From a visit to the museum to a one-time bulky waste pickup, the city of Nuremberg welcomes new residents with an assortment of free experiences and services, and it's actually a brilliant idea, writes Paul Krantz.
While the larger international airports in Munich or Frankfurt offer more direct connections, flying out of Nuremberg's smaller airport makes for easy, low-stress travel within Europe and the surrounding areas.
For shepherds, moving sheep between summer and winter pastures is a seasonal event, but in Nuremberg this march runs right through the city's central market square. Photographer Taeseok Oh shares his photos of the procession.
There's plenty to see and do around Nuremberg if you know where to look. Here are six destinations within easy reach by train so you can also make the most out of your Deutschlandticket.
Nuremberg and its surrounding area is home to a large number of foreign residents, many of whom move to the region to work for one of several large international companies. We look at what you can expect for salaries and jobs in the region.
Foreign residents in almost any major German city can expect long wait times for appointments to secure residency permits at their local immigration offices. But in Nuremberg the process is exceptionally fraught.
With the exception of workers who get a job offer from one of the region's bigger firms, Nuremberg may not be on the radar for many foreigners. But Bavaria's second largest city has more to offer than it gets credit for, writes Paul Krantz.
On November 20, 1945, the first
international trial in history opened in Nuremberg, Germany, forcing 21 senior
Nazi officials to face justice for the first time.
On Thursday afternoon residents of Nuremberg were left worried when they heard two loud bangs which were so forceful that they shook window panes in the Bavarian city.
The Nuremberg toy fair, the world's
largest, opened its doors this week to an industry in the throes of
reinvention as toymakers vie for the attention of children increasingly glued to smartphones and tablets.
A man dressed in uniform with a swastika, carrying a pistol, stunned citizens as well as police in the city known for holding the trials of Nazi war criminals.
An elderly lady from Cologne caused quite the sensation last month when she filled in what she thought was a crossword, but was in fact an €80,000 piece of art. Her “Rhine calmness” has helped her get through the debacle, she says.
A retired American journalist recently visited his son in Germany. A trip to Nuremberg in Bavaria left him asking if the US is seeing a second ‘Triumph of the Will’.
A British rail company is expanding into Germany offering a “very British” quality of service. Do the Germans have any idea what they’re letting themselves in for?
It was the biggest trial in history. On November 20th 1945, 22 Nazi leaders went on trial in Nuremberg for atrocities committed by Hitler's regime. 70 years on, Germany's Nazi trials continue - but time is running out.
As Nuremberg prepares to host the most famous annual Christmas market in the world, The Local spoke with the newly selected Christkind - a mysterious angel that opens the festivities from on high each November.
Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted on Monday that Germany and Europe's policy towards the large numbers of refugees arriving in 2015 has been "anything but perfect" – but insisted that the country could rise to the challenge.
A man from northern Bavaria hired to work on preparations for next month's G7 meeting of world leaders sent a posthumous letter threatening a poison attack on their hotel.
