The Henkerhaus is a small house on the Trödelmarkt bridge over the Pegnitz River, once the official residence of Nuremberg's city executioner. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, executioners were legally necessary but socially stigmatised — they lived apart from the town, on the bridge, neither in the city nor outside it. The house is now a museum displaying instruments of torture and punishment used in medieval Nuremberg.
The setting alone is worth the visit: the house hangs over the river on the old bridge, looking entirely out of place beside the tourists photographing the half-timbered facades. Trödelmarkt 58.