You can easily spend a full day here seeing the sights. Begin at the central market square, Hauptmarkt,
the most colorful place in town. Nearly all the
city's attractions lie nearby within the medieval fortifications,
parts of which still remain.
A Great Christmas City
The
Christkindlmarkt is Nuremberg is famous world-wide, one the most well-known
Christmas Markets anywhere, and annually visited by over two million people
from dozens of countries. Already in the year 1628 the Christkindlmarkt
Nuremberg was going strong.
Every
December, a wide variety of events in the Christmas Market transforms Nuremberg
into a true Christmas City.
On the Friday before the first Advent Sunday, the Nuremberg Christmas Angel
opens the Christkindlmarkt by reciting a sacred poem.
What
makes the Nuremberg Christkindlmarkt so special is its setting against the
historic backdrop of Nuremberg's
main market square – the Hauptmarkt. The traditional mix of
gingerbread, fruit bread, bratwurst and mulled wine as well as the
glittering gift stalls at Germany's
best-known Christmas market put visitors from all over the world in the
Christmas mood.
Kaiserburg
Castle, Nuremberg's
famous landmark, rises above the medieval old quarter which is encircled by a f
town wall with a total of 80 towers. It sits on a sandstone ridge on the northern
edge of the old town and, until the 16th century, was the setting for many
imperial diets and the occasional residence of German kaisers and kings.
When
this city celebrated its 900th birthday in 1950, the damages left from World
War II were still fresh. Nuremberg
was once a masterpiece of medieval architecture, but that legacy was lost in
the ashes of war. With the exception of Dresden,
no other German city suffered such devastation in a single air raid. On the
night of January 2, 1945,
British Lancaster bombers rained fire and destruction on this city, the
ideological center of the Third Reich.
Deutschland uber Alles
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