A cause beneath the groundSourced
The leaning tower stands on timber foundations
Suurhusen’s church tower in Germany leans noticeably. A local historian explains that groundwater preserved its oak foundations until nineteenth-century drainage allowed decay and movement.
The visible lean has a story beneath the surface.
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