Did I tell you how baroque style leaves me cold? Very much - with the exception of Bavaria maybe - a protestant thing as regards churches (look at all those usually dead-serious, frugal protestants shunning all earthly delights and then going overboard in decorating their churches, tsk, tsk, tsk ....) in Germany, Catholic churches tend(ed) to be Gothic or Roman style unless they are modernistic. Agnostic as I am, I visit churches (baroque, Roman, Gothic or other) a lot for the historical and cultural influence ingrained in them.
I should have been more precise, I meant German industrial design, which often enough doesn't look Ritter'ish at all:
I just saw one of those beasts in real life in the German Tank Museum in Munster.
Basically, it is a stationary gun platform and not a tank anymore. Its horespower is outright meek: 700 hp at a combat weight of 70 tons, a bicycle does better in ratio! It guzzled 1,000 liters of gasoline (no diesel tanks with the German Reich as gasoline could be extracted from coal, but oil couldn't) at a 100 km distance and that wasn't even cross-country, no wonder so many of them were left by the wayside in the Battle of the Bulge having run out of gas before reaching the desired US petrol supplies. Sure, no Allied tank or anti-tank gun could crack the Kingtiger's armored front, but this monster was as far removed from Blitzkrieg tactics as a North Sea oil platform is from a speed boat. Impressive sight seeing it in real nontheless. And I always liked the edgy angular styling (for ballistic reasons after the predecessor Tiger I had failed in that department due to its rounded and vertical outside).