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good evening and welcome tonight we will be going over the history and geography of B wenberg in Germany and yes that is how we pronounce it in English I know that is not how you pronounce it in German I’m pretty sure it’s b v but my policy on this channel is that I pronounce everything in American English because that is the language I speak and I always give the example that we don’t say p we say Paris right um it just keeps things more streamlined and less complicated so I’m going to pronounce things in the American English way but there are some places here that aren’t or they don’t have an English equivalent um the capital city here in English we say stutgart stutgart which I pretty sure in German it’s I think but in English we say stutgart so that’s what I’m gonna say but let me think I think um it’s a good town that we don’t have an English equivalent of her we don’t have an English word for that so it’s so it’ll it’ll it’s like that let’s get into the geography here because it’s quite interesting there’s quite some interesting things to point out down here in the South oh my camera creeped up a bit bring that back a bit about this there we go you can see l constant here or as they say in German bordy bord like constant there on the border with Switzerland and On the Border here with France we have the ryy river but probably the most notable River in the state is the necar river you can see right here flowing through dead card this one the C there’s also the danu you can see flowing through here in B nor we also have another famous place the suian Alps as we say in English it looks like here in German it’s schwabish Alp maybe the suian Alps or the suian uras which my favorite fact is that Ura is spelled jur r a Ura uh which is where the word Jurassic comes from from archaeologist digging layers in the Ura mountains and finding fossils and things which there’s some kind of cool dinosaur museums in stutgart and I think coso has one too so we’ll check those out on Google Earth later because dinosaur museum stuff is really cool I think by far the most famous feature of B rotenberg would be the black for Forest you can see here in German the schwarzfeld you can see here the schwarzfeld national park the Black Forest so named because these trees are very very dark green and they’re clustered clustered together in a way that from a distance they look black the black forest and yes that is where black forest cake comes from yum yum yum um I guess one other site to point out which will transition us into UNESCO sites actually is boten B sorry people are still setting off fireworks outside I think they might be done my goodness it’s July 7th now and still fireworks happening in night but bon bon you can see right here found b b very famous Spa town which let’s get into UNESCO site starting with that because the spa towns of Europe which we discussed before um when we were talking about what was it um let me get this in freame vich is what we were talking about before um let’s read I guess if you haven’t seen my over one up video we’ll um read this again great spot of Europe this transnational serial property comprises 11 Spa towns fireworks sorry located in seven European countries and we’re going to be of course talking about Baden boten tonight there are others in Germany all of these towns developed around natural mineral water Springs they bear witness to the international European Spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s leading to the emergence of Grand International Resorts that impacted Urban typology around Assemblies of spa buildings such as baths K house and kersol in different languages there there buildings and rooms dedicated to therapy pump rooms drinking halls colonades and galleries designed to harness the natural mineral water resources and to allow their practical use for bathing and drinking related facilities include Gardens assem L rooms casinos which is true and bottom Boton theaters as well hotels and Villas as well as Spa specific support infrastructure these ensembles are all integrated into an overall Urban context that includes a carefully managed recreational and therapeutic environment in a picturesque landscape together these sites embody the significant interchange of human values and developments in Medicine Science and bology let’s see if we can find any bottom bottom pictures here in the gallery thankfully they’re all labeled here we can see B There we go here’s the cool house and bottom bottom here’s the tra or the the drinks hul right they talking about drinks we’ll look at them on Google Earth I found some really really beautiful spas and botom botom but we’ll see them on Google Earth next we’re going to talk about probably my favorite site are the caves in the Ice Age art in the suan Ura modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age one of the areas where they took up residence was the suan Ura and Southern Germany excavated from the 1860s six caves have revealed items dating from 43,000 to 33,000 years ago among them are carved figurines of animals incl including cave Lions mammoths horses and bids musical instruments and items of personal adornment other figurines depict creatures that are half animal half human and there is one statuette of a woman the very famous Venus figurines these archaeological sites feature some of the oldest figurative art worldwide and help shed light on the origins of human artistic development let’s take a look look here these scary caves they’re kind of eerie but it’s where our ancestors found solace and shelter um obviously felt comfortable enough to create some cool art in there very neat um then moving a bit further in history we have the frontiers of the Roman Empire which you can see on the map here includes Hadrian’s Wall um what’s the other one the antonine wall and other border sites here um which we can find a lot of in B wartenberg the Roman lemis represents the borderline of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent from the 2 Century CE stretched over 5,000 kilometers from the Atlantic coast of Northern Britain through Europe to the Black Sea and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast the remains of the lus today consist of vestages of buil built walls ditches forts fortresses watchtowers and civilian settlements certain elements of the line have been excavated some reconstructed and a few destroyed the two sections of the lemis in Germany cover a length of 550 kilomet from the northwest of the country to the danu in the Southeast and then it talks about Hadrian W on the other ones in the UK and there’s no pictures there I try to take up some of these sites on Google Earth and I think I found some but one they were in German so I’m not positive and then two they didn’t even have any pictures associated with the little tags I found so that’s a bust there’s two Monastery complexes that are UNESCO sites here first we have the melbon monastery complex founded in 1147 the cian Mal Bron Monastery is considered the most complete and best preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps surrounded by fortified walls the main buildings were constructed between the 12th and 16th centuries the monastery’s church mainly in transitional Gothic style had a major influence in the spread of Gothic architecture or over much of Northern and Central Europe the water management system at Mel with its elaborate network of drains irrigation canals and reservoirs is of exceptional interest it is a very pretty site and has some beautiful facades classic of Southern Germany let’s find some good pictures there’s a good one here right here it’s so so pretty but yeah very interesting complex famous Fountain there and big beautiful hallways there beautiful ceilings and paintings on the walls of course I think it’s a school now this raing about which is pretty cool then we have another one the monastic island of hial the island of H now on Lake constant preserves the traces of the Benedictine Monastery founded in 724 which exercised remarkable spiritual intellectual and artistic influence the churches of St Mary and Marcus St Peter and St Paul and St George mainly built between the 9th and 11th centuries provide a panorama of early medieval monastic architecture in Central Europe their wall paintings bear witness to impressive artistic activity and sadly there’s no picture maybe this one does have pictures maybe what was old darn I think it’s this next site there’s no pictures there’s pictures of this one fortunately because it has some beautiful wall art like it was saying and a very like you know it’s a monastery so it’s a little more plain but like plain you know this is the Church of St Mary and Mark it says gorgeous stained glass there at the altar so pretty but still you know a monastery has to be you know simple and neat and efficient but it’s still so lovely isn’t it NE little complex here this one doesn’t have any pictures the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps it says this serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile dwelling or stilt house settlements in and around the Alps built from around 5,000 to 500 BCE on the edges of lakes rivers or wetlands in our case it’s on the shores of Lake constant excavations only conducted in some of the sites have yielded evidence that provides insight into life and prehistoric times during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Alpine Europe and the way communities interacted with their environment 56 of the sites are located in Switzerland the settlements are a unique group of exceptionally well preserved and culturally Rich archaeological sites which constitute one of the most important sources for the study of early agrarian Societies in the region and this is the only picture here make it bigger if we can nope okay here we go but yeah yeah you wouldn’t think prehistoric peoples were building still houses like this that are still around today right there is that element of very ancient I guess architecture and all of these reads and things making up the roof and the walls here of the Timber but very clever I wonder if these are remains of houses that were lost here just the stilts are left or one right here very very very neat isn’t it there is one other UNESCO site um which is the architecture of L corbusier which has sites all over the world um but the UNESCO page really only talks about one of them and I forget which one it is but it’s not in Germany um he built a house in St guard here that’s part of the site so we’re going to skip that one let’s get into the history here we’ve got a long history to talk about so one of my favorite facts besides the Jurassic thing is about Homo heidleberg Enis what you can see here the town of heidleberg and that is because a ancient hum was discovered here parts of it I think just the jaw was found outside heidleberg in 1907 homo heidelbergensis um probably died in this region between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago but there’s plenty of evidence of ancient humans who are now long extinct leading into our ancient ancestors of homo sapiens living all throughout the state here and very famously like the UNESCO site said the Romans came up and started to build defensive walls as they went and as they pushed further and further north they would knock down or they called them the lemis right and knock them down move further north and then rebuild to defend their area and then go further and further north they got pretty far up here um they entered in 90 CE and by the 3r century they were chased out by the alamani the ancient peoples of Germany which my fellow frankophones out there will know the word for Germany is Alania yeah land of the alamani uh the Romans did build baths in pot and B however that would be found much much much much later they already figured out that it’s a great spot to have way back then by the 7th Century the area was controlled by the Frankish marenian Dynasty that’s Charlemagne and all of his sons things like that and in 50 suia was formed and I actually have some maps here to show you that I printed out actually I made my sister print them out but here is suia you can see Lake constants over here I think yeah um yeah so suia as you can see if I could line this up perfectly would have been around here and you might have heard of The suian League which was a military Alliance that was formed in 1488 between all the powers here that the way um there we go just threw it on the floor stutgart was founded in 1220 by 1251 it was controlled by the count of wenberg wenberg right which is when the kingdom of wenberg started to slowly slowly form that wouldn’t be formally created until 1805 and would stick around until 1918 actually I actually printed out more maps I may as well show them to you now so here is the kingdom of Rutenberg you can see in the eastern half and then we have the grand you have B on the western half so you can see the rivers here making the natural lines of the state so there’s Boden there’s rootenberg you can almost put them together like a little puzzle piece except there’s this bit in the middle right that was henan right there so the many parts oh this one has needed really divided it up so you can see BN H different historical regions of the state and how we get the name this region this I should say this this area the whole state area was pretty devastated by the 30 Years War the 1630s a religious conflict between Catholics and Lutheran if you boil it down it’s a lot more complicated than that um but this area was quite ravaged by the habsburgs coming in and conquering and burning down as they went a couple of decades later beginning in 1688 was the nine years war another religious conflict that went until 1697 also quite devastated the area not to mention there were many outbreaks of the plague during these wars that also greatly affected the population as you can imagine as we get into the 18th 19th centuries some interesting facts about this place start with the Spas here in botom bot and they would have began to open in the late 18th century and many of the Rich and Famous of the time especially royalty would come here and soak in the waters pretty much any famous Royal from the 19th century would have come here at some point is nicknamed Europe’s summer Capital yeah they built a big casino and lots and lots of beautiful luxury here people can soak in The Healing Waters and cure all kinds of things probably not cure right but helped out with various ailments people had but we’re going to hop up here to Manheim where there’s some very interesting history they call it the city of inventions for a couple of reasons number one the bicycle was invented in monheim 1817 looked nothing like bicycles now there weren’t pedals you had to reach down with your toes and push along but nevertheless the bicycle began here but even more interestingly in 1886 Carl Benz invented the first car as we know them today right here in Manheim the very famous story happened with his wife Bertha um in 1888 she took the world’s first road trip she drove all the way from Manheim to Fort down here distance of about 120 miles which is uh 194 kilom drove there and back and now it’s a historic road you can drive along it and um enjoy the first road trip rout very interesting story there about birth events stutgart we’re going to see um the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Porsche museum is there as well which again that’s how we pronounce those cars in English let’s first talk about the world wars because this area was very badly bombed during World War I but that would pale in comparison to how this state was affected by World War II Christal KN happened from November 9th to 10th 1938 it was a moment I would say of Hysteria because it swept Germany overnight with outrage against the Jewish people destruction of Jewish property burning down synagogues attacking Jewish people directly and that occurred in pretty much every major city here in B fenberg pretty much every major city in Germany for time many of those synagogues that were burned down were never rebuilt and there’s some memorials that we can see in some of the cities to where synagogues once stood and of course in by 1940 I should say um pretty much the entire Jewish population of of verberg were deported to concentration camps and very very few survived from that time in the tail end of the war 194 445 this area was very heavily bombed by the Allies pretty much every major city was extremely like firebombed to the point that most days were almost completely wiped off the map there were only a couple that weren’t um hindleberg was one um and then to begin which is oh gosh I forgot where to begin is it’s right here to begin was also not bombed um and other areas were just not touched for whatever reason but pretty much like the fireworks out there just pretty extremely heavily bombed especially Manheim because it was an industrial city the United States and the French occupied various parts of botom verberg the United States took over studart and they pretty much never left to be honest what’s interesting here in the United States if you ever meet someone who say they grew up in an army base overseas nine times out of 10 they were in Germany a lot of American bases here set up post World War II and just never stopped they just kept going I’d say the other one out of 10 would be either like Japan or Korea to be honest but almost all of them are Germany that’s true for stutgart today in 1949 bot and wenberg joined West Germany and officially became a state in 1952 and the only other historical thing that I found it’s actually quite sad here in stutgart at the uh stom Hine prison in 1970 oh I didn’t write down the year 197 7 I’m pretty sure so some Rowdy Communists who were terrorists I’m trying to I’m trying to say this very carefully for YouTube uh we’re imprisoned here and many other communist sympathizers and people around the world were outraged and committed some pretty terrible Acts including the hijacking of lift on of Flight 181 which is a very not safe for YouTube topic you can look that up yourself for a variety of reasons also a man named Hans schlager was kidnapped and I think held for ransom who was a very anti-communist very left leaning dude and they did kill him and um at one point the prisoners in the prison uh took their own lives they realized that it wasn’t that they were never going to be released they call it the German Autumn this period because it all kind of happened in quick succession all of these things among other um attacks and threats and things like that that also aren’t safe for YouTube so sad little chapter but today it’s obviously very peaceful very very quaint and um lots of cool sites to see so we’re going to head over to Google Earth and check it out let’s go so here’s B Rittenberg from above let’s zoom out so you can see exactly where we in the world we’re crooked there we go so here you can see Germany you can see Switzerland and France over there making up the Border we of course in southern Germany you can see there and you can even see from above the Black Forest you can kind of see why it’s called that right now there’s so many things to show you I’m trying to remember all of the things because I’ve just been playing in P renberg for like a week straight just exploring and finding all kinds of fun things so we’re g to start in stutgart here down here we have like the the main Square here with the big SCH castle and all of the main SES around it churches and things we do have some cool museums over here this is the dinosaur one I’m pretty sure yeah oh no this is this the history history museum which is just as good I wanted to show you this too all kinds of Roman artifacts interesting statues there statues the word word fancy crown and scepter cool helmet there a sleigh it’s like the White Witch is going to give you Turkish Delight in that that’s neat Hermes there or Mercury I suppose some Steines there cool religious Ard Old Bell photographs too that’s interesting the Stag antler there there’s lots of interesting museums in b wenberg um trying to remember where the Natural History it’s not this one is it I think it is maybe not some cool photographs there oh no this is the like Interactive Kids museum can see the planetarium I have to show you the one in coill that one’s easier to find plus I got to show you the oh wait is this it natural natural history I found it I thought it was over here it’s way over there okay dinosaur time dinosaur skeletons dinosaur models dinosaurs chilling oh my goodness look at these FS that’s outrageous and look at him on his tippy toes there obviously he didn’t walk like that Mammoth baby a sea creature a big shark friend oh that’s a big friend look at that big old smile what a crazy czy skeleton oh some big big friends out there kind of looking like giant sloths or some bears some Cave Bears Triceratops some early man there too showing off the skills there grinding up the bones some big maybe or rocks here the ancient elk whoever they called with those huge huge there’s a friend coming over to say hello oh my gosh look at de neck wow um but what I really got to show you is the Mercedes Benz Museum and the Porsche Museum so these um these cars are developed here in stutgart Mercedes-Benz and Porsche and here at the Museum they obviously don’t make cars like these now that’s really cool the DS but we can see lots of of old cars that they made Mercedes and lots of race cars as well that’s a cool big coach looks like ear prototypes some cool modern friends there bus didn’t know they made buses this looks like the um car that Bertha Benz took the road trip on probably wasn’t that but it looked a lot like that that’s a Sleek car isn’t it then we have the Porsche Museum these all look so Space Age don’t they’re all these fancy cars oh there’s a car from Cars wasn’t it Sally is that her name police car uh Camaro I I don’t know a lot about cars some of you have called me out on my tour the automobile museum and yes I definitely don’t know my cars maybe Formula 1 trophies I’m guessing that’s fancy but I do appreciate cars it’s so interesting how the shape of cars not like race cars because that’s built for aerodynamics you know it’s still interesting but just everyday cars how the shape has changed so drastically in the past hundred years right I just think that’s so super super interesting let’s head over to the Black Forest I’m super backwards there we go I have super sideway Black Forest you can see here let’s find the national park little tag here we go and here you can see trees are so dark that they appear black but they really aren’t beautiful waterf ponds gorgeous Rivers here this would be a fantastic hiking space wouldn’t it it’s very Enchanted almost gives that you know haunted fairy tale which appropriate because I’m sure that the brothers Grim were inspired by this landscape when they are riding they’re very eerie at Charming children stories it’s kind of the vibe here right it’s quaint but there’s something about it there they brought their picnic with them there’s something like I think this wood isaed kind of Vibes right oh pretty in the snow that’s gorgeous Old Tower there and more snowy pictures gorgeous gorgeous part of Germany here probably the most famous natural landscape of Germany is the black forest what shall we see next do you guys want to see the world’s tall Church let’s go let’s go the world’s tallest church I I read that fact I went no way what no way and then boom that is huge now I wonder surely there’s a difference between churches and Cathedrals because I’m sure Cathedrals are way bigger than this but look at it’s gigantic it’s unnecessarily large and I’m sure when it was built see that’s way too big when it was built they weren’t setting out to build the world’s tallest church but here we are I guess that’s the view from the top can see pretty far little construction of it there it’s way too big but beautiful isn’t it the world’s tallest Church unnecessarily tall but very neat Nel um I need to show you I’m going to type it in because I know I’m not going to find it because it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere Henn Castle which there are castles all over the state here from all of the ancient families that lived here but I think this is the oh it’s not in 3D the biggest and most famous one I’ll zoom out so you can see exactly where we are because I forgot to it’s kind of just out there so there’s stard right there I’m sure you can make it in a day trip from stard hen s Castle so this is the main castle of the henal family it’s all very medieval gorgeous Chapel here view from the top yeah so I was reading about all the different Castles in the state and I read multiple sources looks like St George there St George’s like the dragon multiple sources that this is like the best like if you have to visit one Castle you come to this one oh creepy inside is that like a dungeon there you think hey these look like bars the dungeon you can’t have a medieval castle without a dungeon um let’s look at B and B let’s reorient ourselves and let’s go to bot B small town of Bot B I’m gonna have to reorient myself again so I think it’s around the hillside here because there’s lots of um big like Manor towns built around the mountains and it’s kind of a a tourist like I should have mentioned this before how tourism became like a huge thing here in the 19th century and there’s still lots of cool museums here forour like the Fab Museum there’s a fre to col Museum all kinds to try to attract people here see there’s fre to col up there I gotta find the spa to show you um maybe I’ll just have to type it in I know I typed it in before maybe it’ll pop up in my recent searches yep it sure did so there’s a bunch of oh I was right was so close I was looking over here it was over here um this is one of the more famous older ones here F Bud which um that’s Exquisite You’ never get me out of this I’m such a water bug you get me in a swimming pool you get me in a spa you get me in the ocean I like never come out I will never want to come out but I think this one here is my favorite out of all the ones I was eyeing When I visit Someday I’m GNA come here of course the name’s not popping up here we go this is what I’m talking about big gorgeous pools outdoor pools looks like a person swimming around in the fountain so I guess you’re supposed to swim in that Fountain glow orbs there you would never get me out of these look at that found just absolute luxury there’s some cool statues outside too wonder if they used to be Fountains of some sort right I want to see the pools I just want to see the water you see I think maybe they’re old Fountain I’m not sure maybe that’s it I look at the little I wonder if that’s like to just wash your face or even drink out of because if we look over here should be nearby the twin is over here another very come back the tala thank you another very said 1839 to 1842 this was built one of the more famous ancient sites here ancient sites um historic sites is what talking about or you’d come to drink the water and the casino should be right down here y Casino bottom bottom which is very like Monte Carlo coated and it’s like a palace inside you know super luxurious all for the tourist right let’s turn that off back to normal mode what else do I have to show you I guess I promised you more dinosaurs see there’s there’s a so many things I found in the state you got to let me know um if I missed anything super interesting this Museum’s is it this Museum I think it’s this Museum there’s another site here I’m like well that’s cool but was it in the palace don’t think it was the one in the palace I think the Palace Museum is just the history one here’s the one that I’m looking for yeah so that’s what it was the sh museum is nice this one’s awesome we got more dinosaurs looks like have a hard time sneezing look at this big armadillo wait just little no tail I guess it’s like elephants you know look at this guy that’s too big little Spinosaurus guy was that what they were called whoa what were they called with the big fan I can’t remember look at this guy some cool cool dinosaurs lived here once upon a time Triceratops looks like T-Rex doesn’t it some jellyfish a friend that curled up and died in the sand there an eag chameleon it’s a big r RS there and some cave Lions I guess maybe the Aquatic artst to be like once upon a time this was ocean where you’re standing and lots of little beetles and cool rocks look at all that amethyst very very cool yeah because once upon a time this was all underwater wasn’t it oh there’s also the um stutgart Zoo which the slideshow there wasn’t terribly impressive but that was another like if you’re going to be there you got to go see that is there anything in highberg I wanted to show you was poking around here the other day I don’t think there’s the heidleberg zoo as well was a big one Manheim is there anything I wanted to show you in Manheim I guess we can look at the the Cala Modern Art here I’ve been skipping a lot of Modern Art um on my channel because I want to show you a history of Modern Art also really cool it has its time and place I appreciate Modern Art that’s what I’m trying to teach you about history you know um let’s check out actually you know what I’m going to show you last I know what I’m going to show you last unless I remember something else it’s near F remember where it is nope I don’t remember where it is Ty it in Europa Park see how close it was oh it was so close Europa Park is Germany’s largest theme park and it’s kind of a whole vibe it’s very like Disney and I saw this I went well that’s Epcot and pretty sure this was built first I think Disney copied Europa Park but like this looks fun I want to write on this the Big Splash that’s fun um I like this yeah see now I’m eight years old deep inside so seeing a theme park like this is awesome I want to come here so bad it looks so fun I was poking around um like the the Grims fairy tale section hello it’s editing geographica here my camera does this thing sometimes where if I’m filming for too long it decides to not save the last three minutes so I’m sorry this ended quite abruptly but you’re really not missing much I just recorded a little outro after this so I’ll just re-record it now for you guys thank you so much for watching and if you enjoyed the style of content please consider subscribing since I’m doing every region of the world in alphabetical order I’ll be going to Bavaria very soon so if if you want more German content be sure to subscribe so you won’t miss out I hope that you found this video to be 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