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Feb 1, 2022 1:15 AM
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prichp
It's real. Visited on my honeymoon in 1977. Touristy then. Very charming architecture. Lots of history.
AngelCenturion
Monkey Island, where is the map seller?
GRZMNKY
Weird pastries and a really cool torture museum...
rockarolla
What are these Facebook level pictures and where are they coming from?
rvisual01
*mic crack* "Counter terrorists win."
mycatsonmykeyboard
....is this the Kingdom Hearts 2 intro town?
KarakLohr
Hey ive been there. All the franchises they let in have to maintain the medieval theme on their storefront, so McDs had wrought iron arches
Feralkyn
Yeah McD's in most areas I've been to in Germany have to fit into the neighborhoods. It was subtle browns even 15 years ago.
cheungs7
Where's Guywood Threeprush?
MastahPetah
I've stood at that very spot at took a picture, only later to find its one of the most popular photo ops on the planet.
screwdriverone
Dont lie, that's the Good Place
PingMeIfYouCan
it has a torture and a toy museum.. not connected ?
Valkyyria
The Torture Museum is pretty cool. Visited last year!
SqueezeMyRubberBalls
Welcome to Europe, a land filled with culture.
VesuvianPrime
Looks like Italy from Counter-Strike
JustAddMud
Looks like this was the inspiration behind Solitude in Skyrim.
Feralkyn
I don't think Solitude looked like timber framed houses at all tbh. I live in Germany in a town like this and the similarity never struck me
Feralkyn
Solitude is stone foundations with wood on top and it's all really dark and dismal.
AVeryTallGlassOfIToldYouSo
lots more of germany would look like that. If it hadn't all been bombed to shit
mercyPandaRunner
Not entirely true. Many of the existing old cities are reconstructed. Most of whats gone was bulldozed in the 50s-70s in order to build >
mercyPandaRunner
(back then) futuristic concrete monstrosities and allow cars to drive everywhere. The few intact really old settlements, like Quedlinburg,>
mercyPandaRunner
only survived the centuries and the post war building craze, because they were irrellevant economically to invest in.
SirDistic
Prehistoric? So before about 5000-6000 BC?
Feralkyn
In seriousness yes, the phrasing is weird AF but Germany has tons of stone age relics. The oldest sex toy & oldest naked lady statues have
Feralkyn
their claims to fame in this region of the world lol.
zifmagnus
There are many small european cities looking "like a themed park", you US friends should comme and check by yourself!
razark
We can't afford to, because we're busy working to pay off student loans and medical debt. Besides, we don't get enough vacation time.
sorrynobanana
Prehistoric???? Uh
lightfoot2
And it looks *exactly* like that. Rothenberg ODT and Heidelberg are my two fave places.
sQuimby
Fuck, Heidelberg.. ?
polopolomarkopolopolo
Heidelberg is gorgeous!!
miakkamisfit
Ditto. Hauptstrasse in Heidelberg is great. There’s a gasthause where folks have been carving their names for centuries.
madflenser
Yeah it's pretty nice here in HD ?
PicassoCT
Maburg
Vulkankaninchen
I like tübingen more but both are nice
TilmaWebBaroness
That’s Melee Island. Been there many times.
sh0uzama
I had to scroll down TOO MUCH for this comment.
mrlongjohn
We old bro.
SirWadeWilson
Its all fun and games until the whole town gets together to sing about how weird you are.
snitchesgetkisses
Well in the town’s defense, you are reading a book to goats and being a jerk to the baker.
GraceMcClain
Half of Bavaria looks like this. Hell, the town near me looks a bit like this. You people need a better education.
GraceMcClain
I'll amend this with "Large parts of Germany" , rather than just Bavaria. Hessen looks like this, too.
mercyPandaRunner
Rothenburg ODT is special, since it is a mostly intact historical city core, including Battlements. This is indeed rare.
Feralkyn
Everywhere I've been in BW too
koobazaur
"looks like a theme park" - shit Americans say
bigfootbound
I mean yeah. Bush Gardens in Virginia was specifically European themed. I didn’t know that they did a decent job with it until I traveled
ellion0815
Your mother looks like a theme park!
koobazaur
Oh honey... if my mother looks like I theme park to you, I weep for your childhood.
ellion0815
Is she called Six Red Flags?
Livithion1
deumaro
British carbonara
CulculLaPraline
Ham innit.
asm80dfa8sdfj
Grandmother = bicycle
davyclam
A fish.
goumich
If she had wheels
Allgoodnameslonggone
Been there once. Nice town, bit they drowned a perfectly good fried schnitzel in disgusting sauce. Culinary war crime!!!
Allgoodnameslonggone
but...
Feralkyn
What sauce?
Allgoodnameslonggone
Standard brown one you normaly ad to Schweinsbraten...
Feralkyn
Yikes. I like mine with Jägersoße but that stuff's not my jam.
Allgoodnameslonggone
Wiener Schnitzel mit Soße geht gar nicht. Bin aber auch ein Österreicher...?? Da blutet die kulinarische Seele...
alcogod
Have none of you ever heard of "europe"? There are fucking loads of places like this.
MantisTobagganMD
And? It's still fucking cool.
Mycologics
Right? See one germanic village and you've seen m all. Same for our western Europe bigger cities. All sort of the same. Still cool though
EwgB
Honestly. Every second village around me looks like that. Some have Roman ruins in addition to that.
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Yup, the Rhine Valley has loads of these towns-all ruined by an ugly McDonalds stuck incongruously in there
PlayingGuitarDoingScience
The city I live in (Germany) had an awesome, beautiful historic inner city. Then it got bombed to the ground in ww2 and is now ugly af.
CulculLaPraline
Is it Frankfurt? I went there once and really enjoyed the (what's left of it) Old Town. The rest, not so great but I understand why.
FourteenBit
Loads? Maybe, but please don't expect to walk into any town and see something like this, especially in Germany.
Feralkyn
I live along the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Timber-Frame_Road and literally every town looks like this lol
Vulkankaninchen
You need to go to smaller citys in a more rural area. Everything else was destroyed in WW2.
dreikommavierzehn
A sight like in that picture is pretty much every other town or "city" in Austria. There's much nicer places to discover in Germany
wealthychef
I lived in Germany for 4 years. Every damn town looked exactly like this. It was awesome.
FourteenBit
Sounds like you never got far from the army base...
wealthychef
Huh? We traveled everywhere. Trier, Garmisch, Rhine, Graph, K-town, Hoenfelds, Nuremberg, Wiesbaden... WTF are you talking about?
FourteenBit
My bad. Saying that you lived in Germany and that every town looks medival sounded to me like "I was based in Heidelberg, but never got out"
Cillellic
I thought so too. Like that's a very.. american way to describing medival cities
SpitMatt
Medieval town? Check. Prehistoric history? Check. Unknown until some yank wrote it in a book? Sadly, check.
SonderingStrike
I know that my city has, in some form or another, been inhabited since the first humans crossed Doggerland to England
asm80dfa8sdfj
How can it be prehistoric history?
Karukos
Basically: we have little to not written records of people at the time. That can have multiple reasons.
SpitMatt
It's history that we wrote, about the prehistoric period :)
Hikaru4747
A ton of places look like this across the water, it’s called Europe. Not just one little town.
polopolomarkopolopolo
It’s named Rotenberg ob der Tauber (Rothenberg on the Tauber River) and its very much real. And beautiful. And a huge tourist trap.
finnwin
I'm gonna visit it one day. You just wait!
attofreak
how do they trap the tourists? lock people in an underground dungeon, milking them for their sperm and jokes?
KuroFluff
They trap them in the Christmas shop there. Seriously, it's huge.
sayessathe1st
Well there is a torture museum, but they let us out without taking our sperm. Probably cause I'm a woman and all.
cantbelievethisisstillavailable
Only the walled city is unchanged, the area outside the medieval walks has very much changed.
Pokegeologist
Oh dear. How's the Oktoberfest, Ren Faire, and LARPing scenes?
teredrin
What? Its Rothenburg ob der Tauber not Rotenberg :). But yes, beautiful city
slightlylessvisibleladybynight
Isn’t that bc there’s a huge festival about a keg of beer or something? Some mayor drank it all to save the town or something…
AccountCreatedToUpvoteDogs
I thoroughly enjoyed being a tourist there. I took the Night Watchman's Tour and would highly recommend it.
AntikytheraMechanism31415
Yeah us too. Was awesome
PandAnomoly
Agreed! This place is absolutely lovely!
Gorillabumrush
Same! We went and had drinks with him after at the Hell bar. Great guy.
amigablegatito
The Night-Watchman tour is a lot of fun. Definitely recommend. And stop by Hell for sure!
devasto
Not really trying to run into my ex again, thanks
sayessathe1st
Ooh, yeah, that was my favorite part! History and comedy and then beer.
Gorillabumrush
Did exactly that. Ended up meeting another American couple in the basement, played poker and got hammered.
lightfoot2
Yeah, but schneeballen.
tiptoeingthru
AnthropomorphicMilkshake
Overrated imo. They look fluffy and moist, but are actually hard and dry. Very deceptive.
Gorillabumrush
Truck is to have a nice tall cup of coffee and dunk the pieces as they’re pulled apart. Yum
AnthropomorphicMilkshake
Yuck city. Milk, maybe. I want the pure unadulterated taste of sugar, butter and lactose, not spoiled by bean water.
Updoodilydoo
They're basically just the left over dough balled up and half baked
Mycologics
Your face looks fluffy and moist but is actually hard and dry. BOOM
AnthropomorphicMilkshake
Remove the chain. Cause that‘s off it!