MANNHEIM Grafitti & Walking tour with Jens! – 2025 GERMANY
Hi everybody and I’m back in Germany. I’m in Manim and I’m visiting my best friend. Yes. Hello from Germany. We met about what 10 years ago. Yes. Yes. 2015 2016. So it’s my turn to visit and um we are on our way to go and search for some street art, some awesome murals. So let’s go and have a look. Let’s go. Let’s go. Nice houses. Oh yeah. Four or five weeks they start making lights for Christmas. Yes. And we also know some houses which do it very extraordinary. Okay. Nice lights. I never did this trip to to see all the M. I’m so excited. Nice. It’s nice. Nice. And check. We have it all printed out. We organized. Yes. This is what 34 is our first one. 34. Okay, let’s go. Perfect. Yeah, I love these autumn colors on the trees. Yeah, we don’t have that. Well, I’m lying. I mean, we do have trees that change color a little bit, but it’s not as wonderful as here. like um when I was on the bus some of the sections was just absolutely beautiful with the uh trees and yeah on the left side Mhm. you see there there are flowers now it’s autumn but here are uh flowers and you can pick them by yourself. Oh and there’s a cash box and you should put money in it. Oh wow. Okay. trust each other. Do it yourself. We have also some some field with um strawberries or something like that where you can go. When I was you have to pick them yourself and you put cash in. There’s no no people watching you. Trust does it works. I was when I was in Munich, there was this little like shop, this miniature shop with eggs and and ice cream and everything with the box and you just put the money in there. I couldn’t believe it. Yeah, it is incredible. You can never do that in South Africa. You have a lot of factories here. SD um is um they make a toilet paper for the kitchen. Mhm. And for the children itself and next to it is an old wash. You will see wash is a big farmer farmer company. Oh, okay. And because of the paper or toilet paper and so on, you see a lot of wood they’re storing on there. Now these trees, do they lose all their leaves? Okay. Yes. Some weeks they are totally totally off. Okay. So funny because Karen asked was asking me the same. Ah trees without leaves. Interesting. Yeah. But you know she grew up in um Gualina where we don’t have trees that die. It’s just green all year round. We don’t have winter there. The trees with the needles, they don’t exist. But then they look like this. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And you if you go by bike or so, you have to be careful because all the leaves are wet on the Yes. It’s very slippery. Um I I went on a hiking trail yesterday in Luxembourg and I had that problem where I was slipping because of the leaves. Yeah. And you can’t see the rocks either when you’re on the trail. So, this is a um traffic speed control. Oh, okay. Now everybody knows where it is. Mhm. But this was a portable one. Okay. We have some some uh fixed ones. Mhm. And some they can can move around. Is that a church over there? Yes. We have some churches. We have Mushe. I think the most people here are um Christians, Catholic and Protestants. Okay. In Germany. Yeah. Okay. But a lot of because of the the people coming from Europe and so on, we have a lot of immigrants. So Islam we have as well. Yes. So I think these are the three big the religions. What does LU stand for with the number? Okay, the first the first letters the first two letters are the city. Okay, it’s M A for Manheim. Yeah, L for Ludikavan. Ah, HG to think about maybe. And um afterwards, no this is not from Germany. Oh, I see. And the second both letters are you can sometimes you can choose by wish you pay a little bit per or so. So you can have your ownings and the numbers also. Okay. Sometimes if a company has some cars, they use it as well. Um that’s the the letters for them. Okay. So I go here because I was wrong. There’s the traffic control. Ah, I see. If you’re too fast, it makes you have a nice photo for you. You’re going to pay a lot for that photo. Yes. It depends how fast you are and what zone you are in. Our house is one of a um well known famous um tool store here garden. You can use a screwdriver, a hammer or something like that. Mhm. there. Cool bridge. You can see it. Ah, I just around. I go some steps. What’s that? He recognized that I I uh break late. He recognizes a car standing there and wants me. Oh, okay. That’s new. So guys, I just want to stop here for a moment. Okay. Find this out. This one. I’m checking your parking. I’m nervous. I’m on camera. What? All right. All my driving skills. This is how it goes off. And look at this car. You have to press this button to open the door. I couldn’t find the door handle yesterday. And I’m still wearing the Camino shoes. Yes. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, okay. Not necessary to get wet. Yeah. It’s not that cold today. Okay. For you. It’s raining, but it’s not that cold. Yeah. Yeah. I think we have 11 or 15°. Yeah. Do you know who this artist is? We can check him out. Okay. I don’t know. It looks like a Is that Chinese writing or Japanese writing at the top? Saffron. No, it’s a German bird. Oh. Nice. So, this is number 34 on the list. Okay, we spot that’s the number 34. And then I can switch to English. Yes. Whisper the whisper by star. That’s a artist. Um the artist. Okay. Yeah. As in all its murals, Satar also chooses animals as the main motive in whisper. While the panther turns its dog back to the viewer and turns to the leopard, the leopard shows itself head onto its audience with a red glowing head. He lets his gaze wander into undefined distance while he listens to the companion. Saturn leaves open the relationship between the two animals but emphasizes the mural shows human emotions in the animal world. Very cool. Awesome. And they they paint it with a with a crayon. Oh, with a crane. Oh, look. It it shows how when he was busy doing it. That’s very cool. Later on you can can see on the here some more pictures how it uh was a process and uh a whole video. Oh nice. You can check later. Excellent. Nice. Right on to the next one. We all hunting photo for myself. Yeah, me too. Hang on. I should I should actually get um short videos. Yeah, that’s better, huh? Um okay. myself. Okay, so this is the mural number 34 in Man, Germany by Sutter the artist. We are standing in the rain, but we’re going to do this. We’re going to find all the street art today. Let’s go. Yeah, these are normal normal flats in the town. So you have Mhm. three or four stages. Okay. Two up to four rooms. Mhm. Our flat have uh 100 uh square mters. Okay. is both booked um hidden in levels here. Sometimes 70 or 80. Okay. Cool. Why does your number plate say bit? Yeah. Oh, because it’s the town big bit is a town and uh the joke is um our uh company is called bridging it and we we have a shortcut Bit and so all our cars all our cars are uh uh ordered from BitBook. Ah, all our company cars. Okay, check the door handle. Watch. You press it like this. How cool is that? So all right next plots so far on the road each next to each other. That was we asked Carolyn and what did you see in Germany? What was special? And she said the houses have so small windows. Yes, we have heaters. We have small windows. It’s all because a coat m Yeah, it’s strange how different people see different things. Like that’s one thing that I just didn’t notice. Fire station. Oh, okay. We see the cars. Maybe they’re here and out. No, it’s all Oh. Ready to go. Ready to go. So when EA finishes a qualification, is she going to open up her own practice? Who? EA. She she don’t know. But first first, we have to go here. This should be here. to the next one. Okay, let me look you there. We are here. Number 38, the harish. I’ll look for it. Okay, as I told you, not that spectacle, but it’s ah Hello. What does this one say? The mural without title by Perk Up. And that’s the title. The title is the title. Yes. Nice. And the artist is called Perk Up. Okay. So, the mural is collagenike and shows two quiet landscapes with trees and meadows, a large still life in light and dark purple as well as various shapes. They look pixelated like an old computer game. The planes placed on the top of each other gives the mural a noticeable depth. The blue and green tones take up the colors of the sky and the adjacent park. So, the mural adapts perfectly to the What’s this word? Hubbish plats is a place here. Oh, okay. The street name. Uh yet immediately catches the eye at the same time spreads a pleasant rest. Okay. Interesting. Oh, I see. Like a video game. The pixelated Yes. Yeah, I see it now. Oh, there it says Burkup, the name of the artist. Yes. Okay, cool. That’s what it looks like. All right, nice. Let’s go find the next ones. Of course, there were some special programs in some towns in Stokot. Um, you can park for free if you It was some years ago, I think. If you have an electric or if you have an electric car, or there are some zones where you can go in others not. And this is also the the green one on the right side. Yeah, it’s um for telling that my car um fulfills some some some uh limits and so on. So you I can go into the city in the in the downtown. Yeah. And the little one is for France. In France, they also want you to have for your car saf plate. Okay. So, you can go in uh special zones. Wow. Yeah, the weather is clearing up. Look at it. Yes. Yes. Yes. We’re going to have sun soon. I hope so. Be better for filming. Yeah. Franklin. Now we are the next place is in the Franklin village. Okay. Franklin because um in Manheim we had a lot of American um military stations. Oh. So after the war in in some towns they divided Germany and so on. And so you had lot of uh military staff and uh huge regions in a city where the soldiers have their their houses and their cars and and so on. Okay. And um I think it was three or four years ago um they leave ah and they sell these places to the city and on this places um the city was thinking about what to do with this huge free spaces. Yeah. It’s like such buildings it’s for for cars and Okay. I see. And they put the Benjamin Franklin village. So there was a a part in the town taking his name and there they they um built a lot of uh I think houses, flats and so on. We’ll see. Okay. They thought about making a a roller coaster park or so what to do with these places because it’s so near of a city or a airport was in discussion but they don’t do it because Frankurt is near. Mhm. in other cities in Germany have sometimes other the France military was in I think and then they gone after years circus. Yes, we have commercial for a Christmas circus, but more with artists, less animals. Yeah. People don’t want to see animals in prison. Yeah. And I also enjoy it more when the people do like the acrobats and stuff like that. You know, people think a lot about uh the the circumstances how animals live and they were forced to do some tricks and some countries forget circus. Yeah. Oh, the circus ended in South Africa many years now. Ended? Yeah. Okay, that’s it’s good. Ah, on the left side there’s another one. You see that? Oh, yeah. Wa. Yeah, I see it. We We are going there. Yeah, we’re going there. It’s It’s straight. Okay, I think maybe. Yeah, we’re going there. M. We’re going there, I think. But this is more here somewhere. We can do it afterwards. But here where we are going now should be three ones. Perfect. Right. I see on Google maps. This is an older picture and everything is constructing and now you will see a lot of new houses, new flats. Okay. Very modern. And all this was military. Oh, wow. From the US. This is a climbing wall. I see. Yeah. Do you do that? Yes. Did you see that movie from that guy Freefall who climbs with his two fingers? Oh, so yes, I have a question for you. Um, so that woman, she dropped him twice, right? Ah, okay. Can you remember in the movie? Yeah. She let go of the rope. So twice he like one time he broke his ankle or something. Will you marry a woman like that? Will you marry someone who who forgets to hold on to the rope? So, as I told you, you see very new flats here, very modern with a lot of space for sitting that was planned planned and constructed by the city. Nice. It brings a lot of space. It’s good because we have a lot of students also in town university and they are searching for cheaper cheaper accommodation. Here we are. Oh, perfect. First one. Okay. Okay. I see. Oh, there’s a second one. Okay. But normally So maybe you can stop here. Yeah. Maybe we can go for the street because it’s one, two, three. And there’s another one. Yes, I can see it. Yeah. So, it’s one, two, three. Yeah, cuz we can walk a little bit. Yes. Yeah. Turn around. Park here. Mhm. Oh, look at this one. Yeah. This is not just trash or or rubbish. So um you can you can call the city and say okay on this or this date I will put all my stuff outside. Yeah. And then the city comes and fetch it. Ah okay. You to clean up your your your rooms. People can take something if they want, put it on one place. Often some people came here if they’re poorer and and look if they can use something. The chair. Oh, it’s okay. It’s my chair. And the rest of the city will come and clean it up. Okay. Very cool. Not not like it seems. But wait, I want to show you this building. This is the coolest building I’ve seen ever. Look at that. I need to get a short film of this, too. And then we’ll look at the art again. Okay, here’s the next one. And this one is called called Franklin because we’re on the Franklin Village. The the part of the town is called Franklin. Okay. All right. And it’s by artist um Miner or Mayor. Uh while Mayor is working on the facade of Thomas Jefferson um 322 for 6 days, the construction cranes, oops, that’s fine. uh rotate on the right and left and the construction noise is constantly humming. But the 36 year old artist who was born and raised in Luten was next to Manheim, okay, is not swayed by music in his ears. Concentrated. He worked with spray can, adhesive tape and spirit levels. Um creates ge geometric shapes and overlapping spaces. Um, the all is based on the letters that stem from his long graffiti pass and still shape his art today. At first glance, only an I can be clearly seen, but mine tells us that R A N K and L can also be found together. Franklin, you okay, I see what they’re saying. So, the shapes are all letters. you have to stand and dissect the whole art piece to to spell that that’s what they’re talking about. Okay. Um that the yeah epotmous lettering does not reveal itself immediately for the viewers um is of course intentional at the beginning. My design um there is an idea which I then deconstruct again and again and put it reassembled. So actually, yeah, this is a very this is a deep thinking graffiti artist who’s taking you to the next level. I appreciate this. This is this is very cool. I like it. You see the letters better. Yes, you will. So the eye, that’s what they say, the eye in the middle. Okay. Um Okay. Let’s see where we can find what save your life. What? Thank you. Um, what can you see? What letters can you see? I think that’s an F. Yes. R. Oh, yeah. That’s There’s an R. Um, looking searching for an L maybe. Okay. But in any case, I still think it’s really cool. Now to something that looks like guts. Looks a bit gory, doesn’t it? I wonder what this is. Yeah, I have no idea. You know, okay, the mural is called Writing Without Letters, Part Five. Okay. By Sweet Chuno. There you see the artist’s name. Okay. Sweet Chuno designs his new mural under the title writing without letters. This is a challenge that he faces himself. Cedric Pent Pentareli tells us in classic graffiti the main focus is on writing letters which he masters. Okay. Yes. The challenge um on a house to ceiling wall is to maintain the gesture of writing in example the dynamics of the body movement a certain choreography without spraying actual letters. So look like letters but they are not. Yes. Okay. It’s complicated. I don’t like the colors of this one. It’s disturbing. There’s two more and then we go to the city to downtown. Okay, we have arrived at the next one and it’s like a like Yen says a school child painting. And we’re not being rude. We’re just saying like the, you know, the design. Okay. What does it say? They are the artist that actually from this year was very new. Oh, 2025. Okay. The mural the rain by Lada Chisova. Chisova. Okay. The rain is the name of the mural by Russian artist Lada Shisova. Um, a winking reference to the conditions under which the work was created. Abundant rain and windy autumn weather. already in her first sketch a few drops appeared. Um you can see it here on the side. There’s a clear of the the first drops. Um but when Lada finally stood in front of her first big wall in the pouring rain, there was a few more without further ado. But rain is no reason for the Lada to be in a bad mood. On the contrary, I like rainy weather and that is um and after that there is always something new. In spring flowers and plants grows, everything is washed in. Um it’s like the snow in Russia. She says in Siberia where I was born, the winter can be very gloomy, but as soon as the first snow falls, everything becomes bright and radiant. Okay, so there’s a lot of influence, Russian influence in this one. Okay, it’s something different altogether. I like the color scheme though. Okay, where’s that final one? This the final one. Oh, and here are the ones on there. Recycling bins, right? Oh, there. But I think it’s not one. Okay. And everything in Germany you find this, you know. Oh, yeah. I saw this um in other European countries, too. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you look this on on on the house behind there’s an very odd. It is very cool. That’s cool. Oh, there are some more. Look. Yeah, they’re everywhere. Ooh, look. It’s a It’s like five. It’s a corn and a windmill. I think this should be the thumbnail. Okay, let’s see what this is all about. I don’t see the name of the artist, though. Search for That’s fine. I like the corn. Mhm. Can’t find it. Maybe it’s brand new. Maybe. Yeah, I have no I have to go on the map. I think on the map to see. Yes, here. It only showed three on the map. I think this one is brand new. Maybe I don’t know this one. Can’t find it. Okay, this one doesn’t have a meaning. Such new that it’s brand new. We are the first ones witnessing this and it’s from an unknown artist. I don’t see a name. Nothing. Maybe they’re not done yet. Maybe they’re still busy with it or something. Okay. All right. Well, onwards. Thanks. How far away are we from the city now? H how far away are we from the city? So, this is city man. We’re driving here. 16 minutes we are near near downtown. All right, I’ll record again when we get to pop academy and the students flats. Oh, okay. It’s a student and this on the on the right side is very multicultural part of of Mim. Very nice. Okay. Last last weekend they had a open street festival with with music and food trucks and food and uh everything was fine. Nice. But it it rains. Raining is not not good for a street uh festival. Is that quite common street festivals? Yeah, sure. Sure. The in in the part and then and also very common is we are in wine region. Yeah. In the PS next to the rine. And every small village on one weekend in in the year they make a wine fest. Ah nice festival. And you can get the uh the winefest calendar which all dates and all wages are listed. So you can go every every weekend to such a restaurant in it. It’s all very known for local food. When I was in in Munich, it was just before the beer fest and they they sold all the clothes. The the October fest the leather pants and the dresses and stuff. It was amazing. commercial. It is and they copi it. You can do it in whole Germany. Originally it’s in Munich. Um but um you can have it also here and it’s more or less Do you have it here? Yes. Okay. See the the flat? Yeah. We use the parking lot of the supermarket. Yeah. Then we walk three minutes because I know there’s parking difficult. Okay, this is a very cool one. Look at this. The detail. Wow. Sh. This is incredible. So, let me see what they text about it. There was a listing. And we’re smelling chocolate because this is a chocolate factory and the silo is filled with chocolate. You can smell it. Smells like hot chocolate. Okay, let’s see. Oh, okay. I went to German. Try it. I can try. I can try. For your German followers. Okay. Uh, the mural is called Primal Truth by Nachos or Nos. I don’t know. Okay. So, deeply rooted in graffiti and street art and influenced by pop culture, Niche creates murals and visual art, illustrations and sculptures. His um anatomical visual language is unmistakable unmistakable. Um creating irritation and suction power at the same time. These large scale murals show dissect translucent figures, people, animals, well-known protagonists from pop culture, comics, and television such as Mickey Mouse and Barbie. This is the guy. Show us the picture. Yeah, that’s that’s the guy. And um yeah, I think this is also with a crane. Cranes are doing this is brilliantly done. And I think it’s difficult to to paint I think so when you don’t see the whole picture. That’s the thing if you’re painting. Yeah. You’re just there on the wall. Yeah. I think it’s to scale it, you know, perfectly. Like I think this is brilliant. I mean, look at the detail. Look at the teeth. Yeah. Yeah. It’s really really something. Yeah. Back here. Yeah. Very very cool. We have to do the thumbnail here. On the other side there was a castle. So beach bar at the river. Nice. All ugly houses. It’s not art. It’s ugly. No artist. Favorite Spanish restaurant. Oh, nice. Where we don’t want to go. Enough of Spanish food. just for a while. Mind you, I have to be honest. I mean, the Spanish food I had in the s southern parts of Spain was incredible. It was just I don’t know, too much chickpeas and heartbre what I said. There’s a rainbow. Uh Oh, yeah. Like you see something like this. And in Ecuador, yeah, the me I don’t know. It was the same um in Vietnam, Chile. I I I imported my own spices and stuff to cook my own food because I can appreciate um food from a different culture here and there. I don’t want to eat it every day. I prefer to eat the food my way. So, I just cook my own food. But um there’s some Vietnamese um dishes that I loved. And um um I mean the Spanish there’s this um this one sandwich that I had in one of the restaurants. It was incredible. And um the paella is great. I mean I I really enjoyed that. But yeah, the mostly on the Camino the food that you get is just the same. It’s just a tortillas and and the hard bread. It’s it’s cheap to cook. Yeah. So it was it was a bit difficult for me. I couldn’t find fresh air. Now we can see the water tower of M daylight. Oh wow. Yeah. In the evening. So we have more color. Stunning. This is the city. This is the next station we we came from yesterday. Oh yeah. Walked here. We drove here. Walk there. There. So Korean uh restaurant of Korea. Oh spicy. This is our cinema. Oh okay, movies, drinks, popcorn. But in time of Netflix, Prime Video and so on, it’s hard for cinemas in Germany. Yes. Everywhere. I think it’s very hard business. This is a music school in in Man, our music school and our bureau is on the other side and on the teras we hear hear them uh uh doing music sometimes, sometimes good, sometimes not because they are on the music school. They are practicing. So, and now we’re directly in the center. There’s one parking house where I can park for free because it’s directly my office. Big sports store here left. And here they’re also preparing. You see this this um post? Mhm. Yeah. It’s um for for they don’t have terrorist with cars driving into it into the because we had it in in Maline last year. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. Someone was driving with a car when you saw the drum can um the drum can go directly into the city and he did it by car and killed some people and injured some people and And this is a Bansky exhibition gallery. You can maybe if you want do it later, but first I’ll show you something else. Was a construction place here. There’s so many cars. If you just go in without eating and so on, maybe you give a euro or so flowers and here. Ah, look at the Halloween things. Water tower symbol as a chocolate man. Oh, that is so cool. So, if you’re visiting someone, it’s always a good good store to bring you something special. Very nice. Look at that. Really cool. Here’s a nice store. It’s a uh for all your uh if you like movies like uh Harry Potter and and so on, you can buy more stuff. Nice for fans. If you like Wow, I see. Yeah. Superman. That’s very original. Always good if you have friends which collect something or like it. Yeah. Yeah. I see. Oh, look. Cute. That’s so cute. Unless I like this store much. Oh, nice. There’s a book store. Oh, there three stages. Oh, wow. Look at this building. So cute. My mother. I had a fishing bike. But I like it because it’s not so small. So if you want to go fast, you can go on this side. If you want to Oh, look for the shops and so on. You look more on the left side. Traditional uh ice. Oh, nice. Yeah. Ah, there’s also a very very important invent of Manheim is the spaghetti ice. I invented the spaghetti ice. What’s that? You take vanilla ice. Yeah. And put it through uh through a um I don’t know what it’s called. And if you press it through and you make it so it looks like spaghetti. Oh, it’s vanilla ice. Yeah, this is uh uh red sauce of of nice or something like that. And uh um it’s not really cheese. It’s like mand um almond almond halva. So it looks like a spaghetti bologn, but it’s ice cream. Ice cream. Okay. Oh, no rain. Come on. Where’s the sun? There’s the sun. There’s the sun. Let’s go there. Yeah. You see old facads. Yeah. Very nice. Very nice city to to to go shopping. Yeah. And this is in uh in autumn or in winter we have uh is marooni. Mhm. You know it. No. You would see it. What is it? Ah it’s closed. I think it’s castian maron maron. Uhhuh. And they on on on an open grid. Oh, okay. It’s for the Christmas time. Ah, new cinema is open. There was a old one and now there’s a new one in. Okay. Do you have a lot of original German films? Films? Yes, sure. Okay. And uh the it’s nice the Germans are um very very good in synchronizing other being filmed. So if you all the all the American movies every uh Hollywood star Yeah. has a has a person with his German voice. Ah I see. So all his films have the same voice. Oh wow that’s very original. Oh, and sometimes there’s a news that oh the voice of um was it um the voice of who was playing Forest Gump? Uh Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks. The voice I think the voice of Tom Hanks died. Oh no. And his German voice. So what? So they’re synchronizing perfectly and it’s totally different in Poland. In Poland you have an American movie or series and they have uh subtitles. Yes. Yeah. But there’s only one voice speaking all the text. I remember without emotions. You doesn’t matter if it is a child, woman. Uh she it’s just one voice and you said okay uh she she’s crying. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. And in the movie you see the woman. So funny. No emotions, one voice, one speaker. This is typically a bread in in in German. Different one, different nice. Smell it. Yeah. Oh, look. It’s like a um gingerbread man. Yes. Bread. Oh, it smells so good. So fresh and I’m having a really good time. Thank you, Yens. This is great. I’m loving this. So your main place and it will always also be a Christmas market in in Christmas more for the kids. Okay. Some some fairy tales. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Mean where the photo was with the elk. Oh, yes. Yeah. We went down back at memory lane last night with all the old pictures. Wow. This is beautiful. Come on. Okay. Okay. And it’s raining again. It’s okay. It’s not that bad. I left my umbrella in the car. last years there was some some change on the law that you can have a little bit cannabis for yourself. Okay. So, Sometimes someone is smoking but not there’s a lot of limits on how much it is and you have to be 18 and okay after that you can’t drive. Whoops. Go go go go go. It was right. I think we have to go there. Yes. always say is talking and then then you forget that cannabis was legalized in South Africa a few years ago. And what I don’t like about it is people just walk in the streets and smoke it. So you have that smell and I hate that smell. Yeah. They think uh to do that they make it less crime. Yeah. And so it’s I don’t know if it’s good or bad. Another trend in in in uh in Germany is is the bowls. If you’re eating something, you get such stores like this. You see on each corner. It’s good. It’s good. Healthy food. Yeah. But it cost a little bit. I had a bowl like that when I was in Milan in Italy. It’s what they had at the airport. Oh no, they closed. Oh no. Ah, closed today. So, we can go there, find a cafe. Okay. I think it’s good. Oh, look at these cakes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s so beautiful. I love it. I can also see. Let me look because it’s open. It’s closed. Yeah. Okay. Let’s see. No, no, no, no, no. There’s another nice cafe. Yeah, we we go straight straight there. Okay. There are more more cafes just the city and a little bit warm. Yeah. And you see here here from this from from this side uh that is a little eastern bowl because you are more and more shops from Turkish people and so on. Okay. Okay. gives you a touch of vacation. And then the Turkish delight, oh, in Istanbul is unbeatable. And yo, and also I think you see a lot of uh duna kebab in in Germany. Mhm. A lot of people like it. I think it’s stressful driver go through. Yeah, there’s an Eastern B restaurant. Yeah. And this is a typical duna. They put the meat. Oh, this is um Vietnamese and they do it and then you add the bread. Yes. Let me see something good here. special. Why are places closed on Mondays? Special day. Monday of the shops are open but restaurants and uh it’s invited to it’s um the rest day of the week. Oh, okay. That’s interesting. They’re all This is for Oh, yeah. For the to avoid people driving with a car into a city. Okay. If you just have to to bring something, you can Oh, okay. Put it down. Oh, I see. Okay. So, it can go down for deliveries. Yes. Very good. this place. Perfect. Okay. All right. So, these cookies have a story and it’s um typical to Mon and it’s from the year 1822. It’s called the monk and dra means rubbish. Okay. And you’re going to tell us no. In the mid age, the the people were have to pay a penalty if they put their rubbish on the street. Yes. Yes. And one bakery said, “Okay, I use the same name, manama, manama for my cookie.” And so he invented this receipt. And this is the cookie. And there are only two bakeries in in Manaman where you can buy it. And if you open it, it is Oh, it’s got the whole It’s with with with a set of cards on it. Wow. So, it’s original. Yeah. So, you can’t It’s very cool that you you you can’t copy it. So, and it’s uh and Oh, wow. Looks like this. And now you It’s It’s live. Monique has to taste it. Yep. Okay. So, taste your cookie. You can hold that. Okay. So, this is the cookie. How does it taste? It’s very good. Mhm. It’s very good. It tastes like ginger. Mhm. There you go. Good. Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah. And this is I think it’s Schella. Schiller. You heard of Schiller? No. Okay. Famous uh German author of of books and poet. Oh. Oh yes. I that name school knows Chilla. Yes. Yes. And this is now that I read the name. Nice. I think I have to do it more often to show manheim to people from outside. Yeah. Sometimes you live in your own city and then you sit there and and Google what is this? What can I show? What is how old is that? Or make a sightseeing tour in your own town. Yes. Do it. And next to it there’s the school of Alysa. Okay. Oh wow, look at this. Your touchcreen is not very effective. Sorry for that. Your GoPro works too hard. Go hard times. Yeah, I think so. And the GoPro is scared. Scared of life. It’s because of all your adventures. Maybe here something about this church. This because it’s called Yizuen Kersha. Eaten church. Uh it is from 17 2027. Um they started they put the next one on the side on 33 first. They used it on the first time on 1756. Mhm. And there was a Yizuetan or um um the group of nuns. How do you call it? Ordered. Yes. The order of nuns. Yeah. And and then after this was quit, it was a Catholic church. I see. Okay. Oh, so it used to be like a monastery in the in the Second World War. Uh-huh. It was damaged. Oh. And in the following uh tens of years, um they uh they reconstructed everything. Okay. 1997 it was already finished to rebuild everything. Wow. That took a long time. You read it often in Germany old buildings and so which was destroyed in the second world war they built it up. Okay. Like in the old times from style and from from tech. Okay. This is also an inside. Oh my. Whoa. The sun. There’s your sun. Yeah. on the motor. Nice. Wow. Look at that architecture. When when Mozart was in Manheim, he visited Manheim. He always go here in the church. Ah. Okay. This is only when during during church. See, I think Wow, it’s beautiful. Wow. It’s beautiful. I love it. Wow. It’s beautiful. Wow. Nice. Very very beautiful shoe. What I was always thinking is Yeah. It was 1722. Yeah. And what was possible to build such a huge I know, right? with all that detail and yeah there was no cranes like like today. Yeah, unless cafe is school on the right side which is school and here they go and drink coffee nice and go to the mall alone. Yeah. Yes. And here begins the university. Wow. It’s old part of the university. And I think it’s more or less green. Oh, and we have sun. Yes. There you see this is a the school gymnasium. It’s the name of the school. I see. Okay. Hey, this is a true. Nice. Awesome. I’m so glad I’m experiencing all of this. The next Yeah. All right. Where are my cups? I don’t want private ones. Yes, it’s a lion. This one. Yes. Okay, let’s check it out. The mural l ent in triacto. I don’t know what language that is by race in manim. The mural shows an imposing lion in a resting position surrounded by abstract plant fragments. In his collage-like presentation, arrays takes up different styles from plastic looking elements to abstract ex um expressionistic and floral forms. In some places, the motive was elaborated in detail and almost resembles a marble statue. In other places, however, porn flowers were only outlined with a few strokes and sketched with a wax crayon. The background of the mural is kept in an earthy terracotta tone which unobsessively takes up the facade color of the Jazu church behind it. Oh, there. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Um and thus blends harmoniously into the surrounding architecture. The lion and its floral environment on the other hand stand out for their strong complimentary colors. And that is the story of this piece. What do you think about the crayon things? The crayon scratches. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. I don’t know if I like it or not. I like the weird the weird human thing with the inside organs showing. I like the idea idea of this art on houses. Yes. Because it’s uh makes more beautiful because you have something to see. Yes. Oh, look at this building. What is this? It’s a library. Library. Oh, wow. It’s very cool. Also part of the university here. Okay. This is the court. Oh, okay. Yeah. You have to be careful because Oh, I see. Yeah, this is a big the honor place. That’s sometimes we have concerts here or some some Oh, nice. So you don’t see the best. There’s an old old story about the amount of the windows of this castle. Okay. And they say, “Okay, you can count it.” And every new student got the question, count the windows, castle of langh because they say that there’s one more window as a big castle in front of the side. So how many windows does it have? I don’t know. Just Oh wow. This is a magnificent building. One of the oldest and beautiful uh universities. Really cool. Seriously, I know there are It’s massive. How many students can it take? Sh. It’s 440 m long. Mhm. It was also started in 1,720. Okay. Yeah. Break down. They build it up. Okay. Uh, was Germany uh um not Germany was Manheim heavily hit um during the war? Yes. Yes. Okay. But uh something not um we did with Caroline, we we did the guided tour. Okay. And it said okay um there was a lot of parts which were not broke down. Uhhuh. But the the ceiling went down. Oh, I see. Look at your Maybe we we try maybe we can look a little bit inside. Okay. Not here though. There’s museum of it. Oh, I see. It’s a big door. Just have a look. See? Wow. Look at these. Okay. Okay. Wow, it’s very beautiful. Make a guided tour. Okay. Awesome. So, we are here and walk like this. Mhm. You can use all this big big building. Okay. We we lived already in Manhattan for 20 years and then Caroline come visit us and this was the first time we make D through the through the it’s always like that you only do stuff and people do can they get there because this is a park we can go there see it a little bit That’s good. I want to go on the other side. How did you get Oh, okay. So, this is where nice. So, the top part is sort of like for the tourists and the bottom part is for the university. Don’t know which part. I think the the middle the middle is for the museum. Okay. And the rest is the university parts. Okay. You can try on that side. I think we can go through. It’s also for maybe we can see the the roof. There’s some place where the buildings are around with an entrance. And there goes the student parties. Ah. Yeah, that’s stupid. This is how how Manheim is explained. Let me show you something. If we are here. Yeah. And this is why we call the quadrat square city because you see every the the whole the whole city is organized in in in squares and they go from from A B C D E F G on the left side. Okay. And then on the right side from I think it starts on um L L M N O P Q R S T. Okay. And from then to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. So you work in in I work in N7. Okay. The street. It’s not a street, it’s a block. It’s not a street, it’s a block. It’s N7. And then the the numbers are five or six or around the block there. Wow, that’s very cool. That is Yeah, it is very famous for Manheim. They call theat. Okay. because everything is square and um everybody is asking from where where does it start and go and they say it’s easy one side to the right side very so the postal address is also like a block number y company’s postal address is 107 okay and seven five is the the the last number then. Okay. Which door in the block? All right. Good. This would be nice for Hidleber. Yep. Sunshine. I think it’s nice for a city to have students in it to have a university to have young people there, creative people there. Yeah. Lot of communities. You can rent bikes from the town. Mhm. This is a place where famous you can imagine here they control you can pay for entrance. Okay. Ah there’s a preparing something up down. Very good. Oh, something’s going to happen here. Very good. Looks like fun. Yeah. But surrounded by the building. Yeah. Snail snail corn place. Okay. Cool. Oh, and there’s the the library center and also a library for um economics here. Okay. So, see all the umbrellas inside where I see. Oh, it’s not really showing on the camera. The glare is too much. There is some one more here. Okay, everybody. I hope you enjoyed the walk through Malim with us. Make sure to visit Manim in Germany when you have the time. It’s there’s so much culture here and so much to see. Thank you, Yens. I had a great time. Okay, next video we are visiting H Highleberg. Hidleberg. All right, so until next time, thank you for subscribing. Thank you for liking. Until next time. Bye.
My good friend, Jens, was kind enough to show me around the city of Mannheim in Germany and we went exploring to find famous street art (grafitti). Thank you for a great day, Jens!
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