Rothenburg Churches

We also visited Church of St James, Rothenburg's large Gothic Church.

Unlike Gothic Altarpieces, Renaissance Art has realistic anatomy, three-dimensionality, and fore-shortening for perspective.

Holy Blood Altar was created by Tilman Riemenschneider, in 1500, which was a few years before the Reformation, and thus before St. Jakob’s Kirche would have converted to Lutheranism.

Lutheran Churches tend to be much sparser inside.

St. Peter und Paul Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde is a small Gothic Church just outside Rothenburg in the small village of Detwang.

Well it’s not really a church, but is interesting.

Getting There

From our base in Nuremberg, it was a 2 hour train ride to Rothenburg Germany. We probably traveled on a VGN Group Day Pass.

This is very similar to the Deutsche Bahn Regional Passes, such as the Bayern Ticket. The primary difference is that VGN is specific to Franconia, which in our current day and age is the Northern Part of Bavaria.

It’s a fantastic ticket deal, good for the entire day or weekend until 3am, and includes all forms of transit all the way down to and including local transit, only excluding the high-speed inter-city trains. But you only lose a few minutes by riding the included regional trains.

And you can avoid having to cart around a pocket full of cash by buying the ticket from the DB Navigator App; just show the conductor the QR code on your smart phone.