Blade Gate
Fourteenth-century gate tower joined to a fortified late Gothic shepherds' church with loopholes.
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This guide to the Blade Gate, the Klingentor, in Rothenburg ob der Tauber follows the shepherds' brotherhood that met here every year from the fifteenth century, and the fortified Shepherds' Church they raised against the gate tower. You'll meet the painter Wilhelm Ziegler, a bishop flanked by plague saints, and the patron saint of shepherds in a pilgrim's hat. Best heard standing beside the church, with the tower above you.
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