Founded By The Celts Circa 200 B.C., three towers and part of the town's unique double wall still remain from the middle ages. The nearby ancient Jewish cemetry dates from 1600. The Tourist Office located on the Romantic Road just outside the town stocks local maps for hiking, biking, and for driving the back roads.

The world famous Altar of the Virgin Mary Is found inside the medieval Herrgottskirche (Lord's Church Circa 1384) located about 1 km south of the town of Creglingen. Tilmann Riemenschneider carved the gigantic alter between 1505 and 1510. It measures 9.2 meters (30 ft.) high, 3.7 meters (12 ft.) wide, and .5 meters (1.5 ft.) thick. In addition to the famous Alter, the church's attractions include paintings by Jakob Mühlholtzer (1446), crucifix, and colored glass widows from the fourteenth century, to name a few. Open Daily April-October, November-March Daily (Except Monday).

Almost directly across the road from the Herrgottskirche, the Fingerhut Museum provides the history of the thimble and thimble craft with nearly 3000 examples from all over the world, from Roman to present times. The small museum offers the best collection of thimbles in Europe and probably the world. Explanations are in English. Open Daily except Monday. To make special arrangements call Brigitte Greif, Phone: 07933-370, Fax: 07933-443.

The small octagonal, Ulrich Chapel (Circa 1220) located in the picturesque village of Standorf is well worth a visit. Impressed by the octagonal Dome Of The Rock in Jerusalem, Graf Konrad from Hohenlohe-Brauneck built the chapel as thanks to God for his healthy return from the Crusades. The chapel was used to store what was later to be known worldwide as The Shroud Of Turin. In the middle ages people made pilgrimages to the chapel because the water from the spring under the chapel was thought to cure eye problems. The large old oak tree-beam has supported the ceiling since 1220. The key is with Herr Kurt Wagner who lives a short walk from the chapel, down in the village (house number 6).

Celtic coins found near the village of Fensterlohr date from before the time of Christ. About 800 Meters (.5 miles) of the original 5 km long ( 3 miles), 8 meter high (25 ft.), and 6-8 Meter thick (18-25 ft.) wall that in Celtic times surrunded what is today the village of Burgstall still remains. Only a few square meters of the wall is restored. The walk along the nowdays earth covered wall is beautiful. It runs through a mixed wood with numerous opportunities to sample tasty wild plums and apples. Continuing past the restored segment, you will arrive at a break in the wall. This is the location of the former gate. Pause and look at the drawings of the gate mounted on the official looking posts (the explanations are in German).

Located between the Celtic Wall and the village of Burgstall, the Flachs (Flax) Museum shows how flax was turned into linen. Until the Twentieth Century, every village had a community flax house where the fiber stems of the pretty blue flowered flax plants were processed and spun into linen thread (plant seeds were used to make linseed oil). The last remaining flax house in the region, the museum illustrates each stage of the process with the actual tools and with pictures. Open daily. The key is with Herr Friedlein, house number 10.

Just below the tiny village of seldeneck there is a short path leading to the ruins. Built in the twelfth century and destroyed in 1408, little remains of this castle. However, the visitor has a great view of the Tauber river valley below and of the town of Rothenburg above. It is a favorite resting point for hikers along the Main-Donau hiking trail.

Rothenburg ob der Tauber fits the word romantic perfectly. Walk the ancient wall that encircles the town to get various perspectives of the architecture in the middle ages. The wall connects five medieval gates complete with guard towers that date from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Explore the narrow cobblestone streets and admire gothic, renaissance, and baroque houses and fountains. Rothenburg offers concerts, festivals and plays from the middle ages as well as guided walking tours with the night watchman, historic restaurants, gothic churches, art exhibits, and museums, including the famous Medieval Criminal Museum.

The inn is located in the middle of farm fields, forests, and back roads about 9 km (5 miles) from medieval Rothenburg ob der Tauber. In addition to nice rooms and genuine German gemutlichkeit, the visitor will find a lovely beer garden, outstanding restaurant, low prices and many nearby sights.

The small lovely Karrod lake (Karoth lake) is about a 20 minute walk from the Zum Rappen Inn along a narrow farm road that starts next to the inn. The road goes through farm fields surrounded by forest and along apple trees (with apples in easy reach). The lake is secluded and the only sounds are the wind in the trees, birds, and the occasional splash of a fish. You will find a few benches and picnic tables as well as an old stone grill.