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The best about Spaghetti ice is: because the strings could melt really fast, they put a layer of whipped cream underneath. And because the ice cream is very cold, it freezes the whipped cream. Frozen whipped cream... best thing ever. 🤤😊
Wow that sounds spectacular 😎
I love frozen whipped cream 😅 Guter Scheiss
Yes, the frozen whipped cream underneath the ice ist the best of that ice cream 😊
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Not to forget that you can order every available flavor, not only mint. And the sauce can be choosen, too. Caramel with rasberry sauce, why not. You can mix and match as you like.
The Elevator inside the Aquarium was called "AquaDom" and had a volume of about 1 million Liters.
The outer shell bursted in dec 2022, flooded the building and the street in front of it.
1300 out of 1500 fish died;
264k gallons of water;
built in 2003;
4 hypotheses are thought to be the cause; none confirmed yet.
Investigation was closed without final verdict from what I could find.
The Aqua Dome was in the Radisson Blue Hotel on Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
Also the Aquadome was built by an american company, since no german or european company had the tech to built such a tank without visible connectoin of all the single parts that have been glued together, while still giving people a clear vision through the "glass" (i know its not glas)
@@manuelvo1798maybe thats why it blows up last year 😂! BTW...Because of the erruption of the Aquarium blow uo the earthquake alarms gets aktivatet.
@@Haelda Honestly, the fact that they managed to save 200 fish during that is pretty amazing.
The futuristic suspension train is like 120 years old 😂😂
Oh my 🤣🤣🤣
The tracks, but not the trains.
Well the "Kaiserwagen" is the tracks aren't - they get renewed every once in a while ;) @@aurigo_tech
@@IWrocker ...and it's getting even more interesting: in 1950 the local zoo advertised its attractions by shoving a female elephant into this train. During the ride the poor elephant paniced and managed to flee through the doors and fell off several meters into a swamp of the river "Wupper" (Wuppertal means Wupper Valley). Glad to know, the elephant named "Tuffi" (spoken with an "u" like in "to", but short vocal) survived that.
@@Robin.S_1980 As a Wuppertaler (citizen from Wuppertal) I cannot confirm this. Wikipedia, but translated: "Tuffi was an Asian elephant cow from the Franz Althoff circus who, on July 21, 1950, at the age of four, jumped from a moving train on the Wuppertal suspension railway into the Wupper in Wuppertal."
But yes, she survived. And is still known to every Wuppertaler today.
By the way, the suspension railway has been completely overhauled in recent years, i.e. parts of the sections and pillars have been renewed and old wagons (orange/dark blue/mostly covered in advertising) have been replaced with the new ones (ONLY light blue, almost advertising-free, with new equipment and large windows.) The old ones are in Wuppertal scattered around and are used for other purposes, e.g. Caffee's.
20:00 Unlike in the USA, Graves in Germany are not just a Headstone and Grass around it, but feature a Mini-Garden in front/around the Headstone. You may plant Flowers or other things on it, and the watering cans are needed to maintain it.
Exactly. Although I have never seen private, locked watering cans… Must be a rough city ;)
@@JAloja-um8nn This! Plus, the Graveyards I have been to, provide Watercans, everyone can use.
@@JAloja-um8nnsome places have common watering cans or big graveyards have their own gardeners that keep the plants happy.
@@JAloja-um8nn Gotta be a regional thing.
very regional. At our cemetery you can borrow them. You need a Euro coin and you get it back when clipping it again in the system. But I know a lot of people who are simply put their stuff behind the stone out of sight.
The Pong thing is not common. I am German and have travelled to many German cities in all states and have never seen that.
It‘s only in Hildesheim, as far as I know, and even there it‘s only one pair of traffic lights.
Still cool!
As far as I know that was just an idea. Greetings to the blonde guy. His Name is Sandro and I party few times with him. He is the developer of that. But sadly I think it never came to production 😢
AT least 2 Pairs of traffic lights in Oberhausen, NRW have these too! I played it a few times and it's always fun!
Thank you for the infos, guys. I will look out for these if I'll visit Hildesheim and Oberhausen. 😃
@@piiinkDeluxe I remember in Hildesheim they used 2012 the Trafficlight from the Street Main Trainstation to city center. So it was over the street "B1" connecting Bernwardstrasse and Almstrasse. I'll be there beginning May. I'll let you know 😉
the usual gymnasts wear is basically a bathing suit, legs are completely naked.
German graves have a human size rectangle area in front of the headstone where people grow flowers etc. probably to prevent people from walking over the buried dead bodies
Good old times...
And to give the victim the last honor
most of what you see is not everywhere in germany (cat shaped kindergardens, playing pong at traffic lights) its more of a special thing so just dont estimate its so cool everywhere ;)
yes the Kunsthofpassage is in Dresden neustadt.
yeah most of this stuff is just one of a kind in some random location in germany.
True, and all European countries have similarly cool stuff. Welcome on earth, Americans :P
The watering cans are in a cemetary, brought in by people who attend the graves of relatives there. Often people plant flowers ect on graves here. To avoid having to walk carrying the can every time, they leave it there. And to stop it from being stolen they lock it to this rail with a bicycle lock.
Yes, this aquarium had a lift inside, not the other way around. It was in the lobby of a big hotel in Berlin. Unfortunatly the aquarium burst last year and thousands of tons of water devastated the entire hall. It could have easily killed a lot of people, but luckily it burst at 4 am or so, when nobody was in the room. But thousands of exotic fish died.
i only know cemetaries where there are cans on a rack everyone can use. probably ppl brought it and left it for public using. the one in my home town had 15-20 watering cans no1 claimed them its own.
@@somersaultcurse The same here where i live. Our cans are public property and i never heard about someone stealing one of them.
Maybe it`s because i live in the country side. Might be different in bigger cities.
@@Pfopferer01 Same here. We don't even have racks, there's a couple of water basins all over the cemetery and just some cans sitting next to them.
Although I've seen cemeteries where they were locked to a rack like shopping carts, and you had to insert 1€ to unlock them. Probably because before people left them scattered all over the place.
The actual 'German' thing about that is that everyone uses their own can, instead of just having like 5 there that anyone can use. And even more German is the fear that someone might steal your precious watering can, which is why you have to lock it there, so that no one else can use it. Absolutely ridiculous if you ask me, and I'm German myself.
There once was a time when people could be trusted to not steal as generic items as watering cans.
Otto (a comedian well known to Germans) also has his own pedestrian lights in Emden, where he is from. Lights like this pop up here and there, I am pretty sure that more of them will arrive.
Der gute alte Otto! Ich wusste das nichtmal, wow.
@@astrophynix179Hehe, Otto ist selbst als Ampelmännchen witzig. 😄
In Duisburg we have coal miners 😊
@@SookieStackhouse2301@herb6677 Thanks for the info, will check them out when I'm there (just writing in English because of the channel)
In Leverkusen they have "Funken", they call it Funkenampelmännchen. (Funken -> Karneval)
The Wuppertal suspension railway is an elevated railway in Wuppertal that opened on March 1, 1901. It remains the backbone of the city's local public transport to this day. Initially with less modern trains but on the same structure
A great pice of technology that we just abandoned
There also is a museum called the "schwebodrom", where you can do a virtual "Schwebebahn" tour of 1920...
Suspension railways are only good in a REALLY REALLY small niche. But for Wuppertal they are perfect
In a publicity stunt in 1950, they put an elephant in the Wuppertal hanging railway. Unfortunately, it fell out into the Wupper river below, but, luckily, survived the fall.
@@mikc666I even know a version, where the elephant just jumped out of the car because of some kind like a claustrophobic attac.
Wuppertal railway is 122 years old. It began operating in 1901
Here's side by side view 1902 and 2015:
czcams.com/video/7TqqdOcX4dc/video.html
It reallly amused me when he said "look how futuristic that looks" :D But yeah it's a cool train.
In 1950 elephant "Tuffi" fell out of the Schwebebahn.
It was unharmed.
There are also the skytrain weich connects just the different parts of the airport Düsseldorf with a subteranian train stop and its parent, the prototype of the skytrain, which connects the south campus, the north campus of the technical university of Dortmund and the technology park with each other.
@@markschattefor6997 And don`t forget that a company named a milk drink Tuffi because of the accident with that elephant. In the region arround wuppertal you can buy this milk in nearly every supermarket.
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As a German I always enjoy people from different countries reacting to things in Germany. We German love to complain about our country, so it's nice to see, what is actually good about it. Especially since the really cool, easily implemented hings, like e.g. women's only parking, are so normal to me, that I don't notice them as special at all.
What I also like, is that I could as easily make a video like that about things I found to be clever solutions that I experienced in other countries, like e.g. public water fountains in the US, demand driven traffic lights in the Netherlands or a big turntable in the middle of the dining table in China. Maybe there should be a regular world conference of idea sharing??? And of course a big public push to also implement the best solutions...
One last comment about the watering cans on the cemetery. On quite a few cemeteries in Germany I've seen public water cans that can be borrowed by putting a coin in the lock, just like it is common with shopping carts in Germany. I think that system is even cooler, since not everyone has to bring there own watering can, and even people that just visit can water plants if need be.
I'm also from Germany and I thought about how good it is that we also have parking spaces for mothers. Like our Kaufland has them for Mothers that bring their kids to shopping and the parking spaces are, bigger so that the kids can't really damage other cars when they swing the doors wide open and don't look. The spaces are also the closed to the door for when they have to do the shopping when it's dark out to make them feel safer.
I also would like your idea of the conference, maybe the countries can adapt some idea and make living a bit better for everyone yk
I'm old enough to remember when women's parking spaces were new and sooo many men were angry about them and mocking them and even deliberate parking on them sometimes even in a way that they'd block two at once.
It actually took quite a couple of years for the hatred to die down. I'm glad that it's now just a thing.
Public water fountains are slowly becoming a thing here in Cologne as well. Hallelujah. They're privately sponsored by a local electricity provider though, not payed for by the city.
I've been complaining about the lack of freely available drinking water and often public toilets in and around parks especially for decades. Almost all parks here have literal 'toilet spots', where people just go in a cluster of bushes or such and that is not a pleasant experience, especially as a woman. And I don't even want to imagine, how annoying that is if you have small kids or are elderly.
It makes me so angry. We're one of the wealthiest countries in the world and can't afford public toilets in our major cities? Not even ones where you have to pay 50 cents, so they're basically self financing?
It's a disgrace.
The cherry blossom in Bonn is realy beautiful to see and you are right, the first foto is the same street from below. Every year thousands of visitors come to Bonn to see it, even from Japan.
The playing pong with the other side of the street at a crossing was an isolated and time limited art/engineering installation.
The electic highway was/is just a trial running over a small stretch of an Autobahn section. I don't think anything ever came off of it so far.
The shopping cart cleaning machine is more of a disinfectant machine that a few stores installed during Covid19.
Spaghetti icecream is great!
I believe that 'free/open lane for emergency vehicles' is a rule even in other EU countries - at least here in Czech Rep. it is. Locals call it 'záchranářská ulička' - translated like 'Rescue alley'
Croatia too. Every screen above highway has it on repeat with temp and road conditions, and where there is no screen there's vinyl banner across the bridges
@@ChR0nos_7734 @jekyll_cz Austria has it too, and being German, I have to admit, that I'm pretty sure it existed there before it did here in Germany.
It's also the law in the Netherlands.
In Poland too
Same in Belgium
On the Country Side the Village provides these Watering Cans and they are also not locked (people still have honor not to steal especially in such a place). The Water is free and before Cremation became big in Germany, almost everybody had traditional graves with a wooden coffin. These Graves have a stone or cement frame with the tombstone at the end and garden soil inside, where people plant flowers and small bushes. That's why these watering Cans are needed.
when you live in Cologne, you see the Dome (the big cathedral) from nearly everywhere in the City- except when you are next to it. Many people don't even look up any more. The place in front of it is calles "Domplatte" and damn windy at almost all times. If you go around the side, you will find a piece of old roman road that has been there even longer than the cathedral, layed bare right where it was build when the city was called Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis
I live around 50km away from Cologne and there's a elevated point in my village where you can see the Dom on sunny cloud-free days. It's called "Domblick"
Also, near the far end of the Domplatte, you‘ll find a giant monument called the Kreuzblume. It’s always a joy to me to ask people what they think this monument is, only to reveal to them that it is in fact one of the tips of the Dom‘s towers, which look tiny from below, but are actually huge.
Also the local population has fun new year's parties there.
@@ViolosD2I .. nah, not really. There is too many ....sweethearts.... throwing firework at people. And there is that thing that happened a few years back.
@@Sanouscha I think that is what he was talking about
vienna has pairs of persons in the pedestrian traffic lights. they are either male + female, female + female or male + male. and the walking symbol has a heart too.
gYA
There are some other towns in Germany with similar unique pedestrian traffic lights. In Quedlinburg, a small town in the Harz region there are witches and I think devils as a cultural reference to the region on there. In Mainz there are some traffic lights with the famous Mainzelmännchen a cartoon figure from the ZDF the 2nd German public TV station that shows in between commercials mainly during the evening hours. I don’t know of any other examples but I guess there are some more even if only some on certain crossings. One thing though, the normal symbols on pedestrian traffic lights in western part of Germany and the eastern part are different and after reunification there were serious efforts made to keep the traditional symbols a.k.a. „Rettet das Ampelmännchen“
Marburg, too
There were only a few of them, though. They got put up after queer artist Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision song contest for Austria. These traffic lights were basically only up for the time during the following year when we, as the winners, were hosting the song contest in Vienna. I think there's a couple of them left but you'd really have to go looking for them. They were only ever around the area of Stadthalle (the big event building where the song contest show was hosted) and maybe a few other tourist spots.
@@TheFeldhamster they are still in many places in the inner city. the issue is, that these are not oddly shaped lamps but blinds installed inside the traffic lights. they stay even when the lamp gets swapped (and LEDs hardly die). for example, they are still in mariahilf and innere stadt.
Sadly the Black House was demolished some time ago for another modern bulding (the black house was kinda a art project by some people)
The spaghetti ice is some special in germany, it was "invented" some decades ago by someone who put vanilla ice cream through a pasta maker, added strawberry sauce for the "tomato sauce" and them some vanilla crisp for the "chess". You can buy it in some super markets too as little portions.
The ping pong on the traffic lights are only on a handful of some.
Before i forget it, we dont make jokes and are bad at humor, so pls go back to work ;)
But its much bette, if you are sitting in the sun in front of your favourie italial ice-cafee
The hangbridge has been the highest in Europe for years. I've been there once in an attempt to overcome my fear of heights (failed miserably). It's just over 100 meters high and about 600 meters long. It's seriously terrifying but gorgeous scenery
where do I find it?
Willingen, I think @@losturiah8057
@@losturiah8057 After just a really short google search… it's the "Skywalk" in Willingen (Thuringia).
@@losturiah8057 Hängebrücke „Skywalk“ in Willingen. It was opened in 2022.
@@losturiah8057 I think it's the Hängebrücke Geierlay.
About the graveyard watecan rack: In germany graves are predominatly styled like small gardens (a bit larger then the coffins footprint) and relatives maintain them. So they need that can to water them. (usually water is provided by the graveyard for free). That rack there allows them to lock their can so they can store it on site.
where i have been there were no locks. just cans for everyone to use and everyone knowing to just put them back.
@@sgxbot that's the norm where I live, too. Wherever that picture was taken, they must have had issues with the cans not being returned. I've never really thought about it, are graveyards in the US really just grass and plates/headstones like you see in movies?
im from berlin and we have it like that on most graveyards and i think the most german thing about that people are afraid and assuming that these 1-2 € products get stolen
@@hobobobohoboboboThey would, not because of their value, but because of convenience not o have to bring your own.
Ivy is an evergreen plant. That building at the Botanische Garten was ranked over by a species of wild wine vine that is endemic to southern Germany. It's an entirely different species that drops its leaves in autumn.
We had it at my parent's house. In summer, the entire wall it ranked on was buzzing with bees, In autumn, the colours the leaves went through before dropping were wild! The very dense cover with leaves on the southern walls made summers much more pleasant inside.
The traffic lights with the pong game probably is a one of its kind, I have seen nothing like it anywhere here.
The aquarium you saw at 12:55 collapsed a few years ago.
The vines might be endemic, but they are not native. The parthenocissus species is native to North America and is considered an invasive species here in Europe. I agree however that it looks lovely...
Repeat "wild wine vine" fast. It's like a little tongue twister 😂
AquaDom - it was a tourist attraction in Berlin.
The aquarium was put into operation in December 2003. The cost of its construction is estimated by German media at EUR 12.8 million. It was 16 meters high and 11.5 meters in diameter. It was the largest free-standing cylindrical saltwater aquarium in the world.
Visitors could admire 1,500 fish of nearly 100 different species swimming in the aquarium from a special elevator (for 19 euros).
Unfortunately, this aquarium was destroyed due to material fatigue in December 2022. The aquarium was made of acrylic glass. One million liters of water spilled out, and with it 1,500 fish.
The explosion was so powerful that it was recorded by Berlin seismographs.
Am I wrong or was the aquarium made in the USA and then shipped to Germany because many German engineers knew that it could not be stable enough and therefore would not last long?
@@simongruber5661I have heard this too, don’t know if it’s true though
You have to insert the dimensions in freedom units too. 52.5 foot high and 37.73 foot in diameter. 😂
@@mathildewesendonck7225 There´s even a documentation about the building process here somewhere on YT. As far as I remember it was delivered in parts and then assembled here by American specialists.
I love the cat in the beginning in the background 😊 🐈
Ian, you really have to take a closer look at the Tropical Island Resort and the building it's in.
There was a very prestigious project called the "Cargolifter" where they wanted to build superlarge airships to transport cargo containers. The company went bankrupt just after this hanger and a small scale prototype were built. Since the building existed they sold it and it was repurposed for this indoor tropical resort with beaches, pools, waves, bars, waterfalls,... The scale of this ex-hangar is crazy! You can rent a bungalow for your stay...
The whole building was produced by "Biedenkapp Stahlbau" from Wangen im Allgäu, and I was one of the guys who built that thing...
@@etee08 meinen Respekt. Ich arbeite selbst in dem Gewerbe und bin ein wenig neidisch, dass du an dem Bau teil haben dürftest und ich nicht 😂
... and the bankruptcy trustee and his networks took 70+ percent off the insolvency value. Even the government realized profit within the insolvency though 40 millions subsidies. D'you know who didn't get one thin dime? You're right, the mainly small investors who poured 320 millions into it.
There was a coverage by German tv broadcaster BRalpha in 2019 iirc.
Edit: zukunft-in-brand·de | verein | insolvenz-news·html
@@masterjubei1986 ich hätte mir aber gewünscht, dass dort wieder Luftschiffe gebaut werden! Wir haben auch Hallen für den neuen Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen gebaut, aber der ist ja eher ein "Schiffchen"
@@alphonsbretagne8468 dein Kommentar ist offenbar so gefährlich, es erscheint nur in meinen "Benachrichtigung", nicht aber als Kommentar unter dem Video!“ Jeder Deutsche hat das Recht, seine Meinung in Wort, Schrift und Bild frei... " gilt für dich offenbar nicht...
About the electric trucks: they aren't connected with the wire above the Autobahn, the frame just touches the wire so that there is a connection for the electrical current to flow. The frames are also retractable so when the trucks leave the highway, they run on storage battery (or in some cases petrol).
Just like our railway system
But there are only a few of these hybrid trucks. I drove along the autobahn with the test lane many times and i have only seen one of the trucks.
The "McBoat" is the only one of its kind in the world so far. Built by the local branch during COVID restrictions when drive through and take out was booming.
People order at the small dock you see in the picture and then someone from the McDonalds up the stairs comes down and delivers your order.
The thing with the traffic lights is here in Aachen really common fr every light is something else
the black house was a project by an artist from Pfortzheim, but it was banned because the house is a listed building and had to be restored to its original state
some things in the video are not the rule but rather the exception, such as the pong game at the traffic lights or the car wash for shopping trolleys
there was a small mistake in the lift story the lift is/was in the aquarium which unfortunately broke overnight one day
there are also lots of cherry blossoms in the neighbourhood where I live and it looks fantastic when they start to bloom
Dude, as a half german living in Germany, I have to say first of I really like your pronunciation especially the „Neustadt kunsthofpassage“ (which you almost said correctly btw) the „eu“ is pronounced like „oi“ and „Stadt“ is pronounced „shtat“ (I hope this makes sense). And second of, some of the things like the hologram circus and the tampon book I didn’t even know existed but I really like the fact that they are trying to find ways around the 19% vat because that’s just bs in my opinion because basic foods, books, magazines and even going to the movies has a 7% vat but female hygiene products dont
I did not know about these books too. Never saw them at a bookshop or on advertisments but it is amazing. But the system on what is getting a vat of 7 % and what goes with 19% will always be a mystery. I mean you get the 7% for animal food but the food for babys are at 19%. Thats just strange.
the elevator with the aquarium inside... the aquarium bursted a while back, flooding the shopping mall. thankfully this happened during the night when noone could be injured.
playing pong on pedestrian traffic lights must be a one-town-thing. i have never seen or even heard of those and i am a german who never left the country.
the swing for wheelchairs is rare. only ever seen one of those myself.
The slides in the TU Munich are actually parabolic tubes, starting at a 45° angle, it's the building for the math and IT faculty... You slide using a sliding rug, and you absolutely need it to not shred your clothes or burn your backside. It's somewhat intimidating the first time, and it makes an eerie sound... absolutely go for it if you can!
I "heard from a friend" that you can use a tray from the cantina as sled instead for an extra speed (and range) boost... or at least that used to be a thing. Rather dangerous, OFC.
@@mariusmorawski5595😂🤙
11:00 it's also one way only. So you safe even more space since the driving lane between the parking spaces only needs to be wide enough for 1 car.
I guess this is the parking lot of a car manufacturer, or kind of a collecting point, because the alley is pretty tight.
This is extremly place efficient and it would be very unpractical for public use, like shopping - imagine pulling shopping carts and then a car approaches you - almost nowhere to go.
10:20 - if I recall correctly that is actually a car distribution yard - over the last few years seen it described as in Japan, in Germany, and in the UK - I'm inclined to go the latter as they do look like various Mini models and that's where the main production plant for Minis is
The Circus with this Hologramshow is the very old "Circus Roncalli". The Lego Bridge in Wuppertal is part of an repurposed old railway. They got rid of the rails and now you can ride your bike or go walking joggin skating etc. on the "Nordbahntrasse" for about 22km. Along the way are some nice little attractions like the "Parcour Park", little restaurants, the "Wuppertaler Zoo" and so on. And all through a beautiful scenerie. They have another one called "Sambatrasse". From the Nordbahntrasse you can change to the "Korkenziehertrasse" through the neighbortown Solingen. Those biking / hiking Trassen are part of the "Bergischer Panorama-Radweg" which is approx 130 km long through the "Bergisches Land" in North Rhine Westfalia
5:00 I had this video running in the background and was genuenly surprised how well you pronounced that. To be honest first I understood "Nussstadt Kunststoffpassage" (en.: Nut-town Plasticpassage) but the second try, very good.
The electrical motorway are test routes on a normal highway motorway, the trucks have 2 engines of the first a diesel engine, the second is the electric motor with additional batteries. If the truck leaves the route, it drives with diesel. The future should reach the following: to drive on long routes with electricity to save fuel. However, the system has been in many cities for almost a hundred years, it was the overhead line buses, the flexible in road traffic. The counterpart was the tram, but needed a railroad. In our area there is such a test track.
The general idea is not new, no, but it's far more challenging to electrify a huge portion of the highway network for this to work than it is to run some lines between city buildings that are already electrified. In that sense, it is "new".
@@drsnova7313 It has nothing to do with electrified buildings, because DC traction lines are always completely separate from building grid. But yes, electrification of highways + changing thousands trucks to plug-in hybrids with current collectors is a big and ambitious investment.
it's very cool and very stupid at the same time... I think the cool bit is obvious. but... the stupid bit it... trucks are bing turned into a sort of train and bits of motorways are turned into rails for those "trains" when we already have rails and trains that can transport cargo perfectly fine..... if they were properly maintained... so... if money was spent on them.
@@karowolkenschaufler7659 You can just answer yourself two more questions.
1.How long does it take to collect full train of goods and how long will it take to bring it off rails. Therefore, how much longer will it take to transport your cargo, even if it was between two points that are only 5 km away from rails?
2. How many spare slots do you have on rail? Will it allow you to move 5% shipping from trucks to rails? Maybe 10%? I doubt that it will be 20%, what will be your plan for electrifying rest of it?
@@karfrancouzsky9725 from the length and "one Punch knock out" tone (if I read it correctly) of your answer, this is a sore spot for you... Interesting. I can't answer any of these questions. But I also can't imagine that absolutely everything that is on a truck instead of on a train really couldn't be on a train. Do you know the time differece between unloading trains and unloading trucks. And is that a problem that can really absolutely not be helped by improving infrastructure? And do all the goods on trucks really need to be transported as fast as they can be transported with a truck? All of them? Electrification is a matter of investment. It's just about actually starting to do it. As with any big task. The sooner you (in this case the government in charge) stop procastinating the sooner it's done. Anyway. I really didn't expect to anger anyone like that with my comment. Do you like trucks a lot?
Hi Ian, love your interest on photos from Germany and love your cat too - greetings from mine
I live in the Neustadt (a part of Dresden which translated means "new-city") and that arrangement of tubes makes no sound at all when it rains. You can even find at least one video debunking that.
(BTW: "Kunsthofpassage" means "art-backyard-passage" and there is more art than just that to see there...)
I love the outdoor store with the Pool. 😅 Sometimes I stay on the floors above, just looking down, cause the water ist so calm. 🙈🙃
The Aquarium Elevator doesn't exist anymore. Bursted one morning last year .
because it's semi outside, and that was a tropical aquarium with warm water, while the night it broke it had -20 °C outside, the ~50 °C difference was too much.
@@Bioshyn The description is wrong. The aquarium was inside the hotel. The elevator was going up and down inside the round aquarium, which was round and built around the elevator.
I am sure the difference in temperature had nothing to do with the bursting. It was built inside the hotel lobby. I stayed there in 2017.
It contained 1 million liters of salt water (roughly 250,000 gallons) and cost 16 million Euros to build. Scuba divers worked inside to tend to animals and plants. The accident was attributed to material fatigue in the acrylic wall.
@@mick-berry5331 the aquarium was in the hotel, right but in the atrium which didn't have a roof
@@Bioshyn nope, the aquarium was in the Hotel Lobby. mick-berry5331 is right.
@@Bioshyn highly unlikley. the aquarium has lived trough many winters before. more likley explaination is a failure of the clue over time and or pre existing damage might occured due a repair.
so the pong game at traffic lights was was a social experiment of the university hildesheim in lower saxony and was put up for several month. but it got deinstalled afterwards
The manhole, works like when you open it, you got a fence around the opening 😊
19:31 the "graveyard rack" is like a bike rack for watering cans, installed on graveyards. Not every graveyard has them, but I've seen them before. It's so you don't have to bring your watering can every time you go to water the plants on the graves. And everyone labels their with their name so you don't get confused which one belongs to you, because as you've seen, the green is very prevalent.
The "women only parking" (near the wherlchair parking) spots are typically in Shopping Centers underground and are near an entrance/doors/lift to the Center itself. So the "dangerous" way is short.
19:05 Actually we have these kits for almost everything in the supermarket 😂 Often you also find one for a soup base
4:20 There are a few bridges of similar construction to be found in different German landscape parks designed in the 18th or 19th century. Often they are called a "devil's bridge" (including some local legend explaining the name); the official name of this bridge in Kromlau Azalea and Rhododendron Park is "Rakotz bridge". Similiar half-cycle constructions from medieval times can be found in different regions in southern Europe (southern France, Spain, Italy, Bulgaria), and they have often names meaning "devil's bridge".
5:15 "Kunsthof" means "Art courtyard". The Kunsthof-Passage in the Äußere Neustadt ("outer new town", built mostly during the 19th century) district of Dresden consists of 5 courtyards, each with a different theme.
9:53 The blimp hangar is actually not so old. It was constructed in 2000 as part of the Cargolifter project (the Cargolifter CL 160 was planned as a cargo airship able to lift and transport up to 160 tons, e.g. hydropower turbines for big hydroelectric plants in remote areas or complete bodywork presses for the automotive industry, but the project failed due management problems and went into insolvency in 2002). Video about the waterpark: czcams.com/video/vQrJY1SKIaY/video.html
11:30 in Frankfurt/Main: The tower in the foreground was part of the medieval walls, the glass tower in the background is the Nextower (constructed in 2011) and the Jumeirah Hotel (constructed in 2009).
12:53 That aquarium did burst in the night of 16 December 2022, killing nearly all of the 1,500 fish inside and flooding the hotel lobby surrounding it.
I live in Friedberg, those are not the traffic lights we have here. We do have some Elvis motiv, but different.
And they were only put in like maybe 10 years ago, i chuckled heartily at your "they're still functional". They have not been in place since he served at the Ray Barracks.
maybe it is in Bad Nauheim? They do have quite the Elvis culture there as well.
@@Lylantares Elvis lived there near the old Kurpark when he was GI in Friedberg. There is a bronze Statue in live size and a 50s event in summer.
@@Lylantares Yes, the traffic lights are located in Bad Nauheim
I actually was at the two slides one time. They are formed like parabolas because they are located at the Maths center of the Technical University in Munich (TUM).
We have already 2 Lego bridges in Wuppertal. Same city with the Schwebebahn / Suspencion Railway :D
The standing surf wave at 18:08 is in a big sport store called L+T in my hometown Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. It's called "Hasewelle" what's a pun of the word 'Welle' (wave) and 'Hase' (the animal hare, but here the name of a river next to the building. Osnabrück itself is also often called the 'Hasestadt', what means town at the (river) Hase 😊). You can book tickets or even courses to really surf there among the customers since 2018.🎉
👍Schöne Grüße aus dem LK Osnabrück
Traffic light pong - never seen that in my whole life. And the aquarium with the elevator inside actually just burst last year!
12:42 By the way, this aquarium exploded.
The Deutsche Bahn is also very interesting: you never know when and if it will run.
Yes, Afghan trains are probably more reliable... which is no rocket science if you have only one single railway line in the whole country, i. e. Hairatan - Mazar-e Sharif...
Some years back they used the sloagan: "150 years ago, travelling by train was quite an adventure", to show how reliable it was in the present (about 42 years back) - now you can't read THAT anymore because it became worse - a nuisance: strikes, repairwork, snow or leafes in the cold months, fire in the hot season, trees after a stormy night, all blocking the tracks. Not enough people to drive the trains, too many people in the carriages if a special event makes them travel all at once. And the timing is so tight, that the trains are almost always late (it does not count as late, if it does NOT come at all - pimp your statistics)...
@@LisaBeta-42 (it is called late, when the train is more than 10minutes behind schedule - if it 1-10 minutes behind schedule it does count as in time - pimp your stats 2.0)...
2:55 This has actually another effect of blocking the sun in the sommer time making it cooler to walk and stay outside.
@@RoonMian No, that's in Bonn right in front of my Apartment.
@@RoonMian
It's Immermannstraße, not Immelmann-Allee!
@@yadgar1969 Oh, you're right. I thought it was named after the pilot. And I have no idea where I got the Allee from. My bad. I deleted my comment.
The electric trucks in the video have actually been only a testbed for options to electrify truck traffic. Idea was like covering the distance with overhead lines and having small batteries or small combustion engine to get on and off the road. Not aure if it is still in operation. It was an experiment to look into feasibility, infrastructure cost etc.
Idea was to connect major logistics hubs on main highway (autobahn) connections like this in the future if feasible, as long as battery powered trucks don't cut the mustard on long distances. They would come in in distribution from those hubs.
Didn't work, like every Idea of the greenies...
@IWrocker The aquarium shown @12:49 did explode by the end of 2022, flooding the hotel it was built into.
8:50 The german letter ß is actually pronouced as an s. So it's pronounces Giesen
actually it's pronounced like a double s-sound / "ss"
therefore... Giessen
@@danielw.2442no not correct what you write. for a double ss in german you speak a short vovel. ß sounds like a snake is a hard s
@@OmegamonUICorrect. That's the difference between for example Fuß and Fluss. ss and ß are NOT the same. That's why in earlier times in capitals ß was written SZ and not SS which changed later. And nowadays, they invented a capital ß (which is bullshit in my opinion).
Recognise most although I’m from the Netherlands, the watering cans are for watering the plants/ flowers around your loved ones grave
Awww...i live 2mins away from the cherry blossom road(s 2). It is so beautiful except in the day time because its packed with tourists/people. But at night and when the petals fall its amazing. When the petals fall the street looks like its pink and fluffy. Its incredible
[11:08] There are several of those in the city of Wiesbaden (which you pronounced perfectly by the way). I like that they picked this one, since I live just one minute away from it. There are some things in the video which aren't common in germany, like playing a game at the traffic light whilst waiting for the green light or hologram elefants in the circus. Last things is because many people are concerned about species-appropriate animal housing.
Others are more common: I've seen those wheel chair swings occasionaly, reserved parking for disabled is a law) and parking for woman only (usually close to the entry/exit) and families are very common. I've never seen these pods for homeless people, but beside offcial shelters provided by the municipality a lot of people care about the homeless. They give out food, free health care (doctors after their regular work) and even christmas dinners. In Wiesbaden they errected a number of tiny houses too, which offer more independence than the official shelter.
If you like the cherry flower that much, you should go to Washington or New York (e.g. Brooklyn Botanic Garden) end of march. It's beautiful.
8:59 Giessen not Gieben, the more you know
As a German, I can tell that you did really well with the pronunciation of the German words. Side note: The Aquarium bust around two years ago
19:30 watering can explanation. Never thought about it (like most things you see on a weekly basis probably), but simple: Rather than bringing the watering can each week (or month) you visit, it's just there. Might be a walk to the gy. or you coming from somewhere else, better than carrying the watering can with you the whole day. Mind you: Coming by bike, bus+ or just for a walk is pretty popular in Ger. Having your own can makes sure they are available(?) and having the locks makes sure they aren't taken away from this public place. (no surveillance for graveyards) I was never aware they had locks though - this differs from region to region. It might be this is in a big city. Certainly a few "free" cans there would be gone soon, and then you would stand there without a way to water your beloved one's flowers.
In general hard to imagine otherwise, so:
In the video it would be interesting, how do you handle watering cans on your country's graveyards?
I live just 20 minutes away from Bad Vilbel and found out about the library bridge from your video. In Friedberg, where I live, are even more Elvis traffic lights there. On Elvis looks like he's peeing, but it's just his microphone. :D The emergency lane is a great thing, but unfortunately it rarely works like in the picture.
The roulette wheel advertising my home bad homburg. The casino 😂
But it also depicts the "roulette game" of/if actually getting your luggage back... ;-)
there was a Aqarium with a Lift in it it blow up few years back
THe Lego Bridge is in Wuppertal. There are actually several of it. The Outdoor Store with the pool is the Globetrotter Store in Cologne.
The electic highway is short and basicly a research-project being done IRL.
Btw the japanese cherry street in Bonn is truely amazing. It is so narrow that
as an american you would call it a path, a street is something different for you ;)
Thanks for the amazing video, its cool to see an outside view on home :)
my local irish pub in germany has a puke sink. I have seen it in use several times.
oh shit, i might used that sink not the way it was intended for...
my bad!
- atleast i was the only person in the room, i guess...
haha!
The Tropical Island (near Berlin) wasn't build in an actually "old" blimp building but a already built shipyard hall for a cargo lifter blimp. However, this project idea couldn't brought to life and, therefore, this hall was abandoned and the Tropical Island had a place a couple of years later.
The elevator in the aquarium was in a hotel in Berlin. However, the aquarium was destroyed a couple of years ago by accident.
Emergency ambulance cars cost 10 € in Germany: actually, this picture must be a couple of decades old as in Germany a "Praxisgebühr" had to be paid once to the local physician or for each usage of an ER or an emergency ambulance car. However, as there is no "Praxisgebühr", emergency ambulnace cars are actually free of charge if it is a real emergency. If it is not an emergency, your universal health insurance could charge you with the costs. This would be around 800€. And if you have a private health insurance, you have to pay these costs in the first place anyway. If it was not an emergency ambulance car but "just" an ambulance car, the fee is about 400 € if you have to pay it on your own.
Der Rtw kostet immer 10 euro...genau wie die 10 Euro Krankenhausgebühr am Tag...
The electric highway works the same way as the train system here.
Those things connecting the trucks with the wires can be folded down (they just touch the wires they arent really connected to it.
So the truck just extends it when entering this highway and folds it down again when exiting.
But thats just a testing range, so with beurocracy it'll take quite some time to be really used
The shopping car cleaning machines appeared during the pandemic when some people were afraid of germs and would spray everything around them. So in some supermarkets they offered these machines which were outside the store.
The largest water park in Europe with thousands of natural palm trees is in Poland and is called Park of Poland - Suntago Water World
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The "Electric Highway" was a test run on a part of a Autobahn.
But no Truck uses it because its too expensive to build the top needed to connect to it.
16:48 this seems to be the Geierlay suspended rope Bridge near Hunsrück in Germany. It was only opened in 2015 so relatively new! As it is a tourist attraction, the website for the bridge also hosts a live webcam with a view over the valley and the bridge itself. They also track how many visitors the bridge has and the data is public on their website as well!
Honestly i didn't see anything that's better or eualy good than in Austria and also couldn't think of anything, as someone who often travels through Germany, into the next highly developed country, the Netherlands ;)
ROFL. Highly developed countries do have proper car, machinery, heavy weapon and aerospace industry. There aren´t any exceptions. Does Austria have anything of that? Let me guess, they are buying german tanks as they cannot build own ones. The most cars i see in Austria are german (haven´t seen any Austrian ones driving around tbh so far), their aircraft come from Germany/France/USA. What exactly does Austria have that makes it a developed industry country? I cannot think of anything tbh. I mean besides Sachertorte... Oh and last but not least, the austrians even use the germans language, as they don´t have their own one 🤣
What car do you use to travel through germany? Can´t wait for the answer....
that's a sick answer
@@andreashofer4442 ...to a sick comment. btw, have to correct myself. KTM is buidling cars... using a Audi engine made in germany :D
@@r4dio4ctiv3man9 What about Glock, Stg, Steyr, BMW Diesel engines, all the complex parts of the cars, aeroplanes, cell phones, aso, aso? All crap i personally couldn't care less about, but there is a pattern: "Parts that need a loot of know how usually get developed & built in Austria, for the german or even worldide industry. (Engel, Zizala, Austro Engine, aso, aso).
@@andreashofer4442 You wish. Steyr, Glock and Stg aren´t heavy weapon industry. These are small arms manufactors, wich even Serbia and other poor countries are capable of. The very most of what Austria uses is made in germany. Get over it. Complex parts for the car industry... I´m working for a large german car manufactor in the F&E department and trust me, the german car industry does not need Austria. The complex / high tech parts that have been outsourced, are mostly developed and manufactured by Bosch. Transmission come from Getrag aso, aso. Safety systems, autonomous driving, head-up displays, sensors aso are domestic developed. Unless i missed something, Bosch and Getrag aren´t austrian.
Austria may produce a tiny small selection of parts for Airbus / EADS, but the real high tech stuff is kept domestic. My brother works for EADS. I just asked them how important austrian parts are for their products... he fell into laughter. I know the truth hurts, so sorry for bursting your bubble. It is just funny, that whenever there is a video about germany, there is coming one of you from lower bavaria / rest yugoslavia north, seeking for attention. I´ll accept Austria as a high developed country, as soon as they are part of the G7, build their own cars in mass production, their own tanks and aircrafgt instead just a few outsourced parts for it. Even the chinese and the indians can do that. Nothing special. Get over it, deutschsprachiges Murmeltier.
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14:51 The idea is for the trucks to have batteries, but since the energy density of the batteries is so low, they came out with this trick: the truck runs mostly on the overhead wires on the highway, charging as it goes and would only need to run on batteries for the last leg of the trip: which in most cases shouldn't be longer than 40 - 50km. You thus reduce the weight of the vehicle, increase the carry capacity and remove the need for lengthy charging stops. It's a clever concept but it hasn't really kicked off except in a few test runs. In other parts of the world people have experimented with ground-based charging systems, such as an eclectic rail or wireless charging embedded in the road. These would also offer charging capacity to eclectic cars.
Brooo! That blooming Cherry Blossom pic pretty much looks like it was taken in my old hood in Bonn. Impressive indeed 🎉
In Germany we have a lot of lokalised walking signals in pedestartian lights. They are regional, like using different ones in east or mining themed ones in old mining areas, lokal ones that reference local legends or industries or even temporary ones that reference current occurences.
The lego painted bridge is so cool! The coolest thing from the nearest bridge near me is just that you can still see the corner that was half-fixed with bricks where a US tank tried to get through but knocked some of the stonework out in one of the world wars xD
5:32 I don't speak German but I know a few words (like Banhof, Kunst, etc.), so, cutting and pasting here and there, I would say that translates to something like "Newtown Art Place Passage" (Passage meaning an alley or smaller street connecting two more important streets, I would guess.)
It seems the rain water is collected by those funnels, making music while it flows down through the pipes.
Hi. The watercan at the graveyard thing is just to give graveflowers water. People let the cans there, that they don't have to carry them the next time. But i did not know that they lock them. In the really small village where i grew up, it was normal that some people let a can there and everybody can use it.
THe elctric Track for the Trucks is one of some testracks where they are testing elektrik trucks, that can just dock on it liek trains and besides that have normal elektromotors etc. to find out if its a concept for the future for more range and mobility with elektrick trucks.
i believe the electric highway thing was a test project where trucks could use that contraption at the top to recharge their batteries, and if i remember correctly they did a few different variations in other places as well
The electrical trucks are in a test phase. Essentially they built the overhead lines, so that trucks with an electric engine can be powered by landlines instead of their battery. On the way to and from the overhead lines, the truck just uses its normal battery. The connector to the overhead lines isn't fixed to it, it is just extended towards it and pushes against it to force contact.
It seems to be a good way to save battery usage, which is expensive and doesn't last long...
I am from Germany and I didn't know like 40 out of 50. I am really positively shook by the tampon idea 😂
The “moved house” was an art installation in Karlsruhe. It was the "Stadtgeburtstag". Means “city birthday”. Karlsruhe was 250 years old.
The aquarium in Berlin collapsed last year and flooded the entire building.
That aquarium with the elevator inside broke spectacularly a few years ago, flooding the hotel's lower level and part of the neighboring shaps, and wasn't rebuild
The graveyard rack is something I have seen here in the south of the Netherlands as well, basically, if you have lost a loved one, you often visit the cemetary and take care of their gravestones by cleaning the stones/surroundings, as they are often a bit filthy from the trees, some dirt etc. So graveyards have these stations with watering cans and cleaning supplies to make life a bit easier for visitors of graveyards. (at least our graveyard provides the materials), some also just have these stations to lock your own can to the pole.
The thing with the crosswalk signs is more common i think. In Bonn we have the Beethoven head at least on some lights in the inner city iirc.
And with other things i assume they are very special for that specific space and you could make similiar lists about other countries too, nonetheless, nice to see =)
@18:45
That was not a real house move but a promotion stunt when they built the underground in my home town Karlsruhe
5:07 I have been there, really interesting to look at, it's a tiny place in Dresden, with many strange buildings.
12:47 nop, no more. It got shattered completely and they won't rebuilt. It was called Aquadome in Berlin and it was inside a hotel lobby.
There is at least one swimming pool... area that has different watery slides - even some you slide while standing, and another that starts with the floor moving away under your feet and you begin the journey with a drop until it bends into a slide...
This was entertaining, Thank You
The slide in the Munich Technical Umversity is fun. It is a Parabelrutsche (parabellus slide?) And on the bottom is a scale how far you slided. 1, 2, e, 3, Pi, 4, 5
Hi Ian,
9:00
the city is GIESSEN (botanical garden in the city Giessen)
the letter is a sharp s and can be substituted with a ss in certain cases such as writing the word in all capital letters as I did above
@13:50 check out the handles above the sink .... so you wont drop while barfing
About the electric truck thing.... This works with hybrid or electric trucks, when connected to the overhead wires they use the electricity to recharge their batteries and for driving. To leave for an exit to go to a different highway, you just retract them, fold them down.
Its just a test, a prototype. The idea is, on such parts of the highway, you drive for cheap on electricity and you can charge your batteries while driving. A few of those here and there could do a lot for hybrid and electric trucks. Usually you expend range when driving, here you gain range while driving.
we have the suspended railways in alot of places, its nice and pretty old, but they still do look futuristic since the infrastructure hasnt been upgraded all that much since back in the days.