love the way you present them. 😀

Baden Württemberg gefällte mir sehr. Ich will gleich wieder besuchen!! :)

0:19 Nice to see Hayley