Nassauer Haus

Nassauer Haus rises in Nuremberg’s Lorenzer Altstadt, directly opposite the Lorenzkirche. The red castle-sandstone tower is the city’s last surviving medieval residential tower. Its Romanesque beginnings now meet Gothic details shaped by several reconstructions.

The cellar and ground floor date from the early thirteenth century, with substantial vaulted spaces. Two upper floors from the fifteenth century display regular reddish ashlar masonry. Around 1422, Jobst Haug rebuilt the penultimate floor, while Ulrich Ortlieb completed the top floor around 1433. A coat of arms frieze and three pointed-helmeted corner towers crown the upper storey. American bombing in 1945 destroyed much of the roof and top floor, and reconstruction followed between 1950 and 1954.

A restaurant occupies the cellar, while the second floor contains a banqueting hall with Rococo stucco from Ebracher Hof. Coats of arms represent Austria, Nuremberg and the Holy See, placing royal and imperial symbols together on the tower.

City: Nuremberg
Content updated: 2026-06-22

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