The first traces of Nuremberg’s existence date back to 1050. On receiving a charter in 1219 and Nuremberg in turns became a free imperial centre in the area. After extricating from the influence of the Burgrave of Nuremberg and the Hohenzollern family, the city became the Renaissance capital of Germany (Albrecht Dürer, Adam Kraft or Michael Wolgemut lived and worked here) and benefited from its perfect location in by the main trade route form Italy to the Northern Europe.

Later on, Nuremberg was deeply affected by the strengthening Reformation movement, thus in 1532 the religious Peace of Nuremberg giving the Lutherans significant concessions was signed here.

The Thirty Years War, which was about to come some 80 years later, left the city ruined and dilapidated, which wouldn’t regain its importance until the very end of the 19th century.

During the 1930s, the city of Nuremberg represented the seat of the National Socialists (Nazis), who convened here regularly. At one of these assemblies in 1935, the so-called Nuremberg Laws were pronounced, which took the German Jews away their civil rights and prohibited intermarriage between Jews and those who were not Jews. After the war, paradoxically, Nuremberg was the place where international tribunal for war crimes was established and where the Nuremberg trials took place.