Night Watchmans Tour

While in Rothenburg, we took "The Walk of the Night Watchman" which is a tour given by a night watchman (a guy dressed up like a citizen from the medieval times), a citizen of Rothnburg who was responsible for the safety of the inhabitants of the walled, fortified city. Even though he protected the city his status was less than honorable. This was our night watchman tour guide!



This is the mouth that dropped hot oil on all who tried to enter the city without permission.



Back in the days all people were required to store a year of salt and other things as food storage.



This is a bakers torture cell where they placed bakers who gave bread that was under weight. They would stick the baker in there and dunk the baker in water for as long as they deem appropriate. This device is in front of the medieval torture museum.



This is the door all had to enter that were outside of the city wall after curfew.