🇩🇪 American Couple Reacts 'This Is Germany'

🇩🇪 American Couple Reacts "This Is Germany" | The Demouchets REACT GERMANY
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[CM-eynq]

Heh. Germany doesn't have Disney vibes, Disney has Germany vibes. Guess where they got it from :)

[rockinresurrection]

Rapunzel is a German fairy tale! The Grimm Brothers collected all of these stroies

[erikschlangenauge]

Obviously you got cars😂 we invented them btw

[blackangel]

Germany's history is more than 2000 years old and we have more than 20, 000 thousand palaces, castles and ruins. We have a cathedral in every big city and many small churches. Museums and other attractions that are worth seeing!

[scarnoir]

"almost looks like liberty" - statue was literarlly the artist's inspiration for lady liberty xD

[Blvckbirdz]

Most of the smaller buildings around the really big ones are single family houses or have build in apartments. We usually don't build houses made out of wood. Most common is brick or concrete, as we like buildings that last 100 years or more. But of course this video showed some of the most beautiful architecture in germany, not every part of germany has so many historical, old and beautiful buildings.

[Reaktor-Else]

Germany has beaches and islands in the north 🏝️ and mountains in the south 🏔️

[blutwurst]

Germany is the land of fairy tales and myths... our architecture and nature has inspired so many. Disney, lords of the rings... we have such beautiful forests, lakes and animals... hundreds of palaces and castles... i love it 😍



[KeltenDNA]

Germany is the Home of Fairy Tale. Many Greetz from 🇩🇪

[stampcollector]

You seem to like my country - 2000+ years of history hard to match. BTW you are a nice couple! *muah* ♥

[MrsStrawhatberry]

Granted there are no castles and palaces in the US but surely you know about the Medieval? Aristocracy?
Kings, queens, knights, crusades, Dukes and Lords and Nobility and all that?
None of these are “presidential buildings”.

The houses in the water are either castles or palaces (Burg, Schloss, Palast in German). Some were for nobles to live in and the people who served them, some are still private, some were turned into museums. The gardens were die them to stroll around because back the, there were no cars, no movies, … Some are castles for knights to defend a city, so they are on top of hills and have water around them for protection.

[scarnoir]

"Country takes care of its people, too" - Yes, Ma'am, we have health insurance and free universities (last one even for foreigners).

[RustyDust]

Hehe, loved your reaction. The original is just a wonderful scenery flight through Germany. Obviously it picks the most picturesque sights, and highlights them with the illumination as well.
It shows virtually ALL monuments or historical buildings, not private homes (at least not in the traditional sense). For example the Burg Eltz is still owned by the descendants of the original owners, who still live in parts of the castle. The other parts are open to be visited, for an entrance fee. Maintaining an old castle is one HELL of an expensive endeavor.

When it comes to Germany, all them 'pointy buildings' are either churches (mostly) or potentially castles.
Little clarification: a Burg is a castle in the defensive, fortification sense for a community. A Schloß is a palace, no defensive value whatsoever. Sometimes the German word Palast is also used for it. A Festung is a LARGE castle or fortress, as in concentric fortifications, only for military use (normally). Lots of what you see here is considered a Burg, instead of a Schloß. A Burg is usually built with thick, grey, solid stone walls, with arrow slits, and fairly compact. A Schloß is usually colorful, with high open windows, looong passages, extremely (overly) decorated, and sprawling.

When it comes to rooftops, tiles have been the roof cover of choice over the centuries. Straw was for a long time the choice of the poor, but it was just too flammable. Tiles are very resistant to fire, rain or even lightning strikes, and shrug off hail or even most storms if built right.
The type of roof tile depends a lot on the most common building material of the region. Granite in the alps, slate in the center and east of Germany, fired clay in the west and north of Germany.
Transporting different building materials for roofs from long distances away was considered a waste of money.

2:25 That's Hamburg. Yepp, those pointy bits, that's church steeples. Or bell towers.
The one with the green tip, and the clock face, right in the middle of the image, is the Saint Michael church, or Sankt Michaelis Kirche. It has the nickname of "der Michel", the Michael in Hamburg.
It is the central city monument of Hamburg.
By tradition no other building within a certain distance of it is allowed to be built taller, out of respect for it. Within a certain line of sight the architects aren't allowed to build in such a way as to block this line of sight to its clock face. Again, pure tradition but based on practical reasoning. In a time when only the super-rich could aford a pocket watch on a chain, much less a wrist watch, an unobstructed view to a clock tower was often necessary to correctly gauge the time. Sure, those times are long gone, but the rules set up at that time still persist. Partly out of tradition (mostly), often simply out of neglect to remove them.

On the right on the river is Blohm & Voss Dock 13, a floating dock on the river Elbe by the ship building company Blohm & Voss. It is one of the largest floating docks world-wide and one of only a few able to contain the cruise liner Queen Mary 2. Making her a regular visitor to the Hamburg port for regular check ups and maintenance.

2:56 That's in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate with the statue of the Quadriga on it. It was built as a triumph arch or gate. It was a long time locked behind the Berlin Wall, inaccessible to most. It became a symbol of Germany's reunification in 1990. The Quadriga is a chariot drawn by four horses, similar to the ancient Roman or Egyptian chariots.

3:10 That is the Arminius/Herman Denkmal in Kassel. It represents the Germanic tribes' leader who severly beat three Roman legions in 9 A.D. at the Teutoburger Forest. This has been a central turning point in history. Until then the Roman Empire had never been beaten so decisively. They had essentially divided and conquered virtually any other nation in Europe. They had succeeded in the west of what is today Germany. But when they tried to advance further north, this catastrophe happened to them, essentially blocking their advance further east. Some even attribute their future decline to this devastating defeat even though it occured only centuries later.

3:45 Siegessäule / Victory column in Berlin. Not gold but brightly polished brass. Gold plating would be MUCH too expensive, and faaaar too thin to last any time under the open skies and rain.

9:22 again, Hamburg, my home city. That is the Binnenalster, one of two connected artificial lakes right in the center of Hamburg. They are fairly large and offer an amazing open, windswept area allowing for cooling of the inner city center during hot summer days. Again, in the center of the image, above the fountain in the middle of the lake, and just a bit to the left, is again the Michel, the church from the beginning.

Hehe, that many of these images give you fairy-tale vibes is totally understandable. The fairy tales you grew up with are mostly from the German Brothers Grimm (not the TV show, the literary brothers). They were two brothers who traveled throughout Europe and collected mostly orally traded children stories and published them in their collection of books.
Disney took inspiration from virtually all their stories, but toned them down. A LOT. Often even changed the story archs quite a bit. Those stories from the 18th century forward were NOT for the faint of heart. They were BRUTAL. But they were often illustrated by the brothers themselves, who obviously took inspiration from the architecture they were familiar with.
Snowwhite, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Ridinghood, Sleeping Beauty, Rumplestiltskin, all of them were stories collected by the Brothers Grimm.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame however was a French story. Ariel the Mermaid and Frozen was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen stories (Danish).

13:20 The word you probably were looking for was cobblestone. There are many, MANY different versions how it is called in Germany. They have an insane durability but aren't comfortable or quiet to drive over. Now imagine instead of rubber tires on good suspension an iron-shod wooden cartwheel with NO suspension at all rumbling over these cobblestones. Now THAT'S traffic noise. 😂

Flooding and drainage:
Yes, in the late spring of 2020 an absolutely unanticipated downpour caused major flooding in one valley area, the Aartal / the Aar valley. It was truly devastating with over 150 dead and several hundred injured, as well as many buildings completely swept away. Not good, not good at all.
Is such an occurence common? Well, not really. But in the last 25 years there have been several major floods along some of the many rivers that exceeded all tolerances. Local seasonal flooding however is generally anticipated and accepted. There are usually plans to cope with such flooding relatively quickly.

Hamburg for example experiences flooding of the lower lying quarters like the Hafenviertel or the Fischmarkthalle once or twice a year, minimum.
Does it phaze the locals? Nope. They know when to remove their cars from the area, lock down the openings of buildings, and literally weather the weather (ha, pun intended).
However the tourists who decide that wow, all these cheap, open, empty parking spaces right along the river bank where absolutely NO-ONE is parking right now are great spots to park their cars, when all major media in Hamburg have warned of an exceptional high tide... well, they often come back to find their car gone. Either swept away AFTER the flood, or expensively evacuated by emergency towing services shortly before or even DURING the flood.

Drainage is exceptionally well developed throughout most of Germany. Only the absolute weather extremes cause any major flooding. Right outside of Hamburg for example is the area of land called "Das alte Land" / "the old land". This is a region that had been begun to be drained in the 16th century by wind-powered pumps. It left behind an area lower than average sea-level, behind dams and dikes, with incredibly fertile land. It continues to be drained and pumped today, but by electric pumps. It supplies a LOT of the local produce of fruits and vegetables, right outside of the gates of Hamburg.

Customs: the majority of people will live either in low-rise four or five floor apartment homes with multiple apartments in one block. A significant minority will live in homes, which still house one or two families. But obviously the type of home will vary if you're living in the country side, or in cities and towns. Cities and towns apartments will be the majority, will in the real rural areas homes for one or two families will be the most dominant.

[julez]

To answer some of your questions. Yes, the resaurants are in these buildings! The place you can see when you stopped the video and mused about that is the Karlplatz/Stachus in Munich. In the building on the right is one of the most frequented McDonalds in the world. Our city centers are hundreds of years old and are filled with restaurants and shops like they have been for hundreds of years. We only have few billboards because they would ruin the sights. There are Mcdonalds that look like the ones in the USA all around the world but not in historic places.
That"houses" on the hills and in the lakes are castles (25, 000 in Germany) and people live in some of them, some are hotels or museums and some are in ruins. The pointy thingies ( made me laugh so hard👍) are church towers. You saw the highest in the world e.g..
And you saw plenty of family homes because some of us live in these old houses. The oldest house I lived in was 480 years old. No straight walls but very charming.
The reason the architecture in the disney movies look a lot like the one in Germany is because a lot of fairy tales like Cinderella and Rapunzel are collected, written and published by the brothers Grimm of Germany or are from France ( beauty and the beast) or Hans Christian Anderson from Denmark . So they used German architecture as a model. the Disney castle is inspired by castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria.
We have much more parks and greenery in our big cities than in the US. They didn't show a lot of the nature. To much architecture .
The big statue you thought looked like the statue of liberty is the Hermannsdenkmal. Arminius the Etruscan who butchered together with some Germanic tribes two roman legions 2000 years ago. During rising nationalism in the 19th century they started to glorify guys like him and built lots of pointless statues.
You will be in for a huge culture shock when you visit Europe. I hope you will enjoy every minute of it.

[blackangel]

Walter Disney was in Bavaria and saw the castle of Ludwig the || King of Bavaria (Neuschwanstein Castle) and was so excited that he made it his logo. Disney copied it because the castle is older than the one he built in Disney World in the 50s. Did you know that the German language is older than Spanish or Italian? greetings from germany👋

[evalationx]

I must have missed it but I was a little disappointed they didn't show Dresden in this video. The city was completely destroyed during ww2 but it was rebuilt and today it is one of Germany's most beautiful cities. Lots of old Gothic style buildings there.

[danielstadler]

Hello i think we german speaking ppl, love black ppl, we think they are special

[Realist_IRL]

05:33 This Statue shows a man called Arminius, he defeated the Romans in a historic Battle, as the result the Romans failed in the conquest of Germania.

[remy]

Oh wow, I'm surprised my hometown made it in! The region around Nördlingen isn't exactly exciting to live in (it's mostly small villages, Nördlingen itself has a population of around 20k), but there are some nice attractions. The region was hit by a meteor about 20 million years ago, the crater has a diameter of roughly 25km. That's small enough that you can usually see the edge in the distance, which is quite the nice view. We've also had some geologists and austronauts come here, because of the remnants of the meteor. Nördlingen also has the only city wall in all of Germany that is so well maintained that you can actually complete the whole circle (other cities have city walls that are only partially intact, so you can only walk on parts of the wall)

[RobertWeigelt-dflb]

Alles gute aus Deutschland 😊😊😊!! Keep on folkz!