On Tuesday, I made a one-day stop in the town of Rothenberg ob der Tauber, a town which has been remarkably well-preserved since medieval times. I teamed up with a fellow Rick Steves traveller who I met in one of the many stations in which I had to change trains, Christine from San Francisco. We walked around the ludicrously picturesque town for a while, toured the extensive Medieval Crime and Punishment Museum, had a typical German dinner (schnitzel, schnitzel and more schnitzel), then took the entertaining and informative Night Watchman’s Walking Tour.
Every third shop in this town seems to sell the “local specialty,” Schneeballen (German for “snowballs”), which is a delicious-looking pastry about the size and shape of a baseball that comes in a variety of flavors. The key phrase here is “delicious-looking.” It turns out they’re kind of ho-hum. I don’t know why they seem to be so excited about them.
This town also has the biggest Christmas store I have ever seen. Open year-round, they also have a Christmas museum upstairs.
Does the picture below look familiar? If you can’t place it, look up at the top of the page.
Update: here are some photos from this part of my trip:
Rothenburg - General
Medieval Crime Museum
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