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Wer das Alt-Rothenburger Handwerkerhaus
noch nicht gesehen hat,
der kennt Alt-Rothenburg nur zum Teil! |
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Opening times:
Eastern - 31st October:
Monday - Friday:
Saturday and Sunday:
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11
- 17 o´clock
10 - 17 o´clock |
1st Advent - 7th January:
14 - 16 o´clock
8th January - Eastern:
closed. |
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Entry:
Adults:
Students
Groups (min. 10 persons):
Pupil:
Kids: |
2,50
€
1,80 €
1,80 €
1,00 €
0,50 € |
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From
about 1300 to 1500 coopers lived here, just outside of
the city´s first wall.
From about 1510 to 1680 yarn
dyers were the house owners.
From 1681 to 1724 weavers
lived in the house and from 1724 to 1802 shoemakers. |
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Later in shorter periods a tinker, potter,
basket maker, soap maker, plasterer, pewterer and bricklayer
had ownership ot the house.
Fortunately a hermit lived in
the house at a time when many other interesting houses were
being modernized an changed inside. That is the reason that
no other house in Rothenburg has so much historical character.
Here at Alter Stadtgraben 26 modern times have changed nothing. |
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The
hermit did not need electricity and running water. A 48
foot deep well that even today shows a water level of
30 feet was already registred in the year 1400! The leather
bucket that was made watertight with clay was hoisted
over a wooden roller by a hemp rope. The hermit did not
change anything in regard to the hall that runs from the
front to the rear of the house and that has a packed clay
floor covered by flagstones. He was satisfied with the
unbelievable low ceilings that were suitable for the people
of past venturies, small as they were with an average
height of less than five feet. |
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