Denmark can you explain to a German what the reason behind this complex lock is?

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1. For most times it is called a 3-point lock. When you pull up the handle, 2 hooks pull out and locks on to the side with the normal lock split as well 🙂
   Extra security as you can’t just use a crowbar to enter the premises 🙂

2. It usually enganges 3 pawls, bottom, top and center, making it much more difficult to pry the door open, forcing burglars to crush a window instead.

3. How is this complex?

4. It closes via a pin at the top and bottom. And then the lock itself.

5. Is it complex?

6. It’s really not complex to use. Pull up the handle, turn the key once, that’s it.

7. Try opening the door and then pull the handle up. You’ll see the “hooks” at the top and the bottom.

8. It’s to keep swedes out, my german friend 🙂

9. Me watching this:

   *”Løft.*

   *LØFT.”*

   *”There you go.”*

10. It’s hard to kick in – when the door locks bot/middle and top. I usually just lock with the handle being up (hock in)

11. It’s also used to tighten the doorseal, to allow less draft, as Per the multiple locking pins.

12. To keep out the Germans.

13. This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today we are going to show you how this lock is not very complex

    I think we are just so used to them that they feel normal

14. Don’t forget that our climate(wet!) can warp the doorpanel itself. So having three places the doorpanel engages with the frame prevents the door from warping over time. This makes the door keep a good seal…

15. Must be a swedish door.

16. Thank you everyone for the helpful and also funny comments. It was weird at first, in Germany we have very simple locks, we are just used to turn the key and thats it. So we needed a good two minutes until we figured out how to lock these.

17. If you have small children, it also makes it alot harder for the little bastards to lock you out of the house while taking out the trash

18. To keep the Swedes out.

19. Makes it hard to open door with force and that will cost the thieves time when they want to leave the house with valuable items and only have a broken window (or another window) to go through.

20. Typically Danish I think, doors that only lock if you turn the key while you hold the handle up. Drove me nuts the first time I was in a Danish cottage. By now I know.

    We also have 3 point locks in NL but you don’t have to hold the handle up while locking them.

21. How is this complex?
    You’re a German, aren’t you all engineers?

22. It’s to keep the germans out.

23. It’s a foreigners lock, like a childrens lock, but for foreigners.

24. To entertain Germans…

25. It’s to make sure you wake the neighbors when you come home drunk.

26. It has multiple lock pins that lodge into the door frame, the extra parts required to make the pins move adds weight and friction to the mechanism which needs a certain amount of leverage to engage, which can only be applied by the handle, at last you engage the handle lock by turning the key

27. .. you see there are these people called Swedes…

28. To keep Germans out

29. It’s because there’s additional lock bars in the door frame, and by turning it all up you engaged them…. ☺️

30. I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t realise all doors didn’t work like this until now.