Röderturm
Medieval gate tower and signal post with customs huts, a wall-history exhibition and town views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Röderturm in Rothenburg ob der Tauber is about the working life of a gate tower on the town's eastern road. It follows the customs men in their pointed-roof huts, the stables and storerooms of the gatehouse yard, and a tower that began with no back wall at all. Best heard standing between the outer gate and the tower, where the huts are in view.
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