This plaque on the Ulm City Hall reads: “Johanes Kepler, Astronomer, 1571-1630, published the Rudolphine Tables here in 1627. With the so-called Keppler boiler he created the basis for an orderly system of measurements and weights in the imperial city.” Kepler at this time was 56 years old and was Read More …
This is Ulm, with the world’s tallest church steeple rising like a fata morgana from a sea of mediocre post-war architecture. The church was built starting in 1377 but wasn’t completed until 1890. According to Guinness World Records, it has the world’s tallest church steeple, measuring 161.53 meters from the Read More …
This inconspicuous monument in a pedestrian zone in the center of Ulm is supposed to symbolize the apartment building where the physicist Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. The building was quite new at the time of Einstein’s birth, since it had been constructed only eight years earlier, Read More …
This attractive district is located between the Ulm Minster and the Danube River. It has narrow streets and historic half-timbered houses, as well as hotels, restaurants, cafés and galleries. This statue of two men and three pigs is at the Pig Market, known officially as the Schweinemarkt and unofficially as Read More …
In 1962, Ulm was the fifth stop on a seventeen-day canoe trip that I took with some German friends down the Danube River to Vienna. We camped at an official campsite on the riverbank in Ulm, as I recall, and spent part of one day exploring the city. Here in Read More …
Several years ago I went to the City Theater in Ulm, Germany, to see their premiere of the opera Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). It was an ambitious production, set in 19th century Egypt under British rule, with a puppet king (shades of “The King and I”) who was dominated Read More …