Historic site · Würzburg, Bavaria
Würzburg Residence
Residenz Würzburg · Würzburger Residenz
The Würzburg Residence is the Baroque former palace of the prince-bishops of Würzburg, built from 1720 to plans by Balthasar Neumann, with ceiling frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Why go
The Würzburg Residence is the former residence of the prince-bishops of Würzburg; the Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung's German-language history page says its shell was built from 1720 to 1744 to plans by Balthasar Neumann, first for Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn, and its interiors were finished by 1780. The same page credits the Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo with the ceiling frescoes in the Imperial Hall (Kaisersaal) and over the staircase, painted in 1751-1753. It says the building burned almost completely in the air raid of 16 March 1945, while the vestibule, garden hall, White Hall, staircase and Imperial Hall were largely spared, and that the reconstruction ended in 1987, when the reconstructed Mirror Cabinet was opened to the public. The operator's tours page says all rooms can be seen without a guided tour, and its home page says tickets are sold at the Residence ticket desk and online. UNESCO inscribed the Residence with the Court Garden and the Residenzplatz on the World Heritage List in 1981, the home page says; the listing is a designation, not this record.
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