Nordlingen

Wallerstein - Nordlingen    7 km



Nordlingen  point 14        MAP

Reimlinger Tor - The 14th-century Reimlinger Tor, which is the oldest of the five Nördlingen city gates, secured the commercial and military road via Augsburg (Romantic Road) and the Alpine passes to Italy

Nordlingen was first mentioned in recorded history in 898

The town was the location of two battles during the Thirty Years' War,

which took place between 1618–1648

Stone buildings in the town contain millions of tiny diamonds, all less than 0.2 millimetres

The meteorite impact — from a 1-kilometre-wide asteroid that caused the Nördlinger Ries crater created an estimated 72,000 tonnes  of them when it impacted a local graphite deposit

Nordlingen, the formerly free imperial city on the "Romantic Road"

Church tower "Daniel"
So, G'sell, the sound of the "Daniel", the tower of the late-Gothic hall church of St. George, resounds every night as it did every night
Warrior Fountain is reminiscent of the founding of the empire in 1871 and of the fallen soldiers of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71

For the city, this tower was of great importance. Two guards had to keep watch here day and night and to keep the inhabitants safe from fire and enemies. To make sure all the guards were on their duty, the towers on the "Daniel", the gatekeepers and guards in the city in the dark "So, G'sell, so!" call.

Stadtverwaltung Nördlingen

Nordlingen was built in an impact crater,

Hafenmarkt - At Nordlinger harbor market, which was first mentioned in 1548,

both the local and the foreign Häfner sold their pottery. In the immediate vicinity was also the salt and spring market.

Klosterle

The Klsterle, which today houses a hotel and the Nördlinger Stadtsaal, was formerly a Franciscan monastery church and later a Kornschranne

The city wall of the city of Nördlingen is one of the outstanding monuments in Germany, as it is the only building of its kind on which the visitor can wander the old town without having to leave the ring of walls - approximately 2.7 km

"So Gsell!" - the story of the Nordlinger sow

It is said that in 1440 a woman wanted to get a jug of beer for her husband in the evening. At the Löpsinger Tor she watched as a runaway sow rubbed her behind on a gate. She discovered that the gate was not tightly closed. Her outraged call "So, G'sell, so!" Was the treacherous guardians.

These were confessed to have been bribed by the Count of Oettingen, to let the gate at night only ajar, so that the count with an armed group could conquer the city

That's how a pig had saved Nordlingen. Nobody knows if it was like this. But it is true that in 1440 two gatekeepers were executed for treason

Even today, each time on duty Türmer calls every hour from 22:00 to 24:00 clock from the tower room from this former guardian call

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