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Nuremberg

Nuremberg's own market report puts office vacancy at 10.3% at the end of 2025, up from 7.1% a year earlier. The city is the owner behind the radar's biggest stories: the former Kaufhof (closed June 2023, bought October 2024, in a concept selection since January 2026) and a 25,500 m² former Siemens office block in Röthenbach, empty since 2016 and being converted into vocational schools. A house group with the Mietshäuser Syndikat also took a listed city house on Regensburger Straße in December 2025 after 18 years of vacancy.
Vacant office space10.3%of the office stock stands empty (the floor area is not published)
Empty buildings on record109and 5 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 114, 5 confirmed, 2 likely
On the map1,074buildings and sites from 10 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: Stadt Nürnberg, Marktbericht Immobilien Nürnberg 2026 (Wirtschaftsförderung): vacancy rate 10.3% in 2025 (7.1% a year earlier) on a stock of about 4,135,000 m²; demand for unrenovated older offices keeps falling and owners turn to modernisation and to conversion, often to housing. The report gives no vacant floor area. Map built 2026-10-09.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

No open list of empty buildings. The city's digital vacancy tool LeAn (nuernberg.le-an.de) sits behind a login, which the radar does not work around; the free listings the city publishes are the commercial-space offers (23 objects, all privately owned) read as 'market offers'.

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Check any building in Nuremberg: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
78Breite Gasse
Fund building with empty space · E 60; W 25 · 2 other sources nearby
3,934 m²13.1 m173 mA fit only

Homes standing empty

Of 49 Leerstandsmelder reports on the map, 48 sit in a building we can identify — 30 of them homes. Most are single flats or buildings below co-op scale. These are whole buildings of flats that people report empty, ranked by a reactivation score: co-op scale, whether the whole building is empty, how recent the report is, location and land. A building of flats needs no change of use. Reports are public and not checked by us — each card links to its entry on Leerstandsmelder.

ScoreBuildingFloor areaReportedActions
83Königstraße 40
Apartment building · Whole building
2,775 m²Oct 2023
58Schanzenstraße 18
Apartment building · Extent not stated
1,135 m²Dec 2024
58Bärenschanzstraße 51
Apartment building · 5 storeys · Extent not stated
1,020 m²Oct 2024
58Dr.-Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 12
Apartment building · 5 storeys · Extent not stated
2,185 m²Apr 2026
58Bauerngasse 18
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,180 m²Mar 2026
58Ludwigstraße 46
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,504 m²Mar 2026
57Gostenhofer Hauptstraße 58
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
976 m²Mar 2026
53Pilotystraße 46
Residential building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
870 m²Jan 2025
53Jauerstraße 8
Apartment building · 6 storeys · Extent not stated
1,446 m²Jul 2024
53Tetzelgasse 21
Apartment building · Extent not stated
995 m²Oct 2024
48Denisstraße 77
Apartment building · Extent not stated
728 m²Sept 2024
48Leonhardstraße 14
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Extent not stated
714 m²Jan 2025
47Glockendonstraße 24
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
688 m²Apr 2025
47Feuerleinstraße 33
Apartment building · Extent not stated
684 m²Sept 2024
46Feuerleinstraße 31
Apartment building · Extent not stated
676 m²Sept 2024

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Altstadt (Königstraße and Breite Gasse)

The city owns the former Kaufhof and its car park, the neighbouring City Point is in the same selection procedure, and the Zeughaus and Mauthalle join the same process.

  • Kaufhof closed June 2023, city-owned since 1 Oct 2024
  • City Point empty five years until Dec 2024
  • Council started the selection procedure on 28 Jan 2026

Risk: A multi-stage investor selection with heritage constraints (Kaufhof listed since October 2023); the first phase is closed and the city has not fixed a use.

2 sources

Röthenbach-Ost

A 25,500 m² 1990s office block empty since 2016 is being converted by the city into two vocational schools, a worked example of reusing an office frame.

  • Gross floor area 25,500 m² on a 1.9 ha site
  • Empty since 2016; kept rather than demolished
  • Preliminary design finished in June 2026

Risk: The client is the city and the use is public education, so it is a precedent, not an opening for housing.

2 sources

Langwasser

A twelve-storey tower of the Evangelisches Siedlungswerk has stood empty since 2020; the owner gave up refurbishing it and plans a full redevelopment with more, mostly subsidised, flats.

  • 48 flats empty since 2020 over fire-safety defects (the escape stairwell)
  • Refurbishment judged uneconomic; concept phase to finish 'soon'

Risk: The owner is a church-linked housing company with its own plans (659 new flats planned for 2024–2029), and the epd report gives no address.

1 source

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

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Public owner

Stadt Nürnberg — Wirtschaftsreferat (Sonderstab Kaufhof) and Liegenschaftsamt

The city owns the Kaufhof and runs the concept selection with the City Point, Zeughaus and Mauthalle; the Liegenschaftsamt sells surplus buildings. A co-operative can team with an investor in the second (concept and dialogue) phase or ask for the upper floors, as the city judges concepts on use mix, urban quality and treatment of the listed buildings as well as price.

2 sources
Public owner

Heritable lease to a house group (Regen406)

In December 2025 the city let a listed house that stood empty for 18 years to a house group with the Mietshäuser Syndikat for €1 on a heritable-lease arrangement; the group raises direct loans (€850,000 by May 2026) and a KfW loan. A co-operative can propose the same model for other empty city houses.

1 source
Subsidy

Federal programme 'Gewerbe zu Wohnen'

From July 2026 the federal government pays up to €30,000 a flat for turning heated non-residential buildings into homes (€300 million for 2026) — relevant to the older offices the city's report says are losing demand.

1 source

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-07-13
    City report: office vacancy 10.3%

    The Marktbericht Immobilien Nürnberg 2026 says vacancy rose from 7.1% to 10.3% in 2025, and that owners turn to conversion strategies for old office houses.

    1 source
  2. 2026-06-16
    School in the empty Siemens block: preliminary design done

    The pilot 'Schulbau Open Source' finished its preliminary design after 14 months for the conversion of the 1990s office building into a vocational school.

    1 source
  3. 2026-05-15
    Regen406 starts work

    The house group began the refurbishment of the listed house on Regensburger Straße that stood empty for 18 years.

    1 source
  4. 2026-03-25
    Old Arbeitsamt on Frauentorgraben is for sale again

    The Nürnberger Nachrichten reports that the former employment-office building on Frauentorgraben, empty since 1992 despite a top city-centre location, is on offer again (no house number or owner in the free text).

    1 source
  5. 2026-01-28
    Council starts a structured selection for the Kaufhof area

    The city council decided on a multi-stage concept selection covering the Kaufhof, City Point, Zeughaus and Mauthalle, with no use fixed.

    1 source
  6. 2025-12-22
    Church-linked housing company gives up an empty tower

    The Evangelisches Siedlungswerk says 48 flats in a twelve-storey Langwasser tower have been empty since 2020 and plans a complete redevelopment instead of a refurbishment.

    1 source
  7. 2024-12-19
    City Point finds an owner after five years

    The insurer Versicherungskammer took over the empty City Point opposite the Kaufhof; the city and the owner plan a joint concept.

    1 source
  8. 2024-10-21
    City takes the keys to the Kaufhof

    On 1 Oct 2024 the city became the owner of the former Kaufhof and its car park.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

21 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
Federal property for sale (BImA)
Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA)
Live sales of federal buildings and land (the open API behind the BImA property search; rentals, garages and parking left out). A disposal is an open route in; it does not say the building stands empty.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — public sale offers, credited to the BImA
Forced auctions of commercial property (zvg-portal)
Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder
Non-residential objects only; shown until the hearing date. Hamburg courts do not publish here.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
Official public notice (§ 39 ZVG)
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API141Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download11 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Storeys and heights: 3D building models LoD2 (Bavaria)
Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung
Datenquelle: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de. Recorded storeys where the model carries them, else the eaves height above ground (lowest eaves − ground).
Open download505 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY 4.0
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission49Live
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download2Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API65Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Property companies in insolvency, at the property their purpose names
Insolvency courts (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen), structured by OpenRegister
Companies in preliminary or opened insolvency proceedings whose registered business purpose speaks of land or buildings (scripts/reuse/import-insolvencies.ts, OpenRegister API — the portal itself disallows automated access, so it is never fetched). A company is placed at the street its purpose names; the rest are leads in the admin. An insolvent owner signals a possible sale, not vacancy: weak evidence.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
Official notices (§ 5 UrhG, source credited), via the OpenRegister API
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research4Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Commercial listings (ImmoScout24 / immowelt)
Scout24 / AVIV
Blocked to automated access; we do not work around that. Request drafted in docs/reuse-radar/outreach/.
Asking for permission0PendingProprietary — API or data partnership requested
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Commercial space offered through the city's business development agency
Stadt Nürnberg — Wirtschaftsförderung, Gewerbekataster (KWIS), layer 'Gewerbeobjekte und -projekte'
Open API23Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the layer — the city's public geoportal; used with credit to Stadt Nürnberg, Wirtschaftsförderung
Commercial plots offered through the city's business development agency
Stadt Nürnberg — Wirtschaftsförderung, Gewerbekataster (KWIS), layer 'Gewerbegrundstuecke'
Open API14Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated on the layer — the city's public geoportal; used with credit to Stadt Nürnberg, Wirtschaftsförderung
Federal properties with empty offices or flats (BImA list, 1 Jan 2023)
Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA) — lists released under the Freedom of Information Act via FragDenStaat (request #269761); read by scripts/reuse/import-bima-vacancy-2023.ts
Freedom of information1Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — official lists released under the IFG and published by FragDenStaat; used with credit to the BImA and FragDenStaat
Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API699Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API76Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No open list of empty buildings. The city's digital vacancy tool LeAn (nuernberg.le-an.de) sits behind a login, which the radar does not work around; the free listings the city publishes are the commercial-space offers (23 objects, all privately owned) read as 'market offers'.
  • No open cadastre source with building use or condition was found for Bavaria in this wave (the open Hausumringe product holds outlines and was not downloaded), so there is no 'unused' flag or office layer from the cadastre; offices come from OpenStreetMap.
  • The council information system was not mined; the long-vacant old Arbeitsamt on Frauentorgraben (empty since 1992) and the Langwasser tower have no address in the sources read, so they are in the signals only.
  • Flat vacancy: no Nuremberg figure from the 2022 census or the city's statistics office was read; the city's housing-misuse ordinance has no public case list.
  • Floor area: Bavaria's LoD2 model (the registry's nuremberg-lod2-heights) is the source for heights.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Nuremberg that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Berlin, Germany1,875empty buildings on recordBielefeld, Germany101empty buildings on recordBochum, Germany155empty buildings on recordBonn, Germany141empty buildings on recordBremen, Germany205empty buildings on recordCologne, Germany374empty buildings on recordDortmund, Germany304empty buildings on recordDresden, Germany341empty buildings on recordDuisburg, Germany141empty buildings on recordDüsseldorf, Germany46empty buildings on recordEssen, Germany224empty buildings on recordFrankfurt am Main, Germany208empty buildings on recordHamburg, Germany524empty buildings on recordHannover, Germany197empty buildings on recordLeipzig, Germany342empty buildings on recordMannheim, Germany82empty buildings on recordMunich, Germany316empty buildings on recordPrague, Czechia1,058empty buildings on recordStrasbourg, France26empty buildings on recordStuttgart, Germany175empty buildings on recordVaduz, Liechtenstein7empty buildings on recordWuppertal, Germany224empty buildings on recordZurich, Switzerland33empty buildings on record