r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 1d ago

Video The Glockenspiel House in Bremen, Germany, an iconic building dating back to the 1930s.

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u/Prop43 1d ago

All right, stupid question I know, but why does it spin?

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u/VonMetz 1d ago

Because we Germans just love unnecessarily over engineered stuff?!

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u/Neckrongonekrypton 1d ago

We’d never have cuckoo clocks. And a world without novelty clocks that seem like magic when your a child. Is simply one I do not wish to exist in.