Dinkelsbühl

A small medieval town in Middle Franconia on the Wörnitz River whose fortifications — four gate-towers, watchtowers, and a continuous wall with a dry moat — survived intact into the present. Dinkelsbühl avoided destruction during the Thirty Years' War and retains a remarkably homogeneous ensemble of late-medieval half-timbered and stone houses. The late-Gothic Minster of St George is one of the finest hall churches in southern Germany.