Restored houses with timber-framed gables in Hirtengasse, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany. Hirtengasse leads from the late-1300s AD Klingentor gateway in the town’s medieval walls to the Gothic basilica of St Jakob.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany: restored houses with timber-framed gables in Hirtengasse. Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Red Castle above the Tauber), in the Ansbach district of northern Bavaria, is world-famous for its well-preserved old town and is one of only three German towns or cities whose defensive walls survive intact. In the 1500s, it was often called the “Franconian Jerusalem” because of the numerous towers featured in its skyline. Founded in 1170, it became a Free Imperial City in 1274, under the direct control of the Holy Roman Emperor. It thrived partly because it was at the junction of two important pilgrimage routes, one of them linking Denmark and Rome, and by the late 1300s, had become one of the Empire’s largest cities. Rothenburg now attracts more than one million tourists a year.
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Location: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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