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Germany Bavaria: Nuremberg, Durer's House

Nuremberg

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Frauenkirche Nuremberg - mini skirt and heels- how appropriate ! Not what Leni Riefenstahl would have caught on camera outside the Frauenkisrche

Nuremberg german national museum- Roman finds

Nuremberg german national museum The Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch- bronze age golden calendar hat word for ceremonies found between Franconia and Bavaria under a tree stump.

Nurenberg German national museum - good lord it's St Micahel!

Nuremberg's German national museum has a church inside as an exhibit

Very odd mixed exhibition at the German national museum - good fun but no English translation...! The lift back downstairs was operated by a man who keeps the lift locked...!

16C painting of Victory of Charlemagne over Avars - after which he founded a Scottish monastery at Regensburg

16C Victory of Charlemagne over Avars - after which he founded a Scottish monastery at Regensburg

16C Victory of Charlemagne over Avars - after which he founded a Scottish monastery at Regensburg

16C paintng showing Victory of Charlemagne over Avars - after which he founded a Scottish monastery at Regensburg

Nuremberg Baroque stove in German national museum : Augsburg and Nuremberg were leading stove production centres for south Germany .- this shows Hercules and mythical figures from 4 corners of the ancient world- Assyria persia Rome and Greece

Nuremberg German national museum - whale shoulder bone art

Nuremberg German national museum : bread tokens : social welfare after the reformation monasteries were no longer supporting the poor, so they had to sew on special badges ...use tokens to receive their daily bread...!

Nuremberg German national museum : 1760 sunburst monstrance - not studded with 6000 diamonds like the one in Prague's loreta

Nuremberg German national museum :From a house in Nuremberg formally in the possession of the Merkel family now reflecting Angela

Nuremberg German national museum - Cranach's ill matched couple 1530ish

Venus with Cupid as a honey thief by Cranach - Nuremberg German national museum

Durer's chandeliers in German national museum

Nuremberg sculpture outside German national museum -of 27 round pillars representing universal human rights - by an Israeli artist in 1993

Durer house nuremberg waldseemuller's 1507 map Not quite as Franconia centred as Munster's maps but germania is firmly in the heart of Europa

Durer's house Nuremberg - large study in the attic

Durer house nuremberg Martin waldseemuller's 1507 map of the world - 100 printed in Strasbourg only one survives, in Washington DC Library of Congress- - shows 'the word America ' for the first time. An advance from mappa mundi

Albrecht durer house nuremberg - he had a toilet constructed illegally in kitchen coz of his health problems - fined by town council (but as he was so respected they returned the fine money to him).

The chandelier females ? Albrecht Durer's house Nuremberg