Rothenburg Museum
Former Dominican convent holding eight centuries of town history, weapons, Judaica and a medieval kitchen.
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This guide to the RothenburgMuseum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber turns on a glass tankard and the most famous story the town tells about itself, set in the autumn of sixteen thirty-one when the Thirty Years' War reached its gates. It weighs a general, a condemned council and a former mayor against what the chroniclers of the time actually wrote down. Along the way it visits the painters and first tourists of the nineteenth century, and the Dominican convent whose thirteenth-century kitchen still stands below the galleries.
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