Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Nuremberg, Germany
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11.4 km
204 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: 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.
Sight 2: Burgschmietbrunnen
The Burgschmietbrunnen fountain in Nuremberg is located on a small square at the junction of Burgschmietstraße and Neutorgraben. The fountain was erected in memory of the sculptor and art caster Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet. The bronze figure depicting Burgschmiet was designed by the sculptor Fritz Zadow and cast by Ernst Lenz in 1897. The financing is provided by the residents of Burgschmietstraße.
Sight 3: Burggarten
Castle bastions are the names of the bastions built from 1538 onwards to the west and north of the castle in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg Castle Garden is laid out in them.
Sight 4: Albrecht Dürer's House
Book Ticket*Albrecht Dürer's House is a Nuremberg Fachwerkhaus that was the home of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from 1509 to his death in 1528. The House lies in the extreme north-west of Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg section of the Nuremberg Castle and the Tiergärtnertor of Nuremberg's city walls.
Sight 5: Burgtheater
The Nürnberger Burgtheater is a cabaret, comedy and cabaret theatre in Nuremberg, Germany.
Sight 6: Historic Rock-cut Cellars
The rock passages are an extensive tunnel and cellar system under Nuremberg's old town. Until the middle of the 17th century, the tunnel system in particular was secret.
Sight 7: Fembohaus
The Fembohaus City Museum is the city museum for the history of Nuremberg. 950 years of the city's history are vividly depicted. It presents a comprehensive view of the city's history in a new museum atmosphere with ambitious exhibitions on current topics in the city's history. The museum is part of the Association of Museums of the City of Nuremberg.
Sight 8: Heinrich II
Henry II, also known as Saint Henry the Exuberant, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024, and was the last ruler of the Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, appointed in 995, Henry became King of the Romans following the sudden death of his second cousin, Emperor Otto III in 1002, was made King of Italy in 1004, and crowned emperor by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014.
Sight 9: St. Egidien
St Egidien on Egidienplatz is the former Benedictine Abbey of Saint Giles (Egidienskirche), now a church in the former free imperial city of Nuremberg, southern Germany. It is considered a significant contribution to the baroque church architecture of Middle Franconia.
Sight 10: Hutmuseum
The Hat Museum Nuremberg is a private museum in Nuremberg that deals with the production and properties of hats. It is located in a former milliner's workshop in Sebald's old town and is considered the smallest museum in Nuremberg.
Sight 11: Landauerkapelle
The All Saints' Chapel in Nuremberg is a late Gothic sacred building. It was built between 1501 and 1510 as the house chapel of the Landauer Twelve Brothers' House according to plans by the Nuremberg architect Hans Beheim the Elder. It has been used by the Old Catholic parish in Nuremberg since 2006.
Sight 12: Tucherschloss
The Tucherschloss is a museum located at Hirschelgasse 9/11 in the St. Sebald district of Nuremberg's Old Town. The Tucher Castle was built as the city palace of the Nuremberg patrician family Tucher.
Sight 13: Friedensmuseum
The Nuremberg Peace Museum is a Nuremberg museum of a registered association.
Sight 14: Stadtpark
The city park in Nuremberg is a green space of about 19 hectares. From 1855 to about 1882 it bore the name Maxfeld, before that the area had been known as Judenbühl since 1349.
Sight 15: Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche
The Reformation Memory Church is an Evangelical Church in Nuremberg built in the 20th century. It is the seat of the dean in the Evangelical Lutheran Vice Canate Nuremberg-Nord.
Wikipedia: Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche (Nürnberg) (DE), Website, Url
Sight 16: Museum Industriekultur
The Museum of Industrial Culture in Nuremberg is a museum of technology, culture and social history that documents the history of industrialization using Nuremberg as an example. It was built in 1988 in a hall of the former Julius Tafel ironworks (Tafelwerk) and comprises around 6,000 m² of exhibition space. Attached to the museum is a school museum as well as a motorcycle museum, which deals in particular with the company history of the Zündapp company. The neighbouring Tafelhalle cultural centre is also housed in buildings of the former Tafelwerk.
Sight 17: Rechenberg
Rechenberg is the name of District 902 in Statistical District 9 – Eastern Outer City in Statistical District 90. It is also the name given to an approximately 338 m high elevation in the northeast of the city of Nuremberg and an encompassing park of the same name.
Sight 18: Platnersberg
The Platnersberg is a ten-hectare green space in the Erlenstegen district of Nuremberg, Germany. Since 1 January 1899, the Platnersberg has been part of the former rural municipality of Erlenstegen and has been incorporated into the district of Nuremberg. Platnersberg is also the name of District 911 in District 91 Erlenstegen, whose area is not identical to the green corridor.
Sight 19: St. Nikolaus und Ulrich
The listed Protestant parish church of St. Nicholas and Ulrich is located in Mögeldorf, a district of the independent city of Nuremberg. The building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments under the monument number D-5-64-000-1001. The church belongs to the Vice-Deanery East of the Deanery of Nuremberg in the Nuremberg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
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