Rothenburg and the Names in the Wall

Rothenburg looks like a Middle Ages that was never interrupted. That is why people come — and it is not true. Liv Harmsen reads the charters, Mika Beck turns them into a story. They argue about an earthquake that did not bring the castle down, about a draught nobody drank, and about a rescue that came two weeks too late. Most of what is photographed today was rebuilt — paid for by strangers whose names are cut into the town wall. The Spurenwandler only go where something is still left today: a crack in a wall, a charter, a levelled hill. Where nothing has survived, the story is told and not entered. Every page of this book says where its knowledge comes from: documented, reconstructed, legend or invented. One hundred pages, illustrated throughout, with a chronology, a list of sources and a reading key. Volume 3 of the series »Die Spurenwandler — Orte, Zeiten, Menschen«.