Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Nuremberg, Germany

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Number of sights 25 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 152 m
Descend 168 m

Experience Nuremberg in Germany in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in NurembergIndividual Sights in Nuremberg

Sight 1: Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche

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The Reformation Memorial Church is a Protestant church built in the 20th century in Nuremberg. It is the seat of the dean in the Evangelical Lutheran Vice Deanery of Nuremberg-North.

Wikipedia: Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche (Nürnberg) (DE), Website, Url

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Stadtpark

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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.

Wikipedia: Stadtpark Nürnberg (DE)

1473 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 3: Friedensmuseum

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Friedensmuseum Friedensmuseum Nürnberg (Friedensmuseum Nürnberg ist auch Rechteinhaber der Einzelfotos, die aus einzelnen Ausstellungen des Friedensmuseums genommen sind. Die Collage wird seit langem verwendet, auch in Printmedien und in Facebook. Es lässt sich nicht mehr feststellen, wer von 3 Personen - darunter die Verfasserin- jeweils das Bild gemacht hat, was jedoch unerheblich ist, da die Rechte abgetreten wurden). / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Nuremberg Peace Museum is a Nuremberg museum of a registered association.

Wikipedia: Friedensmuseum Nürnberg (DE)

413 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Archivpark

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The Archive Park, also known as the Colleggarten or Kolleggarten after the "Colleg-Gesellschaft" that created the park, is an approx. 2.2-hectare neighbourhood park in the Nuremberg district of Gärten hinter der Veste. It emerged from a plot of land owned by the merchant Georg Zacharias Platner in the north of the city of Nuremberg and used as a garden. The garden extended, according to today's street names, from Archivstraße to Pirckheimerstraße and from Bucher Straße to Pilotystraße.

Wikipedia: Archivpark (DE)

678 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Albrecht Dürer's House

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Albrecht Dürer's House

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.

Wikipedia: Albrecht Dürer's House (EN), Website

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Historischer Kunstbunker

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Historischer Kunstbunker

The Historische Kunstbunker is a tunnel complex under Nuremberg Castle in the old city of Nuremberg, southern Germany. It forms part of the Nuremberg Historic Mile.

Wikipedia: Historischer Kunstbunker (EN), Website

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 7: Pilatushaus

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Pilatushaus Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Pilatushaus is a town house in Nuremberg, Germany. It is located in the northern district of St. Sebald below Nuremberg Castle on Tiergärtnertorplatz next to Tiergärtnertor. It is one of the few surviving town houses from the late Gothic period and is one of the most important architectural monuments in Nuremberg's old town. The house is a stop on the Nuremberg Historic Mile.

Wikipedia: Pilatushaus (Nürnberg) (DE)

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Burggarten

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Burggarten

Castle bastions are the name of the bastions built from 1538 onwards to the west and north of the castle in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg Burggarten is laid out in them.

Wikipedia: Burgbasteien (DE)

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Imperial Castle

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Nuremberg Castle is a group of medieval fortified buildings on a sandstone ridge dominating the historical center of Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.

Wikipedia: Nuremberg Castle (EN), Website

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Fembohaus

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Fembohaus

The Stadtmuseum Fembohaus is the city museum of the history of Nuremberg. 950 years of city history are vividly presented. It presents a comprehensive view of the city's history in a new museum atmosphere with ambitious exhibitions on current topics of the city's history. The museum is part of the network of museums of the city of Nuremberg.

Wikipedia: Stadtmuseum Fembohaus (DE), Website

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Historic Rock-cut Cellars

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Historic Rock-cut Cellars

The rock passages are an extensive system of tunnels and cellars under Nuremberg's old town. Until the middle of the 17th century, the tunnel system in particular was secret.

Wikipedia: Felsengänge (Nürnberg) (DE), Website

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Albrecht-Dürer-Denkmal

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The Albrecht Dürer Monument is a statue on Albrecht Dürer Square in Nuremberg, Germany. Created between 1837 and 1840 by the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch, it depicts the German painter with brush, pen and laurel branch in his right hand. It is one of the most important works of classicist sculpture.

Wikipedia: Albrecht-Dürer-Denkmal (DE)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: 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

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Burgtheater

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Burgtheater Photo: Andreas Praefcke / CC BY 3.0

The Nuremberg Burgtheater is a theatre for cabaret, comedy and cabaret in Nuremberg.

Wikipedia: Nürnberger Burgtheater (DE), Website

192 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: 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)

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Neutorturm

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Neutorturm

The Neutor is an old gate in the northwest of the Nuremberg city wall, located southwest of Nuremberg Castle.

Wikipedia: Neutor (Nürnberg) (DE)

246 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Burgschmietbrunnen

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The Burgschmietbrunnen fountain in Nuremberg stands on a small square at the junction of Burgschmietstraße and Neutorgraben. The fountain was built 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.

Wikipedia: Burgschmietbrunnen (DE)

677 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Friedenskirche

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Friedenskirche

The Nuremberg Church of Peace is located in Nuremberg's St. Johannis district at Palmplatz 11. Planning for the construction began in 1916. According to this, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace was to be a memorial and memorial for the entire city. It was built between 1925 and 1928 according to the design of the architect German Bestelmeyer. During the Second World War, it burned down in 1944 after a bombing raid.

Wikipedia: Friedenskirche (Nürnberg) (DE), Url

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: St. John's Cemetery

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St. John's Cemetery -- Grüner Grünling 08:27, 4. Aug. 2008 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

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 lying (standardized) gravestones and burial places of the Nuremberg population from more than five centuries. The burial site is still in operation and is a listed building, and 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 stop within Nuremberg's Historic Mile.

Wikipedia: Johannisfriedhof (Nürnberg) (DE), Website

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Hesperidengärten

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Hesperidengärten

The hesperid gardens are several baroque gardens in the St. Johannis district of Nuremberg. They were part of a green belt along the city wall, which included 360 -used gardens and formed the prerequisite for the development of a high -standing garden culture at the gates of the imperial city of Nuremberg. The creation of citrus plants was converted. The green areas were created by patrician families and merchants in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries after the fruit, vegetable and herb gardens in the old town were gradually built on. The magnificent lust gardens separated the newly created suburbs from the old town. The city wall formed the physical border. Wealthy citizens have lived in St. Johannis since the early modern period who brought a touch of Mediterranean culture into the home garden. The Nuremberg patricians and merchants oriented themselves to the model of the nobility in the garden design. Small ornamental gardens were built in the Renaissance and baroque style and equipped with a variety of wells and figures made of sandstone. There were valuable and exotic limon and pomerance collections in the elaborately designed gardens.

Wikipedia: Hesperidengärten (DE)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 21: 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 bank of the river is the Kontumazgarten. A footpath and cycle path leads east through the Hallertürlein into Sebald's old town. Hallerwiese is also the name of district 070 in district 07 St. Johannis, but its area is not identical with the park.

Wikipedia: Hallerwiese (DE)

149 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Schnepperschützenbrunnen

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Schnepperschützenbrunnen --Grüner Grünling 08:28, 8. Aug. 2008 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The crossbow shooter fountain or Schnepperschützenbrunnen is located in Nuremberg, in the green area of ​​Hallerwiese in the St. Johannis district. His line -up in 1904 was made possible by a donation from the St. Johannis citizens' association, his creator was the Nuremberg sculptor Leonhard Herzog. The fountain acts today as a design center of this oldest green area in the city and is one of the popular art and monuments of the city of Nuremberg.

Wikipedia: Armbrustschützenbrunnen (DE)

415 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 23: Kontumazgarten

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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, but its area is not identical with the green corridor.

Wikipedia: Kontumazgarten (DE)

1490 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 24: Ludwig-Eisenbahn-Denkmalbrunnen

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Ludwig-Eisenbahn-Denkmalbrunnen André Karwath aka Aka / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Ludwig Railway Monument is a monument with a fountain in the Gostenhof district of Nuremberg, Germany.

Wikipedia: Ludwig-Eisenbahn-Denkmal (DE)

556 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Memorium Nuremberg Trials

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The Memorium Nuremberg Trials is a museum in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. At the historic site, it provides information about the Nuremberg Trials, which took place here from 1945 to 1949.

Wikipedia: Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse (DE), Website

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