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Vacation 2010September 16, Germany
Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
 Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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Rothenburg's Historical Museum is located in the oldest part of the
town hall, using some truly historic rooms: the medieval dungeon and torture chambers.
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| In good old medieval tradition, we start our tour with a showing of the instruments, followed by a presentation of the accommodations. |
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| On the upper level, the museum displays a couple of historical scenes from the Thirty-Years War, like a guard chamber (top left), the legend of Mayor Nusch's master drink (bottom left) or the laboratory of Doctor Andreas Libavius, who became the town's physician in 1591 (bottom right). |
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| In addition, the museum presents some really impressive art work. |
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To show just the range of diffent sights in this town - here is a totally different place: The German Christmas Museum
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Yet again, totally different is this on just outside the city wall: XX The The Chapel of St. Blaise This was once the location of the Rothenburg Imperial Castle (built around 1142). The Castle was destroyed in an earthquake in 1356. The only surviving building was the prison, which was rebuilt in 1400 and turned into a Chapel. |
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Today, the chapel is war memorial honoring the German soldiers who were killed in two world wars. The inscription at wall reads, May our sacrifice plant a seed for peace between all peoples! |
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Outside the chapel is another memory of the town's (and country's) violent past: 1298, around 250 of the town's 500 Jews were killed during a series of pogroms. A group of them had sought refuge at the castle, but were attacked there by an angry mob and burned to death. This little memorial was erected at the 700th anniversary of the athrocities. |
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| On the same topic: In town, Next to the White Tower and the medieval Jewish Dance Hall is ancient Jewish cemetery with gravestones built into the stone wall. Part of the cemetery is a plaque comemorating those Jewish citizen that were driven out of town in 1938. Holocaust records don't show any but the fait ot those 17, that were forced to leave the town on October 10, 1938 remains unknown. |
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There are a lot more places to see in Rothenburg, but we'll have to save those for our next visit.On the next page, we invite you to a walk with us along the city wall. |
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Click the left turn sign to get back to the previous page. Or click the right turn signal to get to Rothenburg's wall and towers. |
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