Würzburg is also the town where some guy named Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen figured out X-Rays by accident, 100 years before Nowitzki went to play in the NBA. For that he received the first Nobel prize ever for physics in 1901

If you ever go back to Würzburg, at the old city hall there's a little side entrance leading to a small exhibition documenting the destruction of the city in WW2: it includes a scale model of the old city showing the extent of the damage. The sad part of it was that the bombing of the city was unnecessary. It came right at the end of the war. About 80% to 90% of the city was destroyed and at least 4,000 people killed in 17 minutes; the resulting firestorm reached temperatures of up to 2000°C. The scale of the destruction was worse than that of Dresden.

I was born and raised in Thuringia in 1982 and never lived elsewhere. I got goose bumps when you talked about Thuringia. Thank you for that.Clearly I did not get much more from the GDR, but I was still a pioneer. I would like to tell you how I experienced my first visit to the west. Actually, it was the south because we drove to Kulmbach across the border. ^^I stood with my mother in a huge department store and there were things I had never seen before. I remember the smell most clearly. It smelled of coffee and chocolate. I saw a big table on which there were cups. On the cups were funny pictures and in each cup were 3 tubes Smarties. This is something similar to M&Ms. Anyway, I wanted to have such a cup and have begged with my mama. She said we couldn't buy any. One cost DM 5 and we didn't have that much money to swap back then. Suddenly a woman came and pressed a 5 DM piece in my hand. For my little hands, I was 6 years old, it was big and very heavy. She smiled and I thanked very much. My mama didn't really want to accept the money, but the woman insisted. I have this cup today and I always like to return back then. It was an interesting time for me to grow up. So that this is not a novel, I would like to thank you for your great videos and hope you will come more often around Germany to see more of our beautiful country. By the way, I love Hamburg the most. ^^

Props for the Zelda reference! :D

Thuringia right next to Narnia

Cool, finally you're in Würzburg. Thanks for showing our wonderful Würzburg. Dirk is the local hero, we're so proud of him.

Suhl is known for manufacturing guns (hunting rifles and such), so of course they'd be named "Gunslingers" ;-)

Your question about "Scherben": One meaning is shards, broken glass or ceramics. The other (older) meaning is still used in southern Germany and means "pot made of clay (Terracotta)". So "Obstorangerie in Scherben" means fruit trees (mostly citrus fruits) in large clay pots.

That palace in downtown Würzburg you visited after Marienberg was used as a location for the 2011 movie "The Three Musketeers" with Orlando Bloom, for the scenes set at the Palace of Versailles in France.

I have to compliment all your videos. They are very well made, I love the music you put in and you guys are just a lovely bunch. Thanks for it all, it puts a smile on my face. Greetings from Munich!

I want to say thank you very much for sharing your experience with us and spending time to travel to Suhl and practice us. You and your colleagues are realy nice guys. By the way you make pretty cool videos ;) hope we meet you and your mate again. Big thanks and the best greetings from the Suhl Gunslingers :)

I just love your videos! I love everything: the pictures, the music, the atmosphere, the content, the people, ... I am looking forward to all videos that you will do in the future!

This guy defintitely deserves much more subscribers. To watch daily one of your videos became part of my day ;-)

Nice! Finally you visited my hometown!

The think with the hand and the wind while driving by car. I'm always doing this too

Learning about castles : each castle started with a small tower and some wooden fences. The tower was their first shelter in case of an assult. So the tower was a secure place. Most castles towers were build in the years between 1000 till 1200. Later they build castle walls made of stone around the tower. So in Würzburg you visited the festung and its oldes building, the central tower.

Love your Videos man!

I used to work in Würzburg and you made some really nice shots of the city (feels like you have a lot of luck with the weather for your vlogs ). Brought back some good memories, glad you could see the city.

Glad you had a good time in my home state 💚

hi nick, really cool that you guys visited thuringia. i'm from erfurt myself and I thought it was kind of funny seeing you took an interest in the state, cos I got really into loving the PNW especially portland

The drone footage was 😍😍😍 #NALF

Germany, football, beautiful scenery, great videos and a Zelda reference. Perfect start to the day! Ocarina of time is the best video game ever made.

8:42 Jacket snatcher Cody only told half of the story. Dirk Nowitzki was born and raised here. Thaaaat is why he played basketball here. LOL

Well NALF I look forward to your blogs during the craziest time in Germany: A Soccer World Championship! The only time when the flags pop out everywhere and every male German becomes a better soccer expert than the national trainer! :)

Mr. Gehrke is so sympathic :D Can't wait to play the U-19 Unicorns this year lol.

Finally some NBA related content in here, nice. Dirk Nowitzki is awesome, your vids are too.

Nice Training with you 💪🏼

Born and raised in Würzburg,moved to the USA in 1965.had a good cry seeing my beautiful home,thank you

Scherben is nowadays the word for a shard. But it is also an old german word for ceramic goods.

I come from Thuringia (called green heart of germany). Hope you had fun.

Nick, I cannot believe that you came to Würzburg and didn´t let me know. Well, prolly, because I had never mentioned my hometown before. LOL Maybe some other time.

Amei ficamos 3 dias chamam de a pequena Praga.Aquele vinho na ponte é de arrepiar!

beautiful!!!!

Würzburg, my neverending Love

Würzburg my home town! Next time when you are here, let me know, I show you around.

The city is called Würzburg! :P

So funny. the song you chose at the beginning was popular in Germany back in the 70's. It was called "Herzen haben keine Fenster"...*lol*

Herzlich willkommen in Thüringen!

Absolutely fantastic video 10/10.....maybe some classical music to fit the scenery.

1:33 Polish song : ...Moja droga ja Cie kocham....😊😊

You got me a second, reading the english part of the Festung Marienberg board, while filming the german text, thinking: "Wow, Nalf is realy good in German now." But...just for a second. 😀

Lol I did not expect that Zelda reference, nice!

I live in Würzburg since 5 years... amazing beautiful city...you should come back!

great video =) !!!

Würzburg, my home town.miss it,but love the US.always makes me cry

The wrist bands that NALF wears; they commemorate different events or causes, but look at the colors. Italia!

Hey, i live in Würzburg, if you ever come back to visit one day, hit me up i can show you around the whole city, i used to do some work in "summer break" showing around tourists for a couple of weeks so i know quite a bit about the town. Thanks for showing our beautifull city and have a blessed day!

Orangerie is a Place or House were the plants put in to protect them for winter cold like orange or lemon trees, in this case they call it fruit-orangerie (Opstorangerie)

I've literally never been so excited about any new video of yours.. Actually got a little emotional at one point. You finally made it to the beauty that is lower Franconia - so good to see my home from your perspective!

If you like it green, you should go to the Uckermark in northern Brandenburg - more trees than anything else :)

Please come to Erfurt :D, its the capital of Thuringia. And its a beautiful city

Thüringen is very beautiful. I like especially the cities: Erfurt, Weimar, Gotha, Eisenach. Thüringen is the home of the "Thüringer Bratwurst". It is good that you try to dive a bit in our recent history. The separation of Germany was very hard for families which were separated

You should also go to Erfurt, Weimar, walk on the Rennsteig and visit Dresden and Leipzig :)

The license plate at 1:51 - CHAOT 63 :D

In case you are still in this beautiful state, you should eat some proper Thüringer Rostbratwurst & Rostbrätel, you are going to love both those meaty delights.

Thuringia 😍🤗✨

Suhl is actually famous for their gun smiths, for example the company Haenel is from there. They made the famous Sturmgewehr 44, STG44 in ww2. The mother of all assault rifles.

those drone videos never get old

Very beautiful, thanks for sharing! #teslacruising 😎

Nice video as always. Do you have a video about your trip to my hometown dresden?

Franken is dope. Bamberg,Nürnberg,Bayreuth,Würzburg.Fürth. The rest of Bayern is also quite nice. (Regensburg,Passau,Chiemsee,Starnberger See)

Beautiful Germany! Oh I'm a fans of Dirk nowitzki

NALF! You were to Würzburg where I live and never announced you'd come by? I'd have loved to show you around! You've missed a lot!!!

Komme aus Würzburg und Dirk Nowitzki hat im gleichen Fitnessstudio in Dürrbachau trainiert. Lange her. Beim Ingolf Hotel, jetzt ist dort eine Bowling-Bahn! Interessant das Video zu sehen. Ich schaue mir die Sehenswürdigkeiten nicht mehr an. Sind ja um die Ecke! ;)

Nice 😃

So nice to see my old hometown of Würzburg (I'm a native). Thanks for that. Just a few points: "Fürst-Bischof" translates as "Prince-Bishop,' and the "Festung Marienberg" is the "Fortress on (Saint) Mary's mountain/hill." There's been some sort of fortress there for over 2,000 years. Würzburg itself was first mentioned in a document dated in the year 704 AD.

Watching Mr. Alfieri since two years already on a daily bases (if he vlogs daily). This one is my favourite Vlog so far (next to the Oscar winning special effects guy). I was born at Würzburg, allthough I only lived there for four years. Most beautiful city in Germany. Can anybody help me naming that little village on 2:02 to 2:06 min.? Must be at the Autobahn between Hall and Wuerzburg somewhere...

Thuringia yessss!

Did you tried Klöse or Thüringer Bratwurst??

Man, i wouldve loved to meet you in Würzburg, i coudlve given you a good tour through the residence there.

Another fun fact for you guys... The residence of wuerzburg was also a filming location for the motion picture by w.s. Anderson. You maybe have seen the movie. It's the three musketeers...

I actually enjoyed the music and schunkelte vor mich hin.

4:52 from this point on, i love you 200 times more haha

Suhl my hometown

There is an old film with Montgomery Clift, where you can see Würzburg after the war. Its true, 90 percent was destroyed. You can watch the ruins in the film. I dont remember the title, but it was filmed in the location in Würzburg, short after war.

I was already wondering when you would go to the East of Germany besides Dresden!

Ian was my former basketball coach :)

I didn't expect you to know Zelda OoT :D

Must have been a 500 hour trip if you went all the way in slow motion. You should like Suhl, not sure if you know about it but its probably also why the team is called gunslingers. Suhl is one of the major german cities of firearms production. Suhl and Oberndorf am Neckar is where most german gun manufacturers are located today. Suhl is known for its super high quality hunting rifles, while Oberndorf today is a little more into military firearms with H&K and Rheinmetall.

9:42 Thats were Thüringer Wald mountain range is located

8:10 The exhibition of fruit trees at the Residenz Hofgarten is called "Obstorangerie in Scherben". Scherben means sherds, and I have no idea why they used that word. The introduction of the exhibition does not explain it. But you saw the poster of the exhibition.

another fun fact. They filmed the latest Musketeer movie with Orlando Bloom in Würzburg. Many scenes where shot in front of the Residence (the second castel, down town). Check youtube for some footage.

I am from Thuringia.

You should have gone into the Residence - not just seeing it from outside and walking through the Hofgarten. Google for pictures for the "Würzburger Residenz" and you will see why.

My city

Scherben is a very old word used for Keramik, not used nowadays. Besides, I think, the resicedence is much more beautiful than the Festung.

I work as a guide in Würzburg, so next time you are here just tell me and I will do a tour with you.

11:36 Nicks Football Focus Face :)

Würzburg is actually quite a nice city but you should've also check out Bamberg. It's even more beautiful. Hopefully you've tried some franconian wine!

Did you check out the beautyfull craftmanship of the Suhl gunmakers?

I'm sorry that I have to correct you on that one NALF, the church that you framed as the bishop's seat is actually just a chapel he didn't want to raise to be a church. Instead the true "Dom" is farther to the right ;) Greetings from Wü!

i live in north thuringia :)

wow anybody came to Suhl? well its may little hometown

Ohhh! Ohhh! I used to be an English teacher in Suhl! They have a football team now? Suhl is so coooooooooold in the winter. That area of Germany (Thuringia and Franconia but actually all the way down to your neck of the woods in Schwäbisch Hall) was famous for the "Bauernkriege" or Peasants' Wars back in about 1525. The farmers got fed up paying taxes to the nobility and the church, so they got their pitchfroks, assembled armies, and attacked their oppressors. They destroyed a lot of castles and had a pretty good run until the aristocracy sent their professional armies to put the peasants down. Back then, Würzburg had a former mayor and town councilman named Tilman Riemenschneider who was a woodcarver famous for many beautifully carved church altars in that region. He sympathized with the peasants and when they lost, he got his hands crushed as punishment. But he got off better than Thomas Müntzer, a priest in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, who was considered one of the leaders of the peasants. He was "drawn and quartered" in a public execution. Yes, Germany looks so beautiful and quaint and all that today, but below the surface is a long history of atrocities from witch burnings to religious wars to genocide. Don't want to rain on your parade, just sayin'...

You've been in my hometown ( Würzburg ) and you didn't tall me.😉. I could have shown you around.

wow beautiful

Lets go to the Mercedes Museum :D Ist in Stuttgart. Only about 30 Minutes away from you

Music from 1:32 to 2:15: there is also a German version of this song, sung by Ellfi Graf in 1973 named 'Herzen haben keine Fenster' (Hearts have no windows). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMpzpqeQsaqzm6c.html

Greetings from Jakarta Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩😙😙😙

'Scherben' is an old word for earthenware. So it fits quite well for this purpose. Did you have a bad-musical-taste-day the day you edited this video?