As a Spaniard in German: German Pre-War architecture is just superior. Sadly, so many precious architectural pearls have gone lost forever

For us in Germany these cityscapes are common but through these videos I can clearly see the beauty you're referring to. To sum it up: We literraly walk through Hogsmeade on daily bases and our students often study in castles looking like Hogwarts. 😂 Come visit guys, you're very welcome here! 😊

On your next visit, steer clear of cities and get out to rural Germany and these picturesque towns. Much more rewarding.

When I was in NZ as a student they showed me a historical building - it was about 100 years old😂😂😂. Well, in Germany that‘s not even old. Hold my beer 😂 🍻

A couple of days ago in class, the teacher asked where we would most like to go on vacation. Everybody said Thailand, Maldives.. varm beach countries. I said Germany 😄and this video is why. I love the old architecture 🥰 Greedings from Stockholm, Sweden.

Joel you are an exceedingly lucky young man, you have discovered the magic of Europe four decades sooner than most of your countrymen

Middle Age : The time period from 6th century - 15th century. 😊

Most half-timbered houses are not from the middle ages, as the narrator in the DW video suggested, but in fact from the early modern period around the 16th and 17th century.

Just to let you know, you can get "Glühwein" the wine sold on the christmas markets at Aldi in the US during Christmas time. Just heat it up, do not boil it!

In France, Aachen is named Aix-la-Chapelle, former capital of an empire that joined what will become later France and Germany. Charlemagne (as we name Charles the Great) is a famous King/Emperor here, too. Germany and France are the legacy of Charles.

we have around 25,000 castles and palaces in germany and we have no cheap wood houses

I miss Cologne with its cathedral! That's also a must-see.

I live in Aachen (the second City in this video). Medieval was a pretty long time. The cathedral in Aachen had it's first version around 800 but most parts we have today where added over the next 1000 years. This is typical for a lot of the old towns in Europe. You will see a mixture of different styles from up to 2000 years ago in some cases. I like to travel on the bicycle from town to town. A range of 50-100km is more than enough to have a lot of interesting choices in reach each day. After a few hours of cycling, I have the rest of the day to explore and I stay a day extra in some of the larger cities. A typical trip takes a month and I visit about 25 cities. I have done this many times but the hardest thing is always to decide where not to go.

Yay, going to Bamberg again this summer. It's so beautiful there.

I remember when I stood in front on that throne a few years ago and saw it for the first time. I was surprised how simple that throne is. Just a few marmor plates nailed together.

I think it would be a fantastic idea when you come back this summer to focus on the south of Germany and then maybe proceed to Switzerland or Austria. Vienna for example is beautiful. 😍

Team up with Nalf @nalfvlogs a fellow American who lives in Schwabisch Hall. I’ve been and it’s gorgeous!!!

It`s always nice to see the history , the old churches and the beautiful landscapes from north to south Germany . It`s very impressive.😊👍🌹🍁🍀💙

Such beautiful architecture and fascinating history. The main cities are worth visiting, but these smaller towns and cities are even more beautiful and easier to navigate. Love Germany!

Good Morning Joel, in my Opinion, it´s the red Roofs, that let Videos from the more southern Regions appear more lighter; the North is very like- and endearable, too - says Someone from South Germany ;) There is another well conserved medieval Unesco Heritage Town in Swabia called "Nördlingen" (also with a complete Citywall to walk there). The Town was built in the Middle of a Meteor Crater. P.S. It was a Joy to watch You being so fond of what You see in that Videoclip 😊 Best Wishes! 🙋‍♂

I have traveled though Germany a lot of work. There are so many places to see and food to eat. Love it all!

As a German i can say 3 most beautiful Cities to go are Quedlinburg, Dresden and Erfurt (because i live there :D). 1 little insider Tip from my side is Bautzen. But this kind of Town centers you can find many in Germany.

My Father was born in the Castle Burg Bentheim ( build 1108 ), Prost from Germany

Come to the Rhine-Ruhr area next time. We might not have the most half-timbered houses because there was so much destruction (there are some though!), but there's a lot of different interesting cities in one region (like Cologne and Düsseldorf with their distinct local beer variations, Kölsch and Alt) and Aachen, Belgium and the Netherlands are also just a short train ride away.

How about an exchange year in Germany? There are a few ways to spend some time here. 🙂I would love to see your videos during that time.

There are many, many more towns in Germany that offer such beauty! You could basically travel Germany from north to south and find them everywhere along the route... from (only a small list of examples that is far, far from exhaustive) Friedrichstadt and Husum in the north, Wismar and Schwerin on or close to the Baltic Sea, over Lüneburg in the famous Lüneburg Heath, to Hessian towns with a large number of half-timbered houses and/or small castles such as Melsungen, Spangenberg, Rothenburg a. d. Fulda, Homberg, Amöneburg, Grünberg, Lich, Münzenberg, Büdingen, Friedberg, Kronberg, Reifenberg, Königstein/Falkenstein and of course Frankfurt with its world-known Römerberg and the recreated "new old town". Then Seligenstadt with its beautiful old monastery, and Eberbach Monastery (site of scenes from the movie "The Name of the Rose" with Sean Connery), Mühlhausen in Thuringia, in Bavaria e.g. Aschaffenburg, Coburg and Schwäbisch-Hall, not to forget quaint little towns along the Rhine and Mosel Rivers and castles there such as the Marksburg and Burg Eltz. I think to explore all of Germany's treasures, you'd need a life-time of travelling. To explore all of Europes beautiful places, several lifetimes. Have fun looking up some of the places - maybe one or two of them catch your interest for your next trip to Germany? P. S. If you ever travel to Southern France, the medieval cities of Aigues Mortes and Carcassonne, and the Pont du Gard (ancient Roman aqueduct) are absolute must-sees!

Hi from Germany. Look out in Middlefrankonia and Underfranconia in Northern Bavaria The Area around Ansbach Many tiny landcities were never destroyed in any war,also many old big villge centers are so. Kitzingen and Fürth also Lauf an der Pegnitz is a visit worth. Also in the Grabfeld northern of Schweinfurt into Direction of Thuringa are many such little towns. And yes Bavaria and baden Württemberg are each foritself a moth visit worth until you have a bit of an "overlook". :D

6:48 The Holsten Tor was depicted on the old 50 DM banknote.

4:50 Quedlinburg was the Easter residence of the Ottonic dynasty: It was this palatinate (Pfalz) they resided during Easter time each year. The medieval German kings were migrating kings, residing each season in another palatinate in another region of the Holy Roman Empire (the word palatinate or Pfalz derived like the word palace from the Palatine Hill within Rome, which was there the place where the emperors built their residences). The palatinates were managed by counts palatinate (Pfalzgraf - the title of a high civil servant. The English form "count" refers to "accountant", the German word "Graf" to Latin "grapheus", scribe - in both cases originally people who could read and write, but later they sometimes only inherited the title as well as the post and employed people doing the reading, writing and accounting for them 🙃). 10:00 They did not mention the other two well preserverd medieval towns nearby to Rothenburg along the western border of Bavaria. Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9CoqLidyZOZe5c.html), 40 km south of Rothenburg, are Franconian; Nördlingen (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8x3fLKJlsqldHk.html / kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7eTZMacr6rUZpc.html), about 30km south of Dinkelsbühl, is Swabian.

Bavaria seems sunnier because it literaly is. Bavaria has the most sunshine out of every german state (Though far from california) There's also hotter summers and colder winters. And we still have some snow that piles up a little.

Jay, people become inured to the specialness of what is common. My grandsons in Queensland take for grznted azure seas, great waves, and endless beaches. My BC family hardly notice the mountains and forests surrounding them. I spent the first 17 yrs of my life in a small town which had the largest 13th century castle in Europe. It was just "there". None of us thought about it. Germans probably appreciate these places more, as many had to be rebuilt after the War.

I grew up in the Aachen area and the Aachen Christmas market is a highlight. I love Aachen's old pubs and small streets in the city center.

I think the south has just the most beauty and action to offer. The Alps and all the outdoor activities and stunning landscape in Bavaria, Lake Constance and the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg (make sure not to skip Tübingen on your trip, it's a quaint and alternative-minded university town that still gets overlooked by many tourists, but so are many towns around Lake contance) all the way to Palatinate with its vine valleys. If I had to create the perfect route to show the beauty of Germany to tourists, it would be those 3 areas for a start. The rest comes after in my opinion. :)

Just an idea: Ulm is a pretty big town with an old town centre near the Danube river which starts to be navigable in Ulm but isn't being used any more nowadays. The Ulm minster ("Ulmer Münster") is in the middle of that town - the cathedral with the highest belfry of the world. Ulm can be reached quite easily by either flying to Stuttgart or to Munich, then taking a train to Ulm. Ulm has the advantage of not being too far away from many interesting other places. Lake Constance is about 100 km south of Ulm. Friedrichshafen - where the first Zeppelins have been built - is a train ride of about an hour away from Ulm. There are several beautiful towns around Lake Constance, particularly Lindau and Konstanz. Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, and Munich can be reached easily by railway from Ulm. Rottenburg/Tauber which was mentioned in the video isn't too far away either. And quite nearby to Rottenburg is another very interesting medieval town, Nördlingen. They're both north of Ulm. Between Rottenburg and Ulm there's Aalen which is home of a very interesting museum and a few ruins of the time when parts of Germany were occupied by ancient Rome. About 60 km south of Ulm is Memmingen which also has a very beautiful old town center. West of Ulm and south of Stuttgart there's the quite prominent university town of Tübingen which is offering really stunning sights, partly due to a castle on a hill in the middle of that town close to the Neckar river. Tübingen is home to one o the oldest universities in Germany and has a very special flair. In Sigmaringen you can find one of the famous castles of Germany. Again on a hill in the middle of that rather small town. However, visiting the castle is very restricted - in contrast to Hohenstaufen which is farer away. It's easy to take a train from Ulm to Füssen which is the town next to the Neuschwanstein castle (the one which looks like Disney's Cinderella castle). However mind that the town of Füssen has a very nice historical central area too. In Füssen the Lech river is leaving the Alps and the valley of the Lech river can offer many impressive sights. I have to stop here although I could go on for hours and hours about suggestions of interesting things to do starting in Ulm.

There is obviously no exact date for the Medieval Period, but it is usually described as the time between the fall of Rome in the latter half of the 5th century CE to the beginning of the Renaissance (whenever you want to date that! About 14th century or a little later). I have known some historians to take 1492 as the definitive end of the Medieval Period, but probably simply because that is a definite date with major consequences. You have heard of Lübeck because a lot of people wrote in their comments about your visit to Hamburg that you should go to Lübeck as well. It‘s only about a 40-minute train ride from here.

Also think about the art and literature in Germany: Weimar, Leipzig, Dresden, Lübeck.

Hello, Joel. I live in York but I can also recommend Rothenburg ob der Tauber to you: you will LOVE it. But, then, Europe is overflowing with medieval cities - Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary and the list goes on. Luckily, you have a lifetime to explore them. ENJOY 😊😊😊

You must learn German 🇩🇪,,,, I’m convinced Germany is your first Love ❤

Hi JPS, I'm finnish but visited Germany 3 times and visiting for the 4th time next summer. There are loads of beautiful places in Germany, but I really reccomend you fly to Frankfurt, since it's close to alot of places and you can take the train to almost every part of the country from the airport. My reccomendations would be Heidelberg, Wurzburg, and the oldest city in Germany, Trier. Looking forward to your Germany vlogs.

Unfortunately a great deal of medieval and historic sites in the larger cities of Germany were destroyed ba bombing during WWII. In Nüremberg about 80% in Hamburg 65% etc.

One of the best Christmas markets in Germany with a middle age theme and ancient buildings is in a town called Esslingen near Stuttgart in south west Germany

you gonna need more than just a couple of days to get the chilled normal vibe here and see at least some of the really cool things in my country. Ever thought about learning some german, getting a job here and live/work here for a year or two? Easiest way to explore the country ...

I am Benjamin from Austria and I really enjoy watching your videos! Thank you! 👍🏻 you have to come to europe again! There is so much to explore that you can‘t even imagine! 👍🏻🥳

You‘re 100% correct about the light in Bavaria. It‘s different, indeed brighter.

Have you reacted to the video "This is Germany" 😎It's just stunning video!

Love Germany from Bulgaria. Great country and Great people.

Koblenz is a nice City on the Rhine River and its Deutsche Eck/german corner where two rivers meet the Moselle and Rhine River. Königswinter near by Bonn is beautiful with the Dragonrock Mountain and the seven peak mountains ⛰ and the Rhine River

Little advice, if you don't mind. Visit a Christmas market during the week. Not on the weekend. This way you'll actually have a chance to see something. Weekends they are crazy full. Especially the famous ones. With love from Germany 🤘🏻❤

Funnily enough, bavaria is one of the states which gets the strongest and heaviest thunderstorms in germany because of the alps. Some weather tips appreciated too i hope xD

The song you are going with at 6:00 is named ‚All was well‘ by Matt Nasir

In Germany you definitely have to see Walhalla (near Regensburg) and the Befreiungshalle in Kelheim

Loved it!!

The first scene, right where i am originally from. Lübeck ❤ Now i live near the Alps, 700 miles south 😔

You have to visit the Palatinate! Why? There, the climate is like in the Tuscany, on the western edge of the rhinevalley lies Germanies biggest forest, the Palatinate Forest and there are lot of castles! And we have good vines too!

Come to 🇷🇴 Romania...we have Transylvania....and you can see how german settled in our country hundreds of years ago....they built cities that you can admire today....Villages too...they are called saxon. ...And it's true...Europe is amazing...too many stuff to see and do...but ...keep on trying 😂 ...the best we can all do.

Hello Joel . Fitted in nicely with a tour of Germany by Magic Geekdom, who just went to a town like this. They compared ot to your favourite UK city, York, but no Yorkshire pudding wraps. They also recently drove on the autobahn. An idea for the summer? P.S. Endless Adventure went to a German themed town in US, which might be interesting for a reaction?

I can highly recommend the small city of Schwäbisch Hall! To me, it's the prettiest (small) city we have in Germany.

Meißen is very interessting too

You are right about that ... there is tooooooo or sooo much. Even as a local ... I discover new things all the time and I am flabbergasted ... and it would take years to see just a fraction of it all ... Make sure to visit Freiburg im Breisgau some time ...

Belgian played in a Rock band late 90's in Boston (usa). Musically... Best place on earth no doubt! But went back to Belgium, missed food at the decent price! (Tim Boston)

I would recommand to also visit Limburg an der Lahn and Hann. Münden, along with the great domes of Worms and Speyer.

Check out the Black Forest and Elsaß (or Alsace), the western part of France ( ;

Britain has half-timbered houses too, BUT ... their style is different ... MOSTLY VERTICAL beams instead of horizontal supports with vertical ones further apart.

Hi, Joel! I think the most sunny days you find in the state Mecklenburg Vorpommern, east germany. I`m not sure... Don`t forget the Köln Cathedral! This, and after (or better BEFORE) having party there, go outside Cologne (southern, behind the former capital Bonn, and a few kilometers further) you also see a beautifull landscape left and right along the river Rhine (Rhein). You can go by train.

Fun fact: During middle ages, they did not call themselves "in the middle age", but they where the "modern times" then. They invented the most modern things, they built the highest buildings, they had the most population. In about 1000 years, we will be the ones living in the "middle age". If humans still exist and have time to spare on history...

Hello, thank you very much for this nice video. Germany has some very beautiful medieval cities, and one of them is my hometown. Best regards from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck

This is a quite good selection of cities for beginners. To your point with the Bavariasn weather. You're right. I know both regions very well, northern Germany, where I grew up in rainy conditions, and Bavaria, where I live now. The national colors of Bavaria are white and blue, so is the propeller of BMW and so is the weather as well. Regardless where you drop, take your time, don't rush. Lübeck i.e. was the capital of the most successful medevial trading network in the northern hemiosphere, the Hanse. It comprised the region from St. Petersburg to London. So, before going there, it's worth to reading somes lines about that and you will enjoy it even more.

a completely different face without your beard 😅 mouthwatering, when you see beer....i haven't seen that yet either. i only know that when you see food 🤤😂

Come and visit us! We will bring you tu many little towns in Schwarzwald and of course Straßburg and Colmar. You re very welcome! Trier, Heidelberg and Aachen are not far a way from here.

Maybe you heard of Lübeck in Connection with Hanse? A training organisation.

About the wether, what should I say, yes in Germany it's warmer and sunnier in the south, too. Like everywhere 😉 When it comes to winter times, you will get more snow but also a bit more sun in the south, while it is more cloudy, windy and gray in the north. But in the summer I really prefer the north, because of the beautiful coastal areas. It is so nice to lay in the sun on the beach on the island Rügen. Check out the beautiful city of Binz, for example. We call the baltic sea "Berlins bath tube" 😉, cause so many of us enjoy the summer vacation there 😄😄

I used to travel a lot between 2 different countries in Europe. A distance of only 150 km or a 2 hour drive. While in the more southern country people where still sitting on terrasses enjoying the sun in september, only 2 hours up north you drive into rain and stormy depressingly grey weather. So the difference between Hamburg in the north and Munich in the south of Germany is about an 8 or 9 hour drive by car. So not at all surprising that in many cases the weather could be much warmer in Bavaria. There is even a little island called Mainau close to the border between southern Germany and Switzerland where people grow oranges because the average weather is very mild for German standards.

The Middle Ages are usually dated from around 450 to 1450 AD (Marker dates are the End of the Delphic Oracle 391 AD or the Fall of Rime 476 AD on one end and the Fall of Byzantium 1453, the invention of book printing with moveable types in 1403, and the Crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus in 1492 on the other end.)

If you're ever in Erfurt or Bamberg let me know and I'll show up. I live nearby, about 20 km away. As always, great video and keep it up

Unbelievable that most of german cities were rebuilt this way after WWII

there are quite a lot of open-air museums all around germany where they re-locate old houses to. the timberframe can be disassembled, rebuilt somewhere else and filled and plastered again. where ever you go in Germany, a "Freilichtmuseum" shouldn't be too far away and most are worth spending a day in. especially if you ask them in advance if someone would like to tour around a youtuber... also plenty of castles do medieval markets and knight tournaments and stuff. dunno if I would wanna plan my trip around that, more check if there's something happening while you're close by anyway...

In ganz Europa findet man so viele Städte mit vielen mittelalterlichen Gebäuden, nicht nur in DE. Aber Fachwerkhäuser gelten tatsächlich als typisch deutsch, obwohl man sie auch in fast ganz Europa findet (oft von Deutschen gebaut, aber eben nicht immer). Schon die alten Römer benutzten die Fachwerktechnik, da man so stabil und materialsparend bauen konnte. Genau, bei deinem ersten Urlaub in DE warst du lange in Berlin. Lasse die Großstädte diesmal links liegen. Hier hast du ja schon ein paar Anregungen gesehen. Ich kann Dresden, Erfurt, Lüneburg, Lübeck wirklich empfehlen. Besuche die Ostseeküste und Nordseeküste. Wenn du in der Vorweihnacchtszeit kommen willst, dann hast du ganz viele Möglichkeiten in ganz Deutschland. Du wirst dich wie im Weihnachts-Wunderland fühlen.

please make videos about Dresden!! 😁

What she forgot to tell about Lübeck is the reason to this city's great wealth in the Middle-age is this city was one of several cities in a trade union called Die Hasenstädter. These cities was mostly in the Northern part of Germany but also round in the Baltic sea, which the city of Visby Gotland and Stockholm Sweden was a part of. Nördlingen is a very special City from 1100 that still have it's city centre from that time. It have a distinct round shape that have occurred due to this city is build in a meteor crater from 15000 years ago!! The bell tower of the church is build of stones from this impact and are unique to only being created of a meteor impact!! This building is the only one in the world build of stones created of a meteor impact!!! Kind regards the Danish Viking

Heidelberg and Passau are beautiful towns

Joel is giving us hints for his future travel vlogs.

Definitely visit Hamburg !

Very good video actually, cause most of these kind of videos only shows the south of Germany. But as see, it also beautiful in the north and east here. 😎

"Seems a little sunnier in Bavaria", well, as a born Bavarian, of course I must agree. And I must admit that I've always rather been to Italy than to the north of Germany. I mean, who travels several hundred kilometers northwards to see the North Sea or the Baltic when there's the Mediterranean down south?

Cities like Lüneburg, Celle, Münster, Seligenstadt, Flensburg, Schleswig, Husum and Bremen should never be forgotten!

it can be sunnyin the North,too, but the climate and people are harsher

bro i life in a small village in ger and the scene is unbeleavable.

you have to react to the Hanseatic League :)

^^ i was a bit more closer to the border from Austria when i was on a short vacation trip there in Bavaria and then a hailstorm come up in a few minutes...it was so strong, it wasn't even possible to see the house on the other side of the street, it was all white...like thick white fog... XD 😉🥳🤣🤣🤣

top video again, thanks

Monschau, Traben-Trabach, Bernkastel-Kues ❤

Rüdesheim and Boppard are beautiful

Greetings from Lübeck 😋

It seems i was lucky. Born in Bamberg, now i live 30km from Rothenburg 😀

The medieval heritage in Europe is almost as much a part of Europeans as it is of Americans. It was your ancestors who built the castles, fortresses, and cities in Europe. Sure, not everything, and sure, the generations in between didn't contribute to the preservation but rather bombed them in World War II. And most of what was lost, was lost through us, in the 70s and 80s an incredible amount was demolished. And today's new construction areas are dystopian, gray, unimaginative, oppressive, and just soulless. Nevertheless, the USA was created by immigration, so there is a connection.

The middle ages lastet around 1000 years. But in germany we first hat traveling kings, than Aachen became capital and after that the capital moved multiple times with differend Kings. Thats why Aachen was only the crowning place for multiple 100 years.

5:32 maybe influenced by Disney and Grimm Brothers?

Roughly the medieval era is said to be between 700 ad to 1500 ad - if I remember well from my German history classes. Before it's the era of the late Roman and early Byzantine Empire. The time after the medieval era is called new time (Neuzeit) in Germany - the modern era starts with eg the industrialisation and the American and French revolutions.

I want to be ‘Community led Town Hall in the middle of the river’ level of iconic.

What you said at 7:50: No, it's not just you😂 Here in northern Germany we say "Nirgendwo ist das Grau schöner als bei uns im Norden". Just means "Nowhere is the gray as beautiful as here in the north"😁When it's cloudy, rainy and windy most of the year, you need that kind of humor and optimism🙃