Thursday, September 11, 2014

Day trip from Rothenburg September 10

A last-minute excursion led by James Derheim, the owner of European Focus Private Tours based in Sarasota, FL and in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

 The pretty Tauber Valley

 Weinstube 'Zur Höll' 


Dinkelsbühl


 The Catholic Church was built in the early 1300s

 The baptismal font

 Soaring heights make one wonder - how did they do it? 

 We were treated to organ music





Nördlingen

 Walking the wall

 The wall and one of the many towers dating to the 1300s

 Remains of a Roman farm, one of at least 100 near Nördlingen dating to the 1st century



Ulm

The Ulm Minster is the world's tallest church at 540 feet. 

 The groundstone was laid in 1377


The church was not finished until the late 1800s


 In the Fischerviertel - fishermen's quarter


 The town hall was built in 1540