Kapellenplatz
Old-town square on the site of the medieval Jewish quarter, its synagogue and a famed Talmud school.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Kapellenplatz in Rothenburg ob der Tauber follows Meir ben Baruch, a thirteenth-century rabbi from Worms who ran a Talmud school from his house on this spot. It looks at the working life of a medieval scholar, the students who came to him and the letters that arrived from communities across the German lands. It also takes in the rebuilt dance house, the memorial garden with its old gravestones, and what an excavation in twenty twenty-five turned up beneath the pavement.
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