The tannery trade needs a lot of water, and in this part of town so many tanners had settled that they diverted a branch of the local stream to run past their houses. Now they needed small bridges to get into their houses.
Tag: Gerberei
Step Outside and *splash*
Jez oddity today is a door in an odd place. I think I can top the oddness – imagine stepping out of this door and falling in a little scream — 😂 oh, what a beautiful typo! I had to leave it. The stream is called Gerberbach and was an artificial branch of the Grundelbach servicing the tanners living in this quarter. They lived right on the water and often had small bridges outside their doors, often now dismantled.
With or without bridge, it’s odd, isn’t it?

