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who lived near the northward city exit, approximately at the current victory monument. His young wife and the forge journeyman she loved, killed the master smith by hitting a nail in his head. They hid the murder weapon under the hair of the victim. Soon after, they married each other unobstructedly.
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Freiburg) was consecrated as the chapel of the cemetery. In 1745, the
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Due to lack of space, the dead body was disinterred a few years later. A gravedigger found the nail in the skull of which he became aware of through a toad. He reported his finding to the
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resulting in the two murderers being convicted. In 1828 and later in 1859, the cemetery was expanded again. In 1944, the cemetery was damaged heavily because of the bombardments during
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that have been abandoned and preserved as a whole. Located close to the
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made out of stone that is looking out of the skull's jaw cavity. The skull's history goes back to an alleged
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