These items included works of art, religious items and artifacts made in Nuremberg, the former seat of the Holy Roman Empire. The tunnel system runs about four stories deep and spans an estimated total area of six acres-equating to a space of more than six football fields.īy the time war broke out in 1939, Nazi officials had already developed a detailed plan to preserve “cultural treasures” in Nuremberg held sacred by Hitler’s Third Reich. The naturally cool chambers had been used to store beer and vats of pickled cabbage.
The underground maze had existed since the 14th century-medieval workers used hammers and chisels to carve a labyrinth of tunnels and vaults underneath the castle hill. The Nazis used a medieval tunnel system underneath Nuremberg’s imperial castle to hide the city’s ancient treasures, including the Imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Emperor, valuable paintings and even pieces of stained glass windows from local cathedrals. The secret art bunker of Nuremberg, today known as the Historischer Kunstbunker, held the keys to the historic relics of the Nazis’ Party Rally city. 2, 1945, a horde of Nazi-accumulated artwork survived undamaged in a bunker hidden about 78 feet underground. Though more than 1,800 people in Nuremberg, Germany, died in a fiery hailstorm amid one million incendiary bombs and 120 blockbusters dropped on the city by the British Royal Air Force on Jan.
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