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A small German church has laid a bold claim to the title of
“World’s most squinty building“.

Located in the town of
Bad Frankenhausen, the bell tower of a 14th century church has
been measured at an angle of 4.5 degrees to the
vertical. With the backing of the Guinness Book of World Records,
the town hopes to steal the limelight from the well know Leaning
tower of Pisa and its puny 3.97 degree
angle.

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The folks in Italy responded to the announcement with barely
more than a “meh”, but the nearby town of
Suurhusen kicked up fuss with their leaning church tower of
5.07 degrees, claiming this to be the true title
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(sadly it’s in a low res area).

Google Earth users might ask what all the fuss is about as, from
appearances, the cities of New York and Dallas must hold the title
with thier precarious leaning skyscrapers.

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These towers are, of course, not leaning at all. They are at the
points where two differently angled aerial photographs have been
stitched together.

Previously on Google Sightseeing we’ve seen The
Leaning Tower of Pisa,
Leaning Tower of Niles and the intentionally leaning Kio
Towers which, at 15 degrees to the vertical, must surely be a
world record contender?

Thanks: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/22/wlean122.xml
Sunday Telegraph, Craig Simpson, Simone, Jeff Cutter &
Catdoor

1. There’s ground level pictures of the German towers on German
   Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberkirche_(Bad_Frankenhausen)
   Oberkirche and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiefer_Turm_von_Suurhusen Schiefer
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