Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Nuremberg, Germany
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12.2 km
155 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: Quelle-Turm
The Quelle Tower is a 90-metre-high advertising tower in Nuremberg, Germany, built in 1964 and designed by Ernst Neufert. In the spring of 2006, the tower was added to the list of monuments of the city of Nuremberg as part of the ensemble Wandererstraße 89.
Sight 2: Memorium Nuremberg Trials
Book Ticket*The Memorium Nuremberg Trials is a museum in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. It provides information about the Nuremberg Trials, which took place here from 1945 to 1949.
Sight 3: Ludwig-Eisenbahn-Denkmalbrunnen
The Ludwig Railway Monument is a monument with a fountain in the Gostenhof district of Nuremberg, Germany.
Sight 4: 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 5: 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 6: Kontumazgarten
The Kontumazgarten is a 1.7-hectare green space with a children's playground in the Kleinweidenmühle district of Nuremberg. The simple park is located in front of the Hallertor in the west of the old town, on the left bank of the Pegnitz between the Großweidenmühlsteg and the Hallertor bridge. Opposite, on the other bank of the river, stretches the Hallerwiese. Kontumazgarten is also the name of District 054 in District 05 Himpfelshof, whose area is not identical to the green corridor.
Sight 7: Schnepperschützenbrunnen
The Armbrustschützenbrunnen or Schnepperschützenbrunnen is located in Nuremberg, in the Hallerwiese green area in the St. Johannis district. Its installation in 1904 was made possible by a donation from the St. Johannis Civic Association, its creator was the Nuremberg sculptor Leonhard Herzog. Today, the fountain acts as the design centre of this oldest green space in the city and is one of the popular art and architectural monuments of the city of Nuremberg.
Sight 8: 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 9: St. John's Cemetery
The St. John's Cemetery is a church cemetery in Nuremberg with historical and artistically valuable bronze epitaphs as well as culturally and historically significant reclining (standardized) gravestones and graves of the Nuremberg population from more than five centuries. The burial site is still in operation and is a listed building, the city of Nuremberg and the Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery Administration are responsible for the burials. Because of the many rose bushes, it is also called the Rose Cemetery. Due to the historical sights, the St. John's Cemetery is a destination within the framework of cemetery tourism and a station within Nuremberg's Historical Mile.
Sight 10: 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 11: Pilatushaus
Book Free Tour*The Pilatushaus is a community center in Nuremberg. It is located in the northern district of St. Sebald below the Nuremberg Castle at Tiergärtertorplatz next to the animal gardening gate. It is one of the few preserved town houses from late Gothic and is one of the most important architectural monuments in the old town of Nuremberg. The house is a station of the historical mile Nuremberg.
Sight 12: 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 13: Imperial Castle
Nuremberg Castle is a group of medieval fortified buildings on a sandstone ridge dominating the historical center of Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.
Sight 14: 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 15: 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 16: Hirsvogelsaal
The Hirsvogel Hall is an early Renaissance building in Hirschelgasse in Nuremberg, Germany. It was an extension of his Gothic house in 1534 by Lienhard III Hirschvogel, a Nuremberg long-distance trader. The reason for the construction was his marriage to Sabine Welser from Augsburg.
Sight 17: 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 18: Friedensmuseum
The Nuremberg Peace Museum is a Nuremberg museum of a registered association.
Sight 19: 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 20: 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.
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