From a distance, Nördlingen appears to be a fairly standard German Town, populated by snug rows of buildings with red orange sloping roofs. If you stroll around on a sunny day, you may notice that certain stone structures in the town sparkle in the sunlight. Much of the stone used to construct the town of Nördlingen is derived from an impact crater left by a sizable asteroid that collided with what we now know as Germany approximately 15 million years ago. The collision was so intense, the asteroid left countless microscopic diamonds in its wake. In the early Middle Ages, […]

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