Würzburg Transportation

Würzburg is very nearly in the middle of the five-hundred-kilometer Main Valley Bicycle Route (Maintal Radweg). From here you can cycle 246 km upstream to Bayreuth via Ochsenfurt (top sign in the photo) or 243 km downstream to Mainz by way of Zellingen (bottom sign).

This is one of only two German bicycle routes to be awarded all five stars for quality, safety and service by the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) -- the other being the "classic" Tauber Valley Route, which meets up with the Main Valley Route at Wertheim.

I have cycled most of the lower half of the Main Valley Route at one time or another, some sections more than once, but haven't been on the upper half yet.

To find out more, click on the link to get to the Main River Bicycle Tour on my Germany page.

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Wuerzburger Stadtrad is an interesting school-project of the Don-Bosco-school in Wuerzburg : Old bicycles had been restored and painted newly in the colors of the city and they are ment to be used free of charge by local people and tourists ! I saw the bikes that you see on my photograph at the end of the Main-bridge, at the side of the castle Marienberg. There are some more places, where you can get them ! The telephone-number below is just in case that you have some problems with these bikes !

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Wuerzburg is situated along the river MAIN, and using the Rhein-Main-Danube-Canal means that you could take cruises to and from Wuerzburg to any ship-able place of these rivers. Unfortunately there are not many ships going from lets say Amsterdam to Vienna via Wuerzburg, but several times a year you will be able to do it !
For all tourists who just like to watch the cruise-ships, there is an interesting lock to be seen from the old bridge over the river Main (see my 3rd and 4th picture!)
Click here for KD-cruises in english
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These other links are rather for german-speaking tourists:
Click here for an overview of cruiselines doing the rivers of Europe
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Last minute rivercruise-offers in german !
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AW-Kreuzfahrten, also just in german !

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Of course you could drive by your car or by public bus to Marienberg (the old fortess on top of a hill), BUT in case that you have enough time it makes sense to walk over the old Main-bridge and step uphill. That way you will pass through many interesting gates of the old fortifications and you will also get an idea about the giant parks around Marienberg and at many places you will enjoy a great view of the city.
From the bridge it takes about 10-15 minutes to get to Marienberg, NO entrancefee for the castle, only in case that you like to visit one of the museums you have to pay some entrance-fee.

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When arriving by car, follow the sign-posts for Residenz and right in front of the Residenz you will find the largest car-parking of Wuerzburg and from there you may easyly walk to all major sights within only a few minutes. All over the city you will also find large maps for the tourists,like the one on my 2nd picture, so you almost cannot loose your way while strolling through Wuerzburg, crossing Mainbruecke and step up to Marienburg.
The parking-fee was not extremely high, you get a ticket, when you enter the parking-area and pay at a machine before you are leaving again.

Würzburg has a good system of five tram lines and eighteen bus lines, not counting all the suburban and regional buses.

You can get an all-day ticket for the city of Würzburg (not including suburbs) for EUR 4.00.

Würzburg is one of a growing number of German cities (like Aschaffenburg, Gera and Leipzig, to name just a few examples) to have a bicycle station at the main railroad station.

While this one has some minus points, like the old-fashioned "rim-killer" bicycle stands that are only half-covered by a narrow roof, it still meets a need and is used daily by hundreds of cyclists, who can leave their bicycles here (and have them repaired if necessary) while they go off on the train somewhere.

You can also rent a bicycle here.

W?rzburg is located very central and so it can be reached very good from all directions.

By car: W?rzburg is a crossing point of two important german motorways, the A7 and the A3. The A7 is Germany's longest motorways and it goes from Flensburg (at the danish border) til F?ssen (at the austrian border). The A3 connects the dutch border with the austrian border.

By train: W?rzburg has good train connections. All important trains stop here.