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2 unusual facts about Rothenburg ob der Tauber


Hugh Lygon

He died later due to a fractured skull, having spent four days in a hospital in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.


Andachtsbilder

By the mid-15th century andachtsbilder were influencing large monumental works, a process James Snyder discusses in relation to major works such as Rogier van der Weyden's Prado Deposition, the Isenheim Altarpiece of Matthias Grünewald and the carved Altarpiece of the Holy Blood by Tilman Riemenschneider at Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Dietenhofen

This small village is located in the Franconian Heights about 28 km west of Nuremberg, 14 km north east of Ansbach and 38 km east of Rothenburg o.d. Tauber.

Friedrich Herlin

A signature on an altarpiece in Nördlingen, dating it to 1462, identifies him as being from Rothenburg, as do citizenship documents from 1467.

Pearl Van Sciver

Some of her landscapes or street scenes of are local areas around Philadelphia such as New Hope and Lancaster, while others are of some of the many places she traveled too, such as Rothenburg, Germany, Gloucester, England or Kennebunkport, Maine.

Rotenburg an der Wümme

It is often called "Rotenburg (Wümme)" in order to distinguish it from the town Rotenburg an der Fulda in Hesse and Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria.


see also

Käthe Wohlfahrt

The firm moved from Herrenberg to the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 1977.