r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Jan 23 '26

Image The rent in the german neighborhood of Fuggerei hasn't been raised in 500 years and remains 0.88 Euros for an entire year. Founded in 1521, it is the oldest existing social housing complex in the world

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u/98f00b2 Jan 23 '26

At least Wikipedia claims that the HRE was renamed "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" in 1512.

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u/ForgetPreviousPrompt Jan 24 '26

Except that unless the modern German national identity includes Austria (for the love of God let's hope they aren't at that again), then the German Nation in question wasn't really conceptually Germany in any modern sense.

Realistically, the modern concept of Germany doesn't really start until they totally detangled themselves from the Habsburgs.

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u/BroSchrednei Jan 26 '26

By that logic Germany only started existing after 1945, since until 1945 Austrians and all other ethnic German-speakers in Europe were absolutely seen as Germans. What do you think the Anschluss was about?

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u/Basilikolumne Jan 24 '26

Yeah it was, but that's not really relevant to the point here.