Nuremberg
— — the old city the river still runs through.
Not only on a wall.
“The second city of Bavaria, set on the Pegnitz in Franconia. A medieval imperial free city: the Kaiserburg on its rock, the Frauenkirche on the market square, Albrecht Durer's house up the hill. The old town was largely rebuilt after 1945 to the original Gothic and Renaissance footprint, with the Christkindlesmarkt opening each Advent in front of the Frauenkirche. About 525,000 residents.
Nuremberg, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Nuremberg (Nurnberg) sits on the Pegnitz River in northern Bavaria, the largest city in Franconia and the second largest in the state after Munich. The population is about 525,000 within city limits and 3.6 million in the wider European Metropolitan Region. First mentioned in 1050, the city served as an unofficial capital of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356 onward, when the Golden Bull required every newly elected emperor to hold his first Imperial Diet here. The old town was approximately 90 percent destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945 and rebuilt over the following decades.
The Altstadt is encircled by roughly 5 kilometres of largely intact sandstone city wall, with four great gate towers and about 80 wall towers still standing. The Kaiserburg, the Imperial Castle, sits on a sandstone outcrop at the north edge of the old town and dates in part to the 12th century. The Frauenkirche on the Hauptmarkt was completed in 1362 and carries the Mannleinlaufen, a mechanical clock from 1509 that performs at noon. The Albrecht-Durer-Haus, the half-timbered home where the painter lived from 1509 until his death in 1528, stands just below the castle.
The Christkindlesmarkt, first documented in 1628, opens on the Friday before the first Advent each year and runs through Christmas Eve on the Hauptmarkt in front of the Frauenkirche. The market draws roughly two million visitors annually and is the model for German Christmas markets worldwide. The Bardentreffen world music festival fills the old town for a long weekend in late July. The Nurnberger Volksfest, the largest fair in Franconia, runs twice yearly in spring and late summer. The Christkind, traditionally a young woman from the city, opens the Christmas market.