Heidelberg: Studenten und eine Ruine

Heidelberg: students and a ruin · हाइडलबर्ग: छात्र और एक खंडहर

A2German history in easy German · 1386–1914 · HeidelbergChapter 1 free

Germany's oldest university, a student prison with drawings on the walls, a castle that burned twice, and an American writer who came to learn German and found it awful.

Timeline

1386Heidelberg University is founded, the oldest in today's Germany
1689 and 1693French troops destroy much of the castle in a war
1751The Great Barrel is built in the castle cellar
1764Lightning strikes and the castle burns again
1778–1914The university has its own student prison
c. 1800Romantic poets and painters fall in love with the ruin
1878Mark Twain spends three months in Heidelberg learning German

Kapitel 1: Die älteste Universität

The oldest university · each German sentence with its English translation

Heidelberg liegt am Neckar, zwischen grünen Hügeln.Heidelberg lies on the river Neckar, between green hills.

1386 bekam die Stadt eine Universität.In 1386 the town got a university.

Es ist die älteste Universität im heutigen Deutschland.It is the oldest university in today's Germany.

Seitdem leben sehr viele Studenten in der Stadt.Since then, a great many students have lived in the town.

Heute kommen sie aus der ganzen Welt nach Heidelberg.Today they come to Heidelberg from all over the world.

Früher hatte die Universität sogar ihr eigenes Gefängnis, den Studentenkarzer.In the past the university even had its own prison, the student jail.

Wer zu laut feierte oder sich mit anderen schlug, musste dort ein paar Tage bleiben.Anyone who partied too loudly or got into fights had to stay there for a few days.

An den Wänden sieht man bis heute Bilder und Namen der Studenten.On the walls you can still see the students' drawings and names today.

Bis 1914 benutzte man den Karzer.The jail was used until 1914.

The rest of the history

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