The City Walls

One of the things Rothenburg is famous for, is its completely intact city walls, dating back to the Middle Ages. So old Count of Tilly didn't destroy them, nor did the Americans during World War II. Two other Bavarian towns share this distinction, the above mentioned Dinkelsbühl and Nördlingen. These are, according to all the tourism propaganda, the only three cities/towns to have this distinction of complete walls.

After seeing the church, Christmas store, the wine swilling mayoral glockenspiel, and eating lunch, and forgoing the other big attraction of the town, the Medieval Torture Museum, we walked the walls. We skipped the museum, by the way, because I read so much about Medieval and Early Modern torture (thank you Professor Edward Peters) while doing my senior thesis and then my potential proposal as a grad student on the witch hunts in Germany and France, that I honestly had no interest in that sort of thing.

Most of the pictures are views from on the walls, and there are two special ones: actual rare photos of yours truly and Herr Haifisch looking out of one of the many towers.

It was a long walk, but we had had a big lunch and were planning on some cake later, so, los geht's.Read more