Käppele

Würzburg, Germany

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.

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Perched on a hill above Würzburg, the Käppele—formally the Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of Mary—is a Rococo masterpiece designed by Balthasar Neumann and built in 1750. This small but architecturally significant church served as a Catholic pilgrimage destination and was maintained by the Capuchin order until 2014. The structure exemplifies the elegant, ornamental aesthetic of mid-eighteenth-century German Baroque ecclesiastical architecture and stands as a recognized architectural heritage monument in Bavaria.