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A Medeaval City Alive Today

A May 1994 trip to Rothenburg by Wasatch

Quote: Mediaeval Rothenburg ob der Tauber is one of the touristic high points in Europe.

A Medeaval City Alive Today

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Overview

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Rothenburg o.d. T.-- in English, ‘Rothenburg above the Tauber River’ to distinguish from theother Rothenburgs in Germany, sits atop a high cliff overlooking the Tauber on a thumb shapedspit of land surrounded by an Oxbow bend in the river. The ease of fortifying this location led toRothenburg’s early development. By the 12th Century, two mighty castles occupied the spit,protected on three sides by the cliff with the first city wall enclosing the fourth side of the village. As Rothenburg grew, the walls were successively expanded to include more land until the presentwalls were built in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Once one of the most prosperous of Germany...Read More

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