Venue

Würzburg

Würzburg is a vibrant town located by the river Main in northern Bavaria, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg. The mix of stunning historical architecture and the young population is what makes the atmosphere so unique, including 35,000 students from three different universities. The mild and sunny climate is ideal to enjoy the many activities Würzburg has to offer: visiting a beer garden next to the river, attending a sporting or cultural event or taking a stroll through one of the parks.

Over the years, Würzburg has been home to many well-known personalities. Artists whose names are inextricably linked to Würzburg are Tilman Riemenschneider and Balthasar Neumann. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the X-rays in the local Institute of Physics. Würzburg is also the birthplace of physicist Werner Heisenberg and basketball player Dirk Nowitzki. Würzburg is the gateway to the Romantic Road, a 350 km long route linking cultural treasures and picturesque landscapes. The Romantic Road connects the beautiful Franconian Wine Country, the world-famous fairy-tale castle Neuschwanstein, the Fugger city of Augsburg and the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Conference venue

Built from 1720 to 1744 according to plans by Balthasar Neumann, the Residenz is the main work of the southern German Baroque and, along with the palaces of Schönbrunn and Versailles, one of the most important palaces of the late Baroque. In 1981, it was the third German building to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. For the famous cantilevered staircase, the most important fresco painter of his time, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, created the largest continuous ceiling fresco in the world, an allegory of the four continents, from 1751 to 1753.

The unique room compositions of the Imperial Hall and White Hall were influenced not only by Neumann and Tiepolo, but above all by the outstanding work of the court stuccoist Antonio Giuseppe Bossi. The Toscana Hall was built in the style of his origins by the Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany, who was expelled from Florence in 1806, during his regency of the then Grand Duchy of Würzburg, before he regained his Duchy of Tuscany after eight years.

The conference itself will be hosted within the Toscana Hall of the Residenz. Participants of the conference have to use one of the side-entrances of the Residence to enter the Toscana Hall. Our side entrance is located on the right side of the building when facing it frontally from the parking lot.

Accessibility

Unfortunately the conference rooms will only be accessible via stairs, due to ongoing construction work on the lift. Should you require assistance, please contact generalchairs@iva.acm.org as soon as possible.

Travel Information

The nearest airports to Würzburg are Frankfurt (120 km, recommended), Nürnberg (100 km), Stuttgart (150 km) and Munich (280 km). From there you can get to Würzburg directly by train. Würzburg provides an excellent public transportation system. The Residenz is located within the Würzburg downtown area and can be reached by foot (1,5 km from the train station), bus-lines (12, 14, 20, 28 – to station “Mainfranken Theater”), or tram-lines (1, 3, 5 – to station “Dom”).

There is no predetermined conference hotel, however there are many hotels in the downtown area of Würzburg from which the Residence can be reached by foot.