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Town Hall of Rothenburg Medieval town wall and Klingentorturm, a defensive tower View of Rothenburg south of the Tauber. The name "Rothenburg ob der Tauber" is German for "Red castle above the Tauber", describing the town's location on a plateau overlooking the Tauber River.
The wall was destroyed by the Dutch during its colonial period in the way to ended the Banten reign. The city wall that left is only about 10% from the real appearance. Trowulan; Trowulan was the capital of the former Majapahit Empire. When its glory period, the capital being a first European systemized ancient city (with city canal system for ...
Dinkelsbühl is still surrounded by the old medieval walls and towers. There exist a lot of outstanding attractions. The image of this town is very typical for a German town of the 15th to early 17th centuries. St. George's Minster was built in the late 15th-century Gothic style to designs by Nikolaus Eseler.
Büsingen am Hochrhein. Büsingen am Hochrhein (German: [ˈbyːzɪŋən am ˈhoːxʁaɪn], lit. ' Büsingen on the High Rhine '; Alemannic: Büesinge am Hochrhi, pronounced [ˈbyəzɪŋə am ˈhoːçri]), often known simply as Büsingen, is a German municipality (7.62 km 2 [2.94 sq mi]) in the south of Baden-Württemberg with a population of about 1,548 inhabitants. [3]
After 281 years of construction it was finally completed in 1544. By the end of the 14th century, Xanten was surrounded by a town wall. In 1392 the northern part of the town came into the possession of the Dukes of Cleves, while the southern part remained with the Archbishopric of Cologne. The division of Xanten was a cause of a conflict ...
In that year, the first city wall was built, the footprint of which is still visible today. In a document dating to 1219, the Nördlinger Pfingstmesse ("Nördlingen Pentecost fair") was first mentioned, an event which continues as a folk festival in the city to the present day. Thanks to Nördlingen's location at the crossroads of two major ...
A part of the historic centre is still surrounded by the medieval wall which was built in 1252–1305. The oldest church of Northeim is Saint Fabian's and Sebastian's Chapel which was built in a typical gothic style in the middle of the 14th century and renovated in 1985/86. [8] Saint Sixti's Church was built from 1464 to 1517.
At the same time, Hornburg, thriving from the cultivation of humulus (hop) for beer brewing, was surrounded by a town wall including five gates. The ensemble of about 400 Renaissance timber-framed houses arose after a blaze in 1512 had devastated nearly all of Hornburg's buildings.