Witches, Wine Cellars and Bombings Self Guided Tour of Wurzberg

Stand where a thriving community vanished overnight — and a market square was built on top of it.

History – Step inside a church so defiant, its own bishops refused to call it one.

Interiors – Find the skull and crossbones that served as a nobleman's medieval background check.

Look up at the Rococo façade a widow built using an eighteenth-century tax loophole.

Stand on the exact spot where three Irish missionaries were murdered — and a city was born.

Interiors – Peer into a crypt where saints' bones and skulls are split between two rival churches.

Search for the grave that someone still tends with fresh flowers — and no one knows who.

Listen for the one bell that survived when every other one melted in the firestorm.

Notice the Jewish menorah standing at the heart of a Catholic cathedral — and ask why.

History – Enter the palace designed by a cannon-foundry apprentice with no architectural training.

Interiors – Hear how one American soldier raced to save a ceiling fresco larger than the Sistine Chapel's.

Weigh the legacy of a man who built a hospital funded by wine — and set witch trials in motion.

Visit the darkened lab where a physicist noticed a faint glow and changed medicine forever.

Peer inside the last surviving double-boom stone tread crane — powered by workers walking in giant wheels.

Pause at the building where a city of hospitals was levelled in seventeen minutes.

Cross a bridge that took two centuries to finish — partly because, legend says, the Devil kept interfering.

Stand where a sculptor-turned-mayor was imprisoned and tortured for choosing the wrong side of a peasant revolt.