Thursday, September 6, 2018

Nuremberg, Germany: Main Market Square

Nuremberg, it seems, used to have two separate sections - both surrounded by walls and divided by the river. As the city grew in the 1200s, two walls came down to create one big city. Naturally, it needed a big square as a gathering point. This is it.

It was built by Charles IV, a Holy Roman Emperor. We'll run him into again in Prague, by the way, but he loved Nuremberg too.

As the name implies, the area serves as a market to this day. It becomes a huge Christmas market in the weeks leading up to late December.

The big structure on the left of the photo is the Church of Our Lady, called Frauenkirche by the locals. The land used to be the site of a synagogue, but Charles decided the land was too valuable. So he kicked the Jews out of their living space in that Jewish Quarter, killing 600 in the process. Sigh. At noon every day, figures come out of the clock and dance around a little. The tourists love it.

Here's a slightly shaky look of it on video:

 

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