Old quarter Auf-dem-Kreuz — one of the landmarks of the city is about 1 km from Ulm Cathedral. Now it is a carefully restored in a privileged area with limited traffic. About half of the buildings of the quarter Auf-dem-Kreuz built before 1700. They have been fully restored as a result of a complete renovation of the area began in 1974. After graduation in 1999, paved streets, luxurious and carefully restored old houses, harmoniously complemented by new buildings, demonstrate the Ulm of the late middle ages and the changes that happened to him over the centuries.

The whole block Auf-dem-Kreuz can be circumvented in a few tens of minutes, but don't rush your recovery. Each house, each building is worthy of careful examination and study. Here are attractions such as the chapel of St. Sebastian, the first mention of which refers to 1415, the historic Arsenal building 1433, the year of construction, the old towers of the former city wall, Seestorm and Gunstorm.

It is here, in the quarter Auf-dem-Kreuz was the house in which he spent the first 15 months of his life the great native of Ulm albert Einstein. In 1984 the site was completely destroyed by bombing in 1944 the building there is a statue-fountain by the sculptor jürgen Hertz. It consists of three parts: missiles, meaning technical progress, snails, symbolizing the wisdom of nature and tranquility, and Einstein head peeking out from the house of a snail with a sly look.