Record stores in Nuremberg

Record shops reward the patient digger. Nuremberg, Bavaria has 3 mapped right now. That's 3 record shops mapped around Nuremberg. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Nuremberg (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Vinylio and Musicandbooks, plus Mono-Ton. If a record shop's missing from Nuremberg's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Nuremberg record lineup

3 in Nuremberg, plus 3 more around Nuremberg below:

What the map tells us about record stores in Nuremberg

3 of the 3 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The two mapped record stores sit on 37 Jakobstraße and 46 Jakobstraße — close enough to make a single outing of it.

Most of the record stores in Nuremberg list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Nuremberg record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Vinylio on 37 Jakobstraße, Musicandbooks on 46 Jakobstraße, and Mono-Ton. That's 3 stops on the Nuremberg record crawl.

Record digging tips for Nuremberg

Digging in Nuremberg? A few habits pay off:

• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve at Vinylio. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Handle records properly in the shop at Musicandbooks. By the edges, never the grooves. Shops notice, and so do the records.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Genre-hop. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Nuremberg — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Nuremberg can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 3 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 3 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.

Worth the trip: more record stores around Nuremberg

3 more within about 40 km of Nuremberg, nearest first: