Wurzburg, Germany: Marienberg Fortress

Sometimes there's too much to do in the time allotted to sightseeing in a particular city to get everything done. We could see the Marienberg Fortress above the riverbank, looking almost regally back at it. But we couldn't climb the hill to see it.

It went through the usual changes of ownership during its prime, which ran from the 12th to 18th century. That included a time in 1631 when the Swedes took a run at blasting the place, forcing the owner (Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schonborn) to build some new fortifications.

Sure enough, it took some damage from Allied bombing. It sounds like the local residents had the equivalent of a slow Kickstarter project, but they finally finished fixing the place up in 1990. There's a nice garden built around 1938 to 18th century specifications.

You can go through much of a place as a visitor. Since I didn't get the chance to do so, I watched this video with the same wondering as you might have:



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