Nuremberg

a city in Germany ... where each year the well known Christmas market takes place

it is called „Christkindlesmarkt“

More than 2.3 million visitors , last year 2011 , come to Nuremberg each December

.. this market is a big attraction and Nuremberg is one of the oldest cities in Germany

.. many houses are from the 14th and 15th century and are well preserved and painstainkingly renovated ... it is truely miraculous to walk through the old city of Nuremberg

I took a lot of pictures and will put some of them here... if anybody would like further information, I am happy to help ..

http://www.christkindlesmarkt.de/

Christkindlesmarkt

 

Neat!

one of the famoust booth  .......  tongs punch  ... in German : Feuerzangenbowle

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you will be put on trial for this thread. and the verdict? excellence! more please.

 

hoping some people get that? ;)

 

the Christmas market looks a little more authentic than the ones in Union Square and Bryant Park in New York :| (not that there's anything wrong with them :roll:)

the Christmas market looks a little more authentic than the ones in Union Square and Bryant Park in New York :| (not that there's anything wrong with them :roll:)

 

those are no frankenmuth!!

.. Nürnberger Bratwurst ..

Nürnberger Bratwürste are sausages with an individual weight of 20-25 g and a length of around 8 cm.

The Nürnberger Rostbratwurst is first documented in 1313. This means that the Nürnberger Rostbratwurst can only be produced in the city of Nürnberg.

the Christmas market looks a little more authentic than the ones in Union Square and Bryant Park in New York :|

 

(not that there's anything wrong with them :roll:)

.... all of them need your money  ...  :-)  :-)

.. on this Christkindlesmarket, you can find all sorts of kitsch , you can imagine .....  :clap:

 

 

.. soccer team ...  1. FC Nürnberg  ... is palying in the premier  league > Bundesliga ....

 

 

 

 

That old town was all but flattened during WWII.  What you are seeing are reconstructions.  My ma's childhood memories of this old town was piles of rubble after the war.  The 19th century neighborhoods (say areas of OTR vintage) surrounding the (formerly) historic core were hit, too, but mostly survived

 

My grandmother was born in Nuremberg, in the St Lorenz parish or district in the old town.  My great-granmother lived into her 90s,  but lived just north & east of the castle in one of those 19th century neighborhoods, when I knew her.

 

I've been to Nurnberg a number of times, and have a small collection of Lebkuchen tins and boxes, from the famous Christmas cookie.  The city has or used to have a toy industry, so sort of appropriate for a Christmas market.  They also had some heavy industry, too, like machine tools, etc.  MAN ...Maschinfabrik Augusburg Nurnberg...was a big employer.

I think they even had a foundry or rolling mill...the Luitpoldhutte...

.. on this Christkindlesmarket, you can find all sorts of kitsch , you can imagine .....  :clap:

 

 

 

I need to start calling that kind of stuff "kitsch" rather than "what-nots" again.

historic core were hit, too, but mostly survived..

.. you are absolutely  right ... here are some pictures from this area , called Weissgerber-Street, it`s  down-town in the oldest part of Nürnberg ..

...  Weissgerber-Street ..

 

 

.. sorry .. in Nürnberg everything goes slowly ...  old "yellow-cabs" with two big horses are the only vehicles in Nürnberg ..  :wave:

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if you know or have a guess -- what do the 'real' historic buildings on weissgerber date from?

 

love the market tchotchkes pics -- very striking shots.

Those arent really cabs but post coaches.  Note the post-horn logo on the sides.  Yellow and black are the colors of the German post office.

-- what do the 'real' historic buildings on weissgerber date from?

.. in the official castle papers it says , that the buildings in this street "Weissgerber-Street"  were  indeed build in 1564 as the inscription on one of the building says .. 

... this was before the discovery of America ...  :-)  :-)

.. Nürnberg ..

1. picture > castle

2. picture > old city

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Awesome and beautiful, your Nuremberg pictures, Cinncinnatus--truly a Christmas fairyland!  Thanks!  (Yes, I'm also aware that virtually all of Germany's cities--except for Heidelberg--were obliterated during WWII, and that much of what we think of as "medieval" is actually construction completed after 1945 that mimics the original buildings--and I am terribly sorry.)

...... for all very smart Users ....  why is this statue located in the old town of Nürnberg germany .. is there anyone who knows this ....  :clap: :clap: :clap: ..

 

Albrecht Dürer was from Nuremberg. He had a famous painting of a hare. I suspect there's a connection.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hare

perfect !!!

Awesome and beautiful, your Nuremberg pictures, Cinncinnatus--truly a Christmas fairyland!  Thanks!  (Yes, I'm also aware that virtually all of Germany's cities--except for Heidelberg--were obliterated during WWII, and that much of what we think of as "medieval" is actually construction completed after 1945 that mimics the original buildings--and I am terribly sorry.)

 

I thought Munich was pretty authentic; esp the central square and the Glockenspiel.

bridge over troubled water

this was the bridge to the executioner .... :evil:

downtown ..

 

 

Is "Lush" a bar?

.. lol .. lol .. lo...  :clap: ...  your are  a "drinker" ?? ..  :drunk: ..  :wave: ..

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..  # LUSH  #  ...  it`s  one of the biggest shopping mall for cosmetic in germany ..

with shopping malls in each big city in Germany ..

 

 

http://www.lush-shop.de/shops_24.html

"Lush" is old-fashioned English slang for an alcoholic in addition to its regular definition which is appropriate for a cosmetics store. Germans probably don't think of that. Sorta like when English speakers see a Back Factory in Germany and think that it's a chiropractor's office rather than a bakery.

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