City Topics  

There are several topics which keep politics and citizens occupied to a high degree: in 2006, this will mainly be the Football World Cup in Germany. Nuremberg is one of the venues – a great chance for the city and the region to show itself at its best.

For years now, the City of Nuremberg has been dealing with its special role in history during the National Socialist era in a particularly responsible and pro-active way. It is particularly with this knowledge of the past in mind, that the city, in 1933 declared "City of the Party Rallies" by Adolf Hitler, set itself the task of becoming a "City of Peace and Human Rights", actively working for tolerance and human rights. Here, at the place where the perpetrators of Nazi crimes met, exhibitions explain the causes and consequences of the Nazi rule of terror.

With the "Pact for Families", founded in 2000, municipal family policies have increasingly become the focus of public interest. Creating living conditions which cater for families and children is a goal promoted by a wide alliance of politics, institutions, associations and individuals.

Since April 2005, our region has been a European Metropolitan Region. The development of the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region into a competitive and dynamic location within Europe is a common task for economy, science, culture and the administration.

But in advent, at the latest, one topic overshadows all others: Christmas. Nuremberg as "Germany's Number One Christmas City" stages the world-famous "Christkindlesmarkt", a market which is an unforgettable Christmas backdrop for numerous visitors from at home and abroad.