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# Sechs im Weggla
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/sechs-im-weggla/
- Published: 2026-05-17T00:08:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T15:03:03.000Z
- Description: 'Six in a roll'; heartier portion of Nuremberg sausages.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Germany, Split Roll Sandwiches, Die Bratwurst im Brötchen, #auto-imported

**🇩🇪 Germany** · Family: [Die Bratwurst im Brötchen](https://onesandwich.com/tag/die-bratwurst/) · Region: Nuremberg · Heat: Grilled · Bread: brotchen · Proteins: sausage

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Ingredients

brötchen · nuremberg sausage · mustard

Six small sausages, one roll, and a name that says exactly that. *Sechs im Weggla* is Nuremberg's count-and-bread shorthand: *Weggla* is the Franconian word for a roll, and the number is the order. The sausages are *Nürnberger Rostbratwürste*, the slim finger-length grilled bratwurst that is the city's signature, no longer than a thumb and grilled over beechwood until the skin snaps. Three in a roll is the standard handheld portion you see at every market grill. Six is the hungry version, the one for people treating it as a meal rather than a snack between errands, and it is common enough across Nuremberg's stalls to stand as its own thing.

The build is sausages, roll, mustard, in that order and not much else. The *Nürnberger* is a fine-textured pork bratwurst seasoned with marjoram, which is its defining note and the thing that separates it from a coarse Thuringian or a Coburger. They are grilled fresh to order, the skins browning and blistering, and laid in a row across a split *Weggla*, a soft-crusted wheat roll wide enough to take six side by side without them rolling out. The condiment is the argument: sweet Bavarian-style *Senf* or a sharper medium mustard, applied to the roll, and that is the entire dressing. No onions, no sauerkraut, no ketchup in the classic form. A good one has the sausages still hot and snapping from the grill, the marjoram clear, the roll soft enough to fold around the row without fighting it, the mustard sharp enough to cut the fat. A poor one has sausages held too long so the skins go slack and the meat dries, or a roll so crusty it shatters and spills the lot, or so much mustard it buries the marjoram it was meant to set off.

The variations are mostly arithmetic. *Drei im Weggla* is the same thing at half the count, the everyday market portion. Some stalls offer it with a smear of *Meerrettich* instead of mustard for a sharper northern edge, or with a forkful of *Sauerkraut* tucked under the sausages, which turns it from a clean handheld snack into something closer to a plate eaten standing up. A plate of a dozen *Nürnberger* with sauerkraut and a dollop of horseradish, the proper sit-down *Schweinswürstl* order, is a Franconian institution and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here.

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## More from this family

Other [Die Bratwurst im Brötchen](https://onesandwich.com/tag/die-bratwurst/) sandwiches in Germany:

- [Bockwurst im Brötchen](https://onesandwich.com/bockwurst-im-brotchen/)
- [Bockwurst](https://onesandwich.com/bockwurst/)
- [Bratwurst im Brötchen](https://onesandwich.com/bratwurst-im-brotchen/)
- [Bratwurst mit Kartoffelsalat Brötchen](https://onesandwich.com/bratwurst-mit-kartoffelsalat-brotchen/)
- [Bratwurst mit Senf](https://onesandwich.com/bratwurst-mit-senf/)
- [Coburger Bratwurst](https://onesandwich.com/coburger-bratwurst/)
- [Debreziner](https://onesandwich.com/debreziner/)
- [Drei im Weggla](https://onesandwich.com/drei-im-weggla/)

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