Mittelalterliche Lochgefängnisse
Medieval cellar prison of wood-lined cells, a torture chamber and a condemned prisoners' parlour.
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This guide to the Medieval Dungeons beneath Nuremberg's Old Town Hall starts with a building that once belonged to bakers and a Cistercian abbey, and asks what happened to it when the city moved in. It follows the money down into the dark: who paid for a prisoner's bread, who could buy better, and who went hungry. Listen standing among the wood-lined cells, near the doors marked with a rooster and a cat.
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