The hiker above the sea of fog is a famous painting of Caspar David Friedrich. The last scene of the video blends smoothly into the painting as the place is still the same.
The Göltzschtal Bridge at 18:00 is the biggest brick bridge in the world. It stands in my home district of Vogtland, and is our landmark. This railroad bridge (1level) was built from 1846-1851 and 31 people out of a total of 1736 workers died in accidents during its construction. 26M bricks were used. The viaduct has 98 arches, is 78m (356ft) high and 574m (1883ft) long. Nice to see it here.
3:55 As to why it's on the edge, that type of castle is called a "spur castle". Castles are categorized in different types, depending on their purpose (which is usally "for defense"). A spur castle is automatically protected on the hillside. Depending on the terrain, you have different types of castles.
Greetings from Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It is kind of sad that there is only a few seconds view of the Battle of the Nations Memorial in Leipzig. Its very impressive.
Around the 17 minute mark castle Colditz is shown. During World War 2 it was an infamous pow-camp, that housed officers from Britain, France, Poland and a few of my fellow Dutchmen I learnt today. Many of them were very notorious in the German eyes because of previous escape attempts. That is why they were sent here! I am not sure, if there were American pows at Colditz.
Schloss Moritzburg palace was the hunting lodge of "King Augustus the strong" of Saxony and later King of Poland...you could see his portrait in the clip as well... Imagine that the baroque city of Dresden was nearly completely destroyed in 1945... after the german reunification in 1990, funds and donations were collected to rebuild most of the historic structures...best example is the "Frauenkirche" (church of our lady)...there were only some broken burnt walls left...it took 12 years for the reconstruction ... all original stones were collected, marked and checked and reused if it was possible...the altar with the golden ornaments wich you could see here was excevated from a huge hill of debries and assembled in a huge puzzle, parts were remodelled from old photos...when I visited that church my mind was totally blown...the result is stunning
Hello 👋 Amazing Video Great reaction. You know some people here are blind to the beauty of everything goood an Average American must remind us how Beautiful Germany is! 🇩🇪 Your heart is on the right place and don't forget the Clock is ticking!❤
its good that you are proud of where you come from, as that will make history last. as only the people who built these buildings, luckily had people after them be proud of who they are and keep what is and as time goes by if you keep what is a you are proud no matter what, you get history. every nation has to start somewhere. Europe is like a kid compared to the Asians countries. but again, we can also see this, if history is kept. be proud to be who you are. keep the past - good or bad. reminders for future generations. life lessons and the evolution/changes of its culture and people.
Bad Muskau... Prince Pückler was at work there. A famous ice cream creation was named after him. Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. And there you have the explanation for the colors...
Colours just represent the local materials ... all these buildings were created before the railway made transporting goods easy[1]. If there is a waterway available you could transport loads of bricks over a longer distance, but it is still added cost which only wealthy people would be stupid enough to spend ... to have a "fancier house than the noble family of the neighboring region." There are lots of rivers in Germany, BUT Saxony is "hilly/mountainous", so those rivers arent all useable to transport goods. [1] There is a british documentary series of six parts about the railway and how it changed the country. It is VERY informative and explains a lot about how things changed during the industrialisation / victorian era. It is called "Full Steam Ahead" and is available on YT.
"Do you want to keep rambling? See the good is so close. Just learn to seize happiness, because happiness is always there. J. W. von Goethe. It will already take you arraound 75yrs, to visit all castles(arround 25.000) over here. And i guess it will take 2 or 3 lifes more, to visit all beautyful places over here. :)
A lot of european countries practice some form of federalism even small countries like switzerland and austria.They are not always called states for example in spain they are called autonomous communities,switzerland cantons and the UK countries or home nations though england doesn't have a separate parliament.France is unitary though despite being quite a large country not sure about italy.
Modern Germany is a federal country, just like the USA. So the individual Lands are the equivalent of states with a local parliament. The seat of the national authorities is located in Belin.
8:50 The technique isnt that hard to figure out, because the key is the ARC which distributes the pressure into the pillars of rock. It is the same basic principle for constructing roofs in tall churches for example. All you need to do is build a scaffolding to put the stones on ... and once you finished the arc you're good to go and can finish the rest of the bridge. Again I would refer you to a british "docu-reenactment series" called "Secrets of the Castle" (5 parts) about the castle of GUEDELON (France), which is currently still being built with the methods from ~1200 ... They show the basics of MATH and STONEMASONRY and WOODWORKING and all the other crafts used in such constructions.
I understand basic construction; I am just amazed at the level of difficulty that would have been present before electricity and gas or steam driven machinery.
8:00 You have to remember that Germany was SPLIT into MANY small baronies/kingdoms until 1871 ... and there were lots of nobles ruling these lands. So yeah, it is a "government house", because nobles/monarchs governed the lands. Just have a look at the map of the "Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations" ... dont try to understand it (it is super complicated).
Germany is NOT above a fault line, so there are no earthquakes in general ... and the ones we have are hardly noticeable. On another note: Brandenburg / "the region around Berlin" generally has SANDY GROUND, which requires a specific approach to building houses and the "big idiot from the 1930s" intended to COMPLETELY REMODEL THE CITY into the "Welthauptstadt Germania" (World Capital Germania ... they intended to conquer the world after all) ... and to accommodate the absolutely OVERSIZED buildings they built a "test foundation" ... the "Schwerbelastkörper", which is basically a HUGE concrete pillar in the ground. It still exists ... and it is STILL SINKING INTO THE GROUND! That's the reason why they didnt destroy the city themselves, because the biggest building they had planned was "the Great Hall", which is basically a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE dome that would have been tall enough to have clouds form inside it. In the Ruhr Region - which has generally rocky ground with a bit of soil on top - there have been some "sink holes", i.e. collapsed mine shafts which caused some houses to "disappear". Obviously everything possible is done to prevent this from happening again.
The subsoil in Germany is not so solid. It consists of clay, moors and marl, but the low mountain ranges were formed by volcanoes and consist of basalt, diabase and granite, partly of slate or hard limestone. So from the same rocks that the castles are made of. They didn't import such large stones.
Yay thsnks for looking at this saxonys history and nature is underrated ny tourists Greetings from Leipzig Honestly i am bit mad that dresten got some random szenes where it was half dark u could not really see a thing and my city was so shorty squished in its a big city with lots of history
@@Average_Middle_Aged_AmericanSo the enemy had no space to Form Up or organize in front of the walls. The castles are usually built on solid rock so they are quite stable
1:10 No, federal states is correct, just like in the USA, but only 16 of them. 3 are city states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, like Washington D.C.!), and two call themselves "free states" (although nobody knows what they mean by that): Bavaria and Saxony. They all have their own parliaments, governments, prime ministers (though the city states have mayors) and constitutions. Does that sound familiar?
The term "Free State" originally dates back to the 18th century and was used by the Swiss Confederation to emphasize its independence from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Later, many German republics, such as Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia, adopted the term as the official name for their republics. The meaning of "Free State" today Today, three German states refer to themselves as "Free State", namely Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. However, this designation no longer has any special rights or privileges that go beyond the state rights of the other federal states. It serves more as a historical reminder of the time when the states proclaimed their independence from the monarchy. Historical background After the First World War and the proclamation of the republic in Germany on November 9, 1918, many German republics, such as Bavaria, adopted the term "Free State" as their official designation. This was done to emphasize their independence from the monarchy and their republican constitution. Today Today, the term "Free State" in Germany is a symbol of the history and tradition of the republic. It is a reminder of the time when the states proclaimed their independence and introduced a republican constitution.
18:10 One level ... the ancient romans built their aquaeducts in such a multi-level structure ... and the principle is sound, because the levels themselves are stable in themselves. Side note: there is a series of "10 books on architecture" by a roman author called "Vitruvius" ... and if you know italian / latin (apparently there are translated versions in other languages, but I only know about the latin version) ... you can read them. You could download them anyways, because they have really good drawings for all sorts of BASIC ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES ... perspective, pillars, general shapes/proportions ...
Hi , looks amazing would love to visit Germany one day as I also have German ancestry my great grand father was from Germany ( but know very little about him ) also my grandmother on dad's side was from Falkirk Scotland she had a very thick accent and could not understand a word . Look at some stately homes in Britain you'll love them . 😊
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Lots of people do. But not everyone. I live close to the Netherlands (less than 1 hour by car). So i visited NL many times. Great place. Sadly they lost to England yesterday at the EURO24 semi-finals...🙁
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American we do , I've been to the Balearic and canary Islands, France, Belgium, Cyprus. My sons just come back from Poland and my sister is off to Malta for her holiday .
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Depends, i suppose. Traveling around it’s cheaper than the US (both by plane and train), but it’s still quite costly. I visited i think 18 european countries (excluding italy, but including san marino, the vatican and montecarlo, lol)
Germany is a Federal Republic, with a social democracy, Germany has 16 States. Saxony ( Sachsen) is an Eastern state, and used to belong to the DDR, the 2nd germany ( communist) run by the russians..
11:30 The PROBLEM is that "you americans" use the wrong building material / the wrong way to build houses, because BUYING CHEAP is topmost priority, which means "wood with hollow walls/dry walls" ... which invites insects to gnaw on the wood. This also makes the house WARM and thus you require AIR CONDITIONING. - HALF-TIMBERED houses do not have the "rotting problem" of your american ones and thus can stand for centuries (I own part of one that is from ~1700) - BRICKS (solid ones, not the stupid hollow ones you have) provide a COOL CLIMATE for the house (provided the walls are thick enough), brick houses can be REPAIRED YOURSELF (done that myself) if part of the wall gets "wobbly", unlike reinforced concrete walls that got damaged (you might need "a professional" with big machines)
American homes are more than twice the size of UK homes with more than twice the property on average. American homes are not made out of wood. SOME American homes are made out of wood. Some are made of brick. Some (including mine) are made out of concrete block. Some are made out of solid concrete. It all depends on climate and budget. You are crazy if you think you can live in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, etc, without air conditioning NO MATTER what your home is made out of. As always, thanks for replying. :-)
As for the bridges in the Saxon Switzerland and the many comments on cliff-side construction: how?: technology! okay, less super simplified: While we usually think of the medieval cliche of an undereducated age following the glories of Rome this is simply not true. The vast majority of people *could* read and write and do calculations e.g. - it's just that the *bloody humanists* following these times wanted to defecate onto the times of their parents so "nobody could write or read or do maths"... why? because they *did not read Latin and Koine Greek.* Do you need Greek or Latin to tun a farm or build a bridge? But you *do desperately* need Maths and Writing for everything. So it was *actually* an age of technological invention, because... that's what humans do. And of course Germany is geologically very stable unlike California so it's easily possible to build cliff-side things if you have the tech and its really a great idea because while it looks impressive, it's also nigh impenetrable by pre-gunpowder weapons. *Always* keep this in mind when looking at cool castles: they are *defensive death machines,* they look nice mostly accidentally by exploiting the geographical advantages militarily. It sounds insane but a proper castle could be held ba a dozen militarily lightly educated inhabitants under sound command against hundreds - and they usually where, held that is, you have to starve a castle out. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
So has the opinion changed again? 😎 Wasn't Italy once the top travel destination? 😎 Which would also be recommended. What Italy offers in terms of beauty (nature and cities) is something Germany can't really deliver. Don't forget that Dr. Ludwig's videos show the best of the best. If you want to see the reality of most German cities, a video from the TH-cam channel rewboss is recommended. The video "Is this Germany's ugliest city? Ludwigshafen am Rhein" shows the reality of German cities. Why are castles often built on rocky cliffs? Well, so they are better protected.
What you say about the scenic beauty of Italy is certainly true. On the other hand, in Italy this beauty is wiped out in a matter of seconds when a massive earthquake occurs. In fact, Naples will sooner or later become a victim of the Phlegraean Fields. Volcanism is of course just as much an issue in Italy as massive earthquakes... We have it much better in Germany...
There are certainly shabby cities in Germany. But to speak of some kind of distortion in the report is outrageous. Maybe you live in Ludwigshafen, Duisburg or Gelsenkirchen. But that's not the point here.
The hiker above the sea of fog is a famous painting of Caspar David Friedrich. The last scene of the video blends smoothly into the painting as the place is still the same.
The Göltzschtal Bridge at 18:00 is the biggest brick bridge in the world. It stands in my home district of Vogtland, and is our landmark. This railroad bridge (1level) was built from 1846-1851 and 31 people out of a total of 1736 workers died in accidents during its construction. 26M bricks were used. The viaduct has 98 arches, is 78m (356ft) high and 574m (1883ft) long. Nice to see it here.
3:55 As to why it's on the edge, that type of castle is called a "spur castle". Castles are categorized in different types, depending on their purpose (which is usally "for defense"). A spur castle is automatically protected on the hillside. Depending on the terrain, you have different types of castles.
@@tavnorthildr8232 - I did not know that. Thanks for the information!
Greetings from Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It is kind of sad that there is only a few seconds view of the Battle of the Nations Memorial in Leipzig. Its very impressive.
5:15 - That church is brand new. It's nice to see that builders are still capable if doing this stuff. With all the labour involved.
Around the 17 minute mark castle Colditz is shown. During World War 2 it was an infamous pow-camp, that housed officers from Britain, France, Poland and a few of my fellow Dutchmen I learnt today. Many of them were very notorious in the German eyes because of previous escape attempts. That is why they were sent here! I am not sure, if there were American pows at Colditz.
The hiker in the sea of fog is a famous oil painting by Casper David Friedrich made in the 19th century😊
I see. Thanks!
Schloss Moritzburg palace was the hunting lodge of "King Augustus the strong" of Saxony and later King of Poland...you could see his portrait in the clip as well... Imagine that the baroque city of Dresden was nearly completely destroyed in 1945... after the german reunification in 1990, funds and donations were collected to rebuild most of the historic structures...best example is the "Frauenkirche" (church of our lady)...there were only some broken burnt walls left...it took 12 years for the reconstruction ... all original stones were collected, marked and checked and reused if it was possible...the altar with the golden ornaments wich you could see here was excevated from a huge hill of debries and assembled in a huge puzzle, parts were remodelled from old photos...when I visited that church my mind was totally blown...the result is stunning
That is Awesome! Thank you for sharing!
My Hometown in Germany is 1076 years old
AMAZING!
Hello 👋 Amazing Video Great reaction. You know some people here are blind to the beauty of everything goood an Average American must remind us how Beautiful Germany is! 🇩🇪 Your heart is on the right place and don't forget the Clock is ticking!❤
Thanks for the kind words. We will get there!
its good that you are proud of where you come from, as that will make history last. as only the people who built these buildings, luckily had people after them be proud of who they are and keep what is and as time goes by if you keep what is a you are proud no matter what, you get history. every nation has to start somewhere. Europe is like a kid compared to the Asians countries. but again, we can also see this, if history is kept. be proud to be who you are. keep the past - good or bad. reminders for future generations. life lessons and the evolution/changes of its culture and people.
Bad Muskau... Prince Pückler was at work there. A famous ice cream creation was named after him. Vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. And there you have the explanation for the colors...
Yes, they are STATES ... Germany is a federal republic like the USA, but the federal government has more power than the one in the USA.
Colours just represent the local materials ... all these buildings were created before the railway made transporting goods easy[1]. If there is a waterway available you could transport loads of bricks over a longer distance, but it is still added cost which only wealthy people would be stupid enough to spend ... to have a "fancier house than the noble family of the neighboring region." There are lots of rivers in Germany, BUT Saxony is "hilly/mountainous", so those rivers arent all useable to transport goods.
[1] There is a british documentary series of six parts about the railway and how it changed the country. It is VERY informative and explains a lot about how things changed during the industrialisation / victorian era. It is called "Full Steam Ahead" and is available on YT.
Thanks for the information!
8:38
Its not that old.
Its a tourist spot. The bridge was built 1826 as a wooden bridge and upgraded for safety reasons to a stone bridge in 1850.
In Germany "not old" in Amerika "verry old" 😂
"Do you want to keep rambling? See the good is so close. Just learn to seize happiness, because happiness is always there. J. W. von Goethe.
It will already take you arraound 75yrs, to visit all castles(arround 25.000) over here. And i guess it will take 2 or 3 lifes more, to visit all beautyful places over here. :)
A lot of european countries practice some form of federalism even small countries like switzerland and austria.They are not always called states for example in spain they are called autonomous communities,switzerland cantons and the UK countries or home nations though england doesn't have a separate parliament.France is unitary though despite being quite a large country not sure about italy.
Modern Germany is a federal country, just like the USA. So the individual Lands are the equivalent of states with a local parliament. The seat of the national authorities is located in Belin.
8:50 The technique isnt that hard to figure out, because the key is the ARC which distributes the pressure into the pillars of rock. It is the same basic principle for constructing roofs in tall churches for example. All you need to do is build a scaffolding to put the stones on ... and once you finished the arc you're good to go and can finish the rest of the bridge.
Again I would refer you to a british "docu-reenactment series" called "Secrets of the Castle" (5 parts) about the castle of GUEDELON (France), which is currently still being built with the methods from ~1200 ... They show the basics of MATH and STONEMASONRY and WOODWORKING and all the other crafts used in such constructions.
I understand basic construction; I am just amazed at the level of difficulty that would have been present before electricity and gas or steam driven machinery.
8:00 You have to remember that Germany was SPLIT into MANY small baronies/kingdoms until 1871 ... and there were lots of nobles ruling these lands. So yeah, it is a "government house", because nobles/monarchs governed the lands.
Just have a look at the map of the "Holy Roman Empire of Germanic Nations" ... dont try to understand it (it is super complicated).
Germany is NOT above a fault line, so there are no earthquakes in general ... and the ones we have are hardly noticeable.
On another note: Brandenburg / "the region around Berlin" generally has SANDY GROUND, which requires a specific approach to building houses and the "big idiot from the 1930s" intended to COMPLETELY REMODEL THE CITY into the "Welthauptstadt Germania" (World Capital Germania ... they intended to conquer the world after all) ... and to accommodate the absolutely OVERSIZED buildings they built a "test foundation" ... the "Schwerbelastkörper", which is basically a HUGE concrete pillar in the ground. It still exists ... and it is STILL SINKING INTO THE GROUND! That's the reason why they didnt destroy the city themselves, because the biggest building they had planned was "the Great Hall", which is basically a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE dome that would have been tall enough to have clouds form inside it.
In the Ruhr Region - which has generally rocky ground with a bit of soil on top - there have been some "sink holes", i.e. collapsed mine shafts which caused some houses to "disappear". Obviously everything possible is done to prevent this from happening again.
Interesting!
The subsoil in Germany is not so solid. It consists of clay, moors and marl, but the low mountain ranges were formed by volcanoes and consist of basalt, diabase and granite, partly of slate or hard limestone. So from the same rocks that the castles are made of. They didn't import such large stones.
Yay thsnks for looking at this saxonys history and nature is underrated ny tourists
Greetings from Leipzig
Honestly i am bit mad that dresten got some random szenes where it was half dark u could not really see a thing and my city was so shorty squished in its a big city with lots of history
18:08 It is the largest brick-built bridge in the world (26,021,000 bricks)
@@bubu5908 who counted them? 🙂
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Don't you trust the number? I live nearby and could count them.😀
@@bubu5908 - pretty sure there were only 25,989,451 bricks. Let me know...
Castles in Germany mostly built on hills or surrounded by water. The intention was to keep the enemys off.
@@kvas101 but why so close to the edge? 🙂
@@Average_Middle_Aged_Americanits even more difficult to enter the castle for enemys..they had to defend a lot in these times
@@Average_Middle_Aged_AmericanSo the enemy had no space to Form Up or organize in front of the walls. The castles are usually built on solid rock so they are quite stable
1:10 No, federal states is correct, just like in the USA, but only 16 of them. 3 are city states (Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, like Washington D.C.!), and two call themselves "free states" (although nobody knows what they mean by that): Bavaria and Saxony. They all have their own parliaments, governments, prime ministers (though the city states have mayors) and constitutions. Does that sound familiar?
Some states in america are called commonwealths
The term "Free State" originally dates back to the 18th century and was used by the Swiss Confederation to emphasize its independence from the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Later, many German republics, such as Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia, adopted the term as the official name for their republics.
The meaning of "Free State" today
Today, three German states refer to themselves as "Free State", namely Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. However, this designation no longer has any special rights or privileges that go beyond the state rights of the other federal states. It serves more as a historical reminder of the time when the states proclaimed their independence from the monarchy.
Historical background
After the First World War and the proclamation of the republic in Germany on November 9, 1918, many German republics, such as Bavaria, adopted the term "Free State" as their official designation. This was done to emphasize their independence from the monarchy and their republican constitution.
Today
Today, the term "Free State" in Germany is a symbol of the history and tradition of the republic. It is a reminder of the time when the states proclaimed their independence and introduced a republican constitution.
18:10 One level ... the ancient romans built their aquaeducts in such a multi-level structure ... and the principle is sound, because the levels themselves are stable in themselves.
Side note: there is a series of "10 books on architecture" by a roman author called "Vitruvius" ... and if you know italian / latin (apparently there are translated versions in other languages, but I only know about the latin version) ... you can read them. You could download them anyways, because they have really good drawings for all sorts of BASIC ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES ... perspective, pillars, general shapes/proportions ...
Very Cool! Thanks!
The Göltzschtal Bridge is built 1846-1851. It`s the biggest brick bridge in the world. I know bc I live below it. LoL No, but nearby.
Hi , looks amazing would love to visit Germany one day as I also have German ancestry my great grand father was from Germany ( but know very little about him ) also my grandmother on dad's side was from Falkirk Scotland she had a very thick accent and could not understand a word . Look at some stately homes in Britain you'll love them . 😊
I just assumed everyone in Europe visited other countries in Europe regularly.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Lots of people do. But not everyone.
I live close to the Netherlands (less than 1 hour by car). So i visited NL many times. Great place. Sadly they lost to England yesterday at the EURO24 semi-finals...🙁
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American we do , I've been to the Balearic and canary Islands, France, Belgium, Cyprus. My sons just come back from Poland and my sister is off to Malta for her holiday .
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
Depends, i suppose. Traveling around it’s cheaper than the US (both by plane and train), but it’s still quite costly.
I visited i think 18 european countries (excluding italy, but including san marino, the vatican and montecarlo, lol)
germany is a young country :D but the history where you can say thats german is the other side :D
Germany is a Federal Republic, with a social democracy, Germany has 16 States. Saxony ( Sachsen) is an Eastern state, and used to belong to the DDR, the 2nd germany ( communist) run by the russians..
GDR was 2nd german Country, not State
@@Jackcaos i know, sorry Typo. I grew up during the cold car, in Western Germany
@@SouthernBelle888 i didn't want to critisize you but to prevent confusion on AMAAs side
@@Jackcaos it's all good, no offense taken. It was my fault, i should have proof read it, before posting it. Sunny greetings from Stuttgart, Germany
11:30 The PROBLEM is that "you americans" use the wrong building material / the wrong way to build houses, because BUYING CHEAP is topmost priority, which means "wood with hollow walls/dry walls" ... which invites insects to gnaw on the wood. This also makes the house WARM and thus you require AIR CONDITIONING.
- HALF-TIMBERED houses do not have the "rotting problem" of your american ones and thus can stand for centuries (I own part of one that is from ~1700)
- BRICKS (solid ones, not the stupid hollow ones you have) provide a COOL CLIMATE for the house (provided the walls are thick enough), brick houses can be REPAIRED YOURSELF (done that myself) if part of the wall gets "wobbly", unlike reinforced concrete walls that got damaged (you might need "a professional" with big machines)
American homes are more than twice the size of UK homes with more than twice the property on average. American homes are not made out of wood. SOME American homes are made out of wood. Some are made of brick. Some (including mine) are made out of concrete block. Some are made out of solid concrete. It all depends on climate and budget. You are crazy if you think you can live in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, etc, without air conditioning NO MATTER what your home is made out of. As always, thanks for replying. :-)
@twoeyedjack6836 - the day I have to compare living in the USA to living in India is the day I leave America.
As for the bridges in the Saxon Switzerland and the many comments on cliff-side construction:
how?: technology! okay, less super simplified: While we usually think of the medieval cliche of an undereducated age following the glories of Rome this is simply not true.
The vast majority of people *could* read and write and do calculations e.g. - it's just that the *bloody humanists* following these times wanted to defecate onto the times of their parents so "nobody could write or read or do maths"... why? because they *did not read Latin and Koine Greek.*
Do you need Greek or Latin to tun a farm or build a bridge? But you *do desperately* need Maths and Writing for everything.
So it was *actually* an age of technological invention, because... that's what humans do.
And of course Germany is geologically very stable unlike California so it's easily possible to build cliff-side things if you have the tech and its really a great idea because while it looks impressive, it's also nigh impenetrable by pre-gunpowder weapons.
*Always* keep this in mind when looking at cool castles: they are *defensive death machines,* they look nice mostly accidentally by exploiting the geographical advantages militarily.
It sounds insane but a proper castle could be held ba a dozen militarily lightly educated inhabitants under sound command against hundreds - and they usually where, held that is, you have to starve a castle out.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
So has the opinion changed again? 😎 Wasn't Italy once the top travel destination? 😎 Which would also be recommended. What Italy offers in terms of beauty (nature and cities) is something Germany can't really deliver. Don't forget that Dr. Ludwig's videos show the best of the best. If you want to see the reality of most German cities, a video from the TH-cam channel rewboss is recommended. The video "Is this Germany's ugliest city? Ludwigshafen am Rhein" shows the reality of German cities. Why are castles often built on rocky cliffs? Well, so they are better protected.
What you say about the scenic beauty of Italy is certainly true. On the other hand, in Italy this beauty is wiped out in a matter of seconds when a massive earthquake occurs. In fact, Naples will sooner or later become a victim of the Phlegraean Fields. Volcanism is of course just as much an issue in Italy as massive earthquakes... We have it much better in Germany...
There are certainly shabby cities in Germany. But to speak of some kind of distortion in the report is outrageous. Maybe you live in Ludwigshafen, Duisburg or Gelsenkirchen. But that's not the point here.
19:25 it's an hoomage to a afmps painting of the same nabe by Caspar David Firedrich....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog
Europe is full of places that would make fantastic SCHOOLS OF WIZARDRY AND MAGIC 🦉🌙🧹
🙂