Fritzlar
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Fritzlar is a small town in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany, 160 km north of Frankfurt, with a storied history.
View of Fritzlar
Saint Peter's Church, with statue of St. Boniface, who was a Christian missionary from England, in foreground
Grey Tower
Town Hall
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
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…accompanied by a monument to Boniface. Boniface also established the first bishopric in Germany outside the boundaries of the old Roman Empire on a hill (Büraburg) across the Eder river, where a Frankish fortress and town provided protection, but after the death of Witta, its first and only bishop, in 747 the…
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