Postcard shot of Rothenberg- a walled city with old gates.
Snowballs- something unique to Rothenberg. It's sort of like fried dough, like a funnel cake sort of.
Torture chair from the torture museum.
They put this around your neck if you cheated at cards or gambeled.
Shame masks- they made you wear these for different reasons, such as if you were a gossip or promiscuious...
Shame flute- if you were a bad muscian, then they hung this around your neck and stuck your fingers through the flute so you couldn't play, then you had to walk around town and the heckled you... yuck.
Giant rosary- they put it around your neck if you were late to church or slept through the sermon.
Fun in the stocks.
Gynormous bear.
Cool knight thing.
Large church.
The legend is, the town was under seige and the mayor requested that they leave. The only way the invaders would leave was if the mayor drank a gallon of wine in one chug. So... he did. And then passed out, and the invaders left. So every day at 3:00, the little people in the clock recreate the scenario.
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