I heard Hamburg would have the most bridges in europe, more then Venice and Amsterdam together.

@optiquenz

6 жыл бұрын

*more then Venice, Amsterdam and London together.

@ezraabbadon5082

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Stockholm

Manche vergleichen Äpfel mit Birnen... und Andere vergleichen Äpfel mit Kugelschreibern...

@julianl.7461

8 жыл бұрын

Und beides kann man ohne Probleme machen :)

@bleiglanz

2 жыл бұрын

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Up to now I wasn't worried about this question. I've always had the attitude, "I'll cross that bridge when I get to it!"

I have learned so much about Germany through your videos up through the years. Do keep up the good work. (Norwegian guy living in Chicago here)

Venice really isn't that big. I'm sure most cities which are bigger than Venice have more bridges? Why is it such a big deal?

@vincentbaron4254

2 жыл бұрын

Because Hamburg has more bridges than Venice, London, Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen together. Also the quarter Wilhelmsburg is europe's biggest river island.

You mean the commune of Paris, not city of Paris (the city of Paris would be "Greater Paris", not to mention the monstrosity that is Île de France) . You're spot on on the comparision though.

this was very interesting. how exactly are the demarcation boundaries set in Germany, determinging cities? In the US, given the volume of laws and jurisdiction claims, cities and counties are accurately separated by blocks or in rural areas grids measured to an accuracy of 8 inches.

Also in other cities counting is difficult... In Padua (italy) there are bridges which cannot even be recognised from the street as the street 'around' them has become really large (see San Lorenzo's bridge in Riviera Tito Livio )...

Great video as alweys! Would love to move o Germany some day!

Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region is an official thing. 30k skm.

@rewboss

8 жыл бұрын

The big difference though is that a Metropolitan Region extends far beyond the limits of any conglomeration. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region includes the entire state of Brandenburg, most of which is forest and farmland. Thus, the Metropolitan Region of Berlin/Brandenburg is the equivalent of the Paris Urban Area: 17,000 km² and 12 million population. Greater Paris is just Paris itself plus the inner suburbs. It's not the same as a Metropolitan Area. Imagine you took Berlin, Potsdam, and the whole "Speckgürtel", and got all the city councils to elect a Greater Berlin council which then took on the responsibility for urban planning, infrastructure and so on. That would be a better comparison.

@johnkramer8091

7 жыл бұрын

So you are saying that the Prignitz county with a population density of 30-40 people per square kilometer is metropolitan?! It's Germany's least densily populated place.

@rewboss

7 жыл бұрын

Officially, yes. No, it doesn't make sense, but officially... it is.

If you want to see bridges come to Pittsburgh! We have way more than Venice. Spanning Rivers and valleys we have around 446 bridges!

Hamburg has about 2500 briges, so i'm not impressed by venice and berlin when it comes to that.

@rewboss

8 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, that number includes everything the Deutsche Bahn defines as a "bridge", which means signal gantries, and in fact everything with a span of more than two metres.

@christophhoelbarth217

8 жыл бұрын

+rewboss Still brigdes. I mean, Venice could include these too :P

@billkammermeier

8 жыл бұрын

+Christoph Hößelbarth I come Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. "The City of Bridges" we also claim to have more bridges than Venice. More bridges than anyone in the world actually, but it basically all comes down to what you define as a "bridge".

@TiasAhlgreN

8 жыл бұрын

+DreaMeRHoLic As a Scandinavian complete & utter nutcase I would like to add to that, the fact that us Danes & Swedes aren't in the least impressed either by the amount of bridges in neither Berlin nor in Hamburg. Because we have the sexiest fucking bridge, regardless. So suck on that Big Brother Germany.

@redzora80

8 жыл бұрын

hathamburgmehrbrueckenalsvenedig.tumblr.com/ they counted all bridges in hamburg going over water. its still over 1500. but Hamburg is a bit bigger then venice. And after all who cares about bridges?

Yes, this stuff comes under 'stupid comparisons that no one should make'

I just watched this video 4 minutes before watching your video. lol.

what's the link to the original video?

Okay when I just saw the title I was like...why would you compare these cities?^^

I heard distiction in definition, that bridge MUST be spanned over the water, otherwise it is a viaduct. I heard it in Polish, but I'm almost sure that this cliché comes from precise international language of civil engineering and it covers any national languages. Therefore, according to this strict definition, including viaducts into bridge category is rather... pointless for me.

Habibi

btw hamburg has more bridges than london, paris and venice combined ;)

Comparing cities by their area is stupidity

Why not just declare the whole of Germany one city. Then there would be no doubts about these lists for sure. XD

like commune/city of paris and metopolis of greater Paris Berlin equally has the city of Berlin and the metropol region of Berlin ... shame you didnt bother to actually look that up. Ofc the metropol region of Berlin being significntly bigger and with more people just as well. so dont compare a city with metropol regions and vice versa, these are not unique concepts for one of those cities.

About 8 and a half times he says with pride...😂

A variation on this I heard a few years ago is: Berlin has half the population of New York in twice the area. Now I'm beginning to wonder if that's true either ;) But it is interesting how the capital city of Europe's most populous country has "only" 3.5 million people living in it.

@DerEchteBold

8 жыл бұрын

+etvdzs Some facts like 2 devastating wars in relatively quick succession and being closed in by the GDR for 40 years may've hindered the growth of that city.

@etvdzs

8 жыл бұрын

+DerEchteBold Sure, but other major German-speaking cities such as Hamburg, Vienna and Munich are no larger. Maybe Germans just don't like living in big cities? The contrast between Germany's decentralised population and my country, where the two largest cities account for over a third of the population, is striking.

@DerEchteBold

8 жыл бұрын

+etvdzs Well, there is the 'Ruhrgebiet', many fairly large cities, cramped so close together it's almost like one big Metropolis. Btw, are you talking about Tasmania? According to Wiki Hobart alone holds way more than a third of the population. Also the differences in population density (7,53 and 228 per square km) are fascinating.

@etvdzs

8 жыл бұрын

+DerEchteBold Actually I was talking about Australia as a whole, although it does sometimes feel as if Tasmania is a separate country ;) If anything, the capital city is even more dominant in the other Australian states, the most extreme example being South Australia, which has an area almost three times the size of Germany, but over 75% of the population concentrated around one city (Adelaide). That's a good point with the Ruhrgebiet, I hadn't realised how closely packed together some of the cities in NRW actually are :)

@DerEchteBold

8 жыл бұрын

+etvdzs Yeah, I once drove through there, it's almost like the Netherlands, every last inch is populated or cultivated somehow, no chance to get out of visual range of 'civilization'...

OMG a mistake in 2:40

@etvdzs

8 жыл бұрын

+SchafLP Ha, well spotted ;)

hamburg has more bridges than venice and amsterdam together ...

@rewboss

8 жыл бұрын

Only if you include all the signal gantries in Hamburg, and none of them in Amsterdam. The Hamburg figure includes everything the Deutsche Bahn counts as a bridge, which is everything with a span of over two metres. Ultimately, it's impossible to compare the number of bridges in different cities because they use different definitions of "bridge".

@futhaiter366

8 жыл бұрын

+rewboss hm. maybe if you are comparing against two cities, but comparing only hamburg to the rest of europe ... no, there are more bridges than in venice or whereever. and i am meaning the real bridges ;o) www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article106917289/Hamburg-mehr-Bruecken-als-Venedig.html

@rewboss

8 жыл бұрын

That's still the erroneous 2500 number that you can get only if you include railway signal gantries, and the Abendblatt is simply repeating the myth. That Hamburg should be in the Guinness Book of Records with this "fact" is ridiculous, when you consider its size and the number of waterways, railways and so on compared with, for example, Greater London. More bridges than Venice isn't hard to do, because Venice is fairly small; and instead of long rivers and canals with bridges every few hundred yards, it has a number of islands in a lagoon. But no, Hamburg does not really have 2500 (or a little over 2100, according to the Guiness Book of Records) bridges. That's an urban myth, if you'll pardon the pun.

@futhaiter366

8 жыл бұрын

+rewboss where is your source of knowledge ? that hanburg has the most bridges is told for at least 40 years now ... you are 1st negotiating it. do you have material for your "rail signs" ?

@rewboss

8 жыл бұрын

Here (for example): www.zeit.de/2014/15/hh-bruecken/seite-3

All three have their perks but they are all tremendously overrated in my opinion.

what happened to your face?

Frankfurt wins

germany starting beef with other countries? what is this, ww2?

@worldhello1234

6 жыл бұрын

Germany cannot act. It is just imaginary lines.

Well, to be fair: Hamburg also has more bridges than Venice, apearently every city has more bridges than Venice, what makes us always compare stuff like that with Venice? Also: The City of Salzgitter is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) city in Germany. The reason: every village in the Salzlandkreis is officially part of the city of Salzgitter. Which is sort of stupid