About me, and about this site
I am Theres Voßmann. I guide people around Würzburg for a living, which most weeks means walking a group up the staircase of the Residenz and watching them stop talking when they look up. I have been doing it for eleven years, long enough to have seen the Hofgarten roses come and go a dozen times and to have answered the same question several thousand times: how much is it, and do I have to book a tour to get in.
Why this site exists
Because the honest answer to that question is cheerful and almost nothing online says it. An adult ticket to the staterooms costs about ten euros. Everyone under 18 goes in free, and so do students over 18 from general and vocational schools with valid ID. The ticket you buy at the desk or online already entitles you to join a guided tour at no extra cost — in English twice a day, in German every full and half hour. The Court Church costs nothing. The Court Garden costs nothing. The university museum in the south wing costs nothing.
People arrive here having been told, by search results and by listings, that a palace like this needs planning and a paid guided tour booked weeks ahead. It does not. So I wrote the plain version: what the ticket costs and covers, the tour that comes with it, and everything here that costs nothing at all.
What this site can and cannot sell you
This is the part most sites like mine leave out, and it is the most useful thing on the page. Nothing here is a substitute for the state ticket. The staterooms are sold by the Bavarian Palace Administration, at its own desk on Residenzplatz and on its own website, and no affiliate link of mine replaces that transaction or makes it cheaper.
Of the twelve tours I list, exactly one includes entry to the Residence: a winter half-day whose inclusions read “Entry to the Residence”, which walks the staircase and the Imperial Hall and ends with a drink. It runs on winter dates and it has two reviews with nothing written in either. Every other listing sees the palace from the square, stops outside it for fifteen minutes, or never comes near it. I read all twelve rather than assuming, and what each one says in its own words is on every tour we list.
What I can point you at is the day around the palace. A walk through the old town with someone who knows it, a glass of Franconian wine on the Alte Mainbrücke, a coach down the Romantic Road to Rothenburg. That is the part of a Würzburg trip where a booking genuinely helps, and it is what one day in Würzburg is built around.
Where the facts come from
Prices, hours and tour times come from the Bavarian Palace Administration, which runs the building, and the cellar figures from the Staatlicher Hofkeller, which is the state wine estate underneath it. I say which is which and link to both. Tour details come from the listing pages themselves, read in full rather than from their summaries, and quoted where the wording matters.
Reviewer quotes are verbatim, typing and emoji and all, and each one names the tour it was written about. That matters more here than on most sites: the most-reviewed listing in the whole catalogue never stops in Würzburg, and the one that includes palace entry has almost no reviews at all. I have set that out rather than worked around it on the reviews page.
Where I do not know something, the page says so. The Hofkeller publishes no times or prices for its own cellar tours, so this site prints none. The operator gives no figure for the parking in front of the building, so neither do I.
How the site pays for itself
If you book a tour through a link here, GetYourGuide pays me a small commission and you pay exactly what you would have paid anyway. That is the whole business model, and the disclosure page spells it out. It also explains why I am so insistent about the ticket: I earn nothing on the Residenz, nothing on the Court Garden and nothing on the Court Church, and I would rather tell you those are cheap or free than sell you a tour you did not need.
Corrections are welcome. Hours change with the season, a listing gets rewritten, a garden gate closes for works. Tell me and I will fix the page.