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Monday, 19 September 2016 - Up early to walk about the streets of Rothenburg with a Rick Steves audio walking tour beginning at the main square and Rathaus, admired Gothic and Renaissance architecture including the Burgturm Gate and St. James' Church with its pilgrimage-route carvings, explored the old town wall and its towers with views into the Tauber River valley, and photographed historic fountains, old doors, and charming cobblestone streets.

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Up early to walk about the streets of Rothenburg with a Rick Steves audio walking tour. It begins at the main square and the "New" government building. The Rathaus (town hall) is a notable renaissance building. The rear Gothic part of the building dates from 1250, and the attached front Renaissance building was started in 1572.

This is a tunnel under the building at street level.
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An old door off the tunnel under the Town Hall.
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Flowers outside a monastery consecrated in 1265. It now is home to the Imperial City Museum.
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Looking down from the Castle Garden point into the valley carved by the Tauber River. The church, Our Lady to Kobolzel, sits in the valley.
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The wall with house foundations built right into the town wall which encircles the town.
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The Burgturm (Burg Tower) Gate into the walled city. There are several of these gates.
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Coat of arms over a door in downtown Rothenburg
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Detail of the St. George and Herterich fountain.

The St. George and Herterich fountain has been located on the market square since 1446.
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The tower gate near our hotel - not sure this one has a name - it is one of the gates in the old wall before the city expanded. On the right is a bakery and our hotel is just through the gate on the left.

When Cal went out at 0600 to walk the Rick Steves tour the bakery was already serving customers.
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The view just off the main square looking down the cobblestone at the Siebers Gate.
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The Baumeisterhaus was the house of the builder - the family which built the city. Carved into the wall are the seven virtues: Kindness, Gentleness, Meekness, Temperance, Courage, Justice, and Wisdom, And also the seven vices: Foolishness, Betrayal, Falsity, Avarice, Unchastity, Laziness, and Vanity.
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Unique eye-lid roof windows.
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While walking the wall surrounding Rothenburg there were many towers for gates or just good vantage point into the forest. This was a corner in the wall leading away from a gate.
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The view of central Rothenburg from a window in the southern wall
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Another tower along the wall.
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Old shake roof line with another roof line with more modern tiles.
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The covered walkway along the top of the town wall allowed troops to move quickly and take up positions to fire on the attackers.
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View from the town wall looking into the town.

This house was completely destroyed during an air attack in 1945. Since 1951 it was rebuilt with its elegant gable, the pretty windows and the colorful coat of arms. The coat of arms is between the two lower windows and is a crowned serpent is a creation of the legendary blacksmith Georg Gerlach. Since 1967, the blacksmith shop has been closed and has been in private hands ever since.
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A very old lane
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Our hotel from the other side. This time the hotel is on the right just before the tower gate.
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The nave of the St. James' Church.

The church was built between 1311-1484 and serves as a church on the pilgrimage route to St. James Church in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Detail of the carvings in the altar of the St James Church.
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One of the chapels in the church.
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The Lord's Supper

Its Western gallery contains the famous Holy Blood altarpiece carved 1500-1505, which includes a rock crystal reliquary cross (c. 1270).
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Christ and the bible on the Holy Blood altarpiece.
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There is a road running under one end of the church. It is the more modern part of the building added in about 100 years after the east part of the church was built in 1453-1471.
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Flowers in the garden of a typical Rothenburg home.
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The hotel was very old and created out of several buildings all connected to each other. This is the main staircase to the rooms.
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At the train station in Gallmersgarten waiting for a connection to Fussen.
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The Our Lady of the Mountain Church in Fussen
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Museum of the City of Fussen is located in the Benedictine monastery of St. Mang in Fussen.

The baroque complex of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Mang rises magnificently on the banks of the river Lech. Its history dates back to the 8th century, when Magnus, a patron of the city, founded a monastic cell as a missionary.
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St George-like statue in Fussen square.
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