Contrasts of the Romantische-strasse

Nordlingen Town Wall

We joined the "Romantische Strasse" and traveled north through Donauworth, Nordlingen and Dinklsbuhl. The road traveled through very nice farming country and through small villages in which tile-roofed houses surrounded the high steepled churches. Nordlingen and Dinklsbuhl still maintain their centuries-old city walls. We climbed up and walked the gaurd walk all the way around the town of Nordlingen. The wall is essentially complete. It took us about 45 minutes to walk the circle around the city. The "gaurds walk" was perhaps 15ft high, a 3 ft wide stone walkway with a tile roof. The outside of the wall was probably 25 ft high. Regularly spaced along the wall were narrow slits or "murder holes". June 26, 1967

Rod on the Gaurd's Walk

We climbed up and walked the gaurd walk all the way around the town of Nordlingen. The wall is essentially complete. It took us about 45 minutes to walk the circle around the city. The "gaurds walk" was perhaps 15ft high, a 3 ft wide stone walkway with a tile roof. The outside of the wall was probably 25 ft high. Regularly spaced along the wall were narrow slits or "murder holes". June 26, 1967

Nordlingen Town Wall

These are towers on the city wall of Nordlingen, Germany. We had climbed up and were walking the gaurd walk all the way around the town of Nordlingen. The wall is essentially complete. It took us about 45 minutes to walk the circle around the city. The "gaurds walk" was perhaps 15ft high, a 3 ft wide stone walkway with a tile roof. The outside of the wall was probably 25 ft high. June 26, 1967

Continue on the German Romantischestrasse

Nordlingen and Its Town Wall

This is a good perspective of Nordlingen with its tile-roofed houses inside its medieval town wall. Unfortunately, this slide has borne the ravages of time an is splotchy, but it is still a unique view of the German town on the Romantischestrasse.