Where is how much German gold?

[Skybird]

I swallowed twice when reading this. How does this make sense : having a national gold treasure of one'S own national bank - and then storing it not in one's own country with one'S own national bank, but in three other other, foreign ones...?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-833289.html

And not inspecting this because the trips of the inspectors would cost flight tickets?

I also did not know that it is so terribly few gold. I thought a bigger share of the German currency - at least before the Euro came - was covered in gold assets.