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Big modern hotels are very nice, but their decor is all pretty similar, nothing unusual. Small local hotels can have odd decor, like this old telephone exchange outside my room.
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A fine old building
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With some nice corner decoration
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I like the way they used the half-timbering for decoration.
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Another attractive house
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And another
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The Rathaus, 1516
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The Weinhaus
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The Rathaus and the Weinhaus
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In betwee them is this fine building
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The Hochzeitshaus, or Wedding House, 1565
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A close-up
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The street was too narrow for a good picture of the front, but this is beautifully decorated building.
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The side
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A detail of the corner
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A very nice door
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The gate to an old noble's house
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The decoration over the gate
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Another nice house, with a Rapunzel motif
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The building is rather plain, but the painted decoration is nice.
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A street scene
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Another street scene
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A shoe store, and the paintings depict the evolution of shoe styles since 1680, when the store was founded.
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Some more nice buildings
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The end one had these, obviously modern, paintings added, as an update to an old tradition.
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A very fine two storey oriel
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A walkway over the street between two buildings
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Some more nice houses
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The side end of the Rathaus, with its restaurant
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A trace of the old wall painting
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Looking down the nave
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One of the side aisles
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The painted vaulting
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The side aisles and sanctuary are lined with portraits, some with biographies.
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And some without
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The sanctuary
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The other side of the sanctuary
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At the back of the chancel is this remnant of a late Gothic triptych.