With a population of 510,000,
Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is
Germany's 14th largest city. It's nearly twenty miles from my hometown, a quick-and-easy sixteen minutes past times train. It's ever been my favorite "big city" inwards Germany, non exclusively because it's the 1 I know best, but because the historic urban heart middle is hence picturesque.
As the site of the Nazi Party's
Nuremberg Rallies, the urban heart was a major target for Allied forces inwards WWII together with sustained extensive damage. Many structures were rebuilt, including the top dog churches inwards the urban heart center. Today, Nuremberg is an of import economical powerhouse, both inwards industrial production together with advanced technologies. In addition, Nuremberg has ever been a middle of the arts together with sciences together with is dwelling to major museums such equally the
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Germany's largest museum of cultural history, together with the
Spielzeugmuseum, 1 of the best-known toy museums inwards the world.
My favorite matter to hit inwards Nuremberg is to accept a leisurely stroll through the urban heart center, taking inwards the sights, sounds together with smells (many stalls sell the famous
Nuremberg Rostbratwurst). That's precisely what my identify unit of measurement together with I did the other day. Here is my photography booty.
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| Heilig-Geist-Spital, built inwards 1332 over the River Pegnitz equally a populace facility to attention for the sick together with elderly |
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| Fleischbrücke over the River Pegnitz inwards the pedestrian zone |
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| Königstraße, 1 of several shopping streets inwards the pedestrian zone |
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| Seen inwards forepart of a eating theatre on the Hauptmarkt, these olive trees inwards steel containers receive got impressively thick trunks |
The
Hauptmarkt (Main Market Square) is a large foursquare inwards forepart of the Gothic
Frauenkirche (Our Lady's Church). In December, it hosts Nuremberg's world-famous
Christmas market. The balance of the twelvemonth it's dwelling to vendors selling a broad diversity of fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, baked goods, together with the like. Yesterday in that location was fifty-fifty a stall selling sushi.
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| Frauenkirche on the Hauptmarkt |
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| Lavender |
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| Love-in-the-mist (Nigella damascena) sold for its attractive seed capsules |
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| These Allium flowers were impressive inwards size |
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| Artichoke flowers, Eryngium and bulrush (Typha) |
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| Organic herbs |
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| Potted clumping bamboo (Fargesia sp) |
After leaving the Hauptmarkt, nosotros proceeded to walk upward the colina towards the Imperial Castle:
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| St Sebaldus Church, originally built inwards 1225, heavily damaged inwards WWII together with rebuilt afterwards |
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| Fembohaus City Museum, housed inwards a patrician dwelling built inwards 1591-1596 |
Red geraniums look to survive the official window box flowers inwards Nuremberg:
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| View towards the Hauptmarkt from the Castle hill |
Nuremberg's
Imperial Castle is a commanding presence on transcend of a sandstone ridge inwards the middle of the city. The beginnings of the medieval fortification tin survive traced dorsum to circa 1000. The Imperial Castle dates to 1138-1254. Wikipedia has a swell
aerial photo that shows the entire complex.
The expanse simply below the Imperial Castle is dwelling to many traditional timber-framed houses:
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| Reflection inwards a machine window |
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| Tiergärtnertor, 1 of several gates inwards the city walls |
Now we're dorsum inwards the pedestrian zone:
My favorite populace fine art slice inwards the auto-free zone is the Ehekarussell, a large springtime created betwixt 1977 together with 1981 past times High German sculptor Jürgen Wegner together with installed inwards 1984. Six scenes present the ups together with downward of marital life--from courtship to the bitter end. When the Ehekarussell was firstly unveiled, it caused quite a stir. Many considered the depictions to survive coarse together with vulgar. Others, myself included, mean value they're humorous and, inwards the illustration of simply about relationships, non far off the mark.
More establish sightings inwards the pedestrian zone:
My favorite church building inwards Nuremberg is the
Lorenzkirche (St Lawrence Church), which dates dorsum to the early on 1400s:
The church building was heavily damaged inwards the WWII together with and hence meticulously restored. It was 1 of the firstly churches inwards Deutschland to larn Lutheran (in 1525). The interior is stunningly beautiful.
One our agency dorsum to the top dog prepare station, nosotros made a quick halt at the
Handwerkerhof, a collection of restaurants together with shops selling local arts together with crafts. This is 1 the best places inwards Nuremberg to purchase high-quality souvenirs although the typical tourist junk mass-produced inwards Cathay has made inroads hither equally well.
And 1 terminal painting present postcard, this fourth dimension showing crimson together with white impatiens instead of geraniums:
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