Was but has been dropped
The longest German word that is not created artificially as a longest-word record seems to be Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz at 63 letters. The word means “law delegating beef label monitoring” but as of 2013, it was removed from the books because European Union regulations have changed and that particular law became obsolete, leading to news reports that Germany “had lost its longest word”.
Interesting! I did not know that!
I love the German language. Both high German and low German.