St. Rochus Cemetery
Renaissance plague cemetery of uniform flat sandstone graves crowned with cast bronze epitaphs.
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This guide to St. Rochus Cemetery in Nuremberg stands you among rows of flat, near-identical gravestones laid out outside the old city wall after a plague in the early fifteen hundreds. It follows a city council rule about the size of the dead's stones and the bronze and brass plaques that families cast to set themselves apart, from coats of arms to the tools of more than ninety trades. Walk the slabs and look for grave number ninety, belonging to a family of Nuremberg bronze casters.
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