A Galileo Galilei is simply missing. Then the history of Gau-Weinheim would have been quite different for centuries. But here, deep in Rheinhessen, unlike in Pisa, no case tests were undertaken and no case laws were discovered, as the famous polymath is said to have done in his native city of Pisa in the 16th century from the world-famous Leaning Tower there. Here in Gau-Weinheim there is just a tower. Everyone in the village knew that it was a bit “schepp”, as the Rheinhesse says instead of “skewed”.
Daniel Meuren
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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But for many decades no one suspected that it was as crooked as it is, and on the “least” side even more crooked than the Tower of Pisa or any other tower in the world. “In all my 73 years here in town, I’ve always been joking about whether the tower will fall over soon,” says Hans-Bernhard Krämer, mayor of the community with barely 400 inhabitants around 30 kilometers south of Mainz.