Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Nuremberg, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 6.1 km
Ascend 78 m
Descend 98 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: Volkspark Marienberg

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The Volkspark Marienberg is an English-style landscape garden in the north of Nuremberg and the second largest public park in the city. Volkspark Marienberg is also the name of District 831 in District 83 Marienberg, whose area is not identical to the green corridor.

Wikipedia: Volkspark Marienberg (DE)

1859 meters / 22 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)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Neptunbrunnen

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Neptunbrunnen

The Neptune Fountain in Nuremberg is the largest baroque fountain north of the Alps and is considered a monument to the Peace of Nuremberg after the Thirty Years' War. The original fountain was created between 1660 and 1668 by Christoph Ritter and Georg Schweigger for the Main Market Square, donated by the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III. For financial reasons, the imperial city did not have the fountain built, but sold it to St. Petersburg in 1796.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Nürnberg) (DE)

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Sankt Matthäus

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Sankt Matthäus

St. Matthew's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Nuremberg, Germany. It was planned and built under the direction of the architect Wilhelm Schlegtendal and is located at Rollnerstraße 100 in 90408 Nuremberg in the Maxfeld or Nordbahnhof district.

Wikipedia: Matthäuskirche (Nürnberg) (DE), Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Sankt Martin

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St. Martin is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Nuremberg district of Gärten hinter der Veste, Germany. It was built in 1934 on the site of an earlier emergency church in neo-Romanesque style, destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1948. It belongs to the parish of the same name, St. Martin, which is assigned to the Archdiocese of Bamberg. St. Martin's Church is registered as an architectural monument with the number D-5-64-000-1679 at the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. Its organ, built in 1991, makes the church an important venue for various musical events.

Wikipedia: St. Martin (Nürnberg) (DE), Website

840 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 6: Archivpark

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The Archive Park, also known as the Colleggarten or Kolleggarten after the "Colleg-Gesellschaft" (Colleg-Gesellschaft), is a 2.2-hectare neighborhood park in the Nuremberg district of Gardens behind the Veste. It originated 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. According to today's street names, the garden stretched from Archivstraße to Pirckheimerstraße and from Bucher Straße to Pilotystraße.

Wikipedia: Archivpark (DE)

916 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: Friedenskirche

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Friedenskirche

The Nuremberg Peace Church is located in the St. Johannis district of Nuremberg at Palmplatz 11. The planning for the building began in 1916. After that, the Evangelical Lutheran Friedenskirche should be a commemorative and memorial for the whole city. According to the design of the architect German Bestelmeyer, it was built in 1925-1928. During the Second World War, she burned out after a bomb attack in 1944.

Wikipedia: Friedenskirche (Nürnberg) (DE), Url

468 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: 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 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.

Wikipedia: Johannisfriedhof (Nürnberg) (DE), Website

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: 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 gardens used differently 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. In St. Johannis, wealthy citizens have lived since the early modern period who got 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. In the elaborately designed gardens, there were valuable and exotic limon and pomerance collections.

Wikipedia: Hesperidengärten (DE)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: 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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