World Cultural Heritage in Bavaria
The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list includes:
The old town of Bamberg with the cathedral (Late Romanesque/Early
Gothic, consecrated in 1237, with stone sculptures dating from
1220-1240 including the "Bamberg Rider"), the adjoining Alte
Hofhaltung and the Neuer Residenz (1697-1703), the Old Town Hall (a
14th-century bridge tower baroquefied from 1744 to 1756), and
numerous baroque townhouses.
The Residence of the Prince-Bishops in Würzburg, built between 1720
and 1744. Especially famous here: the stairs and the church
(architect: Balthasar Neumann) as well as the frescoes by Giovanni
Battista Tiepolo in the stairwell and the imperial hall (1750-1753).
The Wies Church near Steingaden (northeast of Füssen), built from
1745 to 1754, commissioned by the monastery at Steingaden as a
pilgrimage church and built by Dominikus Zimmermann, whose brother
Johann Baptist Zimmermann provided the ceiling paintings and part of
the stucco-work.