The Berger Tor secured the road to Ulm. It was built between 1435 and 1436 by the builder Hans…read moreRews. From 1574 to 1575, Wolfgang and Caspar Waldberger expanded the upper tower floors and the Berger Tor was given its present-day appearance. Noteworthy is the coffered barrel for the gate passage. A cannonball from the Thirty Years' War is still stuck in the masonry. Inside the gate tower there is now a café and a coin sawmill.
The Nördlinger City Wall is the only city wall in Germany that has a completely preserved, walkable and covered battlement. It encloses the entire medieval old town of Nördlingen and can be walked continuously over a length of 2.6 kilometers. The city wall includes five gates with four gate towers (Baldinger gate tower collapsed in 1703), eleven other towers and two bastions.
It's always so much fun to walk around these medieval towns imagining how the life must have been lived within these walls. Incidentally, there are two other walled-towns around in the area--Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Dinklesbühl. Nördlingen is less commercialized, therefore, it is quieter, and you'll find less tourists.
