FACTS ABOUT GERMANY

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT GERMANY

1.               Modern Berlin is only 26 years old! The city has been around since at least 1237, when it is believed to have been found. But modern Berlin was really born with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

2.               Germans have the strangest queens – the Apple Queen, Saxon Fish Queen, Beer Queen and more.

3.                 Germans like square pillows instead of rectangles. And the pillows are huge, so beware if you bring your own pillowcases from home!

4.               Germans don’t have house numbers. The postman delivers mail by the last name, even in apartment blocks.

5.              When you go to eat at a restaurant in Germany, don’t expect the automatic glass of water. You have to buy your bottled water here. In fact, beer used to be cheaper than water in Germany!

6.               The cost of dying in Germany is high – strict laws regarding funerals mean that there is less competition in the funeral industry and costs are really high!

7.                Germans enjoy egg-fighting in Easter. Take a hardboiled egg and smash it on your opponent’s egg and see whose cracks first. Search for Eiercatchen rules, to see how it’s played!

8.                Join the crazy Schwalbe race with your moped or scooter. This is an over fifty-year old traditional race that hasn’t lost its spirit to macho bike races.

9.                Denying the holocaust is a crime in Germany. It’s obvious why, but it seems a silly thing to do even if you are a neo-Nazi!

10.            You won’t find many locals asking to take leftovers home from restaurants.

11.            The Crazy Ice-cream Maker (Der verrückte Eismacher) in Munich has the strangest ice creams you could think of, including fries with ice cream.

12.            Germany’s national language is German.

13.            The internet country code for Germany is .de.

14.            Germany imports: machinery, data processing equipment, vehicles, chemicals, oil and gas, metals, electric equipment, pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, agricultural products.

15.            Germany shares a border with Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

16.            The total population of Germany is 80,722,792.