Heilig-Geist-Spital
Medieval hospital over the river, with an arcaded courtyard holding a stone Crucifixion by Adam Kraft.
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This guide to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg stands you in its arcaded courtyard, in front of Adam Kraft's sixteenth-century Crucifixion group and the two thieves who flank it. It follows Samuel Beckett on his winter journey through Germany in nineteen thirty-seven, and a line about odds that turns up years later in Waiting for Godot. You'll also meet Konrad Gross, the patrician who founded the hospital for the old and the poor. Best heard facing the north wall of the courtyard.
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