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Künzelsau is a town of 14,699 people located 92 km northeast of Stuttgart and 123 km west of Nürnberg.

The name means Cunzilio's (Conrad's) meadow -- not his sow, as I used to think before I realized where the syllables should be divided.

Actually I wasn't the only one who had this problem. Early versions of German hyphenation and spelling programs for PCs in the 1980s and 90s had huge problems deciding where to divide the syllables. It wasn't easy to teach computers that the correct division was Künzels-au (meadow) and not Künzel-sau (sow).

It was a somewhat gloomy day in February when I was there, but I had a look around at the picturesque old half-timbered houses before doing my presentation at the Adult Education Center (vhs).

Second photo: The old City Hall, built in 1522 after a devastating city fire in 1519. This was actually used as the seat of the city council and administration until 1989.

Website: http://www.kuenzelsau.de/