European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The top of the town /1.1ii Tower offers a Foo of View of Rothenburg. The clock with its Mechan Kat figures is of left port of the City Wall is visible in the left background walled its City Gates and step Back in timely Ron Mckinney staff writer nestled neatly within the rolling Hills of Northern Bavaria is the old c Ity it Rothenburg of Der Tauber a town that Jime forgot and visitors Are glad it did. It is no longer a military stronghold a place of turmoil or a setting Tor a Tierce and bloody War. The Walls that were built to defend it Are no longer needed except to attract tourists. Records show that there was a celtic settlement at this Bend in the Tauber River As far Back As 500 . And that the first Castle was built on a nearby Hill More than 1,000 years ago. Gradually a town developed around the Castle outgrowing its first ramparts and leading to the construction of a new Wall in the 1 lib Century. During the reformation the City turned protest and and during the 1 dirty years War was damaged extensively. The City lost much of its wealth and too poor to rebuild was reduced to Little More than a Market town that was ignored during the 17th and 1 his centuries. When it was Quot realist overed Quot in the late-1 01 h Century it adopted trip t preservation guidelines. It has managed to keep its medieval look Complete with half timbered houses it of Helstone squares gabled town Hall Onanow gait s and Many towers and its l town Wall. It Tan take be Elul flays to Lully explore i lie town. One of die first stops should be at the tourist Olitte in the town Hall i Adaes 1 i the towns Mam Square called the mir upts. An informative Guidebook in English t an be Pun based there Lor 4.50 Marks labout 5 11. Be t the Best views of the 1 Ity is if of the i 5 loot radians lower. It i an be a Dillon nil 1 limb up a Par Low Stair t ase. But 01 u e up them it is possible in see most of the 1 Ity and the Surtin Undag t in Wall Houi on the Ishii Horn i i . To i p in., and again at 11 and i i mods Oinui Isis begin gathering ill the ,. Lor the pert Imam e of lie i in k and its my it my Al figures m the t ill on in rims i in to i lie appointed Lime two so m id to nor w mows pop open and one i Igor e i n iks r Low n 011 the i mud 11 inn igl 1 a left a is Ope and a not i let a Rpr. s hide Ink i of a wine .11 i i in so 11 Gums Dep ii i ennui i Ilka i Alliosn and Nirso a a Lor Merri i Henl n org my or. Do my i he i Hir i v i mis War it n i i 10 1 it it 1 ithe gel Iri Al Agiere i to spar 1 a the 1 it v in some in 1 mild 1 i Ink imm a Ihan Ihme liners 1 it War 111 a single draught Nus i managed the Lea and Siul Iii a 1 it i it 1 it nun a a i nil rage a -11 5x5 5.s. Ami input 21, / it it strikes 3
