Tucher Castle

The Tucherschloss is a museum located at Hirschelgasse 9/11 in the St. Sebald district of Nuremberg's Old Town. The Tucherschloss was built as the city residence of the Nuremberg patrician family Tucher.

The castle was built under Lorenz (II.) Tucher between 1533 and 1544. The building plan probably goes back to Paulus Beheim, who designed it in the style of French Renaissance castles. The building is a three-story structure made of sandstone ashlar with a closed front facing the alley. On the first floor, facing the alley, there is a small oriel with a sandstone balustrade, on which a relief of the Fall of Man is attached. The entrance from the courtyard side features two arches with a Tuscan column in the middle. On the ground floor, there is a hall with a late Gothic net-ribbed vault.

During World War II, the complex was severely damaged in 1945. Of the main building, only the western courtyard facade up to the second upper floor with large parts of the stair tower, the street facade with the sandstone oriel, and the ground floor vaults remained largely intact. In contrast, the outbuildings were almost completely destroyed. Reconstruction took place from 1967-69, with the outbuildings being rebuilt in a slightly altered form.