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In 1993, the Way of Human Rights, created by artist Dani Karavan, was opened at the western end of Kartäusergasse


It symbolises the victory of the Nuremberg of Culture over Hitler's Nuremberg

The Way of Human Rights

Fully aware of the city's role during National Socialism, Nuremberg today tries to live up to the challenge of being a City of Peace and Human Rights. In 1993, Israeli artist, Dani Karavan, designed the Way of Human Rights in front of the Germanische Nationalmuseum.

30 stone pillars are inscribed with the 30 articles of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights in different languages. Since 1995, the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award has been presented every two years.

The first awardee in 1995 was the Russian Sergej Kovalev. The 2007 awardee was Eugénie Musayidire (Rwanda) for her reconciliation work between the two enemy tribes, the Hutu and the Tutsi, in Rwanda.

The Documentation Centre Party Rally Grounds, opened in November 2001 in the north wing of the NS Congress Hall, constitutes an important contribution to an in-depth analysis of the National Socialist period. Particularly with younger visitors in mind, the permanent exhibition "Fascination and Terror", and the Study Forum aim at explaining the reasons and repercussions of the Nazis' criminal regime of terror.

Since 2006, an information system on the 940 acres of the former party rally grounds has explained the history and repercussions of the Nazi propaganda events staged here.

Visitors enter the "Way" via the white entrance gate at Kornmarkt, and then walk along the row of high white pillars engraved with the 30 articles of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in German and 30 other languages.

Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände (Documentation Centre Party Rally Grounds)