EG-Foyer – Medienguide Fembohaus

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Dear visitors,

welcome to the Municipal Museum in the Fembo-Haus! Here, you can discover nearly thousand years of Nuremberg's history spread out over four floors.

Right now, you are standing in the vestibule. The Fembo-Haus is the only large merchant residence of the Late Renaissance Era to have survived the destruction wrought by the air raids of World War II. Around the year 1600, Phillip van Oyrl, a Dutch merchant, built this residence on the site of an earlier structure. The house underwent major remodelling some 70 years later, during the Baroque era. The vestibule on the second floor and the so-called ballroom on the third floor are a testimony to this activity. The name Fembo-Haus refers to the publisher and cartographer Georg Christoph Franz Fembo, who bought the house at the beginning of the 19th century. The building has been home to the municipal museum since 1953.

Our tour through the history of Nuremberg begins on the fourth floor. You can use the stairs or the elevator to get to the first station, the room titled “Nuremberg. Images of a City”.

CITY MUSEUM AT FEMBO-HAUS
MEDIA GUIDE

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The Laufer Schlagturm, one of the few remaining towers of the penultimate city fortifications from the 13th century.

The Tucher Castle in Hirschelgasse, the former summer residence of the Tucher patrician family from the 16th century.

The Toplerhaus on Paniersplatz before its complete destruction, representative town house of the Topler patrician family from the late 16th century.

The Pellerhaus on Egidienplatz, originally a representative residential and commercial building in the Renaissance style, which was converted into a new building after 1945.

The Church of St. Egidien on Egidienplatz, the only baroque church building in Nuremberg from the early 18th century.

The Laufertorturm, one of the four main towers of the last medieval city fortifications.

The Tiergärtnertorturm, one of the four main towers of the last medieval city fortifications.

The Albrecht Dürer House on Albrecht Dürer Street, half-timbered building and former home of the important German artist from the 15th century.

Nuremberg Castle, the residence of the traveling kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire since the Middle Ages and the city's landmark.

The Fembo House on Burgstrasse, the only surviving merchant's house from the late Renaissance.

The Sebalduskirche on Winklerstrasse, the oldest parish church in the city and burial place of the local saint Sebald.

The Moritz Chapel at the Schürstabhaus before its destruction, small late medieval town church with a popular restaurant “Bratwurstglöcklein”.

The Schürstabhaus on Albrecht-Dürer-Platz, residence of the patrician Schürstab family from the Gothic period.

The town hall on the main market, an important Renaissance building by the architect Jakob Wolff the Elder. J. and seat of the Nuremberg Council in imperial city times.

The Fronveste with Schlayerturm, river bridge of the last city fortifications on the Pegnitz outflow, which was used as a weapons depot and prison.

Weißgerbergasse, the craftsmen's quarter of Nuremberg's white tanners, before the uncovering of the medieval half-timbered facades.

The Weinstadel at Maxplatz, the imperial city's wine warehouse and one of the largest half-timbered buildings in Germany.

The executioner's house with executioner's footbridge at the flea market. Ensemble of the penultimate city fortifications from the 13th century and later residence of the Nuremberg executioner.

The Unschlitthaus on Obere Wörthstrasse, a large imperial city granary to supply the city's population and the seat of the Unschlittamt (office for further processing of beef tallow).

The Frauenkirche on the Hauptmarkt, built in the middle of the 14th century on the instructions of its founder, Emperor Charles IV, in the former Jewish quarter.

The main market, since the Lorenz and Sebald halves were connected in the late Middle Ages, has been the center of the old town and market square in the former Jewish quarter.

The Fleischbrücke, an important bridge structure of the German Renaissance and a central traffic junction in imperial city times.

The Holy Spirit Hospital in Spitalgasse, the largest social institution and most important civic foundation of the Middle Ages.

The main synagogue on Hans-Sachs-Platz before its demolition in 1938, a monumental symbol of liberal-bourgeois Judaism in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The debt tower on the Vordere Insel Schütt, one of the few remaining towers of the penultimate city fortifications from the 13th century.

The Katharinenkirche at Katharinenkloster 6, before its destruction, former monastery church of the Dominican Sisters from the 13th century and seat of the Academy of Fine Arts in imperial city times.

The Nassauer Haus on Karolinenstrasse, the only surviving medieval residential tower.

The Lorenzkirche on Lorenzer Platz, one of the two large parish churches in the medieval city and a landmark of Nuremberg.

The Church of St. Jakob on Jakobsplatz, a Gothic church building from the 13th century and a stop for pilgrims on the Franconian Way of St. James.

The toll hall at Hallplatz, a large imperial city granary to supply the city's population and the seat of the city's customs office.

The Klarakirche on Königstrasse, former church of the Poor Clares monastery in Romanesque and early Gothic style.

The Frauentorturm, one of the four main towers of the last medieval city fortifications.