I was born in Cologne and there is a saying: When the cathedral is finished, the world will end. Therefore it remains as a construction site.
@Haradriel
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's a never ending Project partly due to acidic rain and other pollution induced damages. The stone the cologne cathedral is made of ( i believe it's sandstone or calcium stone (Kalkstein)) is white, but the pollution renders it darker and darker over time. I've lived my whole life in Cologne but I've never seen it without any construction or restoring going on. What is also interesting is that in front of the main entrance there is a "Kreuzblume" (lit. crossflower) model displayed (in original size) which is the topmost part on the two towers on the Cologne Cathedral. It looks very tiny on the towers, but when you stand in front of it you get a much better feel for the sheer size and amount of stone getting hauled up there.
@wvhdogg
10 ай бұрын
Soon enough this channel will be the go-to encyclopedic source for toilet knowledge around the world 😂
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
LOL
@MartinWebNatures
4 ай бұрын
Heidi Michelin star toilets channel 🤣🤣
@karinwenzel6361
10 ай бұрын
The "burnt" gothic look is due to air pollution - and this is also the reason why these medieval cathedrals in Europe are permanenty "under construction", the masonry being cleaned, repaired, replaced.
@jeffafa3096
10 ай бұрын
WWII wasn't really kind to this specific cathedral either though...
@AFNacapella
10 ай бұрын
last time I was there they had finished and revealed a big chunk around a side portal and I could imagine how the Dom would look all sandy white. maybe we'll see the day. the Dom was finished when the industrial revolution had already happened, yet the first stages were centuries old at that time. meaning: no one has ever seen the Dom "as it's supposed to look", yet. the fine details really pop out when the stone is white, shadows can suddenly play and emphazise with ease what you could only see on brutally sunny days before. the whole thing gains an airyness, dissolves into the sky and looses it's wobbling darkgrey oppressiveness.
@Arnyh0ld
10 ай бұрын
funny enough there is a workaround for that. when I was a kid our parliment (huge gothic building in hungary) was also constantly renovated as they needed to clean and repair the bricks. but then they swapped out/treated the bricks and its just white now all the time :)
@janschulte8434
10 ай бұрын
@@Arnyh0ld Pretty sure German law wouldn't allow bricks to be used on historical buildings that were not used when it was built,
@duke6321
10 ай бұрын
If you now consider that the two towers of the cathedral were built only a good 150 years ago, then you can see very well how quickly the related trachyte, limestone and sandstone was affected by the weather and acid rain, air pollution and also the remains of birds. The stones are now gradually freed from the adhesions and thus regain their original appearance. The cathedral is permanently in a state of restoration, which is not otherwise possible with its age and the materials used, if you want to preserve its originality. A legend also says that if the cathedral were ever completed, the earth would perish. So we hope that the cathedral will never be finished or restored. Every day I look at the Drachenfels near Bonn and see the quarry from which the stone for the construction of the cathedral was quarried in the Middle Ages. That's what connects me to the cathedral.
@MichaEl-rh1kv
10 ай бұрын
If "Köln" is too difficult, you could also use the Latin name of the city: Colonia Agrippina (short for Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium). It was founded around 20 BC as Oppidum Ubiorum (town of the Ubii, a German tribe allied with the Romans, who originally settled at the other bank of the Rhine). In 15 AD Iulia Agrippina, daughter of Roman General Germanicus and sister of Caligula (who became later Roman Emperor), was born here. After she had married Emperor Claudius, she declared in 50 AD the town a Roman colonia and city, which was renamed after her (and often abbreviated as CCAA). 🙃 For a good and true "Brezel" you have to be in one of the southern states (Bavaria or Baden-Wüttemberg). Nice cat, by the way. I've heard they have to remove the locks regularly because they would otherwise to become too heavy for the grating... Actually they halted the construction of the cathedral around 1528 because they run out of money, and afterwards hard times came for the city (wars, famines, riots, ...), so for nearly three centuries the skyline of the city was portrayed with a wooden crane on top of one of the two tower stumps. At the start of the 19th century the Cologne art collector (and trader) Sulpiz Boiserée began to campaign for finishing the construction; after he discovered original plans from 1370 for the facade, he got a lot of support from all over Germany. Cologne had in 1815 (after the Napoleonic wars) become a Prussian province, and he could win over the Prussian king Frederic Wilhelm IV (who, being a foreign Protestant ruler, aimed to win over the hearts of the Catholic population there) to back the project. Around the same time the citizens of Ulm decided to finish the tower of their (Protestant) Minster, but they waited with the last steps until the towers of Cologne were finished and then topped their height by about 4 meters (10 meters more than the original medieval plans had stipulated), so they got the tallest church in the world, Cologne being only second. And by buying that liquor you helped to fund the restorations and repairs of the cathedral, so you have now taken part in the effort. Mostly due to air pollution over the centuries the rather soft sandstone used for most of the stone carvings has to be replaced continuously, the stonemasons producing replicas of the artwork using material from the same quarries, then cutting out the old ones and replacing them with the replicas.
@Oradon01
3 ай бұрын
Well, the correct name is very simple. Call it "Kölle" 🙂
@user-nightmared
Ай бұрын
If Köln is too difficult, you can go to Düsseldorf which is one thousand times less crowded with tourists like you.
@BremerFischkoop
10 ай бұрын
Haribo was founded only 20km to the south in the town called Bonn (former capital city of Germany). The founder name is Hans Riegel from Bonn. There you have the Name of HaRiBo 😂
@shanghai72
10 ай бұрын
The bones of the three Wise Men, Three Kings, or the Three Magi how you call them in english are in this Cathedral in the Shrine of the Three Kings.
@johnkochen7264
2 ай бұрын
Or so the church would have us believe. Personally, I have “grave” doubts.
@HelmutKrüger-r4x
10 ай бұрын
Hi Heidi! Very funny video! Two comments: it took over 600 years to build the cathedral BUT it stood unfinished for almost 300 years without any work being done! The self-cleaning toilets belong to a chain of restrooms (hence the fee) often found in train stations and highway service areas.
@hurtigheinz3790
10 ай бұрын
@binkobinev2248 Then you're about to learn a valueable lesson ... or just go to McD.
@baramuth71
10 ай бұрын
@binkobinev2248 Germany is not inhuman, there is certainly someone who will let him go to the toilet or give him the euro.
@juavi6987
10 ай бұрын
@binkobinev2248no fee, no pee... 😅
@Ginnilini
10 ай бұрын
German here: I still remember the first time I experienced one of those self-cleaning toilets as a child, probably 23 years ago. I was so shocked because it didn't have a sensor, it just started the self-cleaning process after I had flushed. I thought it was so futuristic and cool. I don't remember much about that hundreds of years old castle, but I do remember the toilets there!
@asmodon
10 ай бұрын
Wait, they sell beer in big glasses in cologne? That wasn’t a local restaurant, then. Kölsch, the traditional cologne beer is served in small slender glasses of 0,2l.
@Kelsea-2002
10 ай бұрын
It must have been more of a Bavarian restaurant, because otherwise she certainly wouldn't have liked the beer.
@markus.schiefer
10 ай бұрын
Sometimes you get even Kölsch in .3 and .4 glasses when sitting outside, but that is rather rare and no local would order it. At least not my friends or I. Kölsch is also filtered, so this was something else anyway.
@JakobFischer60
10 ай бұрын
That was wheat beer. Perhaps that is sold in those glases.
@Arltratlo
10 ай бұрын
hm, die Farbe der Biere war etwas zu hell für ein Kölsch, oder??
@Zak_McKracken81
10 ай бұрын
Kölsch is not a beer 🤣
@CRINOTH
10 ай бұрын
Cathedral gift shops are pretty standard in Europe. These ancient buildings need such a lot of money to maintain that they need to cash in however they can. In my city, Lincoln UK, the cathedral has quite a large gift shop. A lot of the stuff is quite tacky but there are also a fair amount of quality items too.
@Krydolph
10 ай бұрын
If you read (or listen to audiobooks) you should check out "The pillars of the earth" by Ken Follett. It is very long, but worth it. Really good story, and it revolves around building a cathedral. So while a lot of other stuff is going on, it gives a lot of insight into what it takes, and how amazing it is they managed to get it done.
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
That sounds fascinating! Thank you for the recommendation!
@Ginnilini
10 ай бұрын
Can recommend! I read it as a teen and was so fascinated. I'm currently listening to the audiobook again.
@regenbogentraumerin
8 ай бұрын
Also: Death and the Devil by Frank Schätzing. It's a crime story playing in the late middle ages and revolves around cologne cathedral and the death of the current 'Dombaumeister' of the time (architect of the cathedral would be the translation I guess?) specifically.
@peter_meyer
5 ай бұрын
@@HailHeidi Regarding cologne cathedral, there's a pretty impressive video about it on the DW History and Culture channel.
@peter_meyer
5 ай бұрын
@@HailHeidi The cathedral has its own YT channel. Most of the videos are to serve the christian followers, but there's a short video about the history of the cathedral, which is worth watching: "Die Bauphasen des Kölner Domes und seiner Vorgängerbauten - 2017" (The construction phases of the Cologne Cathedral and its predecessor buildings - 2017) There's a lot more about it but most is in german.
@michaelgoetze2103
10 ай бұрын
Finishing a public project in 600 years seems to be the standard Germany is striving for again :)
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
Oh no! LOL
@Demoscene0x0801
10 ай бұрын
🤣 We where on a good way with the BER ...
@andik859
10 ай бұрын
Built autobahn A49 here is a project over 60 years. But it is not ready today. 😂
@ralphschiefer7576
10 ай бұрын
It is so funny to see a person never been to Cologne liking it so much. Me beeing born, raised and living in cologne sometimes forget what we have. Nice that you liked it.
@andreashorst1390
10 ай бұрын
Cologne Cathedral is the place where the bones of the three kings are laid out
@McGhinch
10 ай бұрын
Bathroom fee: You usually get a voucher to redeem in the shops of the mall. Sometimes it is 100 percent, most times it is about 70 percent of the bathroom fee.
@MrChili007
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words about my home town. I really like to here the impressions from other countries.
@brixidarc5427
10 ай бұрын
Glad you liked my hometown so much!
@nettcologne9186
10 ай бұрын
As a Cologne resident, I am pleased that you liked my hometown :-) By the way, perfume is named after Cologne = Eau de Cologne or literally translated into English: Water from Cologne
@anna-ranja4573
10 ай бұрын
Yes, welcome in the West of Germany. Bytheway I good german Brezel you only get in the South of Germany.
@stefanstock953
10 ай бұрын
Liebe Grüße aus Düren. Don't you know, we europeans need no Parfüm....we have body odor 😅
@stevenvanhulle7242
10 ай бұрын
4711 is without a doubt the best known eau de Cologne, but Farina claims to be the oldest. (No doubt 4711 will also 🙂)
@kaiv6536
10 ай бұрын
@@anna-ranja4573 Even the beer was not realy from cologne :) where they drink beer in Schnapsglases... But in all parts of Germany we can create good Brezel, and even in the french Lidl I can get good bretzl. @nettcologne9186 When I need dumy numbers for testing purpose, all people are wondering why I"ll take 0815 or 4711... Even, french people know "eau de Cologne".
@mkraulis
10 ай бұрын
I have visited Cologne only once, but it made a big impression on me. The food was good quality every place I ate. The Cathedral was jaw droppingly huge. The Art museum sticks in my mind even after 30 years (I was so impressed at their collection). I would love to go back just to take it all in again. Nice video.
@StreetCarma
10 ай бұрын
Both cities, Frankfurt and Köln were burnt to the ground after WW2. I found the lack of historical buildings (beside the dome which was spared from the bombs because the pilots needed it for orientation) in Köln remarkable when I visited.
@juavi6987
10 ай бұрын
The command told them to try not to hit, because it was "a very important historical church" as one pilot told in a documentary
@m.h.6470
10 ай бұрын
Fun fact: the word cathedral comes from the Greek "kathedra", which means "seat" as in the seat of a bishopric - so a bishop is preaching here. In Germany we have two words: "Dom" (without a bishop) and "Kathedrale" (with a bishop) Not every "Dom" is a cathedral, but every cathedral is a "Dom". To add to the confusion, several cathedrals - including the one in cologne - are called "Dom", but are actually cathedrals, as they have a bishop. Also the "632 years" are mostly marketing... there was a LONG gap in building. Essentially it was built over ~250 years and then there was the thirty-year-war as well as the protestant reformation and they just stopped. Hundreds of years later they finally finished it. So while the start date and end date were 632 apart, the actual building was maybe ~300 years - still a lot, but not that unusual. There are several big churches in Germany, that had a build phase of 300-400 years.
@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl
10 ай бұрын
Actually, apart from "Dom" and "Kathedrale" we have even a third word "Münster" and a forth one "Basilika". All four are used for churches of more significance. A normal church and generally churches would be called a "Kirche" (here again English and German aren't too far away from each other at second glance).
@m.h.6470
10 ай бұрын
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl Technically no. A "Münster" is just a church with an attached monastery, so it really doesn't refer to the church building itself. A "Basilika" is just a different style of church (instead of a tower and a long building part, it consists of 3 long building parts with the middle one being bigger than the outer ones. For both of these, the size is not relevant, they can be both big and small, but "Dom" - and therefore "Kathedrale" - refer to big churches specifically.
@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl
10 ай бұрын
@@m.h.6470Regarding "Münster" I'm a bit surprised because the rule you've quoted doesn't seem to apply to the Münster of Freiburg and the one of Ulm. As far as Kathedrale/cathedral is concerned that term is used specifically for large churches at the seat of a bishop. However, many of those churches are called Dom in Germany and Austria still being the seats of bishops: Augsburg, Speyer, Mainz, Köln, Wien, Salzburg, Feldkirch.
@m.h.6470
10 ай бұрын
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl as I wrote in my original post: "Not every Dom is a cathedral, but every cathedral is a Dom." My guess is, that - if it is called a Dom - the name was first and the bishop was moved there later and it was not renamed by the locals. The word Münster literally has the same origin as monastery, even though the modern German word is Kloster. Again, it is likely, that there was a monastery in Freiburg and Ulm, but it was removed or destroyed and the name never changed. Though I haven't checked that. But the definition and origin of the term Münster is clear.
@rileyxxxx
10 ай бұрын
so glad you enjoyed the city. its actually my favorite city in germany. not because of the looks of it ( cause its actually just a ton of ugly houses not fitting together with ugly streets etc) but its the most open minded city in this country with super nice people ♥. and it has a big music scene with many cool venues ! wish I couldve seen more photos or videos with you exploring it but its fine :) cheers! oh and I always drive to cologne to see my hairstylist.
@HenrySimple
10 ай бұрын
Nothing to add :) Ugly but VERY livable. I consider Köln as my second hometown.
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
I LOVE that. :)
@dikkiedik9463
10 ай бұрын
In Paris, France, you have the Pont d'Arts (Bridge of the Arts) where you would put the lock on the bridge and throw the key in the river (Seine), maybe even the original lock bridge. But in any case one of the most famous for this use was damaged because of it. This is from the wiki:"However, in 2014, the bridge gave in to the love it received, and unfortunately collapsed as it was not structurally sound enough to bear the weight of over 700,000 locks. In June 2015, the padlocks were removed and glass panels replaced the grilles on the Pont des Arts"
@SilkSpectre7
10 ай бұрын
Really? For me, it's Berlin
@Sadlander2
10 ай бұрын
@@dikkiedik9463 Oh, I remember that year. All over the World, couples started to break up for no apparent reason. Then they showed in the news that they removed all the padlocks from that bridge but it was too late. Crazy, huh? _(it's a joke, by the way)_
@bs8439
2 ай бұрын
Self cleaning toilets are expensive, so if you do want to have them in the us, you will not be able to use them for free. And yes, they are common. Toilets in Germany are either self-cleaning, or they get cleaned. A service I am willing to pay 1€ for, each use (as an adult, children can usually use them for free.).
@anwidoletsplays
10 ай бұрын
It‘s really, really impressive to walk outside the train central station and you see this massive, huge building. Even for me who was born close to Cologne, it is still so impressive. I also can warmly recommend visiting Aachen. Much smaller and cuter but it also has historic buildings like Aachen Cathedral, Town hall, the so called Elisenbrunnen, Ponttor. Glad you liked it in Cologne. You Americans make us Germans really love our country again. So thanks for that. 🙏🏻
@ropeburn6684
10 ай бұрын
Every big European city be like: Where is the famous cathedral? Well duh, by the main train station of course. Where is the train station? Well duh, by the famous cathedral of course. 😂
@tommay6590
10 ай бұрын
Well actually Cologne is kind of unique in this regard. Normally the railways station were built in the 1800 way later than the mostly medieval cathedrals, so they were placed quite a distance from the old medieval city centres.
@MarioMarioD80
10 ай бұрын
oh finally - been waiting for this part! I live in the area and was curious what you got to see. That dish with the Rotkohl & Knödel was one of the finer dishes my mom used to cook deeeelicious! was surprised you got off at deutz/messe (tradefair) but the weather was good so def good choice. for those interesed: the Hbf (central station) is right next to the dom, you dont HAVE to walk over the bridge like they did :)
@Andi1878
10 ай бұрын
Hey... I live only 50 minutes away from Cologne anf the "Dom" has always been the most fascinating building for me, even as an atheist. I really recommend you get a book about the Dom, its history and all the legends and mysteries. It's just great fun and so rich. The gummy candy thing is not that unusual. The HARIBO brand originates just a couple of kilometers away from Cologne down the Rhine in Bonn. 😁 Looking forward to more stories! And if you need any recommendations according literature on Cologne or the cathedral, I would love to help. Greetings from Aachen, Germany! Andi
@franznellinger8292
2 ай бұрын
Hi, first, I am a German citizen and also a US citizen. I was born between Cologne and Frankfurt. Just a small town between these bigger towns. I saw a lot of your videos and I like it how do you trying to explain it. You also have a nice pronunciation that every one like to listen to you. If you have any question's ...ask me...I give you any help you need if you are interested about my Country. I am going to give you any information you like to have. I have a good memory what's going on in the past. Stay the way you are for all your subscribers.
@mikkelchristensen8591
10 ай бұрын
😂 " i will not call it an obsession" 2 minutes later "I think about it all the time " 😂 that cracked me up
@diablotin7343
6 ай бұрын
Living and working in Switzerland, at our company we have exclusively these sort of self cleaning toilet seats 😅 I would say that it's quite common in Germany and Switzerland
@EdoBudim
10 ай бұрын
Locks are totally stupid thing, btw they got cut each year and to be fair, it should be banned
@yasminesteinbauer8565
10 ай бұрын
There is always renovation work going on at Cologne Cathedral. They even have their own workshop and people working on it full time. And the maintenance never ends. So you could still spend your whole life working on this building today.
@mucxlx
10 ай бұрын
if i need to go to a toilet i just go to any restaurant and ask to use theirs. Its free and i believe its even a law or something. But if you go to a mall, a train station, a airport and big gas stations this is more and more present. I remember how it was like 20 years ago. Back then you didnt want to go into these toilets without a gas mask and hell not sit down anywhere. Today you get a clean toilet and it smells clean. Sometimes you can even take a shower in these bathroom areas. But you have to pay for it.
@th.a
10 ай бұрын
The Cologne Cathedral is always under construction/restoration. When one restoration cycle is finished, they have to start with the next one right away. And this is more or less the situation since they started to build the cathedral in August 1248. Howeever, there was a very long break in construction between 1520 and 1823. After this pause it took another 57 years until it eventually was finished.
@W3c16B
10 ай бұрын
as far as I know, it is because it is build of sandstone, so it need maintenance forever...
@benjaminlamey3591
10 ай бұрын
If you like a cathedral in dark stone, have a look at the one fromn Clermont Ferrand in France. it is made of the local basalt like a lot of buildings in teh city, quite interesting to look at. on the other buildings, it is actually pollution. the Paris Cathedral is gettring cleaned from it as part of teh process of rebuilding it, I can´t wait to go see the difference with it before, I would love to see in its original state with the paintings and all. Regarding cleaning the toilet seat, I am actually happy that thanks to COVID you can find hand sanitizer that works pretty well to to wipe quickly the toilet seat ...
@dafonk1973
10 ай бұрын
Glad you made it to Cologne, I lived there for about 10 years, before moving back to my hometown. Your vid brings up so many nice memories! About the locks on the Hohenzollernbrücke: Their weight actually became a problem for the bridge's statics at some point. I remember there were concerns about that. I also always loved looking at the river Rhine below and the boats slowly passing - it is almost meditative. There are 4 statues in total on the bridge. All of them represent members of the Hohenzollern noble family. The one you took a picture of (at least from "behind", the one with the bird on his helmet 😂) was Germany's last emperor Wilhelm II. The cathedral is amazing indeed. And it's getting renovated all (!) the time. Fun fact: There's a saying in Cologne that when the renovation of the Dom will be finished, the world will be coming to an end (which means that it'll be never finished). Maybe you noticed a part of the columns on the left side of the portal, which is very much lighter in colour. This is due to a quick repair (the so-called "Domplombe"/"Cathedral filling") between severe air raids during WWII. This part was badly damaged by the bombings and there were concerns that the portal could potentially collapse. Apart from the city's historic background (there's so much to be mentioned!), I highly recommend going out in Cologne. There are plenty of concerts all over the place, hundreds of bars and clubs for every taste of style and music. The city vibrates at night on the weekends - you'd surely enjoy the experience and the openness of the people. Anyways, thanks so much for your comments about Cologne. It was very inspirational to me and I think I might visit it again on one of the next weekends.
@martin1042
10 ай бұрын
If you like Gummies you might want to check out the Haribo store in Bonn one day, if you ever are in that area of Germany again. They had the biggest variety of Haribo gummies I have ever seen. Bonn also is a lovely city that's definitely worth visiting.
@GerHanssen
10 ай бұрын
I made a similar trip to another cathedral: la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It is still being built. It might still take another 100 years to finish it. Even now it is awesome, let alone when it is finished. But I will never see that. Nor will you.
@markus.schiefer
10 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it. I grew up there and it's my first recommendation for everyone who visits Germany for the first time. You'll find nice, open and welcoming people all over Germany, but I think it's easier to find them in Cologne and the surrounding area. As for the locks, you are right: They had to remove them some time ago but that had little long term effect as you could see. That gummy shop that you found wasn't by any chance the "Bärenland"? I completely forgot about that one. I used to buy a lot of stuff there, including harmless looking but super spicy chili gummy stuff, which was always fun to bring to a party and watch people try them without knowing.
@tobiassohn8323
10 ай бұрын
Please come to Germany again and visit Hamburg or Kiel. Schleswig-Holstein is a very federal state with the happiest population in Germany. Very beautiful landscapes and little villages. Glad to hear you liked it.
@DawnOfMutilation
10 ай бұрын
Just a quick tip concerning bathrooms in germany : usually if you can buy something to eat/drink somewhere and can sit down at the place, you can use the bathroom for free .) Well, unless you go in a mall or train station etc.
@jeffafa3096
10 ай бұрын
I never really thought about it, but now that you mention it: all the times I've visited our German neighbours, I've always been served big chunks of meat when ordering a dish. Like the shnitzels were bigger than the plate they were served on, the bratwurst was large enough to fill 3 bread buns, and shweinebraten was usually a hunk of meat the size of a decent coffee mug... I guess the Americans aren't the only ones having huge portion sizes 😄
@rasmuswi
10 ай бұрын
Schnitzel is kind of famous. If you're in vienna and order a Schitzel, your advised to order nothing else. No starter, no side dishes, no desserts. Because just eating that huge Schnitzel will be all you can do.
@doju4166
10 ай бұрын
@@rasmuswi you always get Erdäpfelsalat with it in Vienna
@purpleguy5274
10 ай бұрын
„Cathedral was close to the train station" .😂😂 It's literaly right next to it.
@Astrofrank
10 ай бұрын
Germany's largest train station chapel ;-)
@Toto_Muc
10 ай бұрын
Bretzel have a long tradition in the south of Germany and, generally speaking, the quality is better in Bavaria or Baden-Wuerttemberg . In the last one or two decades more and more northern German bakeries starting to offer them but in my experience these bretzels cannot compete with the local original version
@moc6897
10 ай бұрын
You hit the nail on the head! Absolutely true and exact! Along the North Sea coast I would go for a "Fischbrötchen" (mit viel Zwiebeln) or "Labskaus" (a warm meal) ... anyway I wouldn't die hungry in Northern Germany ...
@SushiElemental
10 ай бұрын
In summary: 🚅🥨🏇🏻🔒🕍🍖🍻🚽
@glain42
10 ай бұрын
To put the 600 years for the construction for the cathedral in perspective: it took that long because they stopped building the church at the end of the medevial ages. Completion only start in the 2nd half of the 19th century.
@canadianicedragon2412
10 ай бұрын
Heidi: I'm not obsessed with toilets. Also Heidi talks on and on about toilets...
@th.a
10 ай бұрын
@Hailheidi With regard to the gummy bears, there is a city south of Cologne called Bonn, our capital during the cold war, where the HARIBO gummy bears originate from. By the way, HARIBO stands for Hans (HA) Riegel (RI) Bonn (BO).
@davidfeuerherdt884
10 ай бұрын
German Windows are Amazing!!!
@Herzschreiber
10 ай бұрын
you will not find locks in a normal supermarket, but at Locksmiths and DIY stores as well as hardware stores. That might be the reason why you didn't find them - they are not prohibited :) Edit: Maybe your fascination for restrooms is rooted in the fact that the human body (all over the world) has the same procedure to do this business. But the ways different civilisations deal with this "erveryhwere equal body business" and the facilities they found for making it easy and hygienic are so different. Which in the end means that your experience for the same action might come out very different depending on where you are.
@butenbremer1965
10 ай бұрын
If you watch this epic "This Is Germany" video again and activate the subtitles, you'll conveniently find out where these places are located at!
@maraboo72
10 ай бұрын
The dome is dedicated to the three holy kings who came to praise baby jesus. Same for the 6. January which is a holiday in some German Bundesländer. So that day might be a good reason to open the liquor.
@REMPLACEMENT-TV-2
10 ай бұрын
locks on bridges and monuments are a big issue all around europe , since the weight is damageable for the structure ,that's why the governments remove them on a regular basis
@SushiElemental
10 ай бұрын
"Okay who's single now? Remove your locks from the bridge!"
@wncjan
10 ай бұрын
Didyou visit the cathedral in Frankfurt? Where the German emperors were crowned for centuries. Gratis video as usuL. L8ve to hear about your experiences
@Thurasiz
10 ай бұрын
Cologne Cathedral, probably the most decorated horse stables ever.
@Kelsea-2002
10 ай бұрын
I am very happy that you liked Europe and especially my home country Germany so much. Hopefully you will have the opportunity to come here very often, because there is still so much for you to discover. I'm very curious how you liked the Italian food and the delicious wine. 👋 cu soon
@toniheikkila5607
10 ай бұрын
If youre a toilet lover (that sounded weird) I can only recommend visiting Japan, their toilets are next level, sugoii desu ne! 😅
@KurtHögerle
10 ай бұрын
Bretzels originate from the South of Germany, and as a man who has been living in nearly all German regions tere are two rules: Bretzel are getting better the mor south you go, bbeing the best in the Danube Valley (Ulm to Passau) and in train stations you 'll always get crab.
@petebeatminister
10 ай бұрын
Yes, I took 600 years to build the Dom, but they had a really long lunch break. :) But its still not all finished - it will never be. If one work spot is finished, there is another one that needs repair.
@unimerc5116
10 ай бұрын
Köln is almost 2000 years old. It was a roman city since 50AD. Did you climb the tower of the cathedral? It is fantastic. After ww2 köln was 90% burned and destroyed but the cathedral had only minor damage. An other church in Köln is Sankt Ursula. It has decorations made of real bones and skulls inside. its art...
@Astrofrank
10 ай бұрын
It's also cool. But the Goldene Kammer isn't always open, only a few times a day.
@bvbschalke06
10 ай бұрын
It's always nice to see a report about Cologne Cathedral. The amazement at the gothic appearance and the darkness of the exterior. Hmm, I guess I should give something away: Cologne Cathedral is just incredibly dirty! The Cologne cathedral master builders then thought about how they could get the cathedral clean. And what effect that would have. As the stones all have a different shade of gray, the cathedral would look like a mottled mess if cleaned. So the idea of cleaning the cathedral was shelved. Completely black is then easier to look at. And the idea that the cathedral is old.... ....next to the cathedral is the Roman-Germanic Museum. Cologne is around 2000 years old and was planned and built as a city by the Romans. Archaeologists are always involved in the construction of the subway. You basically always find Roman remains. The museum was no different. The Nazis wanted a bunker to be built next to the cathedral. Then a floor mosaic was found at this location. The people of Cologne then thought: build a bunker here? No, we'll build a museum here! You can see the floor mosaic in this museum. It dates from around the year 300 AD. Compared to the floor mosaic, the cathedral is a NEW BUILD! Greetings from Germany
@riker1701D
10 ай бұрын
In Cologne, they don't drink real beer, they drink something they call Kölsch. In the neighboring city of Düsseldorf, they drink real beer, which is called "Alt".😊
@dieterdodel835
10 ай бұрын
🤣👍....we also call Kölsch "Pis*water"...
@ondrejvasak1054
10 ай бұрын
I always assumed Cologne was somewhere in France, it does not sound German at all. Not even close to Köln, or as we say in Czech "Kolín". I think it was fairly recently that I learned what city it actually refers to.
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
It is a very interesting name, right??
@ondrejvasak1054
10 ай бұрын
@@HailHeidi Yeah, I tried to look it up, and it seems that the name was ideed taken from French and it's apparently pretty common for German place names. Original meaning comes from Roman times from Latin Colonia, which means Colony.
@miskatonic6210
10 ай бұрын
Why would the non-german name of a city sound german? And how does Köln not sound like Cologne? Both derives from the latin 'colonia'. I guess you're not that much into history and/or languages... Germany has a very interesting history and city and town names reflect that and vary a lot from region to region.
@ondrejvasak1054
10 ай бұрын
@@miskatonic6210 I can't tell if youre being serious or just trolling. I am actually interested in both languages and history. It is true, that city names in English often sound a lot different from their original names, but this is mostly case for capitals / historical capitals. Most ridiculous one that pops into my mind is Warsaw, that one sounds completely different. But most noncapital cities often have names much closer to their original language. Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg sound completely German even in English. There are some that sound a bit different, but the original language still shines trough little bit like Munich. Try to google list of 50 largest German cties (in English) and tell me again that Cologne is not the odd one out.
@juricarmichael2534
10 ай бұрын
....happens fast....? Not in germany! Look at BER.....😂
@TheAlja
10 ай бұрын
I once was in love with a girl from cologne. Maybe it's because i always got to see her when i went there, but i only have good memories of that city. I am glad you and your hubby had a good time too there. It was really fun listening to you talk about it. Once again, i mentioned this before, to me the beauty of germany is mostly to be found in the smaller cities and i really hope you will come visit again and get to see some of those.
@Riddler0603
10 ай бұрын
And it always baffles me, that paying for public toilets isn't a thing in the US. I mean, a country where almost everything is privatized, and which has capitalism in its final stage, but at least the toilets are free 😉 If You think about it, public toilets can be a service provided by private companies. That's the case for a lot of places in Germany (especially service areas on the Autobahn). But usually not for restaurants or smaller stores etc. There are still a lot of places, where you don't have to pay for the toilets.
@pkorobase
10 ай бұрын
Hello Heidi, if you are still in Germany (or return some time) you might want to visit the Aachen Cathedral. It was the crowning Cathedral of Charlemagne, which we call Karl the Great, the first and only emperor of France and Germany together in the 9th century. That Cathedral was built in the old Roman style with much of gold and purpur colored carpets. Ever since it was the crowning cathedral of the german emperors. The old roman style is totally different from the much later Gothic style. Interestingly there is no Crucifix but a Holy Mary Statue at the main prayer place. So its really a sight. 😉 Oh, and in Cologne you should really visit the chocolate museum. There's a real chocolate fountain in it, where you can try and eat as much as you'd like 😅
@AFNacapella
10 ай бұрын
imho best tour in the Dom is the foundations/excavation tour. they dug out the tower foundations to see how well they were made 600 years ago and came across historical artifacts dating back to pre-roman times, at least 2000 years of history is hidden down there. they say they had to stop digging because they already dug out work to keep several generations of historians busy. standing underneath that massive structure and on grounds that have been holy to people for maybe 3000 years or more is impressive.
@AFNacapella
10 ай бұрын
oh and you can check their tours on their website and they almost all also come in english and there are some that can or have to be booked in advance, like the roof tour or organ tour iirc. they also play concerts on that giant organ, in case you want to _hear_ the Dom no, I don't work there, never did, don't plan to, it's just a pretty(,) interesting building
@albin2232
10 ай бұрын
Great video! Glad you had a good time. I love Germany too. All the best from Scotland.
@Dreaded-Flower
10 ай бұрын
never buy anything at a train station if you can avoid it. its always cheap stuff thats overpriced
@AwdrevCZ
10 ай бұрын
3:53 there is new tradition in Czechia to cut the locks on bridges - video by Honest guide
@EdoBudim
10 ай бұрын
good job 👍 great channel to follow btw 😊
@strasbourgerelsass1467
10 ай бұрын
Sure... Cologne is famous for its Brezels. That would also be my first coice there. ... NOT 😉
@MrFahrenheit9
10 ай бұрын
Hey Heidi! I moved to Cologne suburbs 1,5 years ago, so I loved all of your reactions. That view of the bridge with the Dom is my absolute favourite as well. You see I grew up near the sea, so it's very unusual for me that you get not one but two stunning views from the body of water. You should definitely try to attend the organ concert in the cathedral - they are free and take place in summer usually. I was blown away by the performances, and the Dom is jam packed with listeners, people even bring the sitting cushions and sit on the floor. And regarding Bretzeln - honestly, the frozen ones that you can buy in any supermarket and just pop into the oven for 10 minutes - they are the best! In backeries they are not as hot ant soft. But everything else in a backery is usually of amazing quality. Just don't go to the ones in the train stations, you'll definitely feel the difference. My small Bäckerei in my suburb is the most important shop on my street.
@comeconcon569
10 ай бұрын
The F.R.G. is indeed a beautiful country.
@henkormel5610
10 ай бұрын
Imagine the construction of the cathedral took 700 years and the US only exists 400 years.
@kaurnurm
10 ай бұрын
Köln Cathedral - get inspired and then get drunk :D
@franznellinger8292
2 ай бұрын
HARIBO GUMMIS is a German company who start in Cologne. That's why you see it everywhere at this place
@Luzarioth
Ай бұрын
Just say "Coln" instead of "Köln" and your 80% correct ^^*
@user-nightmared
Ай бұрын
You make travelling so pedestrian. Thanks for your sophomoric insights. You need to marry someone with money.
@VivaColonia83
10 ай бұрын
They remove the locks from the bridge from time to time to avoid the bridge collapsing.
@daftphil9706
10 ай бұрын
I visited St. Paul's in London. What was amazing was that a service started while we were appreciating the architecture and history of the building. I think the same thing might have happened at Canterbury. It made me appreciate that these are living, working buildings. ❤
@thkempe
10 ай бұрын
That was a nice video. I liked it and also your enthusiasm for the city. Thank you. What I like best about Cologne is its history, which dates back to Roman times 2,000 years ago. Back then it was called CCAA (the Romans loved abbreviations). There is even a fortification tower of the Roman city that has survived all these 20 centuries. And I am also fascinated by the story of the Holy Roman Empress Theophanu, a princess of Greek origin from the Byzantine Empire. She was sent to the western Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, as it was later called, 1,000 years ago to marry the crown prince. For this girl, it must have felt like being sent to the moon. I admire how she handled her life there, in another world, especially when her husband died young and she had to keep the entire empire under control. Her grave is in the Church of St. Pantaleon in Cologne.
@DJone4one
10 ай бұрын
The Bremen Roland knight statue also looks in the direction of Bremen's St Peter's Cathedral. It symbolises the resistance against the church, which had some influence. But in Bremen this influence was broken and the town hall decided independently about the city.
@maluell738
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for the info. 😊
@BremerFischkoop
10 ай бұрын
It was due to the success of the Hanse cooperation which makes a lot of many by trading. So they were able to be independent from the Catholic Church.
@HailHeidi
10 ай бұрын
Interesting! Thank you!
@DJone4one
10 ай бұрын
@@HailHeidi What I can recommend is this 10 minute video about Bremen. It doesn't show everything, but it gives a good overview of what there is to marvel at. Travel Bremen: What to do and where to go! | Germany | TravelGretl Bremen is not only the smallest federal state, it also has a harbour that lies outside the state border. Namely here on the North Sea coast, in Bremerhaven. Around 7 million people came here in the 19th century to emigrate to America. There is a museum here that tells the story of the emigrants. And this video too: Discover the Medieval City of Bremen With @Alemanizando
@barriehull7076
10 ай бұрын
Noun. guyses pl (plural only) (slang) Alternative spelling of guys; plural of guy quotations ▼ (colloquial) Alternative spelling of guys'. Now I know.
@michaelkrause1338
9 ай бұрын
welcome to CCAA = Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium => or just "Cologne" = "Köln"
@4455thor
10 ай бұрын
The alchohol has "Ur-Rezept" which means something like "The oldest recipe".
@At-Dawn-We-Ride
10 күн бұрын
I can put your mind at ease. Deutzer Brücke in Köln is not expected to buckle under the weight of some padlocks. It sees daily, extensive use as a railway bridge, after all. 🙂 As for the beer, Köln is famous for its local "Kölsch", which is deliberately served in small, narrow glasses. These keep the beer cool and fresh. The big beer steins (glass or earthenware, 1 litre or more capacity) are more typical in other regions of Germany, but frowned upon in Köln, because the contained beer is likely to become tepid and stale. You may have noticed that in order to make up for the small Kölsch glasses, the beer waiter (called "Köbes") will continually serve glasses with fresh beer once you ordered the first one (typically when your current glass is almost empty), until you signal them to stop by placing one of the cardboard coasters on top of your glass. Neat, and very effective.
@jensschroder8214
10 ай бұрын
Cologne was founded in 30 BC. The name was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. Your name was the governor's wife Claudia. That was still at the time of the Romans. The Rhine was the Roman Empire's eastern border in the region. Construction of Cologne Cathedral began in 1248. The builders ran out of money and it looked like the cathedral would remain unfinished. It was only after 632 years that the cathedral was completed. Cologne burned down in WW2, only the cathedral remained standing. But an English bomb had torn a hole in the cathedral on one side. It is reported that bricks were extracted from the surrounding ruins and in a quick action the gap in the wall in the cathedral was bricked up. It was only many years later that the bricks were removed and replaced with the real sandstone. Cologne is not only the seat of a bishop, but the bishop also acted as sovereign for a long time. Only when the French Napoleon occupied the Rhineland was the church disempowered. Even if the Catholic Church no longer shows it today, it still has land and assets.
@jensschroder8214
10 ай бұрын
The railway comes from Cologne Deutz (where the Deutz engines come from) and often has to wait there until the Cologne train station has the track free. Then the train drives over the Hindenburg Bridge directly towards the cathedral and then takes a sharp curve into Cologne train station. You can regularly hear the railway wheels screeching on the curve and the tracks there have to be replaced every 7 years. The Hindenburg Bridge consists of three bridges, and there used to be a fourth car bridge. The footpath is attached to a railway bridge. There are plans to build a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge where the car bridge used to be. Every year thousands of locks are removed from the Hindenburg Bridge to reduce its weight. But there are always some left hanging. It is traditional for couples to hang a lock there and vow to stay together as long as the lock hangs there. But it is often impossible to find your lock again.
@jensschroder8214
10 ай бұрын
Cologne Cathedral has a secret. Not just the bones of the three kings and other sacred objects from the Middle Ages. Cologne Cathedral was completed after the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty and therefore has an iron roof structure. After generations of standstill, the building finally had to be finished in the 1900s.
@olafgogmo5426
10 ай бұрын
@@jensschroder8214 Sorry, but it's the Hohenzollern Bridge, not the Hindenburg Bridge.
@chrisdyck6524
Ай бұрын
If you had ever been there in Cologne on New Year's Eve in 2015, it was really beautiful🤦♂️ and Germany is getting more beautiful every day.
@margamcnabb
5 ай бұрын
The cathedral was being built over two hundred years before Columbus discovered America. That's something to think about right?
@MssErika
4 ай бұрын
I think you should really like the cathedral in Trondheim, Norway - very impressive!
@xalau5270
10 ай бұрын
Heidi the international alcohol smuggler 😂
@franznellinger8292
2 ай бұрын
Ohh, you buys the Liquor, open it up and drink it Just small glasses you need. Just two is enough. Dont save the drinks. Save the Bottle
@rainermarx5217
Ай бұрын
Around the year 57 BC, however, the Roman Empire extended to the banks of the Rhine. The Germanic tribe of the Ubians, who were friendly to the Romans, now settled west of the Rhine. An urban settlement, the Oppidum Ubiorum, was probably founded in 38 BC. Oppidum is the Latin word for “small town”. In 50 AD, this settlement was then declared a colonia (Latin for a city built outside Rome, usually as the result of a conquest) by the Roman Emperor Claudius and at the instigation of his wife, the Roman Empress Agrippina. It was given the Latin name Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, “Colony of Claudius, Altar of the Agrippinians”), or CCAA for short. In everyday use, the name Colonia became established from the 5th century and developed into Köln (Cologne). The name Köln therefore comes from the word “colony”. Incidentally, echoes of the Latin origin can still be clearly seen in other languages. Köln is still called Colonia in Italian and Spanish, and Cologne in French and English.
@rickardelimaa
10 ай бұрын
I absolutely adore these videos you made, describing your experience with Europe and all the cultures (shocks?) in the different countries.
@thomasp.5057
9 ай бұрын
Yes. Lock in your love and THROW THE KEY INTO THE RHINE! 🙂
@remcohoman1011
3 ай бұрын
4:32 actually a rip off of Seine in France, Paris, the city of Love.. where you go to Paris, and lock your memory there..onthe bridge
@AnnetteLudke-je5ll
3 ай бұрын
Selfcleaning toilets are quite normal here in public spaces.
@YezaOutcast
Ай бұрын
selfcleaning toilets should be a staple in puplic restrooms.
@M4tti87
3 ай бұрын
Crazy :O Just for the Cathedral? Its cool, but not unique. There are bigger Cathedrals in Germany in pretier small cities. I think Ulm has a bigger Cathedral. Cologne has that "Big City" vibe which I personally dont like.Thats why I dont like Berlin, Paris or London either :D Its personal taste though. New York, L.A. or Miami didnt do it for me either :D I love cities like Charleston in SC or citites like Bamberg in Germany PS: For Pretzles you gota go to Bavaria ;) Thats the Pretzel place. In the Rest of Germany its, yeah like a pretzel youll find anywhere :D Jeeeze now I sound like the stereotypical local who smartasses all around :D Sorry. If you and hubby had a great time thats all that matters :)
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