Nürnberger Burg
As legend tells it, when the day of the hanging came his final wish was to sit on his horse for one last time. Since the execution took place inside Nuremberg Castle, the wish was granted. Eppelein took the opportunity to escape by galloping to the wall and forcing his horse to jump above it into the moat. On his flight from Nuremberg, he was met by a peasant who wanted to witness the execution of the famous robber baron and asked him if he would be in time to see the hanging. Eppelein's purportedly responded, "The Nurembergians will hang nobody - if they hadn't him before" ("Die Nürnberger hängen keinen – sie hätten ihn denn zuvor!").