Currently on a road trip around Germany and have stopped by in an old quirky Airbnb in Klink on the Muritz lake. There’s these wheels and straps by the window and I can’t for the life of me work out what they’re for. I thought at first they were for closing the curtains but they don’t seem too.

by ttocSD

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  1. Bro. Do you see the shutters outside? How about you pull on the strap and find out what it does.

  3. Its the “Rolladen” or Roller shutters. You should slightly pull to release the roller and slowly let it down to make the room completely dark

  6. U have to pull the strap a little in your direction and let it slide slowly upwards. Then the sun cover will lower outside the window

    Edit: A very common mechanism in germany. U get quickly used to it, though as a kid I burnt my fingers a few times until I got it 😀

  7. Today’s episode of “foreigner baffled by ancient German magic, I mean technology” 😂❤️

  9. Don’t pull it down, pull it towards you, that will let the rope loose from the spiral thing at the bottom and the Rolladen will lower itself outside.

  10. Rolladens are so damn nice. You’ll wish you had them at home, too.

  11. That’s how window blinds were opened/closed before the invention of electric blinds. Or how they are still operated if the owner was too cheap to upgrade. 🙂

  12. Grab the strap, pull it towards you and slowly let it go and see magic happen (they are outside blinds)

  14. its a band for smth which is called a rolladen. its used to roll a laden. not to confuse with the dish roulade, which is a rolled laden

  15. For a minute I was looking at the picture and I was like What’s different? Or wrong? I was like am I twitching?…. Then I read the post and realized ahhh First Time with a German Window 🤣

  16. That’s a Schlupenglaber, very common in old German houses. It’s used to adjust your Klinkenschlupf if the Hubradschiene isn’t fully level, but that rarely happens anymore since the modern ones have their Grieperhang lower.

  18. When your first instinct was completely correct, you just didn’t try pulling the thing in both directions 😆. No offense, have been there (not with that specifically cause I know it but you know).

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