Travelling has become an important element in people’s lives.
Before travelling, people get excited in anticipation of their planned journey and, look forward to sampling new sensations. I was close to completing an intense English Language course and I was looking for comfort and hospitality rather than excitement.
When travelling, people can forget their pressures and enjoy being in unfamiliar places.
After travelling, day to day, one reflects and contemplates precious memories of destinations.
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| A Gothvos Greenstone brings more peace to Rothenberg |
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| Abby's Memory Lane |
I went to Rothenburg very close to Christmas holiday which is my personal favourite holiday. The houses there were so colourful and full of the christmas spirit that we felt like we were in a fairy tale town. The town seemed full of Christmas cheer. (I got into the spirit of the holiday I even bought a Santa Claus doll hahaha). Moreover, people we met there were incredibly friendly, the host of our accommodation, the waiter in the restaurants, and shopkeepers… etc. I could feel that the people who live in this tiny town live simple, uncomplicated lives and seem satisfied with life generally, I hope they were. My friend and I thought about opening an Airbnb here in maybe 20-30 years time. You could really feel relaxed here.
The train journey took us over seven hours from Dusseldorf, I'm glad we persevered, our patience really payed off, it was totally worth visiting! If you want to encounter somewhere that is simple, honest and superbly relaxing, visit Rothenburg, you will not be disappointed, you can discover so much more among those charming streets and pretty houses.
It was a perfect getaway for me. At the moment I cannot think of a better location to retire to it’s so absolutely suitable for living a relaxed carefree lifestyle away from the distractions
It has become one of my precious memories, and I will cherish it forever.
Abby Cheng 11/03/2018
Rothenburg has appeared in several films, notably fantasies. It was the inspiration for the village in the 1940 Walt Disney movie Pinocchio. It was the location for the Vulgarian village scenes in the 1968 family movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is sometimes mistaken as the town at the end of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971); that town was Nördlingen. The town served as a loose basis for the fictional town of Lebensbaum ("life tree") in the video game Shadow of Memories (Shadow of Destiny in American market).[6] Pictures of the town were used in some parts of The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, and in the trailer for the film the camera flies over the town from the direction of the valley towards the Town Hall.[7] A plaque exists on the rebuilt town wall to commemorate this. Filming was done in Rothenburg for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011).
Robert Shackleton's Unvisited Places of Old Europe contains a chapter, "The Old Red City of Rothenburg", about the city and its history. Rothenburg is the primary location for Elizabeth Peters's mystery novel, Borrower of the Night (1973) about the search for a missing Tilman Riemenschneider sculpture. The town featured as the location in the Belgian comic book La Frontière de la vie (The Frontier of Life, 1977) and it inspired the look of the town in the Japanese manga and anime series A Little Snow Fairy Sugar(2001).[8]
Rothenburg's famous street Kobolzeller Steige and Spitalgasse is depicted on the cover of two Blackmore's Night albums, 1999's Under a Violet Moon and their 2006 album Winter Carols. The same image was also used as the town center of Mêlée Island in the 1990 point-and-click graphic adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island.
The video game Team Fortress 2 features a map titled "Rottenburg", a play on the original's namesake along with visually similar architecture.
The southern part of the marketplace is prominently featured in the video game Gabriel Knight 2 depicting the fictional town of Rittersberg.
