Now That engineering and construction efforts to reduce the lean of the famous bell tower in Pisa have been completed (see "Preserving Pisa's Treasure," Civil Engineering, March 2002, pages 42-49), several other structures in Europe seem to be vying for the title of the structure with the greatest lean. Several years ago Guinness World Records, in London, named a tower associated with a red brick church in Suurhusen, Germany, as the farthest leaning. The tower leans at an angle of 5.19 degrees, compared with the 3.9-de-gree lean that the tower at Pisa now exhibits. But the German newspaper Der Spiegel has reported that at least three other structures may lean as much or more, and the Swiss say that a 12th-century church tower in a ski resort in St.
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