This fancy house is called the Fembo House. It was the residence of the Dutch silk dealer, Philipp van Oyrl, erected between 1591 and 1596. It’s the last still surviving merchant’s and patrician’s residence in Nuremberg from the Renaissance and Baroque period. Of all the historical homes in Nuremberg, the main section of the Fembo House is the only one to survive World War II intact.
This wooden model contains one of the most precise and true-to-detail city models in all of Germany, created in 1939.
This map shows the destruction from the bombing in WWII:
There was a whole room of before and after photos showing the destruction during the war.
Everything was over-the-top ornate. Look at this ceiling!
The woodwork was incredible!
Another thing we learned about here was the Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg. There was a virtual tour you could take of this synagogue with a special headset. It really was beautiful. The synagogue was seized and destroyed in 1938. In 1902, a smaller Orthodox Synagogue was established in Nuremberg. It was destroyed in 1938 during the Kristallnacht.
These synagogues were never rebuilt.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 