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This is what I recognised: 0:54 Cochem Castle 1:29 Hamburg Harbour 1:36 Cologne Cathedral 1:53 Munich Frauenkirche (Cathedral of our dear lady) 1:56 Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 2:00 Deutsches Eck (lit. German corner; the rivers Mosel and Rhine meet here) 2:06 Burg Eltz (Eltz Castle; they say it’s the most German of all castles) 3:03 Reichstag in Berlin (seat of the German parliament) 3:06 Victory column, Berlin 3:10 Museum Island, Berlin 3:24 Frankfurt Skyline 3:28 Holstentor, Lübeck (old city gate) 3:56 Cologne Cathedral (again) 4:03 Schwerin Castle 4:38 Rhine River (lots of castles there) 4:56 Neues Rathaus, Leipzig („new townhall“) 4:57 Monument to the Battle of the Nations, Leipzig 5:05 Rothenburg ob der Tauber 5:31 Holstentor, Lübeck (again) 5:34 Hauptmarkt, Trier 5:54 Marktplatz, Bremen 6:22 Hermann Monument 7:32 Bastei, Saxon Switzerland National Park 7:41 Heidelberg Castle 7:48 Cologne Cathedral (again) 7:57 Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam 8:53 River Elbe in Dresden 8:59 Hofkirche Dresden (Dresden Cathedral, the king of Saxony built it for his catholic wife. It’s still the most important Catholic Church in Dresden) 9:17 Semperoper, Dresden (the famous opera house) 9:27 Zwinger, Dresden (palace complex) 9:39 Frauenkirche, Dresden (Church of our dear Lady, it looks so blocky because it was destroyed in WW2 and rebuilt using the old dark stones) 10:40 Frauenkirche, Munich (again) 10:59 New Town Hall, Munich 11:37 Kyffhäuser Monument, Thuringia (a monument to Emperor William I - it includes a statue of a sleeping Emperor Barbarossa. Legend has it that the medieval emperor wakes up when Germany needs him most) 11:56 Binnenalster, Hamburg (Inner Alster Lake, an artificial lake in the middle of the city) 12:01 Michl church, Hamburg 12:02 Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg 12:08 Speicherstadt, Hamburg (the biggest warehouse district in Europe) 13:41 Frankfurt Skyline (again) 13:46 Frankfurt Cathedral 13:48 Römerberg, Frankfurt (city square) 13:52 Frankfurt Opera House 14:04 The big round thing is the Radisson Hotel, Frankfurt 14:16 Saarschleife (Saar River Loop)

It took 632 years to build this "church" (Not castle) called the Kölner Dom or Cologne Cathedral and therefore that building is now about twice as old as the United States is as an independent country. Which I've always found very crazy.

Ich bin Deutscher und ich selbst bin von den Videos beeindruckt.Wir Deutschen reden unser Land schlecht,aber was ich hier gesehen habe,ich bin stolz auf das was ich sehen konnte.Danke🥰

the green roofs on the Lübercker Holzentor are copper roofs which turn green over the years. the red stones are bricks that were built.

In 1983, the German band "Geier Sturzflug" sang the song "Visit Europe". Back then it was the cold war and there was fear of nuclear war. I was 14 and wasn't as scared then as I am now. Friedel Geratsch sings in the song of "Geier Sturzflug" "Visit Europe! As long as it still stands." Sad that after 40 years we are again at the point of a nuclear threat. The song is up to date again. I hope that everything will turn out well.

It's funny. I live 20 minutes away from that one colourful palace that amazed you and I haven't visited it in ages. Same with my hometown, which was shown several times and you commented on. I know the places are impressive and beautiful, but watching you react to them makes me appreciate them more and want to visit them again. I guess I have a plan for next weekend! Thanks!

9:39 The Lego look comes from the reuse of bricks in the reconstruction that were burned in the fires from the bombs of World War II. I know that makes it a little less cute somehow, but that's why it looks that way. And it is interesting to know, i guess. You can see that in many buildings in Germany. And you can probably spend a lifetime to learn everything about the history of any of those several hundred years old buildings that you see in this video.

1:35 Cologne cathedral. Fun fact: Construction started in 1248 and it was only finished in 1880, so including interruptions it took over 600 years to build. Many people consider it the 'perfect cathedral'.

The "White buildings with the brown wood" are called "Fachwerkhäuser".

2 months :) cute. Germany has about 22000 castles. So even if you visit one per day, you'd be busy for the next 60ish years. some of them are still used as residenz, a lot are turned into museums now. some have been built "recently" so maybe 300 years ago, some are over 1000 years old.

Where you stopped at 6:08 talking about no cars in the street is the Bremen marketplace. The whole area there is a "Fußgängerzone" a dedicated pedestrian area where no cars are allowed. You'll find such zones in many cities downtown. Here in Bremen only the Tramway is allowed to drive through. You see (from left to right) the Bremen city hall at the left, then the Bremen cathedral, the state parliament of Bremen federal state (the more modern building with the large windows) and at the far right the Baumwollbörse.

the white houses with the brown sticks? you mean the half-timbered houses. This houses built with Wood and clay. Some houses are over hundreds of years old. Germany's oldest half-timbered house has been discovered in Quedlinburg (Saxony-Anhalt). Since the beginning of December 2003, visitors can marvel at the historic building. Examinations of the wooden beams had shown that the house in "Hell 11" was built about 800 years ago.

I'm from Germany. The video is emotional, as a German you don't often have the perspective of how beautiful your own country actually is. I also have to say that it almost doesn't matter where you are in Europe. Every country has its own beautiful areas and it is just so incredibly nice to be able to visit them everywhere. The countries visited so far are Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and France. All such incredibly beautiful countries that I have visited so far. 🥳🥰

The statue is called the Great Hermann in Porta Westfalica.

The statues is of Arminius, germanic chieftain, who united the german tribes more than 2000 years ago to rally them against the roman empire and decisively defeated and destroyed the roman legions in the Teutoburg forest. As a result, the germanic lands remained unconquered. The statue was directed at France, an obvious display of the tense relations back in the days.

1:36 This is the Kölner Dom 10min train ride from my Home you can hear his bells over few miles and he is over 800 years old.

The Hermann Monument is in Detmold near the Exxtern Stones. The monument is intended to commemorate the Cheruscan prince Arminius, in particular the so-called Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in which Germanic tribes under his leadership inflicted a decisive defeat on the three Roman legions XVIII, XVIII and XIX under Publius Quinctilius Varus in the year 9.

One of best castles is Not in the Video. Its called Burg Elz. ( Google find it ) This castle had never been destroyed because the french soldier (17 Century) did not found the castle. Its situated Close to the big River "Mosel" Guided Tours in English are Offert. So nice there !!! Greetings from Germany

we do go to the beach ..but its more common to go to a near lake oder river ( Germany has like thousands and thousand of those ) because they are warmer and near by. We have Beaches only in the North ..and the Water is only a few months in the year warm enough to go in unless you´re a hardcore ice bath lover :D. The Water temperatures in May for example is around 53°F. In Jun/Jul around 62..65°F (North sea )

The place/bulding you mentioned at min. 17:22 ist the Moritzburg Castle, a Baroque palace, about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northwest of the Saxon capital, Dresden. Originally built from 1542 to 1546, as a hunting lodge, the castle was one of the locations in 1972, for the Czechoslovak-German film "Tři oříšky pro Popelku" ("Three Nuts for Cinderella"), which became a popular fairy-tale movie in Central Europe and the US as well.

11:10 The little square in the top left corner is the blurred logo of the tv station they ripped the footage from... 😁

I think what most Americans don't realize is that, the most of the old churches and castles were built before America was colonized. Some of these buildings were built over generations. For example, Cologne Cathedral began construction in 1248, 200 years before America was discovered. The USA became independent in 1776, but Cologne Cathedral was continually expanded until 1880. This is living history❣

The architecture style is called Fachwerkhaus (pl. Fachwerkhäuser) or Half-timbered house (at least that's the translation deepl gave me :D )

The Statue of Liberty build in 1886, the Hermannsdenkmal (minute 6:45) was build in 1857

You are pointing on Meersburg am Bodensee, Heidi! And before on the Kölner Dom in Cologne. Heidi... such a nice german name....

Yeah , we have the most beutifull contry in the world... Greets from Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪❤️❤️❤️

The statue is Herman the Cherusker (Cherusker a German tribe) who defeated the roman army with the German warriors.

In Germany, people like to run, chat, meet spontaneously Germany is a beautiful country

1:37 That's no castle, that's the _Kölner Dom_ (Cologne Cathedral) *the* landmark of Cologne on the Rhine River.

"Fußgängerzone" we say in germany, an area without cars! So you can relax and enjoy the show of old architecture buildings, for example in Munich! 🤗

Fun fact i live 5 minutes away from a castle in Munich Nymphenburg btw

The round Las Vegas looking Building at 14:00 is the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt 🤘🏽

Thank you so sharing this! Wir sollten viel mehr Stolz zeigen für dieses wunderschöne Land in dem wie leben

Fachwerk Houses are the houses with wood between the cement. They are under protection and can not be altered in any way.

well about the topic refering to the age of buildings. in my city we have buildings starting from 180 AD. it used to be the only imperial residence in the north of the roman empire. sadly only a plaza is seen in the video at 5:34 which is underwhelming compared to other buildings

The original video has a subtitle function in which one can find the name of each location.

At 15 seconds, it is not a castle, but the cathedral of Cologne, the "Kölner Dom". Guess someone wrote you alrady, but I can hardly read all comments til today.

Hallo 😊 Ein wunderschönes Video. Wir Deutschen beschweren uns immer wie Schlecht unser Land ist. Aber dieses Video zeigt mal wieder, wie toll es ist. Wir können nicht stolz sein über unsere jüngste Vergangenheit, das verurteile ich zu tiefst. Und trotz allem, bin ich Stolz auf unser Wunderschönes Land 😊. Deshalb rate ich jedem, kommt uns besuchen und macht euch selbst ein Eindruck. Ihr seit herzlich willkommen 😊. Danke dir für das tolle React und Daumen 👍🌹

11:40 the sleeping Emperor Barbarossa It's a mystical place. Little children who have visited the Kyffhäuser Monument together with their parents claim again and again and completely independently of each other that the stature of Barbarossa waved to them.

17:22 Moritzburg , its the castle of czech-german cinderella film (aschenbrödel)

By the way can you react to some German inventions 🙏🏼🇩🇪

the style you're trying to think of is called Tudor

And the Houses you mentioned are "Fachwerkhäuser"

Living 5 minutes from the German border in the Netherlands, I'm lucky to have seen many places in this video! Love Germany sooo much! It baffles me though that one of the most beautifull castles (and the actual inspiration to the disney castle) in the world isn't in the video. I know it's a bit cliche but Neuschwanstein should be in this!!

these is the cathedral from cologne....by 01:41...closed to the rhine river

1:14 Burg Hohenzollern 2:30 Fachwerkhaus

The people on the beaches aren't generally shown because many of them are completely and utterly naked. 😅

first part of the music Victory from Two Step of Hell

In 6:40 its some kind of liberty statue. Its „Arminius“ or „Herman the Cherusker“ who United and liberated the germanic tribes from roman occupation.

Germany is one of the most beautiful and underrated places in the world, and germans are so polite, precise and helpful. Love it. Cheers from Denmark.

I live in Denmark and I've been to Germany many times. To say it's beautiful is an understatement it's just awesome. Germany is the most beautiful country in the world

Fun fact: Germany has far more castles (ca. 20,000) than the U.S. has McDonalds restaurants (ca. 15,000)!

Germany is really beautiful. Sometimes we Germans forget what a great country we live in. Thanks, this video shows again why. Thanks for the great reaction.

I am British and I love Germany. I lived in Germany (Minden) for 6 years (as a young boy) when my father was a British soldier stationed there in the late 60's early 70's, then in the mid 1980's I lived there again as a soldier myself, I lived in Krefeld for 3 more years, I absolutely love Germany and the German people. If you get the chance, go there!

Germany is awesome and Germans are such a friendly and helpsome and open minded people, i really love my Southern cousins. You should go give them a visit if you ever get the chance. viele grüße aus Dänemark, 🇩🇰

I think what's truly mindblowing here, is that the younger generations don't even realise when watching this video, is that so many of these towns and cities were completely destroyed, raised to the ground, with bare shells of the buildings standing at best, not more than 75 years ago and today, it's as if nothing ever happened. Germany is the very epitome of what it means to be broken and hopeless, but still picking yourself up by your bootstraps and being reborn in a new glory for the ages ahead. All that, but on a scale of an entire nation. Absolutely inspiring!

I Went to Germany for a school holiday, and to say that its stunning and beautiful is beyond an understatement. The Black Forest region is amazing with stunning views in every village and town. And that's when i was 12 or 13 years old and its left an impression ever since.

Hello Heidi, I put together some guidelines for old European architecture: 1. if it has a cross on top, it is always a church - for most of the time, the church was the most important building, so they are often very splendid. May have one central tower or two identical towers next to each other, If the towers are extra spiky, it is a gothic-style church from the middle ages (like the Cologne dome) 2. a complex of buildings on a hilltop, surrounded by a wall: a defensive castle or fortress, most likely medieval - lots of tough neighborhoods back then. 3. very elaborate building complex with lots of fancy decorations, surrounded by a park: a residential palace of the former king, duke or whatever - definitely post-medieval (as medieval palaces would overlap with castles). 4. similar type of show-off building, but less fancy and in the middle of the city, next to the central marketplace: usually the city hall. Because the mayor and the city council were as important as the monarch and deserved an equally impressive building, right? 5. a row of big old-style houses, cramped on one side of the marketplace: those are the houses of the bigwigs of former times, like politicians or rich merchants who could afford the most prestigious real estate in the city center. 6. a big, circular building, often with a dome/cupola: most likely a theater or opera house. 7. a single tower just in the middle of the streets: this is a watchtower from the old city walls, often next to a gate or with a gated passage at the bottom level. You had to monitor who goes in and out and keep the bad guys from coming in. Note that this only identifies the original use - of course, a castle may have become a palace over time or the residential building might have become the city hall when the king or duke was kicked out. Most of the churches are still churches though. And finally, 8: If there are skyscrapers, it is Frankfurt - or "Mainhattan" as we call it. Never heard a comparison with Las Vegas, but that might fit as well.

Reactions like this are giving me a whole new appreciation for the country i am proud to be born in. There is no place like home 🇩🇪

As a german, i love the landscape of my country so much. Big thank you Universe for putting me here. I live in Heidelberg♥

6:35 technically it actually is a statue of liberty. That's the statue of Arminius who was able to unite the Germanic tribes against the Roman Empire and won against the Romans. The battle in the Teutoburger forest was the essential beginning of Germany even tho it took over 1860 years till Germany actually was united as one country.

My favourite place in the world. I wouldn't live anywhere else. Many other countries have beautiful natural landscapes... but Germany's cities and towns will make you fall in love. Seeing it every day, we Germans tend to take such beauty for granted. Videos like this are good reminder of how good we have it.

The building you were asking for (0:50) is the cologne cathedral, the biggest church in the world, measured by the internal height of the nave. Construction began in 1248 in Gothic style and was completed in 1880 (600 years later!!!) in neo-Gothic style. The church is so big that it needs to be repaired continuously. Once you're done with repairs, you have to start all over again. For me, the cathedral in Cologne is one of the most impressive buildings ever built. Of course, it is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Um all die schönen Orte in Deutschland zu besuchen und zu geniessen , langt ein leben nicht . Jeden Tag gibt es was neues zu entdecken .

Even me as a german who visited many of those places I'm always stunnes how beautiful germany is. I get in tears seeing thos pictrues. You never get used to those views.

What you called "The german Statue of Liberty" is Armenius or "Herman der Cherusker". His Story is kinda the birth of Germany! He was the first Leader who united germanic Tribes to fight the Romans in the Year 9 AD in the "Varus Battle" (Varusschlacht). It was a great victory for the Germans and is the Birthmyth of Germany!

I was stationed in the city of Nuremberg for two years. I loved it there. I liked going to the smaller towns in the area because of the charm of the small towns and how nice the people were. I want to go back one more time.

09:45 - This is the Frauenkirche (Womens Church) in Dresden. The building was completely destroyed during the bombing of the city from 13 to 15 February 1945 during the Second World War. It lay in ruins for decades and was only rebuilt after the reunification of Germany. The dark stones visible in the otherwise light facade are the only remaining original stones of the original building. 14:00 - This is the city of Frankfurt am Main, the German banking capital and the only German city that has a skyscraper skyline similar to many US Cities. 17:20 - This is Moritzburg Castle, a hunting lodge of August the Strong, Elector of Saxony.

"German Statue of Liberty" made me smile, thank you so much. It is - kind of. It's the Hermannsdenkmal, a statue for Arminius, a germanic military leader who was in the roman army but turned on the Romans. He defeated them somewhere in the vicinity of the Teutoburger Wald - a few thousand germanic tribesmen against several roman legions of 10k highly trained soldiers each. It was one of the turning points of roman rule over Germania.

By the way, Germany is also the country where the name Heidi comes from 😉

If you think those buildings are gorgeous from the outside, wait till you see them from the inside 😁 The emotion you experience when watching this video is called Fernweh

The "German statue of liberty" is the Hermann (Armenius) Monument in the Teuteburger Wald. This guy successfully fought the Romans under Varus. He is a national hero and a symbol for ancient Germania.

Heidi, I would recommend that you plan your trip around Germany well and in advance since it is a very large and culturally and geographically diverse country (especially between North and south, and between the cold war era East and West Germany). You have to remember that Germany is a country the size of Montana and with a population of twice that of California. And contrary to the US the cities are generally smaller and more scattered around. :)

The world doesn't know so much about her true history. Look at the old, very old buildings and in what gigantic perfection they were built.

Although the towns and clties of Germany had suffered enormous of wars etc. still so many gorgeous 'fairytale' places to visit. I (Dutch) live only 8 km. from the German border so being there frequently. I have German friends and speak some German.

Germany does have beaches and Ive been there with my family many times. But Germany is also way further north than most of the US and it is just not as tropical over here. So most germans will travel to southern Europe for their beach vacations to enjoy the mediterranian sun in Spain, France, Italy or Greece.

I have lived my entire life in this country and this video shows me how beautiful it is. In everyday life, you often forget this, but in concentrated form with this music, it touches me in a very emotional way. As Germans, we often criticize ourselves the hardest and overlook the great legacy we have as a nation. In a globalized world, this probably matters less and is less significant, but even if it's not commonly acknowledged in this country. I am a little proud of my ancestors (except for a certain period in time that we would have been better off skipping). Seeing how you, as a U.S. citizen, enjoy it reminds me of what it is. Simply beautiful.

Germany is absolutely beautiful, but then again all the countries in Europe are beautiful and they all have so much history. Just think that some of those buildings are older than the entire USA and Australia.

I am Dutch, but my ancestors come from Germany. And I think Germany is a very beautiful country. However, if you come to Europe, be prepared for a mild culture shock. Prepare well. Maybe a week in Amsterdam first to get used to Europe a bit and you won't have a language problem there because everyone speaks good English. In shops and restaurants you are often addressed in English. But especially enjoy beautiful Germany. It's really very beautiful!

8:00 Hey Heidi. This is Castle Sanssouci in Potsdam - east germany. It's more than 250 years old. If you watching the original Video from Dr. Ludwig and turning on the subtitles, then you will get all the information you need about most of the individual places/cities and buildings in this Video. Dr. Ludwig connected the specific time stamps with the name of the original places.Thank you for share the beauty of germany with your followers and comment about it. Nice video. Greetings from northern germany.

It's nice that you say in the video that's exactly where you want to go in Germanymy (my hometown). Rothenburg ob der Tauber is the most beautiful medieval town in Germany and the only town with a completely closed town wall, over 50 towers in the town wall and several fortifications. But what you admired there, this gate with the turret and the fountain in front of it, is the so-called Markus Tower where storks breed on top in spring. If you come to Germany and visit Rothenburg ob der Tauber, get in touch with me and I'll show you the town.

I’m a huge sucker for beautiful videos like this with dramatic music 😅 this one got me all up in my feels and I’m not even German 😂 I think I need to visit our neighbors more often. Especially the north sea.

the roofs of many historic buildings are made or coated in bronze, so at the time of construction it would actually have looked golden. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. When copper oxidates/rusts, it turns green (as opposed to iron e.g. which turns red). That is why those roofs are green today. Just imagine them being golden back then. Ever since it was discovered how to make bronze it has been used as a substitute for gold in jewellery, weapons, construction, etc. Because it looks the same and is so much cheaper to produce.

The Hermannsdenkmal (The German Statue of Liberty) was actually the biggest statue in the western world until the US Statue of Liberty was built. And it indeed is about Hermann, or his Roman name 'Arminius', who defeated the Roman legions in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and kept the German tribes independent from Rome.

I think we Germans are just not as good as Italians or French in marketing the beauty of our country. So only few outside Germany actually know about it. You can literally find beauty in Germany everywhere. And do not forget that this country lied in ruins 70 years ago. I am very grateful to all the people who helped rebuild it.

1:45 It's a church, maybe the Kölner Dom or Cologne Cathedral in english

Pedestrians areas are a huge thing in German cities. It is a way more relaxing way to experience the architecture than having to keep an eye on cars all the time. And of course you may just sit in the open at a café and enjoy your day. 🙂 At 7:56, that is Sanssouci Palace, the retreat of Frederick the Great, the Prussian king in the late 18th century. To honor him, people still lay a potato on his gravestone in the nearby garden. (seriously!)

I am German and live in France near the border. I love both countries...Resp. Europe. Europe has so much to offer from Greece to Italy, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Poland…anywhere. the Middle Ages as we know it from books and fairy tales took place here. i love our story. if you want, come here and I'll show you everything. 😊

The places and cities were explained in the subtitles. Thank you so much for doing this video,I'm so glad you enjoyed that one!! 😍 At 5:05: Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber; 14:10: the round buliding is a hotel in the city of Frankfurt.

If I would need to live in any other place in europe, it would be Germany. Will always be my second home :)

the "newer" building at 10:15 is the cathedral of Limburg and was build 1180 - 1235, but yes, the bright colors are the result of a restoration 1968 - 72 the Frauenkirche in Dresden ( 9:40 ) looks like something from Lego because it it was destroyed in the war and it is a reconstruction. The dark stones are original ones that are replaced exactly on their old place. The "German Lady Liberty" 🙂 is the Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold. Hermann or Arminius ( his Latin Name ) is the hero of the "Battle of the Teutoburg Forrest" or "Varian Disaster" in 9 AD, the greatest militarily disaster of the Roman Empire, so it is some kind of a liberty monument, it is older ( 1838-75 ) and smaller ( 175.3 ft ) than the his New York sister

Around 25,000 castles, palaces and mansions bear witness to Germany's history: some of them are still in their old glory, others are ruins that remind you of times gone by

Yes, the video is selective, but honestly: I just spent a day in Frankfurt for reasons and had again the chance to admire what we have... I tend to think of all the architectural crimes of the post-war period (whoever thought Brutalism was a cool idea deserves to be kicked into and poured out with his beloved concrete...) but heck even my little home-town of zero importance features two manor houses (one fortified), a fortified church and a dependency of the Knight of the Teutonic Order (more of a manor house as well really) and it really takes someone from outside of Europe to admire this... Just take all the loverly Rhine and Moselle castles... my Grand Aunt used to live in the lovely town of Mayen (has also an awesome fortified town centre with an intact wall and a castle on top) and we went there along the rivers and visiting most of the castles at some point or the other, I know most of them, and it really takes something like this to realize this... I'm a mopey person by tendency, so 🤣 ... Oh and Neuschwanstein is not a castle in the sense that it is defensible... it has *electrified artificial grottos* for crying out loud, it's a horribly expensive late 19th century indulgence project, half Wagner Opera backdrop and half late-romanticist tax sink... but pretty🤣 . And the statue is of "Herman der Chereusker" - a Germanic tribal leader and former Roman Imperial (actually the early principate) Equitus ("Knight") and auxuiliae commanding officer who, upon seeing what to do and what not to do if you want to fight the Empire in the Dacian rebellion managed to unite a ton of Germanic tribes and deal *the one true defeat* to Rome at it`s apex of power by annihilating three Roman legions under Quinctilius Varus almost down to the last man and forever stopping Roman expansion on the Rhine Border... actually less because Rome couldn't have stomached (with a stomach cramp, granted) the loss but they no longer cared about owning a place where the weather is cold and rainy and the people so *profoundly hate you* that they even put their internal struggles aside to fight you. Of course this in it's own good time lead *The Fall of the West* but( Caius Octavianus Caesar -) Augustus couldn't have seen *that* coming. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

Yeah, come on over. Well, if you think, you could see all of Germany, that is worth seeing, in like two months - most Germans don't make it in a lifetime. 🙂 And yes, we have beautiful beaches, North Sea and Baltic Sea, and people like to bathe in lakes, too. In my city, we have 2 natural sand beaches, right in the city area. And yes, people hang out there in summer. 🙂 As for the architecture - remember, how old Germany is. Although as political entity, Germany is not more than 150 years old (Otto von Bismarck's "Proto-Germany"), and has before been sometimes over 300(!) political entities, with own dialects, currency, taxes etc., we have more than 1000 years of history, regionally really different history. The house that I live in is more than 100 yrs old, totally common. If I walk 5 minutes, I come to a pharmacy store that is in a building more than 600 yrs old. The city has city rights since 800 yrs. Nothing special. I guess most churches in Germany are older than the USA, and I am pretty sure this is right. Walk into ANY church, and you will see, that they have also beautiful inside architecture and art. There are pubs that are older than most American cities. It is just a matter of time, you will see, that most of Europe is like this. Germany is very diverse in culture and history because many different regions have own traditions, architecture, nature, dialects etc. and their own history over more than 1000 yrs. And it is quite huge for a European country, still, you can easily fit it into Texas entirely... So yes, compared to the US, Germany is packed full of history wherever you go, and also old architecture which can differ a lot even in the same city and is from very different time periods. Therefore, city planning is a complete other task here, than it is in the US. Yeah, visit Germany, you will not regret it. And now the funny sarcastic comment, that is still meant in a very nice way: Maybe you can get political asylum as a refugee, with all the sh't going on in the US. ;-) Being exploited etc..... If you don't mind living in a "socialist country". And please don't be offended, Germans have a dark humor. I tend to believe, that it is so dark and dry, that people in the US sometimes think we don't even have any humor at all. 😀

The funny thing about Germany 🇩🇪 is that we actually have almost no skyscrapers- not even in mayor cities - but there is one excaption: Frankfurt Some call it „Mainhattan“ cause it’s right next to the „Main“ river 😂

I believe the statue of Arminius is in rememberance of the battle of the teutoburger forrest in AD 9 when the german leader Arminius of the Cherrusci tribe (Hermann) who had been taken hostage at age 10 in the year 8 BC and romanised and trained in rome, turned away from the roman culture and switched back to his tribe. In the year 9AD he wiped out the complete army of 3 roman legions plus auxiliary trrops of the invading army under command of Publius Quinbtillius Varus. The invicibly deemed roman armies were completely wiped out. This seemed to have resulted in lowering the motivation of the roamns to conquer the germanic world tyhe way Julius Caesar had done with the Celtic world in france

The music in the original is: Song 1: Two Steps from Hell - Victory (Album: Battlecry) Song 2: Fearless Motivation Instrumentals - Meaning of Life (Instrumental) (Album: Sounds of Soul: Uplifting Background Music, Vol. 3) Song 3: Fearless Motivation Instrumentals - Surround Yourself with Winners (Epic Instrumental) (Album: Sounds of Power 5) If you activate the subtitles in the original video the names (for most places) will be shown.

However, the statue, the Hermans monument, is not a statue FROM the French, but AGAINST them ;-) Since Louis 14, the French have often invaded and devastated German lands, most recently Napoleon, and this statue symbolizes the will of a united Germany to resist. The yellow castle is Sanssouci, the Castle of King Frederick the Great

06:51 - The "German Statue of Liberty" that you mentioned: It is the Cheruscan prince Arminius. Without him the German Nation wasn't born. 2000 years ago, the Cheruscan prince Arminius defeated a large Roman army led by the general Quinctilius Varus in the Teutoburg Forest. 1900 years later, in the 19th century, this historical event was regarded as the founding myth of the German nation. The best-known symbol of this myth is the Hermann Monument near Detmold.

The yellow palace in 7:59 is Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, close to Berlin. Prussian King Frederick the Great is buried there, it was his favourite place. He introduced potatoes to Germany in the 18th century and made them popular, so people bring potatoes instead of flowers to his grave. True story. And the cute church in 10:15 that looks new to you was consecrated in the 13th century, it's the Late Romanesque/Early Gothic Limburg Cathedral. Keeping the polychrome exterior up to date makes it look newer than it is. It's not one of the big guns in German church architecture but I like it and I'm glad you like it, too.