Weißgerbergasse
Cobbled lane of restored half-timbered artisan houses, once home to the medieval white tanners.
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This guide to the Weißgerbergasse in Nuremberg follows the medieval white tanners who gave the lane its name, and the surprisingly kitchen-like recipe they used to turn raw hides into pale, supple leather. It touches on why their stinking, water-hungry craft gathered at this edge of town, and on the twentieth-century neighbours who argued over what lay beneath the plaster. Best heard near house number twenty-four, with a courtyard gate in view.
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