Disorderly Germans: Playing Chicken on the Einbahnstrasse - DER SPIEGEL
Zum Inhalt springen

Disorderly Germans Playing Chicken on the Einbahnstrasse

Germans are world famous for their über-refined skill at organizing. But in the town of Kusel, not everything is always in "Ordnung."
Dieser Beitrag stammt aus dem SPIEGEL-Archiv. Warum ist das wichtig?
Everything is not in Ordnung in Kusel.

Everything is not in Ordnung in Kusel.

Foto: Harold Hite

Germans are notorious the world over for their, shall we say, obsessively compulsive attention to organization. In Frankfurt, there's even a support group for messy people: Anonyme Unordentliche (Slobs Anonymous).

That's not to say that chaos isn't to be found in Germany -- it's just rarer than one might expect. Harold Hite sent in this snapshot from Kusel, Germany, where two one-way streets appear to be running into each other. Which reminds us, when we first arrived in Germany, we found ourselves asking "Why are so many streets here called 'Einbahnstraße'?"

Mehr lesen über