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/Butterjoelni 21h ago

You just blew my mind so hard, it's never gonna be the same

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u/Workman44 9h ago

Roughly 1 church for every 100 people

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u/bagheera369 20h ago

Yep...if you wanna know why this country is the way it is....that number is just one of the multiple angles you gotta dissect it from.

You could spend a lifetime pulling just that angle apart, and still not have examined everything there is to know about religious influence, and the layers of damage it's caused here.