Church · Bavaria
St. Lorenz (Nuremberg)
St. Lorenz is the Gothic Lutheran parish church on Lorenzer Platz in Nuremberg, begun around 1250, with a hall choir built from 1439.
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Germany•City
Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a city in Bavaria's Middle Franconia region; the Bavarian Palace Department's history of the Imperial Castle says it was first documented as a royal estate in 1050 and that its development into an independent imperial city was consolidated with the end of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in 1254.
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Germany
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City
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Museum · Bavaria
Albrecht Dürer's House
Albrecht Dürer's House is the half-timbered house in Nuremberg where Albrecht Dürer lived and worked from 1509 until 1528, run as a museum by the Nuremberg Municipal Museums.
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Fortress · Bavaria
Nuremberg Castle
Nuremberg Castle is the medieval castle complex on the castle rock in Nuremberg, whose Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg) is run by the Bavarian Palace Department as a museum site.
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Museum · Bavaria
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is a museum of art and cultural history founded in 1852, whose buildings on Kartäusergasse include the former Carthusian monastery.
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Museum · Bavaria
Memorium Nuremberg Trials
The Memorium Nuremberg Trials is an information and documentation centre of the Nuremberg Municipal Museums on the top floor of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, with Courtroom 600, where the International Military Tribunal sat in 1945 and 1946.
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Museum · Bavaria
Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
The Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds is the Nuremberg Municipal Museums' documentation centre on the Nazi Party rallies, in the northern wing of the unfinished Congress Hall on the former rally grounds in south-east Nuremberg.
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Travel Guide01
Nuremberg's Documentation Center and the Memorium Nuremberg Trials: what each documents and how they are visited
Nuremberg's two municipal sites on the Nazi era document different things: the Documentation Center on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds tells how the rallies were staged and what the grounds became, and the Memorium in the Palace of Justice documents the trials held there after the war. This guide sets out each in the museums' own words, with the visiting rules their pages stated on 9 October 2026.
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Travel Guide02
Nuremberg's Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg): what each part is and which ticket covers it
The Kaiserburg above Nuremberg's old town is visited in four ticketed parts: the Palas with its double chapel, the Imperial Castle Museum, the Deep Well and the Sinwell Tower. This guide explains what each part is, which of the Bavarian Palace Administration's tickets covers it, and where its own pages disagree, as read on 9 October 2026.
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Travel Guide01
Christmas markets in Nuremberg, Dresden and Cologne: how they differ and who announces the dates
Nuremberg's Christkindlesmarkt and Dresden's Striezelmarkt each centre on one square and publish their dates on one official site; Cologne has several markets run by different companies, which open on different days. This guide compares the three as their organisers' pages described them on 9 October 2026, including where those pages disagree about which market is oldest.
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Travel Guide02
German food guide: what PDO and PGI names protect, from Lebkuchen to Kölsch
The EU register lists 98 German food and drink names as protected designations of origin or protected geographical indications, from Nürnberger Lebkuchen and Dresdner Christstollen to Münchener Bier and Kölsch. This guide reads the register's own files to say what each label ties to a place, and where XTOUR could not read the file.
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Travel Guide03
Dom, Münster, Schloss, Burg, Residenz: German heritage words on signs and tickets
A Dom is not always a cathedral, a Münster sometimes is, and the same German building can be filed as both a Schloss and a Burg by the body that runs it. This explainer defines each word through the pages of the buildings that carry it, from Freiburg Minster and Cologne Cathedral to Heidelberg Castle and the Munich Residenz.
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Travel Guide04
Germany travel guide: choosing your cities and bases
XTOUR's Germany coverage is built around twelve cities and towns, from Berlin and Potsdam to Munich, Füssen, Dresden, Cologne, Nuremberg, Heidelberg and the Hanseatic north. This guide sets out what each base is for on XTOUR, which sights reached from a base are not in it, and which country-wide guides apply wherever you stay.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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- GuideNuremberg's Documentation Center and the Memorium Nuremberg Trials: what each documents and how they are visitedAbout Nuremberg
- GuideNuremberg's Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg): what each part is and which ticket covers itAbout Nuremberg
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