Bavaria
Würzburg
Würzburg is a city of prince-bishops, wine, Baroque ambition and catastrophic wartime destruction. This guide moves from fortress to Residence, cathedral, bridge, hospital, pilgrimage church and laboratory, showing how ecclesiastical power, philanthropy, science and post-1945 reconstruction shaped the city visible today.
Stories in Würzburg
- Marienberg Fortress — Before the Baroque Palace
- Alte Mainbrücke — Saints, Trade and the River
- Würzburg Cathedral — A Romanesque Backbone
- Würzburg Residence — Government as Theatre
- Falkenhaus — Rococo on the Marketplace
- Juliusspital — Charity, Medicine and Wine
- Käppele — Pilgrimage in Rococo Form
- Röntgen Memorial — Seeing Through Matter