City of Würzburg

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When the vineyards begin right behind your house, when you live in the middle of the city and can be in nature within 5 minutes, when you can get to work in no time because all routes are short here, when there’s always a cozy wine festival happening somewhere, when you can shop in charming little streets and boutiques, and through all of this the weather is quite often quite good, then you’re in Würzburg. How lucky you are.

Population: 131,759

Website: www.wuerzburg.de

Wine, Science, and Culture

The city often revolves around these three themes. No wonder, when you’re constantly in the middle of a wine region, a large university is part of the city, and there are festivals like the Mozart Festival, the Africa Festival, or the International Film Weekend.

#Main

Swimming in the Main – it’s possible. The water quality is good and it’s reasonably warm in summer. You can find nice meadows for sunbathing, for example in Zellerau and Sanderau; you can reach the water via small steps on the riverbank. If you prefer to look at the river rather than swim in it, make yourself comfortable in a deck chair at the city beach near the Lion Bridge.

Facts about Würzburg

Würzburg is the city with the closest proximity to vineyards; it’s also famous for its excellent wine locations: from Innere Leiste to Würzburger Stein – there are seven in total.

From X-rays to blood types to viruses as cancer triggers – fourteen Würzburg professors received Nobel Prizes between 1909 and 2008 for these discoveries and many other scientific achievements.

1.600

There are plenty of green spaces and local recreation areas here: the Ring Park with 32 hectares, the Court Garden around the Residence with 12 hectares, including the city forest it’s about 1,600 hectares.

35.000

Students have the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences (THWS), the University of Music, and the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. The university is among the best German higher education institutions. It has an international reputation in medicine, psychology, biology, physics, and chemistry. The THWS offers a broad, practice-oriented range of studies across ten faculties with over 30 undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs as well as six research institutes.

110.000

There are employed people in Würzburg. The current unemployment rate is about 4.3 percent.

What We Can Do

The city is characterized by an established mix of creative service companies and medium-sized, sometimes highly specialized industrial enterprises. The key industries, besides retail, are the medical and healthcare sector, the creative industry, and the media. In short: a diverse mix of industries.

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