Burg-Hotel Rothenburg

A hotel on the wall, facing the valley

The Burg-Hotel is on Klostergasse, in the western corner of the old town, between the old Dominican convent and the Burggarten. It leans on a stretch of wall several centuries old and half the rooms look onto the Tauber valley; the others face the Klostergarten, the convent garden. It is a hotel of fifteen rooms and suites run by the same family, without a restaurant, designed for sleeping inside the wall and having the town five minutes' walk away.

What is remembered most is breakfast: in good weather it is served outside, on the wall itself, about 80 metres above the river. In the basement there is a games room with a Steinway piano, game tables, television, a little gym and a laundry; next to it, the sauna, free for guests or bookable exclusively as a Private Spa for €30 for two hours for two people. That basement housed the Crime Museum's collection until 1972, when it was still called "the torture chamber"; today paintings by Marta Hinckeldey-Wittke hang there, a painter who lived and worked in the hotel.

Rooms and prices

Each room is different and carries a number and, in many cases, a name: the Dornröschen, of 33.5 m², opens directly onto the convent garden; the Frankonia, of 39 m², has a four-poster bed and a view of the valley; number 25 is a basic double with a starry sky over the bed and a window onto the Tauber. Number 30 occupies the whole fourth floor, with 42.5 m², and the lift does not reach it. There is also a three-bedroom suite, the Burgschlösschen, and an apartment in the Villa Klosterhof, near the hotel.

The website publishes prices per night: single from €100 to €135, double from €155 to €215 and suite from €245 to €345. It says that booking on its website gives the best price. It does not publish check-in and check-out times, or animal or cancellation policies: ask when you book.

Getting there and parking

By car, enter through the Würzburger Tor, continue along Galgengasse and go straight on to Klostergasse. The hotel has its own garage at €15 a day. Without a car, from Rothenburg station you cross the old town on foot in about fifteen minutes.

What is nearby

You step out of the door and in two minutes you are at the Burggarten, with the viewpoints over the valley and the path down to Detwang. A step away are the RothenburgMuseum, in the old convent, and the Crime Museum, on Burggasse. For dinner, Zur Höll is three streets away.