Spital Gate
Sixteenth-century gate bastion with figure-eight trap courtyards, seven gateways and walkable ramparts.
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This guide to the Spital Gate in Rothenburg ob der Tauber stands you at the town's southern tip, where flat ground toward the Tauber valley made the walls hardest to hold. It follows the sixteenth-century master builder Leonhard Weidmann and the catching yards he shaped into the bastion, and a Latin greeting carved over the outer arch. Best heard just inside the first gate, looking up at the wall walks.
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