The Great Road (Große Strasse) was built as a parade road for the Wehrmacht (army). The road made of granite pavers in black and gray is almost 1.2 mi long and 130 ft. wide. It spreads from the Congress Hall in an imaginable line to the Imperial Castle located on a hill in Nuremberg Old Town – symbolizing the tradition the Nazi´s saw themselves in – to medieval times and maybe also to the strength of the Castle – which never got conquered.