Photo credits
Six photographs on this site are other people’s work, taken from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences that allow anyone to reuse them and require that the photographer is named. This page names all six, links each back to its file page on Commons, and states the licence it is used under.
Why these six are real photographs
The pictures on this site that set a mood — vineyard terraces, a cobbled lane, a table of Franconian wine — were made for it, and none of them is the Residenz. The six below could not honestly be anything but photographs, because each one is a specific thing in a specific building: the south front of a named UNESCO palace, the staircase with Tiepolo’s ceiling above it, the Mirror Cabinet, the Court Church, the figures on the Hofgarten balustrade, and the casks in the Staatlicher Hofkeller underneath. A picture of a baroque staircase is not that staircase, and a page about a fresco painted in 1752 by a man who came from Venice to paint it should show the fresco.
Each row below is generated from the same list that puts the file on the page, so a caption cannot drift away from the photograph it describes. The link goes to the file page on Commons, where the full licence terms live.
| What it shows | File on Wikimedia Commons | Photographer | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Residenz from the south, with the Hofgarten in front of it | Residenz, Würzburg, South Facade 20200622 2.jpg | DXR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The staircase, and Tiepolo's ceiling above it | Treppenhaus der Würzburger Residenz mit Deckenfresko von Tiepolo 2017.jpg | Edelseider | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Mirror Cabinet | Wurzburg Residence - Mirror Cabinet - Flickr - Eric Kilby.jpg | Eric Kilby | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The Court Church, which costs nothing to enter | Wurzburg - Schlosskirche 2.jpg | Johan Bakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Figures on the balustrade in the Hofgarten | Bayern, Würzburg, Residenz und Schlossgarten NIK 5605.jpg | Nightflyer | CC BY 4.0 |
| Casks in the Staatlicher Hofkeller, under the palace | Residence Würzburg - Wine cellar 1.JPG | Pascal Reusch | CC BY 3.0 |
Reusing them yourself
Follow the link in the table rather than taking the file from here. Commons states the exact licence and the attribution it requires, and CC BY-SA additionally asks that anything you make from the image is shared under the same terms. Nothing on this page grants you a licence; it records the one the photographers granted.
If you took one of these and would rather it was not used here, write to me and it comes down.
Frequently asked questions
Are the photographs of the Residenz on this site real?
The six listed above are real photographs by named photographers, used under Creative Commons licences and linked back to Wikimedia Commons. The atmospheric pictures elsewhere on the site — vineyards, cellars, lanes, the river — were made for this site and none of them shows the Residenz.
Can I reuse these photographs?
Not from me, because I am reusing them myself. Follow the link in the table to the file page on Wikimedia Commons, where the exact licence and the attribution it requires are set out. CC BY-SA in particular asks you to share any adaptation under the same terms.
Do the photographs show the palace as it is today?
They show it on the day each was taken, which is the most any photograph does. The central block survived the raid of 16 March 1945 and most of the rest of the building is reconstruction, a story told on the 1945 raid and the rebuilding. What is actually open to visitors is on what to see inside.