Nuremberg - Places to see

 

 

DB Railway Museum

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A 19th century coal wagon from Newcastle in England
A mobile device that checked the width of the tracks
Model of 20th century steam engine
A portrait of the first railway journey in 1835 between Nuremberg & Fürth
Another group of posters from the 1920's
The oldest preserved German railroad vehicle. Wagon No. 8, which ran on Germany's first railroad line between Nuremberg and Fürth in 1835.
Models of futuristic railway engines of the 1930's
The onset of the 1930's
Advertising travel to the mountains
Bismarck wagon
The salon car from the court train of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
The terrace car from the court train of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
The divide between East & West
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The miniature train room, DB Museum, 2024
DB Railway Museum

St Sebald

Commemorative board of those who were killed from the parish in WWI
Looking towards the main altar area of St.Sebaldus
The St.Sebaldus Shrine, completed in 1517 which contains the remains of St Sebaldus
The main organ in the church built in 1975
The altarpiece on St. Peter's Altar from 1477
Volckamer epitaph. Veit Stoss' depiction of the Last Supper & the Captivity to the left & right. The centre of the stone relief is Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Fragment of the mural Paul before the Jews from around 1380 discovered during retoration work in 1905.
The Crucifixion group which date back to the early 1500's
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Volckamer epitaph, St Sebald, 2024
st Sebald

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Wilhelm I of Wolffstein
Veit Stoss antler chandelier 1522
Sleigh 1683 Munich celebrates defeat of Turk
Middle Ages room
The Scorn, Georg Baumgarten 1923
Modernist room within the museum
Section of the display of former street names in East Germany
Medieval shield
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Medieval armour, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2024
Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Documentation Centre, Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Nuremberg emergency money 1923
Exhibit within the documentation centre
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A radio from the period of the 1930's. The Nazi Party mass produced these so as to widen the reach of their propaganda
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The Nazi Party Rally Grounds complex
Mass produced Hitler bust
Hitler memorabilia
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Tickets to party rallies held in Nuremberg
Programs from party rallies
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Game based on getting Jews out of Nuremberg
Holocaust exhibit
Documentation Centre, Nuremberg, 2015
Documentation Centre

Courtroom 600 - Nuremberg Trials

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Courtroom 600, site of the Nuremberg Trials, 20115
Courtroom 600

Imperial Castle of Nuremberg

View of the Castle from the city
Looking up at the Castle
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View from the Imperial Castle, 2024
Imperial Castle

Jewish Museum of Franconia in Fürth

The passage that leads to the Mikveh (total immersion pool)
The Mikveh which still has water in it
Spaces of Memory 1632-1932 found in 1998
The original coffered ceiling & flexible roof of the historic sukkah where Jewish families once celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles
A travel case that symbolised the exodus from the area due to political and other forces in the early part of the 20th century
Simon Ochs from Furth owner NY Times
Torah Crown
Torah 1900/20
Part of the Torah shrine erected 1718
A letter to his son from a WWI veteran from Nuremberg. He served with the Austrian army, survived a Siberian POW camp escaping and wasn't recognised as a citizen by the Bavarian govt. in 1930 despite his service.
"Every exile leads to perdition", a mural found in a camp post-WWII
Jewish Museum Fürth