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Roots Earth in Nuremberg: audio stories about 44 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 44 places in Nuremberg, Germany, in Europe. The Nuremberg stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Nuremberg, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 44 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: nuremberg.md

The 44 places in Nuremberg with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Nuremberg Castle (Kaiserburg)
  2. Hauptmarkt and Christkindlesmarkt
  3. St. Lorenz Church
  4. Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)
  5. St. Sebaldus Church
  6. Schöner Brunnen (Beautiful Fountain)
  7. Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  8. Albrecht Dürer's House
  9. Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Zeppelinfeld)
  10. Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds
  11. Palace of Justice (Nuremberg Trials Courthouse)
  12. Memorium Nuremberg Trials
  13. City Walls of Nuremberg
  14. Nuremberg City Hall (Altes Rathaus)
  15. Heilig-Geist-Spital (Holy Spirit Hospital)
  16. DB Museum (Nuremberg Transport Museum)
  17. Nuremberg Toy Museum
  18. Neues Museum Nürnberg
  19. Way of Human Rights
  20. Nassauer Haus
  21. Fleisch Bridge (Fleischbrücke)
  22. Historischer Kunstbunker (Historic Art Bunker)
  23. St. Egidien Church
  24. St. Elizabeth Church
  25. St. Martha Church
  26. St. Jakob Church
  27. Nuremberg Zoo (Tiergarten)
  28. Pellerhaus
  29. Staatstheater Nürnberg (Opera House)
  30. Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  31. Gostenhof (GoHo) Quarter
  32. St. Rochus Cemetery
  33. Volkspark Dutzendteich
  34. Max-Morlock-Stadion
  35. Norisring Street Circuit
  36. Meistersingerhalle
  37. Tucher Brewery
  38. Plärrer Square and Station
  39. Nuremberg Central Station (Hauptbahnhof)
  40. Business Tower Nürnberg
  41. Technische Hochschule Nürnberg (Ohm Campus)
  42. Schmausenbuck Hill and Lookout
  43. Messezentrum Nuremberg (Trade Fair)
  44. PSD Bank Nürnberg Arena

Is there an audio guide for Nuremberg Castle (Kaiserburg)?

Yes. Nuremberg Castle (Kaiserburg) has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 44 Nuremberg places in the app, at 49.45778, 11.07583. Every one of the other 43 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Nuremberg

Open Roots Earth and choose Nuremberg. The city has its own map of places with all 44 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 44 places in Nuremberg, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 44 places in Nuremberg, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Nuremberg Castle (Kaiserburg)

Coordinates
49.45778, 11.07583
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A vast medieval fortress crowning a sandstone ridge above Nuremberg, dating from around the year 1000. For centuries every Holy Roman Emperor was expected to hold court here, making it one of Germany's most important imperial residences.

2. Hauptmarkt and Christkindlesmarkt

Coordinates
49.45389, 11.07722
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Nuremberg's central market square, laid out after 1349, and home each Advent to the Christkindlesmarkt, one of Germany's oldest and most famous Christmas markets. Its red-and-white striped stalls draw around two million visitors a year.

3. St. Lorenz Church

Coordinates
49.451, 11.07806
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A towering Gothic church begun around 1250, its twin spires rising over the southern old town. One of the first major German churches to turn Lutheran, in 1525, it keeps masterworks by Veit Stoss and Adam Kraft.

4. Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)

Coordinates
49.454, 11.078
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A Gothic hall church on the Hauptmarkt, built between 1352 and 1361 for Emperor Charles the Fourth. Its famous Männleinlaufen clock springs to life at noon, when the seven prince-electors circle the figure of the emperor.

5. St. Sebaldus Church

Coordinates
49.45528, 11.07639
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Nuremberg's oldest parish church, begun around 1225, blending Romanesque and Gothic. It holds the bronze shrine of the city's patron saint, cast by the Vischer workshop and completed in 1519, and was rebuilt after wartime destruction by 1957.

6. Schöner Brunnen (Beautiful Fountain)

Coordinates
49.45423, 11.07706
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A Gothic fountain on the Hauptmarkt, built between 1385 and 1396 and shaped like a slender church spire around 19 meters tall. Its four tiers carry roughly 40 painted figures, and a golden ring in the railing grants wishes.

7. Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Coordinates
49.44833, 11.07556
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Germany's largest museum of cultural history, founded in 1852 and built partly around a former Carthusian monastery. Its 1. 3 million objects include works by Albrecht Dürer and the Behaim globe, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe.

8. Albrecht Dürer's House

Coordinates
49.45722, 11.07389
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A rare surviving 15th-century artist's home below the castle, where Albrecht Dürer lived and worked from 1509 until 1528. A museum since 1871, it preserves period rooms, a re-created workshop, and a working printing press.

9. Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Zeppelinfeld)

Coordinates
49.42389, 11.11806
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The vast site southeast of the old town where the Nazi Party staged its annual rallies from 1933 to 1938. Albert Speer designed the Zeppelinfeld grandstand, modeled on an ancient altar; it survives, stripped and weathered, as a sobering relic.

10. Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Coordinates
49.43389, 11.11278
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A museum set inside the unfinished Congress Hall on the former rally grounds, its permanent exhibition tracing the causes and crimes of National Socialism. A glass-and-steel walkway by Günther Domenig drives like a spear through the colossal brick shell.

11. Palace of Justice (Nuremberg Trials Courthouse)

Coordinates
49.45434, 11.04851
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The courthouse on Fürther Strasse, built between 1909 and 1916, whose Courtroom 600 hosted the International Military Tribunal of 1945 and 1946. Here the major surviving Nazi leaders faced the world's first international war-crimes trial.

12. Memorium Nuremberg Trials

Coordinates
49.4552, 11.0479
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The memorial museum in the Palace of Justice, opened in 2010, that documents the Nuremberg Trials and their legacy in international criminal law. Since 2020 it includes Courtroom 600 itself, the room where the tribunal sat.

13. City Walls of Nuremberg

Coordinates
49.4577, 11.0883
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A nearly complete medieval ring encircling the old town, around 5 kilometres long with some 4 still standing. Built up from the 13th century and finished by 1400, with a dry moat and dozens of towers, it ranks among Europe's best-preserved fortifications.

14. Nuremberg City Hall (Altes Rathaus)

Coordinates
49.45519, 11.07756
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The old town hall opposite Saint Sebald's church, joining a 14th-century Gothic great hall to a grand Renaissance wing built between 1616 and 1622. Its great hall once held murals designed by Albrecht Dürer, and medieval dungeons survive in the cellars.

15. Heilig-Geist-Spital (Holy Spirit Hospital)

Coordinates
49.45278, 11.07917
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A medieval hospital founded in 1339 by Konrad Gross, its half-timbered wings striding straight across the Pegnitz on stone arches. Once Nuremberg's largest charitable house, it guarded the empire's crown jewels for centuries and remains one of the city's most photographed sights.

16. DB Museum (Nuremberg Transport Museum)

Coordinates
49.44556, 11.07444
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Germany's oldest railway museum, with roots reaching back to 1882. Run today by Deutsche Bahn, it traces national rail history from the first Nuremberg to Fürth line of 1835 through royal trains and steam giants to the modern high-speed ICE.

17. Nuremberg Toy Museum

Coordinates
49.45472, 11.07444
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Opened in 1971 around the Bayer family's vast private collection, this museum near the Hauptmarkt celebrates Nuremberg's centuries-old reputation as a toy-making city. Four floors trace play from carved wood and painted tin to dollhouses, model railways, Lego and Playmobil.

18. Neues Museum Nürnberg

Coordinates
49.44778, 11.08
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Nuremberg's state museum for contemporary art and design, opened in 2000 in a sleek building by architect Volker Staab. Its sweeping glass facade and spiral staircase frame around three thousand square metres of art and design from the 1950s to today.

19. Way of Human Rights

Coordinates
49.44806, 11.075
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An open-air monument by Israeli artist Dani Karavan, inaugurated in 1993 beside the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Twenty-seven white concrete pillars, an oak tree and a gateway each carry an article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in German and another language.

20. Nassauer Haus

Coordinates
49.45111, 11.07773
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A fortified medieval tower-house facing the Lorenzkirche, its lower floors dating to the 13th century and its upper storeys completed in the 1430s. Crowned with corner turrets, it is the last surviving residential tower of its kind in Nuremberg.

21. Fleisch Bridge (Fleischbrücke)

Coordinates
49.453, 11.077
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A single-arch stone bridge over the Pegnitz, built between 1596 and 1598. Its remarkably flat segmental arch spans twenty-seven metres, the largest masonry bridge arch in Germany of its day, an early engineering feat that has carried Nuremberg's heart for over four centuries.

22. Historischer Kunstbunker (Historic Art Bunker)

Coordinates
49.4567, 11.0754
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A network of climate-controlled cellars carved into the sandstone beneath Nuremberg Castle, used during the Second World War to shelter the city's greatest treasures, including works by Veit Stoss and Albrecht Dürer, from Allied bombing.

23. St. Egidien Church

Coordinates
49.4566, 11.0815
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The only Baroque church in Nuremberg's old town, rebuilt between 1711 and 1718 after a fire destroyed the medieval Benedictine abbey on the site. Three older Gothic and Romanesque chapels survive alongside the grand 18th-century hall.

24. St. Elizabeth Church

Coordinates
49.44944, 11.06972
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A grand domed Catholic church begun in 1785 and left unfinished for nearly a century before its completion in 1903. For generations it was the only Roman Catholic church in staunchly Protestant Nuremberg.

25. St. Martha Church

Coordinates
49.44861, 11.08083
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A small medieval church consecrated in 1385, famous for its medieval stained glass and as the meeting place of Nuremberg's Meistersingers. Gutted by fire in 2014, it reopened in 2018 with a striking modern interior.

26. St. Jakob Church

Coordinates
49.45, 11.07028
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A Gothic church founded in 1209 by Emperor Otto IV and long held by the Teutonic Order. Home to a fine 14th-century winged altarpiece, it became one of Nuremberg's Protestant parish churches in 1810.

27. Nuremberg Zoo (Tiergarten)

Coordinates
49.4475, 11.14472
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One of Europe's largest zoological gardens, covering about 65 hectares of forest and sandstone rock southeast of the city. Founded in 1912 and relocated here in 1939, it is home to around 300 species and a famous dolphin lagoon.

28. Pellerhaus

Coordinates
49.45695, 11.08096
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A celebrated Renaissance merchant's house built between 1602 and 1605 for Martin Peller. Its ornate facade was destroyed in the war and replaced with a modern one, but its magnificent arcaded courtyard was reconstructed and reopened in 2018.

29. Staatstheater Nürnberg (Opera House)

Coordinates
49.44639, 11.07528
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Nuremberg's grand opera house, opened in 1905 to designs by Heinrich Seeling in an ornate Art Nouveau style. One of Germany's largest theatres, it anchors the Staatstheater Nürnberg, a Bavarian state stage for opera, ballet, drama and concerts.

30. Kunsthalle Nürnberg

Coordinates
49.44992, 11.08247
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Nuremberg's municipal hall for contemporary art, established in 1967. It holds no permanent collection, instead mounting changing exhibitions by international artists and often commissioning entirely new work created for its rooms.

31. Gostenhof (GoHo) Quarter

Coordinates
49.45058, 11.05694
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A working-class quarter just west of the old town, first recorded around 1300 and folded into Nuremberg in 1825. Long multicultural and once nicknamed the city's Bronx, it is now its creative heart, packed with bars, studios and the GoHo nickname borrowed from SoHo.

32. St. Rochus Cemetery

Coordinates
49.4475, 11.06028
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A Renaissance burial ground west of the old town, laid out for plague victims and consecrated in 1519. Its chapel rose in 1520, and the composer Johann Pachelbel and sculptor Peter Vischer the Elder lie among its bronze grave plates.

33. Volkspark Dutzendteich

Coordinates
49.424, 11.111
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A park built around the old Dutzendteich ponds southeast of the city; Volkspark Marienberg is Nuremberg's largest.

34. Max-Morlock-Stadion

Coordinates
49.42611, 11.12583
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Home of the football club 1. FC Nürnberg, this stadium opened in 1928 and now seats around 50,000. Renamed in 2017 for Max Morlock, a 1954 World Cup winner and club legend, it has hosted World Cup matches in 1974 and 2006.

35. Norisring Street Circuit

Coordinates
49.43139, 11.125
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A street racing circuit on the former Nazi rally grounds at the Dutzendteich, where racing began in 1947. Its 2. 3-kilometre lap runs past the old Zeppelin grandstand, now the pits and main stand, and it hosts the German touring car championship each year.

36. Meistersingerhalle

Coordinates
49.43778, 11.10528
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Nuremberg's main concert and congress hall, built between 1960 and 1963 and named after the city's medieval Meistersinger tradition. Its Great Hall seats 2,100 and remains the home stage for the city's orchestras and choirs.

37. Tucher Brewery

Coordinates
49.46472, 11.08389
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A Franconian brewery founded in 1672 and carrying the name of the patrician Tucher family of Nuremberg. Now part of the Radeberger Group, it brews lagers, wheat beers and seasonal specialities at sites in Nuremberg and Fürth.

38. Plärrer Square and Station

Coordinates
49.4481, 11.0649
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A major transport hub on the western edge of Nuremberg's old town, where trams, buses and the U-Bahn meet. The underground station, opened in 1980, is the only one besides the main station to connect all three subway lines.

39. Nuremberg Central Station (Hauptbahnhof)

Coordinates
49.44639, 11.08194
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Franconia's largest railway station, just outside the old city walls. Its grand Neo-Baroque building was rebuilt between 1900 and 1906 by architect Karl Zenger, and today its 22 platforms handle more than 200,000 travellers a day.

40. Business Tower Nürnberg

Coordinates
49.45458, 11.11688
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The tallest building in Nuremberg, a cylindrical glass office tower of 135 metres and 35 floors completed in 2000. Built for the insurer Nürnberger Versicherung, it dominates the city's modern skyline east of the old town.

41. Technische Hochschule Nürnberg (Ohm Campus)

Coordinates
49.4531, 11.0924
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Nuremberg's university of applied sciences, founded in 1971 with roots in an 1823 polytechnic school. Named after physicist Georg Simon Ohm, its Keßlerplatz campus near the city centre teaches more than 12,000 students across engineering, design and business.

42. Schmausenbuck Hill and Lookout

Coordinates
49.45, 11.15
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A wooded hill of around 390 metres in the Reichswald forest east of Nuremberg, long quarried for sandstone. It carries a 29-metre stone lookout tower opened in 1888 and borders the Nuremberg Zoo, which moved to its southern slope in 1939.

43. Messezentrum Nuremberg (Trade Fair)

Coordinates
49.41722, 11.115
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Nuremberg's vast trade-fair complex in the city's southeast, officially opened in January 1973 and run by NürnbergMesse. Its 15 halls and 170,000 square metres host world-renowned events like the International Toy Fair every winter.

44. PSD Bank Nürnberg Arena

Coordinates
49.4275, 11.12306
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A multi-purpose indoor arena in southeast Nuremberg, opened in 2001 beside the trade-fair grounds. Home to the Nürnberg Ice Tigers, it seats up to 11,000 for concerts and hosts handball, basketball, boxing and major touring shows.

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