Wurzburg pt2

So we had left off while climbing the grand staircase. We enter the next room which was where your guards waited (of course in the fifteenth century you had guards).

The decorations are all in stucco, that is plaster, but plaster raised to a high art. The corners are all in martial themes. Leaving your guards (probably standing at parade rest) you enter the next room to be received by the Prince-Bishop.

This is one of the several rooms off the next room. If you expand the picture and squint at the bottom of the central mirror you can see me taking the picture.

This is the ceiling of the Mirror room in case you think it wasn’t over the top.

The entire second floor is in the same over-the-top baroque style. It was so good that when Napoleon visited in 1813, he booted the Prince-Bishop out and declared this was Emperor-level stuff.

After the Residencz, we walked down into town and we heard the legend of St Kilian, the German Irish saint. He converted the local Duke but told him that he couldn’t be married to the brother’s widow. She got all butt-hurt and had him and his two companions killed.

Almost right next door is the Official Cathedral of Wurzburg.

We continued walking and would up on the fourteenth century bridge over the Main River.

With that we walked back to the ship and took a nap. Next stop, Wertheim.