Untere Schmiedgasse
Sloping half-timbered lane of dated merchant houses running down to a fountain and twin gate towers.
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This guide to the Untere Schmiedgasse in Rothenburg ob der Tauber starts at the stone fish tanks and running fountain at the foot of the lane, beside the Plönlein and the Siebers Tower. From there it reads the street's houses by the dates carved into them, from around fourteen hundred to the early nineteenth century, and asks what their hatches and beams were for. Best heard standing by the fountain, facing up the lane.
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