The City of Rothenberg
Today we made the one hour drive from Nuremburg to
Rothenberg were we are staying at a quaint little hotel with a bed and
breakfast feel. They have a lovely garden in back and in front is a church,
from which I can hear the organ music.
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| View looking down from tower |
The city of Rothenberg is small because it is a walled city
with its original wall. We did walk
along part of the wall and in the old castle gardens. The castle is no longer
there but the castle gate is which has a frowning face of a man from which hot
oil/tar was poured out onto invaders. The gardens were nice and provided excellent
views of the valley and parts of the city.
In the center of town we saw the Town Hall and Medieval Crime Museum. We
climbed to the top of the Town Hall tower.
The tower is 200 ft. high and the climb up started with a nice stone
spiral staircase, then turned into a bit steeper wooden stair case with switch
backs, then a narrower steeper
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| View from garden wall |
semi-spiral staircase. Then at the top you
basically climbed an old wooden ladder to get out onto the narrow tower roof
which had a bell. It was a wonderful view from the top, which provided sweeping
views of the Tauber Valley and the city of Rothenberg. The Medieval Crime Museum was interesting;
they basically punished you for anything that the rulers or the church found
offensive. I know a lot of people that would be wearing masks of shame if they
still that now a days. Interesting pieces in the museum included male and
female chastity belts, the masks of shame of which each was different depending
on the offense, and several types of torcher devises. This
made for a pretty full day of walking
around.
On a food related note we had Schneeball
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