Climb Balthasar Neumann's soaring staircase beneath the largest ceiling fresco on earth — Tiepolo's painted heaven over one of Europe's greatest Baroque palaces. We secure your dated entry so you walk straight in.
Book your entryAges 18–64
€22
Seniors & eligible visitors (ID at entry)
€20
The Würzburg Residence is one of the most complete and dazzling Baroque palaces in Europe — the former seat of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg, raised between 1720 and 1744 by the great architect Balthasar Neumann with an international team of the age's finest artists. It was among the very first German monuments inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, in 1981, and a single visit explains why.
The palace's showpiece is its grand staircase. Neumann threw a single unsupported vault over the ceremonial ascent, and across that vault the Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted, in 1752–53, the largest ceiling fresco in the world — a luminous open sky in which the Four Continents pay homage. You climb up beneath it at your own pace, and it changes character with every step.
Beyond the staircase lie the ceremonial state rooms: the White Hall, a cool masterpiece of white rococo stucco, and the Imperial Hall, a blaze of colour, gilding and further Tiepolo frescoes. Deeper in, the Mirror Cabinet — destroyed in 1945 and painstakingly recreated from fragments — glitters as one of the palace's most moving rooms. The main halls are self-guided; the more delicate rooms are shown on guided tours included in your ticket. Outside, the Court Church and the Court Garden are free to all.
We are a concierge service: you choose your visit date, we arrange and secure your admission, and a print-at-home ticket arrives in your inbox — ready to show at the entrance so you skip the queue at the cash desk. No wrestling with an unfamiliar booking site; just your ticket, in English, in your email.
We are an independent concierge and booking service for travellers visiting the Würzburg Residence. We are not the palace, its administration or an official box office; we arrange your dated entry ticket on your behalf and deliver it by email for a service fee. We confirm your dated entry before your visit.
Plan your visit
A clear, honest guide to what your Würzburg Residence ticket covers, what it costs, who goes free, and how date-based entry actually works on the day.
Everything you need to plan a smooth visit to Balthasar Neumann's Baroque masterpiece — seasonal hours, the quietest times, what to see, and how to arrive.
The palace's masterpieces in one ascent: a soaring unsupported vault, the world's largest ceiling fresco, and the white-and-gold state rooms it leads to.
Self-guided entry to the grand staircase under Tiepolo's fresco, the White Hall and the Imperial Hall, plus included guided tours of the Southern Rooms and Mirror Cabinet at set times. The Court Church and Court Garden are free to all. We book your date and email the ticket.
No — your ticket is valid for the whole day you choose, within opening hours, so you arrive when you like. The one exception is the included guided tours of the further rooms, which run at set times through the day in German and English.
The main state rooms — the staircase, White Hall and Imperial Hall — are self-guided at your own pace. Some further rooms, including the Mirror Cabinet, are seen only on guided tours that are included in your ticket and depart at set times in German and English.
Children and young people under 18 enter free (under-14s must be with an adult), and students over 18 enter free with a valid student ID — no ticket needed for either. Reduced tickets require original proof of eligibility at the entrance.
Your print-at-home ticket lets you skip the cash-desk queue where visitors buy on the day. It is not a timed fast-track into the rooms themselves — you still enter within opening hours on your date — but it removes the transaction step, which is the slowest part in peak season.
Plan on 1.5–2 hours for the state rooms, plus 30–60 minutes for the free Court Garden and about 45 minutes if you join a guided tour. The staircase and Imperial Hall reward an unhurried look.
After you book, our team arranges your dated admission and emails your print-at-home ticket, usually well before your visit. You show it at the entrance on your chosen day. If we ever can't secure your date, we contact you and refund in full.
April–October roughly 09:00–18:00 (last admission about 17:30); November–March roughly 10:00–16:30 (last admission about 16:00). The palace closes on a few public holidays, so we confirm the exact hours for your date.