St.Wolfgangs-church & Casemattes and other Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Off The Beaten Path Tips

St.Wolfgangs-church close to

Klingentor

St.Wolfgangs-church is an interesting place to visit next to Klingentor at the north-end of the citywalls.
Besides the old defence-church with 2 beautiful altars, you may see also the "Schaefertanz-Kabinett" , exhibits about everyday live of farmers, the old Casemattes and the places, where cannons were used in order to defend Rothenburg in the medieval times. See also my next tips for places of interest inside that museum !
The church & museum are open April till September
daily from 10.00a.m. - 05.00p.m.daily (in Oct. untill 04.00p.m.)
Entrance-fee is 1,50 Euros

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Off The Beaten Path: inside St. Wolfgang church

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Written by globetrott

on Apr 27, 2005

inside St. Wolfgang church

St. Wolfgangs-church looks rather simple from OUTside, but it has 2 really beautifully decorated altars dating back to the 15th century with nice wooden sculptures.
This church is really worth to leave the beaten path of the big tourist-groups , who will normally totally skip this great museum and church.
In the back of the church you may climb up the spiral staircase to the Museum of sheep-farming and wool-production. One of the best attractions of that museum is shown on my next tip & picture : The "Schaefertanz-Kabinett"!

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Off The Beaten Path: The "Schaefertanz-Kabinett"

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The "Schaefertanz-Kabinett" in

Rothenburg

This was in fact a really nice surprise for me inside the museum , high above St.Wolfgang church.
There is a large niche in one of the rooms and behind a glass-wall you may see this lovely scene of dancing dolls in traditional costumes with the scenery of Marktplatz in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
You may insert 1 Euro and these puppets will start to dance, according to the music from the opera "Die Regimentstochter" by Donizetti.
All of these puppets are made of bread-dough, made in Neustadt bei Coburg in 1930. A similar such scenery that was built for a doll-museum in Neustadt bei Coburg was lost some years ago, when museum-mice began to eat the precious works of art...

...Banausen !!! (Philistines)

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Off The Beaten Path: the old Casemattes next to St.Wolfgang

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the old Casemattes next to

St.Wolfgang

The old Casemattes (the living and working-rooms of the knights, defending the castle) is another quite interesting part of this museum in the north-end of the medieval townwall.
You may see a few cannons left and an interesting exhibition about the last days of WW II, when Rothenburg almost completely burned down after a bombing by allied troops.
At the first moment this sounds like an act of insane cruelty against such a beautiful old town without any strategical importance, BUT then you may also learn about the german General Wei�enberger, who had the idea to make the city of Rothenburg his head-quaters in the very last days of the war, and about his oder to defend the city of Rothenburg untill the very last soldier...

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Off The Beaten Path: The chapel of St. Blasius close to Burgtor

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The chapel of St. Blasius

The chapel of St. Blasius is a small church outside of the "Burgtor" at the est-end of Rothenburg.
Inside that church you may see some great remains of romanic frescoes.
This building was built as a part of the old palace in 1142. It was partly destroyed by an earth-quake in 1356 and became a church in the year 1400.
Today it is a place to remember the victims of both Worldwars.
You may enter St.Blasius chapel freely and without restrictions during the day.

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Off The Beaten Path: St. Blasius chapel from inside

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St. Blasius chapel from inside

Don't skip St. Blasius chapel, when you are interested in romanic churches. Get inside this lovely church and take a closer look for the remains of the beautiful frescos !
What a pity this building was mis-used a long time as a lapidary-museum at the beginning of the 20th century.
The park around the chapel is also a great place to relax a bit from touristy Rothenburg. Ordinary tourists are obviously totally skipping this place !

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Off The Beaten Path: Tilman Riemenschneider also in Franziskanerkirche

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Tilman Riemenschneider-altar in

Franziskanerkirche

Franziskanerkirche is another important church of Rothenburg, but it might be easily overseen, as it does not have a high spire and it is almost a bit hidden by trees, when you walk in Herrngasse from Marktplatz to Burgtor. The most important work of art, that you may see there is an early work of Tilman Riemenschneider The altar shows Saint Franziscus getting his stigmatas.
The church is open during the day and you may enter freely and without restrictions !

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Off The Beaten Path: the old smithy dates back to 1649

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the old smithy dating back to 1649

This old smithy dates back to the year 1649 and is one ofthe most beautiful houses that you may see, when you walk on top of the townwall between Galgentor and Spitalstor.
Today the building is privately owned, but when you get there, you will still see plenty of the tools and instruments exposed there in front of the house and in that little terrace under the arcades of the building.
The beautiful guild-sign of this smithy is shown in one of my "Local custom"-tips !

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Off The Beaten Path: a great entrance-gate behind St. Jakob church

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on Apr 28, 2005

a lovely building behind St.Jakob

church

Behind the church of St. Jakob you will see a large building, belonging to the church and when you get closer to it, you will see this beautifully decorated entrance-gate of that building.
When you enlarge my picture, you may see the fine details of these great sculptures.
I made a little picture-combination of the building and the best entrance-gate (the one of the tower). There is still another gate there that looks nice !

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Off The Beaten Path: Spitalskirche and Spitalstor

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on Apr 28, 2005

Spitalskirche and Spitals-Turm