Remains of more than a thousand people have been found in a mass grave in Nuremberg. Never before have so many remains of plague victims been unearthed in one place in Europe.
The mass grave dates from the wave of 1632/33. At that time, exactly 15,661 people in the city fell to the bacterium Yinia pestis - well over a third of all residents. The discovery could be a stroke of luck for research, says Melanie Langbein from Monument Protection.