The Lahn River flows through Gießen, but not through the city center, so you won’t see the river unless you go looking for it. The Lahn is a popular river for canoeing, and for cycling along the banks. At Lahnstein, about 140 km downstream from Gießen, the Lahn empties into Read More …
The university in Gießen was founded in 1607 as the Ludoviciana, after the then-ruling Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt, Ludwig V. His reason for founding a new university was that the nearby University of Marburg, in the neighboring landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg, had converted to Calvinism, so Ludwig as a fervent Lutheran was Read More …
Right around the corner from the Mathematikum is a small but fine museum devoted to the life and work of Justus Liebig (1803-1873), the 19th century chemist for whom the university in Gießen is now named. The eleven rooms of the museum are Liebig’s laboratory from his years as a Read More …
The Mathematikum in Giessen, which was opened in 2002, describes itself as “the world’s first mathematical science center.” But all you loyal readers of my posts on the German city of Bonn might recall that the Arithmeum in that city is three years older, having been opened in 1999. For us Read More …
Gießen is a city of 86,000 inhabitants, located on the Lahn River in the center of Germany, about 60 kilometers north of Frankfurt. Gießen is the home of the Justus Liebig University and has a City Theater with 652 seats and a full program of opera, drama and dance. The Read More …