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Post by Guest Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:24 pm

https://curiosity.com/topics/the-worlds-tallest-church-is-being-eroded-by-pee-curiosity

Ulm Minster is on a lot of record lists: not only is its tower the tallest, but the building itself is the fourth largest structure in the world built before the 20th century and it's the 12th largest church by area. And even though Ulm, the city it calls home and the birthplace of Albert Einstein, was heavily bombed during World War II, the church was miraculously left unscathed.


And yet its eventual downfall might come down to drunken pedestrians in need of a restroom. Conservators say that the church's stone base is slowly dissolving beneath the salts and acids in the urine of passersby. Ulm isn't particularly known for having a rowdy nightlife, but it is across the Danube river from the beer mecca of Bavaria. Ulm Minster's head mason, Michael Hilbert, blames the city's Christmas market and its annual wine festival. Plus a lack of toilets, we'd assume.

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