Fembohaus is the only building in Nuremberg that survived the Second World War without destruction. Fembohaus was built in the years 1591-1596 for the Dutch merchant Philip van Eyrl. The new home became a family base for Philip van Eyrl and his descendants and was the founding place of his trading company. His great-granddaughter, Maria Sabine Pellerin, married in 1668 the nobleman Christoph Jacob Behaim. Behaim had a large baroque ceiling from Italian stucco on the second floor, designed by Carlo Moretti Brentano. In the ballroom, on the third floor, there were ceiling paintings based on Ovid's metamorphoses. In 1735, the prestigious house was bought by Johann Michael Franz and Johann Georg Ebersberger, who inherited the map printing company from Johann Christoph Homan in 1730, at that time, the most known map printing company in Germany. In 1876, the building was sold in auction to David Zwick, a tobacco producer in Nuremberg. The house was put up for sale after Christophe Melchior Fembo, the last of the family of cartographers and printers died.
This walking one day tour of old Nuremberg is perfect. The walk begins at Frauentorturm directly opposite the exit of the underpass of the central railway station and runs along Königstrasse with its main churches and original shops. The footpath enters the church of St. Lorenz with its medieval architecture and the works of Adam Kraft - a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. The path continues to the famous Nassau House through Hans Sachs Square to Holy Spirit Hospital and makes a beautiful loop through Schütt Island, the Pegnitz River, and Church of Katarina leads to the central square of Hauptmarkt and the bells of the Frauenkirche church and leads to Beautiful Fountain, where wishes are usually made. Then the walk passes near Rathausplatz and leads to the St. Sebald - Sebalduskirche gives an excellent lunch at Goldenes Posthorn Restaurant. After lunch, the path leads to the City Museum in Fembo house, Pellerhof, Museum Tucherschloss und Hirsvogelsaal, Imperial courtyard of Kaiserburg. It allows you to enjoy city views from Imperial castle Nürnberg. Further, the footpath will lead to the house of Albrecht Dürer, the home of Pilate, the gates of the Tiergärtnertorturm, and the courtyards of the breweries. We will meet The Toy Museum in Nuremberg, admire the executioner’s bridge, learn the story of the bagpipe, walk through the shopping quarter and end the day at the fountain carousel of family relationships and realize that everything is relative in this world.
Don't be afraid to get lost in new places!
