Nuremberg in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Nuremberg covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Nuremberg rewards a detour.

The Nuremberg route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 1.2 km as the crow flies, from St. Lorenz Church to Spielzeugmuseum (Toy Museum). ≈ 1.2 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. St. Lorenz Church: St. Lorenz is a large, twin-towered Gothic church on the Pegnitz's southern bank, holding Veit Stoss's suspended Angelic Salutation and Adam Kraft's towering carved stone Sacrament House. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Old Town and City Walls: Nuremberg's old town sits inside a roughly five-kilometre ring of medieval wall, towers and dry moat, straddling the Pegnitz river and carefully rebuilt after wartime bombing. 0.2 km to the next stop
3. Hauptmarkt with the Schöner Brunnen and Frauenkirche: Nuremberg's main market square holds the pinnacled Schöner Brunnen and faces the Frauenkirche, whose 1509 Männleinlaufen clock stirs at noon. The square was laid out after the 1349 pogrom. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. St. Sebald Church: St. Sebald is one of Nuremberg's oldest churches, a Gothic Lutheran landmark near the town hall, holding Peter Vischer's bronze shrine of the city's patron saint. 0.3 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Nuremberg Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg): The Kaiserburg crowns a sandstone ridge above the Altstadt. Long tied to the Holy Roman emperors, it pairs the round Sinwell Tower with a startlingly deep well. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Albrecht Dürer's House: This tall half-timbered house by the Tiergärtnertor was Albrecht Dürer's home from 1509 until his death in 1528, and has been a museum since 1871. 0.3 km to the next stop
3. Spielzeugmuseum (Toy Museum): Nuremberg's municipal Toy Museum, opened in 1971 in a patrician house on Karlstrasse, tracing the city's toy-making tradition from historic wooden and tin toys to modern favourites such as Playmobil.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 7 km as the crow flies, from Henkersteg (Executioner's Bridge) to Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Reichsparteitagsgelände) and Documentation Center. ≈ 7 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Henkersteg (Executioner's Bridge): The covered wooden Henkersteg, or Executioner's Bridge, crosses the Pegnitz beside the timber-framed Weinstadel and the Wasserturm, named for the executioner who once lived nearby. 1.8 km to the next stop
2. Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse (Nuremberg Trials): A museum and memorial in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, centred on Courtroom 600, where the International Military Tribunal tried leading figures of Nazi Germany in 1945 and 1946. 2.1 km to the next stop
3. Way of Human Rights (Straße der Menschenrechte): Dani Karavan's 1993 avenue beside the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, its concrete pillars inscribed with articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a counterpoint to the city's Nazi past. 0 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Germanisches Nationalmuseum: Germany's largest museum of cultural history, in the southern old town, home to the Behaim Globe of 1492 to 1494 and collections running from prehistory to the present day. 0.4 km to the next stop
2. Handwerkerhof (Craftsmen's Courtyard): A cluster of half-timbered craft workshops and eateries by the Koenigstor, opened in 1971 as a tourist re-creation rather than original medieval fabric, ringed by genuine city fortifications. 2.7 km to the next stop
3. Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Reichsparteitagsgelände) and Documentation Center: The former Nazi Party Rally Grounds by the Dutzendteich lake, site of the 1933 to 1938 rallies, with the unfinished Congress Hall and a Documentation Center opened in 2001.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: September 28, 2026

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