Entry from the City Lexicon: Dry Footbridge: In 1441, the council of the Imperial City granted permission to the tanners working on the Pegnitz River to build the Dry Footbridge (also called Trucken-, Drucken-, or, in a corruption, Truden-, Drudensteg) within the last city fortifications at the Pegnitz outflow below the Spießhaus (later: Fronveste). In 1493, it was fortified with gates and chains to defend the river. The covered wooden footbridge (hence probably the name Dry Footbridge) with two lockable doors was demolished in 1810, and the Chain Footbridge was built in its place in 1825. (...)

Quoted from: City Lexicon Nuremberg, edited by Michael Diefenbacher and Rudolf Endres, Nuremberg, 1999

Johann Christoph Kummet, [author's name] = stands for the Latin word fecit and means "made it" or "produced it."

Moritz Maximilian Mayer,

excud = stands for the Latin word excudit (or excudebat), which translates as "imprinted it," "brought it forth," or "printed it."

Entry from the City Lexicon: Dry Footbridge: In 1441, the council of the Imperial City granted permission to the tanners working on the Pegnitz River to build the Dry Footbridge (also called Trucken-, Drucken-, or, in a corruption, Truden-, Drudensteg) within the last city fortifications at the Pegnitz outflow below the Spießhaus (later: Fronveste). In 1493, it was fortified with gates and chains to defend the river. The covered wooden footbridge (hence probably the name Dry Footbridge) with two lockable doors was demolished in 1810, and the Chain Footbridge was built in its place in 1825. (...)

Quoted from: City Lexicon Nuremberg, edited by Michael Diefenbacher and Rudolf Endres, Nuremberg, 1999

Johann Christoph Kummet, [author's name] = stands for the Latin word fecit and means "made it" or "produced it."

Moritz Maximilian Mayer,

excud = stands for the Latin word excudit (or excudebat), which translates as "imprinted it," "brought it forth," or "printed it."

Entry from the City Lexicon: Dry Footbridge: In 1441, the council of the Imperial City granted permission to the tanners working on the Pegnitz River to build the Dry Footbridge (also called Trucken-, Drucken-, or, in a corruption, Truden-, Drudensteg) within the last city fortifications at the Pegnitz outflow below the Spießhaus (later: Fronveste). In 1493, it was fortified with gates and chains to defend the river. The covered wooden footbridge (hence probably the name Dry Footbridge) with two lockable doors was demolished in 1810, and the Chain Footbridge was built in its place in 1825. (...)

Quoted from: City Lexicon Nuremberg, edited by Michael Diefenbacher and Rudolf Endres, Nuremberg, 1999

Johann Christoph Kummet, [author's name] = stands for the Latin word fecit and means "made it" or "produced it."

Moritz Maximilian Mayer,

excud = stands for the Latin word excudit (or excudebat), which translates as "imprinted it," "brought it forth," or "printed it."

Entry from the City Lexicon: Dry Footbridge: In 1441, the council of the Imperial City granted permission to the tanners working on the Pegnitz River to build the Dry Footbridge (also called Trucken-, Drucken-, or, in a corruption, Truden-, Drudensteg) within the last city fortifications at the Pegnitz outflow below the Spießhaus (later: Fronveste). In 1493, it was fortified with gates and chains to defend the river. The covered wooden footbridge (hence probably the name Dry Footbridge) with two lockable doors was demolished in 1810, and the Chain Footbridge was built in its place in 1825. (...)

Quoted from: City Lexicon Nuremberg, edited by Michael Diefenbacher and Rudolf Endres, Nuremberg, 1999

Johann Christoph Kummet, [author's name] = stands for the Latin word fecit and means "made it" or "produced it."

Moritz Maximilian Mayer,

excud = stands for the Latin word excudit (or excudebat), which translates as "imprinted it," "brought it forth," or "printed it."