Nuremburg - 5/16/2025

Today we took a bus ride about 40 minutes from our docking location in the city of Roth to Nuremburg. We had a very good guide who took us on a walking tour of the city and talked about the history of Nuremburg.

We first toured the castle there, the Imperial Castle of Nuremburg.

View from the castle

View from the castle

Courtyard of the castle with a well house in the middle.

Looking up at the imperial quarters where the emperors stayed when they were in town every year or so, otherwise this area was empty and unfurnished.

Tower of the castle

We left the castle and walked down through town towards the main market square as our guide pointed out notable landmarks.

Albrecht Durer's house who was a german painter

Albrecht Durer's house who was a german painter

Albrecht Durer statue

Saint Lawrence Church

Town Hall

St. Sebaldus Church

We then got to the main square where we saw a fountain called the Shoner Brunen Fountain in the middle of the main market square. The legend of the fountain is about the brass ring, seamlessly forged into the iron grille.

Master Kuhn, who built the gate around the well, had a daughter named Margret, who was courted by his apprentice. But since he didn't want to give his child to a poor boy, he forbade this courtship and threw him out. The apprentice is said to have said something like: "That'll never amount to anything! It'll be as little as you can manage to make the rings on the well gate turn!" The master then went on a journey, and the apprentice wanted to prove he was capable, so he secretly made the ring. Then he cut it open, inserted it into the gate, soldered, hammered, and filed until no seam was visible. Then he left town and never returned. When the master returned home, he realized he had been too harsh. He regretted the expulsion and would have gladly had the skilled apprentice back and given him his daughter as well, but it was too late. Our guide told us that the legend was that anyone who turned the brass ring 3 times clockwise and made a wish, the wish would come true.

schöner brunnen fountain

Frauenkirche - the church of our lady in Hauptmarkt square

Hauptmarkt square

We had some free time so we wat int he square and had a coffee and pastry and did some people watching. We also walked up to a bridge nearby to take some pictures before we had to meet back up with the group.

View from the bridge off of Hauptmarkt square

View from the bridge off of Hauptmarkt square

Another church in Nuremburg that we passed on the way out.

We met up with the bus and headed back to the ship. Everyone on the ship including us has a bit of a cold so we relaxed and rested in the afternoon.

So far we have been through a lot of locks where we have entered the lock and the ship is raised up by letting in water, today we passed the continental divide and now we are going down in all of the locks. We're supposed to see an Abbey tomorrow if the weather holds.

Late information when we gathered for our evening port talk we found out that the water level in the Danube will not allow us to continue on the ship past Regensburg which is our stop tomorrow, it will also not allow the visit to the abbey. Instead we will see Regensburg tomorrow, spend the night there on the ship and then Sunday morning we will get off and take busses to our excursions in Passau, and then be bussed to another Avalon ship in Vienna. The passengers from that ship will be bussed to our original ship, thus allowing both groups to continue their tours just skipping one section of the Danube. It's a pain to have to pack up but other companies moved people to a bus tour and hotels so we're happy that's not what happened with us.