A coworker from another country asked me today if it is true that we have a law prohibiting any building in a place from being taller than their church.
I told him I don't know if we still have any such law and, if we had, I most likely would know about it.
So he asked "How come no German city has taller buildings than their church?", this question is now haunting me...
I can barely think of any city or village I ever was in (with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions), here in Germany, where the church wasn't the highest building. Maybe there once was such a law, but if it isn't in force, how did it come to be that there are rarely any modern buildings taller than the church towers?
Or is this just subjective and in fact there are a lot of German cities with taller buildings then their churches?