It’s been a while since i wrote and I have a lot to tell you about 🙂
I have stayed mainly in Goettingen but taken some time out to visit The Netherlands (more on that in the next post). At the moment i am heading to Rothenberg ob der Taura. Â But before i jump to that, let me tell you a bit more about Goettingen.
Goettingen was one of the towns that was protected from bombing in World War 2 (there was an arrangement between Germany and UK to not bomb each others university towns). So, because of this, Goettingen still has many of it’s old buildings. Â If you go into the town centre you will see a lot of these old buildings dating from 14th century. Â Most have dates on so that you know when they were built…handy if you don’t know your architecture. Â The other thing to note is that a lot of streets and buildings have names on them of famous scientists. Â Now, that shouldn’t be a surprise because Goettingen is the town for science. Â Over 40 Nobel Prize winners have come from here.
In the town, next to the Town hall there is a statue of a young girl herding geese. Â This has become a well known statue because of the many PhD students who kiss her after getting their PhD (and nope don’t think about the multiple germs possibly on her lol).
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