Every now and then complete headstones or fragments have been discovered by chance in various of the town's buildings.
Just like here in the outer side of the castle wall close to the
Eselssteige below the
Blasiuskapelle -
Saint Blaise's Chapel - in the upper third of the wall. Sometimes complete headstones are found during archaeological
excavations or architectural studies of historic buildings.
One specifically searched for headstone had been made into a step of the spiral staircase in the Gothic part of
the town hall.
A large part of the Jewish headstones that had been desecrated that way were reused as covering plates of the town wall,
mostly with the inscription facing down. Whenever they can be retrieved they are taken to the RothenburgMuseum
for inventory.
Fragment of a Jewish headstone in the southern wall of the old castle.
