German ß (scharfes S)

[Tiberius Clodius Corvinus]

Some ten years ago, there was a spelling reform in Germany, and the ß was -if I understand it correctly- sort of abandoned. If I have understood it correctly, many people felt that this reform was not an improvement, and the character is still in use.

its become rare, but not abandoned ... just recently our institute for standardization created for the first time a capital for the ß ... well, it looks basically the same

Another blunder was that supernatural beings like God and Christ had to be written with a capital ...

not all nouns are written in dutch with a capital, like in german? :o I didnt know this.

How is it pronounced?

the same as "ss" (like in Essex, I guess) ... it's the vowel before that is pronounced other
Straße has a long "a" ... Strasse, (which is wrong) would have a short "a"