Hall of Honour — Attraction in Nuremberg

The "Ehrenhalle" was built by the city of Nuremberg according to a plan of German architect Fritz Mayer. It was inaugurated in 1930, before the Hitler era during the Weimar Republic. It is an arcaded hall with an adjacent cobbled stone terrace with two rows of pedestals for fire bowls. All fourteen pylons remain virtually intact and have not been ignited since the final Nazi party rally in September 1938. Originally the hall was to be a memorial site for the 9,855 soldiers from Nuremberg who were fallen in World War I.

During the Party Congress of 1929 the then unfinished "Hall of Honour" was used for the enactment of a cult of the dead by the National Socialists the first time. During the Third Reich the Nazis used the site primarily as a commemoration for the fallen soldiers of World War I and commemoration of the 16 dead of the "Hitlerputsch" (the so-called "Martyrs of the NS Movement") (Beer Hall Putsch) on 9 November 1923 in Munich. Hitler, accompanied by SS-leader Heinrich Himmler and SA-leader Viktor Lutze, strode through the arena over the 240 meters long granite path from the main grandstand to the terrace of the Ehrenhalle and showed the Nazi salute there. The ritual was the climax of the...

Famous Hall built to honor the fallen soldiers of WWI. This area was also used by the Nazi Party as a center piece for massive rallies. The surrounding grounds are massive and the size and scale of the rallies were massive. All credit to the Germans for keeping some of these up for people to learn the horrors of the past. Worth a visit if in Nuremberg. Most of the area is a...

If you are at the museum across the street, them take the short walk to the park and look at this structure. Definitely has the feel of old nazi construction. It is now used to honor the dead during WW2. Learning the history of the park is a must for anyone interested in this...