Remembering Fritz Noether in the Town of Gengenbach

attending workshops at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics (MFO) in the Black Forest of Germany often arrive by taking a local train from Offenburg to the town of Hausach.From there, they usually take a taxi or other ground transportation that winds through the towns and villages that lie upstream in the scenic valley of the Wolf River, which flows into the Kinzig at Wolfach.By the time these travelers reach the conference center in Oberwolfach-Walke, few will remember having passed through the town of Gengenbach, the train's first stop after leaving Offenburg.Fritz Noether's in-laws had lived in this town, and it was here that he made the arrangements for his wife's burial in 1935.Her grave (Figure 1) can be found at the northwest corner of the cemetery located in the churchyard surrounding Gengenbach's Martinskirche.