Penalties Tower
Three-storey rubble-stone guard and prison tower with a conical roof on the medieval town wall.
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This guide to the Penalties Tower, the Strafturm on Rothenburg ob der Tauber's northwest wall, looks at the tower as a made thing: the stone it was built from, the jobs it was built for, and the people its cells once held. It sets this early fifteenth-century guard tower beside a neighbour from the same years on the same street, and asks why the two look so different. Best heard standing on Klosterweth with the cone roof above you.
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