Posted on 11/05/2007 1:42:52 PM PST by blam
Crooked German church leans more than Pisa
By Nick Britten and Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Last Updated: 8:37pm GMT 05/11/2007
A crooked German church steeple has knocked the leaning tower of Pisa from the Guinness book of Records as the world’s most leaning building.
The tower in the village of Suurhusen in northern Germany applied in June for the title and this week had it confirmed that it had beaten the famous landmark in Pisa.
Guinness Book of Records officials confirmed it is leaning at a 5.19 degree angle compared to the 3.97 degree of the tower of Pisa.
The more famous Italian structure was recently straightened to avoid it collapsing in the next 30 years.
Olaf Kuchenbecker of the Guinness World Records office in Hamburg said: "It is a world record."
The church was built in middle of the 13th century but a 90 foot tower was added in 1450.
The tower was built on wooden foundations and the combination of the oak wood foundations and wet soil has caused the tower to slowly lean to one side over the years.
Several attempts to stop the tower from leaning any further have been made since 1982, and it was eventually stabilised in 1996.
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house
I thought this was going to be about ELCA........
Is this the new Hillary campaign theme-song?
Latter photo is deceptive. It was taken with a wide angle lens, and the non-leaning buildings on the right tilt left, and the non-leaning things on the left tilt right, both as a result of the distortion of the wide-angle lens. The leaning of the tower is exaggerated by this effect.
The Glynne Arms Pub in the Midlands leans 15° off vertical.
Well, there are two story condos built in the 80’s on a landfill in my town that are leaning. The interiors look like they’ve gone through the looking glass in some cases. But no tourists visit. I think the leaning tower of Pisa is famous also because it is so beautiful and historic . . . used by Galileo for experiments on gravity and so forth . . . not just because it leans!
The picture might be a little off, but I can tell you that, having just gone to Pisa in early September, it is QUITE impressive.
You mean there are Europeans that actually go to Church?
Most do.
Some left, some right.
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