Guided Walking Tour Nuremberg Old Town
Approximate Time: 10.30 – 12.30
Nuremberg was once an imperial residence, a powerful free city and international trading centre. The prosperous city provided the ideal basis for an active cultural and intellectual life, as well as the arts: even today, numerous buildings, monuments and artworks still reflect Nuremberg’s true historical importance. The guided walking tour through the Old Town offers insights on the churches, the castle, the fountains and wells, as well as the city itself, past and present.
Please note this walking tour involves protracted steep hills.
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The guided walking tour meeting point will be in the Old Town at the Karl August Hotel. The tour ends in the Old Town with the rest of the day at leisure.
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Price: £15.00 per person
The Imperial Castle
Explore Independently At Leisure
The Imperial Castle is a stone testimony to the medieval power of the emperors and kings who resided here. At leisure, explore the building and cultural history of the mighty city wall and the extensive castle complex with its towers, battlements and expansive bastions. In the castle, the imperial rooms in the Palas, the double chapel from the Romantic period, the deep well and the Sinwell Tower, can all be viewed.
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The castle is not accessible by coach and is a 10-minute walk from the Karl August Hotel in the Old Town. Please note there is a steep protracted incline up to the castle.
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Price: £8.00 per person
Coach Transfers To The Old Town - Park Plaza & Intercity Hotels
There will be a morning complimentary coach pick-up from the Park Plaza and Intercity Hotels dropping at the Karl August Hotel in the Old Town for 10.15, as well as a late afternoon complimentary coach back to the Park Plaza and Intercity Hotels at approximately 15:30, for those that would prefer not to walk to and from the Old Town.
The Deutsche Bahn Museum
Approximate Time: 11.00/11.30-15.30
One hour ‘history of the German Railway’ guided tour
with at least three hours free time.
Discover the whole world of railways at the oldest railway museum in the world. With over 150 historical railway vehicles, visitors can walk through 6,800 square metres of railway history. Starting at the world's first railway from England and Germany's first steam engine – the "Adler", you will be taken through to the modern ICE, displaying the country’s railway ingenuity over the last 200 years.
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Follow the history of German rail through beautifully restored machinery, carriages, artifacts and multimedia displays. The museum is also home to the oldest steam loco in Germany, the Nordgau.
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Experience over 2,000 models of all sizes showcasing the world of railways in the ‘Modellarium’, from 1:5 scale historical vehicles to a match-sized locomotive in miniature 1:700 format. The 60 models in 1:10 scale are considered one of the most important collections of railway models in this scale, in the world.
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Enjoy real rail operations in miniature in 1:87 scale covering 80 m2 of model railway magic and a unique use of relay technology (5000 relays). Specially trained traffic controllers manage up to 30 trains across the layout, demonstrating realistic train movements and shunting operations using an original signalling control panel. More interactive exhibits include a walk-through tunnel, a vintage train platform and level crossing with operating signals.
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Passengers can walk independently to the Deutsche Bahn Museum or alternatively, we will be offering a complimentary coach pick-up and drop back, to all hotels.
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Price: £14.00 per person
The Nazi Party Rally Grounds
& Memorium Nuremberg Trials Courtroom 600
Two Options – Full Day Tour 09.00 – 17.00 or Half Day Tour 09.00 – 13.30
This tour incorporates three significant venues. Firstly, The Documentation Centre which is located in the north wing of the Congress Hall - the biggest preserved National Socialist monumental building designed by the Nazis to hold 50 000 people but never completed.
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The Centre is undergoing major remodelling that will still be ongoing in May 2025, so we will be visiting their Interim Exhibition for a one hour guided tour, focussing on the space and content of the Rally Grounds. A large-format media installation will take us on a trip through time from 1918 where four time periods grouped around the installation will illustrate events at the Rally Grounds. For the first time, national history will be retold from a local perspective. Selected objects, documents, films & photos, all creating a montage picture of the past, whilst biographies and eyewitness reports will add personal vantage points.
The second part of the tour will be a two hour guided tour of The Nazi Party Rally Grounds, once the stage for some of Adolf Hitler's most infamous and dangerous speeches during the rise of the Third Reich. The tour of this expansive area explains the uses of megalomaniac architecture as a theatrical backdrop to large-scale propaganda ceremonies and the most important remains of National Socialist construction in Germany. It will also address how Nuremberg has dealt with its National Socialist legacy under the rule of Adolf Hitler.
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The tour includes Zeppelinfeld - The massive grandstand that formed the most iconic backdrop of the Nazi rallies. Its central hall was topped with a huge gilded swastika, where the dictator would assume his authoritarian poses. On April 22, 1945, the U.S. Army held its victory parade in front of the main grandstand. After the parade, the swastika was blown up - a signal to the world that National Socialism was at an end.
We will then take a break for a leisurely lunch at Gutmann’s restaurant (lunch is not included in the price of the tour), where we have a pre-reservation.
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Gutmann’s is beautifully situated a six-minute walk from the rally grounds, on the edge of Lake Dutzendteich, offering authentic German food and legendary cold beer!
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After lunch we will head by coach on the just over 20 minute journey to the Palace of Justice where the Major War Criminals Trials were held before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.
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As a result of these trials, Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice gained worldwide notoriety. From 1946 to 1949, 12 "Subsequent Trials" were held in the same courtroom before exclusively American military tribunals. Defendants included some of the most famous Nazis; Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel.
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A one hour thirty minutes tour including Courtroom 600 explains the Nuremberg Trials and concludes by outlining the progression from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Two Options – Full Day Tour & Half Day Tour
We are offering Two Options on this trip – a full day to experience the entire tour and a half day for anyone that would like to also have the afternoon to explore Nuremberg.
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Approximate Timings FULL DAY Tour:
Coach pick-ups from all hotels between 09.10 – 09.30.
Documentation Centre Guided Tour 10.00 – 11.00.
Nazi Party Rally Ground Guided Tour 11.00 – 13.00.
Leisurely lunch Gutmann’s Restaurant 13.15 – 14.30.
Coach transfer Palace of Justice & guided tour including Courtroom 600 15.00 – 16.30.
Transfer back to hotels by 17.00.
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Price FULL DAY TOUR: £65.00 per person
Approximate Timings HALF DAY Tour:
Coach pick-ups from all hotels between 09.10 – 09.30.
Documentation Centre Guided Tour 10.00 – 11.00.
Nazi Party Rally Ground Guided Tour 11.00 – 13.00.
Coach Transfer dropping back at hotels or Nuremberg Old Town by 13.30.
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Price HALF DAY TOUR: £45.00 per person