Great animation, but idk, still, this still just looks like daily life for me, nothing special
@moisieiev7124Ай бұрын
Ukrainian train actually looks more new than the Chisinau-Bucharest train
@kmltravelerАй бұрын
On average yes, but a lot of things depend on the route of the train. When I took a train Solotvino-Kyiv in 2019, the train was very similar to this one. However I know that trains on the most popular routes (from Kyiv to Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro etc.) are all renovated and are in much better state than this or that one.
@moisieiev7124Ай бұрын
@@kmltraveler I also see that Moldova is not owning RIC wagons that are used by Ukraine and Russia for travels into Europe
@novaialm2832Ай бұрын
Bro what moldova has to so with ukraine war, we didnt had any positive impact bcs of them, so if ukraine wasnt in war it woudnt change that much and it woudnt defntly die bcs of that
@David_Granger2 ай бұрын
*Boarisch Gmoa xD
@David_Granger2 ай бұрын
I live nearby xD It's overrated tbh
@kmltraveler2 ай бұрын
I don't think it's overrated. But I think there are many similar places with great nature that are underrated. (Except prices for houses: prices for houses in this area are really overrated)
@David_Granger2 ай бұрын
@@kmltraveler idk, nothing about the stuff you show is... Special It's not special It's beautiful, sure, but it's not something that warrants coming from elsewhere
@user-yp7lt7zr9q3 ай бұрын
Очень красивый фильм!
@fransfrowijn95133 ай бұрын
I have done this on 6 june 2023 from bucharest to moldova and 13 june 2023 back. I will do this again this summer. It was a great experience.
@olenadeordiieva49353 ай бұрын
Great work 🎉
@David_Granger3 ай бұрын
I kind of get how they don't want the war to change their view on culture though. I'm not saying that the war isn't horrible, but maybe we should just try to live together a bit more. It's not the Russians that wanted the war.
@jevgeniy1123 ай бұрын
Bardzo fajnie wyswietlona podróz do Kiszyniowa , szkoda ze nie podałeś ile kosztuje bilet 😀
@kmltraveler3 ай бұрын
My ticket for 1-person compartment costed approximately 240 zl (I write you price in PLN as you are probably from Poland). If you buy a ticket for a 2-berth compartment, the price will be 1.5 times less. So it's not so expensive if we compare to european prices for trains - recently I had to pay 100 EUR for the train München - Berlin... Surprisingly prices for trains in Romania are higher than the price for this international train :)
@user-cv3qk8be2o3 ай бұрын
The swiss german border was fixed in 1648 and was Not altered by Napoleon.
@gantulgaganhuyag7174 ай бұрын
Yes we Mongols still have them still serving and some of the local routes as equipped back in the day (time capsule)
@itmkoeln4 ай бұрын
Basel is special. There is not only a DB owned and managed station (Basel Badischer Bahnhof, which is as you pointed out operated by DB InfraGo AG formerly known as DB Stations and Services AG which merged with DB Netz in january). On the Concourse of Basel SBB there is a station that is operated by the French operator SNCF. (Bâle SNCF or Basel SNCF) And even runs on French train electrical system. Switzerland, Germany and Austria have standardized on 15kV, 16,7 Hz ac. Where France uses 25kV, 50 Hz ac and 1.5 kV dc for its railways. Though there have been efforts to move the local services from Basel airport and France to Basel SBB and integrate the SNCF station into the SBB concourse and move the SNCF services to electrical multiple units that can run on 15kV and 25kV. The former TGV services that operated into Basel (SNCF) already moved over to the main concourse in Basel SBB
@suicidalberlin36865 ай бұрын
Great video! I wanted to travel there now
@lambertois115 ай бұрын
Big faux pas ! This Basel Münster, not cathedral. The word Münster is reserved for protestant churches. The word cathedral is reserved for catholic churches !
@kmltraveler5 ай бұрын
Well, I do agree that naming it "minster" (that's "Münster" in English) would be more correct, but saying that cathedral is completely wrong... Basel.com website also names it cathedral in English version of the website :)
@kmltraveler5 ай бұрын
Dear subscribers, There are some mistakes in the pronunciation in the video, sorry for that. For example, HelgolAAAAAnd in German, not HelgolEEEEnd as I pronounced. But that's not the only one. Unfortunately I don't have a technical possibility to fix this now and record a correct same-quality audio. With the tools that I have right now, the quality of the audio was significantly worse. So I made a hard decision to leave it as it is, because it's not worth a big delay in release of the new video. I hope nobody of you will be annoyed by that. Enjoy the video! Best regards KML
@TheKalle455 ай бұрын
Same "crazy" stuff in 🇺🇸 "vs." 🇨🇦 🤷♂️ kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6OXrM9sdNXfZKg.html
@bwgartenbahn5 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting the great video, best regards from BW Gartenbahn.
@rora85035 ай бұрын
Konstanz (Constanze) wasn't bombed because the mayor of Kreuzlingen told the mayor of Konstanz that when the to leave on the streetlights. The American airfoce had told him to leave on the streetlights, so the bombers were able to differentiate between Swizerland and Germany. Because the cities were very friendly the information was passed on to the German side as well. That is how Konstanze survived the second World War untouched.
@meinradmachler87315 ай бұрын
There is also a streetcar from Trieste (Italy) to Opicina (Slovenia), which runs as Line 2 of the "Trieste Trasporti" society.
@maxvomrhein18046 ай бұрын
About the german-swiss bordertowns: The Swiss had ready-to-blow explosives in the bridges until 2014 :D :D
@harczymarczy6 ай бұрын
You forgot about Tram 10 which goes from Switzerland through France (Leymen, Alsace) to Switzerland. Tram 3 crosses the border to France (to St. Louis /St. Ludwig) and Tram 8 crosses the border to Germany (to Weil am Rhein).
@a.alexandrovsky6 ай бұрын
Thanks for supporting Ukraine!
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
❤🇺🇦🙏
@jadarf06 ай бұрын
Beautiful video, as your other ones and very cleverly commented. Best compliments
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
Thank you very much ❤
@raclemonte686 ай бұрын
There is a dedicated international railway connecting Koblenz (CH) & Waldshut (DE). Can’t more longer than 4km, there used to be a Schienenbus (rail bus) with manual transmission running this line; but last time I visited I was a little disappointed to find a modern train instead. I used to live in Switzerland (Baden AG) but travel to Waldshut (either by rail or bicycle)to buy my bier!
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
thanks a lot for your interesting details. when I was preparing this video, I read again about Waldenburgerbahn - the railway that I ride somewhere in early 2021. I was surprised to find out that it changed the track gauge (Spurweite) from 750 mm to 1000 mm since the moment I ride it. I wanted to mention about it in the video, but then decided that it would be out of topic and way too much for this video.
@cehaem26 ай бұрын
Dixperlo-Suderwick (NL/D). Both towns (well, technically Suderwick isn't a town) have a single joint police station and post office. Also the local care home consists of two separate units connected by a bridge spanning over the main road which is the border. The village of Suderwick was annexed 1945 and grew into one town with Dinxperlo before being returned 1963. Some of the older buildings still retain typical Dutch features.
@RobertObandoMoya6 ай бұрын
In Costa Rica we have a town on the border with Panama, there's no free movement treaty, but the town has a lot of stores with two fronts, one in Panama and one in Costa Rica, so you can shop there without legally enter the other country
@tonyowens406 ай бұрын
great
@damonbond53156 ай бұрын
Danke für diese sehr interessant und informativ Video
@latulipenoire15496 ай бұрын
Great, and very informative video. Looking forward to next !
@carlosmarx23806 ай бұрын
5:10 - this is not a memorial for citizens. it literally says "for our warriors". so this is basically a memorial for nazi soldiers (yes i know, many of them were drafted and were actually SPD or KPD voters, but we all know its not for them, since most of them ended up in camps sooner or later)
@mikatu6 ай бұрын
yes, because during WWI there were a lot of nazi soldiers around..... duh! The memorial is to the citizens of the city that were killed during both wars, nothing to do with nazis, which was basically a political party!
@kellymcbright54566 ай бұрын
It is logical. 300 years ago it was all on the territory of the Holy Roman Empire and thus no borders. Later political developments created new borders. The border region in poland is often neglected because Poland feared that it might had to transfer the land back to Germany after an agreement. Since it was not real sovereign territory, but just "under their administration". Thus they rather exploited the western territories in order to invest in the central region. That changed from 1991 on due to the 2+4 agreements. There are investments again. Stettin looks very representative again. I have been there several times for shopping purposes in my Berlin period :)
@cehaem26 ай бұрын
Western Poland became Polish under international law and was viewed Polish by Poland itself.. Nowhere in Polish law did it say it was "occupied" territory. 19790 (West) Germany formally recognised that and it was re-confirmed in 1991 after Germany was unified and obtained full sovereignty. But these were just gestures to improve bilteral relations. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state. Formally Switzerland never left it until it was dissolved 1808. In 1648 it was granted exemption from Imperial Law. The border between Swiss cantons and German states date back to medieval times. Modern Switzerland wasn't born until 1848. Two events player a crucial role - the Civil War of 47-48 and the Prussian king abdicating as Duke of Neuenburg/Neuchatel.
@0raj06 ай бұрын
There is also a German railway station in Polish city Świnoujście. This city is located at Baltic Sea coast, near the Polish-German border, neighbouring German city Ahlbeck on the other side of the border. However, unlike many of the cases shown in this video, these are not two parts of one former city; these were always two clearly separate cities, although before WWII the entire area belonged to Germany, and Świnoujście was a German city too, called Swinemünde. Świnoujście is uniquely located on two neighbouring islands; eastern part of the city is located on Wolin island, which is entirely Polish, and western (main) part on Usedom/Uznam island, which is divided between Germany and Poland (hence the double name, in both languages). Both parts of the city are connected by ferries and now also by underwater tunnel built just recently, in this year. The Polish railway network reaches only the eastern part of the city (as it would be hard to get the tracks through to the other island ;)) and the Polish railway station is located there. On the other side, the German part of Usedom island is serviced by a local railway UBB (Usedomer Bäderbahn), and in 2007 UBB network was extended to western part of Świnoujście and a German railway station has been built there.
@mariosphere6 ай бұрын
Switzerland has also Cross-border towns with other Coutries: For exemple St-Gingolph with one part in France and Ponte Tresa with one part in Italy. There are also small villages divided by the border like La Cure where there's even a Hotel in which you can sleep with your head in Switzerland and the feet in France.
@RealGestumblindi6 ай бұрын
Maybe unwittingly, it was very fitting of you to show the waterfall in Laufenburg, as "Laufen" is an old German word for "waterfall" and most places that have it in their name are named after one.
@lmchron93436 ай бұрын
1:37 Couldn't even tell if its on the german or polish side.
@lmchron93436 ай бұрын
Architecture on the east german side and polish side isnt really different at all. Both are post soviet architecture
@donallen84146 ай бұрын
For a KZread channel it's usually better to stick to one area or subject and attract more subscribers who will watch your future productions too. If you include other topics like the Middle East you just change your focus as this is a different topic and region. At the same time visits to former Soviet army bases in East Germany are still interesting for people who are interested in Germany. A recent fact about a visit to Cecilienhof that NEVER took place: For the Potsdam Conference China was not invited, but they decided to give Taiwan back to China at that conference. When Xi Jinping wanted to visit Berlin he also included Cecilienhof in his plans, but Merkel refused his request. The German government did not want this palace to be used for Chinese "unification" propaganda against Taiwan.
@EKsUrbanTracks6 ай бұрын
Frankfurt and Slubice are brothers from an Oder mother
@eljanrimsa58436 ай бұрын
This shouldn't be something relative. In border areas there is always a incentive to live on one side, work on the other, and buy groceries on the third, or something like that. So the slight differences can drive growth if the bordering cities work with each other. E.g. I would really like to see a tram connecting the Basque coast between France and Spain.
@nlpnt6 ай бұрын
I think of Wendover, UT/NV with its' two huge casinos on either side of the (east/west) main road build right up to the Nevada state line with their parking lots in Utah.
@Schmalspur216 ай бұрын
Nice!
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
Thank you! You also have nice videos of steam trains! I have a lot of videos to publish where I filmed steam and historical trains, but I am not sure that it's interesting for wide audience. Also I am not sure which format is the best. How do you think, is the format like in this video fine or not? (Short story about the train line, and then a video without comments to enjoy the train ride)
@WadeHutchinson_6 ай бұрын
What an awesome vlog! Thanks for sharing this @kmltraveler !
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching :)
@KINGoftheHunters6 ай бұрын
Europe's Schengen area: what if I told you these borders are invisible? 😂
@fredh.83326 ай бұрын
Not really. Each Tram to Weil am Rhein is checked thoroughly by the German Bundespolizei. The delay at the border can be up to 10 minutes.
@FERNweh1016 ай бұрын
Enjoyed that. I've had holidays in that area.
@PAR08126 ай бұрын
I live far away from a border in the middle of Bavaria but our small town is far away from big cities so we also had no damage in the world wars. We have a complete town wall with towers which were built in the 15th century.
@misiek76766 ай бұрын
what is the name of the town? I would like to visit it one day - to see how the Geman towns really looked like in the medieval times.
@PAR08126 ай бұрын
@@misiek7676 Berching
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
Dear friends, It’s very important for me to understand what is interesting for you and which format do you prefer. I have videos from the Middle East trip, so I can publish a video per country that I visited. Even though you won’t hear anything really shocking like in the videos from big bloggers, this topic is really interesting. Chaotic experience in Cairo, unexpected things in Saudi Arabia, and fabulous visit to Bethlehem (Palestine) before the Gaza war. I am sure many of you will enjoy it. One more interesting idea in my list is abandoned Soviet military bases in Germany that may be visited with or without the tour. A short teaser from one of the locations is at the end of this video. I have a bunch of videos about German steam trains and museum trains (Museumbahn) that I filmed in different locations in East Germany. I filmed at least 15 different train routes. However, this topic is very specific and it’s very important to define which format is the best for such videos so that all people will enjoy it. Possible format 1: that could be a short video like this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h66OspiBkrWdcqg.html In this case we have a short description of the railway, and then the ride, but the total length of the video should not exceed 10 minutes. Possible format 2: a long format, like here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gXhtmq-zoZTNfbg.html In this case you can have a feeling like you are really riding this steam train route. Or you may even suggest another different format. Please share your ideas. Another interesting topic is to tell you about my five-day tour to Chornobyl zone a few months before the full scale invasion of Ukraine. This was in fact a very unique experience, as this group tour happens only once per year, and that was the last long tour just 3.5 months before the full scale war. Anybody interested to hear my story? At the moment I have a few videos about Chornobyl on my channel, and I think they are really unique and interesting, I kindly invite you if Chornobyl topic is interesting for you: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YqGm0pZrY8K2iJs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/im2BwdupadrMqrg.html The listed ideas are those videos that are already filmed by me, I just need time to edit and publish them. But I have even more ideas on what to film in the future. Maybe you have some more wishes about what you want to see and explore together with me? Maybe something specific that is located in Germany but cannot be visited by you in person? Feel free to leave the comment with your suggestions. Once again, thanks to all of you, with your feedback we can improve the content quality of the channel. You may see that I tried different formats in the past, sometimes even videos without any comments at all (which was a mistake from my side), so I will improve future videos step by step with your support. Best regards Kostiantyn
@officialmcdeath6 ай бұрын
Basel Tram 10 to Rodersdorf stops briefly in France at Leymen \m/
@kevanhubbard96736 ай бұрын
That German owned railway station in Switzerland reminds me of the Singapore one which was owned by Malaysia so say you went on a train from Singapore to Kula Lumpur you technically left Singapore when you walked into the station.It's less interesting now as Singapore slowly bought the line back and closed it! Despite the Swiss being German speaking they diverged significantly from Germany at the time of the Reformation.Luther and Zwingli saw the Host in a different way and couldn't agree.
@itmkoeln4 ай бұрын
Basel Badischer Bahnhof was built prior to the unification of Germany. The station was built in accordance with a contract between the Grandduchy Baden and the Swiss Federation in 1852 that if the planned railway between Mannheim, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Offenburg, Freiburg (Breisgau) would continue up to Basel in Switzerland. The operation would stay under the management of the Railway of the grand duchy in perpetuity. Which DB is the legal successor to
@marcellmate68746 ай бұрын
Are you going to make vids about Bavaria?
@kmltraveler6 ай бұрын
At the moment I have no good-quality content about Bavaria to use it for the KZread video, but I will have a chance to film some unique place in Bavaria in February 2024. So it is possible :)
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Thank you and Слава Україні!
Great animation, but idk, still, this still just looks like daily life for me, nothing special
Ukrainian train actually looks more new than the Chisinau-Bucharest train
On average yes, but a lot of things depend on the route of the train. When I took a train Solotvino-Kyiv in 2019, the train was very similar to this one. However I know that trains on the most popular routes (from Kyiv to Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro etc.) are all renovated and are in much better state than this or that one.
@@kmltraveler I also see that Moldova is not owning RIC wagons that are used by Ukraine and Russia for travels into Europe
Bro what moldova has to so with ukraine war, we didnt had any positive impact bcs of them, so if ukraine wasnt in war it woudnt change that much and it woudnt defntly die bcs of that
*Boarisch Gmoa xD
I live nearby xD It's overrated tbh
I don't think it's overrated. But I think there are many similar places with great nature that are underrated. (Except prices for houses: prices for houses in this area are really overrated)
@@kmltraveler idk, nothing about the stuff you show is... Special It's not special It's beautiful, sure, but it's not something that warrants coming from elsewhere
Очень красивый фильм!
I have done this on 6 june 2023 from bucharest to moldova and 13 june 2023 back. I will do this again this summer. It was a great experience.
Great work 🎉
I kind of get how they don't want the war to change their view on culture though. I'm not saying that the war isn't horrible, but maybe we should just try to live together a bit more. It's not the Russians that wanted the war.
Bardzo fajnie wyswietlona podróz do Kiszyniowa , szkoda ze nie podałeś ile kosztuje bilet 😀
My ticket for 1-person compartment costed approximately 240 zl (I write you price in PLN as you are probably from Poland). If you buy a ticket for a 2-berth compartment, the price will be 1.5 times less. So it's not so expensive if we compare to european prices for trains - recently I had to pay 100 EUR for the train München - Berlin... Surprisingly prices for trains in Romania are higher than the price for this international train :)
The swiss german border was fixed in 1648 and was Not altered by Napoleon.
Yes we Mongols still have them still serving and some of the local routes as equipped back in the day (time capsule)
Basel is special. There is not only a DB owned and managed station (Basel Badischer Bahnhof, which is as you pointed out operated by DB InfraGo AG formerly known as DB Stations and Services AG which merged with DB Netz in january). On the Concourse of Basel SBB there is a station that is operated by the French operator SNCF. (Bâle SNCF or Basel SNCF) And even runs on French train electrical system. Switzerland, Germany and Austria have standardized on 15kV, 16,7 Hz ac. Where France uses 25kV, 50 Hz ac and 1.5 kV dc for its railways. Though there have been efforts to move the local services from Basel airport and France to Basel SBB and integrate the SNCF station into the SBB concourse and move the SNCF services to electrical multiple units that can run on 15kV and 25kV. The former TGV services that operated into Basel (SNCF) already moved over to the main concourse in Basel SBB
Great video! I wanted to travel there now
Big faux pas ! This Basel Münster, not cathedral. The word Münster is reserved for protestant churches. The word cathedral is reserved for catholic churches !
Well, I do agree that naming it "minster" (that's "Münster" in English) would be more correct, but saying that cathedral is completely wrong... Basel.com website also names it cathedral in English version of the website :)
Dear subscribers, There are some mistakes in the pronunciation in the video, sorry for that. For example, HelgolAAAAAnd in German, not HelgolEEEEnd as I pronounced. But that's not the only one. Unfortunately I don't have a technical possibility to fix this now and record a correct same-quality audio. With the tools that I have right now, the quality of the audio was significantly worse. So I made a hard decision to leave it as it is, because it's not worth a big delay in release of the new video. I hope nobody of you will be annoyed by that. Enjoy the video! Best regards KML
Same "crazy" stuff in 🇺🇸 "vs." 🇨🇦 🤷♂️ kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6OXrM9sdNXfZKg.html
Thanks for posting the great video, best regards from BW Gartenbahn.
Konstanz (Constanze) wasn't bombed because the mayor of Kreuzlingen told the mayor of Konstanz that when the to leave on the streetlights. The American airfoce had told him to leave on the streetlights, so the bombers were able to differentiate between Swizerland and Germany. Because the cities were very friendly the information was passed on to the German side as well. That is how Konstanze survived the second World War untouched.
There is also a streetcar from Trieste (Italy) to Opicina (Slovenia), which runs as Line 2 of the "Trieste Trasporti" society.
About the german-swiss bordertowns: The Swiss had ready-to-blow explosives in the bridges until 2014 :D :D
You forgot about Tram 10 which goes from Switzerland through France (Leymen, Alsace) to Switzerland. Tram 3 crosses the border to France (to St. Louis /St. Ludwig) and Tram 8 crosses the border to Germany (to Weil am Rhein).
Thanks for supporting Ukraine!
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Beautiful video, as your other ones and very cleverly commented. Best compliments
Thank you very much ❤
There is a dedicated international railway connecting Koblenz (CH) & Waldshut (DE). Can’t more longer than 4km, there used to be a Schienenbus (rail bus) with manual transmission running this line; but last time I visited I was a little disappointed to find a modern train instead. I used to live in Switzerland (Baden AG) but travel to Waldshut (either by rail or bicycle)to buy my bier!
thanks a lot for your interesting details. when I was preparing this video, I read again about Waldenburgerbahn - the railway that I ride somewhere in early 2021. I was surprised to find out that it changed the track gauge (Spurweite) from 750 mm to 1000 mm since the moment I ride it. I wanted to mention about it in the video, but then decided that it would be out of topic and way too much for this video.
Dixperlo-Suderwick (NL/D). Both towns (well, technically Suderwick isn't a town) have a single joint police station and post office. Also the local care home consists of two separate units connected by a bridge spanning over the main road which is the border. The village of Suderwick was annexed 1945 and grew into one town with Dinxperlo before being returned 1963. Some of the older buildings still retain typical Dutch features.
In Costa Rica we have a town on the border with Panama, there's no free movement treaty, but the town has a lot of stores with two fronts, one in Panama and one in Costa Rica, so you can shop there without legally enter the other country
great
Danke für diese sehr interessant und informativ Video
Great, and very informative video. Looking forward to next !
5:10 - this is not a memorial for citizens. it literally says "for our warriors". so this is basically a memorial for nazi soldiers (yes i know, many of them were drafted and were actually SPD or KPD voters, but we all know its not for them, since most of them ended up in camps sooner or later)
yes, because during WWI there were a lot of nazi soldiers around..... duh! The memorial is to the citizens of the city that were killed during both wars, nothing to do with nazis, which was basically a political party!
It is logical. 300 years ago it was all on the territory of the Holy Roman Empire and thus no borders. Later political developments created new borders. The border region in poland is often neglected because Poland feared that it might had to transfer the land back to Germany after an agreement. Since it was not real sovereign territory, but just "under their administration". Thus they rather exploited the western territories in order to invest in the central region. That changed from 1991 on due to the 2+4 agreements. There are investments again. Stettin looks very representative again. I have been there several times for shopping purposes in my Berlin period :)
Western Poland became Polish under international law and was viewed Polish by Poland itself.. Nowhere in Polish law did it say it was "occupied" territory. 19790 (West) Germany formally recognised that and it was re-confirmed in 1991 after Germany was unified and obtained full sovereignty. But these were just gestures to improve bilteral relations. The Holy Roman Empire was not a unitary state. Formally Switzerland never left it until it was dissolved 1808. In 1648 it was granted exemption from Imperial Law. The border between Swiss cantons and German states date back to medieval times. Modern Switzerland wasn't born until 1848. Two events player a crucial role - the Civil War of 47-48 and the Prussian king abdicating as Duke of Neuenburg/Neuchatel.
There is also a German railway station in Polish city Świnoujście. This city is located at Baltic Sea coast, near the Polish-German border, neighbouring German city Ahlbeck on the other side of the border. However, unlike many of the cases shown in this video, these are not two parts of one former city; these were always two clearly separate cities, although before WWII the entire area belonged to Germany, and Świnoujście was a German city too, called Swinemünde. Świnoujście is uniquely located on two neighbouring islands; eastern part of the city is located on Wolin island, which is entirely Polish, and western (main) part on Usedom/Uznam island, which is divided between Germany and Poland (hence the double name, in both languages). Both parts of the city are connected by ferries and now also by underwater tunnel built just recently, in this year. The Polish railway network reaches only the eastern part of the city (as it would be hard to get the tracks through to the other island ;)) and the Polish railway station is located there. On the other side, the German part of Usedom island is serviced by a local railway UBB (Usedomer Bäderbahn), and in 2007 UBB network was extended to western part of Świnoujście and a German railway station has been built there.
Switzerland has also Cross-border towns with other Coutries: For exemple St-Gingolph with one part in France and Ponte Tresa with one part in Italy. There are also small villages divided by the border like La Cure where there's even a Hotel in which you can sleep with your head in Switzerland and the feet in France.
Maybe unwittingly, it was very fitting of you to show the waterfall in Laufenburg, as "Laufen" is an old German word for "waterfall" and most places that have it in their name are named after one.
1:37 Couldn't even tell if its on the german or polish side.
Architecture on the east german side and polish side isnt really different at all. Both are post soviet architecture
For a KZread channel it's usually better to stick to one area or subject and attract more subscribers who will watch your future productions too. If you include other topics like the Middle East you just change your focus as this is a different topic and region. At the same time visits to former Soviet army bases in East Germany are still interesting for people who are interested in Germany. A recent fact about a visit to Cecilienhof that NEVER took place: For the Potsdam Conference China was not invited, but they decided to give Taiwan back to China at that conference. When Xi Jinping wanted to visit Berlin he also included Cecilienhof in his plans, but Merkel refused his request. The German government did not want this palace to be used for Chinese "unification" propaganda against Taiwan.
Frankfurt and Slubice are brothers from an Oder mother
This shouldn't be something relative. In border areas there is always a incentive to live on one side, work on the other, and buy groceries on the third, or something like that. So the slight differences can drive growth if the bordering cities work with each other. E.g. I would really like to see a tram connecting the Basque coast between France and Spain.
I think of Wendover, UT/NV with its' two huge casinos on either side of the (east/west) main road build right up to the Nevada state line with their parking lots in Utah.
Nice!
Thank you! You also have nice videos of steam trains! I have a lot of videos to publish where I filmed steam and historical trains, but I am not sure that it's interesting for wide audience. Also I am not sure which format is the best. How do you think, is the format like in this video fine or not? (Short story about the train line, and then a video without comments to enjoy the train ride)
What an awesome vlog! Thanks for sharing this @kmltraveler !
Thanks for watching :)
Europe's Schengen area: what if I told you these borders are invisible? 😂
Not really. Each Tram to Weil am Rhein is checked thoroughly by the German Bundespolizei. The delay at the border can be up to 10 minutes.
Enjoyed that. I've had holidays in that area.
I live far away from a border in the middle of Bavaria but our small town is far away from big cities so we also had no damage in the world wars. We have a complete town wall with towers which were built in the 15th century.
what is the name of the town? I would like to visit it one day - to see how the Geman towns really looked like in the medieval times.
@@misiek7676 Berching
Dear friends, It’s very important for me to understand what is interesting for you and which format do you prefer. I have videos from the Middle East trip, so I can publish a video per country that I visited. Even though you won’t hear anything really shocking like in the videos from big bloggers, this topic is really interesting. Chaotic experience in Cairo, unexpected things in Saudi Arabia, and fabulous visit to Bethlehem (Palestine) before the Gaza war. I am sure many of you will enjoy it. One more interesting idea in my list is abandoned Soviet military bases in Germany that may be visited with or without the tour. A short teaser from one of the locations is at the end of this video. I have a bunch of videos about German steam trains and museum trains (Museumbahn) that I filmed in different locations in East Germany. I filmed at least 15 different train routes. However, this topic is very specific and it’s very important to define which format is the best for such videos so that all people will enjoy it. Possible format 1: that could be a short video like this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h66OspiBkrWdcqg.html In this case we have a short description of the railway, and then the ride, but the total length of the video should not exceed 10 minutes. Possible format 2: a long format, like here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gXhtmq-zoZTNfbg.html In this case you can have a feeling like you are really riding this steam train route. Or you may even suggest another different format. Please share your ideas. Another interesting topic is to tell you about my five-day tour to Chornobyl zone a few months before the full scale invasion of Ukraine. This was in fact a very unique experience, as this group tour happens only once per year, and that was the last long tour just 3.5 months before the full scale war. Anybody interested to hear my story? At the moment I have a few videos about Chornobyl on my channel, and I think they are really unique and interesting, I kindly invite you if Chornobyl topic is interesting for you: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YqGm0pZrY8K2iJs.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/im2BwdupadrMqrg.html The listed ideas are those videos that are already filmed by me, I just need time to edit and publish them. But I have even more ideas on what to film in the future. Maybe you have some more wishes about what you want to see and explore together with me? Maybe something specific that is located in Germany but cannot be visited by you in person? Feel free to leave the comment with your suggestions. Once again, thanks to all of you, with your feedback we can improve the content quality of the channel. You may see that I tried different formats in the past, sometimes even videos without any comments at all (which was a mistake from my side), so I will improve future videos step by step with your support. Best regards Kostiantyn
Basel Tram 10 to Rodersdorf stops briefly in France at Leymen \m/
That German owned railway station in Switzerland reminds me of the Singapore one which was owned by Malaysia so say you went on a train from Singapore to Kula Lumpur you technically left Singapore when you walked into the station.It's less interesting now as Singapore slowly bought the line back and closed it! Despite the Swiss being German speaking they diverged significantly from Germany at the time of the Reformation.Luther and Zwingli saw the Host in a different way and couldn't agree.
Basel Badischer Bahnhof was built prior to the unification of Germany. The station was built in accordance with a contract between the Grandduchy Baden and the Swiss Federation in 1852 that if the planned railway between Mannheim, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Offenburg, Freiburg (Breisgau) would continue up to Basel in Switzerland. The operation would stay under the management of the Railway of the grand duchy in perpetuity. Which DB is the legal successor to
Are you going to make vids about Bavaria?
At the moment I have no good-quality content about Bavaria to use it for the KZread video, but I will have a chance to film some unique place in Bavaria in February 2024. So it is possible :)