Hi, everyone! My name Antonina
and today I will tell you about the town Rothenburg,
which is situated in Bavaria in Germany.
So welcome to Rothenburg!
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Imagine that you are gatekeepers here.
Earlier everybody attacked everybody.
Ah, one town against another town?
Here there were counties scattered around.
Around the old town there stood a defensive wall -
Stadtmauer.
On the defensive wall you can see many different tablets
with strange names.
If I am not mistaken,
these are the sponsors of reconstructing the defensive wall of Rothenburg.
This is for shooting.
Yes, loopholes.
What? - Loopholes.
The population of the city is about
eleven thousand people.
The land area is one square kilometer.
This is some kind of a wall around the fortress or what, Seryozha?
Yes, yes, around the town.
Around the town. OK.
We need to get there.
The fortress gate, Burgtor, was constructed
in 1356 and it protected the town from the west.
To leave the town during war times
one would use a narrow manhole,
the so called "needle hole" - 'Nadelöhr'.
And the gate remained closed.
There's fish there!
Oh, orange ones!
They were probably brought here on purpose.
Russische Touristen
Everywhere, from everywhere.
Polizei
We also saw the St. Jacob's Church -
St.-Jakobs-Kirche
It appeared at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
The main sight of the church
is believed to be the Altar of Twelve Apostles
made by the artist Friedrich Gerlin.
As a pointer.
A pointer...
Like this? - Yes.
There, look from here, I see three fingers there, yes.
You... we could take a photo of you.
No, we will ask Seryozha...
Rothenburg is a very beautiful town.
Here there are, for example, the Town Hall tower,
about 60 meters.
It combines Gothic style and Revival style.
The next interesting place is The Imperial City Museum -
Reichsstadtmuseum
The exhibits of the museum include everything,
what was created in this town from century to century:
painting, sculpture, furniture, weapon and so on.
Robin Hood.
For women with locks...
Here it is also written "Robin Hood".
König Arthur.
100€
Pull it two times, pull it three times and then open.
A coded lock.
Now Seryoga will open.
Now they will come out and punish.
No, it does not work.
It is simply representative, I guess.
There is a very interesting legend about Rothenburg
when one day the burgomaster saved his town the following way.
During the Thirty Years' War
in the seventeenth century
60-thousand army of the Catholic league
beset Protestant Rothenburg.
The leader of the Catholic - count Tilly
demanded immediate capitulation of the town.
Otherwise he threatened to kill everyone brutally.
"Can we have a deal?" -
asked the town's burgomaster, Georg Nusch, hopefully the aggressor.
"Well...," - stretched Tilly.
I will dare somebody from your office
drink three liters of Franconian wine in one shot?
The burgomaster looked at the members of the city council,
and they made three steps ahead all together.
"No, indeed! I'll do it myself!" -
sighed the burgomaster helplessly
and drank three liters immediately.
And then, as the town legend states,
the burgomaster slept for three days without waking.
The history silent about the fact,
whether he was carried to his home or left at the place of the performed feat out of harm's way.
When the burgomaster woke up,
he realized with joy that the town is safe!
Are you sure?
Look, well, with a spear, he kills the serpent.
Well it is hardly him, I guess.
In the center of the old town there is the Historic town hall,
which was built in 1446,
with a sun-clock and the town's clock.
Everyday the windows to the right and to the left of the town's clock open
and there begins the historical demonstration 'Magic drink',
which is connected with the main legend of the town.
Word for word translation of Rothenburg can be 'red fortress'
or 'red castle'.
No wonder it is red,
because firstly a lot of people were tortured here in the medieval period;
and secondly almost every house here also has a red roof.
We found matryoshkas even here.
There, look at them!
And the most terrifying sight of Rothenburg
is The Criminal Museum of the Medieval times.
Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum
Here you will find a lot of scary, terrifying
and creepy exhibits.
Many different weapons,
and also torture tools.
Even delinquent children were sat on such a rocking donkey.
Punishment for women of easy virtue,
bad craftsmen and so on.
Metal masks of shame,
a drunk barrel, in which tavern frequent customers were mured,
chairs with spikes and other implements of torture.
Yowsers!
A bunch of different gibbets, models,
a chastity belt and so on.
Here you will see many terrible things.
But, it seems to me, you can visit
such a museum once a life.
If you bake stale buns - you could find yourself in such a cage.
Cherubs?
Wow, the cherubs put out their bottoms.
Trinkbrunnen - a well with drinking water.
The traffic along such narrow streets is still quite busy.
Oh, there, that's it, we found it!
And at the end of our little journey
we found a little comfy cafe,
and ate Bavarian food and drank tasty beer!
The day was a success!