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Weikershof, Fürth — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Weikershof is a village quarter of Fürth recorded as Wikershoven in 1269, on the east slope of the Rednitz valley three kilometres south of the old town.
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Where to stay in Weikershof
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Fürth is where the beds are. Weikershof is an old village of farmhouses three kilometres south of the historic core, and the Schwabacher Straße carries you north to that core or south into the outer Nuremberg quarters. Buses use the same road.
Two lines stop along it, one running to Stein and the Nuremberg Frankenstraße and the other north to Großgründlach. Nuremberg airport is nine kilometres north-east.
About Weikershof
What are the main landmarks in Weikershof?
The old village is the monument. Its layout and building are still in the original state, agricultural in character, which is unusual so close to a city of this size. One house carries the heritage entry.
A dwelling with a former inn attached stands protected, listed for what it preserves of ordinary building rather than for any grand design. The Fränkische Marienweg passes through. Walkers on it cross a quarter whose eastern side is now a commercial area of 78 hectares along the Schwabacher Straße and the Main-Donau-Kanal.
What is the history of Weikershof?
A document of the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich III names Wikershoven in 1269. The spelling shifted to Weyckershoffen around 1430 and to Weickershof around 1587, and the first element is most likely the personal name Wicher. Three Nuremberg farms made up the place in 1557.
By the end of the eighteenth century there were six holdings, with high justice claimed by the Brandenburg-Ansbach Oberamt Cadolzburg and disputed by the imperial city, village lordship held by the Landpflegamt Nürnberg, and the ground itself in the hands of the Nuremberg families von Ebner, von Imhoff and von Stromer. In 1753 it had belonged to the Hofmarksgericht Fürth. Weikershof was assigned in 1808 to the Steuerdistrikt and the new rural commune of Höfen, and on 1 January 1899 part of that commune and the village itself went to Fürth, when eight farmhouses stood here.
War reached it in 1945. An air raid on the neighbouring barracks destroyed much of the village, the Americans occupied it afterwards, and the Johnson Barracks came down in the 1990s to make room for the commercial area east of the Schwabacher Straße.
Where is Weikershof?
Weikershof lies about three kilometres south of the old core of Fürth on the flat eastern slope of the Rednitz valley, bounded north-east and east by the Main-Donau-Kanal, with Gebersdorf of Nuremberg to the south and Oberasbach and Zirndorf on the hills across the river.
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Updated September 2026