Saint Lullus was the first permanent archbishop of Mainz, succeeding Saint Boniface, and first abbot of the Benedictine Hersfeld Abbey. He is historiographically considered the first official sovereign of the Electorate of Mainz.
Statue of Saint Lullus in Bad Hersfeld
Hersfelder lullusfest entrance
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district seat of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel.
View of the monastery ruins from the tower of the town church
View from the Johannesberg over Bad Hersfeld
Copperplate engraving of Hersfeld in 1655 (Matthäus Merian the Younger)
The town's landmark, the tower of the Hersfelder Stadtkirche (Town church)