Rothenburg
Travel Blogs from Rothenburg, Germany
Bavaria's Romantic Road
... of St George? He’s famous here for slaying a dragon. Every Bavarian town has memorialized him. In Rothenburg’s old town square, there’s a statue of him above the fountain. Other towns have paintings and taverns ...
Weinachts, the Sixth
... , so we sat like a good slow driver in the right lane !!! And after a couple of hours, we arrived at our first destination. Rothenburg Ob Der Tauber Growing up, like most kids, I saw the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and as the town square from Vulgaria ...
Now my feet really hurt
... back to the town square and had a very average apple strudel and a less than average coffee. (I miss Italian and Greek coffee). Rothenburg has the most bakeries I have ever seen in one town and all of them sell schneeballs, the sickly sweet pastry we had ...
Now THAT was a tour !!!
... , dressed as a night watchman, had a booming voice - enough to carry to the entire crowd. He orated the history of Rothenburg in a very interesting and entertaining way, then moved off through the town, with the crowd following en masse - just like the ...
Rothenburg day3
10/12/2011 Rothenburg day 3 - Rich Great day in Rothenburg. After excellent breakfast at our hotel we went to a house that dates back to the 1300's that is a museum and looked around. We then took a walk outside the city walls to ...
Rothenburg, Germany
Rothernburg is a city that lies at the intersection of what used to be two of the most traveled trade routes. Rothenburg is one of the only fully walled and fortified cities with the wall still completely ...
The Romantic Road and Rothenburg
... it's every 2-3 minutes! Everywhere we looked, it was green fields dotted with red rooftops and a church spire poking through. In Rothenburg we checked into our hotel (The Golden Rose). We we given a lovely room in the garden house. ...
Duck Family visits Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Our family made a day trip to the medieval village of Rothenburg, Germany. It felt a little bit like an episode of the Brady Bunch or the Simpsons when they take family vacations. Nancy never envisioned the family making it to Europe! The weather was ...
Saturday in Rothenburg
... had a great breakfast at the Rotes Ross. Then we got in the car and had a scenic drive to the outer wall of Rothenburg where there is plenty of tourist parking. There are bus loads of tourists that are brought to the Christmas market on day trips. ...
Rothenburg ob der tauber
... avoided the rest of the stores...) All in all, it was a great tour. Most Germans sort of laugh when I tell them I went to Rothenburg, I think it's like people coming to the US and going to Disney or something. Rather cliche, but still cool ...
Is it Christmastime Already?
... expand or progress with the times, so it remained as it was for hundreds of years. Finally, when Germany united and rebuilt its economy, Rothenburg finally had money. By 1910, tourism started becoming popular (I am reading right now that this ...
Castles, medieval towns and a red light district
... " not really worth mentioning was seen after Fussen although there were a few pretty towns and churches to see along the way! * Rothenburg ... another favourite town of mine! What a beautiful place, stunning too and lovely to say the very least (it's ...
On the Road again and back to the past
... ! It is actually rather fun. Anyway, I digress. We are up early because we have a busy day. We are off to see Rothenburg, then Schwabish Hall and finally on to Heidelberg. We follow the same routine out of the underground parking lot as we did when ...
Well here we are again several of you dear ...
... ) for 700 years. A must-see if you visit this area. That afternoon we drove to Rothenberg on the Tauber in Bavaria (southeastern Germany). The drive (more autobahn) was beautiful and the town is one of the best walled medieval towns in Europe. We're ...
Museum of Medievil Punishment!
Today was a lazy day..we missed breakfast, again..even though the alarm went off. A sleep in was had until around 11am, I did my hair and had a shower and then we went out in search of food and sightseeing. We walked around a bit trying to find a nice ...
Of all Things Medival
... brief story, told to me by the night watchman, about how the city was saved from destruction during WWII. It appears Rothenburg was a secondary target for bombing and since it was so foggy over their primary target they decided to bomb the ...
Little medieval bavarian town
We stop by this town for one night. The town is unique because it was never modernized or built any new trendy buildings after the 30 year war, so they happily maintained the town for 250 years. Well, that worked out for ...
Life in the dark
From Sankt Goar we continued along the autobahn to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. This is a tourist mecca along the “romantic road”, but school holidays had just ended for Germans, and the heavy tourist season is still weeks away. The next ...
You've been naughty
... knowledge. Yikes! Numerous documents, such as treaties, proclamations, and histories were enlightening. A book detailing the executions in Rothenburg showed an average of one per year. Two of the reasons listed were adultery and bee stealing. Following ...
Rothenburg
10/10/2011 Rothenburg, Germany -Rich Getting from Bacharach to Rothenburg. We check out and know we have to catch the train toward Mintz and Frankfurt. Have not been able to figure out all the train connections yet but figure we will be ...
Can you say Quaint?
... looked at some shops and succumbed to the Schneeballen. The Schneeball is a fried then covered ball of dough stuff that is a speciality of Rothenburg. We got an original which was a bit .bleh to be honest, but we also got a Champagne truffle one for me ...
Rothenburg
... , and then went to the main square for the evening Watchman's Tour. The Night Watchman's Tour is a bit of an institution in Rothenburg. A local man, I think his name is Georg, has been doing this for the last 18 years. Basically, he wears a ...
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Today we drove from Legoland, near Augsburg, to Rothenburg. This route took us north-west, up what the German tourism ministry promotes as the Romantic Road. The idea as far as I could tell, is that the road putters through lots of medieval ...
Rothenburg and future plans
Well we have reached Rothenburg, the highlight of the Romantic Road and one of the top ten places in Germany according to my guide book. it is actuallly very nice but rather over run with tourists, especially Americans speaking VERY LOUDLY. we have ...
Everything within these walls stays the same.
Rothenburg is a very cute little medieval German village. The village is enclosed in a large stone wall and all the buildings inside the wall haven't changed, meaning there are no modern buildings to be seen. It would be great to spend ...

