Das Schiefe Haus von Jena / The Leaning House of Jena

Stations-ID: A002

General Instructions:

• Can you stand straight? Check yourself and the others, in what angle are you standing to the floor?
• Walk slowly in a circle. Pay attention to how it feels! Is it the same that your eyes see?

Marble scale:

• Adjust the wooden channel so it is horizontal. To see if you are correct, you can place a marble on it. If the wooden channel really is horizontal, the marble should not move much. 

Perpendicular pendulum:

• As soon as the pendulum is released from its anchor, it will point vertically downwards. 
• Using a wooden marble, give a guess as to which one of the boxes the tip of the pendulum will point to.

Marble Track:

• Where does the marble have to start to be able to traverse the whole marble track?

Not only in Jena can you find leaning houses. In Ulm, a half-timbered house from the 14th century advertises itself as the “most crooked hotel in the world”. The Oberhafen canteen in Hamburg, the old fulling mill in Wernigerode and the “leaning houses” in Idstein and Großbottwar are also very crooked.

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