As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At ...

The world-famous Neuschwanstein Castle, the medieval Rothenburg in Franconia or the Mozart city of Salzburg and of course the mountains of the Alps are (for once!) worth a detour from the state ...

A trail leads downhill from Rothenburg’s idyllic castle gardens to the cute, skinny, 600-year-old “Toppler Castle,” the summer home of the town’s mayor in the 15th century, Mayor Toppler.

A trail leads downhill from Rothenburg’s idyllic castle gardens to the cute, skinny, 600-year-old Toppler Castle, the summer home of the town’s mayor in the 15th century, Mayor Toppler.