Timeline of Nuremberg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nuremberg, Germany.

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Prior to 15th century

See also: Free Imperial City of Nuremberg

• 1030 – Nuremberg Castle built (approximate date). ^[1]
• 1060 – Residence of the burgrave established. ^[2]
• 1127 - Emperor Lothair assigns Nuremberg to Henry the Proud. ^[3]
• 1140 – Monastery of St. Egidius founded. ^[4]
• 1219 – Nuremberg becomes a Free Imperial City. ^[1]
• 1298 – St. Lawrence church built. ^[1]
• 1349 – Craftsmen's uprising. ^[3]
• 1361 – Frauenkirche (church) built. ^[1]
• 1377 – Luginsland Tower construction begins in Nuremberg Castle. ^[3]
• 1380 – Nuremberg Charterhouse (monastery) founded.
• 1382 – Playing cards in use (approximate date). ^[5]
• 1390 - Paper mill established by Stromer near city. ^[6]
• 1397 - Population: 5,626.

15th–16th centuries

Parade, Nuremberg, 1539

• 1424 – Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire relocated to Nuremberg.
• 1427 – Ownership of Castle transferred to city.
• 1437 – Black Death.
• 1445 – Stadtbibliothek (city library) established. ^[7]
• 1470 – Anton Koberger printer in business. ^[8]
• 1484 - Reformacion der Stat Nuremberg (legal code) with Jewry Oath published ^[9]
• 1485 - Kuchenmeysterey cookbook published. ^[10]
• 1486 – Karlsbrücke (Nürnberg)  [ de ] (bridge) built.
• 1488 - Sigmund Meisterlin writes Nürnberger Chronik, a history of the city.
• 1492 – Martin Behaim creates Erdapfel (geographical globe).
• 1493 – Schedel's Liber Chronicarum published.
• 1495 – Artist Albrecht Dürer sets up workshop.
• 1505
  • City territory expanded per Landshut War of Succession.
  • Clockmaker Peter Henlein active (see Watch 1505)
• 1519
  • St. Sebaldus Church built. ^[1]
  • Bratwurstglocklein tavern in business (approximate date). ^[4]
• 1525 – Protestant Reformation.
• 1526 – Lutheran Melanchthon's Gymnasium opens. ^[2]
• 1532 – City hosts religious Peace of Nuremberg agreement. ^[1]
• 1541 - February: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor visits city. ^[11]
• 1550 - St. Martha church in use as a theatre space by meistersinger Sachs. ^[12]
• 1561 – April: Celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg.
• 1573 - Wenzel Jamnitzer a distinguished goldsmith represented the Goldsmiths on the Nuremberg city council. ^[3]
• 1583 - Herrenschiesshaus  [ de ] built.
• 1598 – Fleisch Bridge built over Pegnitz.

17th–18th centuries

Fleisch Bridge over Pegnitz River, Nuremberg, 17th century (from Topographia Germaniae )

• 1619 – Nürnberger Rathaus  [ de ] (town hall) rebuilt. ^{[1] [3]}
• 1632 – Siege of Nuremberg.
• 1662 – Academy of Fine Arts established.
• 1668 – Simplicissimus (novel) published. ^[13]
• 1695 – Pachelbel becomes organist of St. Sebaldus Church. ^[14]
• 1718 – St. Egidien Church rebuilt. ^[2]
• 1728 – Karlsbrücke (Nürnberg)  [ de ] (bridge) built.
• 1750 - Population: 30,000.
• 1792 – Kunstverein Nürnberg (art association) founded.

19th century

• 1806 – City becomes part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, per Treaty of Confederation of the Rhine. ^[3]
• 1810
  • Catholic parish established.
  • Population: 28,544.
• 1817 – City becomes part of the Bavarian Rezatkreis district.
• 1818 - Population: 27,000. ^[3]
• 1825 – Gostenhof and Johannisfriedhof  [ de ] become part of city.
• 1833 – New City Theatre built on Lorenzer Platz.
• 1835 – Bavarian Ludwigsbahn railway (Fürth-Nuremberg) begins operating. ^[15]
• 1841 – Eisengießerei Klett & Comp.  [ de ] engineering firm in business.
• 1844 – Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof opens.
• 1852
  • German Museum established.
  • Population: 53,638.
• 1859 – Nuremberg–Schwandorf railway begins operating.
• 1861 - Population: 62,797. ^[16]
• 1868 – Bayerisches Gewerbemuseum (museum) founded. ^[17]
• 1871 – Albrecht Dürer's House museum established.
• 1875 - Population: 91,018.
• 1878 – Verein fur Geschichte der Stadt (city history society) active. ^[17]
• 1882 – Numismatic Society founded. ^[17]
• 1883 – Nuremberg–Cheb railway in operation.
• 1885 – Schuckert & Co. engineering firm in business. ^[18]
• 1889 – Verein von Freunden der Photographie (photo group) founded. ^[17]

Nuremberg in the 1890s

• 1899
  • Nuremberg Photography Society founded. ^[17]
  • Railway museum opens.
• 1900
  • Emil Meßthaler  [ de ]'s Intimes Theater opens. ^[19]
  • Population: 261,081.

20th century

• 1905
  • New Staatstheater Nürnberg inaugurated.
  • Population: 294,344. ^[3]
• 1912 – Nuremberg Zoo opens. ^[20]
• 1916 – Palace of Justice built.
• 1927 – August: 3rd Nazi Party Congress held.
• 1928 – Frankenstadion (stadium) opens.
• 1929 – August: 4th Nazi Party Congress held.
• 1930 - Population: 416,700.
• 1933 – 30 August-3 September: 5th Nazi Party Congress held; Riefenstahl's Der Sieg des Glaubens filmed.

Nazi Party Congress in 1934

• 1934
  • July: 4th Deutsche Kampfspiele (athletic event) held in Frankenstadion.
  • September: 6th Nazi Party Congress held; Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will filmed.
• 1937 – Deutsches Stadion construction begins (never completed).
• 1938 – Expulsion of Polish Jews.
• 1939 – Internment camp for civilian prisoners established (future Stalag XIII-D POW camp).
• 1941 – Forced labour camp established at the SS barracks. ^[21]
• 1942 – Russenwiese forced labour camp established. ^[22]
• 1943
  • 15 July: Forced labour camp at the SS barracks converted into a subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. ^[21]
  • August: Russenwiese forced labour camp dissolved. ^[22]
• 1944 – Subcamp of Flossenbürg for women established at the Siemens-Schuckertwerke factory. ^[23]
• 1945
  • March: Siemens-Schuckertwerke subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent to subcamps in Holýšov and Mehltheuer. ^[23]
  • April: SS barracks subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent to the Dachau concentration camp. ^[21]
  • 16–20 April: Battle of Nuremberg.
  • October: Nürnberger Nachrichten newspaper begins publication.
  • 20 November: International Military Tribunal against Nazi leaders begins. ^[24]
• 1946
  • 9 December: Nuremberg Military Tribunals against Nazi leaders begin.
  • Franconia State Orchestra formed.
• 1948 — A “strong tornado” destroys dozens of homes and kills 11 people in the city.
• 1950
  • German Toy Fair begins.
  • Population: 362,459.
• 1957 – Langwasser development begins.
• 1959 – St. Egidien Church rebuilt.
• 1967 – Kunsthalle Nürnberg (art centre) founded.
• 1968 – City mapped into 10 Statistischen Stadtteilen (statistical districts). ^[25]
• 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.
• 2000 – Neues Museum Nürnberg opens.

21st century

• 2001 – City co-hosts the 2001 IIHF World Championship.
• 2002 – Ulrich Maly becomes mayor. ^[26]
• 2010 – Nuremberg S-Bahn S4 metro railway begins operating.
• 2012 – Population: 495,121.

See also

• History of Nuremberg  [ de ]
• List of mayors of Nuremberg
• Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, 1219-1806
• List of districts of Nuremberg  [ de ]
• Art and architecture of Nuremberg (in German)
• Timelines of other cities in the state of Bavaria: Augsburg, Munich, Würzburg

References

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3. Britannica 1910.
4. Rée 1905.
5. Smoller 1986.
6. Dard Hunter (1978). "Chronology". Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. Dover. ISBN   978-0-486-23619-3.
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13. Manfred H. Grieb, ed. (2007). Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon (in German). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-091296-8.
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16. Georg Friedrich Kolb (1862). "Deutschland: Bayern". Grundriss der Statistik der Völkerzustands- und Staatenkunde (in German). Leipzig: A. Förstnersche Buchhandlung.
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18. "Siemens History: Siemens-Schuckertwerke". Siemens AG . Retrieved 3 December 2013.
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20. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4200-3924-5.
21. "Nuremberg (SS-Barracks) Subcamp". KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
22. "Arbeitserziehungslager "Russenwiese" Nürnberg". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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26. "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation . Retrieved 3 December 2013.

Bibliography

in English

Published in the 18th-19th century

• Thomas Nugent (1749), "Nurenberg", The Grand Tour, vol. 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030762572
• Monsieur de Blainville (1757), "Nuremburg", Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, but especially Italy, Translated by Turnbull, London: John Noon
• Richard Brookes (1786), "Nuremberg", The General Gazetteer (6th ed.), London: J.F.C. Rivington
• David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Nuremberg". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2x352b0z.
• "Nuremberg", Leigh's New Descriptive Road Book of Germany, London: Leigh and Son, 1837
• Henry John Whitling (1850), Pictures of Nuremberg, London: R. Bentley, OL   23403092M
• Charles Tylor (1852). "(Nuremberg)". A historical tour in Franconia, in the summer of 1852. Brighton, England: Robert Folthorp.
• Theodore Alois Buckley (1862), "Nuremberg", Great Cities of the Middle Ages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
• George Henry Townsend (1867), "Nuremberg", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
• "Nuremberg", Southern Germany and Austria (2nd ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1871, OCLC   4090237
• W. Pembroke Fetridge (1881), "Nuremberg", Harper's Hand-book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "Nuremberg", Appletons' European Guide Book, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888
• Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Nuremberg", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC   8395555
• "Nuremberg", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany and Austria, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1898
• Cecil Headlam (1900), The Story of Nuremberg, London: J.M. Dent & Co., OCLC   1135511, OL   6903352M
• Schrag's new handy guide to Nuremberg (4th ed.). Nuremberg: J.L. Schrag. 1900.

Published in the 20th century

• "Nuremberg". Handbook for Travellers in South Germany and Austria (15th ed.). London: J. Murray. 1903. (1863 ed.)
• Hermann Uhde-Bernays (1904), Nuremberg, London: A. Siegle, OL   7160240M
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• Paul Johannes Rée (1905), Nuremberg and Its Art to the End of the 18th Century, London: Grevel
• "Nuremberg"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 913–914.
• Nuremberg and Rothenburg on the Tauber. Grieben's Guide Books. Berlin. 1911.
• Nathaniel Newnham Davis (1911), "Nuremberg", The Gourmet's Guide to Europe (3rd ed.), London: Grant Richards
• Francis Whiting Halsey, ed. (1914). "Nuremberg". Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors. Vol. 5. Funk & Wagnalls Company – via Hathi Trust.
• Gerald Strauss (1976), Nuremberg in the sixteenth century , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN   0253341493
• Laura A. Smoller (1986). "Playing Cards and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg". Sixteenth Century Journal . 17 (2): 183–214. doi:10.2307/2540255. JSTOR   2540255.
• Stewart Spencer (1992). "Wagner's Nuremberg". Cambridge Opera Journal. 4 (1): 21–41. doi:10.1017/S0954586700003591. JSTOR   823774. S2CID   193209134.

Published in the 21st century

• John M. Jeep, ed. (2001). "Nuremberg". Medieval Germany: an Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. ISBN   0-8240-7644-3.

in German

• Matthäus Merian; Martin Zeiler (1648). "Nürnberg". Topographia Franconiae. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. pp. 65–78.
• Johann Christoph Jakob Wilder (1827). Nürnberg: Eine gedrängte Zusammenstelllung seiner Merkwürdigkeiten [Nuremberg: a Concise Compilation of its Places of Interest] (in German). Nürnberg.
• Carl Mainberger; Johannes Scharrer (1837). Eine Woche in Nürnberg: Kurzgefaßte Beschreibung der Stadt Nürnberg und ihrer Umgebungen [A week in Nuremberg: brief description of the city of Nuremberg and its surroundings] (2nd ed.). Nurnberg: Riegel und Wießner.
• Nürnberg. Die Chroniken der Deutschen Städte (in German). Vol. 1–3, 10–11. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag. 1862–1874 – via HathiTrust.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany (1863). Nürnberg: historisch und topographisch [Nuremberg: historical and topographical] (in German). Munich: Georg Franz.
• Johannes Wanschka (1870). Adreß-Buch für die Stadt Nürnberg (in German). Nürnberg: Bieling.
• Nürnberg-Fürther Industrie-Almanach [Nuremberg-Furth Business Almanac] (in German). Nürnberg: Jacob Sichling. 1870.
• P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Nurnberg". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas[Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
• Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Nurnberg". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 1569+. ISBN   978-3-11-029555-9.

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Nuremberg via Wikisource
• Europeana. Items related to Nuremberg, various dates.