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Spital Bastion and Gebsattler Watchtower, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Spital Bastion and Gebsattler Watchtower, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

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Spital Bastion and Gebsattler Watchtower, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

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Location: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Landkreis Ansbach, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Rothenburg City Gate – Romantic Road Cycle Path loop from Schillingsfürst

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2. Kobolzeller Gate – Romantic Road Cycle Path loop from Feuchtwangen

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3. Romantic Road Cycle Path – Gravel path to Gebsattel loop from Reubach

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Thomas🍀

August 25, 2021

The hospital gate with the associated hospital bastion is the last large structure to be built in the Rothenburg city fortifications. It was built at the end of the 16th century.

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May 1, 2023

Major district town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Rothenburger Turmweg, Spitaltor, 2023-05-01):
rothenburg-tourismus.de/discoveren/zeitreise/stadtmauer-erleben

Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (large district town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, monuments, 2023-05-01):
geodaten.bayern.de/denkmal_static_data/externe_denkmalliste/pdf/denkmalliste_merge_571193.pdf
"D-5-71-193-590 ... city gate, so-called Spitaltor or Gebsattlerwacht ... small fortress in the south of the new town:
Gate tower, so-called Äußerer Gebsattlerturm, six-storey quarry stone building with round arch passageway and tower end with pyramid roof and hipped base as well as flat bay window, last quarter of the 14th century, tower end shortly after mid-18th century;
Group watchtower, so-called tower at the Spitalhof, semicircular substructure of a wall weir on spandrel brackets, mid-15th century, demolition of the upper part 19th century;
Bastei, double three-storey ring bastion around two courtyards with casemates, gun emplacements and gabled roof, hump ashlar and cut stone, outer passage with bastion gate, 1537/43 and 1610/16;
former gatekeeper and town customs house, one-storey solid pitched roof building with flat-roofed extension, marked 1537;
Front gate, narrow framed building with street gate and pedestrian gate, Haustein, marked 1586;
Bridge, former drawbridge, wooden construction, 16th century, replaced by stone, 2nd half of 18th century;
Bastei moat with Zwinger, defensive moat surrounded by high retaining walls, 15th century, walls partially renewed after 1667.”

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Klemens

July 16, 2020

If you first descend into the moat or go left over the pedestrian bridge, you will get inside the mighty building.

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1. Rothenburg City Gate – Romantic Road Cycle Path loop from Schillingsfürst

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3. Romantic Road Cycle Path – Gravel path to Gebsattel loop from Reubach

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