Bavaria
Franconia
Lower Franconia

Würzburg

Würzburg or Wuerzburg is in , in northern , . It is the largest city in the region, famous throughout Germany for its wine and as the northern end of the .
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  • Type: City with 125,000 residents
  • Description: city in the region of Franconia, Northern Bavaria, Germany
  • Also known as: “Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg”, “Virtibriga”, “Wörtzburch”, and “Wuerzburg”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fortress Marienberg and Würzburg Cathedral.

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Marienberg Fortress is a prominent landmark on the left bank of the river in Würzburg, in the region of , . It is a symbol of Würzburg and served as a home of the local prince-bishops for nearly five centuries.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Würzburg in , , dedicated to Saint Kilian. It is the seat of the Bishop of Würzburg and has served as the burial place for the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg for hundreds of years.

Railway station
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Würzburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Würzburg in the state of . It was opened in 1864 to the north of the inner city as a replacement for the former Ludwigsbahnhof in the city centre, the capacity of which had been exhausted by the dramatic increase of rail traffic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Veitshöchheim and Höchberg.

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is a town of 9,500 people in , Germany. Its main claim to fame and indeed the first thing many people think of when hearing the name is the fact that Fastnacht in Franken, a humorous TV program during carnival, is shot here.

Town
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is a municipality in the district of in , . borders, in the east, directly on the city of Würzburg. consists of two main urban areas: Altort and Hexenbruch.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Würzburg

Latitude
49.7934° or 49° 47′ 36″ north
Longitude
9.931° or 9° 55′ 52″ east
Population
125,000
Elevation
204 metres (669 feet)
IATA airport code
QWU
United Nations Location Code
DE WUE
Open location code
8FXFQWVJ+89
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25738881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2805615
Wiki­data ID
Q2999
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Würzburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Würzburg”
  • Albanian: “Würzburg”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Herbopolis”
  • Arabic: “فورتسبور”
  • Arabic: “فورتسبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Würzburg”
  • Armenian: “Վյուրցբուրգ”
  • Asturian: “Würzburg”
  • Asturian: “Wurzburgu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vürtsburq”
  • Balinese: “Würzburg”
  • Basque: “Würzburg”
  • Bavarian: “Wiazbuag”
  • Bavarian: “Wiazburg”
  • Belarusian: “Вюрцбург”
  • Bengali: “উর্জবুর্গ”
  • Bengali: “ভুরৎসবুর্গ”
  • Bosnian: “Würzburg”
  • Breton: “Würzburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Вюрцбург”
  • Catalan: “Würzburg”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg”
  • Cebuano: “Würzburg (kapital sa distrito nga gobyerno)”
  • Cebuano: “Würzburg”
  • Central Kurdish: “ورزبورگ”
  • Chechen: “Вуьрцбург”
  • Chinese: “Würzburg”
  • Chinese: “烏茲堡”
  • Chinese: “符茲堡”
  • Chinese: “維爾茨堡”
  • Chinese: “维尔茨堡”
  • Chuvash: “Вюрцбург”
  • Croatian: “Würzburg”
  • Czech: “Vircpurk”
  • Czech: “Würzburg”
  • Danish: “Würzburg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Würzburg”
  • Dutch: “Würzburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورتسبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Herbipolo”
  • Esperanto: “Vircburgo”
  • Esperanto: “Vurcburgo”
  • Esperanto: “Würzburg”
  • Estonian: “Würzburg”
  • Finnish: “Würzburg”
  • Frankish: “Virteburh [a. 704]”
  • French: “Wörtzburch”
  • French: “Wurtzbourg”
  • French: “Würzburg”
  • Galician: “Würzburg”
  • Georgian: “ვიურცბურგი”
  • German: “WÜ”
  • German: “Würzburg”
  • Greek: “Βίρτσμπουργκ”
  • Greek: “Βύρτσμπουργκ”
  • Gujarati: “વુર્ઝબર્ગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Würzburg”
  • Hausa: “Würzburg”
  • Hebrew: “וירצבורג”
  • Hindi: “वुर्जबर्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Würzburg”
  • Icelandic: “Würzburg”
  • Ido: “Würzburg”
  • Indonesian: “Würzburg”
  • Interlingue: “Würzburg”
  • Irish: “Würzburg”
  • Italian: “Würzburg”
  • Japanese: “ヴュルツブルク”
  • Kannada: “ವುರ್ಜ್ ಬರ್ಗ್”
  • Kashubian: “Würzburg”
  • Kazakh: “Вюрцбург”
  • Kirghiz: “Вюрцбург”
  • Korean: “뷔르츠부르크”
  • Kotava: “Würzburg”
  • Kurdish: “Wûrzburg”
  • Kurdish: “Würzburg”
  • Ladin: “Würzburg”
  • Latin: “Herbipolis”
  • Latin: “Vuirziburga [a. 779]”
  • Latvian: “Vircburga”
  • Lithuanian: “Viurcburgas”
  • Lombard: “Würzburg”
  • Low German: “Würzborg”
  • Luxembourgish: “Würzburg”
  • Macedonian: “Вирцбург”
  • Malagasy: “Würzburg”
  • Malay: “Wurzburg”
  • Maltese: “Würzburg”
  • Manx: “Würzburg”
  • Marathi: “व्युर्झबुर्ग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Würzburg”
  • Northern Frisian: “Würzbörj”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Würzburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Würzburg”
  • Norwegian: “Würzburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Würzburg”
  • Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Wirciburc”
  • Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Wirzaburg [a. 742]”
  • Old High German (ca. 750-1050): “Wirziburg [a. 779]”
  • Ossetian: “Вюрцбург”
  • Persian: “وورتسبورگ”
  • Piemontese: “Würzburg”
  • Polish: “Würzburg”
  • Portuguese: “Wurtzburgo”
  • Romanian: “Würzburg”
  • Russian: “Вюрцбург”
  • Rusyn: “Вӯрцбурґ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Würzburg”
  • Scots: “Würzburg”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Würzburg”
  • Serbian: “Вирцбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Würzburg”
  • Silesian: “Würzburg”
  • Sinhala: “වර්ස්බර්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Würzburg”
  • Slovenian: “Würzburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وورتسبورق”
  • Spanish: “Wurzburgo”
  • Swahili: “Würzburg”
  • Swedish: “Würzburg”
  • Tamil: “வர்ஸ்பர்க்”
  • Tatar: “Вүрцбург”
  • Telugu: “ఉర్జ్బర్గ్”
  • Thai: “เวือทซ์บวร์ค”
  • Thai: “เวือร์ซบูร์ก”
  • Tumbuka: “Würzburg”
  • Turkish: “Kreisfreie Stadt Würzburg”
  • Turkish: “WÜ”
  • Turkish: “Würzburg, St”
  • Turkish: “Würzburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Вюрцбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Вюрцбурґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Würzburg”
  • Urdu: “وزبرگ”
  • Urdu: “ووتزبرگ”
  • Venetian: “Würzburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Wurzburg”
  • Vietnamese: “Würzburg”
  • Volapük: “Würzburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Würzburg”
  • Welsh: “Würzburg”
  • Western Frisian: “Wurzburch”
  • Western Frisian: “Würzburch”
  • Western Frisian: “Würzburg”
  • Western Panjabi: “ورزبرگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “维尔茨堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏茲堡”
  • “Wurzburg”
  • “Würzburg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Würzburg”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.