Windows from Wiesloch

Written by eklastic

I was walking around the town centre of Wiesloch, a town just south of Heidelberg and here are some attractive houses with windows from there.

And here is something kind of special: A photo (with windows) of the word’s first petrol station:

Yes, that’s right. Bertha Benz on her historic first long distance drive in 1888 stopped here at the Wiesloch town pharmacy to buy fuel. Thus making this the first petrol station.

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12 thoughts on “Windows from Wiesloch”

    1. Bertha must have been a formidable woman. In later years, it was claimed that she only “accompanied” her teenage sons who were actually driving. Meanwhile, she repaired the car twice on the drive (once with a hat pin) because she knew what to do. She also did this because she suspected (and rightly so) that only a successful long distance drive (100km in a bit more than 12 hours) would rouse interest in her husband’s invention and make it a commercial success.

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  4. Fascinating. I had known of Bertha’s “escapade” but did not know that it was in Wiesloch where she bought the fuel. She certainly was a driving force for her husbands enterprise (pun intended).

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