Princely building museum

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Entrance to the Fürstenbaumuseum

The Fürstenbaumuseum , part of the Museum für Franken , is housed in the eastern wing, the so-called Fürstenbau, of the Marienberg Fortress above Würzburg . The first museum presentation was set up here in 1938, but it closed again after a short time due to the war. The museum opened in its current form on October 11, 1990. The prince-bishop's living quarters are presented on the first floor and the city history section is presented on the second floor.

Prince-Bishop's living quarters

On the first floor there are the prince-bishop's living rooms with furniture, paintings and carpets from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Furthermore, the Fürstensaal (formerly the coat of arms hall) with the Echter family carpet and various exhibition rooms with objects from the Prince Bishop's treasure and parament chamber can be visited.

Room plan

  • Room 1: Real stairs
  • Room 2: corridor
  • Room 3: Julius-Echter-Saal
  • Room 4: Rundstube
  • Room 5: tower room
  • Room 6: passage room
  • Room 7: bedroom
  • Room 8: living room
  • Room 9: anteroom
  • Room 10: Fürstensaal
  • Room 11: corner hall (treasury)
  • Room 12: Tower room (treasure chamber)
  • Room 13: Parament room
  • Room 14: real spiral staircase
  • Room 15: corridor
  • Room 16: Bibra stairs

City history department

The city history department is located on the 2nd floor and chronologically thematizes the Würzburg city history from the early and high Middle Ages up to 1945. However, special individual topics for the city history are also explored in separate exhibition rooms, such as the Würzburg coins and medals, the history of the fortress , the living culture in the Biedermeier period and the prince-bishops, who as rulers (helped) shape the history of the city.

A highlight of the department are the two large city models. One wooden model shows the medieval town around 1525. It was made by Georg Achatz and Karl Steinbauer from 1953 to 1967. The basis were documents, plans and 500 drawings by Franz Seberich. The second model shows the city after it was destroyed by an air raid on March 16, 1945 . It was created after recordings of the United States Air Force aerial reconnaissance on March 22 and 24, 1945. Friedrich Schuller made the model between 1985 and 1989, on a scale of 1: 500, based on preliminary planning work by Otfried Gross from the Würzburg municipal building department.

Room plan

  • Room 16: Bibra stairs
  • Room 17: Marienturm
  • Room 17/18: Würzburg in the early and high Middle Ages
  • Room 19: Würzburg in the late Middle Ages and the Reformation period with the city model from 1525
  • Room 20: Constitution and administration of the city of Würzburg until 1802
  • Room 21: Würzburg at the time of Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn
  • Room 22: Würzburg in the 17th century
  • Room 23: Würzburg coins and medals
  • Room 24/25: Würzburg in the 18th century
  • Room 26: Würzburg home decor in Biedermeier style
  • Room 27: Fortress history, Würzburg prince-bishops
  • Room 27a: The water supply for Marienberg Fortress
  • Room 28: The political changes in Würzburg at the beginning of the 19th century.
  • Room 29/30: Würzburg as a Franconian city in the Bavarian state
  • Room 31: Würzburg in the years 1933–1945 with the city model after the destruction on March 16, 1945
  • Room 32: anteroom to the real staircase

Bibra stairs

literature

  • Werner Helmberger: Marienberg Fortress Würzburg with the Princely Building Museum . Official leader of the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-941637-20-7 .
  • Hans-Peter Trenschel (Ed.): The city history department of the Main Franconian Museum Würzburg in the Fürstenbaumuseum of the Marienberg fortress. (= Inventory catalogs of the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg. Volume 17). Würzburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-932461-22-4 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 17"  E