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- Fürth (German: [fʏʁt] ⓘ; East Franconian: Färdd; Yiddish: פיורדא, romanized:Fiurda) is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, in the administrative division (Regierungsbezirk [ a ]) of Middle Franconia.
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The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Nuremberg, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, [ 3 ] while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million.
Fürth is a city in Bavaria, Germany in the region of Franconia. It is right next to Nuremberg, so close that they are basically attached to each other. Unlike Nuremberg, Fürth suffered only a few air raids in World War II, so most buildings were untouched. Overview.
Fürth, city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It is situated at the junction of the Pegnitz and Rednitz rivers (which there form the Regnitz), just northwest of Nürnberg. It was originally a Franconian (Franken) settlement dating from the mid-8th century.
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- Judisches Museum Franken
- Playmobil Funpark
- Gustavstraße
- Hornschuchpromenade
- Fürth Stadtpark
- Fürther Freiheit
- St. Michael
- Rathaus
- Rundfunkmuseum
- Stadtmuseum Fürth
For hundreds of years Fürth was a spiritual centre for Franconia’s Jewish community and once had synagogues, Talmud schools and Hebrew printing houses. The main location for the Jewish Museum is an imposing 17th-century house joined to a modern annexe. The house was owned by Jewish families continuously from the 1600s to the 1900s. The museum uncov...
Established in 1974, Playmobil is headquartered in Zirndorf, which is in the Fürth district. Zirndorf has a theme park all about this much-loved line of toys. The park differs from many toy-themed attractions because instead of rides that children would sit on passively there are active game stations that require exercise and interaction. These are...
For centuries this picturesque street in the Altstadt has been Fürth’s go-to dining district and is full of taverns and restaurants serving typical Franconian cuisine. When the sun’s out there’s a continuous strip of terraces, almost transforming the street into a single beer garden. The sandstone houses lining Gustavstraße are from the 1700s and 1...
Where the houses on Gustavstraße are homey and traditional, Hornschuchpromenade’s Neoclassical mansions make a grander impression. Just along from the Fürther Freiheit square, the Hornschuchpromenade and its parallel opposing street, Königswarterstraße, were built either side of Germany’s first railway, the Ludwigeisenbahn. Where the tracks used to...
If you need a moment to catch your breath the city’s park is a gentle green haven next to the Pegnitz River. For more than a century this was partly the site of Fürth’s main cemetery, which was eventually cleared at the start of the 20th century. You’ll know that you’re in historic parkland from the size of some of the trees, which are massive and ...
When Germany’s first railway, the Adler, arrived in Fürth in 1835 this spot became the new centre of the city. The main station, the Ludwigsbahnhof shut down in 1922 and was then demolished under the Nazi regime in 1938 to make way for a big new parade ground. Now the Fürther Freiheit is a long square that is the go-to site for the city’s top publi...
One of Fürth’s big landmarks and the ecclesiastical centre of life in the city for hundreds of years, St. Michael s a church dating back to the 1000s. It is the oldest standing church in the city, and over the last millennium has been reworked and renovated a few times. A major renewal in the 19th century gave the church its Neo-Gothic altarpiece a...
Fürth’s town hall went up from 1840 to 1844 and was designed by Georg Friedrich Christian Bürklein. If you’ve been to Florence you may need a double take, as the Rathaus clearly took inspiration from Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio from 1314. The resemblance is clearest in the tower, which has the same square shape and machicolations beneath the uppermo...
Inaugurated in 1993, the broadcasting museum has had an apt location since 2001 in the former headquarters of the German electronics brand Grundig. The museum’s collection is arranged chronologically over several floors, and handles the evolution of broadcasting, from the earliest years of telegraphs to state-of-the-art technology. There are scores...
The municipal museum has a collection first assembled in the 19th century by the local merchant and politician Conrad Gebhardt. The museum itself was set up in 1937 and since 2007 has had a new home in a former school building at Ottostraße 2. Accompanied by interactive displays and multimedia the galleries cover around 5,000 years of Fürth’s past ...
Fürth (also Fuerth; especially when the letter "ü" is unavailable) is a city in Bavaria, Germany in the region of Franconia. It is right next to Nuremberg , so close that they are basically attached to each other.
Nov 4, 2020 · The city of Fuerth is a small city located in Middle Franconia. Located nearby the larger city of Nuremberg, it was first mentioned in 1007 AD. In the year 2007, the city celebrated its thousandth anniversary. During the 30 year war in the 17th-century, the whole city was almost completely destroyed by fire set by the Croatian soldiers.
Jul 12, 2015 · Fuerth had a large Jewish population (Levi's founder Levi Strauss for example, also Henry Kissinger, who was born in Fuerth and fled to the USA when the Nazis came to power). Get in . From Nuremberg via subway line U1. Alight at Fuerth Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) or Fuerth Rathaus. Get around
