What to see in Rottingen, an itinerary to discover the historic center of this wine town in Bavaria located along the Romantic Road.
Tourist information
Located at the confluence of the Rippbach with the Tauber, Rottingen immediately attracts the attention of the tourist with the myriad of typical houses with wooden trellis structure that surround the Baroque town hall and the characteristic chapels.
In the Market Square the "via della meridiana" begins and ends, which includes 20 particularly beautiful watches.
The Romanesque Church of San Kilian, in whose interior there are 13th century sepulchral monuments, testifies to past eras.
Brattenstein Castle has been restored and in the summer season is an evocative setting for outdoor theater.
Outside the well-preserved circle of walls, the archaeological itinerary passes next to over 20 mounds and the ruins of the quadrangular trenches of the Celts.
Various facilities for recreational activities and well-kept parks offer tourists the way to spend a good holiday immersed in a welcoming environment surrounded by woods and vineyards.
What see
Going in the direction of Rothenburg it is advisable to deviate, taking a secondary road, to Aub Burgerroth where, near the Romanesque chapel of Santa Cunegonda of the thirteenth century there is a millenary age lime tree.
The main resort Aub was formerly a shopping center on the route from Nuremberg to Augsburg.
For this reason it is possible to continually come across the testimonies of this great past, which consist of parts of the city walls with their towers, the town hall with the pillory, the Baroque Marian column, the hunting castle of the bishops and the Catholic parish church which is advisable to visit for the presence of capitals carved in late Gothic style and especially for the precious crucifixion of Tilman Riemenschneider.
Going south for about 2 km is Waldmannshofen, a small hamlet of Creglingen, where there is the castle on the water which currently houses a museum dedicated to firefighters.
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In the hamlet of Creglingen Frauental it is possible to visit a thirteenth-century convent church, built on two floors to meet the strict rules of the Cistercians, according to which nuns and lay people could not be in the same place at the same time.
Do not miss a visit to the lower Gothic church where you can admire the precious furnishings.
The Fuchshof estate was also part of the convent, where there is now a private peasant museum.
