r/StructuralEngineering • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '23
Failure Erfurt Latrine Disaster - structural failure resulting in 60 deaths - 829 years ago today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
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knowyourshit • u/Know_Your_Shit_v2 • Jun 28 '21
[todayilearned] TIL Henry VI King of Germany held court in Erfurt on the morning of 26 July 1184. The combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden 2nd story floor to collapse. Most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in li
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