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Nuremberg History and Monuments Walk

Nuremberg History and Monuments Walk

Nuremberg · Germany

10 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Nuremberg’s history by visiting a sequence of churches, towers, city walls, a cemetery, and the Justizpalast. You will see how different kinds of monuments mark religious, civic, defensive, and legal chapters of the city’s past. With ten stops, the route is moderate because of its length, so allow time to pause and compare what each place commemorates.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 10. The rest are in the app.

  1. St. Egidien

    St. Egidien

    Nuremberg’s oldest church site, rebuilt as its only Baroque church after fire and war.

  2. Laufer Schlagturm

    Laufer Schlagturm

    A medieval gate tower whose clock once broadcast Nuremberg’s complicated local time.

  3. Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche

    Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche

    A twelve-sided Lutheran church that rebuilt its bells, organ, and identity after wartime destruction.

  4. 4 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Laufer Tor

    Laufer Tor

    A medieval gate that became a round tower, then a wartime bunker

  6. St. Martha's Church

    St. Martha's Church

    A medieval pilgrims’ church whose glass, fires, and changing faith tell Nuremberg’s story.

  7. St. Jakob, Nuremberg

    St. Jakob, Nuremberg

    A Lutheran church with a Catholic military order, a Swedish king, and eight centuries of reversals.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 4 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

4 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 10 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.