Würzburg

St. Kilian’s Cathedral

St Kilian’s Cathedral (approx. 1040): the fourth biggest Roman Catholic church in Germany with a cruciform plan; extended, rebuilt and added-to up to the 18th century; destroyed in 1945; reconstruction completed in 1967; bishops’ tombs from the 12th to 19th centuries; cloister (1420-53) built on Romanesque foundations; Schönbornsche Grabkapelle (1718-36; Schönborn Family Mausoleum) by Balthasar Neumann., © Congress-Tourismus-Würzburg, Andreas Bestle

St. Kilian’s Cathedral
Domstraße 40
97070 Würzburg

Highlights along the Romantic Road

Augsburg

Perlachturm

Perlachturm (11th / 12th centuries): 70 m high tower with lantern belfry and ‘Welscher Haube’ roof by Elias Holl (1614-16).
Hohenfurch

Kalkbrenner chapel

After the birth of her 17th child at Christmas 1891, Franziska Schmid was dying. In this hopeless situation, Johann and…