St. Catherine's Church

This guide to St. Catherine's Church in Frankfurt opens with the January 1772 execution of a young servant named Susanna Margaretha Brandt, steps from where the church now stands, and the story she told at trial about a traveling goldsmith. It follows a twenty-two-year-old Frankfurt lawyer who quietly asked to read her case file and could not stop thinking about her for years afterward. Pause at the doorway a moment before going in, the address has not moved since that winter.