Things to do in Romantic Road, Romantic Road: The Best Specialty Museums

Rothenburg Town History Museum in the Thirty Years’ War – Since 1966, our small but fine museum has presented an impressive depiction of the situation of the city during the Thirty Years’ War. The focus is on u.a. the legendary events surrounding the conquest of Rothenburg by Imperial troops in 1631. 12 DUNGEONS – provide interesting insights into a lansquenets guardhouse, the fortifications and military readiness of the city, weapons, guns and war equipment. Other military equipment and original flags of the Rothenburg troops are also to be admired. Experience interesting information about General Tilly and the Catholic League, as well as about King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden and the Protestant Union. Among other things, the defense situation of Rothenburg in 1631 is shown. OLDEST PRISON OF ROTHENBURG – In connection with the history vaults the dungeon of the former free imperial city Rothenburg ob der Tauber can be visited below the town hall. It is considered as Rothenburg’s

The oldest Jewish Museum in the Federal Republic of Germany sees itself as a historical museum that draws references from Jewish history in Bavarian Swabia to current social issues. It is a place where aspects of migration, integration, homeland and culture are discussed from the perspective of a minority. And it is a place where it is shown that diversity is neither a threat nor an enrichment, but normality. Our permanent exhibition is housed in the Halderstraße synagogue building in the city centre. A tour of the exhibition also includes a look into the magnificent synagogue, inaugurated in 1917, which is used by the Jewish community. Our second location in the former Kriegshaber synagogue, the oldest preserved synagogue in Bavarian Swabia, was opened in 2014 and shows in a very special way that the Jewish history of Augsburg cannot be told without that of the rural communities in Swabia.