Spreuerhof Street, The Narrowest Street in the World

Spreuerhof Street has been, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the narrowest street in the world since 2007.
In reality, it’s just a passageway, an exit from a rear courtyard. In the eighteenth century, this district was completely destroyed in a huge fire. To ensure that, in future, fires couldn’t spread so easily from house to house, a narrow space was left between them.

Measuring just 31cm in width, it quickly went into the record books as the narrowest street in the world, even though it isn’t much of a street.
The “Spreuerhof” originally was the cereal storage of the Reutlingen Hospital. In this attractive part of Reutlingen the past of the medieval city is still alive.
Location: at the Albtorplatz, close to Metzgerstraße

Previously, this record was held by the Parliament Street of Exeter, England, which fitted better to the definition of a “street”.
Parliament Street is a 50m long street, which links the High Street to Waterbeer Lane and dates from the 14th century. It was formerly called Small Lane and was renamed when Parliament was derided by the city council for passing the 1832 Reform Bill.
The street is approximately 1.2m at its widest and less than 0.64m at its narrowest.