Ehekarussell
Bronze fountain of painted, gilded figures charting marriage from first passion to deathbed quarrels.
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This guide to the Ehekarussell in Nuremberg starts at a marble heart in the pavement, carrying a poem the sixteenth-century shoemaker poet Hans Sachs wrote for his wife about bittersweet married life. It follows the sculptor Jürgen Weber's bronze ring of swans, pelicans, devils and dragons, and the inscriptions he cut into it in the late nineteen seventies. Start by the heart on the tower side, then walk the circle.
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