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Langwasser, Nuremberg — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Langwasser is a 1960s satellite town on the southeast side of Nuremberg, a planned Stadtteil named for the stream along its eastern edge.
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Where to stay in Langwasser
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Langwasser is housing before anything else. The trade in rooms sits mostly in Nuremberg proper, and a base out in the satellite town suits you if quiet residential streets matter more than an evening in the older city. The Zollhauspark and the Passionskirche give the quarter its two obvious fixed points.
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Langwasser
The satellite town's own streets, laid out in the 1960s around the Passionskirche and Zum Guten Hirten, with the Zollhauspark terrace as the one piece of older ground. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in LangwasserRooms in the old Reichsstadt Nürnberg core instead of the stream edgeNuremberg city centre
The historic core of Nuremberg, where most of the city's rooms sit, a wholly different proposition from the planned blocks around the Passionskirche.Find hotels in Nuremberg city centreHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Nuremberg
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Museums & Galleries
1- Laubenmuseum
Churches & Religious Sites
4- Passionskirche Heritage
- Zum Guten Hirten Heritage
- St. Rupert Heritage
- Kirche Dr.-Linnert-Ring 28 in Nürnberg Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Terrasse der Gaststätte Zollhauspark Heritage
- Ehemaliges Zollhaus an der Grenze Fürstentum Ansbach/Reichsstadt Nürnberg Heritage
- Saalbau der Gaststätte Zollhauspark Heritage
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About Langwasser
What are the main landmarks in Langwasser?
The customs house came first. An old Zollhaus marks the line that once separated the Fürstentum Ansbach from the Reichsstadt Nürnberg, and the Zollhauspark beside it keeps both its Saalbau and the terrace that came with the Gaststätte. The Passionskirche and Zum Guten Hirten serve the housing built around them.
The Laubenmuseum adds a small local collection.
What is the history of Langwasser?
Langwasser was drawn from scratch in the 1960s as a prototype of the satellite town concept, a planned residential quarter laid out on the southeastern flank of Nuremberg. The name is older. It belongs to the small stream along the eastern edge, which carried the word Langwasser long before any of the housing did.
Older still is the Zollhaus that once watched the boundary between the Fürstentum Ansbach and the Reichsstadt Nürnberg.
Where is Langwasser?
The Stadtteil covers about five square kilometres in the southeast of Nuremberg, closed off on its eastern edge by the small stream that gave it the name.
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What is the best area to stay in Langwasser?
Langwasser: Quiet nights in the planned quarter beside the Zollhauspark. Nuremberg city centre: Rooms in the old Reichsstadt Nürnberg core instead of the stream edge.
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Updated October 2026