This list of tallest buildings in Nuremberg ranks high-rise buildings and important landmarks that reach a height of 50 meters (164 feet). The tallest structure in the city is by far the 292-meter-high Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg, a telecommunication tower built in 1980.
Nuremberg is characterized above all by its medieval old town with churches towers and domes. To protect the cityscape, very few high-rise buildings have been built to date.
The tallest building in the city is the 135-meter-high Business Tower, the second tallest building in the Free State of Bavaria after Uptown München in Munich.
| Rank | Name | Image | Height m (ft) |
Floors | Year completed | Use / Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg | 
|
292 m (958 ft) | 1980 | Telecommunications tower, Tallest structure in Nuremberg. | ||
| 1 | Business Tower Nürnberg | 
|
135 m (443 ft) | 34 | 2000 | Tallest skyscraper in Nuremberg and second tallest in the state of Bavaria. Height to tip 163 m (535 ft) |
| St. Lorenz, Nuremberg | 
|
81 m (266 ft) | 15th century | |||
| 2 | Bundesagentur für Arbeit | 
|
80.2 m (263 ft) | 18 | 1973 | Federal Employment Agency |
| 3 | Norikus 1 | 
|
80 m (262 ft) | 22 | 1972 | Residential |
| St. Sebaldus Church | 
|
75 m (246 ft) | 13th century | |||
| Christus Church | 
|
73.5 m (241 ft) | 1894 | |||
| Friedenskirche Nürnberg | 
|
65 m (213 ft) | 1928 | |||
| 4 | Hochhaus Einsteinring 6–9 | _01.jpg)
|
64.9 m (213 ft) | 21 | 1971 | Residential |
| 5 | Hochhaus Neuselsbrunn 32 | 
|
62.5 m (205 ft) | 21 | 1965 | Residential |
| 5 | Hochhaus Neuselsbrunn 53 | 
|
62.5 m (205 ft) | 21 | 1965 | Residential |
| 5 | Hochhaus Neuselsbrunn 54 | 
|
62.5 m (205 ft) | 21 | 1965 | Residential |
| 8 | Seetor City Campus Tower[1] | 60 m (197 ft) | 18 | 2023 | Residential | |
| File:NürnbergReformationsGedKirche.jpg | 
|
58 m (190 ft) | 1938 | |||
| 9 | Hochhaus Glogauer Straße 11 | 
|
56.6 m (186 ft) | 17 | Residential | |
| 10 | HDI Hochhaus | 
|
56 m (184 ft) | 15 | 1991 | Seat of HDI |
| 10 | Plärrerhochhaus | 
|
56 m (184 ft) | 15 | 1953 | Administration building of Städtische Werke Nürnberg |
| 12 | Hochhaus Planetenring 25 | 
|
55.9 m (183 ft) | 17 | Residential | |
| 13 | Hochhaus Gartenstadt | 
|
54.5 m (179 ft) | 18 | 1971 | Residential |
| 14 | Hochhaus Creglinger Straße 62 | .jpg)
|
54.3 m (178 ft) | 17 | Residential | |
| 14 | Hochhaus Insinger Straße 54 | _01.jpg)
|
54.3 m (178 ft) | 17 | Residential | |
| 16 | Tafelhof Palais Turm I | 
|
53 m (174 ft) | 15 | 2021 | Hotel |
| 16 | Hochhaus Hainstraße 25 | 
|
53 m (174 ft) | 17 | 1976 | Residential |
| 18 | Hochhaus Weltenburger Straße 97 | 
|
52.8 m (173 ft) | 16 | Residential | |
| 19 | Grundig Tower I | 
|
52.3 m (172 ft) | 17 | 1970 | Headquarters of Grundig |
| 20 | Hochhaus Wettersteinstraße 51–53 | 52 m (171 ft) | 17 | Residential | ||
| 20 | UmweltHaus | 52 m (171 ft) | 13 | 2023 | Seat of Umweltbank | |
| 22 | Hochhaus Schultheißallee 5 | 
|
51.9 m (170 ft) | 17 | 1968 | Residential |
| 23 | Merian Forum | 
|
51.6 m (169 ft) | 13 | 2002 | Office |
| 24 | Hochhaus der Fränkischen Überlandwerke | 
|
51 m (167 ft) | 14 | 1966 | Seat of N-ERGIE |
| 25 | Norikus 2 | 
|
51 m (167 ft) | 17 | 1972 | Residential |
| 27 | Hochhaus Hornfischstraße 4 | _01.jpg)
|
50 m (164 ft) | 14 | Residential | |
| 27 | Hochhaus Schöpfstraße 33 | 50 m (164 ft) | 15 | Residential | ||
| 27 | Grundig Turm II | 
|
50 m (164 ft) | 16 | 1970 | Office |