Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nuremberg, Germany
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6.4 km
116 m
Explore Nuremberg in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in NurembergIndividual Sights in NurembergSight 1: St. Rochusfriedhof
St. Rochus Cemetery (Rochusfriedhof) is a cemetery in Nuremberg, Germany. It is located in the Gostenhof quarter.
Sight 2: Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium Nürnberg
The Nicolaus Copernicus Planetarium in Nuremberg is located at the inner-city transport hub of Plärrer. It is the only large planetarium in Bavaria. Together with the Nuremberg Education Centre (Volkshochschule) and the Nuremberg City Library, it forms the Nuremberg Education Campus. In 2017, 78,000 visitors were recorded.
Sight 3: Rosenau
The Rosenaupark or the Rosenau is a park of about 3 hectares in Nuremberg, Germany. It is located in the Kleinweidenmühle district west of the Fürth Gate in front of the walls of the old town in a depression that geologically appears to be a dry oxbow of the nearby Pegnitz.
Sight 4: turmdersinne
The Tower of the Senses is an interactive hands-on museum in the Mohrenturm at the west gate of the Nuremberg city wall. Visitors can try out sensory stimuli and their processing on themselves at experiment stations. Perceptual illusions are also made tangible. The owner of the operating company is the Humanist Association.
Sight 5: St. Rochus
Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the designation of Rollox in Glasgow, Scotland, said to be a corruption of Roch's Loch, which referred to a small loch once near a chapel dedicated to Roch in 1506.
Sight 6: Hangman's Bridge
The Henkersteg, also known as the Langer Steg, is a wooden footbridge over the Pegnitz River in Nuremberg, Germany.
Sight 7: Toy Museum Nuremberg
The Nuremberg Toy Museum in Nuremberg, Bavaria, is a municipal museum, which was founded in 1971. It is considered to be one of the most well known toy museums in the world, depicting the cultural history of toys from antiquity to the present.
Sight 8: Fleischbrücke
The Fleisch Bridge or Pegnitz Bridge (Pegnitzbrücke) is a late Renaissance bridge in Nuremberg, Germany. The bridge crosses the river Pegnitz in the center of the old town, linking the districts St. Sebald and St. Lorenz along the axis of the main market. The single-arch bridge was built between 1596 and 1598 and replaced an earlier mixed construction of stone and wood which had been repeatedly destroyed by flood.
Sight 9: Synagogendenkmal
The synagogue monument in Nuremberg commemorates the main synagogue on Hans-Sachs-Platz, which was demolished on 10 August 1938, i.e. before the November pogroms, at the behest of Julius Streicher. The monument on the Spitalbrücke bridge at the junction of the Leo-Katzenberger-Weg essentially consists of a relief of the no longer existing synagogue by Reinhard Heiber (1988) and a memorial stele erected in front of it by August Hofmann (1970).
Sight 10: Heilig-Geist-Spital
Book Ticket*The Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg was the largest hospital in the former Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was used as a hospital and nursing home.
Sight 11: St. Katharina
St. Katharina in Nuremberg, Bavaria, was an important medieval church, destroyed during the Second World War and preserved as a ruin.
Sight 12: Uhrenmuseum
The Karl Gebhardt Watch Collection in Nuremberg is a collection of mechanical clocks.
Sight 13: Grande Disco
Grande Disco is a bronze sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro from 1972 that is located in Milan, Italy.
Sight 14: Naturhistorisches Museum
The Natural History Society Nuremberg (NHG), founded in 1801, is currently one of the largest voluntary scientific societies in Germany with about 1500 members.
Sight 15: Cramer-Klett-Park
Cramer-Klett-Park is a small park in Nuremberg, Germany.
Sight 16: Der blaue Reiter
The cultural and art-historical significance of Nuremberg was rediscovered by Ludwig Tieck and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder at the end of the 18th century. The old town, which was largely destroyed in the Second World War, was partially restored in its historic form in the decades after 1945. In the list of monuments in Nuremberg, all monuments of the city are listed individually.
Sight 17: Prantlstein
Karl Prantl was an Austrian sculptor.
Sight 18: St. Sebald Church
Book Ticket*St. Sebaldus Church is a medieval church in Nuremberg, Germany. Along with Frauenkirche and St. Lorenz, it is one of the most important churches of the city, and also one of the oldest. It is located at the Albrecht-Dürer-Platz, in front of the old city hall. It takes its name from Sebaldus, an 8th-century hermit and missionary and patron saint of Nuremberg. It has been a Lutheran parish church since the Reformation.
Sight 19: Weißgerbergasse
Weißgerbergasse is a street in Nuremberg, Germany. It is one of the few predominantly preserved architectural monument ensembles in Nuremberg's old town. It is lined with bars, restaurants and galleries.
Sight 20: Hallerwiese
The Hallerwiese is a 1.7-hectare park in the St. Johannis district of Nuremberg, Germany. The Hallerwiese is located west of the Hallertor and thus outside the old town. It stretches along the right bank of the Pegnitz between the Hallertor Bridge and the Großweidenmühlsteg. To the left side of the river is the Kontumaz Garden. A footpath and cycle path leads east through the Hallertürlein into the old town of Sebald. Hallerwiese is also the name of District 070 in District 07 St. Johannis, whose area is not identical with the park.
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