Although I live in Bavaria, Meersburg is one of my favourite places, the architecture against the backdrop of the lake is just fantastic and the castle is out of this world. ... especially for lovers of poetry, as it was here the 19th century poet Anette von Droste-Hülshoff wrote her wonderful poems and novellas.
The 2 castle like buildings on top of Meersburg which you can see in several of your shots is actually the boy school I went to 40 years ago . So nice to see it and remember it again . Thank you so much.
@@TypeAshton Do you know the joke about the American tourist going to some sightseeing spots, jumping out of the car, taking lots of pictures and wanting to drive of? Asked whether he wants to enjoy the scenery he replies, that he will look at it at home. (Actually saw something like that with Japanese in Yellowstone park). Relax, you are in Germany now (and hopefully have German laws concerning length of vacation and number of holidays
Meersburg is wonderful. Have you visited the famous island of Mainau - known as the FLOWER ISLAND? If you come to Lake Constance again, you should definitely plan a trip on the Hohentwiel - a historic paddle steamer. And another historic ship is the MS Oesterreich. There are also special trips where you take a route with the Hohentwiel and the way back with the MS Oesterreich. Oh - and don’t forget to visit PFÄNDER mountain in Bregenz (Austria) - best view over Lake Constance and about 240 alpine peaks. Don’t worry - there is a cable car up there. 😉
Thank you so much! We think he's a pretty great little baby. And you absolutely should do the dinner cruise! Very relaxing and surprisingly affordable for a 2 hour cruise. We loved it!
Bodensee is great for families with children. We went there like 15 years in a row (several places though,). I recommend visiting the isle of Lindau, the water side of Friedrichshafen, the Zeppelin-museum of Friedrichshafen, maybe take a flight there (with the zeppelin). Don't forget visiting Konstanz (the name giver of lake constance), take a trip with the fast boats (Fridolin or Constance) from Friedrichshafen to Konstanz or back. Take the ferry from Friedrichshafen to Romanshorn (in the evening) to see the sun settle in the ocean/ äh, lake, have dinner at the harbor of Konstanz in the evening. If you have a baby sitter it may be fun to go the the Bregenzer Festspiele (opera on the sea) in the autumn. This list is not complete, I am just getting tired. And I am not working for the tourist office :-)
What GREAT ideas! We lamented that we only had an afternoon to spend in Meersburg and plan to make another trip back to the Bodensee in the near future. And love, love, love the idea of the Festspiele. I will definitely add it to the list! Thank you!
@@TypeAshton There are dinner Tours with a Solar Boat at the Untersee in Radolfzell (nice old Town with a Water Playground on the Lake) If you love very old romanic Churches and Monasteries - Isle Reichenau is a must see! Also the Peninsula "Höri" where Hermann Hesse and Otto Dix in the Nazi Aera lived (you can visit there Homes) it´s so beautiful there - not so touristy. Follow the Street you are in CH with small Towns like Stein am Rhein and Schalffhausen with the Rheinfall biggest Waterfall in EU (take the travel strawler and it gets little bit wet) In a 4-week vacation you will not get bored in this region!
@@arnodobler1096 It really is true. There is so much to do in that area and its history is so rich. We can't wait to go back and visit all of the great recommendations you guys have given us. Thank you for the valuable local insight!
wow great video and funny workout 🤣 grew up in the neighboring village, you were there with the ship (Pfahlbauten Museum is cool) How was the wine? Were you also on the Mainau? Lake Constance have a lot to offer 🙋♂️
Next time you come and visit Meersburg you have to get in touch with me. Would be glad to give you more insight and another view of the town and lake :)
Great. Castles, visited 3 or 4 during my time. One in particular (can’t remember name / location) stands out. It was really well maintained and good tour. You came through some trees and there it was perched atop a high rock shaft on all sides and you had to cross a wood walkway over a considerable drop to reach. Me being me my imagination went wild thinking about all the people and happenings where I stood. Tour was great, had to remove footwear and put on these big thick felt “slippers” to do the tour. Remember noticing that suits of armour seemed small but guide said they were authentic but few centuries ago people were generally smaller. Your shot of the old WC gave me a chuckle. This castle had numerous ones all located at outer wall. If you lifted lid just air with remains deposited along face of cliff - must have been something at height of summer.
In my opinion, two castles abolutely to see are Burg Hohenzollern (of one of the most influential families in Europe), and my absolute favorite is Burg Eltz near to Koblenz!
The oldest stone castle (built 220 years after Christ by the Romans) in Germany is in the north-west of Germany and not on Lake Constance! The best boat trip is to the only "offshore island" in Germany, namely "Helgoland"! The other islands are Wadden Sea islands which are located quite close to the coast of East Friesland or North Friesland and are ideal for beach holidays. So the north is calling!
I'm sure that would be such a great experience to go visit! I hope to plan a trip up North near Bremen soon. Is it in that area? In Meersburg, the City Tourism Office prefaces this particular castle as "oldest inhabited castle in Germany". But I am not sure if they mean continuously inhabited, last to continue to be inhabited or what. 🤷🏻♀️ Nonetheless, it really was such a fun tour. We really enjoyed it
Can't thank you enough guys ...for this amazing vlog ...for depicting the beauty of the lake constance in a wonderful way ...for showing that there're other beautiful medieval cities aside Rothenburg o.d.T. ...for telling people that not only beer, but german wine is worth a try. Btw: you seem to be a rosé lover...did you had a Pinot Noir or a Dornfelder Rosé? I once was in Mersburg...at the age of 3 😂😊 And there is a (private) video me playing at/on the fountain @4:48 😀👍
Thanks for the great feedback! I am normally a Pinot Noir lover. A good, dry red wine is right up my alley. But in addition to the Rosé we also tried a Müller-Thurgau trocken on the terasse and it was very refreshing!
let me recommend a cruise on the rhein river expecially from wiesbanden to koblenz, dozens of castles and wonderful neat villages. i myself come from Rüdesheim, which is the start of the so called Mittelrheintal, you find the the best grapes there: riesling fr white wine and burgunder red wine. by the way: th name rhein comess from the greek word rhea, which means river (panta rhe = everything flows) so the name of the river is ..... "river" and if you visit the monastery eberbach, which is the oldest wine producer in germany, you may find it interesting that part of "the name of the rose" was filmed here. and the people there are a mixture of every ancient culture, from east and west, from north to south. don´t be surprised when you see men who look rather italian.. they left a lot of genes there
Meersburg is fine, but imho Überlingen is still superior. It is not as 'touristy', has fine architecture and views - and an interesting history as well.
The most beautiful town in Germany? No. It is just ONE of the numerous remarkable towns in Germany! They are all very beautiful! Each one with it's own history, each one with it's own style, but most of them severly hundreds of years old. I read that you're going to the north near Bremen. It will be VERY different compared to the south, but take a look of the castles up there, the large and very old farming houses, the flat coutry inviting to visit by cycle ! Visit the Eifel, the Westerwald, the Neckertal, the Frankenland, the Rheinland, Westfalen, all the beautiful parts of Thüringen, Sachsen, the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and so on... Greetings from a German living in France!
Well said! Every new city we are in we tell each other the same thing, "this place is so beautiful!" They all are, but just different enough from the other to make them great destinations to explore.
nice video! I have bad news for you. You do not need to climb the stairs, you could have walked up the road and turned to the palace behind the castle. :}
YES (ugh) So we found the street later on... Jonathan was not particularly happy with me for making him carry Jack with the stroller all the way up. But we had a good laugh about it afterwards. hahaha.
@@TypeAshton sorry, I wrote this comment to early before finishing the video ... :{ Meersburg is nice, We have been there a couple of times in our holidays :)
Our hearts break for the communities affected by the flood. Here in Baden-Württemberg we haven't experienced that kind of flash flooding, but our city has been sending resources to help the recovery efforts. In case anyone is interested in helping/donating, thelocal.de put together a great list of foundations who are sending aid to the area: www.thelocal.de/20210719/explained-how-you-can-support-victims-of-the-german-flood-tragedy/
You're living in Freiburg and call Meersburg "the most beautiful town in Germany"?! Sacrilege! :D No, just kidding, Meersburg is a wonderful city. Just totally unaccessible for wheelchair users if you don't have someone like Jonathan to carry you up the stairs ;) I can also recommend visiting Überlingen, there's an amazin restaurant at the top of a hill. A little bit pricy, but totally worth it, with a view over the lake and very delicious food and wines!
a lot of places are different in different languages. even the name "deutschkand" is only used in german speaking couintries, other nations call us germans francs, tedesci nemeci...almans.. even münchen is "monaco" in italian, which already has lead prople to the german town in bavaria instead of the small mediterranean state. of monaco
Although I live in Bavaria, Meersburg is one of my favourite places, the architecture against the backdrop of the lake is just fantastic and the castle is out of this world. ... especially for lovers of poetry, as it was here the 19th century poet Anette von Droste-Hülshoff wrote her wonderful poems and novellas.
Another beautiful place on my bucket list. Love seeing all of you and baby Jack too.
What a beatiful place you visited . You are so lucky living in southern Germany. Wounderful city greetings Christiane 😊
Oh nice, it's near my home town. Always love seeing people exploring the beautiful Lack Constance region! There is SO many to see there!
Thank you! What a wonderful place to grow up. It is such a beautiful region.
I am also close - haha. The Burggraben or Steigstraße would have been better instead of the stairs
The 2 castle like buildings on top of Meersburg which you can see in several of your shots is actually the boy school I went to 40 years ago . So nice to see it and remember it again . Thank you so much.
It’s amazing how beautiful Meersburg are, it’s On my travel list for sure😎Thanks black forest family
You have to take a trip on the boat like that on Sylvester. Looking at the fireworks from the boat is great
I think we might have to tie that in with a trip to the Rhine Falls. I've seen pictures of it all lit up with the snow and it is so enchanting.
@@TypeAshton Do you know the joke about the American tourist going to some sightseeing spots, jumping out of the car, taking lots of pictures and wanting to drive of? Asked whether he wants to enjoy the scenery he replies, that he will look at it at home. (Actually saw something like that with Japanese in Yellowstone park).
Relax, you are in Germany now (and hopefully have German laws concerning length of vacation and number of holidays
corrction: it is silvester, with an "i". sylvester is the name of mr stallone
@@friederich66 Correction: it is 'correction' with an 'e', everything else is an auto-not-correct by some computer :-)
Thank You Black Forest Family for this great adventure
Thank you for watching!
Meersburg is wonderful. Have you visited the famous island of Mainau - known as the FLOWER ISLAND?
If you come to Lake Constance again, you should definitely plan a trip on the Hohentwiel - a historic paddle steamer. And another historic ship is the MS Oesterreich. There are also special trips where you take a route with the Hohentwiel and the way back with the MS Oesterreich.
Oh - and don’t forget to visit PFÄNDER mountain in Bregenz (Austria) - best view over Lake Constance and about 240 alpine peaks. Don’t worry - there is a cable car up there. 😉
The baby is so precious 💕
The quality of your videos is amazing. I think this will grow fast.
Wow! Thank you so much for the compliment. We're so glad you enjoyed watching.
Looks like your small problem had a lot of fun.
Wow nice view !!
He LOVED it.
Baby Jack is so beautiful! I would love to see Meersburg castle again and good to know we can cruise around after, my husband hasn’t been there yet 🥂
Thank you so much! We think he's a pretty great little baby. And you absolutely should do the dinner cruise! Very relaxing and surprisingly affordable for a 2 hour cruise. We loved it!
yes it´s a REAL Castle "Burg" we say - impressing
Bodensee is great for families with children. We went there like 15 years in a row (several places though,). I recommend visiting the isle of Lindau, the water side of Friedrichshafen, the Zeppelin-museum of Friedrichshafen, maybe take a flight there (with the zeppelin). Don't forget visiting Konstanz (the name giver of lake constance), take a trip with the fast boats (Fridolin or Constance) from Friedrichshafen to Konstanz or back. Take the ferry from Friedrichshafen to Romanshorn (in the evening) to see the sun settle in the ocean/ äh, lake, have dinner at the harbor of Konstanz in the evening. If you have a baby sitter it may be fun to go the the Bregenzer Festspiele (opera on the sea) in the autumn.
This list is not complete, I am just getting tired. And I am not working for the tourist office :-)
What GREAT ideas! We lamented that we only had an afternoon to spend in Meersburg and plan to make another trip back to the Bodensee in the near future. And love, love, love the idea of the Festspiele. I will definitely add it to the list! Thank you!
@@TypeAshton There are dinner Tours with a Solar Boat at the Untersee in Radolfzell (nice old Town with a Water Playground on the Lake) If you love very old romanic Churches and Monasteries - Isle Reichenau is a must see!
Also the Peninsula "Höri" where Hermann Hesse and Otto Dix in the Nazi Aera lived (you can visit there Homes) it´s so beautiful there - not so touristy. Follow the Street you are in CH with small Towns like Stein am Rhein and Schalffhausen with the Rheinfall biggest Waterfall in EU (take the travel strawler and it gets little bit wet)
In a 4-week vacation you will not get bored in this region!
@@arnodobler1096 It really is true. There is so much to do in that area and its history is so rich. We can't wait to go back and visit all of the great recommendations you guys have given us. Thank you for the valuable local insight!
wow great video and funny workout 🤣
grew up in the neighboring village, you were there with the ship (Pfahlbauten Museum is cool)
How was the wine? Were you also on the Mainau?
Lake Constance have a lot to offer 🙋♂️
That's awesome! There are so many beautiful places along the lakeside. We look forward to exploring them more some day.
@@TypeAshton Maybe the Affenberg (Ape mountain) near Salem would be something for you? It's a park with "free living" apes you can walk through. :)
Next time you come and visit Meersburg you have to get in touch with me. Would be glad to give you more insight and another view of the town and lake :)
Great. Castles, visited 3 or 4 during my time. One in particular (can’t remember name / location) stands out. It was really well maintained and good tour. You came through some trees and there it was perched atop a high rock shaft on all sides and you had to cross a wood walkway over a considerable drop to reach. Me being me my imagination went wild thinking about all the people and happenings where I stood. Tour was great, had to remove footwear and put on these big thick felt “slippers” to do the tour. Remember noticing that suits of armour seemed small but guide said they were authentic but few centuries ago people were generally smaller. Your shot of the old WC gave me a chuckle. This castle had numerous ones all located at outer wall. If you lifted lid just air with remains deposited along face of cliff - must have been something at height of summer.
Wow that sounds so cool! Let us know if you remember which one it was.
In my opinion, two castles abolutely to see are Burg Hohenzollern (of one of the most influential families in Europe), and my absolute favorite is Burg Eltz near to Koblenz!
we have an ironic saying: all good things come from above" gnow you know what it means.
The oldest stone castle (built 220 years after Christ by the Romans) in Germany is in the north-west of Germany and not on Lake Constance!
The best boat trip is to the only "offshore island" in Germany, namely "Helgoland"! The other islands are Wadden Sea islands which are located quite close to the coast of East Friesland or North Friesland and are ideal for beach holidays. So the north is calling!
I'm sure that would be such a great experience to go visit! I hope to plan a trip up North near Bremen soon. Is it in that area?
In Meersburg, the City Tourism Office prefaces this particular castle as "oldest inhabited castle in Germany". But I am not sure if they mean continuously inhabited, last to continue to be inhabited or what. 🤷🏻♀️ Nonetheless, it really was such a fun tour. We really enjoyed it
Can't thank you enough guys ...for this amazing vlog ...for depicting the beauty of the lake constance in a wonderful way ...for showing that there're other beautiful medieval cities aside Rothenburg o.d.T. ...for telling people that not only beer, but german wine is worth a try. Btw: you seem to be a rosé lover...did you had a Pinot Noir or a Dornfelder Rosé?
I once was in Mersburg...at the age of 3 😂😊 And there is a (private) video me playing at/on the fountain @4:48 😀👍
Thanks for the great feedback! I am normally a Pinot Noir lover. A good, dry red wine is right up my alley. But in addition to the Rosé we also tried a Müller-Thurgau trocken on the terasse and it was very refreshing!
Nice vlog
A lot to explore
beautiful trip
Thank you! It was!
let me recommend a cruise on the rhein river expecially from wiesbanden to koblenz, dozens of castles and wonderful neat villages. i myself come from Rüdesheim, which is the start of the so called Mittelrheintal, you find the the best grapes there: riesling fr white wine and burgunder red wine. by the way: th name rhein comess from the greek word rhea, which means river (panta rhe = everything flows) so the name of the river is ..... "river" and if you visit the monastery eberbach, which is the oldest wine producer in germany, you may find it interesting that part of "the name of the rose" was filmed here. and the people there are a mixture of every ancient culture, from east and west, from north to south. don´t be surprised when you see men who look rather italian.. they left a lot of genes there
The cuisine around Lake Constance is in my opinion the best and also very reasonable
Bahahaha :D I just watched your Schauinsland video were you talked about stairs and strollers :D guess this stairs were the ones
🤣🤣 yes, as you can tell... it was Jonathan's highlight of the trip. 🤣🤣
Guys, we know Meersburg pretty well. The stairs are not the only way up 😂
YES! hahaha, so we realized this after the fact. 🤣🤣🤣
Meersburg is fine, but imho Überlingen is still superior. It is not as 'touristy', has fine architecture and views - and an interesting history as well.
We would love to visit Überlingen. We also would like to visit the neighbouring "Pile Dwelling Museum" (Pfahlbauten Unteruhldingen). Have you been?
@@TypeAshton i´m growing up there 👍👍50 m from these museum
The most beautiful town in Germany?
No.
It is just ONE of the numerous remarkable towns in Germany!
They are all very beautiful! Each one with it's own history, each one with it's own style, but most of them severly hundreds of years old.
I read that you're going to the north near Bremen. It will be VERY different compared to the south, but take a look of the castles up there, the large and very old farming houses, the flat coutry inviting to visit by cycle !
Visit the Eifel, the Westerwald, the Neckertal, the Frankenland, the Rheinland, Westfalen, all the beautiful parts of Thüringen, Sachsen, the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and so on...
Greetings from a German living in France!
Well said! Every new city we are in we tell each other the same thing, "this place is so beautiful!" They all are, but just different enough from the other to make them great destinations to explore.
nice video! I have bad news for you. You do not need to climb the stairs, you could have walked up the road and turned to the palace behind the castle. :}
Steigstraße 👍but they die it later
YES (ugh) So we found the street later on... Jonathan was not particularly happy with me for making him carry Jack with the stroller all the way up. But we had a good laugh about it afterwards. hahaha.
@@TypeAshton sorry, I wrote this comment to early before finishing the video ... :{ Meersburg is nice, We have been there a couple of times in our holidays :)
You should not take the stairs, once your boy is bigger. There is a spielplatz there and you will get stuck there (I always did with my girls)
This was filmed about one week before the devastating floods hit in Western Germany.
Our hearts break for the communities affected by the flood. Here in Baden-Württemberg we haven't experienced that kind of flash flooding, but our city has been sending resources to help the recovery efforts. In case anyone is interested in helping/donating, thelocal.de put together a great list of foundations who are sending aid to the area: www.thelocal.de/20210719/explained-how-you-can-support-victims-of-the-german-flood-tragedy/
You're living in Freiburg and call Meersburg "the most beautiful town in Germany"?! Sacrilege! :D No, just kidding, Meersburg is a wonderful city. Just totally unaccessible for wheelchair users if you don't have someone like Jonathan to carry you up the stairs ;) I can also recommend visiting Überlingen, there's an amazin restaurant at the top of a hill. A little bit pricy, but totally worth it, with a view over the lake and very delicious food and wines!
We definitely have Überlingen on our places to visit. We got a sneak peak of the city on the dinner cruise and cant wait to go back. ❤️❤️
If you walked a little bit to the west, there would have been a pedestrian street up the hill
We found it on the way down. :)
whooot u was in meersburg? hope u was at mainau and in konstanz also.
We've spent some time there and hope to get back again soon.
Why does the map say Lake Constance? It's known as Bodensøen in Denmark, and Bodensee in German.
We still keep our computers in English for work purposes. 😆
a lot of places are different in different languages. even the name "deutschkand" is only used in german speaking couintries, other nations call us germans francs, tedesci nemeci...almans.. even münchen is "monaco" in italian, which already has lead prople to the german town in bavaria instead of the small mediterranean state. of monaco
I am German, but didnt think Meersburg was worth visiting. Lol 😀 Reason being, Bavarians rarely venture into Swabonia...
It is definitely worth a visit! We had a wonderful time. ❤️ Cheers from the Black Forest!
besser so 😂😂
Zum Glück liegt Meersburg in Baden. Oder trauen sich die Bayern dort auch nicht hin?
And you did not join "Insel Mainau?" 😢
Baby rucksack ???
We ALMOST brought one. Would be a great idea for next time.
Du brauchst den Kinderwagen nun wirklich nicht zu tragen. Wir fahren mit dem Auto auf den Berg, der Weg ist ja nun groß genug.