the BO in Haribo stands for Bonn. the head scupture was of Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor tof the Westgerman state and therefore closely connected with Bonn being a capital of this state after the war. and actually his face looked melted in real life.
The "Museums-Island" is in Berlin on a island in the middle of the town. In the river called "Spree". But Germany has also a lot of Islands in the Northsea and Eastsea
Here are a few examples of Island Rügen Usedom Fehmarn Sylt Föhr Amrum Pellworm Norderney Langeoog Wangeroog Just Baltrum The little "hallingen" And These are only in the baltic and northsea. There are hundrets of Islands in lakes and Rivers like the: Museums Insel in Berlin Museums Insel in München Fraueninsel im Chiemsee ...
"Yesterday I confirmed the stereotype that Americans are stupid". I don't think that not knowing things makes you stupid. Not WANTING to know things makes you stupid. Being aware of what you don't know and trying to learn is actually smart! Also at 9:06: Those are geese, bro!
Yea, well, the answers to the questions yesterday were literally displayed after each question. And he totally ignored these, maybe didn’t even notice. That is the stereotype right there
Haribo anecdote: As children we collected chestnuts for Haribo in the early 80s. At the factory we got Haribo sweets in exchange. The owners of Haribo had a huge park with deers and such that were fed with the chestnuts.
I grew up in Bonn and it's quite funny and very interesting to watch you discover the places of my childhood by video. If you ever come to germany and have the time for a visit in Bonn, don't be afraid to ask. I show you guys around! ;-) And by the way they didn't mention a very important fact about Bonn: HARIBO was founded there. In autumn, people collect chestnuts and acorns to exchange them for mixed boxes at the factory. This tradition was founded 80 Years ago
Meanwhile the headquarter from Haribo is in Grafschaft, roughly half and hour car ride from Bonn away. The tradition with the chestnuts still exists, but they do it at their HQ in Grafschaft. And the place where the factory in Bonn used to be, where you had to do the exchange was demolished (as well as the Haribo Shop there (not the one in the video, the one in the video is then 2nd Haribo shop in the city center of Bonn)). They build a new Haribo shop there, a police station and some office buildings.
What they failed to explain is that Haribo stands for HAns RIegel BOnn, so it was founded by Hans Riegel in Bonn. There is also a big factory store (I think even more than one) in Bonn. And WECK the German producer of jars for preseving / canning food (what to the usa is the mason jar, but different technology) also has a factory plus store in Bonn. Bonn became the capital of western Germany because Berlin was divided and the western part was land locked within east Germany
Don't beat yourself up, Ryan! You are doing a great job with your videos. If you already knew everything about Germany, it wouldn't be such fun accompanying you on that adventure.
And then proceeds to asks if we have dear in Europe?? No never seen any fallow deer, red deer, roe deer or moose here. Only the Americas have them, facepalm
@@kleinshui9082 What are you talking about!? We got tons of deers in Germany! I recently hit one accidentally with my car. I am living in Bavaria and it's pretty common to see a deer 🦌
@Roman Knetsch Klein Shui meinte des Sarkastisch. Natürlich haben wir hier verschiedene Arten Hirsche und Rehwild. Wer das dementiert müsste schon wirklich eingeschränkt sein (oder ist noch nie aus dem Haus gekommen). @Klein Shui Wtf man. He ist trying to educate himself. Why are you such a moron? Yes, some questions are weird, but do you know everything about the USA? I dont think so.
I'm from Cologne and I think Drachenfels ("dragon rock") has one of the best views in the state of Northrhine Westphalia. Totally love it! Why Bonn looks so village-like there is because there are indeed villages around the rock. Actually it's not the city of Bonn anymore, it's Königswinter ("Kingswinter") and its a small suburb of Bonn. I wonder if Ryan has ever responded to the comments here? I've never seen a comment from him.
This is true (although I personal like more the view from the Löwenburg than the Drachenfels), but the city which yo can see from the Drachenfels in this video and where he thought it would be Bonn is actually Bad Honnef.
The commentary was pretty amusing today. 😊 So the question is, when are you and your family visiting Germany? Since there are viewers throughout Germany watching you, I’m sure we are all more than happy to show you around our areas. Grüße von nahe Nürnberg
The hosts are speaking German, the english is, as you realized dubbed over. Also funny little side note: We Germans can most of the times recognized our fellow Germans, because of them speaking English with a somewhat common hard pronunciation of the S and TH sounds. And no, the "Museums Insel" (museum island") was in a question about Berlin. That's where it is located.
S, TH and the complete lack of awareness of weak forms as well as the non-differentiations between "a" sounds. It's all "ä" or "ah!" for us Germans. The former not being a thing in English at all and the latter only existing in Boston :D
Considering that I have friends (educated friends, having a PhD) who sometimes utter English sentences without pronouncing a single letter correctly (to the point of unintelligibility)... everyone can hear a German accent. I'd argue Germans are actually worst at it, seeing how many people I've met who actually believed they had great English and that they sounded like a native. I don't think I've ever met another German who I couldn't identify based on their accent.
@@MellonVegan Same. The amount of people that I hear say "I basically think in English, lol", then open their mouth and sound like fucking Flula - but unironically - is bizarre. I have the additional problem of really, really disliking the accent. Especially the things I mentioned in my previous reply. Ugh.
To some degree that's really annoying. I am also having an english channel, and just got a comment again the other day. But the only people ever complaining about the German Accent are Germans. I mean there are certainly people where its painful to listen to or where you hardly understand anything (Oettinger) but otherwise, who cares. And I don't think the usual common accent is worse than others (French Accent, Italian Accent, Indian Accent...). Actually Indians (and I think also some Germans) are easier to understand than some english native speakers. As long as they don't go full monotonous.
Fun fact: Bonn was very very small for a capital. Therefore it was a melting pot of diplomacy. Ambassadors have to take part in several events. In bigger cities like London, Paris, Washington or even Berlin, there are many social events all over the towns and it is easy to avoid "problematic" other ambassadors. In Bonn this wasn't the case. So it was used by the diplomatic corps to inconspicuous talk with "enemies". After Berlin became capital several members of diplomatic corps were sad because of this loss
1:16 That's not Bonn, that's Königswinter. That's where I was at the castle. That's the Nibelungen Hall. Bonn is on the other side of Königswinter. 5:05 The Konrad Adenauer Monument in Bonn is a bronze head sculpture created in 1981 by the artist Hubertus von Pilgrim in memory of Konrad Adenauer on the Federal Chancellor's Square.
In germany turition from University ia free, but you still pay a fee for burocracy, using library and puplic transport. In my university i currently study environtment technics, the university is well specified and well known for this, you pay like 175-200 euros per semester. but therefore you get good goodies. Like free puplic transport, free 24/7 library, cheaper food at cantine, or like spotyfy premium for 25% cheaper.....
That's funny. When I was in the States for the first time in 1994, my ID was checked at the airport and the officer asked: "Do you live in Bonn?" I answered "yes, do you know Bonn?". He then: "Everyone in the States knows Bonn". Times are changing.
'Course we do have deer. Bambi is originally a German kids' tale. But since the Disney movie there has been confusion about the type of deer Bambi is due to translation misunderstandings
We have very green cities. It’s very common to have random trees in between buildings, even in very huge cities like Munich. We also have lots of tree alleys, small parks and such in the middle of most cities. We like it green :D also most cities grew kind of organically over 100s, sometimes 1000s of years, so they developed very differently than typical American cities and thus look very different :) And as to your question wether it is rude to drink coffee during a video in Germany: i’ve never heard that anyone considered it rude so you can totally go ahead :) P.s. I didn’t recognise who’s statue that was either, with this kinda molten face.. so don’t put yourself down! You’re doing great videos and it’s natural to not know everything, especially if you’re from a whole different country :)
This is so cool! I am from Bonn and its so funny to see your reaction, I know so many of the places in this video. For example, the research museum. It is actually called "Museum König" and there are stuffed animals from all countries and regiones. It's pretty creepy when you think about it, but when I was a kid it was always a highlight. Exept from the polar bear, I was very scared. I went there with my kindergarten, primary school class or my grandma and yes... the binoculars are unnecessary, but they are given from the museum and add to the wildlife feeling, which is also created by temperature and soundscape. Beethoven is pretty big in Bonn. There are actually traffic lights with his face on them. His 250th birthday was celebrated recently and there was a big party in front of the townhall. By the way, I can also recommend another café in Bonn-Beuel, if anyone is interested... "Mayras Wohnzimmer" on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz. Very nice and tasty in there. When I was younger I always compromised with my parents for the Drachenfels. We took the cable car up and then walked back down. The buildings you can see from the top should be Königswinter (a small town near Bonn) Anyway, was pretty cool to see an American react to my hometown...😊
Of course they have a Haribo shop in Bonn, because the brand originates in Bonn. Ha-Ri-Bo, the last two letters stand for "Bonn". The first 4 for the first and last name of the founder.
Holy moly. I am from Bonn, too and it is so cool to see all these places i see almost daily. In Summer 2022 Robby Williams gave his long delayed concert on the Hofgartenwiese ( the giant lawn in front of the university ( yellow building). If you ever make it to bonn you have to visit a lot. I hope that we can enjoy "Rhine in flames" im Mai agin. At timestamp 10:53 you see the city of Bad Honnef. You have to turn around to see Bonn with the giant "Posttower" and the other remarkable buildings. Funfact: The city at the end was Bonn, not cologne. It was to cloudy or foggy to be seen.
The museum island was in Berlin, Ryan 😂 Don't be too scared to offend us Germans. We can take it 💪. And no, drinking coffee in a YT video is not considered rude 💝 Please check out Cologne, that's my home town
That must be the most German-sounding German-accent I have heard in a while^^ Love it. BTW: Most German cities are known to be very "green" = lots of trees and parks. So yes, that is a city.
Want me to let you in on a little secret? As Bonn is the origin of Haribo they have a shop specifically linked to the factories. It's not the tiny shop shown in the video but an enormous building the size of a storage hall, filled up to the roof with every imaginable Haribo variation. You can also buy damaged goods (which taste and look just fine) for a lower price in boxes of 4, 8 or more kilo. You can also arrange your own box of sweets and it's all much cheaper then buying it in a supermarket.
4:57 Looks like Konrad Adenauer to me, the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and the guy responsible for making Bonn the seat of government (supposedly because he lived nearby). He's not melting, that's just art.
The big head is Konrad Adenauer, the 1. Bundeskanzler after the 2. world war. Bonn is 20-25 km near Köln . The big river under the Drachenfels is named Rhein. The Rhein flows from Switzerland through completly Germany into the northsea.
Hi Ryan, the reason for using Bonn as the capital of Western Germany was very simple. Berlin was in the middle of the Soviet Sector and well, using the capital in the middle of the "enemy" is not the best idea. So Bonn was chosen as a provisionally capital, because there was always hope for a reunion.
Wrong: The three western sectors of Berlin were under control of the three western forces, the Soviets held their own sector, of course. All four sectors still were Berlin as an entity. When the three western zones of Germany got their new currency in June 1948 it was introduced in the three western sectors of Berlin as well. The Soviets fumed with rage and put the three western sectors under siege. They gave that up in 1949 when they had realized they could not win (Allied airlift) and that they could not prevent the three western allies from giving the Germans in the three western zones a great deal of souvereignty back so that they could found their own republic. But, very, very big BUT, the three western sectors of Berlin never belonged to the Federal Republic until October 1990 when all that allied souvereignty over Germany stopped. There were strong legal ties between West-Berlin and the Federal Republic, such as the same currency, passports, most laws...There even was a government office of the Federal Republic in West-Berlin, despite constant Soviet protests, but West-Berlin was no part of the Federal Republic.
@@christiankastorf4836 Addition: One sign of that are postal stamps. They had the same stamps in Berlin as in the "rest" of West-Germany. But, while the stamps in West-Germany were issued by the Deutsche Bundespost, the stamps from Berlin showed "Deutsche Bundespost Berlin".
The reason was: Somebody had payed money for Bonn. Frankfurt had allready build a parliament building (today its the headquater of Hessischer Rundfunk).
@@icetwo Leave us alone with conspiracy theories. Frankfurt would have been a good place because of the Paulskirche and the 1848 revolution. Frankfurt therefore symbolized "black-red-gold", freedom and unity, unity in freedom as far as the German people are concerned (this is reference to our anthem) more than Berlin and that unimportant Bonn, but Frankfurt was the site of Allied headquarters in the west and it had to be avoided that the newly born Federal Republic was seen as a mere Allied puppet. The vote for Bonn against Frankfurt was very close, by the way, but how many people would have had to be silent about bribery?
some nice points - but they actually passed over Poppelsdorf and that pretty botanical garden completely. Bonn is sort of lacated in between forests - the "Uniklinik" is located at the edga of the forest and it's really nice for visitors to be able to get into a green area fast (also for recreational purposes) And yes, we also live close by I alway tend to say we live between Bonn and Cologne
Theres so much more interesting stuff about bonn, i lived there for 3 months, its a beautiful city. And our buildings in germany arent that high everywhere, and having lots of green places inside the city is actually a PRO for that city. So more trees the better air quality and comfort, etc.
Fun fact: there is a traincar in the underground of the "House of German history" which was part of the official train of the first chancellor. They put it there and built the museum around / atop of it 😁
Most state universities in Germany have a fee of about 300€ per semester Books have to be bought by yourself most of the time though and they can be pretty expensive
Depending on what and where you study, you don't have to buy many books, though, as you can just borrow them from the library for free. The fee you are talking about is also not really a fee as its used directly for the benefit of the student body.
Hello Ryan, I live near the Edersee. A dam wall was built in this lake over a hundred years ago, which was bombed out in WW2. In August/September many things (bridges, villages and much more) can be seen again. Around the lake there are many things to see such as a zoo, hiking and biking trails, a treetop walk, a castle with a hotel built before 1120 and much more. I am one of your German subscribers and would be very happy if you would visit this region and maybe meet up. Greetings Stephi ☺
Hi Ryan, I have something else for you here. If you want to see something about or from Germany, there is a 13-minute video here on TH-cam. I once equipped a map of Germany for myself with points from the cities / sites and there is hardly an area that is not on it. However, there are still many beautiful corners in Germany apart from the video. Maybe you'll make a reaction to it. th-cam.com/video/ZbTn9G4bhOQ/w-d-xo.html Unfortunately, the subtitles are in German, but that might help with the search for the location. Greetings Stephi
You don t have to feel sry, I am really enjoying waatching you learning new stuff about my country not knowing about something makes it even more entertaining watching you experiencing for the first time
In Germany most of the cities don't have big Skyscrapers. It's more a Frankfurt Kind of Style but most of the cities do have a lot of trees and green spaces. Just take a look at Maps. Its not like the big cities with just one big park! Most of the Germans really do like their trees and a green surrounding at all. Except a few😄
9:07 there are many great documentation about the german wildlife, but in german 😅 Although it depends on the region/habitat. Urban: mice, rat, hedgehog, bunny, rabbit, racoon (important Form usa), falcon, dove, different tit species, blackbird, throttle, crow, raven, german magie, European red squirrel and sometimes Red foxes Fields and meadows: everything above + deers, wild boar,german badger, mader, weasel, hamster Mountain: some of the above + goats, eagles, marmots Forests: above+ some wolf's, European lynx, owls and owlletts, middle European wildcat Coast: seagulls, (of course raven, crow and dove), seal, jellyfish, fisch broadly, porpoise, shells, crabs, jellyseal, seestar River and ponds: fish, duck and GEESE THATS GEESE Very rough remembered
I met my husband in Bonn, and we got married there! Actually in the very nice old white building early in the video, the old city hall (Rathaus). So I really like Bonn very much.
5:06 Konrad Adenauer 1:15 Also an Adenauer, this time his car 7:35 No the Museum Island is in Berlin. But Bonn has a lot of Museums too, as it once hosted the Parlament and was of importance because of Beethoven anyway.
"Does germany have deer?" Of course we have. Lots of deer, because we have lots of forest. We have deer, wild cats, wild boars, badgers, racoons, we have foxes and wolves. We used to have bears, but those have gone extinct in germany for almost 200 years now, due to excessive hunting. You still find bears in eastern and northern european countries. Fun fact: Our racoons immigrated from the US.
Königswinter has a rack or sometimes called cog railway. A cable car is normally hanging on a cable and going up a high mountains. In the video they show the view to Bad Honnef which is further south than Bonn .
No wonder there is a a Haribo shop, as Haribo was founded and manufactured in Bonn, Haribo mean HAns RIegel BOnn. Oh, the basic variations of hot chocolate are all about different spirits to add (Rum, Whiskey, Amaretto etc) and the sort and ammount of cream to add. The big head was Adenauer, the first german chancelor fter WW2. And most of the museums are federal institutions, a reminicent of being a former capital of some decades. After WW2 the small town Bonn was especially selected as capital for they did not want to leave Berlin out (those days they could not select Berlin, it was occupied) and they did not select a city comparable to Berlin (like Frankfurt, Hamburg or Munich) to avoid a competitionj between the cities.
The "Drachenfels" is pretty awesome, i was there so many times.🤩 Its a little bit sad, that they showed not everthing about it.😅 There is a big hall with a beatiful glass dome and some nice artwork on the floor and they show the Zodiac signs. They are also some paintings and information about "Siegfried und die Niebelungensaga." Its a famous german legend, in which the knight Siegfried kills the dragon.🐉 Somewhere on the "Drachenfels", there is a little cave too, in which you can see a stone dragon. And the cable cart is actualy a rack railway (i dont know if this is the correkt translation). It has a special mecanism and its one of the last trains working like this.
The little town you looked down from the Drachenfels is Bad Honnef. My Hometown. Its a few Kilometers away from Bonn and has a little over 20000 people living there.
The sculpture shows the face of Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of Western Germany, after the second world war. Even though not 100% comparable, in the US that would be George Washington.
"Drachenfels" ❤️ Thr place where my daughter made her first steps. It would be cool, if you watch a video about the history of Bonn. I think it is much more fascinating that the city today.
I'm from Bonn... Bonn has the museum mile... meaning, there are several museums within a mile along the road... Bonn is home to Haribo... (Ha-ns Ri-gel Bo-nn) and is former capital city of West Germany before Reunification.
When you're on top of the Drachenfels the city Bonn is on the right side. What you just saw wasn't the actual city. Been on the Drachenfels on New years and it looked fantastic seeing all the fireworks shooting into the sky
hi fireworks is bad for animal and nature, sry to say those i am not a friend of those but a huge fan of lantern and in germany is a event lantern parade more for children with the text: My light is small, I walk alone Rabimmel, rabammel, rabum My light is small, I walk alone Rabimmel, rabammel, rabum that's what i like more
The decision to make Bonn the capital of West Germany was based partly on defensive considerations. It was one of the larger cities west of the Rhine river. That made it about as far from the inner German border as you could get without leaving the country. The Rhine river also gave a serious bit of protection because without bridges it is very difficult to cross at the site of Bonn. Yet it didn't contain many of the historical buildings so prevalent in Aachen, Cologne, etc. In case of a conventional attack by the Soviets the loss of life and culture would have been comparatively small. Also, it never had been any kind of major cultural center before with the exception of Beethoven. In case of a nuclear strike it would give the governing personnel at least a tiny chance of survival in case the alarm got out early enough. The government nuclear bunker's secret entrance was in a garage on the end of a block of garages of a fairly low income apartment block only ten minutes, either by car or on foot from the Bundestag building. This entrance was kept a secret until it was decommissioned after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Even the location of the bunker was only revealed to the top tier government personnel. All universities in Germany, with the exception of a handful of private universities, are tuition free. Sure, you need a certain grade point average for certain curriculae, but after that all courses are free of tuition charges or limitations. Yes, there are minor administration charges of between 150 to 350 € per semester, so 300-700€ a year (currently the euro is about equal to the US dollar). FYI, that usually includes a semester ticket for all of the local public transporation association the university is located in. That covers all of the city plus a major part of the surrounding landscape usually. In addition to that many other tickets have a reduced student charge. So if you use your student pass even a few times a semester you can probably get your money's worth in savings from it. With somewhat regular usage you will DEFINITELY get your money back, not even considering that you still have your higher education covered. Nope, it's NOT a scholarship in which room and board is covered as well. Those are costs you still have to cover yourself. Wildlife, as in 'really wild animals' that haven't seen a human being before, probably doesn't exist in Germany. Germany is much too crowded for that, and Germans have cultivated 'the crap out of their country for the last 1000 years' (quote: Barbi from Geography Now!). So the amount of real wild landscapes is VERY small. There are only a few hundred acres of true wild forest left on the German/Polish border; and even their status as 'wild forest' is debatable. Everything else has definitely been used before for lumber or agriculture pr settlements. The only somewhat wild animals around are deer, boar, and fowl of all kind. Birds are mostly migratory. There are two or three (yes, 2 or 3) wolf packs, under strict supervision by animal protection agencies, that have migrated back in from Poland. No known free-roaming bears exist anymore. Otherwise smaller rodents or mustelids like badgers, hedgehogs, etc are still around. Few cities in Germany have really tall skyscrapers. Some highrises, possibly, but even then most buildings top out at five storeys/floors. Frankfurt a.M. has the most skyscrapers in Germany. All others fall far behind in both the number and height of buildings. That's mostly because those cities retained a lot of their traditional building restrictions that limited the height of buildings to be lower than the local cathedral's or church's steeple. That began as a stipulation by the church itsself, then became a tradition regardless of religion over time. Today few people think about it. In that regard we are fortunate because cities which allow winds to circulate above the buildings tend to suffer less from wind tunnel effects than highrise and skyscraper congested buildings. In addition, it somehow looks nicer. But that's my own taste and opinion.
"Drachenfels" (dragons rock) is a rock, a castle and a noble family line. I know someone who has the family name "von Drachenfels", being a descendant and she has distant relatives who also have the noble title in their family name (for those who don't know: Noble titles got banned in Germany ages ago, turning into a name title or a name prefix. Later on, it was turned into a part of the family name only, the ones who had a noble title prefix - like 'earl of' or 'duchess of' could choose to just abandon it. We now have people running around whose family names are 'Princess of Saxony' and 'Lord of Turn and Taxis' and so on.). We once visited with a group of friends that castle and she was like 'nah, not feeling living here. Imagine having to clean those floors and walls duh.' - can't get more german.
Hey Ryan, first, thanks for your entertaining channel. Love it! As to the island thing. We do have islands in the north of Germany with Sylt being the most famous one and some kind of german vip hot spot. But the museums islands in Deutschland aren't at see but in rivers. There are two. The one in the quiz you did is in Berlin and an island in the river Spree. The island has not one but 5 museums on it including the Pergamonmuseum. Munich also has an island with one museum on it. It's in the river Isar and the museum is called Deutsches Museum.
Hey Ryan, don't worry about the test. Those questions were ridiculous :D You need to live and work in germany for a few years to know most of them :D You are not dumb and America is a great countrey full of amazing people. I am german and got one wrong, too. Greetings
11:00 Yes, and therein lies one of the problems of American city design. Trees improve cities. It makes them livable and also contribute positively to the CO2/O2 exchange rate.
Bonn is the best city. I lived in many cities all over Germany, but Bonn is my absolute favorite! You should come visit the old town during the cherry blossom.
Museum Island is in Berlin. Bonn has a population similar to Iceland. It is "headquarters" of the companies T-Mobile US (Deutsche Telekom), DHL, Haribo (Haribo will soon open a US manufacturing facility in Wisconsin).
There's a huge difference between german cities and american cities. In our cities, we try to have as much trees as possible.. still. It's good for the city climate and for the people, to relax and enjoy the cities. :) Nice video, by the way
The Museum Island You were mentioning is an complex made up of 5 museums in Berlin. It is situated on an island in the river Spree and part of the historic center of Berlin. And yes, there are numerous islands in Germany. In fact, Germany has around 100 islands in the North Sea (East and North Frisian Islands) and the Baltic Sea, including well known travel destinations as Rügen, Usedom, Sylt, Föhr, Norderney or Fehmarn (and many others). And there is also Heligoland, the only "Off Shore" Island of Germany with quite an interesting history. There are also many famous Lake Islands e.g. the islands of Mainau, Reichenau and Lindau in Lake Constance (Bodensee in german); Herreninsel and Fraueninsel in Lake Chiemsee, Roseninsel in Starnberger See, Wilhelmstein Island in Steinhuder Meer and some quite picturesque island in the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau. TH-cam Tips: Discover Sylt by DW, Sylt by Easy German, Rügen - The Treasure Island by DW, Heligoland Tips by DW, Usedom from above by DW.
The 'deer' you saw were some kind of antelope and I doubt you can see zebras running around in Texas :D Btw, we have Red deer, Roe deer, Fallow deer, Sika deer (with the latter being an invasive species, but they don't seem to cause harm). Roe deer are the most common with estimations of 2 Million animals living in Germany
In the Museum at the beginning of the Film was the German constitution written after WWII. 5:00 It's a sculpture of the first Chancelor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer.
10:54 „It doesn’t look like a city.“ That’s right, medium-sized cities in Germany typically don‘t have much of a skyline or skyscrapers like American cities, and Bonn isn’t that big of a city.
Also, the view is on Bad Honnef and not Bonn, Bonn is in the opposite direction on the other side of the rhine. Bonn looks a lot larger and like a city. For comparison, the city in view has 25k residents and Bonn has 325k residents.
Islands… That Museum Island is in Berlin. We have Islands in the North Sea and East Sea, than there are Islands in Lakes like Mainau and we have Islands in Rivers… So actually, we have quite some Islands here 😅
Haha aw Ryan, don't be too hard on yourself!! I personally think that the test you took had many quite specific questions regarding Germany that I don't think many people from outside the country would get right. Being able to take something new to learn from it is what matters!! It makes following your journey all the more enjoyable
The "Museum Island" is located in Berlin, not in Bonn. The island is sorroundet by the river Spree. The Train to the Drachenfels is no cable car it's a rack railway.
Yeah!!! I am from Bonn! And I went to the university of Bonn. Not lying, but going to lectures in a beautiful castel was really awesome. Love my Alma Mater.
Maybe you should watch a video about German islands like Rügen, Helgoland or the Halligen (witch are almost compleedly flooded during storm surges and keep the residents caught in the sea). But I wouldn't recommend a video about Museumsinsel because it's "just" a river island in the middle of Berlin, with a bunch of museums on it - but still cool.
The face/guy was Konrad Adenauer, the first Bundeskanzler. The "Museumsinsel" is in Berlin Germany has some islands: Rügen, Norderney, Borkum, Sylt, Helgoland, Usedom and some more in the north In the Bodensee/Lake Konstanz ther are the Islands of Lindau, the Island Mainau which is famos for its gardens (from the Family Bernadotte) and the Island of Reichenau an Island where in the medeival times was an monastery/abbey and now there grow very good vegetables. The famouse "St. Galler Klosterplan/ Abbey plan of Saint Gall" was written between 819 and 826 in the Abbey Reichenau
11:00 I have seen houses and trees together at Lake Tahoe, at Cairo/Texas and New Hampshire. I think there a some more spots in US. I remember so well because I was then thinking of burning trees - what about the houses then. But you are right in Germany we have a lot of trees in City suburbs mostly when they are build long time ago and didn´t get destroyed in war II.
Well Admission to a german University in general is normally free. You only have to pay a small administration fee per semester, usually about 200-400 euro, which at most university includes the public transportation fee, meaning you can take all the regional public transportation.
The HARIBO store is actually amazing. They have every kind of haribo there, also a few which you cant even buy in a Supermarket, and you can mix yourself some different candies and then pay for the weight.
The Museum Island is in the center of Berlin. Its on a small island in the Spree river. Also germany has a multitude of different islands since we boarder on 2 different Seas.
you can find wildlife in germany kind of only in the „Naturschutzgebiete“ wildlive reservoir. like the bayerische wald, the lüneburger heide or the wattenmeer
you dont shouldnt take you bad score on that test to heart i felt a lot questions no one not lifeing and or speaking germany would have known. anyway i realy enjoy your videos enjoying videos about germany maybe you sometime will get the chance to come here experincing the "real deal", i would want to believe you could get a good time and also a new video type adding your own experiences to it
He actually said "Heute sind wir in Bonn" at the beginning, where he was dubbed over, but the lip movement looks similar. This is also what Germans mostly try to go for, when dubbing English movies, to make the lip movements match as well as possible with the translation, while still translating correctly, by just using a different sentence structure/rhythm sometimes and good timing.
I love Bonn. I was at the University there. Such a beautiful town full of history and a lot of museums, but not on an island. I think on part where a lot of this museums are located is called Museums Meile (Mile of museums). You should watch a video about another beautiful part of Germany called Pfalz. There you could probably find the wildlife.
The town you are looking down from the Drachenfels is Bad Honnef. A town near Bonn where the first chancellor of Germany after WWII, Konrad Adenauer (the melting head, you're asking about), lived.
the BO in Haribo stands for Bonn.
the head scupture was of Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor tof the Westgerman state and therefore closely connected with Bonn being a capital of this state after the war. and actually his face looked melted in real life.
Hans Riegel from Bonn = HARIBO
i remember a video explaining the name HARIBO, but he ob. forgot, lol
Thanks for explaining it to him, so I don’t have to. 😄👍
At 1:15 we see Adenauer's state car.
@@jensschroder8214 They should rename themselves to HARIGRA.
Greetings from Bonn :-)
Actually Haribo is from Bonn. Haribo stands for Hans (HA) Riegel (RI) Bonn (BO). Hans Riegel founded Haribo.
The "Museums-Island" is in Berlin on a island in the middle of the town. In the river called "Spree". But Germany has also a lot of Islands in the Northsea and Eastsea
I think you mean the Baltic Sea
Für jeden der Kunst und/oder Geschichte mag und Berlin besucht, ist die Museumsinsel ein Ort den man einfach sehen muss.
@@preciouso.3892 in english it is the baltic sea, yeah. In german it is Ostsee (which directly translates to Eastsea)
That was so Funny " Islands in Germany, does Germany even have Islands"
Here are a few examples of Island
Rügen
Usedom
Fehmarn
Sylt
Föhr
Amrum
Pellworm
Norderney
Langeoog
Wangeroog
Just
Baltrum
The little "hallingen"
And These are only in the baltic and northsea. There are hundrets of Islands in lakes and Rivers like the:
Museums Insel in Berlin
Museums Insel in München
Fraueninsel im Chiemsee
...
"Yesterday I confirmed the stereotype that Americans are stupid".
I don't think that not knowing things makes you stupid. Not WANTING to know things makes you stupid. Being aware of what you don't know and trying to learn is actually smart!
Also at 9:06: Those are geese, bro!
It was a joke, self-deprecation. Why do so many people here take this literally
I was just about to write that these are geese xD
Yea, well, the answers to the questions yesterday were literally displayed after each question. And he totally ignored these, maybe didn’t even notice. That is the stereotype right there
Haribo anecdote: As children we collected chestnuts for Haribo in the early 80s. At the factory we got Haribo sweets in exchange. The owners of Haribo had a huge park with deers and such that were fed with the chestnuts.
This was/ is still going
I grew up in Bonn and it's quite funny and very interesting to watch you discover the places of my childhood by video. If you ever come to germany and have the time for a visit in Bonn, don't be afraid to ask. I show you guys around! ;-)
And by the way they didn't mention a very important fact about Bonn: HARIBO was founded there. In autumn, people collect chestnuts and acorns to exchange them for mixed boxes at the factory. This tradition was founded 80 Years ago
Yes. These fruits were meant for feeding the wild animals in the winter. I assume, this tradition stands till today.
Eine sehr coole Tradition!
Meanwhile the headquarter from Haribo is in Grafschaft, roughly half and hour car ride from Bonn away.
The tradition with the chestnuts still exists, but they do it at their HQ in Grafschaft.
And the place where the factory in Bonn used to be, where you had to do the exchange was demolished (as well as the Haribo Shop there (not the one in the video, the one in the video is then 2nd Haribo shop in the city center of Bonn)). They build a new Haribo shop there, a police station and some office buildings.
@@Dirk-Ulowetz it does
What they failed to explain is that Haribo stands for HAns RIegel BOnn, so it was founded by Hans Riegel in Bonn. There is also a big factory store (I think even more than one) in Bonn.
And WECK the German producer of jars for preseving / canning food (what to the usa is the mason jar, but different technology) also has a factory plus store in Bonn.
Bonn became the capital of western Germany because Berlin was divided and the western part was land locked within east Germany
Don't beat yourself up, Ryan! You are doing a great job with your videos. If you already knew everything about Germany, it wouldn't be such fun accompanying you on that adventure.
Be self-deprecating != Beating up yourself
Ryan: sees a diorama of Africa with gnus and zebras
Also Ryan: You can go to Texas and see this live!
And then proceeds to asks if we have dear in Europe??
No never seen any fallow deer, red deer, roe deer or moose here. Only the Americas have them, facepalm
@@kleinshui9082 He confused gazelle for deers...
@@kleinshui9082 What are you talking about!? We got tons of deers in Germany! I recently hit one accidentally with my car. I am living in Bavaria and it's pretty common to see a deer 🦌
@@romanknetsch1035 You misundeestood Klein Shui. He didn‘t say there is no deer in Germany, quite the opposite.
@Roman Knetsch Klein Shui meinte des Sarkastisch. Natürlich haben wir hier verschiedene Arten Hirsche und Rehwild. Wer das dementiert müsste schon wirklich eingeschränkt sein (oder ist noch nie aus dem Haus gekommen).
@Klein Shui Wtf man. He ist trying to educate himself. Why are you such a moron? Yes, some questions are weird, but do you know everything about the USA? I dont think so.
I'm from Cologne and I think Drachenfels ("dragon rock") has one of the best views in the state of Northrhine Westphalia. Totally love it! Why Bonn looks so village-like there is because there are indeed villages around the rock. Actually it's not the city of Bonn anymore, it's Königswinter ("Kingswinter") and its a small suburb of Bonn.
I wonder if Ryan has ever responded to the comments here? I've never seen a comment from him.
I have seen a few, once😃
das einzig schöne an königswinter (als stadt) sind alle dörfer und alles was nicht Königswinter direkt ist, bin da lang genug aufgewachsen;)
This is true (although I personal like more the view from the Löwenburg than the Drachenfels), but the city which yo can see from the Drachenfels in this video and where he thought it would be Bonn is actually Bad Honnef.
@@IronMetal17 y it is bad honnef, 'cause you looking in the southern direction
"Kingswinter" gehört, wie Köln und Leverkusen, zur *Metropolregion Bonn.* 😁
The commentary was pretty amusing today. 😊
So the question is, when are you and your family visiting Germany? Since there are viewers throughout Germany watching you, I’m sure we are all more than happy to show you around our areas. Grüße von nahe Nürnberg
The hosts are speaking German, the english is, as you realized dubbed over. Also funny little side note: We Germans can most of the times recognized our fellow Germans, because of them speaking English with a somewhat common hard pronunciation of the S and TH sounds.
And no, the "Museums Insel" (museum island") was in a question about Berlin. That's where it is located.
I am pretty sure, everyone can identify a German accent real quick
S, TH and the complete lack of awareness of weak forms as well as the non-differentiations between "a" sounds. It's all "ä" or "ah!" for us Germans. The former not being a thing in English at all and the latter only existing in Boston :D
Considering that I have friends (educated friends, having a PhD) who sometimes utter English sentences without pronouncing a single letter correctly (to the point of unintelligibility)... everyone can hear a German accent. I'd argue Germans are actually worst at it, seeing how many people I've met who actually believed they had great English and that they sounded like a native. I don't think I've ever met another German who I couldn't identify based on their accent.
@@MellonVegan Same. The amount of people that I hear say "I basically think in English, lol", then open their mouth and sound like fucking Flula - but unironically - is bizarre. I have the additional problem of really, really disliking the accent. Especially the things I mentioned in my previous reply. Ugh.
To some degree that's really annoying. I am also having an english channel, and just got a comment again the other day. But the only people ever complaining about the German Accent are Germans. I mean there are certainly people where its painful to listen to or where you hardly understand anything (Oettinger) but otherwise, who cares. And I don't think the usual common accent is worse than others (French Accent, Italian Accent, Indian Accent...). Actually Indians (and I think also some Germans) are easier to understand than some english native speakers. As long as they don't go full monotonous.
The man you are asking for is Konrad Adenauer (first german chancellor after the WWII)
At 1:15 we see his state car.
Fun fact: Bonn was very very small for a capital. Therefore it was a melting pot of diplomacy. Ambassadors have to take part in several events. In bigger cities like London, Paris, Washington or even Berlin, there are many social events all over the towns and it is easy to avoid "problematic" other ambassadors. In Bonn this wasn't the case. So it was used by the diplomatic corps to inconspicuous talk with "enemies". After Berlin became capital several members of diplomatic corps were sad because of this loss
1:16 That's not Bonn, that's Königswinter. That's where I was at the castle. That's the Nibelungen Hall. Bonn is on the other side of Königswinter.
5:05 The Konrad Adenauer Monument in Bonn is a bronze head sculpture created in 1981 by the artist Hubertus von Pilgrim in memory of Konrad Adenauer on the Federal Chancellor's Square.
In germany turition from University ia free, but you still pay a fee for burocracy, using library and puplic transport. In my university i currently study environtment technics, the university is well specified and well known for this, you pay like 175-200 euros per semester. but therefore you get good goodies. Like free puplic transport, free 24/7 library, cheaper food at cantine, or like spotyfy premium for 25% cheaper.....
That's funny. When I was in the States for the first time in 1994, my ID was checked at the airport and the officer asked: "Do you live in Bonn?" I answered "yes, do you know Bonn?". He then: "Everyone in the States knows Bonn". Times are changing.
'Course we do have deer. Bambi is originally a German kids' tale. But since the Disney movie there has been confusion about the type of deer Bambi is due to translation misunderstandings
We have very green cities. It’s very common to have random trees in between buildings, even in very huge cities like Munich. We also have lots of tree alleys, small parks and such in the middle of most cities. We like it green :D also most cities grew kind of organically over 100s, sometimes 1000s of years, so they developed very differently than typical American cities and thus look very different :)
And as to your question wether it is rude to drink coffee during a video in Germany: i’ve never heard that anyone considered it rude so you can totally go ahead :)
P.s. I didn’t recognise who’s statue that was either, with this kinda molten face.. so don’t put yourself down! You’re doing great videos and it’s natural to not know everything, especially if you’re from a whole different country :)
Danke, sonst hätte ich‘s schreiben müssen 😁
That is Konrad Adenauer
@@eragonshurtugal4239 ... to complete: first chancelor after world war II
@@eragonshurtugal4239 der erste Nachkriegskanzler Deutschlands
@@caccioman Ach wirklich, ich dachte der wäre Oberbürgermeister von Köln gewesen ;-)
I recommend to You "Wildes Deutschland", a documentary series about german naturę and its Wildlife...and Most Episodes are available for free...
This is so cool! I am from Bonn and its so funny to see your reaction, I know so many of the places in this video. For example, the research museum. It is actually called "Museum König" and there are stuffed animals from all countries and regiones. It's pretty creepy when you think about it, but when I was a kid it was always a highlight. Exept from the polar bear, I was very scared. I went there with my kindergarten, primary school class or my grandma and yes... the binoculars are unnecessary, but they are given from the museum and add to the wildlife feeling, which is also created by temperature and soundscape.
Beethoven is pretty big in Bonn. There are actually traffic lights with his face on them. His 250th birthday was celebrated recently and there was a big party in front of the townhall. By the way, I can also recommend another café in Bonn-Beuel, if anyone is interested... "Mayras Wohnzimmer" on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz. Very nice and tasty in there.
When I was younger I always compromised with my parents for the Drachenfels. We took the cable car up and then walked back down. The buildings you can see from the top should be Königswinter (a small town near Bonn)
Anyway, was pretty cool to see an American react to my hometown...😊
Danke!
Thank you so much!!
Of course they have a Haribo shop in Bonn, because the brand originates in Bonn. Ha-Ri-Bo, the last two letters stand for "Bonn". The first 4 for the first and last name of the founder.
Holy moly. I am from Bonn, too and it is so cool to see all these places i see almost daily. In Summer 2022 Robby Williams gave his long delayed concert on the Hofgartenwiese ( the giant lawn in front of the university ( yellow building). If you ever make it to bonn you have to visit a lot. I hope that we can enjoy "Rhine in flames" im Mai agin. At timestamp 10:53 you see the city of Bad Honnef. You have to turn around to see Bonn with the giant "Posttower" and the other remarkable buildings. Funfact: The city at the end was Bonn, not cologne. It was to cloudy or foggy to be seen.
The museum island was in Berlin, Ryan 😂
Don't be too scared to offend us Germans. We can take it 💪. And no, drinking coffee in a YT video is not considered rude 💝
Please check out Cologne, that's my home town
That must be the most German-sounding German-accent I have heard in a while^^ Love it.
BTW: Most German cities are known to be very "green" = lots of trees and parks. So yes, that is a city.
Want me to let you in on a little secret? As Bonn is the origin of Haribo they have a shop specifically linked to the factories. It's not the tiny shop shown in the video but an enormous building the size of a storage hall, filled up to the roof with every imaginable Haribo variation. You can also buy damaged goods (which taste and look just fine) for a lower price in boxes of 4, 8 or more kilo. You can also arrange your own box of sweets and it's all much cheaper then buying it in a supermarket.
7:26 No, the famous museum island is in Berlin. Munich has a museum island as well. Frankfurt has a museum riverbank. In Bonn it's called museum mile.
4:57 Looks like Konrad Adenauer to me, the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and the guy responsible for making Bonn the seat of government (supposedly because he lived nearby). He's not melting, that's just art.
It's also the former mayor of Bonn, before he became chancelor.
It's not art, he just really looked like that. Unless you think the way he looked was art.
@@bulldowozer5858 he was mayor of Cologne, not Bonn :)
At 1:15 we see his official car.
The big head is Konrad Adenauer, the 1. Bundeskanzler after the 2. world war. Bonn is 20-25 km near Köln . The big river under the Drachenfels is named Rhein. The Rhein flows from Switzerland through completly Germany into the northsea.
Hi Ryan, the reason for using Bonn as the capital of Western Germany was very simple. Berlin was in the middle of the Soviet Sector and well, using the capital in the middle of the "enemy" is not the best idea. So Bonn was chosen as a provisionally capital, because there was always hope for a reunion.
Wrong: The three western sectors of Berlin were under control of the three western forces, the Soviets held their own sector, of course. All four sectors still were Berlin as an entity. When the three western zones of Germany got their new currency in June 1948 it was introduced in the three western sectors of Berlin as well. The Soviets fumed with rage and put the three western sectors under siege. They gave that up in 1949 when they had realized they could not win (Allied airlift) and that they could not prevent the three western allies from giving the Germans in the three western zones a great deal of souvereignty back so that they could found their own republic. But, very, very big BUT, the three western sectors of Berlin never belonged to the Federal Republic until October 1990 when all that allied souvereignty over Germany stopped. There were strong legal ties between West-Berlin and the Federal Republic, such as the same currency, passports, most laws...There even was a government office of the Federal Republic in West-Berlin, despite constant Soviet protests, but West-Berlin was no part of the Federal Republic.
@@christiankastorf4836 Addition: One sign of that are postal stamps. They had the same stamps in Berlin as in the "rest" of West-Germany. But, while the stamps in West-Germany were issued by the Deutsche Bundespost, the stamps from Berlin showed "Deutsche Bundespost Berlin".
The reason was: Somebody had payed money for Bonn. Frankfurt had allready build a parliament building (today its the headquater of Hessischer Rundfunk).
@@icetwo Leave us alone with conspiracy theories. Frankfurt would have been a good place because of the Paulskirche and the 1848 revolution. Frankfurt therefore symbolized "black-red-gold", freedom and unity, unity in freedom as far as the German people are concerned (this is reference to our anthem) more than Berlin and that unimportant Bonn, but Frankfurt was the site of Allied headquarters in the west and it had to be avoided that the newly born Federal Republic was seen as a mere Allied puppet. The vote for Bonn against Frankfurt was very close, by the way, but how many people would have had to be silent about bribery?
Forget everything you hear about Bonn. That place only has one purpose, which is to produce the largest freakin goldbear you can imagine 😂
some nice points - but they actually passed over Poppelsdorf and that pretty botanical garden completely.
Bonn is sort of lacated in between forests - the "Uniklinik" is located at the edga of the forest and it's really nice for visitors to be able to get into a green area fast (also for recreational purposes)
And yes, we also live close by
I alway tend to say we live between Bonn and Cologne
between Bonn and Cologne ? Wesseling?
@@paulnesseler5809 Haha, just wanted to comment the same thing 😂 You are not connected to Nesseler & Esser in some way, are you?
🤭🤣Oh my god! ...The world is a tiny little village!!!.....😂😂👏
Or maybe Troisdorf? If you live on the better side of the Rhine... like me! Schäl Sick hat abends länger Sonne am Rhein!
Theres so much more interesting stuff about bonn, i lived there for 3 months, its a beautiful city. And our buildings in germany arent that high everywhere, and having lots of green places inside the city is actually a PRO for that city. So more trees the better air quality and comfort, etc.
As someone who has been to Drachenfels very often, I can only say the best strategy is to drive up and walk down. So you experience everything 😀
Fun fact: there is a traincar in the underground of the "House of German history" which was part of the official train of the first chancellor. They put it there and built the museum around / atop of it 😁
Most state universities in Germany have a fee of about 300€ per semester
Books have to be bought by yourself most of the time though and they can be pretty expensive
Depending on what and where you study, you don't have to buy many books, though, as you can just borrow them from the library for free. The fee you are talking about is also not really a fee as its used directly for the benefit of the student body.
Hello Ryan, I live near the Edersee. A dam wall was built in this lake over a hundred years ago, which was bombed out in WW2. In August/September many things (bridges, villages and much more) can be seen again. Around the lake there are many things to see such as a zoo, hiking and biking trails, a treetop walk, a castle with a hotel built before 1120 and much more. I am one of your German subscribers and would be very happy if you would visit this region and maybe meet up. Greetings Stephi ☺
Uii! Hello from Marburg! Yes, the Edersee (Eder lake) area is beautiful!
Yes the Edersee is so pretty like the region itself.
greetings from Kassel :)
Hi Ryan, I have something else for you here. If you want to see something about or from Germany, there is a 13-minute video here on TH-cam. I once equipped a map of Germany for myself with points from the cities / sites and there is hardly an area that is not on it. However, there are still many beautiful corners in Germany apart from the video. Maybe you'll make a reaction to it. th-cam.com/video/ZbTn9G4bhOQ/w-d-xo.html Unfortunately, the subtitles are in German, but that might help with the search for the location. Greetings Stephi
The city (with the trees) you can see is called "Bad Honnef". It's my home town.
Ryan, you would be surprised. The BO in Haribo stands for BONN.
You don t have to feel sry, I am really enjoying waatching you learning new stuff about my country not knowing about something makes it even more entertaining watching you experiencing for the first time
In Germany most of the cities don't have big Skyscrapers. It's more a Frankfurt Kind of Style but most of the cities do have a lot of trees and green spaces. Just take a look at Maps. Its not like the big cities with just one big park! Most of the Germans really do like their trees and a green surrounding at all. Except a few😄
You said "30 meters" instead of "100 feet" 😃 Some kind of influence is allready kicking in!
thirty metres ?? don't mind me - I am only an Australian being silly :) we all know what you mean
Famous saying about Bonn: Bonn is half as big as the cemetary of Chicago - and double as dead.
9:07 there are many great documentation about the german wildlife, but in german 😅
Although it depends on the region/habitat.
Urban: mice, rat, hedgehog, bunny, rabbit, racoon (important Form usa), falcon, dove, different tit species, blackbird, throttle, crow, raven, german magie, European red squirrel and sometimes Red foxes
Fields and meadows: everything above + deers, wild boar,german badger, mader, weasel, hamster
Mountain: some of the above + goats, eagles, marmots
Forests: above+ some wolf's, European lynx, owls and owlletts, middle European wildcat
Coast: seagulls, (of course raven, crow and dove), seal, jellyfish, fisch broadly, porpoise, shells, crabs, jellyseal, seestar
River and ponds: fish, duck and GEESE THATS GEESE
Very rough remembered
I met my husband in Bonn, and we got married there! Actually in the very nice old white building early in the video, the old city hall (Rathaus). So I really like Bonn very much.
5:06 Konrad Adenauer
1:15 Also an Adenauer, this time his car
7:35 No the Museum Island is in Berlin. But Bonn has a lot of Museums too, as it once hosted the Parlament and was of importance because of Beethoven anyway.
"I'm here to learn"
That is exactly what makes your videos fun to watch even when I know most of the things you make videos about.
"Does germany have deer?"
Of course we have. Lots of deer, because we have lots of forest. We have deer, wild cats, wild boars, badgers, racoons, we have foxes and wolves. We used to have bears, but those have gone extinct in germany for almost 200 years now, due to excessive hunting. You still find bears in eastern and northern european countries. Fun fact: Our racoons immigrated from the US.
Königswinter has a rack or sometimes called cog railway. A cable car is normally hanging on a cable and going up a high mountains. In the video they show the view to Bad Honnef which is further south than Bonn .
No wonder there is a a Haribo shop, as Haribo was founded and manufactured in Bonn, Haribo mean HAns RIegel BOnn. Oh, the basic variations of hot chocolate are all about different spirits to add (Rum, Whiskey, Amaretto etc) and the sort and ammount of cream to add. The big head was Adenauer, the first german chancelor fter WW2. And most of the museums are federal institutions, a reminicent of being a former capital of some decades. After WW2 the small town Bonn was especially selected as capital for they did not want to leave Berlin out (those days they could not select Berlin, it was occupied) and they did not select a city comparable to Berlin (like Frankfurt, Hamburg or Munich) to avoid a competitionj between the cities.
The "Drachenfels" is pretty awesome, i was there so many times.🤩 Its a little bit sad, that they showed not everthing about it.😅 There is a big hall with a beatiful glass dome and some nice artwork on the floor and they show the Zodiac signs. They are also some paintings and information about "Siegfried und die Niebelungensaga." Its a famous german legend, in which the knight Siegfried kills the dragon.🐉 Somewhere on the "Drachenfels", there is a little cave too, in which you can see a stone dragon. And the cable cart is actualy a rack railway (i dont know if this is the correkt translation). It has a special mecanism and its one of the last trains working like this.
“This can’t be a city, there are a lot of trees”
Most American thing to say xD
The little town you looked down from the Drachenfels is Bad Honnef. My Hometown. Its a few Kilometers away from Bonn and has a little over 20000 people living there.
The sculpture shows the face of Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of Western Germany, after the second world war. Even though not 100% comparable, in the US that would be George Washington.
"Drachenfels" ❤️ Thr place where my daughter made her first steps.
It would be cool, if you watch a video about the history of Bonn. I think it is much more fascinating that the city today.
Konrad Adenauer first German chancellor looked like this .he also was the inventor of the soja-sausage.(during ww1)
I'm from Bonn...
Bonn has the museum mile...
meaning, there are several museums within a mile along the road...
Bonn is home to Haribo... (Ha-ns Ri-gel Bo-nn) and is former capital city of West Germany before Reunification.
When you're on top of the Drachenfels the city Bonn is on the right side. What you just saw wasn't the actual city. Been on the Drachenfels on New years and it looked fantastic seeing all the fireworks shooting into the sky
hi fireworks is bad for animal and nature, sry to say those i am not a friend of those but a huge fan of lantern and in germany is a event lantern parade more for children with the text:
My light is small, I walk alone
Rabimmel, rabammel, rabum
My light is small, I walk alone
Rabimmel, rabammel, rabum
that's what i like more
The decision to make Bonn the capital of West Germany was based partly on defensive considerations. It was one of the larger cities west of the Rhine river. That made it about as far from the inner German border as you could get without leaving the country. The Rhine river also gave a serious bit of protection because without bridges it is very difficult to cross at the site of Bonn.
Yet it didn't contain many of the historical buildings so prevalent in Aachen, Cologne, etc. In case of a conventional attack by the Soviets the loss of life and culture would have been comparatively small. Also, it never had been any kind of major cultural center before with the exception of Beethoven. In case of a nuclear strike it would give the governing personnel at least a tiny chance of survival in case the alarm got out early enough.
The government nuclear bunker's secret entrance was in a garage on the end of a block of garages of a fairly low income apartment block only ten minutes, either by car or on foot from the Bundestag building. This entrance was kept a secret until it was decommissioned after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Even the location of the bunker was only revealed to the top tier government personnel.
All universities in Germany, with the exception of a handful of private universities, are tuition free. Sure, you need a certain grade point average for certain curriculae, but after that all courses are free of tuition charges or limitations. Yes, there are minor administration charges of between 150 to 350 € per semester, so 300-700€ a year (currently the euro is about equal to the US dollar).
FYI, that usually includes a semester ticket for all of the local public transporation association the university is located in. That covers all of the city plus a major part of the surrounding landscape usually. In addition to that many other tickets have a reduced student charge. So if you use your student pass even a few times a semester you can probably get your money's worth in savings from it. With somewhat regular usage you will DEFINITELY get your money back, not even considering that you still have your higher education covered.
Nope, it's NOT a scholarship in which room and board is covered as well. Those are costs you still have to cover yourself.
Wildlife, as in 'really wild animals' that haven't seen a human being before, probably doesn't exist in Germany. Germany is much too crowded for that, and Germans have cultivated 'the crap out of their country for the last 1000 years' (quote: Barbi from Geography Now!). So the amount of real wild landscapes is VERY small. There are only a few hundred acres of true wild forest left on the German/Polish border; and even their status as 'wild forest' is debatable. Everything else has definitely been used before for lumber or agriculture pr settlements.
The only somewhat wild animals around are deer, boar, and fowl of all kind. Birds are mostly migratory. There are two or three (yes, 2 or 3) wolf packs, under strict supervision by animal protection agencies, that have migrated back in from Poland. No known free-roaming bears exist anymore. Otherwise smaller rodents or mustelids like badgers, hedgehogs, etc are still around.
Few cities in Germany have really tall skyscrapers. Some highrises, possibly, but even then most buildings top out at five storeys/floors. Frankfurt a.M. has the most skyscrapers in Germany.
All others fall far behind in both the number and height of buildings. That's mostly because those cities retained a lot of their traditional building restrictions that limited the height of buildings to be lower than the local cathedral's or church's steeple. That began as a stipulation by the church itsself, then became a tradition regardless of religion over time. Today few people think about it.
In that regard we are fortunate because cities which allow winds to circulate above the buildings tend to suffer less from wind tunnel effects than highrise and skyscraper congested buildings.
In addition, it somehow looks nicer. But that's my own taste and opinion.
thank you, that was very interesting
Watching your video made me a little homesick 😪 We are originally from Cologne, but moved to Boston a year and a half ago.
"Drachenfels" (dragons rock) is a rock, a castle and a noble family line. I know someone who has the family name "von Drachenfels", being a descendant and she has distant relatives who also have the noble title in their family name (for those who don't know: Noble titles got banned in Germany ages ago, turning into a name title or a name prefix. Later on, it was turned into a part of the family name only, the ones who had a noble title prefix - like 'earl of' or 'duchess of' could choose to just abandon it. We now have people running around whose family names are 'Princess of Saxony' and 'Lord of Turn and Taxis' and so on.). We once visited with a group of friends that castle and she was like 'nah, not feeling living here. Imagine having to clean those floors and walls duh.' - can't get more german.
Hey Ryan, first, thanks for your entertaining channel. Love it!
As to the island thing. We do have islands in the north of Germany with Sylt being the most famous one and some kind of german vip hot spot. But the museums islands in Deutschland aren't at see but in rivers. There are two. The one in the quiz you did is in Berlin and an island in the river Spree. The island has not one but 5 museums on it including the Pergamonmuseum. Munich also has an island with one museum on it. It's in the river Isar and the museum is called Deutsches Museum.
Museum island is in Berlin, it's a small island in the river "Spree" that goes through the city.
10:43 That's Röhndorf, part of Bad Honnef. Bonn is down the other direction of the Rhine.
Hey Ryan, don't worry about the test. Those questions were ridiculous :D You need to live and work in germany for a few years to know most of them :D You are not dumb and America is a great countrey full of amazing people. I am german and got one wrong, too. Greetings
11:00 Yes, and therein lies one of the problems of American city design. Trees improve cities. It makes them livable and also contribute positively to the CO2/O2 exchange rate.
Bonn is the best city. I lived in many cities all over Germany, but Bonn is my absolute favorite! You should come visit the old town during the cherry blossom.
Museum Island is in Berlin. Bonn has a population similar to Iceland. It is "headquarters" of the companies T-Mobile US (Deutsche Telekom), DHL, Haribo (Haribo will soon open a US manufacturing facility in Wisconsin).
There's a huge difference between german cities and american cities. In our cities, we try to have as much trees as possible.. still. It's good for the city climate and for the people, to relax and enjoy the cities. :) Nice video, by the way
The Museum Island You were mentioning is an complex made up of 5 museums in Berlin. It is situated on an island in the river Spree and part of the historic center of Berlin.
And yes, there are numerous islands in Germany. In fact, Germany has around 100 islands in the North Sea (East and North Frisian Islands) and the Baltic Sea, including well known travel destinations as Rügen, Usedom, Sylt, Föhr, Norderney or Fehmarn (and many others). And there is also Heligoland, the only "Off Shore" Island of Germany with quite an interesting history. There are also many famous Lake Islands e.g. the islands of Mainau, Reichenau and Lindau in Lake Constance (Bodensee in german); Herreninsel and Fraueninsel in Lake Chiemsee, Roseninsel in Starnberger See, Wilhelmstein Island in Steinhuder Meer and some quite picturesque island in the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau.
TH-cam Tips: Discover Sylt by DW, Sylt by Easy German, Rügen - The Treasure Island by DW, Heligoland Tips by DW, Usedom from above by DW.
The 'deer' you saw were some kind of antelope and I doubt you can see zebras running around in Texas :D
Btw, we have Red deer, Roe deer, Fallow deer, Sika deer (with the latter being an invasive species, but they don't seem to cause harm). Roe deer are the most common with estimations of 2 Million animals living in Germany
In the Museum at the beginning of the Film was the German constitution written after WWII. 5:00 It's a sculpture of the first Chancelor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer.
10:54 „It doesn’t look like a city.“
That’s right, medium-sized cities in Germany typically don‘t have much of a skyline or skyscrapers like American cities, and Bonn isn’t that big of a city.
Also, the view is on Bad Honnef and not Bonn, Bonn is in the opposite direction on the other side of the rhine. Bonn looks a lot larger and like a city. For comparison, the city in view has 25k residents and Bonn has 325k residents.
@@bamdebambambam I guess I just embarrassed myself pretty bad.
2:35 What's so unusual with a Haribo shop. In Manhattan there is a huge shop for M&M.
Islands…
That Museum Island is in Berlin.
We have Islands in the North Sea and East Sea, than there are Islands in Lakes like Mainau and we have Islands in Rivers…
So actually, we have quite some Islands here 😅
Haha aw Ryan, don't be too hard on yourself!! I personally think that the test you took had many quite specific questions regarding Germany that I don't think many people from outside the country would get right. Being able to take something new to learn from it is what matters!! It makes following your journey all the more enjoyable
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Oh verstehe, das erklärt die Auswahl der Fragen. Scheint so, als wäre er da blind reingegangen :D
The "Museum Island" is located in Berlin, not in Bonn. The island is sorroundet by the river Spree.
The Train to the Drachenfels is no cable car it's a rack railway.
Yeah!!! I am from Bonn! And I went to the university of Bonn. Not lying, but going to lectures in a beautiful castel was really awesome. Love my Alma Mater.
Maybe you should watch a video about German islands like Rügen, Helgoland or the Halligen (witch are almost compleedly flooded during storm surges and keep the residents caught in the sea). But I wouldn't recommend a video about Museumsinsel because it's "just" a river island in the middle of Berlin, with a bunch of museums on it - but still cool.
The Museum Island is in Berlin, but there is also one in Munic
HARIBO stands for „Hans Riegel Bonn“ bc it was invented by Hans Riegel in Bonn
The Museum Island is in Berlin, the river Spree bifurcates in Berlin, thus creating a small island in the center.
The face/guy was Konrad Adenauer, the first Bundeskanzler.
The "Museumsinsel" is in Berlin
Germany has some islands: Rügen, Norderney, Borkum, Sylt, Helgoland, Usedom and some more in the north
In the Bodensee/Lake Konstanz ther are the Islands of Lindau, the Island Mainau which is famos for its gardens (from the Family Bernadotte) and the Island of Reichenau an Island where in the medeival times was an monastery/abbey and now there grow very good vegetables.
The famouse "St. Galler Klosterplan/ Abbey plan of Saint Gall" was written between 819 and 826 in the Abbey Reichenau
11:00 I have seen houses and trees together at Lake Tahoe, at Cairo/Texas and New Hampshire. I think there a some more spots in US. I remember so well because I was then thinking of burning trees - what about the houses then. But you are right in Germany we have a lot of trees in City suburbs mostly when they are build long time ago and didn´t get destroyed in war II.
Well Admission to a german University in general is normally free. You only have to pay a small administration fee per semester, usually about 200-400 euro, which at most university includes the public transportation fee, meaning you can take all the regional public transportation.
The museum island is an island in the river Spree in Berlin.
The HARIBO store is actually amazing. They have every kind of haribo there, also a few which you cant even buy in a Supermarket, and you can mix yourself some different candies and then pay for the weight.
So far he called a gazelle a deer and a goose a duck.
I don't know why I find that so funny, but I am currently dying of laughter. 😂
Museum König is the place our Grundgesetz was written (under the elder chairman and becoming Kanzler Adenauer / the brass head sculpture)
The Museum Island is in the center of Berlin. Its on a small island in the Spree river.
Also germany has a multitude of different islands since we boarder on 2 different Seas.
you can find wildlife in germany kind of only in the „Naturschutzgebiete“ wildlive reservoir. like the bayerische wald, the lüneburger heide or the wattenmeer
I like how this is genuine and real reactions! Other than ToastKen!
The cup comes straight outta nowhere :))
PS: the melting statue is Konrad Adenauer first chancellor after WW2
Lol! Just watching this from Bonn. Greetings!
you dont shouldnt take you bad score on that test to heart i felt a lot questions no one not lifeing and or speaking germany would have known. anyway i realy enjoy your videos enjoying videos about germany maybe you sometime will get the chance to come here experincing the "real deal", i would want to believe you could get a good time and also a new video type adding your own experiences to it
He actually said "Heute sind wir in Bonn" at the beginning, where he was dubbed over, but the lip movement looks similar. This is also what Germans mostly try to go for, when dubbing English movies, to make the lip movements match as well as possible with the translation, while still translating correctly, by just using a different sentence structure/rhythm sometimes and good timing.
I love Bonn. I was at the University there. Such a beautiful town full of history and a lot of museums, but not on an island.
I think on part where a lot of this museums are located is called Museums Meile (Mile of museums).
You should watch a video about another beautiful part of Germany called Pfalz. There you could probably find the wildlife.
7:28 @Ryan Wass Nope, this isn't the museum island you've heard about. That one is actually in Berlin ;)
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany ooh cool, ich wusste nicht, dass es in München auch eine Museumsinsel gibt. Ich kannte nur die in Berlin. Danke dir! 🤗
The town you are looking down from the Drachenfels is Bad Honnef. A town near Bonn where the first chancellor of Germany after WWII, Konrad Adenauer (the melting head, you're asking about), lived.