{"id":28879,"date":"2016-10-29T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=28879"},"modified":"2016-10-29T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T10:11:12","slug":"tallest-church-of-the-world-under-urine-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/tallest-church-of-the-world-under-urine-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallest church of the world under urine attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tallest church in the world is under attack &#8212; and the aggressor is human urine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The magnificent 531-feet-tall (162-meter) steeple of Ulm Minster dominates the German city of Ulm, which lies on the River Danube in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But now officials responsible for its upkeep say the stone base of the Gothic tower, which has long acted as a lightning rod to late-night revelers looking to relieve themselves, is being eroded by salt and acids in the urine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Wildpinkler,&#8221; as al fresco micturition is known in Germany, has become such a problem that earlier this year the city doubled fines to 100 euros ($109) for anyone caught in the act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28880\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Luftbild_Ulmer_Muenster.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"832\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Luftbild_Ulmer_Muenster.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Luftbild_Ulmer_Muenster-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on it for half a year now and, once again, it&#8217;s coated with urine and vomit,&#8221; Michael Hilbert, the building&#8217;s head of maintenance, told. &#8220;This is about preserving law and order.&#8221;The foundation stone of Ulm Minster was laid in 1377.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With festive season just around the corner, and a wine festival and Christmas market scheduled to take place in the M\u00fcnsterplatz town square, Hilbert says organizers need to take responsibility for supplying public toilets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28881\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161025124923-ulm-01-large-169.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, answering the call of nature in the great outdoors doesn&#8217;t always have to be destructive.It can even be quite beautiful, when directed into the right receptacle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As inspiration to the people of Ulm, here are a selection of photos from Lonely Planet&#8217;s new book &#8220;Toilets: A Spotter&#8217;s Guide,&#8221; featuring more than 100 interesting restrooms from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tallest church in the world is under attack &#8212; and the aggressor is human urine. The magnificent 531-feet-tall (162-meter) steeple of Ulm Minster dominates the German city of Ulm, which lies on the River Danube in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. But now officials responsible for its upkeep say the stone base of the Gothic tower, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[11891,11897,11895,11890,11893,2657,11888,11889,11896,11898,11894,11892,5520],"class_list":["post-28879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-gothic-tower","tag-guide","tag-hilbert","tag-human-urine","tag-public-toilets","tag-river","tag-tallest-church","tag-tallest-church-latest-news","tag-tallest-church-of-the-world-under-urine-attack-latest-news","tag-ulm-minster","tag-urine-attack","tag-wildpinkler","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/10260423-Ulmdf.ab94b306.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}