Hauptstraße
Pedestrianised main street of the old town, lined with Baroque facades, taverns and shops.
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This guide to the Hauptstraße in Heidelberg stops at one house roughly halfway along the old town's main street, where a strange word and a small plaster figure sit high on the facade. It follows a local legend, written down in nineteen sixty-seven, about a tight-fisted baker who also ran a wine tavern, and the journeyman who worked his nights. Along the way you'll hear what a single German word says about a person, and what the coloured tavern windows have been advertising since the eighteen hundreds. Best heard standing across the street from number one hundred and seventeen, looking up.
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