Büraburg
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The Büraburg was a prominent hill castle with historic significance, on the Büraberg hill overlooking the Eder river near the town of Fritzlar in northern Hesse. Only foundation walls remain, and a ch
Büraburg, remains of a gate
St. Brigida Chapel
Wotanstein in Gudensberg
1737 painting of St. Boniface overseeing the felling of Donar's Oak, located in the St. Martinskirche of Westenhofen in Schliersee
Donar's Oak
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Donar's Oak was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th-century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldo, Saint Boniface, a
Büraburg
…690, who fortified it with a castle and kept a mounted garrison there. The Franks supported the missionary efforts of Saint Boniface, who cut down the Donar Oak in nearby Geismar and established a short-lived bishopric in Büraburg. Hessia, from the early seventh century on, served as a buffer between areas…
Bonifacius (1905) by Emil Doepler
A depiction of Saint Boniface destroying Thor's oak from The Little Lives of the Saints (1904), illustrated by Charles Robinson
Om Yggdrasil by Frølich