Excursion to Nördlingen

On the last Saturday of September the ASSIST team  performed an excursion to the romantic old town of Nördlingen.
Nördlingen is one of the most attractive of the towns in the central part of the Romantic Road of Germany. As all the tourist guides mention, Nördlingen shares with its neighbours to the north (Rothenburg and Dinkelsbühl) the distinction of being one of the only remaining walled medieval towns in Germany. However, it is far less crowded than the other two and offers an additional attraction of geological interest – being located in the crater of a meteorite impact, which even served as a training ground for astronauts, and with its impressive tower being built of the rock formed from that impact.
We will had the opportunity to go on the walkway of the city wall and to visit the Rieskrater-Museum.