Audience please!

Under Friedrich Karl von Schönborn (reigned 1729-1746), the residence was completed and a large part of the interior design was created.
From the middle of the 18th century, there were four audience rooms in the Residenz Würzburg (Würzburg Residence): two in the north wing and two in the south wing, one in the private flat and one in the representative flat.
The exhibition honours the audience room of the second bishop's flat. It was furnished in 1736/37 under Friedrich Karl von Schönborn. The red velvet wall coverings with golden borders and the canopy were particularly valuable.

Around 40 years later, Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (reigned 1755-1779) had the audience room renovated. In 1778, not only the velvet wall coverings and ceiling stuccowork were reworked. The court sculptor Johann Peter Wagner created a new set of seats and six alabaster medallions for the audience chamber.
The six oval alabaster reliefs were also commissioned by Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim. Female virtues and allegories symbolise good government under the sovereign. They symbolise good governance and the economic and cultural heyday of Franconia under Seinsheim.

At the beginning of the 19th century, when Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany reigned in Würzburg
(the so-called Tuscan period between 1806-1814),
the furnishings of the audience room were moved to the southern imperial rooms. In the
The Wittelsbachs also used this room when they stayed at the Residenz Würzburg (Würzburg Residence).

Last edited on 11.11.2024