Plönlein
Triangular square framed by two medieval gate towers and a crooked half-timbered house.
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This audio guide to the Plönlein in Rothenburg ob der Tauber looks away from the famous crooked house and toward a Renaissance stonemason, Leonhard Weidmann, whose home and whose biggest commission sit on either side of this little fork in the road. It touches a facade of carved virtues and vices, the Latin meaning of the square's name, and the lanes running down to two old gate towers. Best heard standing by the fountain, facing the yellow house.
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