Suurhusen: Why This Leaning Church Proves Guinness Records Are Meaningless

One day, I was looking up things to cover for this channel and stumbled across the church of the small German village of Suurhusen, and I thought: "Oh the world's leaniest building, that'll be fun - I can talk about how it came to be like that and what's been done to make it safe." However, my research for this video sent me down a very confusing rabbit hole that encompassed a battle for the record of leaniest building, Guinness' methodology and even just record keeping as a whole. So how did this church come to lean so much? Is it still the world's most chill building? And how does Guinness even measure these things? Join me in a journey to the tiny village of Suurhusen to find out. ------------ Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of. Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about... until now. Like and subscribe and all that. Follow me on IG at @WhatOnEarthIsThis CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Suurhusen 03:40 The lean begins 05:02 Fround the ground 06:36 The Guinness Arms Race 08:09 A challenger appears 10:31 A load of nonsense Photo credits: Suurhusen Church: Jochen Teufel Axel Heymann Arnoldius Matthias Süßen Gau-Weinheim: Erwin Gottschlich Dausenau: Kreuzschnabel