an industrial city in Bavaria, southern Germany, whose German name is Nürnberg. People think of Nuremberg because of the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1930s, when the Nazi Party held very large well-organized public meetings. In 1945-46 the Nuremberg Trials took place there, when many Nazi leaders were judged in a court of law for their war crimes, and some of them were punished by death.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.