Taste the kraut before deciding whether to rinse it; a mild one wants none and a fierce one wants a quick rinse and a squeeze, and getting that wrong is the whole outcome. The sausage goes in whole and is sliced at the table, or it gives everything up to the pot.
It did not make it into the plan for these seven days.
The method above is what decides the dish, not a step-by-step recipe. The link runs a web search on the name: this page has no vetted sources of its own, and will not invent any.