Stadtmauermuseum

About the museum

Nördlingen has a completely preserved town wall whose covered wall walk can be walked all the way around for 2,632 meters – a unique case in Germany. One of its gates is the Löpsinger Tor in the northeast, where the road toward Nuremberg left the town. A first gate tower stood here as early as the 14th century; it was demolished in 1592 and rebuilt from 1593 on the model of the Deininger Tor. In 1837 the tower received a sundial.

In 1987 the town of Nördlingen set up a museum on the history of its fortifications in the Löpsinger Tor. On several floors, display panels explain how the wall, towers and wall walk were built and functioned; a large model illustrates the entire complex.

Also on display are uniforms from the 17th and 19th centuries, a cannon from around 1810 and a collection of around 4,000 tin figures. With them, the 1634 Battle of Nördlingen in the Thirty Years' War is recreated as a diorama. The finale is the view from the 42-meter-high tower over the rooftops of the old town to the edge of the Ries crater.

Highlights

• Tin figure diorama of the 1634 Battle of Nördlingen with around 4,000 figures
• Large model of the Nördlingen town wall
• Uniforms of the 17th and 19th centuries and a cannon from around 1810
• View from the 42-meter-high gate tower over the old town and the Ries

Permanent exhibitions

• Die Nördlinger Stadtbefestigung – Display panels, a town wall model, uniforms, weapons and a large tin figure diorama explain the construction and history of the Nördlingen fortifications.

Founded

1987

Operated by

Stadt Nördlingen

Admission & discounts

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Getting there & parking

Nördlingen station (Bürgermeister-Reiger-Straße 5) with regional rail service.

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