Dürer painted his famous hare in 1502. His ardent admirer and philanthropist, Willibald Imhoff, immediately purchased the painting, which became the hallmark of Nuremberg, and its reproduction was hung in almost every respected Nuremberg house. Respectable citizens were very surprised when in the morning of one day in 2014, they saw this monster in the square in front of the house of their beloved artist. With a stunning eye, a colossal hare burst out of a wooden cage, twisting his ear and prop his stomach with nails. Bunnies fell out of his belly, and the whole clumsy carcass crushed a man. But soon, the passions subsided. The real hare has long moved to Vienna to the Albertina Museum. Near the insane head of a modern monster stays a small reproduction of a noble predecessor. It is not the fact that the contemporary artist wanted to denigrate the work of the master. And we are only talking about the fact that we look at an abomination, but we refuse to see the causes that give rise to it. We watch the monster, but do not want to see the cage and the nails that made it, we defend the harmless animal as long as it is beautiful and ask to take it off when it is disgusting. So there is something to think about it.
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!
