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1967 – Kunsthalle Nürnberg (art centre) founded. 1968 – City mapped into 10 Statistischen Stadtteilen (statistical districts). [28] 1971 – Nuremberg Toy Museum founded. 1972 – Katzwang becomes part of city. 1987 – Nuremberg S-Bahn S1 metro railway begins operating. 1992 – Nuremberg S-Bahn S2 and S3 metro railway begins operating.
The Nuremberg State Theatre, founded in 1906, is dedicated to all types of opera, ballet and stage theatre. During the season 2009/2010, the theatre presented 651 performances for an audience of 240,000 persons. [42]
The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg (German: Freie Reichsstadt Nürnberg) was a free imperial city – independent city-state – within the Holy Roman Empire.After Nuremberg gained piecemeal independence from the Burgraviate of Nuremberg in the High Middle Ages and considerable territory from Bavaria in the Landshut War of Succession, it grew to become one of the largest and most important ...
Nuremberg was probably founded around the turn of the 11th century, according to the first documentary mention of the city in 1050, as the location of an Imperial castle between the East Franks and the Bavarian March of the Nordgau. [1] From 1050 to 1571, the city expanded and rose dramatically in importance due to its location on key trade routes.
The history of the Nuremberg State Philharmonic dates back to the old Nuremberg Imperial City Council Music, which can be traced back to 1377. [1] After Nuremberg had already become a centre of the new art form of opera in the Baroque period, the Nuremberg council musicians were continuously called upon to perform at the newly founded "Nuremberg National Theatre" from 1801 onwards.
Roughly 1,000 skeletons of plague victims have so far been found in mass graves in the center of the city of Nuremberg, which experts believe may contain a total of more than 1,500 people ...
Johann Daniel Preissler (1666–1737), painter and director of Nuremberg's Academy of Fine Arts; Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), portrait and map engraver who founded and was and first director of the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts; Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, it houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day. The museum is Germany's largest museum of cultural history.