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Erfurt latrine disaster
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The Holy Shit.
Ever been in an outhouse? Imagine your meeting room being right over that. Man, the middle ages were fucking gross.
They were meeting on the second floor but the beams were rotten so it broke. The weight of everyone and the debris then also broke the ground floor and some of them fell into the cesspit.
Ever been near an outhouse? You can smell them from a ways off. Even two stories up it was probably a pretty rank meeting room.
Outhouses actually aren't all that bad if you maintain them properly, which involves tossing wood ash down on a regular basis to keep a high pH. I mean, it's not a toilet with running water, but I wouldn't rank it anywhere near the top of the worst things that I've smelled.
oh yeah time patrol had to cordon off the whole month that this happened in due to tourists
Erfurt could use another one of those.
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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