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Riquewihr
Pentagonal fortified tower turned medieval prison, with a working torture chamber and five-meter dungeon intact.
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Riquewihr's fortified Thieves' Tower in Alsace anchors this guide, where the wooden winch and iron trapdoor once decided a prisoner's fate under the seigneurial justice of the Wurttemberg counts. You will hear how the tower's hired executioner, paid by results rather than a wage, weighed a confession against a corpse, and what six hundred years of prison records reveal about escape from this five-sided keep. Stand at the trapdoor in the guard room, where the instruments on the wall have never been removed.
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