Procession of the Sausage Makers

Lucas Schnitzler's copperplate engraving documents a procession of the sausage-makers' accomplishment for Mardi Gras in 1658. Twelve apprentice sausage makers from Nuremberg hauled a giant bratwurst some 430 meters long, weighing 257 kilograms, on their shoulders around the Herrenmarkt area of Nuremberg's Main Market Square. The sausage was suspended from a pole roughly 15 meters long, painted in the city's colors of red and white.