Rothenburg

This has to be the coolest city in Germany!  It is a fortified city and some of the walls date back to 1390!!  There are 5 towers and you can walk the wall around the whole city.  You really get a medival feeling when crossing from "new" into "old".  Our hotel was built in 1408 and was just off the main town square.  We spent the day discovering Rothenburg on foot.  This town is famous for Christmas shops, so we went into one.  Our sites included climbing the belltower, St. Jacob's Church, the Craftsmen Museum (in the oldest building-over 700 years old!!), The Imperial City Dungeon, St. John's Church, various streets and wall portions, and a night walk around the town.

Our Hotel

One View from the tower

Staircase in St. Jacob's

Handcarved altar piece St. Jacob's

Main Altar in St. Jacob's

This is handcarved and was made from 1501-1504

One of the staircase up to the tower

The tower-235 steps up!!

The green one is our hotel

Craftsmen Museum

Entrance to the dungeon

If you were really bad, you got stretched to death (No Kidding!!)

back to St. Jacob's altarpiece

The paddy wagon

Yes, that is a medival Mercedes!!

Rothenburg Theater

This portion was built 1390-95

Shooting the moon