Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Day 1 Koblenz #germany #denmark #travel #traveling #vacation #koblenz

Germany and Denmark Trip 2025 Day 1 Koblenz #germany #denmark #travel #traveling #vacation #koblenz

Hi, Joyce Stage the MTO misses. And so it’s that time again. We’re gonna share our vacation videos. And hopefully if you just want to know what these cities look like, this will be a good resource for you. So, uh, we started off in the city of Cooblins and Co, uh, in Germany and, uh, we’ve been at Coobls before, but previously it’s been with students. So, it was very nice for just the two of us to be able to, uh, walk around and see what we could see in Cooblan. So, it’s such a pretty city. Uh, you know, it’s right where the Deutsches Ek is. So, um, you have those two rivers coming together. And I just love the rivers all always. So, um it’s just a beautiful classic old city. Hey everybody, Joyce and I are in Coblins. Uh we didn’t film our traveling yesterday or meeting with Arty, but we took some pictures. Uh first thing we’re doing is we’re heading to a model train shop to see if they can fix one of my locomotives I brought with me. And hopefully they’ll let me film in there. How are you doing our first day? Good. Joyce, a woman of few words. We are coming up on the Kik Schllo which means what English choice? Electro Prince. The Electractor Prince Palace. Yep. Now I This building has some sort of local function. I don’t think it’s the congressional, you know, the but there’s there’s something based in it now. Then you’ve got actually the public skate park is over here. And then there’s a children’s playland over here. But you got your traditional palace arrangement. You always had the palace in the middle, especially the enlightenment era. You have the palace in the middle and then over here you’d have matching you have matching uh servants quarters. This is where all your cooks and butlers would stay on one side and then the other side. So you can see it’s actually bigger than when you first catch it. You’ve got the one servants quarter and then you have the various offices and access halls. The main residence and then all the same things on the other side. Everything especially at this time of the enlightenment was about balance and symmetry. Get a shot of what’s inside here. A couple of gorgeous horses uh guarding the stairwells up to whatever it goes. Thought we might be able to go through, but we are in the Schlush Garden Castle Gardens. Obviously not a Sansusi or some of the other ones we’ve been relatively small here, but they were on one of the major rivers here. And if you go down to the river here, you’ll see Aaron Brightstein up on the Mhm. And then we’ll walk the river pathway to Deutsches E. But the park does go far that way. Obviously, there’s construction this way, both on the bridge and others down there that way. Oh, okay. But yeah, that entrance is all blocked off. But usually you can come through here from the walk along the river and come up this way and get in, but that’s all closed. And there you can just see some of Aaron Brightstein back there. So, more of the gardens here. We’re going to take a circular around path. and head down to the rine. Walk along the rine towards Aaron Brightstein and the Deutscheek. Okay. Do you remember the name of that castle? Sarah Brunchstein. And in 2008, we stayed in that castle. Very, very musty smell. Well, there’s a youth hostel up there. And we stay the first time we came down here with students, we stayed there. Um, and yeah, you had to train station, well, train stop, dropped you off right there. And you had to walk along the long hill and all the way up and it was a very steep a steep steep grade. We had some students that did not farewell with that. And then you got the little castle over here. And I don’t think you can see from here down the ways from here is the river Lan comes in and there’s a castle on the corner of lawn. Uh the bridge might be blocking the view of the castle. I don’t know. So, some of the medieval wall that guarded the original house. That house remodeled within the last couple hundred years. Probably dates back to the uh 1600s. But these medieval walls probably date back 1300s, 1400s. Because this area of the rine, even this doesn’t look like an old castle. That castle goes back to the uh late 1100s, 1200s, but it’s been rebuilt. the Prussians fortified it and made it a major uh defensive structure uh re rebuilt it in the uh 1800s as a major fortress and structure to guard the Ryan River against any French aggression which that even goes back to the 1700s. uh the war of the palletate succession, the war of uh hell even back to the 30 years war. All right, so you can just barely see a tower of St. Cerstor’s Basilica. It’s a cathedral and a basilica. And we are heading to the Deutsches with the new they had just built the cable car system. Our second to last trip I think 20 I forget if it went in 2011 2013. Our last trip to Cooblins was in 2015 and these were definitely running then but 2011 I think they were in two or maybe not in Brightstein but come along some of these uh governmental riverfront buildings. This building has been through many incarnations that’s gone through. Prussians built this when they became overlords of uh the Copeland’s area, part of their various uh expansions in the 1800s. And of course, always sending the message. You’ve got some classic mythical German characters, knights and kings, because the Prussians were very much about trying to advertise that they were the inheritors of uh the German nationalism. Beginning in the early 1800s with the fall in 1806 of the Holy Roman Empire, there was a call by many new people have a unified German state. But the Austrians, the Saxons, the Rhin Palitinate, the various rulers all kind of, you know, nobody was going to be part of a country they weren’t in charge of. Obviously certain states were more powerful but slowly Prussia through marriage and wars and conquest garnered more and more territory. So this is called the Prussian government building when they basically took over the lands of this part of the rhinland politate. I don’t know if that occurred in 1815 or 1822 or even later. Jo and I were just talking. Not used to seeing this many cruise ships when we were here with the students. Probably cuz we came at different times of the day. This is about 2:00 in the afternoon. We normally were here with the students early in the morning. But they they also one of the years we were down here they were reconstructing so they may have just built new ones. Obviously we were talking about the uh cable car complex. This was new. There was a different building here. The earlier I mentioned the tower of s casters. Here you can see the towers better. I think the other tower must have been the government building but you can see the tower of St. Cast’s basilica. We’ll get a better view of that when we come around the Deutsches E. For my rail spotting fans, there’s a train. From here, I can’t tell. I assume a 185 185 186. Yeah, but there’s a down here. Here you can see there’s a little sighting. There’s actually a loco on it. Right. There’s a loco on it and some freight. Looks like a freight museum in about 5 minutes. Oh yeah. Well, there’ll be a lot of trains going through there. I keep hoping maybe if I’m going to rail fan. Taking way too catch one of the passenger trains going through. We’re walking along what is called the rine ufa the bank of the rine and looking at the cable cars crossing. First few times we came to Copeland, those weren’t there. But they were building them like uh our 2010. They’re waving. I thought they tourism boats coming in the Sioban cuz they built this bond because Copeland’s won a big international festival. The right to hold the festival here. It was a international garden show. So they built all this stuff. But when we first started coming down to Copeland’s, there were stairs, long stairs. You could walk down here and actually get to the riverside. Um, you can still see some of them over here, but they were blocked off or under construction, but they used to be here as well. Now, back preWorld War II, they actually had swimming here. They had little swimming areas blocked off, and you can go look up pictures of people swimming, but Yeah, you can still see, but now they’re blocked off where you can’t actually get out to him anymore. One of the most famous sites at Deutsches Ek is this big guy. Do you remember who that is? Frederick. What? That’s Frederick. Vilhelm. Wilhelm. Vilhelm Esta. Vilhelm Deosa. That is Kaiser Wilhelm. Kaiser. William. He was William the third or fourth of Prussia, but William the 1 of United Germany. He was the first emperor of the second empire. You know, you always heard Hitler called Germany the third Reich because Reich is German for empire or kingdom. And so the first empire is what we call the Holy Roman Empire. The second empire was this guy and his son and grandson’s rule from 1871 to end of World War I 1918. And then Hitler called his the third like the third empire. But uh he built they built this here to say this is our land. Of course this was Germany. This is the Ryan River. France is a ways over that way now. But this was sort of like the Ryan River was a natural border between what is pure German. And then the areas that were like als Germany and France claim territory but they did at one time belong to the Holy Roman Empire which was German. So you got him up there. Yep. Right. So, this is the toes. What do we have, dear? Here, I’m going to back up and let you yak on camera here. You can look at me and do it. This is where the uh the confluence of the Mosul and the Ryan rivers meet. And confluence is where coins got its name. It’s Latin Confluenza became cooblins. Yep. So I would say typically you can see the different colors of the river. I’m not seeing them today. You can kind of see it zigzagged. Although a better view would be that way when the sun comes out cuz you’ll see it’s sun conditions that are changing it. But you can see where the um where the currents are mixing here. Yeah, cuz the Mosul flows out of France, the mountains, I think, out of France. Comes up through here and then it flows here and it’s kind of hard to see, but there’s a zigzag and that’s where the mosul ends and the rhyme continues. But you’ll see different shades kind of see right there. I’m going to see if Joyce wants to go up there and get a view. Do you want to go up into the statue or like been there, done that? Been there, done that. Okay. Make sure there are videos from there. But we’re good in the big camping ground here. But we’re going to catch a train and go that way on Sunday. Not Saturday. No, Saturday we’re going that way. Ah, okay. Saturday we’re going to Aim. Oh, gotcha. And then Sunday and Monday is Kokum and Trier. Explore the line fairly extensively. These little Yeah, these little pieces here are special. They weren’t They’ve always been here, but these are actually pieces of the Berlin Wall. When the Berlin Wall was being torn down, uh several German cities asked for sections uh sort of in celebration of the reunification of Germany. Now, if I remember correctly, that was originally called the Deutsch House. There’s a similar named place in Hanover and then St. Casters is there on the other side of these old walls. But they have done a lot of work on this area since we were last here. It has been 10 years since we were here with students and we didn’t we did come to the Deutsches with our students but then we went back the other way. I don’t recall us coming this way with the students because I think we were sort of in a hurry with that trip. I remember this was a quieter street, but this is Sasto’s Basilica. In some ways, I guess you could say it was I don’t know if you can say it’s the most important church, but a basilica is a place where official functions go, such as uh priest being uh ordained and so on. I will go this way. I give you a nice view. Hopefully, I’ll remember to flip this when I edit the video. Take two. We are coming up on Gus Platz. Gus Platz is named after Ysef Gurus who was a late 18th early 19th century writer. Late 1700s early 18s writers who actually had a very interesting and sometimes politically troubled career as a writer. He started off as a staunch supporter of the French Revolution and overthrowing the tyranny of monarchy. But as he watched where the French Revolution went and the rise of Napoleon, he became very uh outspoken against Napoleon, which of course Napoleon controlled much of Germany in the early 1800s. and he felt that calls for democracy and democratic revolution led to well led to bad things and therefore you needed strong central government. uh he was born Catholic and so towards the end of his career he became quite a uh proapist uh writer that you need a strong central government and the pope should definitely dictate the morality of the country many folks could disagree anyhow of course platir this is typical of many cities in Germany you have a fountain which will often tell the city’s history there’s a cool one not nearly as big as this one. There’s a cool one in Oatsbrook, but I haven’t been to Oatsbrook since 2016. Uh, but this tells the history of the city from its founding and you know the you see the Rinemen rowing a boat and carrying um caskets of wine and beer and going up Roman times. The great fire of the city is there. and the rebuilding of the city and the unrest of the plagues and the uh various civil wars, the great peasant revolt as well as the 30 years war which really started as a Holy Roman Empire civil war but expanded from there. Oh yes. Okay, we are in plots and they’ve really expanded some of the restaurants and shops here. When we were here with the students, it was never this packed with people here, but this was a Jesuit. You can tell Jesuit um they will have Jesuit buildings from the Renaissance on had this exact shape. They would have this little triangle bit shape, the large rosary window and such. And Jesuits really became the church’s uh education program. There’s actually a much darker side to that, but they really became known as the great educators. I went to a Jesuit high school. Um, but this was a Jesuit uh school and college and the town hall is on the other side of this or the old town hall I should say. And this is the Schlango wound holding in his fountain. There is a story to this kid and I’ll have to put a picture up and I don’t remember exactly but basically he is spitting water and there’s a story as to why he’s doing it but it’s a it’s actually a very famous site. So this is the old rock in this area right here. the second Rod House building. Rod House Kabota. You can see it says here Rod House Kabo. Okay, there he is. There he is. I don’t know if it’s coming out on camera, but yeah, he spits water, but he was he was a bit of a prankster. And to this day, you dance around, put on the fountain, sit on the fountain, and you don’t know when he’s going to spit, but all of a sudden, he’ll just start spitting water on you. And It is really nice on a hot day. If I haven’t mentioned a hot day, it’s actually 10° warmer than they originally projected it would be. Uh when we looked at the 10day forecast, they said low 70s. We are in the mid upper 80s. Well, I should say low to mid 80s. But this is the house kabit. This is the second Rott House building. The original is gone, but this is the second. And this is not the main Rott House anymore. So, this whole area is Rat House. And this is the second half in the main part of the Rat House. So you go in there and you have the city hall and up there you can see it says be. There’s no way you’re going to get this all in a picture. So but I think we need to pause and get a drink. This street is called Altonhoff and we live at number four Altonhof which is uh I don’t know if you can see my hand there. There’s a grayish building there. Uh just past the sign that says dream style here. So yeah, there you can see it. Put my finger in there. We live there. That’s our apartment. And then around the corner from Alto is the Moon’s Plats with some of its famous grimmers. Okay, this area is Moon’s Plats and it’s got a couple of famous little bits. Uh they used to Mun’s coin. So back in the middle ages and that the coin makers would have been here in German cities occupations were gilded and they uh stayed together. So there’s this little story of uh the mat pow cabbage and potato lady. And basically the story of the statue is that uh he’s writing her a ticket for not having a license to sell her farm goods and he says, “But you’ve already arrested my husband for it.” So she’s got to make her money. You can’t arrest me. You already arrested my husband. And how many times I’ve had students play at this fountain on a hot day, but this is the main site. Now, there are some areas of Copeland we don’t go to. Now, this here you can’t quite see. Um, this building here has two boys, but there’s two boys in the picture here, but that’s Maxim Maritz. Now, back in the 1890s through the 2000 1900s, uh there were um a couple there’s a comic strip called the cats and jammer kids or cats and yammer kids and they were based on the exploits of Maximar. Maximarites were two little boys that would get into trouble and actually it’s a very dark and tragic story in the end. and they wind up getting killed in a chicken factory. But uh but they were pranksters and troublemakers. And um this place is called the Maxaritz Grill. And not that has anything to do with the story. And uh over the years, my students and I would come here and eat. They actually make good American style burgers. We haven’t eaten there yet, but we will. Uh, so that was uh uh it’s a fun place and we peaked in and I think the same family still owns it. But that’s the Maximar Reets Grill. Yeah, it’s fun. All right. So, this is Florence M and St. Florence Kosha. And this was I’m probably forgetting, but uh there’s a story to the face underneath the uh clock, but uh this was like a taxation house cuz you had the ships from the uh coming up the Mosul River would dock on this side of the river cuz the Mosel is just past that area here. And this was the I believe this was the zolon the tax office. I could be wrong. And then you had St. Florence Church and this was Fen’s marked market because the sailors would uh the ships coming in could set up goods to sell here after being checked by the text. Okay. Is he coming through here? It’s quite possible. Well, he’s got to turn signal on. Oh, okay. I didn’t see that. And again, the tight angles we get. This is a uh 1760 1770s apartment house built in cobs a you zoom in on the sign there. Shape bahula’s phone house the late Baroque era bone house which was rebuilt and remodeled in the 1980s. Oh, this is the one, right? Again, not going to be able to get this in, but this is the last stop on this tour of uh for today. This is the lead fra. which dates to the 1200s. Although it’s been rebuilt and remodeled a few times since then. So this is the biggest in maybe the major church building. It’s the lee faith of maidens if you want to be more polite language but it means the virgin’s church lead foul does not necessarily mean the virgin Mary it can but the lead foul is any virginal woman’s turn around see if I can get it all And I’m not thinking so cuz it’s just corners are just too tight to do that no matter how you do it. And then the church community that goes with it. Well, now it’s a cafe, but the old church buildings, the priest would have had a house here. Okay, we were here a bit earlier, but didn’t really get a good video of it. This is Pat’s house, the old Uh how would you translate Viet House? Vieta is economy. So it’s sort of the old uh trade house or sort of like a middle age version of a stock brokerage. You know, stock exchange. That’s what I’m looking for. But different definitely different than a stock exchange. That’s cool.

Our 2025 Trip saw us returning to Germany with an excursion into Denmark. We saw many new and wonderful things.

Please Note that we are not professional travel folks, just happy tourists enjoying wherever we go. Also, Anthony narrates the video as he is the videographer and I am the photographer. We put these videos on my channel so he can keep his focused on trains, and I have some content.