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Christmas in Rothenburg 2026 — the Reiterlesmarkt on the Marktplatz at dusk, half-timbered houses and the town hall glowing with warm Christmas lights, market stalls with red-and-white striped roofs, light snow falling, photorealistic, no text, no logos

Christmas in Rothenburg 2026: Reiterlesmarkt, Käthe Wohlfahrt & the Honest Guide

Rothenburg ob der Tauber is the town Christmas cards are drawn from: a walled medieval old town of crooked half-timbered houses, cobbled lanes and towers, wrapped around one small, beautiful Christmas market. The Reiterlesmarkt fills the Marktplatz from Friday, November 20 to Wednesday, December 23, 2026, and it is deliberately small — around 60 stalls, […]