A view of Rothenburg in northern Bavaria, just to the west of Nuremberg. It is renowned as one of the very few medieval towns complete with its city walls. Its name stands for ‘red castle over the Tauber’. Matthaus Merian began publishing the ‘Theatrum Europaeum’ in 1633, it was not finished until 1738 by which time 21 volumes had been issued including some 20,000 pages of text, 720 maps, plans, views and other engravings and nearly 700 portraits. Fauser A. 12066.