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Here, we enter a residential area where people lived in their "own three walls." For cost reasons, poorer citizens built their houses directly along the city wall (the "fourth wall"), and they were content with small plots of land. To gain a little more living space, the facades on the upper floors were often made to protrude by the width of a beam. Beneath the plaster, there is a simple timber-framed construction, with the gaps filled with wooden wickerwork. The same construction style can still be seen in Münzgasse (behind the southern city wall). What is now a beautiful residential area in the city center, after successful renovation and equipped with all the comforts of modern living technology, was, without running water, sewage, electricity, and proper heating, far from a cozy home. In stark contrast to this are the tall, solid stone buildings along the marketplace.