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Eine DIA-Show der kleinen Stadt Thorn an der Maas, die einen Besuch wert ist. Die erstaunliche Geschichte am Ende.
It's interesting history:
Benedictine nuns founded an abbey here as early as 975 and later, as a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire, Thorn became an independent principality, which was ruled solely by women until 1794. From the 12th century on , only unmarried ladies of the European aristocracy were admitted here. Thorn had an own currency and jurisdiction.
The streets in the old town centre, made of pebbles from the Meuse, were also created during this period.
After Napoleon's conquest in 1794 until 1815, his Waterloo, he demanded taxes depending on the size of windows and doors and the (clever) inhabitants bricked them up with stones from the old abbey or made them smaller. To conceal the difference, all the houses were painted with white lime paint.
Hence the white town since 1794.