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Marienberg: Rose Garden

The rose garden is located behid the fortress. From the terrace you can have a wonderful view over the town.

Address: Marienberg

Marienberg: Furstenbau Museum

Furstenbau Museum is located in the residential apartments of the fortress. Here you can see liturgical and of common use objects that reconstruct the history of the town. There you can see a great plastic of the city that shows as it was after the end of the second world war.

Address: Marienberg

Marienberg: the main courtyard

After the Mainfrankisches Museum you arrive in a very big courtyard where you can see a fantastic gateway built in 1482. Crossing this gateway you arrive to the internal courtyard. There you can see the Vorburg, the residential palace, built between the 16th and the 17th century. In the middle of the court there is a big tower and the nice Marienkapelle: it is a circular church of frank epoch with a nice Renaissance door and a Baroque interior.

Address: Marienberg

Marienberg: Mainfrankisches Museum

Mainfrankisches Museum is located in the west side of the bastions of the fortress. In this interesting museum you can see wonderful paintings made by Tilman Riemenschneider and G.B.Tiepolo, fantastic sculptures made by Peter Wagner, and medieval graves.

Address: Marienberg

Marienberg

The wonderful castle of Marienberg was the home of the bishop-princes von Schonborn before the construction of the Residenz. The fortress has mighty bastions to stellar plant ,internal walls and 11 towers built among 1650 and 1710 on project of the ticinese Domenico Fontana.

Address: Marienberg

Alte Mainbrucke

The nice Alte Mainbrucke crosses the Main River and it is very similar to the Charles Bridge of Prague. It was built in the 12th century with 23 arcades and restored after the flood of 1473. In 1720 were added 12 stautes of saints. Walking the bridge is very nice: you can see the Marienberg and to discover the operation of one of the dams of the Main river and listen some music of street artists.

Address: Alte Mainbrucke

Numunster

The baroque facade of this church is very beautiful; it was made between 1711 and 1719 by Johann Dientzenhofer replacing the Romanesque west choir of the church (13th century). The church has been built on the place of the martyrdom of the Irish saints Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan.
The interior of the church has got three naves with the main altar made by the Zimmermann's borthers.

Address: Kurschnerhof

Markt

The Markt is the main square of Wurzburg. During the Second War World all the half-timbered houses on its sides were destroyed. Nowday you can see modern houses and the fantastic Marienkapelle.

Address: Markt

Marienkapelle

The white and red Gothic Marienkapelle was built among 1377 and 1479. Its tower bell survive to the bombardaments in 1945 and the church was very damaged. It was restored and rebuilt in the following years. On the facade you can see three nice gateways with statues and reliefs. The interior of the church is very nice: there you can see many graves among which the most interesting is the one of Konrad von Schaumberg (1499) and the one of Balthasar Neumann. In the central nave you can see a wonderful wooden statue of the Mary made in 1442.

Address: Markt

Haus Zum Falken

Haus Zum Falken is a wonderful baroque palace with plasters and decorations on the facade. Nowday it is the home of the tourist information centre.

Address: Markt