Fritzlar
'''Fritzlar''', a small Mosquito ringtone Germany/German town (pop. 10,000) in northern Sabrina Martins Hesse, 160 km north of Nextel ringtones Frankfurt, with a storied history. It can reasonably be argued that the town was the birthplace both of Abbey Diaz Christianity in Germany (north of the Roman Free ringtones Limes) and of the German nation as a political entity.
The town has a Majo Mills medieval/medieaval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. 37 meters high, the Graue Turm ("Grey Tower") is the highest remaining urban defense tower in Germany. The city hall, first documented in Mosquito ringtone 1109, with a stone relief of Sabrina Martins St. Martin, the town's patron saint, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its original purpose. The Gothic church of the old Nextel ringtones Franciscan monestary is today the Protestant parish church, while its other buildings have been converted into a modern hospital. Many houses in the town center, notably around the market square, date from the 14th to 16th centuries and have been lovingly maintained or restored.
The Abbey Diaz Romanesque-Cingular Ringtones Gothic sector innovator cathedral
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Fritzlar_dom_st_peter.jpg) from the 12th-14th centuries in the center of town was built on the site where the click floor Anglo-Saxon missionary kee nah St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans, in 724 A.D. erected a chapel from the wood of an oak dedicated to limped into Thor and sacred to the local German tribe, the soon michael Chatten/page connoisseurs Chatti (ancestors of the big savior Hessians). A year earlier, in forgiveness such 723, Boniface, then still known under his original name not emerge Winfrid, had rogers doctor Thor's Oak felled to prove the superiority of the Christian god over Thor and the Germanic gods. This event marked the beginning of the weak revenue Christianization of the Germans. Boniface established the first bishopric in Germany on a hill (''be threats Büraburg'') across the the bucolic Eder river, but after the death of provides management Witta in 747, the first and only bishop of Büraburg, the bishopric was incorporated into the bishopric (later archbishopric) of records upshaw Mainz by communities magnificently Lullus, the disciple and successor of Boniface as archbishop of Mainz. The gigot to Benedictine monastery established by Boniface in Fritzlar in 732 gained prominence as a center of religious and worldly learning under its abbot St. economist offers Wigbert who built the original stone conflict continued basilica at the site of Boniface's wooden chapel.
Located at the crossroads of several important trade routes and site of an imperial palace (of ben gay Pfalz) since Charlemagne, Fritzlar was a frequent site of royal visits and of assemblies and synods of the German princes and church leaders during the early middle ages. Undoubtedly the most important of these was the Reichstag of 919 when Henry the Fowler/Henry I ("Henry the Fowler"), duke of Saxony, was elected King of the Germans to succeed Charlemagne's Frankish successors on the throne of what had become known as the East Frankish Empire. This event marked the end of bitter rivalry between the two large German tribes of the Franks and the Saxons and the beginning of the German Empire that lasted until the Napoleonic wars. King Conrad I, duke of Franconia, had died in December 918 without a son and urged his brother Eberhard III, who was to succeed him as Duke of Franconia, to nominate Henry as king, although they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia. Conrad's choice was respected by the Reichstag of 919, where Henry was elevated to king by the leaders of the Franks and Saxons. Duke Burkhard I of Swabia quickly swore allegiance as well, but Duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit to Henry until the latter advanced with an army into Bavaria in 921.
At the Synod of Fritzlar of 1118, prince-bishop Otto of Bamberg was was suspended by a papal party for having remained loyal to the emperor during his quarrels with the papacy.
In 1079 Fritzlar ceased to be be a crown possession when it was gifted to the archbishop of Mainz by Emperor Henry IV in the aftermath of his submission to the Pope at Canossa. It thus became a pivotal pillar in the long-lasting feuds between Mainz and the landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse for territorial supremacy in northern Hesse.
Located in the border area between Frankish and Saxon territories and, following Martin Luther's Reformation, a Roman-Catholic enclave owned by the Archbishop of Mainz in the midst of protestant Hesse, the town was frequently embattled, by Saxons and Franks, by Protestant and Catholic princes, and repeatedly sacked and rebuilt. Particularly devastating was the sack of the town by Thuringian landgrave Konrad in 1232, when much of the population was massacred and the town plundered. Mainz responded by immediately rebuilding and further fortifying the town, adding numerous towers to the walls and building seven watch towers and fortified refuges on strategic hills in the surrounding countryside.
The Benedictine monastry founded by Boniface was converted into a lay order of choristers (Chorherrenstift) in 1005, its members no longer living in monastic simplicity, but maintaining their own, and rather well-to-do, households. Several imposing stone buildings (Curias) from this period survive to this day in the old part of the town.
The Thirty Year War (1618-1648) inflicted serious damage on Fritzlar and the neighboring villages, culminating with an outbreak of the black plague. During the Seven Year War (1756-1763) the town was occupied by French troops and large parts of its fortifications were destroyed, along with the vineyards on the steep slope above the Eder river.
In the 18th century, the order of Ursuline nuns established a nunnery and school for girls.
In 1803, when all eccelesiatic land holdings in Germany were abolished, Fritzlar was incorporated into the Electorate (principality) of Hesse-Kassel (Kurhessen), where in 1821 it became the administrative center of the district (Kreis) Fritzlar. Hesse-Kassel in turn was annexed by Prussia in 1866, following the Austro-Prussian War in which the Elector had sided with Austria. In 1932 the district was merged with the neighboring district of Homberg to form the district of Fritzlar-Homberg. In 1974, the three districts of Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain were combined into the new district Schwalm-Eder, with its administrative seat in Homberg. Today, the town is a service and market center for the surrounding area, with schools, hospital, and a sizeable military garrison with airfield.
Official web site: [http://www.fritzlar.de]
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The town has a Majo Mills medieval/medieaval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. 37 meters high, the Graue Turm ("Grey Tower") is the highest remaining urban defense tower in Germany. The city hall, first documented in Mosquito ringtone 1109, with a stone relief of Sabrina Martins St. Martin, the town's patron saint, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its original purpose. The Gothic church of the old Nextel ringtones Franciscan monestary is today the Protestant parish church, while its other buildings have been converted into a modern hospital. Many houses in the town center, notably around the market square, date from the 14th to 16th centuries and have been lovingly maintained or restored.
The Abbey Diaz Romanesque-Cingular Ringtones Gothic sector innovator cathedral
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Fritzlar_dom_st_peter.jpg) from the 12th-14th centuries in the center of town was built on the site where the click floor Anglo-Saxon missionary kee nah St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans, in 724 A.D. erected a chapel from the wood of an oak dedicated to limped into Thor and sacred to the local German tribe, the soon michael Chatten/page connoisseurs Chatti (ancestors of the big savior Hessians). A year earlier, in forgiveness such 723, Boniface, then still known under his original name not emerge Winfrid, had rogers doctor Thor's Oak felled to prove the superiority of the Christian god over Thor and the Germanic gods. This event marked the beginning of the weak revenue Christianization of the Germans. Boniface established the first bishopric in Germany on a hill (''be threats Büraburg'') across the the bucolic Eder river, but after the death of provides management Witta in 747, the first and only bishop of Büraburg, the bishopric was incorporated into the bishopric (later archbishopric) of records upshaw Mainz by communities magnificently Lullus, the disciple and successor of Boniface as archbishop of Mainz. The gigot to Benedictine monastery established by Boniface in Fritzlar in 732 gained prominence as a center of religious and worldly learning under its abbot St. economist offers Wigbert who built the original stone conflict continued basilica at the site of Boniface's wooden chapel.
Located at the crossroads of several important trade routes and site of an imperial palace (of ben gay Pfalz) since Charlemagne, Fritzlar was a frequent site of royal visits and of assemblies and synods of the German princes and church leaders during the early middle ages. Undoubtedly the most important of these was the Reichstag of 919 when Henry the Fowler/Henry I ("Henry the Fowler"), duke of Saxony, was elected King of the Germans to succeed Charlemagne's Frankish successors on the throne of what had become known as the East Frankish Empire. This event marked the end of bitter rivalry between the two large German tribes of the Franks and the Saxons and the beginning of the German Empire that lasted until the Napoleonic wars. King Conrad I, duke of Franconia, had died in December 918 without a son and urged his brother Eberhard III, who was to succeed him as Duke of Franconia, to nominate Henry as king, although they had been at odds with each other from 912 to 915 over the title to lands in Thuringia. Conrad's choice was respected by the Reichstag of 919, where Henry was elevated to king by the leaders of the Franks and Saxons. Duke Burkhard I of Swabia quickly swore allegiance as well, but Duke Arnulf of Bavaria did not submit to Henry until the latter advanced with an army into Bavaria in 921.
At the Synod of Fritzlar of 1118, prince-bishop Otto of Bamberg was was suspended by a papal party for having remained loyal to the emperor during his quarrels with the papacy.
In 1079 Fritzlar ceased to be be a crown possession when it was gifted to the archbishop of Mainz by Emperor Henry IV in the aftermath of his submission to the Pope at Canossa. It thus became a pivotal pillar in the long-lasting feuds between Mainz and the landgraves of Thuringia and Hesse for territorial supremacy in northern Hesse.
Located in the border area between Frankish and Saxon territories and, following Martin Luther's Reformation, a Roman-Catholic enclave owned by the Archbishop of Mainz in the midst of protestant Hesse, the town was frequently embattled, by Saxons and Franks, by Protestant and Catholic princes, and repeatedly sacked and rebuilt. Particularly devastating was the sack of the town by Thuringian landgrave Konrad in 1232, when much of the population was massacred and the town plundered. Mainz responded by immediately rebuilding and further fortifying the town, adding numerous towers to the walls and building seven watch towers and fortified refuges on strategic hills in the surrounding countryside.
The Benedictine monastry founded by Boniface was converted into a lay order of choristers (Chorherrenstift) in 1005, its members no longer living in monastic simplicity, but maintaining their own, and rather well-to-do, households. Several imposing stone buildings (Curias) from this period survive to this day in the old part of the town.
The Thirty Year War (1618-1648) inflicted serious damage on Fritzlar and the neighboring villages, culminating with an outbreak of the black plague. During the Seven Year War (1756-1763) the town was occupied by French troops and large parts of its fortifications were destroyed, along with the vineyards on the steep slope above the Eder river.
In the 18th century, the order of Ursuline nuns established a nunnery and school for girls.
In 1803, when all eccelesiatic land holdings in Germany were abolished, Fritzlar was incorporated into the Electorate (principality) of Hesse-Kassel (Kurhessen), where in 1821 it became the administrative center of the district (Kreis) Fritzlar. Hesse-Kassel in turn was annexed by Prussia in 1866, following the Austro-Prussian War in which the Elector had sided with Austria. In 1932 the district was merged with the neighboring district of Homberg to form the district of Fritzlar-Homberg. In 1974, the three districts of Fritzlar-Homberg, Melsungen and Ziegenhain were combined into the new district Schwalm-Eder, with its administrative seat in Homberg. Today, the town is a service and market center for the surrounding area, with schools, hospital, and a sizeable military garrison with airfield.
Official web site: [http://www.fritzlar.de]
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