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Round 1 · 1631 AD
Tilly's Troops Enter the Plönlein
Catholic League forces captured Rothenburg during the devastating Thirty Years' War, a dire siege famously—and apocryphally—resolved when the local mayor managed to down a massive tankard of wine in one draught.
Round 2 · 1932 AD
Opening of Zollverein Coal Mine Shaft 12
Dubbed the 'most beautiful coal mine in the world,' Shaft 12's strictly functionalist Bauhaus design transformed a gritty industrial site into an enduring architectural symbol of the booming Ruhr valley.
Round 3 · 1327 AD
Construction of Pfalzgrafenstein Toll Castle
Built by King Ludwig the Bavarian purely to extract lucrative tolls from merchant river traffic, this unique ship-like island fortress withstood ice, floods, and armies to remain unconquered and pristine.
Round 4 · 1536 AD
Hoisting the Anabaptist Cages on St. Lambert's
After the radical Anabaptist rebellion was brutally crushed, the tortured leaders' bodies were publicly displayed in iron cages hoisted high onto the church tower, where the empty originals still hang today.
Round 5 · 774 AD
Consecration of Lorsch Abbey Gatehouse
Charlemagne himself attended the consecration of this wealthy imperial abbey, whose beautifully preserved gatehouse remains one of the most important and distinctive surviving relics of early medieval Carolingian architecture.