Trödelmarktinsel
River island of half-timbered houses and shops, linked by a wooden bridge to the old executioner's home.
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This guide to the Trödelmarkt island in Nuremberg follows Franz Schmidt, the city's executioner in the late fifteen hundreds and early sixteen hundreds, and the wooden Hangman's Bridge he used to reach town. It touches on the father who never chose the trade, the diary Schmidt kept of the condemned, and the half-timbered house where a shunned family lived beside the Pegnitz. Best heard standing on the bridge itself, facing the executioner's house.
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