Henkerhaus Museum
Medieval executioner's residence on a river bridge, now a museum of crime and punishment.
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This guide to the Henkerhaus in Nuremberg follows Franz Schmidt, the city executioner of the late sixteenth century, who lived on the hangman's bridge over the Pegnitz. It reaches back to the day a margrave dragged his father into the trade, and opens the diary in which Schmidt recorded the crimes and punishments of four decades. Best heard on the bridge itself, with the river running below.
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