heidelberg
We traveled to Heidelberg, today. We visited the University, and to my surprise, learned some very interesting things about life at the University.
The best part about the tour was learning about the University’s prison.
“The University of Heidelberg has a long tradition as a center of learning, but students at the 500-year-old uni have often taken the view that “All work and no play makes Hans a dull boy.” As long ago as the 16th Century, citizen complaints about carousing students led the university to open a Studentenkarzer, or Student Prison, where academic miscreants were kept off the streets for three days to four weeks at a time.
Over the centuries, the University of Heidelberg’s Student Prison was moved several times, and it finally was shut down in 1914. Today, that prison—with its original fixtures and graffiti—offers a glimpse into student life at the University of Heidelberg before World War I.” link to site
