Ulm (pop 169,000) lies on the Danube and has the highest church spire in the world (161 metres). It’s also famous as the birthplace of Albert Einstein and of Albrecht Berblinger, a tailor who in 1802 invented the hang-glider. Apart from that the city has the mediaeval ‘Fishermen’s and Tanner’s Quarter’ providing a lovely romantic contrast to all its features of modern city life.

Places of interes in Ulm

• Gothic Minster (1377-1890) with the tallest spire in the world (161 m)
• a historic Old Quarter with buildings dating back to Ulm's days as an imperial city
• the fortifications going back eight centuries
• the baroque monastery in Wiblingen with its basilica and rococo library hall
• Town House (Stadthaus Ulm) designed by Richard Meier, New York (1993)
• Ulm Museum with important collections of medieval art, the prehistoric department and the 20th century art department
• German Bread Museum (Deutsches Brotmuseum) with its permanent exhibition on the history and importance of bread and nutrition
• Danube-Swabian Central Museum (Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum) in the Danube Bastion
• an aquarium and tropical vivarium
• Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm; galleries and archives (e.g. the former College of Design, 1955-68).