Dr. (ass.Prof.)

[1] Noerdlingen is not a Roman town - the location site, however, has been a margin for Roman farmer-soldiers settling around.
[2] The annual horse-sport festival of Noerdlingen's Scharlachrennen is unique. It has a lot to do with the middle-age, since the festival has been taken place since year 1438 until the age of the Holy Roman Empire's popular revolts (Peasant War / Bauernkrieg 1525) . The first price was a piece of highly valuable scarlet fabric which could be used for cloth making.
[3] True, for sure the US astronauts were in the Ries - if they were on the moon - well we all haven't been with them. But the Ries crater basin provides one comfort: it is home to what Geologists are entitled to call "moon-stone". Besides, teh Ries crater basin is the origin of the Moldavites which are mostly found in today's Czech Republic - also unique jewel-like green "glass-stones". To this respect: Noerdlingen and the Ries indeed are more
than just medieval matter - they connect two countries by its nature ...

Dr.Engelbert Altenburger / I-Shou University / Kaohsiung

(Germany)