About this place
The Hall of Honour, or Ehrenhalle, stands at the edge of the green Luitpoldhain, a low arcaded monument of red brick and stone completed in 1930 to mourn the nearly ten thousand Nuremberg men killed in the First World War. Three years later the surrounding park was ripped up and hardened into the Luitpoldarena, an eighty four thousand square metre expanse of paving able to hold a hundred and fifty thousand marching men of the SA and SS. Across the open ground, facing the Hall of Honour, Albert Speer raised a long crescent grandstand, and between the two ran a broad granite path. Along this axis Hitler walked in near silence, flanked by Himmler and Lutze, in the ritual the regime called the commemoration of the dead. Today the paving is gone and grass has returned, but the Hall of Honour survives, and the emptiness of the lawn still carries the memory of what once filled it.
Key facts
- 9855 soldiers — Nuremberg men killed in the First World War are named on the Hall of Honour, finished in 1930
- 84000 sqm — The area the Nazis paved over in 1933 to create the Luitpold Arena parade ground
- 150000 participants — SA and SS men could be massed in the arena at a single party rally
📍 An der Ehrenhalle, 90478, Nürnberg