We Didn’t Expect Ulm to be THIS Beautiful! 🇩🇪 | Don’t Skip Ulm Germany

love your videos!

I lived in Ulm for 1 year ❤❤❤

I wonder why I always get hungry seeing your videos. 😀

Sehr gut. Brings memories. I used to stop for lunch once a week on way south with groups after an overnight in Kassel area. But only after the Autobahn 7 opened south of Wurzburg in 1987. Before that we went by Munich on the way to Tyrol and Italy. I never had time to climb the church tower, but some in the groups did. I DID godown to Fishermans quarter though. Yes, the center was pretty much destroyed in the war Dec 17 1944 by RAF. Like in Koln (Cologne) the Munster was spared and stood alone among the ruins. The target was truck factories, Magirus Deutz and Kassbohrer. And military barracks. Ulm had been a garrison town since the Napoleon days. Was a fortress with bastions, but didn't stop the good old Corsican on his way to Vienna 1805. Magirus Deutz is still a big truck maker and especially of fire trucks! Kassbohrerer started to build buses and Setra is considered the Rolls Royce of tour buses. As tour guide I know that very well. Most of my near 350 tours were in Setras. My rolling office for 25 years! The plant is in Neu-Ulm. You showed parts of a boat. Looked small, they were almost 20m long flat bottomed and transported wine and leather and other good down to Vienna since the late 17th c.They were first called Vienna boats, sort of, but later deragatory Ulmer Schachteln which stuck. (Ulm boxes) They had a little hut as cover in the middle and four big steering oars at the corners. I'm sure they had a copy or at least a modelin the museum, which obviously was closed during your visit. The journey took a week. (Downstream) and the barges were cut for firewood upon a rival. At the end of 18th c they also carried (rich religious, often illegal) emigrants to nowadays Hungary which also became the forefathers of the German population in Transylvania and northern Serbia. NB illegal EMIGRANTS, escapees from Swabia. not Immigrants! But it was a regulated expensive trade. Vienna was the first stop. The reason is a long story, not only religious. Many were also recruited by the Habsburg emperors/empress Maria Theresa to resettle lands recently freed from the Ottomans. Let's say that many men also escaped being sent to America and fight as mercenaries (the Hessians) for the English king who was also Prince of Hannover. They are called Donauschwaben, although in Romania Germans are still called Saxons. (In Hungary they are called Nemetsky. Nemeth is a common Hungarian name. Many of them fled the Russian army in 1944 and settled in West Germany and Austria. Like a closed circle. Transsylvania was called Siebenburgen. Dracula town Brasov was Kronstadt before 1919.

They waited until Cologne Cathedral was finished so that Ulm Minster could become the tallest church building in the world!
As you rightly pointed out, until the Sagrada Familia took its place. You’ll never see a cathedral like that completely free of scaffolding, since the restoration work never ends. The Cologne Cathedral workshop employs about 100 full-time stonemasons and other craftsmen and artists.
Great video, as always!

Leberkäse kommt von Laib und Kasten, nicht von Leber und Käse. Brotlaib, Kastenbrot.
Leberkäse gets its name from "Laib" (loaf) and "Kasten" (loaf pan), not from "Leber" (liver) and "Käse" (cheese). A loaf of bread, a loaf pan.

Otto Lilienthal was more successful than Breitlinger a little later (by 80 years🤣).
Achievement: While Berblinger landed in the Danube, Lilienthal is considered the first person to perform repeatable and controlled gliding flights. He completed about 2,000 flights.
German aviation pioneer Gustav Weißkopf (Gustave Whitehead) is said to have completed a powered flight in Bridgeport, Connecticut, as early as August 14, 1901—more than two years before the Wright brothers (December 17, 1903). Evidence such as over 274 newspaper reports and research by historian John Brown suggests that Whitehead was the first powered aviator.
So the Wright brothers were the first to be filmed doing it—clever.

Yes, that's always how I feel too when I see such objects from the Stone Age or am in such places. I once, a long time ago, visited the cave "Hole Fels", which is not far from Ulm either. There they found the oldest known musical instruments of Homo sapiens. Flutes that were carved from bird and mammoth bones 40,000 years ago. Flutes exactly like today's flutes with holes that you cover with your fingers to produce different notes. This cave is located on a ridge, and from there you can look into the valley. When you consider that our ancestors sat in front of the cave and made music there 40,000 years ago, it defies all imagination. The view of the valley must also have been incredible back then; large herds of buffalo, zebras, elephants, etc., grazed there, while lions, hyenas, and leopards hunted in between. And humans sat up there in front of the cave and were already processing all these impressions into works of art.

I also often go with my telescope to a place not far outside my city, there is an old stone grave from the Stone Age. Not nearly as old but also 6000 years old. Maybe I am just imagining it, but these places have something magical, I always feel at such places that our ancestors are watching over my shoulder.

What another great video here, folks. I havent stopped in Ulm in decades, but after seeing this video, it solidifies my sure return on my next trip. I enjoyed all of the sites as well as the legend, so funny. Ahhh, the cake and coffee looked absolutely amazing, and I need to visit that place as well. I would love to stay at the Schiefes haus, so cool. BTW, thanks for the fascinating geography lesson between New Ulm and Ulm, I had no idea. I will also make it a point to climb the Berblinger Turm, and I will make sure to hold on, lol. So cool that Ulm is where Albert Einstein was born!! I REALLY need to find the Blautopf in Blaubeuren. I have always wanted to see this. Thank you for another incredible video, Lee & Betty!!!

Show the bad parts.