Why’re there nets on some old buildings in Germany?

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  1. That’s for when stuff starts falling off the facade so people walking by the building don’t get hit until it gets fixed.

  2. It’s to stop birds, especially pidgeons, from sitting down on the building and destroying it with their highly acidic excrements.

  3. Old fishernets are often discarded into the ocean when they are no longer of use. Old buildings, just like dolphins, sometimes get tangled up in them.

  4. Do you know fishnet-stockings? Yeah, same thing.. dating is hard for old buildings as well as humans, so they gotta up their game by wearing kinky lingery.

  5. Pretty sure its to keep stuff from falling off older buildings. It isn’t german specific. I’ve seen it all over Europe. Especially on like old cathedrals in Italy.

  6. The building is still a prototype but the design is final yet. They don’t want to give away the design before the building is officially released.

  7. There was ghosts inside. People believe that after Ghostbusters catch it, u need to put a net around that it can’t come back if u don’t pay the continual fee to keep the ghosts in the safe box.

  8. I feel like I see a lot of this type of question across a number of subreddits and it’s almost always in English. It makes me (an American) think about just how much older Europe is than America. This type of renovation cover is pretty rare over here but was common on all my trips overseas. America was established in 1776 and when I was Germany I went to brewery from 1226. Wild.

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