rothenburg ob der tauber, germany

Part Gothic, from 1240, and part Renaissance, from 1572, Rothenburg’s town hall is decorated with intricate friezes and a large stone portico opening onto the main market square.

Closeups of some of the signs decorating the buildings in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

The last of the town's many fortifications to be constructed, Spitaltor bears the Latin inscription, Pax intrantibus, salus exeuntibus; this literally translates as "Peace to those who enter in, good health to those who leave again."

St. Jakob is a Lutheran (originally Catholic) church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, which serves as a church on the pilgrimage route to St. James Church in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Shots aroud the streets of the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Shots of and around the medieval wall around Rothenburg.