Meissen: World-Renowned Porcelain and Germany's Oldest Castle | Hannah Hummel on Tour in Saxony
Destination Culture: Discover Germany’s oldest castle! Hannah Hummel travels back in time in Albrechtsburg Castle. The site in Meissen used to house Europe’s first porcelain producer. Porcelain designers show Hannah how the material is being further developed today. She also visits the picturesque old town and learns the interesting story behind the Meissner Fummel - a unique pastry, where fragility plays an essential role.
00:00 Intro
00:54 Albrechtsburg castle in Meissen
05:08 Meissen's old town
09:31 Exhibition, production and design atelier of Meissen porcelain
17:46 An Australian in Meissen
21:44 Photographer Eric Franke
24:52 Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady) in Meissen
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Intresting and informative travelogue friend Hannah hummel
A dream it would be to travel 🧳 Germany and see these beautiful Castles 🏯🏰 in Germany
I live there :> its nice to see my home in a different perspective then usual :D
Great that we could show you a new view of your homeland. 😃
Hannah literally has the best job
Oh the confusion with castle (Burg) and castle (Schloss), it took me a second to get that difference. If you want to call it 'oldest' it would have been more understandable if you said palace, chateau, residence or manor house. It is not the oldest castle (Burg) in Germany, however the oldest castle (Schloss) in Germany ;)
Thank you - we've already been struggling several times with this confusing castle thing 😆.
Burg is a castle,,,Schloss is a Palace,,,there is a BIG difference
@@DWTravel a Burg = castle is simular to a fortress and has a military and strategic purpose. In Germany you will easily find a Burg or a Burg ruin which is older than the one in Meißen. A Schloss = palace or chateau has a residential and representative character. Sometimes there are fluid boundaries and this might be the case in Meißen as well: former castles were remodelled to serve as a residence etc. The period in the 19th century can be particularly tricky, when there was a romantic view towards the Middle ages. It became fashionable to build residences which look like castles or using architectural fearutes of castle. But all there defense features are fake and for pure decoration only: Schloss Wernigerode in the Harz mountains, Schloss Marienburg near Hannover or Neuschwanstein in Bavaria to name a few. Anyhow, Albrechsburg is regarded to be the oldest "Schloss" in what is today Germany, but it is not the oldest castle or Burg.
PALACE = WITH ORNAMENTS AND MOBILIARS CASTLE= EMPTY USUALLY AND AT THE TOP ON HILLS
Meissenand Dresdaen are treasures. They are absolutely beautiful and nreath taking
Can't remember when I enjoyed a video so much! Thank you, guys + guysettes!
DW has the best culture programs ever.
Wonderful, thank you😍greetings from Meissen...
She is one of the best travel guides.
Gorgeous city! Thank you for the upload. 🎄🎄🎄
@Jann Thanks for watching!🎅🏽
Wonderful Hannah, a true breath a fresh air. More please.
I love the D /W travel and news programming, one of the best in the world. I was stationed with US Air Force in Europe for 10 years in the eighties. The happiest time of my life. I really need to check out the eastern part of Germany.
So beautiful ! Saxony is really worth visiting for Old World enthusiasts… i loved every minute of it. I loved Saxons, too 😁
Gorgeous beautiful place and city ❤
OutStanding !
It's especially good to get insights into Meissen's fabulous porcelain-making!
You got something important wrong here. The Albrechtsburg is not Germany's oldest castle, there are many much older castles in Germany, it was Germany's first palace. And that is the special thing about it, because only in the late Middle Ages the rulers and very rich began to built large homes not to be protected and to sit out something like a siege in safety, but to live in a home that is just beautiful, artful and luxurious.
This was an exceptional work! I have always heard of Meissen porcelain so this was interesting to me. The beautiful Late Gothic architecture was exceptional as well. I hope to visit the Dresden and Leipzig area in the coming months as it is one area of Germany I haven't visited. Great video.
Meissen is the City of Drugs 😂😂
Thanks for your nice feedback! We hope your plans come true and you can visit Saxony soon.
Don’t miss Radebeul! There you can find the traces of the man who invented Winnetou and Old Shatterhand! And if you have some time left, go to Görlitz and from there to Herrenhut. Buy you one of the Herrenhuter Stars, it’s one of the very few authentic souvenirs from Germany, and when you hang up this star in Christmas time you will always remember .
Wow, amazing, what a great place. 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
I live there. its alrite xD
Ich liebe Sachsen
Amazing video, as always! I live in Dresden since past 3 years and haven't visted Meissen. I plan to visit it in early Feb
What amazingly invaluable informative fuel to my research of fine porcelain, can't thank you enough!
lol i live here and worked right in front of the Castle in a Hotel. Its my Hometown. Sometimes i smoke a fiew joints with friends on the castles front yard, Amazing view. haha
🙃 Greetings to Meißen!
Very beautiful place.
Cool video Hannah. This town Meissen looks so amazing, not too small and not too big. Love when you do these longer vids
Thanks!
Amazing place.
What a lovely video! Thanks for sharing it with us!
So Good ❤
Dresden 😘 Meißen 🥳😍✌️😃👍🍀🎉
I LOVE GERMANY!
Yet another great episode, thanks Hannah!
Another great show. Thanks
home❤❤❤
Born in Nurnberg and wish my destiny would bring me back😢
love my Villeroy & Boch porcelain 🤙🇩🇪🇩🇪
謝謝用心拍攝這麼好的視頻
Hannah would make a Great Queen. Wow. another Great video. I am a year late. Still a great video!
Hallöchen aus Meißen
Im Prinzip ein sehr schöner Beitrag. Allerdings sind die Lauf- und Fahrwege so wirr zusammen geschnitten, dass es einem als Ortskundigem ganz schwindelig wird 🧐
When looking at old buildings in Germany I’d like to know, were they rebuilt or were they untouched from the war?
Some cities, such as Meissen, were largely spared from the air raids in WW II- but there are of course some cities that were badly affected - there the old structures were partially restored.
Hello, I love your video and your style. Your "Green" partner is pretty awesome as well :). I am now a "Hannah Hummel" fan :) !!!!! BTW, I visit Germany every chance that I get and I will certainly visit Meissen thanks to you. O am actually hosting a KZhead meetup on 1 July 2023 in Heidelberg and I will do my best to visit Meissen before I head back to the US. :) !!
So sweet ❤
Schönes Video wenn man aus der stadt kommt
You did an exceptionel job, dear Hannah. Why do I know that for sure? I am one of the inhabitants of this most beautiful city in Germany. Its very elating to go fishing at the river Elbe and enjoy this splendid cityside and landscape. Thanks Hannah for this little documentary. If you visit again, let me know. So I can show you a lot of other interesting things, you didnt mention yet. ;-) God bless you!
Thank you so much!
@@DWTravel , you are more than welcome, dear Hannah!
I'm an Australian, watching because my great great grandfather was a German scientist who helped improve German porcelain. We are related to the von Westphalens also, but I don't know if it is the same family as from Meissen.
You must be proud of your ancestor. If you have the opportunity you should definitely visit the city of Meissen. There is a very good porcelain museum there.
Fellow Aussie My family is from Meissen from my dads side
what a smile :)
I live there 🖐🥰
Same 😂🥰
Marry Christmas😇🍰
@sourabh dhami 👼🏽🎅🏽🎄!
@@DWTravel 😊😇🍑🍒
11:36 I never expected to see an adidas here 😲
What's up with that VW Bug? Heavily modified or some limited edition I'm not aware of that is not available overseas?
So, Hannah steps out of the car, says "let's have a closer look", AND BEGINS FLYING OVER THE ^%$%%& COUNTRYSIDE!!!!!
😍
How can I see this video with its original audio?
@Eduardo Carlos Benites Check the German Version of Hannah's Saxony Trip on DW Doku - it'll be uploaded to the playlist soon 👉🏽 bit.ly/3F7Jp5S ☕
@@DWTravel vielen Dank, ich werde mein Deutsch üben
WV makes electric cars in a huge factory in the same area.
Strange translation. The lady is saying pomegranate in German when describing the porcelain pattern, but the English translation is saying melon.
Well, she's actually saying "These aren't actually onions, they are melons(...)and every now and then a pomegranate. " Watch again 👉 11:00
💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻🇩🇪
Meißen is written with an „ß“ instead of ss.
@Lina Jürgensen In English it says "Meissen" 😘
You can write it both ways :)
@@just-me9128 just not SS. Lol
This girl is very good looking
Which car you ride?
VW Beetle convertible
@@DWTravel Very Good. I want to join DW Travel. And want to make travel video for all over the world.
The war took our pieces of Meissen porcellan, i hope, who took it, appreciates it!
How sad!
About the banquetting hall, there is à joke in France when too much lamps are lit on. Hey, ...It is not Versailles here.!
Ah, funny 😃
Why does he say this is the oldest castle in Germany? Burg Eltz was completed much earlier.
Now that's a tricky one. In German, there are two meanings for a ‘castle’. One is a "Burg" (a fortress, built for protection) and one is a "Schloss"(a palace with playfull architecture, gardens, etc.) And to make it even more complicated: The differences sometimes blur.. But if we start from this definition above, Albrechtsburg Castle is indeed the oldest German castle (Palace) . 😅😉
@@DWTravel Thanks for the clarification! I had just watched the Burg Eltz video (my favorite castle), so I remember they said it was completed in 1311. But it is definitely not a Schloss. :)
Jmd Mcces ?
If that castle could speak wonder what kind of story it will tell.
24:04 Y U NO LANDSCAPE 😭
City of Dr. Hahnemann
1:46 "Hello, good morning" Old dude proceeds to 3 hours presentation about the history of his joint
Why Germany has many castle?
@Polpilteus In Europe in the Middle Ages there were very many small states, some of which were enemies of each other - the best defences were large fortified buildings made of stone..🏰
Diggi erstmal C und Hardtekk oder?
Hi sister I'm from 🇧🇩🇧🇩 your car Mr bean
U and Ur green car
Wenn die Nase einmal in Meißen läuft
Nu
德國真美
Dr frienderich samuel hahnemann birth place No one comment 😮 about it
That's right. Since this is a travel channel we covered the more obvious touristic aspects of Meissen. Hahnemann and his life in Meissen is rather a side aspect in the city from our point of view. Greetings!
Everything is good from this video, except her car is modified into an EV. I don't like EVs.
No fuel costs, no pollution, no noise. What's not to like. I love a V8 too, but electric vehicles are awesome. Get with the times.
Saxony would be beautiful, if only it wouldn´t be full of Saxons.
Stupid and primitive statement ! What do you have against the Saxons ?
without Saxons Saxony wouldn't be like it is ...
Kinda sucks and discouraging that the guy at the beginning, the tour guide and the museum manager could not speak English and had to be dubbed, given that they work in the tourist industry 🙄
Oh come on...how can you make docu-material like this...voice-overs will always be something not to trust! Even media does it, so its not reliable. Let the man speak and put translation on it, that's the least you can do.
@Sophie Snow "even media does it s o it its not reliable." That does not make any sense, don't you think. If you wish subs instead of voice overs- fair enough, we'll discuss it.
You would look so pretty in an old Victorian dress. Though it's not too practical to wear all the time. I love how you like the old style fancy life. The places you visit are so cool and nice to visit with you on here.