Explorar Wurzburgo

The Marienkapelle is a late-Gothic hall church built between 1377 and about 1480 on Würzburg's Marktplatz, on the site of a Jewish cemetery destroyed in 1349. Its 70-metre tower has carried a gilded, rotating Madonna since 1713. The south portal shows copies of Tilman Riemenschneider's Adam and Eve sculptures, and the architect Balthasar Neumann is buried inside.

Neumünster was founded around 1057 on the traditional martyrdom site of the Frankish missionary bishops Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan, whose relics rest in its western crypt. Architect Joseph Greissing gave the church its Baroque dome and red sandstone west facade in 1711-1716. The adjoining Lusamgärtchen garden holds a memorial stone for poet Walther von der Vogelweide.

Würzburg Cathedral was begun in 1040 under Bishop Bruno and completed by 1075, making it the fourth-largest Romanesque church in Germany at 105 metres long. Severely damaged by bombing in 1945, it was rebuilt by 1967, combining Romanesque masonry with modern additions such as a bronze portal by Fritz Koenig. The interior holds bishops' tombs carved by Tilman Riemenschneider.

The Alte Mainbrücke is Würzburg's oldest bridge over the Main, begun in 1476 with its stone piers finished by 1488; the arches were vaulted in stone between 1512 and 1703. Twelve Baroque statues of saints were added from 1728, including work by the Becker brothers. Rebuilt after wartime damage by 1950, it has carried only pedestrians and cyclists since 1990.

The Juliusspital was founded in 1576 by Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn as a hospital and almshouse, admitting its first patients in 1580. Its Baroque Fürstenbau, rebuilt from 1700 by architects Antonio Petrini and Joseph Greissing after a fire, now adjoins the Juliusspital winery, Germany's second-largest, whose cellar and Vinothek shop are open to visitors.

The Würzburg Residence was built from 1720 to 1780 for the prince-bishops of Würzburg, designed by Balthasar Neumann. Its staircase hall carries a ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from 1752-53, among the largest in the world. More than 40 rooms are open to visitors, with the Hofkirche court chapel and Baroque Hofgarten. UNESCO listed it in 1981.

Marienberg Fortress overlooks Würzburg from a hill above the Main river, its oldest surviving parts dating to the early 11th century. From 1253 to 1719 it was the residence of the Würzburg prince-bishops, before they moved into the newly built Residence. It now houses the Museum für Franken, with collections including Tilman Riemenschneider sculptures, and the Fürstenbaumuseum.

The Museum im Kulturspeicher occupies a converted grain warehouse on Würzburg's old harbour, opened as a museum in 2002. It holds the municipal art collection of 19th- and 20th-century Franconian painting alongside the Peter C. Ruppert Collection of European concrete art made since the Second World War.