Henkersteg
Covered wooden footbridge over the river, once the executioner's lonely route into town.
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This guide to the Henkersteg in Nuremberg follows the covered footbridge that linked the city's executioner, a man respectable townsfolk kept their distance from, to the streets he served. It turns on a frozen winter in the late fifteen hundreds, when ice choked the Pegnitz and people came out to watch the river. Along the way you meet Franz Schmidt, the hangman who lived right here and kept a diary of the condemned. Best heard mid-span, facing the half-timbered house over the water.
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