Nuremberg

Places researched in this city

A selection of the 54 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.

• Imperial castle
• Gothic churches
• Medieval streets
• Renaissance art
• War history
• Fountain sculpture

• Imperial Castle Nuremberg

  Every German king and emperor was expected to hold their first imperial diet here, making this sandstone fortress a de facto political capital of the Holy Roman Empire for centuries. The 41-metre Sinwell Tower and a double chapel survive from the Romanesque period, and a deep well cut through solid rock still draws water today.

• St. Sebaldus Church

  Nuremberg's oldest parish church holds a bronze shrine to Saint Sebaldus cast by Peter Vischer that took the Vischer workshop over eleven years to complete. The building itself traces the city's full architectural arc, from late Romanesque stonework begun around 1220 to a Gothic hall choir added in 1379.

• Germanic National Museum

  The largest cultural history museum in the German-speaking world grew from one baron's 1852 ambition to gather every source of German history under one roof, and now holds over 1.3 million objects including Martin Behaim's 1492 Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. The outdoor 'Way of Human Rights' by Dani Karavan lines the approach with 27 concrete pillars inscribed with the Universal Declaration.

• Albrecht Dürer House

  Dürer bought this half-timbered merchant house in 1509 and lived here until his death in 1528, making it the only surviving 15th-century artist's home in Northern Europe. A previous owner, astronomer Bernard Walther, had already cut small windows into the roof to use the upper floors as an observatory before Dürer ever moved in.

• Memorium Nuremberg Trials

  Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was adapted in 1945 to host the first international military tribunals in history, with a new simultaneous translation system installed because the proceedings ran in four languages at once. The courtroom still functions as a working court today, open to visitors when not in session.

• Historic Art Bunker

  The tunnels carved into the sandstone beneath Nuremberg Castle were medieval beer cellars for centuries before the city quietly converted them in 1940 into a climate-controlled vault for irreplaceable artworks, hiding Dürer paintings, Veit Stoss carvings, and the Imperial Regalia 24 metres underground during Allied air raids. The Zeiss planetarium projector from the city's demolished 1927 planetarium also survived the war here.

• Chain Bridge (Kettensteg)

  Built in just four months in 1824, this 68-metre pedestrian span over the Pegnitz is the oldest surviving iron suspension bridge on the European mainland. Its engineer, Conrad Georg Kuppler, went on to work on the first German railway line between Nuremberg and Fürth just a decade later.