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I visited the Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände (Documentation Centre Party Rally Grounds) for the first time in 2010 when I found a short break in the SV BSZS which was held close to this area at the e-credit stadium. So when we came back there in 2011 I went to see what I missed in my previous visit.
Designed by Albert Speer, in the city's southern districts, the "Party Rally Grounds" were erected as a huge parade ground on an area of 24.5 hectares.
In 1933, the National Socialists decided that Nuremberg was to be the "City of the Party Rallies". They created a link between the Nazi movement and Nuremberg's glorious past as Free City of the Empire and venue for the imperial diets in the middle ages. This is why they staged the annual NSDAP party rallies here ever year in September, up until 1938.
Zeppelin Field and Zeppelin Grandstand, the unfinished Congress Hall and a large excavation intended for the planned German Stadium are what remain in the city, as the monstrous stone legacy left behind by this regime of terror.
You can watch my 7 min 10 sec Video 2011 Nurnberg Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds out of my Youtube channel.
Written Nov 10, 2011
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If at first you don't succed, sky diving, base diving, is not for you. Fortunately the buddies I've been with did a great job while base diving, and had tons of fun while doing this base diving thing above the Rock in the Park festival. Hey, don't they look amazing?! That's why we though missed Pappa Roach.
Updated Aug 9, 2011
Website: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-11461000-rock_im_park_nuremberg-i
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Rock in the Park's visitors take their camping stuff from the parking lot to the festival's camping ground. At different checkpoints the festival bracelets going to be controlled. Visitors without vehicles receive their festival bracelet via ticket at the parking lots as well, or at the entrances. At the camping ground campers have to pay attention for keeping free emergency routes. Security make sure things are going ok.
Tourist Enquiries
Nuremberg Congress and Tourism Centre
ph: 01149-911-2 33 60
email: info@ctz-nuernberg.de
http://www.tourismus.nuernberg.de
Updated Aug 9, 2011
Website: http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/portal_e/kultur/ctz_5601.html
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If you have never been, like me, to a Rock Festival like the one of Rock in the Park in Germany's Nuremberg, you have probably missed out something. Rock in the Park is one of the big events for rock fans, and takes place every year at Pentecost. About 90 bands give their shows on those two days, performing on three different stages. Tickets for Rock in the Park enclude parking and camping. Back on July 6-8, 2005 about 130,000 fans have rocked along to 80 bands. We really had a blast. Bands I liked the most among the 80 that performed, were: Metallica, Mudwine, Disturbed, Silverchair, Evanescence, Limp Bizkit, Pappa Roach, and definitively HIM, all time favorite of mine.
Rock in the Park
Zeppelinstrasse
Nuremberg, 90480
ph: 01149-699-74640
email: info@rock-im-park.de
http://www.rock-im-park.de/
Updated Aug 9, 2011
Website: http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-11461000-rock_im_park_nuremberg-i
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In the east choir is the famous Tomb of St Sebaldus (1508-19), a masterpiece of the bronze-founder's art by Peter Vischer and his sons (silver sarcophagus of 1397 containing the saint's remains; on the east end Peter Vischer with his leather apron and chisel).
You can see a replica of this tomb in the Moscow State Art Museum (Pushkin Museum). Every time I visited this museum since my childhood I admired by this bronze masterpiece… Never knew that I would be able to watch the original in Nuremberg…
Written Jun 9, 2011
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You will see the Volksfest area close to the Congress Hall. Everybody may enjoy a trip in the Ferris Wheel for 2 euro. You will see wonderful views on the Volksfest area and Party Rally Grounds.
You can watch my 5 min 22 sec Video Nurnberg Volksfest from Nurnberg Eye in 2010 HD out of my Youtube channel.
You can watch my high resolution photo of Nuremberg on the Google Earth according to the following coordinates 49° 25' 47.24" N 11° 6' 41.60" E or on my Google Earth Panoramio Volksfest area .
Written Jun 9, 2011
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The Große Straße (Great Road) is almost 2 km long and 40 m wide.
It was intended to be the central axis of the site and a parade road for the Wehrmacht. In its northwestern prolongation the road points towards Nuremberg Castle. This was to create a relation between the role of Nuremberg during the Third Reich and its role during in medieval times.
The road reached from the Congress Hall to the Märzfeld, the construction work started in 1935 and was finished in 1939 (it has never been used as a parade road, as due to the beginning of World War II, the last rally was held in 1938). The pavement was made of granite pavers in black and gray with edges of exactly 1.2 m.
A representative entrance portal and two pylons were planned at the northwestern end of the Great Road. Near the entrance area of the German Stadion a grandstand with a hall of pillars was planned for the government leaders and generals who were to take the salute on Wehrmacht formations which were to march in direction of the parade ground Märzfeld.
After the war, the road has been used as a temporary airfield for the US Army. Nowadays it is used by the nearby Nuremberg fair and Exhibition Company as an occasionally parking area for highly frequented fairs and sporting events (like our SV BSZS). That’s why we parked our car on the Große Straße.
You can watch my high resolution photo of Nuremberg on the Google Earth according to the following coordinates 49° 25' 47.44" N 11° 6' 43.14" E or on my Google Earth Panoramio Große Straße .
Written Jun 9, 2011
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_party_rally_grounds
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You can see the terrible scars of war on the columns of the Congress Hall. Chunks of granite and marble which had been taken out of walls by artillery shells and machine-gun fire haven't been restored by modern architects.
They remind us about those terrible years of war...
Updated Jun 9, 2011
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The Zeppelin Field is located east of the Great Road. It consists of a large grandstand (Zeppelinhaupttribüne) with a width of 360 meters and a smaller stand.
It was one of Albert Speer's first works for the Nazi party and was based upon the Pergamon Altar.
The grandstand is famous as the building that had the swastika blown from atop it in 1945, after Germany's fall in World War II.
Now there is a parking for those who came to the "e-credit stadion" by car (where our SV BSZS took place).
Written Jun 9, 2011
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The building reached a height of 39 m (a height of 70 m was planned) and a diameter of 250 m.
The building is mostly built out of clinker with a facade of granite panels. Especially the outer facade is (amongst others) oriented at the Colosseum in Rome.
The foundation stone was laid in 1935, but the building remained unfinished and without a roof. The building with an outline of an "U" ends with two head-buildings.
You can watch my 3 min 22 sec Video Nürnberg Kongresshalle in 2010 HD out of my Youtube channel.
Written Jun 9, 2011
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