Henkerhaus (The Executioner's House)  

They couldn't do without them, but they didn't want them either: executioners always existed on the fringes of society. In Nuremberg, therefore, the house provided with this job was located in a remote trade area. For nearly 400 years, up until 1806, Nuremberg's executioners lived in a converted section of the battlements, immediately above the River Pegnitz. The association "Geschichte für alle e.V." (History for Everybody) now use these historical rooms as a museum space. The exhibition explains about the job of an executioner in general – as a torturer, but also as a healer – and of the most famous Nuremberg representative of this job, Franz Schmidt. His duty diary, covering the years around 1600, is a unique document of the history of law and culture in the city.