Actual Events

Saturday, September 7th – Excursion to the City of Nürnberg

© Eberhard Theile

You shall have the unique opportunity to participate in an excursion by bus to one of Germany’s most attractive historic locations: the city of Nürnberg – the richest and most important town in the middle ages in the German Empire. We shall have a conducted tour through the town and afterwards there is time to stroll around on your own. Responsible: Hildegard Henseler and Walter Knauß Details of program: 2019-09-07_Nuernberg_Inv In order to register, please download the registration form, fill it in and send it to the address Mrs. Monika Bader. Registration form: 2019-09-07_Nuernberg_Reg

Saturday, October 26th 2019

Excursion to the historical town of Nördlingen

© Ulrich Petri

We plan to visit the historical town of Nördlingen, and have a conducted tour through the town and in the famous „Rieskrater Museum„. Responsible: Ulrich Petri Details of program: will be published here at the beginning of October

Recently realized events

Saturday, July 13th – Excursion to Ammersee and Abbey Andechs

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Responsible: Margret Zender, Petra Wieland and Annette Schmidt Details of program – invitation: 2019-07-13_Andechs_Inv Link to Andechs Abbey : Andechs Abbey We travelled by train to Utting beside the lake Ammersee in Bavaria, there took a boat to the other side of the lake and then walked to our final destination Abbey Andechs. We’ll had a look around and visited the abbey Biergarten .

Saturday, June 22nd – Excursion to Zwiefalten

Responsible: Erla Spatz-Zöllner and Rüdiger Miksch Details of program – invitation: 2019-06-22_Zwiefalten_inv Link to Zwiefalten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwiefalten

Saturday, April 27th – Excursion to Bad Urach

Urach waterfall © E. Theile

We drove to Bad Urach by private cars, had a walk to the waterfall, continued toe the ruins of former Hohenurach castle. The tour ended with a sightseeing tour in the city of Bad Urach. Responsible: Erla Spatz Details of program – invitation:   2019-04-27_Bad-Urach_Inv Link to Bad Urach

Pictures, taken at the excursion, to enlarge, please click on the thumbs! All pictures © E. Miksch

 

Saturday, 6th of April 2019 – Excursion to Black Forest
with a walking tour around the Titisee and on the Feldberg

© MaHa2306 – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19802254

We had a bus to bring us to the black forest, walked around the picturesque Titisee and continued our journey passing the Feldberg, the highest mountain of Baden-Württemberg (1500m). Further we travelled  to St.Blasien. There we visit the church, a masterpiece of architecture, 200 years old and one of the largest cathedrals in northern Europe. Responsible: Walter Knauß, Marga Herrmann, Hildegard Henseler

Saturday, February 9th 2019 – Excursion to Obersdorf and Breitachklamm

Breitachklamm © P. Wieland

We made a walking tour the around Oberstdorf in the wintry Alps . The highlight was a hiking trip through a gorge (narrow canyon) called Breitachklamm, The Breitach is a small creek flowing in a deep valley of up to 50 meters depth and with rocks rising up on the right and left side. The water from the surface is frozen and forms majestic icecicles. We walked on a path on the right or left side of the creek, which is secured by railings. The total length of walking tour was around 7 km, thereof the tour along the gorge 2 km.Responsible: Petra WielandDetails of program – invitation: 2019-02-09_Breitachklamm_InvLink to Breitachklamm

Pictures, from the excursion. In order to enlarge, please click on the thumbs!

© P. Wieland

© P. Wieland

© P. Wieland

Saturday, December 15th 2018 – Christmas-Market in Bad Wimpfen

We shall visit the traditional Christmas-Market in the historical town of Bad Wimpfen Responsible: Annette Schmidt Details of program – invitation: 2018-12-15_Wimpfen_Inv

Wednesday, December 5th 2018 – Christmas-Party

As every year, we  organized a Christmas-Party. We celebrate an authentic German Advent, with Glühwein, food, pastries and drinks, reading Christmas stories, singing some Christmas songs and talking about Christmas celebrations in different countries. Details of program:   2018-12-05_Christmas_inv

Periodical Meetings of the ASSIST-Team –
next date is September 19th 2019 at 14:30 h

The Senior Consultants meet once a month – generally on the 3^rd Thursday of each month – to discuss upcoming topics like joint events, excursions or workshops, evolution of tasks and functions, adopting of strategies, matters of organisation, feedback to the members of ASSIST and the University of Ulm, etc.

The meetings take place in:
Generationentreff Ulm/Neu-Ulm – Ochsenhäuser Hof, 1st floor at 14:30 h
Address: Grüner Hof 5, 89073 Ulm
Further dates will be:
18/07/2019, 19/09/2019, 17/10/2019, 21/11/2019, 12/12/2019