They Built Their Houses with Diamond-Studded Stones: There Are 72,000 Tons of Them Underneath - Sözcü Newspaper
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In Nördlingen, a city in the Bavarian state of Germany, rocks formed by an asteroid impact approximately 15 million years ago have been used as building materials for centuries. It is estimated that these stones contain a total of 72,000 tons of diamonds.
Apparently, one German town like any other, Nordlingen hides a secret: the walls of the houses are millions of microscopic diamonds, which appeared after the impact of an asteroid about 15 million years ago.
In a fortified town in Germany, people built houses and churches for hundreds of years from a stone they thought was ordinary. Only much later did they find out that the walls were hiding diamonds. And not a few, but 72,000 tons. However, the discovery did not make anyone rich. And the story of this treasure is so unusual that the place even caught the attention of NASA. The town is called Nördlingen and is located in Bavaria, in southern German…
Nördlingen, Germany, is the only place in the world where almost all buildings are constructed of stone studded with millions of tiny diamonds. Although for centuries people believed they lived in a volcanic crater, the truth turned out to be far more fascinating. The discovery even attracted Apollo astronauts.
At first glance, Nördlingen in Bavaria looks like a medieval town from a fairy tale, but the walls of the red-roofed houses hide a special secret. The rock used for construction contains millions of tiny diamonds, which were formed when a huge asteroid hit the town about 15 million years ago. According to some estimates, the town and its surroundings may contain up to 72,000 tons of diamonds, the special […]
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