Hauptmarkt
Lopsided medieval market square laid out on a cleared quarter, facing a Gothic church.
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This guide to the Hauptmarkt in Nuremberg starts with the square itself: its odd, lopsided outline and what lay here before the market stalls arrived. It reaches back to a riverside swamp on the Pegnitz, the Jewish settlers who were given it to build on, and the emperor Charles the Fourth in the winter of thirteen forty-nine. Best heard standing near the middle of the square, with the Frauenkirche on its east side in view.
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