Weil der Stadt (May 17, 2007)

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This last Thursday was yet another German holiday, so we had the day off from the university. Isaac, Tania, and I decided to check out Weil der Stadt, a town at the end of the S-Bahn line to the west of Stuttgart. The interesting thing about this town is that is the birthplace of Johannes Kepler, a famous astronomer and physicist. It's also just a neat little town with the cobblestone alleys and the high church tower and so on. Isaac is a physicist/astronomer, so this was especially interesting for him!

Kepler was born in this house, on a small street around the corner from the main church. The small house is now a museum about his achievements (about planetary motion). We spent a good hour there though - there's a lot of stuff that he did and it's all confusing planetary motion stuff - it was nice to have Isaac to explain everything!





There was also a cool fountain and a statue in the town square. There is also a fortified town wall left from the 30 Years' War, but it was raining so we didn't go to see it.