Skip to content
Gowalko
Get the app
Nuremberg Sacred Places Walk

Nuremberg Sacred Places Walk

Nuremberg · Germany

8 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Nuremberg with a focus on sacred places, from the 5th Station of the Nürnberger Kreuzweg to historic churches and the Johannisfriedhof attraction. Along the way, pause at wayside shrines to see how devotional markers punctuate the route. Enter the presence of churches including Holzschuherkapelle, St. Elisabeth, St. Jakob, St. Egidien and Reformations-Gedächtnis-Kirche. This is a reflective walk for noticing the range of places connected with worship and remembrance.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 8. The rest are in the app.

  1. Fifth Station of the Nuremberg Way of the Cross by Adam Kraft

    Fifth Station of the Nuremberg Way of the Cross by Adam Kraft

    A four-metre sandstone Passion shrine, and one surviving station in Adam Kraft’s Nuremberg way of the cross.

  2. Holzschuher Chapel

    Holzschuher Chapel

    A sixteenth-century Nuremberg chapel whose identity is tied to both worship and a historic tomb.

  3. St. John's Cemetery

    St. John's Cemetery

    A living cemetery where five centuries of Nuremberg’s people remain visible in bronze and stone.

  4. 2 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. 4th Station of the Nuremberg Way of the Cross by Adam Kraft

    4th Station of the Nuremberg Way of the Cross by Adam Kraft

    A sandstone station by Adam Kraft, carrying the story of Veronica in its own old inscription.

  6. St. Elisabeth, Nuremberg

    St. Elisabeth, Nuremberg

    A Catholic church built across 118 years, where unfinished plans became classical architecture.

  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. 2 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

More walks in Nuremberg

8 walks
Featured14 stopsNuremberg · Germany

Nuremberg Historic Core and Cultural Heritage Walk

3 stopsNuremberg · Germany

Nuremberg Gardens and Open-Air Walk

10 stopsNuremberg · Germany

Nuremberg History and Monuments Walk

How a walk works

2 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 8 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.