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As someone living and growing in Dinxperlo, thank you for making this video. In essence, for many people in Dinxperlo or Suderwick it is not "something" to think about when we go to the other side of the border. "Oh, just have an ice cream at Da Claudio or go to the Penny" is not strange at all, in fact, one of the most casual (the extent to which you can call shopping casual) things to do. Especially for someone who grew up here in the 2000s and who had never seen a real border crossing with passport/ID checks and such.

I am Dutch, but didn't know this about Dinxperlo :) Thanks for showing us

The way you began with the quirks, and went through the history drew me in, and it was such a pleasure to listen to the two old friends, Dutch and German, from the historical society. As a Brit who never wanted to leave Europe, hearing their thoughts, and those of the Austrian lady and her Dutchman, on Brexit was fascinating. An excellent video, thank you!

Border villages in Europe have gotten more and more united, while border villages in North America have gotten more and more divided.

Lol, very interesting that the historical society guy from the Dutch side has a Dutch accent when speaking German, alltough historically these villages spoke the same Westphalian dialect of Low German.

There is another place where a German and a Dutch city are one. these are Kerkrade (NL) and Hertzogenrath (D). There you have the Nieuwstraat/Neustraße, also on one side the Netherlands and on the other side Germany

Very interesting! The discussions with the elder folk were particularly illuminating. Also, great choice of music.

Awesome, thanks for the English upload! I wanted to show this to my Dutch friend but since she can't understand German well I couldn't, now I can :)

You have such a pleasant accent to listen to - and I love the nerdy subjects you cover. I can actually hear the Dutch accent when one of the men is speaking German. G'day from Australia, mate ☺

Visit Kerkrade and Herzogenrath

I always love your videos but I especially like your Baarle Hertog/Nassau and Dinxperwick episodes. They show that borders don't have to be an issue if you talk and cooperate. Something certain countries on the other side of the globe can learn something from.

Super leuke film! Dit is wat Europa leuk maakt!

Excellent video, thank you! And yes, many of us in GB were and remain horrified, and look forward to returning to the European family

The world is a funny place. My elders came with the British Empire to Africa. They decided to stay. Then South Africa became a country with Afrikaans/Dutch given priority to English. We were the first ones to learn Afrikaans although we never used it as Durban was English. When I went to University I thought they were doing away with Afrikaans. A friend of mine spent a gap year in the Netherlands & told me it was difficult. Some of our comedians & older Afrikaans movies spoke with a Dutch accent so I picked up the shift. I moved to Johannesburg for work because it is the financial heart of Africa & one of the most Cosmopolitan cities in the Southern Hemisphere. In my time there I got to really learn about South Africa because Johannesburg for example was a city of immigrants. Gold was found on a stock farm 55km from the nearest town or settlement ie Pretoria. I later learned that the town/city of Potchefstroom was the original capital of De/Het Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. When I decided to leave Johannesburg my first choice was Flanders or the Netherlands. I decided not to because of my complexion as some don't know better would think I am a terrorist 😂. I opted for New Zealand where I met Dutch, German & Flemish friends. They were quite surprised by my language skills. I have to explain to them & my Kiwi friends that in my country of birth, more especially in the Afrikaans parts I am regarded as being English. That always gets a good laugh. I just think its wonderful that we can put past bigotry etc behind us & enjoy our lives together. Its interesting to see how others envisage or see the world. Time flies, so make the best of it. Thanks for the video. I hope to visit the EU in the next few summers as I am not built for sub-zero temperatures. 😂 Greetings from New Zealand 🇳🇿

we have a few towns here in North America where part is in Canada and part is in the US. Broadly speaking, there isn't a problem despite very different political and societal views on either side of the town. One amusing example is a town where some houses sit on American soil, and their driveways are on Canadian soil. Generally speaking, good will conquers all.

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Great video thanks for sharing

What a delight to watch… Thank you so much for making these great videos. BR, Per (Denmark)

I find this sort of thing so fascinating. I come from a country that has no land borders so European borders and the history of them is so interesting to me. I can't imagine growing up in a place that has another country across the road. The cooperation between diverse countries, sharing a continent should be an inspiration to other continents.

One thing I think documentaries like these always seem to leave out is the everyday practicalities, that isn't about the physical borders, but rather the technical ones. From where do you get your electricity? Your water? Is it purely tied to your address or can you be living in Germany while paying a Dutch company for your power? Your phone? How did the old landlines work? How do you deal with having your neighbour being an international phone call away? Mobile phones pre 2017? Where everyone running around with dual sim cards? And even though your data is now included all over the EU, a call to your friends might still be an international one, if you have contracts in different countries. And then we have internet. Guess it's the same thing as with the old landline phones, but here it comes down to IP address. Are you a german stuck with dutch Netflix? (and here it's time to talk about todays sponsor .....)

See also Kerkrade and several other villages along the German-Dutch borders. Same with Belgium.

i am born 200m away from Denmark...in the late 60s we locals didnt care for the border, we always went over it without any ID checks.... while the tourists standing in the jam at the border post, we went thru without to bother the border guards! it also helped, to have speaking Danish in the Kindergarten on the German side! in the early 1970s!

Similar to Baarle Hertog and Baarle Nassau on the Belgian ‐ Netherlands bborder. The wife sleeps on one side of the bed in the Netherlands, and hubby sleeps in Belgium.

Thank you Matthias for doing this in English, very much appreciated...

Living on this Dutch German border I can see the subtle differences even if there is no actual border left. Cross border cooperation can lead to some weird stuff. I have seen German ambulances coming to the rescue on the Dutch side of the border and Dutch firetrucks dousing fires on the German side. As an added bonus both side of the border still speak the same dialect.

There are several such villages in Europe, villages that were split by history and nationalistic rivalries, and united again in the European Union that abolished the hard borders.

Great content! Always surprises the topic with something new and interesting. 🔥

Fantastic research! Thank you!!

Fantastic video as always, whenever I see you posted a new video it's always a treat!

This was fantastic thanks for uploading, more videos like this please

I was thinking this was going to be about Baarle in the Netherlands and Belgium

German is very important language , but however we from " Ost (mittle) Europa very much appreciate this in English. English is still a language of unification of Europe and especially considering fact that is officially spoken in USA, Canada, Malta, Ireland, United Kingdom, Malaysia, India, Australia, Philippines, Singapore, New Zealand, Caribbean islands , Pakistan, and most of African countries, make sense to have it as common language in Europe

Wow, das war ja wieder super aufwendig. Danke.

Fascinating. Thankyou!

As an American this is really fascinating to me. I know we sure could learn a lot from Europe in a lot of ways.

As an open minded Brit I find it rather insulting that many of those who favour political union describe those who don't (such as me) as being stupid or closed minded. See the irony? It would be more neighbourly and polite to say that we respectfully disagree on matters of politics and government.

Europapa avant la lettre

There is another example with even a sometimes heated situation at the border: Kerkrade (NL) and Herzogenrath (DE).

I'm surprised that I didn't know about this town, given that I live really close to it on the Dutch side. It's really cool to hear the stories from the residents about their experiences with hard borders cutting up their town in the past, and how they feel about political rhetoric that wants to bring back those divisions.

Very nice video. I visited Dinxperlo several times, and liked it a lot. One thing is remarkable: all people in the video speak German (or English), not a word in Dutch. And that's something I notice every time I visit the border region between the Netherlands and Germany. In the Netherlands border region everybody speaks Dutch and German, on the German side of the border it's German only.

If some of those politicians in both Germany and the Netherlands did not learn the lesson from brexit (severe economic consequences for U.K. that just get worse every year) than I am sorry for them.

Really a great story!

You may investigate Baarle Nassau in the south of the Netherlands. There you have pieces of Begium in theNetherlands and again dutch patches in a Belgian patch..... Interesting stuff.

there's also the small town Burghausen which lies in both Germany and Austria :) You can cross a bridge and you're in the other country. I was there 2 weeks ago.

I lived in Kranenburg (Germany) for a year. It was right on the Dutch border. Some houses had garden in the Netherlands.

Very interesting in the east of the country. It is possible that you have not yet been to Baarle Nassau or Baarle Hertog. A small town in the south of the Netherlands. With also the things that belong there. Heel interessant in het oosten van het land. Het kan zijn dat je nog niet in Baarle Nassau of Baarle Hertog bent geweest. Een klein plaatsje in het zuiden van Nederland. Met ook de dingen die daar bij horen.

Surprising considering the USA's very strong territorial sense, there are a few places like this on the US-Canadian border between the US state of Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec, or rather, there were until 9/11. Since then things have been tightened up quite a bit. But at least at one time, one town had a library that was basically shared between the two countries, albeit with separate exits for each country.

Just as well , right hand traffic both countries 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️👍👍👍

In the nordic countries you could cross the border and travel without passport from 1952. From 1954 you could even settle in the other countries without any formalities, and after living there for three months you could even vote in local elections.

Aalten is a boring place but you can also briefly mention that Angus Young from AC/DC has lived there with his Dutch wife for 40 years.

Very interesting topic. Thanks from Costa Rica.

I’m curious about bicycling here. I look to the Netherlands for inspiration about bicycles and street design. I saw some Dutch streets in your video but no one riding bikes.

reminds me a bit of the towns of Bellaghy/Charlestown on the Sligo/Mayo border ... but I suspect the Dutch/Germans are friendlier ;)

Please go to South of The Netherlands where, Nederland, België and Deutschland conjunct as well in one village

Germany has quite strict laws on shops opening on Sunday maybe for religious reasons although the rules seem to apply equally to Protestant and Catholic parts of the country.I think that some little shops can open especially in rail stations so you can still buy food and whatnot.

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Nice. But not overly exceptional in Europe. I lived for a while at the German/Swiss border, villages (same name) on both sides of Rhine river that is the border. Basel area with the often not visible border to Germany and to France. Even well before Schengen agreement.

Fascinating!

I m fron Sint Jacobslaan Nijmegen 4 kms from Germany

Great work. Why only 12K subscribers?!??

What about Herzogenrath and Kerkrade? I used to live there and I think it is nearly the same situation. Can you do a video about that please?

How typical the Dutchie is talking German. The other way around is very rare or nearly non existent.

There is a nice dialect song from Hans Keuper, "dinxper". It is about the people of Dinxperlo and Suderwick.

Check upp Cieszyn, one side is in Poland second one in Czech😎

Why do I watch this when I already watched the German version a few days ago?

I've watched the German version of the video despite not understanding much German xD

Baarle is just a bit stranger village on the map.

Germany got it right with closing on Sunday.

We definitely need to work towards free movement of people in Europe. And some countries with a high population density benefits more then others from a EU membership. But even with countries that probably shouldn't be members we should have cooperation.

Please try the German--Polish version Guben / Gubin

What a Great example of integration ... I say this coming from "Little England"

If it’s all one village, what language do they all speak to communicate with each other?

24:58 It's not about identity. The issue is that you can never have a fair democracy that both ensures that you have representation of all the various ways to live in Europe and sll the issued faced by the inhabitants and one that's fair towards the more urban areas all while also having a functional democracy... I'm personally in favour of a confederate approach to running Europe, instead of a federal or unified approach. Cooperation is essentially, but people need to have the final say about their own lives. Not politicans who has never been in the location in question.

Go to baarle-nassau, thats even more crazy 😂😂

Which languages do the local people speak. Do they speak speak both Dutch and German, or do they speak some mix of the two?

Toont maar weer aan hoe absurd het begrip grens eigenlijk is.

Kerkerade

It makes me wonder if the speak closely related dialects of Low German and Dutch or even if they speak the same dialect.

Do they communicate with each other in German or Dutch? Or a third language such as English?

Meanwhile India is building electrified border fences

Lol, there r many! Live in landgraaf…. Its split in germany too

Super Clip 😂

Why is the dutch guy saying und instead of en

Similar to Danish- German border.

I luv your video's Matthias. You seem to missed the part how the Dutch hunted the German Jews trying to cross the boarder before May 1940. Even killing them or imprisoning them - returning them to Germany to certain death. The same thing happened in Kerkrade, a place which has a very similar boarder.

the closing 'music' is just terrible

There are actually many of such villages on the Dutch-German and Dutch-Belgian borders. And then, there's the insanity that is Baarle. I had to chuckle about the item on smuggling. Yes, that happened a lot, everywhere. Regarding German infrastructure, I don't get it. It's not the reunification: former communist countries have better (digital) infrastructure than Germany. There's something really, really wrong there. The Dutch finished a high-capacity freight-only railway in 2007. But its capacity is limited, because the Germans need to build a third track. They should be starting this year: 17 years later! And even the Autobahn: for as long as I can remember - and this goed back to the 1970s - there's always a Baustelle or other. You cannot drive any reasonable distance in Germany without running into some sort of maintenance. One thing, though: the country is called the Netherlands! I'm from the Netherlands, not from 'Holland'. Holland is a strange land with rude, loud people. Without going into a political debate in KZfaq comments: when the borders were still there, it was a major pain in the arse. Between the Netherlands and Belgium was OK, but to Germany... oh boy. Long delays, they check your papers, open the boot please, what's inside the suitcase... never-ending. And let's not even talk about cross-border purchases. Although I'm Dutch, I live in Malta these days. If I want to order something online, I don't even bother trying to order something from the Netherlands, because they almost never ship abroad. Compare that to Germany, where they happily ship all over Europe. For some reason, the Dutch online retailers seem unaware that there's a market of hundreds of millions of potential customers. Since I moved to Malta in 2000/2001, it wasn't an EU member state yet. So everything that I bought abroad - even though it was a pain, 20 years ago - got import duties and VAT. It's a hassle for retailers as well. Therefore, I was _very_ happy when Malta joined in 2004. It has also had a massive impact on the economy. These days, it's not really that different from Western Europe in many aspects. Except that it has better internet and mobile telephony than Germany, and better weather. 🙂

How about Barlem/Barlaam Belhium/the Netherlands.

Verdammt, ich habe ein falsches Video gesehen! Ich habe nicht gewisst, dass ein Video auf English ist auch verfügbar (ich bin nicht aus Deutschland). 😀

Leuk

I don't understand, this video was already uploaded 1 or 2 weeks ago? Why is it now re-uploaded and the old video is gone? Including all the old comments and likes. Was there a mistake in the old video? I can't imagine this is beneficial for your channel views and likes.

Why does the Dutch guy sound German and the German guy sounds Dutch?

*In America we have the Four Corners Monument.* Where you can stand in four different States at the same time. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Beebe Plains is a town that shares their town with Vermont America and Quebec Canada. The Haskell Free library and Opera house is both in Canada and America. There's a line right down the middle of the building. You wonder what people were thinking back then or the lack of thinking. This could have caused serious problems for those towns people. I don't know enough about Dexit but I'm absolutely for Brexit. I'm not for a one world super power like the EU. Americans will NEVER join the EU! We're trying to kick out the United Nations for taking advantage of American Citizens. Americans pay 80% for everyone else. The Demoncrats in America has been talking about merging with the EU for afew years now. But mentioning America taking orders from the EU are fighting words here. We're already at the end of our rope with this Government screwing around with our American Constitutional Rights. We will never allow another country to have a voice in our country! Sorry for the rant but Borders are a very sensitive subject in America. As most of the First worlds citizens can agree. The Right half of Americans are getting sick of what's going on here. *That's all going to change for the better in about SIX months Thank God.*

Everything the Austrian lady said about Brexit was factually wrong. Prior to Brexit, pro-remain institutions including the Bank of England, the Treasury, various economic think tanks and leading financial services companies predicted a deep recession, explosive increase in food inflation, a leap in unemployment and a catastrophic impact on public services (especially the NHS) should the UK leave the EU. None of those things came to pass or, where there was economic turmoil, it was almost entirely due to the pandemic and other global forces (e.g. the Russo-Ukrainian War) according to academic economists. One wonders whether the lady in the video is purposely trying to rewrite history or genuinely believes what she is saying.

It is separated by colonisation.

all the places where 2 of better yet 3 EU countries borders meet are a perfect spot to set up any online business since you can get your merchandise from both sides of the border while only paying a very low local shipping fee to the pick-up point nearby and likewise sending orders to the buyers on both sides of the border while only paying the local shipping fee. Good spoot would be between Poland and Germany since both are huge markets and there are lots of things that are much cheaper in one but much more expensive in the other country so you can just buy chip things in PL and send to DE and then buy cheap DE items and sell in PL..

even though the netherlands is considered one of the frugal 4 in the EU there's no way we're leaving (neither is sweden but at least they kept their currency) lol we're not nexiting shit, even if there would be massive public traction for it, it complicates business for a country that's built on trade you'd sooner see a threat of that to perhaps attempt to regenotiate new terms with the EU to bargain for a stronger position, but that's all you'l l see lol we're dutch, we don't get riled up that quickly over things, but we also don't like to be told what to think or do. so making pvv or wilders out to be the devil, is only going to galvanize him lol historically we've also been the protestants that somehow managed to tell the spanish armada to go kick rocks, although our treacherous waddenzee took care of a lot of them in fact, the orange color in the irish flag represents protestantism, and the orange is a nod to the Dutch house of orange (specfically william of orange, or "willem III")