page_title: Nuremberg
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Nuremberg / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: English: Nuremberg as seen from the castle, from north
context_page_description: Nuremberg is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in Middle Franconia. It is on the river Pegnitz and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city. It is about 170 kilometres north of Munich, at 49.27° N 11.5° E. As of June 2017, there were 530,771 people.
context_section_description: The southern part of the old town, known as Lorenzer Seite, is separated from the north by the river Pegnitz and surrounded by the city walls on the south.
  Nuremberg Castle: the three castles that tower over the city including central burgraves' castle, with Free Reich's buildings to the east, the Imperial castle to the west.
  Heilig-Geist-Spital. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in the centre of the city was founded in 1332. It was one of the largest hospitals of the Middle Ages. Now it houses an old-folks' home and restaurant.
  Hauptmarkt, which provides a picturesque setting and famous market for gingerbread. Nuremberg's star attraction is the Gothic Schöner Brunnen (Beautiful Fountain) which was built around 1385. Now it is a copy, the original fountain is kept in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the German National Museum.
  The Johannisfriedhof is a medieval cemetery, containing many old graves (Albrecht Dürer, Willibald Pirckheimer, and others). The Rochusfriedhof or the Wöhrder Kirchhof are near the Old Town.
  There is also a medieval market just inside the city walls, selling handcrafted goods.
  The German National Railways Museum (in German) is also in Nuremberg.
  The Nuremberg Ring (now welded within an iron fence) is said to bring good luck to those that touch it.
caption: Nuremberg in winter
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