Würzburgוירצבורג

Franconia (Germany)

Würzburg is a city on the Main river in Franconia, Bavaria, southern Germany. Saint Boniface founded its bishopric in 742, and its prince-bishops ruled the region for centuries, building the Baroque Würzburg Residence, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its university was founded in 1402 and refounded in 1582; there, in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays. The medieval Jewish community was a seat of Talmudic study, where Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, author of the Or Zarua, taught the young Meir of Rothenburg, though it suffered massacres in 1147 and 1298. In the nineteenth century Seligman Baer Bamberger, the 'Würzburger Rav', served as rabbi from 1840 to 1878 and was a leading figure of German Orthodoxy.

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