The longest rifle shooting marathon was 26 hours by five members of St Sebastianus Schützenbruderchaft Ettringen 1901 eV shooting club at Ettringen, Germany, on 20-21 September 2003. The five members were: Karl Westhoften, Rainer Lanz, Dieter Franken, Christian Lanz and Manfred Savelsberg, who shot from three positions: prone, standing, and kneeling, and followed all ISSF regulations.

The record for the longest time spent riding a summer toboggan is 56 hours by Michael Kinzel (Germany) who rode the steel toboggan at Panorama Park in Kirchhundem, Germany from 4 to 6 May 2002. A summer toboggan is also known as a roller-bob and is a combination between a bob-sled and a toboggan. It is ridden around a stainless steel course rather than on snow and the person rides it in an upright position, feet first. It is towed up the uphill sections of Continue reading →

The longest red carpet is 5.35 km (3.32 miles) long and was achieved by Gera Arcaden and Michael Bilinger (both Germany), and measured on 3 November 2014. The carpet was made in honour of the Gera Arcaden’s 15th anniversary.

The longest RCP Mini-Z race track is 134.8 m (442 ft 3.08 in) long and is owned and operated by Catz-Sports GmbH (Germany), in Stapelfeld, Hamburg, Germany, as ascertained on 30 October 2010. The Mini Z is a popular line of 1:28-scale electric radio-controlled cars. The Catz-Sports GmbH race track is located in a converted tennis hall. It is open every day of the week and requires the payment of an entrance fee. Race cars may be hired in the facility. After the verification by Continue reading →

The greatest range at which one ship’s guns have successfully hit another vessel is 24 km (15 miles), a feat that occurred twice during the second world war. On 8 June 1940 the German ‘pocket battleship’ Scharnhorst hit the British aircraft carrier Glorious at that range in the North Atlantic, while a month later on 9 July, during the battle of Calabria the British battleship HMS Warspite hit the Italian flagship Guilio Cesare at a similar distance. Both are remarkable feats of gunnery considering that Continue reading →

The longest ramp jump performed by a remote controlled model car was 36.9 m (121 ft 0.75 in) achieved by a Carson Specter 6S, controlled by Thomas Strobel (Germany) at SPEEDWEEKS 2011 in Sonneberg, Germany on 30 July 2011. Several attempts were made on the day, Strobel initially jumped a distance of 35.2 m (115 ft 5.82 in) before bettering it. The Carson Specter 6S uses a brushless motor powerd by a 22.2V LiPo battery pack.

On 3 October 2010, Germany paid the final £59 million part of its war reparations as compensation and punishment for the First World War (1914-1918). The original bill set by the Allied victors at the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 was £22 billion. The debt was not paid during the Hitler era but, after the end of the Second World War, in 1945, West Germany assumed responsibility and settled the bill in 1983. However, in the London Debt Agreement of 1953 there was Continue reading →

A row of 4,077 firefighters with spraying fire hoses was formed along a 16.4 km (10.1 m) stretch of the Mosel river, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, on 15 September 2007 in an event coordinated by the Jugendfeuerwehr Rheinland-Pfalz. The firemen sprayed the hoses for half an hour from 1:00 to 1:30, using mark ‘c’ hoses.The attempt took place in order to raise funds to build a school in Ruanda.

The longest grill measured 32.84 m (107 ft 8 in) and was made by the residential home Haus Ostertal, St Wendel-Werschweiler, Germany on 14 May 2004 as part of the home’s 10th anniversary festival. decided with marco to rename category to “longest rotating grill” to distinguish this category from the “longest barbecue”. If your claim is for a normal “longest grill” please suggest to the claimant record ID 53726, “the longest barbecue”

The longest running finger wrestling contests, known as Fingerhakeln, are known to have been staged in Bavaria, Germany since the 14th century, when rivals competed for women’s favours. More recently, wrestlers compete for various weight-titles in the Bavarian Finger Wrestling Championships held annually in Pflugdorf, near Munich. The aim is for each competitor to pull his rival (seated opposite) across the table placed between them, using a finger lash wrapped around each contestant’s digit. The tournament has a stict set of rules, which standardise the Continue reading →