Spitalgasse
Cobbled lane leading to the old hospital quarter and a figure-eight bastion gate with seven towers.
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This guide walks you down Spitalgasse in Rothenburg ob der Tauber to the Spital Bastion, the stone gate at the town's southern edge, and to the conflicting dates attached to it. It follows the Rothenburg master builder Leonhard Weidmann, the flat ground that made this corner the hardest to defend, and the Latin line carved over the outer arch. Along the way it stops at a squat tower-roofed house in the hospital courtyard and the name tourists gave it.
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