In case you missed it over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, The Washington Post ran a story about a very old and very crooked church tower that has gradually leaned to the east over its 625 years of existence in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany. As engineers consider how to right it, they’ve got another famous structure for inspiration: The Leaning Tower of Pisa, which was fixed in the 1990s.
But there’s an interesting wrinkle to the story: Supporters of this German church are a bit peeved that another German church, more than 200 miles away, has received a top designation from the Guinness Book of World Records, based on a measurement from the bases of the leaning church towers – and the famous one of Pisa, Italy.
Seems the record keepers are open to considering another crooked candidate in this odd case of leaning church towers.