Nuremberg City Walls

The construction of Nuremberg`s city walls stretched over five centuries — from the 11th to the 16th century. But the grandiose appearance that amazes tourists today took shape mainly by the year 1400. Imagine an irregular parallelogram exactly 5 kilometers long, tightly enclosing both parts of the city separated by the Pegnitz River. In the Middle Ages, Nuremberg`s city wall was not just a line of stones, but a highly complex engineering structure of several levels.