Nuremberg

Continuing the road trip, we left Rothenburg early and kept heading North. I was super keen to get to Nuremburg to see some of the history of the place after what it had witnessed in the Nazi years. We only spent an afternoon there but managed to see a few bits and pieces.



Christmas markets were beginning to open and we bought a few different things for the road trip, gluhwine spice, some Lebkuchen and other random munchies. The Germans really know how to do christmas!!


Nuremberg Castle dates back to as early as 1100. It was heavily damaged in the war and rebuilt after 1945. We walked up the hill where it sits, looking back over the city.







The highlight of Nuremberg for me was the Documentation Centre at the Nazi party rally grounds. I had read about a new museum at the Nazi Party rally grounds that looked really interesting, we eventually found it and spent the afternoon there. Fantastic museum, great building, interesting video and audio material, great photos - awesome. Really good insight into the Nazi party machine and the lengths they went to to obtain and maintain power.

Entrance to the Documentation Centre at the Nazi Party Rally grounds

The centre is located in the former congress hall of the Nazi party. The architecture for the new museum was designed as an intervention; a shard, piercing the heart of the old building and representing the death of the Nazism and the rebirth of the building for a different use. The interiors were fantastic as well, including a platform that protruded out of the building and looked out over the old rally ground which was MASSIVE, really excellent building.

Another view of the entrance. The museum was ordered chronologically and finished with a lot of information and footage of the Nuremberg trials in which the remaining Nazi generals and leaders were sentenced. It felt important that this section of the museum was given a lot of weight after some of the confronting images that we had seen earlier at the beginning of the exhibit.


Nuremberg on the water.

A weird statue that was rigjt in the centre of town, quite morbid.

We pushed off around dinner time to make the trip to Dresden, where we would drop off the car and stay for a couple of nights.