The town's other famous inhabitant was Hermann Julius Oberth (1894- 1989), one of the three founding fathers of rocketry and modern astronautics, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard.
Drugi poznati stanovnik grada bio je Hermann Julius Oberth (1894-1989), koji se zajedno s Rusom Konstantinom Tsiolkovskim i Amerikancem Robertom Goddardom smatra utemeljiteljem raketne tehnike i moderne astronautike.