Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nuremberg, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 6.4 km
Ascend 108 m
Descend 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 Nuremberg

Sight 1: St. Rochusfriedhof

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St. Rochus Cemetery (Rochusfriedhof) is a cemetery in Nuremberg, Germany. It is located in the Gostenhof quarter.

Wikipedia: St. Rochus Cemetery, Nuremberg (EN)

340 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium Nürnberg

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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.

Wikipedia: Nicolaus-Copernicus-Planetarium (DE), Website

540 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Rosenau

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Rosenau André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5

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.

Wikipedia: Rosenaupark (DE), Website

534 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: turmdersinne

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turmdersinne unbekannt / Logo

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.

Wikipedia: Turm der Sinne (DE), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: St. Rochus

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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.

Wikipedia: Saint Roch (EN)

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Hangman's Bridge

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The Henkersteg, also known as the Langer Steg, is a wooden footbridge over the Pegnitz River in Nuremberg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Henkersteg (DE)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Toy Museum Nuremberg

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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.

Wikipedia: Nuremberg Toy Museum (EN), Website

349 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Fleischbrücke

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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.

Wikipedia: Fleisch Bridge (EN)

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: Synagogendenkmal

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Synagogendenkmal André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5

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).

Wikipedia: Synagogendenkmal (Nürnberg) (DE)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Heilig-Geist-Spital

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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.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Spital (EN)

304 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: St. Katharina

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St. Katharina

St. Katharina in Nuremberg, Bavaria, was an important medieval church, destroyed during the Second World War and preserved as a ruin.

Wikipedia: Katharinenkirche, Nuremberg (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Uhrenmuseum

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The Karl Gebhardt Watch Collection in Nuremberg is a collection of mechanical clocks.

Wikipedia: Uhrensammlung Karl Gebhardt (DE)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Grande Disco

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Grande Disco

Grande Disco is a bronze sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro from 1972 that is located in Milan, Italy.

Wikipedia: Disco Grande (IT)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Naturhistorisches Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Naturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg (DE), Website

694 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 15: Cramer-Klett-Park

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Cramer-Klett-Park is a small park in Nuremberg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Cramer-Klett-Park (DE)

689 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Der blaue Reiter

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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.

Wikipedia: Kunst- und Baudenkmäler der Stadt Nürnberg (DE)

539 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 17: Prantlstein

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Prantlstein The original uploader was E.peiffer@gmx.net at German Wikipedia. (Original text: Fotograf: Rolf Ruppenthal, Wadgassen) / CC BY-SA 3.0

Karl Prantl was an Austrian sculptor.

Wikipedia: Karl Prantl (sculptor) (EN)

252 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: St. Sebald Church

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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.

Wikipedia: St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg (EN), Website

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 19: Weißgerbergasse

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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.

Wikipedia: Weißgerbergasse (Nürnberg) (DE)

476 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 20: Hallerwiese

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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.

Wikipedia: Hallerwiese (DE)

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