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A woman with the courage and speaking of a man, disguised in a monk’s robe …

When mayor Georg Emmerich travelled to the Holy Land for the second time he was said to have been was accompanied by the young, beautiful widow Agnete Fingerin. Reportedly they brought back from Jerusalem the plans for the construction of the Holy Tomb in Görlitz.
Actually, the courageous beauty did not travel with Emmerich but in 1476 joined the entourage of Albrecht Duke of Saxony to visit the Holy Land. Agnete Fingerin lived in Kränzelstrasse 27 where a golden anchor above the portal reminds us of the heydays of this house.