r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 22h ago

Germany has more castles than the United States has McDonald’s. This is the Eltz castle, located in Wiershem. It has been owned and occupied by the same family for 33 generations over 800 years

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u/SedatedTattooDoc 21h ago

Did they modernize the toilets? That’s a lot of shit you’re sitting around

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u/Common-Concentrate-2 21h ago

Erfurt latrine disaster

"On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag ("court day") conducted by King Henry VI when their combined weight caused the floor of the building to collapse. Some of the attendees drowned in human waste after falling into the cesspit."

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u/zinabons 20h ago

Oh my lord 💀

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u/Phyraxus56 19h ago

No one was talking about mass murder. This was just a disaster.

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u/Arkayb33 17h ago

It seems insane to me that there was no plan on what to do with the all the shit and piss in the pit, that they just let it pile up indefinitely.

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u/Subotail 19h ago

What are you talking about? They were built perfectly to standard. In effect at the time