The houses with the wood in their walls are called "Fachwerkhaus" if you want to research that. :)

@irminschembri8263

Ай бұрын

......aka half-timbered houses in English . :))

@buddazanetti3240

Ай бұрын

@@irminschembri8263 Klugscheißen was xD XD

@emanuelneutronium

Ай бұрын

For everyone not willing to look that up: The Wood provides structure and stability to the house. That's basically the main reason why they were build. I still recommend to look that up thou.

@prunabluepepper

Ай бұрын

hahahaha, just wanted to comment Half-timbered house or frame house :D You both have a happy easter

@gvoluto2816

Ай бұрын

In Amerika sind sie komplett aus Holz 😅😅😅😅

I visitid Bernkastel Kues and there was a group of american tourists blocking the street. They listened to a Tour guide who spoke about the age of the old timbered Houses and an older Lady said to her husband " He don't tell us the truth, he is telling us lies. It can not be wood because it would be rotten after 500 years. It has to be plastic Honey." I could not stop myself and burst out in laughter.

@CavHDeu

Ай бұрын

😂

@pracharm5094

Ай бұрын

Typical intelligence of a everyday person made in USA 🤣😂

@random.3665

Ай бұрын

I think the funniest part about it isnt that they thought they were being lied too, its that someone would lie about the material, instead of the age^^. Also, yeah, plastic. plastic from 500 years ago. Sure......^^

@mickroom7603

Ай бұрын

Many of them are super naive

@schmidtchristian1401

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 ich glaube dir das . .

The windows are small because the houses are several hundred years old. There was no central heating at that time. Often just a fireplace. Glas was extremely expensive. Big windows = you will freeze to death in winter.

@ryanwass

Ай бұрын

@thkempe

Ай бұрын

@@ryanwass The purpose of these small windows was simply to bring some light into the attic. So no one lives there. It's a storage room.

@CriticalPoliteness

Ай бұрын

​@@thkempeHe mentioned the tiny windows in the context of the old city hall (rebuilt in the 15th century).

@sokolo161

Ай бұрын

Glass was not extremely expensive. Most houses in cities had glas windows some in villages even. There was a huge variety of glass and a price range. Embedded with art they were a luxury, windows made from "butzen" were less expensive and "Waldglas" was also less expensive. Look at some medieval houses in Brügge at the market and see for yourself just how much glass can be built into a medieval house.

@CriticalPoliteness

Ай бұрын

@@sokolo161 Of course, it was expensive. Obviously, it was possible to use it for the City Hall but that does not mean it was cheap. That they had a lot of glas in Brügge - one of the richest medieval cities in the world - is as logical as saying that the rent in New York must be cheap because so many people are able to live there. Of course, glas became cheaper over the time but still it was expensive. ("Fensterglas war im Mittelalter ein Luxus, den sich nur der Hoch- und Kirchenadel leisten konnte. Erst im späten Mittelalter konnten sich GUT BETUCHTE Bürger an einer eigenen Fensterscheibe erfreuen."). Correcting each other... so typical German... .

Dear Ryan, my wife and me are long term subscribers of your Channel and love your videos. This one was our Highlight because we live in Bamberg. If you ever come to Germany let us know and we show you the city and we will have a couple of Rauchbier, Pretzels and Schäuferla 😁 but never forget: we are Franconians not Bavarians 🤘

@quaipau

Ай бұрын

Hey neighbour! We should do a Ryan party if he ever comes visit Bamberg :)

@randolphb3620

Ай бұрын

@@quaipau absolutely Sir 😁

@NinaHagen-ym7ng

Ай бұрын

I am in on the city tour and the party, also living in Bamberg🎉

Biggest cities around 1500 AD in the HRE 1. Prague 70,000 2. Cologne 40,000 3. Nuremberg 38,000 2x. Bamberg 10,000 3x. Rothenburg ob der Tauber 5,500 What you're looking at was a big and rich medieval city.

@CriticalPoliteness

Ай бұрын

I have to add my beloved Regensburg: 12,000. (Far bigger than Berlin at that time.)

@FreeOfFantasy

Ай бұрын

Or Lübeck with 25000 inhabitants.

@alpenhuhn1

Ай бұрын

My hometown Augsburg had 40000 and was one of the richest towns in Europe!

@DaweSlayer

Ай бұрын

I'm from village 0,5km behind Prague border, est. before 1088 that had like 20(+-19) population in 1500.

@lorenzsabbaer7725

Ай бұрын

dinkelsbühl also had 5500 ppl, why is only rothenburg obT mentioned and never dinkelsbühl???

i'm so glad that you said "looks so bavarian" and not looks german, you are no noobi to german culture. TY!!! 😄

@paha4209

Ай бұрын

I believe the Franconians beg to differ and would rather take "looks german".

@heha6984

Ай бұрын

@@paha4209 "..... looks Franconian" - to be truly honest lol

@chiggnBS

Ай бұрын

"[Franconian city] ... looks so Bavarian" ... every time that sentence is said the Club looses once more ...

@pauleyroot9438

Ай бұрын

@@heha6984 I´m from Franconia. And thx for your true words 😘😅👍

@heha6984

Ай бұрын

@@pauleyroot9438 Bidde bidde, basst scho, gell? 🤣☘

You should also react to the small village of Wacken in germany. It has less than 300 inhabitants (but much more cows). Is there more about it...? Only the 80.000 metalheads that are visiting the village every year.

@marcromain64

Ай бұрын

I would love to see Ryan's reaction to this very moment in the life of the otherwise tranquil Wacken.

@franhunne8929

Ай бұрын

@@marcromain64 Or the fire brigade orchestra opening the festival ...

4:35 It's sweet mustard, tastes great especially with white sausage.

@thespacexplorer6552

Ай бұрын

couldn't agree more. White sausage, bavarian style, with sweet mustard and a pretzel is one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast

@alinadornieden8411

Ай бұрын

Wolter says it like 6 seconds before Ryan asks what that is........classic lost Ryan

@embreis2257

Ай бұрын

I have yet to find another application for sweet mustard other than white sausages. any ideas?

@DeadpoolTesla

Ай бұрын

@@embreis2257I work in lower bavaria and there it is totaly normal, to put the sweet mustard on the "Leberkässemmel". In other regions they use normal mustard...

@HyperQbeMusic

Ай бұрын

And with Leberkäs, too! 😅

Bamberg is Franconian, and true Franconians don't like to be called Bavarian. It is the fifth biggest city in the Bavarian(-occupied 😉) part of Franconia. In the early middle ages (around 718 AD) it was called Babenberg. In the 9th century it was ruled by the Frankish House of Babenberg, also called Poppones after Poppo I of Grabfeld, a descent of the Robertian house, which was also ancestral to the French Capetian dynasty. Henri of Babenberg was instated by Charles III the Fat as Margrave (Marquis) of Franconia and dux Austrasiorum (Duke of Austrasia), but died in the battle of Paris against the Normans in 886. Charles successor Arnulf of Carinthia preferred the rivals of the Poppones, the Conradines (his wife was from that House), fired Henri's brother Poppo II as Margrave from Thuringia, replacing him by a Conradine. Henri's sons started a feud against the Conradines which get them killed (one died in battle, one was beheaded after battle, and the third was later killed for treason), and Bamberg became a Royal estate, until Emperor Otto II the Red gave the castle to his cousin Henry II the Quarrelsome, Duke of Bavaria. The son of this Henry became King Henry II of Germany and founded a new Archdiocese of Bamberg; the castle became the seat of the bishop. In the 13th century Bamberg became a Prince-Bishopry, ruling wide parts of the former Duchy of Franconia. It was then sometimes called the "Franconian Rome" because of the seven churches on the seven hills of the city.

@TheJohnnycab5

Ай бұрын

Wait, can you repeat that please! Who's cousin was it? 😁

@MichaEl-rh1kv

Ай бұрын

@@TheJohnnycab5 The Red and the Quarrelsome were cousins, but they quarreled often. 😁

@velvet6923

Ай бұрын

that's funny coming from a culture that isn't even an actual culture, your only identity is not wanting to become an insignificant part of bavaria XD stupid, outdated jokes aside i do respect you guys and as a bavarian even with all our disputes i'm glad you guys still have your identity and are actually really important in bavarian politics and the economy beside we wouldn't be germans if we wouldn't have stupid disputes over things that happened gerations ago, or overall disputes and complains aboit everything and everyone XD

@Birgit0210

Ай бұрын

Ich lebe in Bamberg, es ist ein wunderschönes kleines Städchen❤

@user-ew3hg8nn5s

Ай бұрын

Bamberg as Town is founded 1007! You mean the Castle of the house of Babenberg.

My son was born there , too, whyle we were stationed there. Now we live near Baden - Baden, in the Black Forrest. Living in Bamberg, strolling through the "used" Book marked, held on in he bridge , in front of theTown hall over the Regnitz river, smoked Beer in the medivel Schlenkerla pub,great experience. Behind the mighty Dome, there is a footpath all the way up to the mighty Altenburg Castle. The kids loved it.If you asked, you even received the key to the tower, to climb up and have a look all over the city. I love Bamberg.❤

Bamberg is not a small town by German standards. The population is not very high at 70,000, but Bamberg has several things that set it apart from other comparably sized cities. It has a long history and well-preserved evidence of its history, which is attractive for tourism. It has a university, which brings young people to the city and keeps the population from aging. It has some major employers, e.g. Schaeffler, Bosch, Brose and others, which offer good jobs. These are locational advantages that make it a livable and colorful city that is a pleasure to live in. There are comparably large cities that are absolutely boring because they don't fulfill one or two of these points.

@aphextwin5712

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I’d say it is a smaller town.

I was a University Student in Bamberg in my 20s. The best time of my Life, 20 years ago.

The Romanesque Bamberg Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

Ryan: "Small town called Bamberg" Bamberg: "We do have 80.000 citizen, that ain't small"

@franhunne8929

Ай бұрын

Bamberg knows that the definition of bigtown (Großstadt) is at least 100.000 inhabitants.

@AdamMPick

Ай бұрын

@@franhunne8929 You know full well that the 1887 definition of a small town in Germany is between 5k and 20k.

@QuentinPlant

Ай бұрын

@@franhunne8929 So it's a town - not small, not big.

About you wondering what's the deal with the wooden beams in the house. They ARE the structure. So you would start with these wooden beams acting as framework. Then the spaces between these beams were filled with clay and straw or a mixture of those which provides good insulation and were materials that were near at hand anywhere. Then, as a last step, those spaces got painted over with chalk or something similar. If you were poor, your Fachwerk (wood construction) was simple and functional because in this way you didn't need much wood. If you could afford it, you used the wood to create beautiful patterns and - if you were really fancy - added carvings which were painted in different colours to add a relief kind of impression.

Hello Ryan, "Fachwerkhäuser" are not a German topic, they were the constuction method in the (late) middle ages for hundred of years. Have a look at Chester (England), a town founded by the romans, with tons of socalled black and white buildings - the wood painted black, the rest of it white. The wood framework makes up the whole stability (static) of the building, even for the celings. Concrete was not a common material then. Look at American houses nowadays - they are constructed out of wood frameworks - you just cannot see them, they are hidden. Greetings, Wolfgang

@melchiorvonsternberg844

Ай бұрын

But you forgot the German clue... Our Fachwerkhäuser are designed, to be moved...

@hernerweisenberg7052

Ай бұрын

Ever seen how the Amish people in merica build timber framed houses or barns? Fachwerk is basically the same, only with fachwerk, the gaps are filled in with brick and plaster instead of nailing planks to the outside of the frames.

@palantir135

Ай бұрын

You will find those houses also in the south of dutch province of Limburg.

@AP-RSI

Ай бұрын

"The common half-timbered technique in house construction has only been recorded in Central Europe since the first half of the 12th century, and from the High Middle Ages until the 19th century, half-timbered construction on sill beams was the most widespread construction method for buildings north of the Alps in Germany, parts of France, England and Scandinavia. However, half-timbered buildings are also known from the timber-rich regions of the former Ottoman Empire from Bulgaria to Syria." Wiki

Another really recommendable city is Heidelberg, there is also a beautiful old town with a beautiful castle. Many Americans know Heidelberg because of the army base.

Greetings from Bamberg, it's still nice here.

Bamberg is for Franconia a big city. It does have 80 000 habitants. I would say "little town" is all under 25 000 habitants.

@leviquentin1134

Ай бұрын

25k? that's a small city. i grew up in a small town with about 600 people edit: I got it. I confused town with village. thanks for the explanations

@klamin_original

Ай бұрын

@@leviquentin1134 Well that's more like a village. I'd say as soon you pass the 1000 mark you can start calling yourself little town and obviously many small towns got awarded the city law right back in medieval times exactly because of that rough limit. The more people there were in one place the more important the settlement probably got.

@leviquentin1134

Ай бұрын

@@klamin_original okay...so what exactly is the difference between a village and a town? I always tought "town" was just a different word for a village?

@wolfmanAl

Ай бұрын

@@leviquentin1134Here in Germany it is actually quite clear set. Everything under a population of 2000 is a Dorf, a village. 2000 to 50,000 is a Kleinstadt, a small town, 50,000 to 100,000 is a Mittelstadt, a medium town, and everything over 100,000 is a Großstadt, a city.

@melchiorvonsternberg844

Ай бұрын

@@leviquentin1134 Well... That is what we call a village...

I am born in Bamberg an it is very very nice there you can get a lot of the romatic feeling of small medival towns without over-tourismlike - like you would have it in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, it is much more crowded and much much more tourist-shops etc

I studied in Bamberg, looooved the town, it's so beautiful!

Getting Schlänkerla (the "smoked beer") should actually be relatively easy. I've seen it in London, St. Andrews, Bangalore and Tokyo now. They literally export worldwide ;)

Wooden benches? Plastic tables and chairs have been forbidden by most german cities at the time the monobloc was invented. We europeans are united in understanding that a certain level of culture and beauty are essential.

That rose garden is actually made in french style. This highly engineered and introcate gardening style spred in europe after Ludwig the fourteenth I think

I lived and studied in Bamberg for a couple years. It's a beautiful city. I still remember the weekly market. Went there a bunch of times to get fresh vegetables.

Weisswurst mit senf is Not Frankonia...More Bavaria-lower and upper Bavaria..Frankonia is famous for "Schäufele" or more Nürnberger Bratwurst!!;)

Bamberg is an old imperial and episcopal city. The Old Town Hall is a “half-timbered house”. And the area is called “Little Venice”. The smoked beer is originally served in the Schlenkerla. The Aufseesianum is located below the Michelsberg. When I was a teenager it was a boarding school. I was a student at this institution at the time. There were also very famous people at this boarding school back then. In the USA one would speak of an elite boarding school. The picture with the Franconian food is called “Schäufele with dumplings”. I am Franconian and was born in Forchheim. Forchheim was also Imperial Palace, so I know Bamberg. Today I live in Thailand. Can be seen on my YT channel. Greetings from Chonburi.

My hometown and still living there 😃

The wood in those half-timbered houses is not embedded in the walls but the walls are in between the timber. You first build a timber frame (very similar to many American homes) and then weave a mesh of thin flexible branches like hazel or willow in between the thick beams. In English this weaved walls are called wattle, in German it's "Flechtwand" (weaved wall). Then you press a mix of clay and straw (and sometimes horse manure because it's a great binding agent) - so called daub - into the wattle. The straw prevents the clay from crumbling apart after it's dried. After the clay surface is smoothened out with wet hands and left a few days to dry the greyish brown wall segments can be coloured with a lime wash and the beams are painted to make the walls more weather resistant. In Northern Germany they began to use ceramic bricks instead of wattle and daub very early on. But the building method is pretty similar. First construct the wooden frame and then fill in the gaps. Only by building small brick walls in this case. Often different sections of the wall are highlighted by not putting the bricks in straight but in a diamond or heringbone pattern. Those buildings are called "Fachwerkhaus" (half-timbered house). "Vach" was a medieval word for those wattle walls in between the timber. It meant compartment or part. It evolved into the modern German word for compartment - "Fach". "Werk" means the product of one's work (but also work plant). And "Haus" is simply house. So it's a house (-haus) which is built (-werk-) by filling the compartments (Fach-) in between the timber. When you use bricks instead of wattle and daub its called "Ziegelfachwerk" (brick half-timbered).

my parents life in banberg since more than 10 years, i was there many times, it's such a beautifull city. the first resturant in the video - the "Kachelofen" is realy nice and realy cozy inside, being there a lot

The original versions of Fachwerk used to be for stability purposes, but after a while it actually grew into a decorative element and was kept visible and with more wooden beams than necessary for stability. (Deco versions are called Zierfachwerk) Which also resulted in different styles throughout different regions.

The wood you can see at the walls is actually carrying the entire roof. It’s called ‚Fachwerk’. The bricks in between are just there to fill up the gaps, they don’t carry anything. You could remove them and nothing would happen to the construction. Those houses are usually between 150 and 250 or maybe even up to 500 years old. That may also explain to you,why the windows are so tiny, as glas was very expensive in the past. Often a lot of constructional changes and adjustments happened over the centuries, as you can image.

Thats a pretty Small town 😮. 77k population, that is bigger than the 5 biggest city in Denmark, Esbjerg that has 71k population. I live in a small town with 7700 people 😅

- and thank you for the compliment about German gardens! But it is still funny: Germans tend to think about public gardens as being mostly either in the much-admired 'English' or 'French' styles.

Fachwerkhäuser have a solid base made from stones and the upper stories are built with wooden structures, filled with a latticework of branches and an clay, straw, animal dung mixture, then covered with natural plaster.

Bamberg town hall, the house with the small windows, is built in 14th century. So your "small tiny windows" were built 600 years ago. No ac or central heating in that times, understand?😊

A part of the "Three musketeers" (2011) directed by P. Anderson with Luke Evans and Matthew Macfadyen was filmed in Bamberg

I am from Bamberg! Lots of tourism. Its also called the "curse of beauty"!

The way houses were build 400 or 500 years ago was a wooden frame filled with a straw clay mixture. It kept the houses dry and warm. Windows were‘nt that good but expensive. So they are tiny. Modern houses for sure have much bigger windows because their isolation is very good.

2:06 The wooden patterns are not embedded into the wall for decoration. In fact, the wood makes up the wall. This is called "Fachwerk" (Trusswork), which would translate to "box-crafting". Truss-walls (boxes, "Gefache") are made lying flat on the ground and are then stacked on top of each other. Only after the wooden structure is completely erected, wattle is placed in the openings and then covered in clay. The way diagonals are embedded to strengthen the structure is subject to local custom and decorative ambitions, so specialists can deduce from a single foto, where such a building is located and how rich the former owner would have been. Simple trusswork is comparatively cheap to build by medieval means and is known to have a good thermal insulation compared to buildings made from solid stone or baked clay. There are also many buildings from the era that do only have structural non-decorative trusswork and are covered in plaster. During the industrial revolution, when building bricks became widely available, trusswork was considered cheap and ugly and many buildings were plastered over, only to be restored to former glory after WorldWar 2. Fun fact: To protect wood and clay from rain, trusswork buildings are often built with upper levels overhanging lower levels, which gives them a cartoonesque look, especially after deforming for half a millenium, going crooked, leaning against one another... Trusswork could be considered common ancestry to european and US-american building styles. Europeans startet putting bricks into the openings of the trusswork, then building brick walls with only the roof structure made of wood. Americans went the other way and only put some cladding on top of the wooden structure.

Some info for the planked fassades. They aren't planked walls. It's the opposite. They build the wood frames first, and then fill the spaces with clay, or stone, put some coverin above it and you get this look. If you have 1-2 floors, the whole building is made this way. If you have more floors, the groundfloor is build from big stones and blocks, and the upper floors have the "planked" structure. Cause it's lighter and cheaper. And if i am honest, it's a bit like you americans build your wood houses, but the germans used better fill materials. You can find this kind of structure everywhere and it'c called Fachwerk.

"What is this.... substance?" I don't like Weisswurst but I know that it traditionally is served with sweet mustard. So this substance is a little heap of sweet mustard :) Many people commented about the houses and told you to google "Fachwerkhaus". I guess that will not be very efficient because the result will be mainly in German when googling a German term. Try "half-timbered houses" or "timber-framed houses" instead if you are interested! German tourists don't only travel around Germany to see "old buildings"....... even in the towns where some got destroyed during the war, some will be still undestroyed. Sure there were cities which were completely destroyed but in rural areas, where nothing relevant for logistics or industries was situated, there were not much bombs. What I want to say is: Since Germany has such a big variety of landscapes, architectural styles and museums, lots of Germans love to travel within their own country to see the places "different from home".

@billyo54

Ай бұрын

Undestroyed???

@Herzschreiber

Ай бұрын

@@billyo54 Sure. Some cities were totally destroyed, some to a certain percentage, depending how important they were logistically. You know that a war party throws bombs especially on industrial facilities, infrastructure or military and administrational locations. Villages, towns and cities without much of this got rarely bombed, so the historical houses are still there. What is so surprising about it that you have to ask back?

@marsultor6131

Ай бұрын

@@HerzschreiberIt’s also fair to point out that the restructuring of cities into car dependent areas in the 50s to 70s destroyed so much more of our old buildings than the war did.

Nice to watch because I am born in Bamberg and still live nearby. I never thought that Americans would react to my birthcity😊

If you believe or not, we are right here in Bamberg for the very moment! Some vacation days over Easter holidays. We enjoy all the delicious franconian food and beers as Walter explains.

@stefankaiser3354

Ай бұрын

Guten Appetit! 🍖

The town hall was built in 1461, 31 years before America was discovered. Back then it was structurally easier to build tall buildings using half-timbering. That's why you often find old half-timbered houses here. Something else funny about this town hall, in order to give the population more space to build in the city walls, the town hall was built on a large rock in the river

Bamberg is my hometown. I was born there and I will never move away 😊 I just love this place too much. Would be nice to meet you there one day, Ryan 😉😂

2:10 yes this pattern buildings called "Fachwerkhaus" and the oldest i visit was in Neuffen (small town with very big castle) and it`s from 16xx, dont remember exact date just too long ago.

I've lived in Bamberg for over 10 years and it's really a nice town. Especially if you like history... and/or beer. The cathedral is interesting because you can see 2 different epochs in the way it's built. Two towers look more like stocky castle towers, intended to defend against an attack and the other two are more like spires with lots of air and very delicate structure. The first one is romanesque style and the second one is gothic style and you can see the transition from the first to the second even in the cathedral, especially if you look at the arches. The university is all over town. The theology is located in an old building (I think it was a monastery once upon a time) and the library looks like something straight out of Harry Potter. Humanities has a library almost completely made out of glass with class walls and ceilings. History and Art History are right next to the river etc etc. They reconstructed the rose garden after the original in the ~1700s? 1800s? Not sure. They even researched the types of rose that was growing there at that time. You can really go back in time. Castle Seehof is really pretty as well. Btw I live in a house that was built in 1701 😅 Another thing: Bamberg was meant to be "Rome of the north" quite an ambitious claim and it obviously did not work out, but you can always find some little things that go back to this idea. For example it was built on 7 hills and has the only pope north of the alps buried here and so on. Things to do in Bamberg: history, eat, drink beer, more history, more beer and even more history. And a few clubs and bars 😅

Yes, Bamberg is in Bavaria - but it's complicated. It's in the 'north' of the 'south'! People who come from Franken, that region of southern Germany, are more likely to understand themselves as 'Franks' first and 'Bavarians' second, if at all. To Germans, the accents, food and culture are very distinct from what you find south of that region (for example in 'Upper Bavaria', which is actually lower on the map. Sorry! I told you it was complicated). For one, the wine culture in Franken is far stronger than the beer culture and there are many traditional Frankish wines among the oldest in Germany.

The timbering structure is related to the age of the houses, that’s the way they were built centuries ago.

There are multiple channels dedicated to "city walks" (just people walking through a city) and "führerstandsmitfahrten" (tram videos). You should check those out.

Funny thing he said that he liked the smoked beer when he had his second. I've never heard of a person who liked the smoked beer on their first. And everyone always told me, 'you have to finish one, and then you'll love it'. I've tried it once and couldn't drink more than a few sips, but I'm curious about trying it again some time.

Yeah much got destroyed in the world wars but to be honest much, much more got demolished after the wars by Germans themselves, especielly in the 70s and 80s much more old buildings got destroyed to make room for "modern" projects than the wars ever could. It's not much talked about, but it's a fact.

This style of construction is called "Fachwerk" and it consists of a wooden framework with many crossbars etc. and is filled with clay or similar. I have to say that this is one of the most beautiful things about Germany.

The type of construction is called "Fachwerk". It's by far the oldest construction method still used today to build houses. So houses built in this style are called "Fachwerkhaus". Literal translation is "house with constructed compartments", because the walls are small compartments between the wooden beams. On the bad weather side those walls would usually be cladded with wood or stones, depending on the availability of material in the region.

The wooden pattern in the houses, that type of house is called a Fachwerkhaus. That makes the building process easier as you set up the frame first.

@delqyrus2619

Ай бұрын

Nah, it doesn't make it easier at all. But it makes it more stable. The pattern creates tension, what creates stability. You see this basically everywhere - from bridges to transmission towers to houses.

4:40 That "substance" is Bavarian sweet mustard - the Munich Weißwurst is traditionally served with it.

on your way to 100K, well deserved, love your channel

2:21 It's called a "Fachwerkhaus" in case you want to search for it

Schenkerla, Bambergs smoked beer, is SO DELICIOUS! Absolutely one of my favourites! And you should check out the other suggested towns Rothenburg and Quedlinburg too, especialy Quedlinburg!

Think the English term is half-timber houses (Fachwerkhaus). It is what they used to build in the middleages. The stable frame "Fach" is made of wood and then filled in with "Werk" smaller bits of wood and a mixture of straw and loam/clay. Ground floor walls can also consist of stone or brick work. It is a very well insulating way to build and perfect for cold winters and hot summers before central heating and air conditioning existed. The small windows in the upper floors were more for lower cost and possibly static or even taxing reasons. Under the roof would usually be the very basic quarters for the live-in personnel and some storage - so no large windows required ^^. What is so special in Bamberg is that the old town hall sits directly on the bridge and has a huge portal through which you enter the oldest parts of Bamberg. It is very picturesque. Sadly he only shows one side ... There is a renaissance/baroque appendix on the other side that is covered in very beautiful floral murals. Smoked beer is also very special. There are very few regions mostly in Franconia (Northern Bavaria) where you can get smoked beer. It is a very local specialty and hard to find anywhere else even in Germany ^^ The white saussages are eaten with sweet brown mustard. Very savory and yummy :D

Smoke beer is so good! It's as if smoked Black Forest ham and a very good pale ale had a child. And this child is the happiest on earth and happily explores the most beautiful places in the world.

@barjel7951

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I agree, but what Wolter mentioned is also correct. The first Schlenkerla tastes ... well ... interesting, but after that it's great.

@_qlone

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@@barjel7951 I fell in love with the first sip and have been totally enchanted ever since (you can probably tell a little 😄). I usually always have a crate or two in the basement, and I have it specially ordered from the local retailer

Bamberg is indeed a beautiful town. I was there on vacation some years ago, and I remember still the "Rauchbier" - literally "smoke beer"

The pattern is called Fachwerk Haus (half-timbered house) and comes from an old tradition of house building back in time in Germany and many other countries in Europe. It has a unique concept comfort to live in one of rhose houses. The crushing woodfloor cracking with every step you do. But also the natural materials makes it very comfy

4:34 That substance is sweet mustard. It's crushed mustard seeds with the shell - so it's "whole grain" mustard - sweetened with brown sugar. It's great with "white sausage" (Weißwurst) - which you see in the picture - or "liver cheese" (Leberkäse). Weißwurst is mostly made from veal and pig lard They are traditionally made first thing in the morning and only served until noon. But with refrigerators you can have them any time if the day now. They are cooked in hot but not boiling water and then left in that water until served - or else they turn grey pretty quickly. Typically you serve them with a pretzel and sweet mustard (and a half liter glass of wheat beer). Leberkäse neither has liver nor cheese in it - unless you buy it in Palatinate where it's called "Fleischkäse" (meat cheese) and you can also get a version with cheese cubes, one with liver mixed into the sausage meat and a "pizza" version with cheese cubes, bell pepper bits and herbs. It's simply very fine sausage meat which is put in a box shaped baking pan (like the ones used for American sandwich bread) and baked in the oven. It's then cut in thick slices and served in a bread roll as a snack to go or baked a second time in a pan and served with a fried egg on top and sided with fried potatoes.

In Bamberg on one side the Klerus lived on the other side of the river the common people lived you can see the difference in the old towns

The Bamberger Dom (Bamberg Kathedrale) was start Building in 1004 A.D.

The house with the tiny windows is way older than the US, and even older than the "discovery" of North America, in 1492. It was built before 1386, when it was first mentioned in a certificate.

For more of these timber framed houses, check out the town of Quedlinburg. For more Venice style canals and a village only accessible by water, check out Lübbenau and the Spreewald region.

I’m actually going there in 2 days for a few weeks 😂 I’m originally from Finland 🇫🇮, so for you to pick exactly this town from all the towns in Germany is insane!! 😅

One time, you should come for franconia, eat and drink, and see the surroundings, towns, villages and the landscapes for yourself ☺

2:25 It is essentially the medieval equivalent of skyscaper construction. A skeleton of wooden beams to bear the house. Like the steel skeleton in a skyscraper. The voids then are filled up with woven sticks (like lattice for plaster walls) and covered with mud (clay). Then whitewashed (or other color) to protect it from the rain. The wood is also painted for protection. So therefore you can always see the "bones" of those houses.

I went to Bamberg once, it was an anniversary trip with the company I worked for, stupidly our boss (or maybe his secretary) didn't choose a smoked beer tasting but rather (to the annoyance of the whole staff) a tour of the city and cathedral, that poor tour guide had to deal with a bunch of people with absolutely no interest in what he had to say.

Hey Ryan, I'm from Bamberg and on my visits in the U. S. I saw "Schlenkerla Rauchbier" in liquor stores. It's a little bit expensive in the U. S. but you should definitely give it a try. You even hate it or love it, but you must try it.

I love that you said the waitress looks "very Bavarian" - and not "very German". You are officially a Germany expert now (although it’s Franconian and not Bavarian, to be exact).

MY HOMETOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great place to live, I can confirm! Greetings from Bamberg!

No mention of the Altenburg? You get a beautiful view of the whole city from there.

We are Bamberger and we are not Bavarian we are Frankonian👍, if you come to visit us just remember😊 we are Occupied by Bavaria😢.

0:38 actually not. Towns with more than 20.000 inhabitants are classified as mid-size towns. Towns with more than 50.000 inhabitants are classified as large mid-size towns

Lol Fachwerkhaus is like the American way to built a European house: Beams and skeleton of wood and the rest filled with clay and straw originally. You can also see typically, that the second floor edges over the lower one by a bit in the old style of building because the floors and rooms were built and used separately until money and material was available, then the next walls and floor was added overhanging the last one by a bit. Also those overlapping roofs were a good chance to have a rope hanging from there to pull up material to built and also in warehouses to store. Sometimes the streets are so narrow, that two opposing houses might even touch above the street. You might still find some in New England.

Carefull not many people here (in Bamberg) like it to call their cities or their tradition "Bavarian" ;) Bamberg is in a region north of Bavaria but almost all people there feel of themselves more Frankonian = Franken than Bavarian. "Franken" is devided in 3 seperate regions Oberfranken, Unterfranken and Mittelfranken and even in those regions people strictly devide themselves to one or the other region. Also the food here is so much better than anything you will get in the famous tourist cities like Munich and Berlin. We have established the art to enjoy life and food/drinks is one of the many things we really enjoy and have a high standard. So if you ever wanted a really good german traditional food Bamberg is your city to go. Everyone else in Germany has their own traditonal meal and many argue it is their best but I traveled a lot in Germany and many just cannot compeat with our price/quality. I am mainly talking about the middleclass food and overall quality not the expensive restaurants which also excist in big cities.

Funny thing is: I was in Bamberg 2 years ago and as someone from another small Franconian town, I didn't even notice that Bamberg was particularly beautiful. Maybe I'm used to that already. For me it's just a normal town. So I'm quite surprised that Americans and other Germans find that town to be "tourist-worthy".

@QuentinPlant

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Regardless where you live - you visit the touristy things when you have people visiting. Otherwise it's just normal background :)

NOT BAVARIAN ;) greetz from Bamberg

@CriticalPoliteness

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That's confusing for foreigners.

@rudibauer4585

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And a Scotsman isn't an Englishman, too. What is difficult about it?​@@CriticalPoliteness

@CriticalPoliteness

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@@rudibauer4585 Scotland is a country. England is another country. Scotland is not a part of England. England is not a part of Scotland. Franconia is an official part of Bavaria. You do not like that fact. Many Bavarians don't like that fact. But still Ryan made no mistake and I was really impressed that he differentiated between Germany and Bavaria (as for many Americans Germany = Bavaria). But I oversaw that SoDStony put a smiley besides his comment.

@rudibauer4585

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Not the best example, I am sorry. But in Germany, "England" is often used pars pro toto for the whole UK. Many Scots don't like just being included. It's similar here. I guess most Franconians like it being a part of the federal state of Bavaria. But lots of them don't want to be included, too, when talking about the Bavarians and especially they don't want to be called Bavarians. Maybe it is a little more difficult as i thought first.

@2:09 look up 'half-timbered house'. It's not wood embeded in the wall, but the other way round! It is a skeletal structure made of wood, in which the spaces (compartments) are filled with a wooden mesh plastered with clay or with masonry.- you are welcome 😂

German Fachwerk means, it had a wooden structure which was then filled in. In English that is called Timber framing.The earliest known type of infill, called opus craticum by the Romans, was a wattle and daub type construction. When the manufacturing of bricks increased, brick infill replaced the less durable infills and became more common. Stone laid in mortar as an infill was used in areas where stone rubble and mortar were available. I just pasted the most important part of the Wikipedia article about Timber framing

@franhunne8929

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Bamberger Dom, or Bamberg cathedral: Bamberg Cathedral (German: Bamberger Dom, official name Bamberger Dom St. Peter und St. Georg) is a church in Bamberg, Germany, completed in the 13th century.

The smoked bear actually is called "Schlenkerla". And there is a saying here "it starts to tastes good after the second one" :) But actually it means it tastes so different than anything you ever drank that you need to get used to it first to enjoy it. You can even drink it on the street next to the local there. Many people do it and it is a fun way to communicate with each other and find familiar people.

If you visit germany again then Franken where Bamberg is located is definitely a place to recommend. Often they dont actually consider themselves bavarians but Franken.

My Hometown Some funfacts: only pope grave north of the Alps most brewerys per square mile back in the day the town alone had 150 nerly becoming the capital of germany because of Emperor Heinrich the churches form a cross over the town

Ryan I agree with you, that many Germans love to make their gardens beautiful, To have flowers and plants in the house and spend their free time outside in the botanical gardens, forests, parks, etc. Bamberg looks very beautiful with its half timbered houses and the cathedral Bamberger Dom. I wish everyone a happy Easter. 💜🐣🐔🐰

Hey Ryan! I noticed your interest in the old houses you saw in Bamberg. Those charming structures are known as Fachwerk Häuser (or Half-timbered houses in English). They were built between 1260 and 1900. If you’d like to explore further, I recommend checking out the German town of Celle. Its picturesque old town district, nestled in the heart of the city, boasts many of these historic houses and even features a beautiful castle. 🏰 :)

The substance near Weißwürste is sweet mustard.

Ive been studying in Bamberg for 2 years now, it's a beautiful city with great beer and food.

@Ryan, think of Fachwerk houses, or half timber houses, like your american stick houses, but instead of nailing 2by4s together they used actual beams, think 6x6 or 8x8 beams. and they left the beams exposed. the spaces between the beams are filled in with something available, like a clay, twig mix and then plastered. the beams are usually painted oxblood and over time turn a dark brown or black. I think in england they paint the beams black to start with, not sure, though. if you build a home from oak beams (unlike the pine boards in the US) the beams get harder and harder over the centuries. I have worked inside some of these and the beams don't saw or drill easy after a couple of hundred years. You could take a timberframe house down to the beams and move it, there are videos of british half timbered houses being moved. check those out.

Regarding the Fachwerkhäuser (half timber houses) - you can look up documentaries about their restauration or the hompage of the Freizeitpark Lochmühle

"That substance" near the white sausage on the plate was honeyed mustard.

In old building tiny windows are obvious thing. In winter you dont have too much heat going outside through wide modern windows, its better for staying warm in times when the only option of heating was wood and coal. Look it that way - the more north you go the smaller windows - compare it to those big, wide windows in Spanish, Italian or southern French palaces and villas - usualy with patios and verandas with tall windows and winter gardens protected only by tall glass windows?

The final boss of all beers made me laugh so hard. That bit of sauce next to the Weißwurst was sweet mustard, which is served to it traditionaly - plus a Brezel, of course :)

2:18 the traditional way to construct houses EVERYWHERE NORTH of the alps, _before_ the romans came with their -- for the climates here -- idiotic idea of building houses with stone (that was reserved for resting places of the dead, see dolmens): pluck at least 4 thick posts into the ground, between them some normal stiff long sticks, take willow branches, they bend very well, and fumble them horizontally inbetween those rods bending alternatingly left and right around those rods untill u have a nice fence/lattice :.. now the fun part: use ur feet to stomp on wet clay mixed with sand and chopped straw until it gets well blended i.e. take some days off until its done. then, take this nice paste and THROW it onto these lattices, so that it really sticks between those sticks (pun intended), and to it until u get a really nice dense wall without any gaps or air in it. repeat it for every of the four walls (hope u didnt forget the opening for the door xD), let it dry, and done -- u have ur house! _(how to construct a roof is not part of this lesson, come back another time!!!)_ this got more refined by using sturdy wooden beams instead of posts, and also adding these diagonal beams inbetween for better stability when having more storeys (normally u would NOT have seen them, they were considered just a construction aid, so in the end houses got plaster all over them, hiding all wooden parts and giving a flat continous surface). ... during the late middle ages, people used the roman technique of burnt clay bricks to "fake" the whole procedure -- instead of filling all these compartments with bending willows and loam, they did it the quick way and used burnt loam/clay bricks that where already made, and plastered the whole thing. ... it is more of a modern thing to expose the wood for looks. it also poses problems for the preservation of the wood if its exposed to the elements, but people used many different chemical treatments to fix that issue. while the best working method, if u want it still to be there in some hundred years, and not gone weird due to some "unforeseen" chemical reactions / interactions with sunlight, is this: just use plain plant oil and rub it into the wood thorougly so that the wood can absorb it. that prevents moisture from getting in, does not change the colour of the wood -- and in contrast to a paint seal, its not just the surface. if such a paint seal gets cracks, water can seep in the wood, but never vaporize out again, so the wood will rot from the inside. fail

Look for ,,Marbach,, this town does have about 2.000 people. (I live in ,,Marbach,,)