Siebersturm
Fourteenth-century gate tower with a clock, framing a famous fountain square and half-timbered house.
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This guide to the Siebersturm in Rothenburg ob der Tauber is about appetite: how a medieval town fed itself at the small square called the Plönlein. It starts at the fountain where fishmongers once worked, then looks up at a fourteenth-century gate tower whose name points to a trade done in clouds of white dust. Best heard standing by the fountain, facing the yellow half-timbered house with the tower on your left.
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