Tucherschloss

Tucherschloss stands in Nuremberg as a Renaissance townhouse built for the Tucher family. Its sandstone façade faces the street with a closed front, while French château design shapes the building.

Paulus Beheim created the house during the sixteenth century for a patrician family enriched by trade and brewing. Inside, a late Gothic ribbed-vault hall and a choir relief depicting the Fall of Man preserve its older character. Portraits, furniture and tapestries trace Nuremberg’s golden age around 1500, alongside a silver double goblet by Wenzel Jamnitzer. A portrait of Hans VI Tucher comes from Michael Wolgemut, the teacher of Albrecht Dürer. War damage led to reconstruction, which restored much of the house and its historical rooms.

The garden contains the Hirsvogelsaal, a ceremonial hall rebuilt after wartime destruction. Peter Flötner’s Italian Renaissance interior rises beneath Georg Pencz’s ceiling painting of Phaeton’s fall. Upper rooms reveal family living quarters and spaces for entertaining guests, while costume tours bring sixteenth-century life closer.