Maxbrücke
Fifteenth-century sandstone arch bridge over the Pegnitz, framing views of the Hangman's Bridge.
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This guide to the Maxbrücke in Nuremberg follows the English painter J. M. W. Turner through the city in the autumn of eighteen thirty-five, a pocket sketchbook in hand on his way home from Prague. It points you to the view downstream, toward the Hangman's Bridge, the Weinstadel and the spires of Saint Lorenz, and reaches back to the masons of the fourteen-fifties who gave the city its stone bridge. Best heard at the parapet, facing south-east down the Pegnitz.
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