American reacts to Hiking in Germany vs USA
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For me as an German I don’t know why you’re so confused that Germans randomly walk. It’s completely normal here. Last week me and my friends walked 30 kilometres still for fun. After it our feet were destroyed and everything hurts xd
Wouldn't be normal for you if your property is surrounded by wide stroads and your first step outside is a death sentence.
That reminds me of my time in the Bundeswehr where we also hike these distances, but not really for fun. 😂😉
In germany we call it "kurzer Spaziergang"
@@GilbMLRS that sounds horrible
Did a 70km bicycle ride with a frind of mine..just for fun. As you say total normal here.
In Germany the general public has the right of way in all forests if you are there for recreation. So generally speaking even privately owned forests have to be accessible to everyone.
But there are also many areas fenced off to protect young trees from deer and so on
@@ogcaveman8120 These are exceptions. In general it is not allowed to set up fences in the countryside that interfere with the migration of wild animals. You need an individual permission to set up a fence in the open country even on your own property.
Unless there is a special place inside the Forrest wich is possibly harmful... Like old military training grounds, bunkers that might have ammunition buried around, or ammunition depots (wich are usually in Forrests)
@@ogcaveman8120no, only around the trees itself or with a special permit
@@akteno2796 He may be talking about Baumschule, but those are a different thing entirely imo.
Poison ivy is a North American plant and atypical for Europe. Normally you only find it in botanical gardens here in Germany. But it is sometimes sighted in parks or by people on hiking trails. Then it is removed by specialists. All the leaves on the ground are from all the past autumns. It takes a long time for the leafs until they rotted to dirt. For the flora and fauna it is important to let them lay on the ground.
bur we have Utica and Thistle
I totally forgot for a second that Poison Ivy is Efeu, I thought it was Brennessel for a moment and got confused xD
@@Pausenton yeah, but they are so much less dangerous than poison ivy.
@@lotemylife3006 Nein, Efeu ist was anderes. Giftsumach ist poison ivy.
@@steemlenn8797 Uff, viel zu viele komische Pflanzen, die einem wehtun können xD Danke ^^
(Grade nachgeschaut, poison ivy actually is Efeu, but it's specifically Giftefeu :D)
Von Giftsumach hab ich noch nie was gehört xD Aber liegt vllt am Bundesland oder so :D
It is not only "public" - even on private property (paths on private owned forrest, paths on Farm land) the owner must - by law - allow everyone to have access and let them walk on the paths.
It must be allowed for recreational purpose and small groups. In case of some kind of a bigger group or event you have to get the permition of the owner (obviously).
So friends&family are fine to go where they please, but not a bus full of wandering/hiking tourists.
@@groundloss And foraging is allowed to an extent-there were cases were "certain groups" went into forests and took out big bags of mushroom to sell. Not allowed. You can get berries, wood, or mushrooms in the amount that fits in a hand basket. You can not cut trees but get dry downed twigs in the amount that fits in a hand. Enjoy nature, cheers!
There are even very, very long hiking trails acoss Europe, called "Europäischer Fernwanderweg" (European Long Distance Hiking Trail). They cross the Alpes, or other mountain regions like the Pyrenees, which is often the case when you hike along the St. James's Way (Camino de Santiago) from Germany to Northern Spain to get to Santiago de Compostela (old pilgrimage route).
That's pretty much how it looks almost everywhere in germany. Depending on the region with a few more or less mountains.
I walk/bike 10km a day after work. Leave my house and walk 2 min to trails like this. This is why i love village life.
For clearense: it's not allowed to have your dog unleashed in the woods, to prevent them from disturbing wildlife and run off hunting, like his dog did.
U was on the country side ever?. no dog is on the leash
yeah I was like "wtf" when he casually said that his dog is probably somewhere "chasing something". that's a big no no!
@@DaxRaiderI think it depends on the people who live there. I lived on the country side and everyone had their dogs leashed
I'm from Germany and in my area it was OK to have your dog off the leash BUT the dog had to be obedient enough to come to heel immediately when called, ie not chase wildlife or run up to random people who might be scared of dogs etc.
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 It doesn't need to be scared to be uncomfortable if a dog sniffs at your feet.
There are 300.000 km (185000 miles) of hiking trails in Germany. The longest of which is the Nord süd Trail (over 3500 km). There is also the "Wanderweg der Deutschen einheit" which connects the easternmost and westernmost points of Germany with a distance of 1080 km. (Don't worry, very few people actually hike across the whole length of these.) So yes, you could definitely cross the country on a hiking trail.
The thing about fruit trees... You can walk up to it an have one, even take a second one with you for later no problem. If you drive up with a trailer and empty it... definitely not allowed. Even if there's no fence, that's somebody's tree.
Mundraub 😊
There is even a law that not only tree but farm crops also you as a 'Wanderer' are allowed to take one, more so the farmer is not allowed to deny you one piece since it won't hurt the farmer but could save a hungry persons life
@@Kath-Erina Many fruit trees were planted on the rim of the street to allow just that. I think that is a case of "allmende", I would translate it to "owned and cared for by all".
@@RealMash die Allmende = (the) Commons
@@jan-matthisweng4437 Thank you!
In Germany, and I’d say the vast majority of Europe, land not zone for building on (residential, commercial, recreational, eg, a golf course) is accessible to everyone.
i think there is a big difference between hiking in the US, like backpacking in a national park, something you do as vacation activity, and "walking around" in Germany. you can just go on a stroll of a few miles, right where you live. Germans also hike, like for days on end in the alps from hostel to hostel, or such. but what makes germany different from the US is walking in the woods near your house.
Imagine my culture shock as German, travelling young and stupid through US with the idea "well, let's just walk there or take the train" 🤣
Yes, that is a very beautiful side of Germany. You step out of the house and can walk or cycle for hours away from the roads, across the fields and through the forests. On nice summer days and on the weekend, a lot of people in Germany do that. Maybe that's why you can find so many excursion restaurants in the forests and away from the villages. However, these can usually also be reached by car. Think this "Wanderlust" is something very German. Haven't heard that this is so popular in other European countries.
Österreich und Schweiz auch
For me it's crazy to see that you don't know this kind of trails, they are so completely normal over here.
And I really love hiking, tomorrow I'm traveling to Munich to start at an extreme hiking event on Saturday where you have to finish 100 km in 24 hours and I'm really excited 🤗
You can't have them in the US because there would be someone shooting at you every half mile for "trespassing" on their property.
At least if you are black.
Viel Spaß und gut sitzende Schuhe, das möchte ich auch gerne mal machen.
@@Jezziez Dankeschön :) Ich kann es nur empfehlen, es ist jedes Mal ein super Erlebnis, für das sich die ganzen Strapazen lohnen. Es gibt auch eine ganze Reihe 50 bzw. 55km/12h Veranstaltungen in unterschiedlichen Städten, wenn man sich an das Ganze rantasten möchte. Einfach nach Mammutmarsch oder Megamarsch gucken, das sind die beiden Hauptveranstalter in Deutschland
There are a lot of long-distance hiking paths in Germany, like the Rennsteig (170 km / 105 miles) in Thüringen, the Malerweg (86 km / 54 miles) in the Saxonian Switzerland (where freeclimbing was invented, as far as I know) or the Heidschnuckenweg (223 km / 138 miles) in Northern Germany and many, many more, connecting both cultural and landscape beauties. They lead trough small villages with multipel ways to stay overnight from luxuory castle-hotels to youth-hostels or private rooms, so you can walk with small gear and stay yet comfortable.
And there are also marked hiking routes through whole Europe, connecting several countries like the Fernwanderweg E1 (Long-distance-way E1) leading from the north of Norway nearly 5000 miles to the south of Italy...
A classmate of mine once walked from Hamburg to Munich. I heard a lot of people doing this. And my aunt and uncle even crossed the alps.
Not only are the trails nice, but also the sign network is getting better. A lot of the time you get by with bike sign which typically tell you the nearest and bigger villages/cities. But especially in areas near cities there are often many signs that guide you onto smaller paths or to beautiful lookouts or other attractions. Last year, I helped document places where new signs should be installed and I can’t wait to see them in the wild (still a lot of bureaucracy going on 🙄). If anyone’s curious the area I’m talking about is the Steigerwald in Frankonia, northern Bavaria.
There are big European trails. The E1 goes for example from the Nordkapp (in the North of Norway) down to Capo Passero in sicalli
There is a quite common German app: "Komoot". In this there are hundreds of thousands of hiking and cycling tours. Created by the users themselves. In every small town you can find hundreds of hiking and biking tours and interesting places right on your doorstep.
If Germans are already developing their own app for hikes and bike tours, you know how serious the topic is. :)
Like our humors, it is not a laughing matter. We take recreation serious, of course.
6:13
I think what you've mistaken for poison ivy are just some brambles, which you are much more likely to come across here in Germany. We've also got different ivy that is native and can be found frequently, but that one's only poisonous when consumed.
Probably one of the longest hiking trails in Europe is the famous Jacobs Pligrims Trail. The classical Camino Frances is about 800 km, starts in France and goes through northern Spain till Santiago de Compostella. But there are extensions that already start in Germany, even the Baltic, so the way can be much much longer. Look for "ich bin dann mal weg" for a famous book and movie about it by the german comedian Harpe Kerkeling.
It's probably early autumn there, the larger trees already lost some leaves, the smaller bushes that are used to having less sunlight are still green.
There is no Poison ivy in Europe.
At least not as a wild plant. Only in places where human cultivated it, and then it doesnt have a wide spread.
Why on Earth would one cultivate that? 🤔
@@eva_annety Humans are not that smart ;o).
Only in gotham
no, we only have nettles 🤣👍
In Germany there is also a "right of public access", which means that pedestrians and cyclists can actually use every forest and field (with restrictions also riders). Even if it's privately owned. Of course, you can only enter fields as long as you don't destroy any crops.
Some military areas are also free for pedestrian and cyclist. On top, some military training areas even organize special events for pedestrian/walker and cyclists on their premises. Because such military areas often have beautiful natural landscapes and streets without traffic.
From north to south Germany there are great hiking and biking trails that are also signposted. In the forest so you don`t get lost or there are also stretches along rivers where you can eat and drink or even stay overnight.
Ryan I think if one day you came to Germany it would really open your eyes on a lot of things.
Of course you’d need to leave the cities for that and spend time in rural areas, but thanks to our train network that’s often just 30-60 minutes outside of the city centers even by regional light rail (S-Bahn).
You’d be surprised how easily you can just go anywhere you want. I mean there is private property but 99.9% of the time that’s really just in the direct vicinity houses or farm buildings, not everywhere around those buildings.
Walking from one village to another can be done by just taking any dirt road or gravel path, we call them field paths or „Feldwege“ in German.
And of course you’d need to cross a road at some point but since our highways (Autobahn) have underpasses or overpasses for all the small rural roads around them you could just easily go through a short tunnel or over a bridge there.
And all the other roads aren’t really problematic for crossing, it’s not like we only have super busy roads.
I think there is no poison ivy here in Germany, but there is a different herb that can sting and itch quite a bit: Brennnessel (latin name Urtica)
I am pretty sure that rabbit ran away from the owner and is not "wild". He should have saved it and bring it to the animal shelter...
Why? Looked the same as a wild one.
@@asddasdasdasdadsaWild Rabbits are more grey/brown and have only one color. The rabbit in the video looks like a pet.
Hasen sind eher grau/braun und sind einfarbig.
Der "Hase" im Video sieht aus wie ein Kaninchen/Haustier.
Yeah, that was definitely a pet rabbit who was either abandoned or ran away. Wild rabbits look *very* different from this. Makes me real sad to think of this poor baby, scared and alone :(
@@holgerczubka5453 ja aber hab schon beide arten frei im wald gesehen, ist es der Standard ne gebe ich dir recht aber nachdem der weder gechipped noch sonstige merkmale hatte das es ein Haustier wäre würde ich davon ausgehen das entweder ein verwildertes haustier ist oder ein wildtier. Gibt auch wildlebende Hauskatzen irngenwo müssen die ja herkommen.
@@asddasdasdasdadsa Meine sind nicht wild und sehen aus wie Wildkaninchen , grau - braun , und die Unterseite heller
In Norway it's the same....people walk for enjoyment,to relax,or to get exercise.Wouldn't you if you had all this beauty around.I pick wild mushrooms,and berries every day now
Hey Ryan great video as usual. I've been to St Louis last year for a semester and we went to multiple parcs in Missouri and I have to say that the US does have some fancy hiking paths. What the german do better is that not every road is a driving road for cars and going through the forests is allowed if it doesnt say so anywhere on a sign. So basically a hike doesnt have to be far away from home which is great for us. One thing I didn't like in the US last year was that in small cities like Edwardsville IL, everything is done by car. I was doing a small work in the city on a somewhat busy road (no sidewalk) and in that 5 minute span two different guys stopped asking if I was okay, which has never happend in germany to me before.
Would love you to come over to germany and see what it is like yourself
Technically you could follow the "Jakobsweg" Which is an network of old Pilgrims' ways all the way from Lissabon in Portugal to Berlin with a Stop in Paris on the way and even farther east.
So you not only can hike all the way through germany but a big portion of europe too.
All the forests around where I live are connected. There are tunnels to go under the motor ways for crossing. One time, we rode bicycles for 5 hours, not intentionally, we were just trying to go to a chocolate factory not far away, but we were lost, so had a big round tour around the surrounding villages.
So what do you think happens to the fallen leaves in the woods after fall? They need about 3 years to rott/compost (not sure what's the right word in English). So of course they are still there in the summer. You need to do a hiking trip in one of your national parks with woods 😅
nonononononooo! ou have to rake the forests to prevent wildfires like now. Rake them I say, rake them! Do not let the libtards make you let the.. do not let them... rake it! rake it!
I think decompose would be the right word. And yes, that remark confused me too. Of course it takes a few years for the leaves to decompose, especially because the process pretty much comes to a halt in winter when it’s too cold for the microorganisms. Anyone who has ever been to a deciduous temperate forest would know that there are always dead leaves from previous years lying around.
Decompose to become compost...you're welcome 🙂
I live in the Erzgebirge (ore mountains) in eastern Germany. The terrain is rather mountainous, there is too few bus traffic and settlements are small, so it's necessary to own a car if you want to work in another settlement. I don't own a car because I rather ride my bike or go hiking through the forests when visiting another settlement. Around my home village, I discover new locations with nice views I want to visit regularly every year. This includes trips to the Czech Republic, since I live only a couple kilometres from the border.
What you saw, was allprivate farmland. There is no such thing like trespassing, all the country lanes have to be open for public use. Everywhere, anytime. Only with the exeption of the clearly marked or fenced private home or farm itself. That is respected very well, so you don't need weapons or Karen's to "defend" it. This "defending feeling" is unknown, sometimes maybe not by the dog. Some of them take their job very seriously, but then you will find a warning sign for that up front, oftentimes with more or less humoress contents like "dog on duty" or "don't bite the dog! -or dog has no humo!r"
My favorite:
Careful!
The dog is not dangerous, but the wife bites.
@@steemlenn8797 🤐
lol have you never been to a forest? In fall the leaves fall to the ground, but if no one takes them away, they will still lie there in the next year. So in a forest with trees that carry leaves, it is just the way it is. How should they vanish?
hes never e´ven been on a train in his entire life..
theres your answer
It might be that he is used to groomed parks only, where usually the leaves will get raked or blown off the paths regularly in autumn (fall) and winter. But it's very different in our vast forests here.
Fruit trees at the side of the way or even on roadsides are often specially planted for the public to have free access during their hiking or bicycle trips. My hometown planted several apple trees near our longest hiking trail for exactly that purpose.
1st of all: no poison ivy known in Germany (or Europe, as far as I know)
2nd: there is a whole network of officially certified and maintained trans-European hiking pathways. However, those little country pathways that are meant for farmers to get to their fields but are just public paths are all over the place, especially in Southern Germany and the more hilly regions of Europe. In flat lands, the fields are bigger with less paths in between. But they do still exist.
About the European hiking path network, here's a link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_long-distance_paths
btw, we in berlin have a very unic place to make freetime activities. did you ever heared of the tempelhofer feld? it is the old airport (historical airlift airport) it was opened for public use. its the biggest free field in the middle of a town world wide.
I am from the Thuringian Forest and there you have many trails: Short ones that are only 5 or 10 km long, circular ones that can be very short (3 km) or very long like Schwarzatalpanoramaweg with 136 km. You have very old ones like Rennsteig, a road from the middle ages and revived as a hiking trail in the late 1800, or Feengrotten-Kyffhäuser-Weg from the 1920s, that connects the Fairy Grottoes in Saalfeld with the famous mountain Kyffhäuser near Bad Frankenhausen, but not in a straight line; it takes "detours" over famous sights like castle Leuchtenburg. And there are these very long ones from the artificial lakes at river Saale up to Kap Arkona on Rügen island or from Eisenach to Budapest in Hungaria. There are also the European long distance path, that go from one end in Europe to the other.
Any doctor here in Europe will advise you to go walking, hiking, wandering or trekking. Especially for mental health, outdoor activities in the fresh air and in the sun are a good way to recharge your batteries and forget your worries.
I am german and me and my parents go Hiking for 2 to 3 weeks every year
Germany has a ridiculous amount of hiking trails. Some are part of the Fernwanderweg (long distance hiking trails) system that are mapped out over hundreds sometimes thousands of kilometers.
We even had a president who made it a point of his presidency to cross most of Germany hiking.
It really is possible to travel through all of Germany without using cars or public transportation. My mom and I used to do a lot of bicycle tours and if you have a good map you actually only have to use "normal" roads if you go into cities/towns or if you want to take the shortest route. It's just amazing!
It's so funny when you see an American reaction to basic german landscape. Like I see this every day and it's nothing special for me! I will now know to appreciate it even more! (Sorry if my English is bad lol)
American "hiking" can be both taking a walk and doing an actual (maybe even multi-day) hike. What he describes was more like going for extensive walks, which many Germans do. But the hiking culture is something else. Like hiking 10 miles and more per day in the mountains etc., with proper gear and what not. That really is a thing too here and in the US would be considered some kind of "extreme" sports afaik
hey ryan heres a little shock for you: theres a continous (?) official bike path that goes all the way from berlin to copenhagen. in germany we call it the Berlin-Kopenhagen-Radweg
no poison ivy in most of europe. just regular ivy.
and the leaves are from last years fall. they take some time to rott away.
I have the fortune to live right next to Trier, the oldest city in Germany. (That gate in the city center is so beautifully kept). I've lived here practically almost all my life and the country-side here is so beautiful. I mean, there are these beautiful hills and cliffs that line the edge of a half-valley where the gigantic Mosel river flows right through alongside the city. It is very pretty. I love going on hikes here. And that part about the roads being able to be used from west germany all the way to berlin is 100% true. Germany is RIGHT in the center of europe, which was a hotspot in medieval Europe, and, considering no one had cars and most people were to poor to afford horses, everyone had to walk from city to city, village to village, settlement to settlement. Germany kept all of these trails made by the people from medieval times, which means every trail you walk is most likely really ancient. But it gets even older than that, because Germany was technically settled by the Romans, who created the first German city here. I think that it's just so cool that I can walk the path that people over 1000 years ago walked.
I find it so interesting how nice he finds the view right from the beginning. For us Germans that’s the average, everyday view (if you life more on the countryside) so we don’t even see that it is pretty anymore. Kinda sad if you think about it.
He is right about these randoom walkways in the country. You find them anywhere and they do go on forever and you theoretically will always find other walkways crossing path with it so you technically can walk forever.
That video was filmed in spring. The leaves on the ground are still from autumn and the trees have fresh leaves
Interesting question for once, had to look that up myself: apparently poison ivy made its first appearance in the south of Germany in 2009… generally it’s not common in Germany at all tho
Of course we have similar things which are probably not as painful
We do not have Poison Ivy but Stinging Nettles which grow almost everywhere. But despite they are quite unpleasent if touched (gives you a burning sensation on the affected parts of skin) they are also known for their healthy benefits, so they are commonly used in medicinal teas to flush inflamed urinary tract and relieve joint pain. They are also occasionally made into salad, as they are very high in protein and have a high vitamin C concentration. Especially the leaves of the plant reminds a little of peppermint bushes in appearance, but confusion usually turns out painful. 😅
I’d say this is in later spring, end of May beginning of June. Walking with my dogs is the best thing ever. About 10 km every day, all year around. Being in nature is so calming, body and soul. And watching my pups having fun and enjoying themselves is just wonderful. And often I just have to stop because a view is just really beautiful. And at bedtime, I am looking forward to go to bed, and after I brief amount of reading, I just fall asleep. Literally within a minute.
Germany has so many areas that are beautiful. And always good food and drinks for a rest stop. At weekends I t is buzzing everywhere with people enjoying the outdoors. It is a way of life in Europe.
And it is sad, that in America everybody just sits in cars in traffic and wasting their lives away.
I don't know what time of year he runs there, but if we assume summertime now, it's not always allowed to let the dog run free like that. This is because of the breeding and setting season of the birds. Here in the north, on the dyke, they pay attention to this because many birds breed in the high grass and if the dogs run free, in the worst case they would chase the birds and destroy the nests and eggs carelessly.
We have trails marked with the sign of the scallop? the sign of St. James all the way down to the camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostella in Portugal. And there are the European long distance hiking trails leading through the whole of Europe.
It is not Poisin Ivy. It is Giersch in German, the botanical name is Aegopodium Podagraria. Your channel is funny!
6:00 - "Poison ivy" only exists in Asia and America. In Germany there are "Brennesseln" (Urtica dioica), which are also not harmless.
but edible…
If you know how. 🤗
Can´t wait for my next hike. It´s almost 2 years that we hiked 240 km along the Inn River
No, it is not allowed to pick fruit from the trees, unless the branch is hanging over public property.
But mostly it is allowed to pick up fallen fruit from the ground, if there is no fence around the lot.
Fruit is mostly of high quality, even if it has fallen down, especially apples. They go into the applewine together with the picked ones.
😊 the leaves that fall in autumn of course will remain on the ground just until they are rotten. This will only happen throughout the next year (not much rotting going on on the surface during winter time...). So in a relatively natural forest, you will pretty much always have 'dead' leaves on the ground.
When I was a kid and teenager, Canada seemed like nature paradise to my family and I but than I met a Canadian in Germany and we went on a walk together and he loved about Germany that someone could just go for a walk in the woods like that and I was so confused, like, you can't do that in Canada? THE great Canada?! That drastically shifted my mind and I never wanted to live there anymore. :D (And less and less in the past few years learning about food, stroads, vacation days, suburbs etc. in North America.)
in my area we use the agricultural/forestry dirt roads as hiking trails
Poison ivy is an invasive species (like raccoons or ambrosia/ragweed), and conservationists actively try to eradicate it in the wild. Our equivalent as a nasty plant is "Brennnessel" (stinging nettle).
Our land is open for the biggest part. There may be enclosures for certain purposes e.g. protecting wells (used for tapwater) or protecting young tree plantations (from deer and wild hogs).
Hi Ryan,
if you want to get an overview of all the beautiful things in Germany, you should watch the video by Dr. Ludwig
THIS IS GERMANY
It's incredibly beautiful, you'll love it 🤩
Greetings from Germany 😊
When I was in Canada Ontario I've never seen any trail. There were just roads and if you're lucky they had sidewalks attached. In Germany it's probably because of the many villages that are connected with those trails. Whenever you live near the forest you can find those wild roads.
We do have poison ivy in Germany and we call it "Giftsumach" (note the hilarious fact that German "Gift" means "poison" and not present :D ). However, it's not native here and there isn't much of a record as to where it grows. All in all it's very rare, tho, and you can hike without fearing it.
A longer Video and wonderful walk - to understand how connected Germany is with walking roads is from Enno Seifried 3442 km Deutschland zu Fuß (3442 km Germany by feet)
Actually there are really long hiking trails in Europe. I live in a small village in Spain and there is an over 220km (136 miles) trail passing through it. There are some restaurants and hostels on the trail so you can eat and sleep if you're decided to hike several days in a row.
I think there is a hiking trail from Germany to Spain XD
Look at France's Grande Randonée network, German's Fernwanderweg network or Switzerland's Weitwanderwege ( all of these toughly translate to long distance hiking trail). They cross entire countries and they often connect to form European long distance hiking trails (like E3 from Istanbul to Cabo Sao Vicente in Portugal).
@@akteno2796 probably there are some :)
@@Warentester 100% true! Few weeks ago I was hiking in Spanish Pyrenees and surprisingly found myself in France
@@NikitaHilko as it just so happens...
I scared my US visitors when asking half way up the mountain in Switzerland if they brought their passport on the hike as the other side of the mountain was Italy. They freaked.
i lived in germany all my life, i have spent most of my life in a small town close to forests and fields but i NEVER understood the hiking thing. reading the comments i guess, i am an exception... but they exist! xD
I have been living in Germany for three decades I have definitely took some walks in many different forest and enjoyed doing so. But I can also lounge around at home and doing sweet nothing.
@@thomasbarchen it's not that i don't go out. I do, but i dont just wander around because it kinda feels pointless to me. When i walk, i walk to places to be at those places.
5:40 these leafs are mostly of autumn but some of them are of storms and as to wh they are still there is because they don't decay so fast that there aren't any if your in spring the only paths in German Forests without leafs are the ones that are not surrounded by wind blocking trees so they kinda get blown away.
5:47 what was half a year before spring? Right, there was fall and no one cleaned up all those dirty brown leaves the fall left in the ground.
Hello from Czechia, neighbour of Germany. Here we too like hiking. We are quite smaller then Germany, but still we have around 45k kilometers of marked hiking trails. We even have our map app for it. If you google "seznam mapy" the first link is the map app. Open it and switch to outdoor map layout, zoom in to some forested area, you can see all the green, yellow, red, and blue lines, which are the hiking trails.
By the way the map app works for german hiking trails too.
In Germany the for forest is not private property. The forest is there for everyone. It is not fenced, even if it is privately owned. Anyone may enter a forest. That's what the Federal Forest Act says. Free access, at your own risk - is one thing, but the Federal Forest Act also specifies rules of conduct for visitors. In Germany, for example, it is forbidden to camp in the forest or drive a car along forest paths. Many things are regulated by state laws, such as what dog owners or cyclists must observe. Jens Düring, spokesman for the Association of German Foresters, thinks it's especially important to "leave nature its space." The forestry graduate recommends: "Stay on the paths, leave the forest at dusk and don't enter every thicket when collecting."
Tiny Switzerland has 60'000 kilometers hiking trails although it's only 42'000 km big (small) (=16'000 quaremiles)
There are Leafs on the ground because there is a autumn every year and we see no need to remove them.
2:30 soo there is a Right of free movement, in the Human Rights🙃😂 so he’s not wrong, it is kind of a basically a human right😂👌🙏🏽
Edit: Duh, you said it 8:25😂💪🏽
There is a crime called Mundraub*1 (mouth robbery), if you are picking and eating e.g. the apples from a tree standing on privat land and you don't have the permission too pick. But at the others side, many communities are planting Fruit or Nut trees where you can pick legal and free for private consumption. Some are also marked. This is pretty cool! So where I life there is a whole plantation with nut trees where you can pick legal. This is really cool! I truly love this trend!
*1 I did a mistake. Mundraub was abolish in the 1970s, the crime was to weak fined. Now to steal an apple from private property it is the same crime as to steal a pencil at a shop.
thats the brwon leaves from last year on the ground lol and no we do not have Poison Ivy here (normaly). but in 2009 a first one was found in bavaria
Don't worry, there are plenty of places in Germany where you don't really want to leave your house and walk, because there's absolutely nothing but plain fields for hundreds of square miles. I've lived in a few places in Bavaria and none of them had any real nature in walking or even biking distance. Just either concrete or agriculture.
From my perspective this post is just nonsense. They must have never been to Bavaria at all. I live in Bavaria all my life. Every field has dirt road for the farmer.. free to walk. I walk a lot, go by bicycle all over the countryside. Also traveld to cities for work, stayed at Hotels, always went out for a walk without the need for public transportation.
Please post coordinates of the place you are talking about to prove me wrong.
Niederbayern , Nürnberg … ? 😢
Bro Indiana has beautiful hiking trails too. I became curious so I looked it up. 🙂
In Germany there are two types off hiking everything under 10 kilometers is "spazieren" and everything over that is "wandern "
The area through which it runs used to be high mountains like the Alps, but higher. Over the millions of years it eroded and that's the rest.
Letting the dog roam free is probably forbidden. The hunting grounds are leased and the hunters do not like their wildlife to be disturbed. In addition, it is bad if the dog meets a wild boar. They attack the dog and are not alone. If the dog retires to its owner, the wild boar run after it and the owner also sees a problem.
The fields have been divided again and again over the centuries, which is why they are so small. Large fields are also avoided because pests cannot spread so well in mixed areas.
The paths on which he runs are partly forest roads. You can recognize them by the two narrow wheel tracks and the grass in between. The forester uses it with his off-road vehicle. There is a lot of forest in Germany, but hardly any primeval forest. Practically everything is used for forestry purposes. This is currently a problem with climate change because the forest cannot adapt. Man makes the forest, not nature. The paths with the wider wheel tracks are dirt roads for the farmers' tractors. Many small fields = many dirt roads.
There is no poison ivy in Germany (yet). But in other parts of Europe it is. It is an invasive species from North America. In general, the animal and plant world in Germany is not as dangerous as in the USA. But the temperatures are rising and more and more species are appearing, the more dangerous ones.
There are no free roaming sheep in the area. There must also be a shepherd in the area.
Trees shed their leaves not only in autumn but also under stress, typically drought. Due to climate change, longer periods of time with little or no precipitation are becoming increasingly common in Germany. Then trees shed leaves (from e.g. drought from March to May) and get new ones as soon as enough rain falls again, e.g. in June. This is a new phenomenon. So what you see is leaves on the ground and green leaves on trees.
As the months are getting warmer on average, winter is also arriving later and fall is milder. So now, even in September, trees will sprout again after a summer heat if the weather is right. So again what you see is leaves on the ground and green leaves on trees.
from my perspective this isn‘t really „hiking“ it‘s „going for a walk“ 😅 greatings from Austria 🏔️☀️☺️
5:48 its spring it's the leafs from last autumn
Poision ivy is not a local plant in Germany and is an invasive species that if spottet gets destroied and is forbidden to be planted so no we dont have poision ivy... we do have so called "Brennnesseln(Burning nettles)" pretty much everywhere though that punish you for running through the greenery with short cloths
I feel like where we in the netherlands have a protected bike lane network, the germans have a hiking network. But the german landscape is nicer :)
Did you here oif stg. James' Way? This is a set of hiking routes form all over Europe to a Spansioch City called Santgiago de Compostela. I did the 2.600 kms from mi casa to SdC, although in six years years using all my holidays.You will find many US-Amefricans on the was.
no we don't have poison ivy in the wildernes in Europe, but you can find a plant called giant hogweed and it can cause burned skin if you touch it
When I was young I had to take a walk every Sunday with my parents. I hated every minute of it. Nobody would be raking the woods.
You just described my childhood! But now that I'm grown up with kids of my own im thinking to reintroduce this tradition into my life 😅 hated it as a kid but learning to love it as an adult
At 6.13 for me it looks like wild blackberries. I know, they are called different, it´s a kind of like weed, because once let them grow, you don´t get rid of them anymore. They spread everywhere , big like hedges and with a lot of thorns. (bramble?)
You will have hiking trails that cross other peoples meadows with cows on them, so internet fence there is a small revolving barrier, so that humans can get out but the farm animals can’t.
Concerning the fruit trees.
Those are privately owned and maybe you can get away with taking a fruit every now and then, but theft of the complete harvest is a big issue.
These fruits are often commercially or privately used by conserving them or by making fruit juice or liquor ("Schnapps") so if you don't wanna break the law you should certainly contact the owner and ask permission.
By the way, most ppl aren't allowed to distill by themselves, you need a special permit for that. But in regions where it is customary to distill fruits there are usually small companies that have the right to do so, that will distill your mash for a fee.
Same goes for making juice from a large batch of fruit, you can pay a company to juice your fruit or for apples they often juice yours and give you a compensation consisting of some bottles of the final product.
Houseplants lose leaves from time to time, so do forest plants. The dead leaves turn yellow and brown and act as fertilizer, hence the vibrate colors of the plants above.
Most of the fruit trees are on private property and even if this is not fenced in, it is actually not allowed to pick the fruit there. But where there is no plaintiff, there is no judge. However, there are also some public fruit trees that you can help yourself to. There is even an app to find them.
In another life, when I'm young and fit again, I would wish to hike the wonderful trails in the USA.
When I watch movies about the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail or Continental Divide Trail I get wanderlust.
the germans 100% love hiking or just to wander around.
my brother joins some time per year an activity called "Mammutmarsch" ... thats 100 km (~160miles) within 24 hours.
not always with beautiful landscape.
and yes, if I'd decide to walk from downtown berlin to one of the suburbs, instead of taking train/bus no one would care.
at most your friends afterwards would make fun of you, because your feet/legs hurt
Americans addiction to cars and their sheer confusion when people just WALK will never fail to blow my mind
Not so fun fact: Be aware of your dog when your in the forest. If not on a leash and no owner in sight iirc a forester is allowed to shoot it.
If the apple tree is standing on a meadow or in the middle of a field at least one can assume that it‘s owned by someone. And most of the time nobody cares if the occasional hiker is taking one or two apples to consume immediately. But if you go on a field with many apple trees and the purpose to harvest all the fruits, even if there is no fence afaik you can commit at least a felony.
Das mit dem Förster/Jäger stimmt so nicht ganz; er darf nur schießen wenn er einen Hund "auf frischer Tat" ertappt, also in dem Moment in dem er Wild angreift oder reißt - ansonsten hat der Schütze ein echtes Problem....
@@theoderich1168 Danke für die Ergänzung.
No poison ivy here! At all! I used to stroll around in exactly this kind of landscape and forests, nearly every day during my whole childhood. Alone. Only sometimes supervising parents with me, but most of the time exploring all alone, miles away from home. And we actually have a law here that secures the individual's right to roam freely!
The point is , that the guy in the video is exclusively walking pathways on privately owned land there (most likely, it just makes no difference)- and that is his and everybodies right. He does not walk on dedicated hiking trails or state-owned ground there, and he does not need to. Pathways in germany are for the most part maintained by the farmers and the owners of the forestry (which can be private or property of a federal state) in order to maintain their land, but everybody has the right to roam there, without damaging stuff. You can´t break into someones fenced of garden, but other than such cases, it just does not matter, who owns the land.