heidenheim

Updated: May 9, 2025

In the fresh water chalk formation of Steinheim, near Heidenheim, in Würtemberg, scientists have found, on the same place, in an uninterrupted series of strata, the snail valvata or paludina multiformis in all imaginable transitions from the flat winding, showing the form of a chess-board, up to the sharp form of a tower.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

With him fell sixty thousand Austrians, the elite of the army, into the hands of the enemy. Napoleon could scarcely spare a sufficient number of men to escort this enormous crowd of prisoners to France. Wernek's corps, which had already been cut off, was also compelled to yield itself prisoner at Trochtelfingen, not far from Heidenheim.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4