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Nurnberg train station name?

Does anyone know the name for the main train station in Nurnberg? When I go into the German rail website, a bunch of names pop up along with the Nurnberg name. Totally confused. I'm just going in for a day trip to see the old town.

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The one you want is probably just plain "Nuremberg"(I didn't see "Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof" listed). The station sits across the street from a section of the old city wall.

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Fortunately, the DB website accepts a lot of misspellings of the names of German towns, like "Nuremberg", but some spellings confuse it as to what you really want. Someone has programmed the site to recognize that when one writes "Nuremberg", it's probably an American wanting the main train station, Hauptbahnhof or Hbf, in that city, but apparently, with "Nurnberg", it only recognizes the city, in which there are many bus stops. If you had written "Nurnberg Hbf" you would have gotten the station.

Those two dots over the ü, called umlaut, mean something. They change the sound of the vowel, u.

The correct spelling of the town is "Nürnberg" with the umlaut, although, in German, "Nuernberg" is an historically acceptable substitute.

Note that in some cases, a spelling without the umlaut might be an entirely different town and the site will assume you really want the town you spelled.

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Nürnberg is correct but add e for umlaut for computers without umlauts Nuernberg. Füssen=Fuessen, Fürth=Fuerth for other examples.