Travel Guide Rottweil

Rottweil, a quiet small town with approximately 26 000 inhabitants at the foot of the Black Forest, has a very unusual history: She is proud to be the Dean of the cities of Baden-Württemberg, founded in 73 by the Romans under the name of Arae Flaviae. Few traces remain from that time, but much more from the Middle Ages where it was a free imperial city. Note that at the end of the th century, Rottweil joined the Swiss Cantons conférérés; the union lost its meaning over the centuries but was never formally broken, even once the town was incorporated in the Wurtemberg in 1803; you will find in its streets a few traces of this Swiss past. But his name evokes, of course, the Rottweiler dogs, which are said to descend from the butchers'dogs of the city. Rest assured, you won't find more than one in the streets of Rottweil, and it's a statue! You can also admire the enclosed balconies (Erker, the ancestors of the English bow-windows) of many old houses.