Rothenburg, Bavaria, Germany
April 28th 2018 Rothenburg originally flourished as a stopping place on the silk road. It was the thirty years war, and later the plague, that decimated its population and brought financial ruin. They were so skint that they could not afford to renovate their knackered, medieval architecture and were stuck in their ancient, timber framed houses. The Rothenburgians thought their town was a worthless dump.
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