{"id":43931,"date":"2026-01-26T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43931"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:12:16","slug":"erfurt-latrine-disaster-wikipedia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43931","title":{"rendered":"Erfurt latrine disaster &#8211; Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erfurt_latrine_disaster\">Erfurt latrine disaster &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how did i not know of this&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Erfurt latrine disaster<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_language\">German<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Erfurter Latrinensturz<\/em>,\u00a0<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Literal_translation\">lit.<\/a>\u2009<\/small>&#8216;Erfurt latrine fall&#8217;)<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erfurt_latrine_disaster#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erfurt_latrine_disaster#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erfurt_latrine_disaster#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0occurred on 26 July 1184 in the German city of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erfurt\">Erfurt<\/a>. King\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor\">Henry VI<\/a>\u00a0was conducting a\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoftag\">Hoftag<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(&#8220;court day&#8221;) with local nobility on the second floor of a building. The combined weight of the assembled attendees <strong><em>caused the floor of the building to collapse through the ground floor and into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latrine\">latrine<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cesspit\">cesspit<\/a>\u00a0below<\/em><\/strong>. Sources say that approximately sixty attendees died, some of whom drowned in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_waste\">human waste<\/a>\u00a0after falling into the cesspit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Erfurt latrine disaster &#8211; Wikipedia how did i not know of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[8,1321],"class_list":["post-43931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-poop","tag-toilet","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43933,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43931\/revisions\/43933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}