Würzburg is very nearly in the middle of the five-hundred-kilometer Main Valley Bicycle Route (Maintal Radweg). From here you can cycle 246 km upstream to Bayreuth via Ochsenfurt (top sign in the photo) or 243 km downstream to Mainz by way of Zellingen (bottom sign). The middle sign points to Read More …
The train on the right, on track 4, is a first-generation InterCityExpress (ICE) which has been in operation since 1991. You can always tell a first-generation ICE because they have a decorative but dysfunctional hump on the roof of the dining car — but at least they HAVE a real Read More …
High above Würzburg on the west side of the Main River is the Festung Marienberg, a fortress that was built starting around the year 1200 on the site of a much older fortified retreat of the “Hallstatt” period (about 1000 BC). There are two well-marked paths leading up to the Read More …
This Old Main Bridge was built from 1473-1543 (a mere seventy years), to replace an earlier bridge which had been destroyed. Here’s a wider view of Würzburg, with the Old Main Bridge in the middle. The name of the river that flows through Würzburg is the Main, which is pronounced Read More …
For 466 years, from 1253 to 1719, the Prince-Bishops who ruled this part of Lower Franconia lived up in the (easily defendable) Marienberg Fortress overlooking Würzburg and the Main River Valley. It wasn’t until 1720 that one of them felt secure enough to start building the Residenz down in the Read More …
Würzburg is a city of 130,000 people, located on the Main River not quite 220 kilometers upstream from Frankfurt. There are fine bicycle paths all along the river, so it’s no problem getting here. And if you’re in a hurry, there are about thirty-seven trains per day in each direction, Read More …