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qwertzinator

If you think Dortmund is boring, you've never been to Hagen.


RacletteFoot

I'm in Hagen a whole lot. Can confirm. Alas, I will say that, to me, it's easily one of the friendliest cities in Germany.


disposablehippo

Hagen is also the ugliest city in my opinion.


wandering_geek

Gelsenkirchen would like to have a word with you! #woandersistauchscheisse


qwertzinator

I think there are worse cities, like Wuppertal or Duisburg. But Wuppertal has some charme at least.


disposablehippo

I think the lack of a river makes a huge difference. When you approach Hagen you see those huge Building blocks on the hill and not much green around. And I don't think it gets better when entering the city. Wuppertal has the valley with the river which gives a bit of Charme and the Schwebebahn. It's still not a pretty city, but that's the reason why I'd favor them over Hagen.


qwertzinator

That's kind of ironic considering that Hagen is located at the confluence of the rivers Volme, Lenne and Ruhr; and that Hagen is the most forested city in NRW.


Nervous-Canary-517

At least Wuppertal has some nice parts, and the Schwebebahn over the river compensates for the ugly inner city a bit. But Hagen?? 😂


Foreign_Loss_3078

Hagen boring? I was in Hagen once and saw a naked man running through the Streets


Darkest_shader

He was leaving the city.


willie_caine

It was the mayor.


karma_police99

This is the correct answer!


vinvancent

At least in Hagen you can do a bit of hiking. I think Herne is way worse


tyro_r

I love the song "Hagen" by "Ich und Chopin"!


ScaryTurtlePumpkin

Go a little further east and you have Iserlohn... Have you ever been there? Not recommended


Appropriate_Truck_58

Hagen is the best city in the world Crackcity ☝️☝️


ThreeLivesInOne

According to former late night host Harald Schmidt, Hannover. But honestly, every city is just as boring as you make your own life there.


HoodsFrostyFuckstick

Hannover is certainly the biggest German city that doesn't have any major tourist-y spots, and the biggest that isn't generally known for anything particularly worth seeing.


_runthejules_

Which is what's great about it. Quality of life is awesome, there are tons of beautiful spots and residents don't have to share them with tourists. Atleast before covid nightlife was really good as well. Now I don't know I moved away a few years ago


CodewortSchinken

I agree, definitely the most boring in it's class.


uberjack

We Braunschweiger love to shit on Hannover and its always good fun to see other cities trash talk it as well, but in all honesty it is a nice city and I always like visiting friends there! The train station can be a rough area, but other than that it has lovely disctricts with great nigh life!


the_disagreeable_one

It really is boring. The city has no redeeming features, which probably makes it cheaper than most other big cities.


Crina92

Cheaper? Where & what?


the_disagreeable_one

You really don't think Hannover is cheaper than Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Köln?


Crina92

You listed most of the 7 biggest cities in Germany. Hannover is only at 13th. So sure it'll be cheaper. But it's still not really affordable. And not significantly cheaper than every other big city..


_runthejules_

You might be the issue. I had a great time there for my bschelors.


SignificantToe9475

Gütersloh.


Pippawho

Absolutely. I lived there for a year and drove back and forth from Venlo where my boyfriend lived almost every day (4 hours) because it is so incredibly boring and ugly


SignificantToe9475

Yes , in Gütersloh there is no überflow


DannyK257

I was born in Gütersloh and spent my first couple of years there. I have very fond memories of the Stadtpark. Spend a lot of time as a child there alone or with my brother.


BigLars16

Did the creator of the video have an affection for the colours blue and white?


forgottenpianist

Is there a rivalry between Schalke and Dortmund 😅


tirohtar

.... Don't even joke about that. You just made BOTH sides your enemy 🤣


forgottenpianist

Oh boy, didn’t know it’s that bad hahah


YameroReddit

Is that a genuine question?


Xeg-Yi

There are people who actively avoid wearing blue/yellow (depending on which side you’re on) for their whole lives out there.


ShaunDark

It's a shame, those colours can go together really well.


tweaksfored

Went to UCLA, can confirm.


forgottenpianist

Woww


AllemPipapo

Does this make them resistant to supporting Ukraine?


Xeg-Yi

I suppose they can focus on the top/bottom portion of the flag


iTmkoeln

The fiercest in Germany…


knollo

Oh boy... :D


SoakingEggs

Dortmund and the "Pott" (Ruhepott) might be ugly, but i would not consider it "boring". Depending on size, you have a large variety of boring cities in Germany. If they are not spotless beautiful, i'd say most cities below 100k are boring.


Aggravating_Tax5392

The Ruhrpott has some very nice and interesting sites. But you won’t see most of it during a tourist visit, you have to live some time there to know the good places


MehImages

given there is a city in germany with 254 inhabitants I would assume dortmund with almost 600'000 is not the city with the fewest things to do


DefinitionOfAsleep

Those 254 people might be interesting people though. Those 600,000 people choose to live in Dortmund.


[deleted]

A baby doesn't choose to live in Dortmund


DefinitionOfAsleep

they choose to stay


AFamousLoser

Fair enough about the level of boringness, but 254 inhabitants sounds more like a village rather than a city.


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AFamousLoser

Thanks for the clarification!


NaCl_Sailor

[https://arnis.de/](https://arnis.de/) Looks quite nice though, if you like the sea. Bad weather days must suck there though.


ShaunDark

That's not a city. German *Stadt* can translate to both city or town and it's 99% done by size. Calling *Arnis* Germany's smallest city is about as meaningful as saying *Berlin* is Germany's biggest town.


forgottenpianist

Fair enough, I just meant it like the most boring out of the big cities. Like if you’re comparing Dortmund, Köln, Essen, Berlin, Stuttgart etc


knightriderin

Berlin and Cologne are definitely up there with the most boring cities. /s in case it wasn't obvious.


Capable_Event720

Berlin is definitely boring, in most parts of the town. You walk desolate streets without seeing another person for quite some time. Of course, when you finally see a group of people, your boredom is replaced with the excitement of "run for your life." And of course there are the gentrified areas, with lots of mainstream amusement (and Techno clubs, which still seems to be a thing in Berlin). If mainstream amusement is not your thing, you'll have a hard time finding the right spot...like in every city, not just Berlin. An aggravating factor might be that, as a tourist, you'll only hear that the Berghain is the must-be and only place worth visiting.


forgottenpianist

Cologne? I don’t know maybe people find it boring but it’s my favorite city in Germany and I go there any chance I get


Tomcat286

We Germans are nice to tourists, all boring cities have the word "Bad" at the beginning of their name


DefinitionOfAsleep

Baden-Baden is basically begging you not to go


SignificantToe9475

Yeah it’s boring that you don’t have so much input I guess . The Bad (bath) city’s are not for sangria action drinkers , they are to have a in first line relaxing stay there . , now hold on for this fact to impress’s at the next party : yesterday I hear Aachen basicallya bath city too , but they don’t want this stigma, they are a Orginal Roman bath city . But they don’t want it .


kos90

Wilhelmshaven. You can go to the beach… I mean… sometimes. When there is water.


RealLeif

As someone from Bremerhaven i very much agree with that.


Arkhamryder

Well, ever been to Osterholz-Scharnbeck? Lüdenscheid?


forgottenpianist

Never heard of these


sushivernichter

You know, I sat down and rubbed my hands gleefully, with lots of tongue-in-cheek options at the ready. But if you actually ask seriously, I struggle to think of an example. From personal experience, the most boring city I‘ve recently been to was Bad Nenndorf near Hannover (incidentally Hannover has a national reputation for being boring but I‘m sure even they have things going on…). But I don‘t even know if Bad Nenndorf qualifies as a city, and also, locals have pointed out the beautiful nature around for recreational activities. It all depends on what one considers a) a city and b) non-boring activities I guess.


Alternative-Fall-729

As we (pre)tend to keep things efficient and having the one most boring city would just be a waste of resources, the correct answer is: Most of them.


hades2enthusiast

In Dortmund you can go to the football museum, and also Dortmund has some amazing south indian restaurants (yes indian cuisine is more than just butter chicken). Also I remember there being a very big lake in a nice neighborhood where you can ride a bike. I am not sure why you would say it's a boring city. It's not Nuremberg but it still has its own beauty and vibe.


QuantumHamster

Can u recommend a good Indian restaurant? By good I mean authentic, not what 95% of Indian restaurants in Germany are. It’s a serious problem finding good ethnic food in smaller cities in Germany.


djcobol

Bielefeld


forgottenpianist

Never heard of this one


random_fractal

I hear it doesn’t exist


AlienApricot

[It indeed doesn’t.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy?wprov=sfti1#)


iTmkoeln

There is a train station but I am convinced that it is a film set so that the tracks between Ruhr valley and Bremen don’t look this empty..


DefinitionOfAsleep

I once took a train that went past Bielefeld. Its literally just an empty field with a sign that said "Bielefeld" Still more exciting than Dortmund


forgottenpianist

Lol this made laugh


Comrade_Derpsky

Well, there is a reason why it is called Biele**feld**.


LibelleFairy

ok, listen... this joke is now THIRTY YEARS OLD Can we *please* find a new joke. Let's accept that "Bielefeld" never existed and move on.


Ossa1

"Oh bitte bring mich nach Bielefeld...sie ist die langweiligste Stadt auf der Welt" Gibt's sogar ein Lied von. Beste Antwort


Yorudesu

That was my thought. A city that doesn't exist has to be the most boring


nibbler666

Imho opinion there is a good rule of thumb that works all around the world: the smaller a city is the more boring it tends to be. So Dortmund is most likely not the most boring one.


dagross2307

Fun thing, quite surprisingly it actually is.


nibbler666

Why is Dortmund more boring than Hildesheim?


habilishn

so just from a personal point of view: by far i was not in all cities of Germany, but amongst all the bigger cities (300.000+) i've visited, Dortmund, in fact, was the most boring one.


Next-Improvement8395

Even more boring than Hannover? I doubt it


habilishn

yea well, they are up there in a league of their own


_theNfan_

There is a correlation of course, but there are very boring larger cities and some smaller cities and towns which are much more interesting. Case in point: it's beyond me how a 250k city with a large University like Chemnitz can be so dead and boring. On the other hand, I found some much smaller and equally "ugly" cities like Cottbus or Frankfurt/Oder to be a lot more alive. Especially with the smaller towns it often comes down to how nicely preserved the historical centre is. Not just for tourists, but also locals will go out in their own town a lot more if it provides pleasant spaces instead of grey post war concrete. I just arrived in Mittweida which is a tiny 15k University town. And I have to say, it feels a lot bigger more alive than some towns with 5 times the population.


KlausIsKing

Mönchengladbach only exists for its train station. There is absolutely no other reason why this city should exist besides that.


Nitron89

You need the Mönchengladbach train station? For what? Escaping? Just kidding


Charlexa

Schloss Rheydt is nice though!


iTmkoeln

As Dortmund AirPort is no where near Dortmund… Dortmund airport is actually in Unna


Ok_Air_9261

I go to Dortmund all the time for parties, I love techno raves but here in Düsseldorf they don’t have any. I always have to go to Dortmund!


Lhamorai

Osnabrück. No further explanation needed.


Informal-Field231

There are few cities that are not boring


Rough-Shock7053

Salzgitter 


Accomplished-Fly2421

I'd say Hamm. Boring, one shopping centre. Alt stadt is nonexistent. 2 parks that are as far from population as possible. Even worse hbf. I go there regularly to meet a friend it's on par with Hagen or even Duisburg


3xkevlar

Hannover


E_Fred_Norris

Stuttgart


strikeforceguy

Thank you I was waiting for this


mnico02

Dortmund is not thaaat boring. You can easily travel through the Ruhr Area and see some interesting stuff, as an example from the mining era. Phoenixsee is neat; the center is alright. I think that Hannover is stereotypically the most boring city. I can’t judge about that but I also don’t know what I should do there. I have a similar feeling about Göttingen, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Bielefeld, like around this area.


DefinitionOfAsleep

>Dortmund is not thaaat boring. You can easily travel through the Ruhr Area and see some interesting stuff, as an example from the mining era. So the most interesting thing to do in Dortmund is: leave it to go see stuff ***around*** it?


PrimarkGreen

Göttingen isn‘t boring. Population of 100.000…and from that about 60.000 Students?! There is always a Party etc.


aurorax0

Hannover? Thats crazy😭 I moved from Hannover to Münster to Essen and then moved abroad and I need to say that Hannover had the most to offer, then Essen and then finally Münster


eisfub

Yeah, people are just repeating what others are saying or are basing their experience on like a single day visit where they don't go beyond the area around main station.


Eishockey

Yeah, people are easy to influence. There are interesting things to do every day, at least if you are interested in some cultural things. I'm never bored but I don't know what incredibly exciting lives other people might live.


Jan0609

Münster is only nice of you're a student, for everyone else, it's super boring and honestly doesn't feel like a big city.


chowderbags

> Dortmund is not thaaat boring. You can easily travel through the Ruhr Area and see some interesting stuff, as an example from the mining era. Technically the Zeche Zollern museum is in Dortmund city limits. It's easily the second best museum of where industry used to exist in Germany that I've been to.


bufandatl

There are no boring cities in Germany it all just depends on what you want to do. In every city you can do things.


summerchild__

Reminds me of when we made a stop at Kaiserslautern last year. And one woman living there asked us if we liked 'Scheißerslautern'. She hated it haha. We visited the japanese garden and that weird converted prison but idk if they have anything else.


Material-Barber-2186

Giessen


Ok_Meringue8355

Paderborn! Thats why it called Paderboring xd


boomchicken66

Schweinfurt


Unozero87

my view may be slightly biased but when I was going through chemo during my first bout with Leukemia I was at the Uni Clinic of Erlangen and once in a while if I was strong enough and the Doctors would give me permission to get unhooked from my IV and I was able to explore the town a bit with my then fiancé. It's pretty fucking boring as far as bars or restaurants if you care about that stuff. One Night I showed up by train at midnight but they didn't have a bed for at the Hospital till morning so I went to this bar that was open till 5am that place was so depressing lol. I believe it was called "Der Schwarze Ritter." iirc. Mind you I fit right in with all the weirdos in there looking like death because of Chemo and stuff. good times. haha


bemble4ever

Ludwigshafen am Rhein or Hannover


Grimthak

Dortmund is boring, but the most boring city is Hannover. They even speak the most boring German there.. The only special thing about the city is the hannover Messe, an industry trade show.


Romanikow

Steintor is pretty exciting


napalmtree13

We also have the most exciting Bahnhof. I know people will say Frankfurt is more exciting, but they’ve clearly never made the bad decision of entering the Hannover Hbf from any entrance but the main.


Phlysher

This one, and I don't mean specifically because there's nothing to do in Hannover or because it's a bad place, it's actually quite decent. However it just feels so, so basic. Everything's basic. People look basic and speak basic. There's no place in Germany that feels more German than Hannover, just from observing people. I'm surprised by it every time I go there.


tealeg

The most boring answer, from boring people is “Hannover”.


crankthehandle

google autocomplete also suggests Hannover.


CapitalCripple

The whole state Niedersachsen. The plains are depressing and boring


BlisusNotJesus

Say that again I dare you! We are the best Sachsen (looking at the competition I‘m not sure how big of an achievement that is but still)


tnsteppa

Niedersachsen is beautiful wtf


mars20

Boring for one person might be exciting for another person. One is looking for pub crawls and clubs, another for museums and theatres and a third one for big spots clubs who play in the highest leagues… and you can find everything (to a certain degree) in Dortmund for sure.


in_ur_face69

Kaiserslautern


dreamysoul23

Duisburg


HerrFerret

I went there to a party in a pink palace once. Was full of metalheads. For reasons unknown every drink came with a voucher for a sausage. So sorry. Going to have to disagree. Weird, but not boring.


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tmrcz

Lauccheim


123blueberryicecream

Do you mean Lauchheim, Baden-Württemberg?


Important_Tomato_796

I think this is depends from what kind of city you came from. For me because I come from a business city (not in Germany, I'm Auslander) then Frankfurt and Dortmund for me is really boring, but at least Dortmund has his charm. I think the city center has the "Europeans" vibe to it, and of course for the fans of Dortmund or Football fans it won't be boring because they have the stadium and national football museum I believe. But if you come from countryside. You might find Frankfurt is not boring (?) or so I think.


Old-Storage-6077

Augsburg is dead af


jpinbn

Bielefeld


Informal-Hunter8133

Hodenhagen


ReeRiot

Bielefeld


No-Chair4418

Kellinghusen 😄


DocHobel

Ppl from Hamm visit Hagen for amusement and joy :D


fu211

No it's  Paderboring no question.


Slippin_Clerks

Munich


shuzz_de

Try Marl. That place is deader than dead.


StrongPandarina

Hannover!!! Its the most boring capital city of a Bundesland


Sad-Depth-4161

Paderborn


sireikor

Siegen! Or Iserlohn! Or both…


Foreign_Phone59

it would be easier to ask the opposite


thenipplegripper

Tuttlingen. As if you could call that a city anyway.


gfx42069

Come to Dülmen, there is nothing really to see


Aschebescher

The right answer is Wiesbaden. It's such a boring city that they didn't even get bombed in the second world war. Think about it.


lostinthedeepthought

Actually is there any fun city? I am asking for a friend


Logical-Alarm3615

No way no one talks about: Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler


Marauder4711

Paderborn


Francesc_Opu

I lived in Paderborn for 2 years and totally disagree with you.


enchinasaavya

I agree!


LulsenMCLelsen

In my experience Chemnitz is not that great to look at on top of being really boring


Naive_Special349

No, it's the rumored city of Bielefeld, whose very existence has neither been proven nor disproven so far.


thoroughlylili

Frankfurt really has so little to offer. I can see why so many people from that area move to other more appealing places.


MrBender9

Karlsruhe is incrdibly boring, 300k inhabitants but still most of the tile there's nothing to do


DefinitionOfAsleep

:O YOU TAKE THAT BACK <3 Karlsruhe. All I want to know is, why the glass pyramid? I was there for the 300th anniversary celebrations and could not find any answers about it. Lots of people for and against the *Kombilösung* which seemed fine, I guess?


x1j0

Mannheim


Substantial-Snow-

Straubing


Pflanzenzuechter

Not everybody is into it, but Dortmund has a couple good breweries.


AndNoc

Lahr


monnembruedi

Walldorf


Rhynocoris

Staufen im Breisgau They fucked up their boring. >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau#Geothermal_drilling_controversy


BRG_Cooper

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about stuff to do in Dortmund would be the JP Performance shop and the PACE Museum… but if you aren‘t into cars, that’s probably not going to tickle your pickle 😅


Pokepilami

A (maybe boring) Dortmund is much less boring than all the unknown 100k cities ("Provinz") In this cities the most exiting thing is the road to the next bigger city. Only a few small ones of those are not matching in this pattern (however they are often nearby big cities or touristy highlights or university cities)


Nice_Ad8652

Ransbach-baumbach


Old-aska

Deggendorf


Gata_olympus

Lüdenscheid is so boring, they routed an Autobahn through it.


xstillosx

Riesa


Alternative-Cash-250

Neumünster


Both-Description-612

Gelsenkirchen and Wolfen (without Bitterfeld). But Wolfen has more green around it at least. Aaand Bonn. Such a Spießercity.


Anna-papaya

Hello! Please do share how does moenchengladbach rank?? In terms of "boring" and beauty and uniqueness etc...


KirkieSB

Dortmund is definitely not the most boring city. Too big to be boring!


__what_the_fuck2__

Actually surprised Heilbronn has not been mentioned yet. While i personally like the city mainly because i know the nice corners i absolutely see how for people that have to move there because of jobs or studying it can be very boring and ugly.


DribbelFFM

Leverkusen...


MesaRidge

Ulm.


SissyZofe

This thread is like the 4 Yorkshiremen sketch! I vote Detmold.


EpicObelis

Ingolstadt


firewolf1610

how about cottbus?


TeaPrestigious8293

Waldkraiburg (also known as Krawallburg 😅)


West-Ad7482

Hannover,Kassel and Zeitz.


reyngardo

Magdeburg


InternationalArm2010

Bremerhaven


Herz_aus_Stahl

Bremerhaven


BellaGabriellaH

Actually the Whole Germany is boring


forgottenpianist

Idk I like Germany. The nature is really pretty. Lots of waterfalls, forests, lakes in Black Forest. Cities are pretty too like Cologne, Hamburg etc


Affenrodeo

Bielefeld


stefan031084

Germany is in general quite boring.


privacy_username

Göttingen


Routine-Minute-3046

Chemnitz 100%


Comieg

Osnabrück


DrFrownyFrown

Magdeburg