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Some people don't understand about dialects and languages. Germany, small as it is, has 90 dialects. When I lived there, I lived on the southern border with Switzerland. People there and people who spoke what is considered standard German had difficulty understanding each other.
Indeed. There are a number of major dialects:
Kölsch
Bönnsch
Münsteranisch
Platt (low German)
Berlinerisch
Dessauerisch (Anhaltinisch)
Sächsisch
Fränkisch
Hessisch
Bayerisch
(there are even a couple of small towns in Bavaria, where Bayerisch is spoken, but with the american "r")
In Baden Württemberg, from small town to town, there are very individual dialects:
Weinheim (Woinem)
Heppenheim
etc...
The dialect that is considered clean, neutral High German is Hannoverisch.
Which dialects did you hear and understand?