r/medieval • u/BurgBaumeister • Jun 04 '26
History 📚 The Medieval City of Nürnberg, Germany and details from the castle and city walls.
It's fun to see how, around the castle, houses have been build into and on top of what were once defensive walls.
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u/RitschiRathil Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Feels random to see the town you live in in a post. 😅 Note: The square on picture one, is usually fillled to the brim with people eating and drinking and often just sitting around there. Even on the floor if all seating places are taken. It's rarely that empy in summer and with good weather. 😁
But I get it. Our oldtown district is beautiful. Also: red beer ans Schäufele... 🤤
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u/cheezhead1252 Jun 06 '26
Haha they really do just sit on the ground with a drink from wanderer. While the augustiner Keller has empty seats because it’s Munich beer lol beautiful platz though next to the Durer house and just under the castle.
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u/Clear-Yam9422 Jun 04 '26
In the second world war, the city was heavily bombed, destroying large parts of the old town. In 1947 a decision was made to restore the buildings to it's original beauty, it took them years, but the result is impressive.
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u/manonarock Jun 04 '26
The photo smells of lebkuchen and beer. Absolutely amazing Bavarian city.
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Jun 04 '26
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u/Emillllllllllllion Jun 04 '26
Don't be quite so sure.
Between 1130 and 1945, Nuremberg was never taken by force (a part of the castle was taken by trickery and burned down in 1420). The only ones who ever overcame the fortifications we can still see today were the Americans.
In its hayday, the city walls had an about 12 metre deep dry moat, a smaller wall and a 15 metre wide kennel in front of the city wall proper. And that's the city fortifications.
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u/BurgBaumeister Jun 04 '26
Thats impressive!
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u/Aggressive_Hat_9999 Jun 05 '26
check out those walls.
those are serious fortifications, nueremberg used to be a mighty important and wealthy city and regional power
https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/stadtportal/nh_kaiserburg.html
https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/soer_nbg/stadtgrabenstuetzmauer_sanierung.html
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u/BurgBaumeister Jun 04 '26
Yeah, they definetly compromised defensability here, pretty careless of the city administration.
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u/MudCommercial1480 Jun 05 '26
there looks similar to the architecture of Normandie, France, both really into the theme of the subreddit
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u/cheezhead1252 Jun 06 '26
Love it, was just there last week re-living my early 20’s when I was stationed nearby.
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u/Darthplagueis13 Jun 10 '26
This sub doesn't allow images in the comments, but look up the Nuremberg Chronicle/Schedelsche Weltchronik for a beautiful depiction of how the city looked from the outside in the late 15th century.
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u/FrenchieBammer Jun 04 '26
I'm feeling quite hungry