St. Johannis Cemetery

St. Johannis Cemetery is known for its thousands of uniform, flat sandstone gravestones, each marked with a bronze epitaph, and the abundant rosebushes that bloom between them. This burial ground began in the thirteenth century as a graveyard for a leper infirmary located outside the city walls. In fifteen eighteen, the Nuremberg City Council decreed that all burials must take place outside the city, establishing this site as the primary resting place for the citizens of the St. Sebaldus parish.