Introducing Ulm
On the Danube (Donau) River, Ulm is one of the region’s most audacious and creative-thinking cities. How many other municipalities would dare to erect a startling piece of modern architecture next to their most famous medieval landmark? It’s somehow fitting, then, that the founder of modern physics, Albert Einstein, was born here.
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In 1811, a highly sceptical public watched as Albrecht Berblinger, a tailor who had invented a flying machine similar to a hang-glider, attempted to fly across the Danube after leaping (some say he was kicked) from the city wall. The ‘Tailor of Ulm’, as the locals called him, made an embarrassing splash landing but his design was later shown to be workable.
Last updated: Oct 3, 2008
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