Felsengänge
The Felsengänge lie beneath Nuremberg’s old town, forming rock-cut tunnels and cellars across several underground levels. Rock walls frame the passages at different depths. Created in 1380, the network first supported beer fermentation and storage for Nuremberg’s medieval brewing industry. Each medieval brewery maintained its own separate cellar.
As production grew, some spaces extended several storeys deep, creating a layered system beneath the streets. The Lochwasserleitung carried water through underground channels. During the Second World War, residents used these underground spaces as air-raid shelters during bombing. Pickles and sauerkraut were later stored there.
The Kasematten add sixteenth-century defensive passages, built into Nuremberg’s fortifications, beside the older cellar network. Steep stairs lead past narrow shooting slits. These routes show how the underground spaces supported brewing, water supply, shelter, food storage and defence. Pickles and sauerkraut were stored there in the early twentieth century.
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