Würzburg

Würzburg was an ecclesiastical principality on the Main in Franconia. Its bishop in 1337 was Otto II von Wolfskeel, who had held the see since 1333.

In the Peasants’ War of 1525 over ten thousand rebels and citizens died in its territory. Bishop Julius Echter led the Counter-Reformation and founded the University of Würzburg in 1582. Secularized to Bavaria in 1803, Würzburg became a grand duchy in 1806 and returned to Bavaria in 1814.