St. Johannis Cemetery

St. Johannis Cemetery is defined by the weathered, horizontal sandstone slabs that cover almost every grave, each etched with deep bronze or iron epitaphs. Established outside the city walls in the early fourteenth century for plague victims, the graveyard became the mandatory final resting place for Nuremberg’s elite. During the sixteenth century, the wealthy commissioned renowned artists like Albrecht Dürer to design these bronze-adorned markers. Dürer himself lies here under the bronze plate marked number six hundred and forty-nine.