last weekend I visited a wonderfull old town in hesse, Fritzlar is a small German town (pop. 15,000) in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, 160 km (99 mi) north of Frankfurt, with a storied history. It can reasonably be argued that the town is the site where the Christianization of northern Germany (north and east of the Roman Limes) began and the birthplace of the German empire as a political entity.The town has a medieval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. Thirty-eight meters (125 ft) high, the Grauer Turm ("Grey Tower") is the highest remaining urban defense tower in Germany
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The St. Peter's Cathedral is one of the most beautiful Romanesque-Gothic churches in Hesse
the marketplace with nice halftimbered houses
The city hall, first documented in 1109, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its original purpose
...here you see the biggest halftimbered house in hesse,
"das Hochzeitshaus" the wedding house
The monastery, hostmum went to school here
and then I visited a castle ..
the Garvensburg The castle was built in 1894-1898 by industrialist William Garvens, who was knighted in 1908 and afterwards called William of Garvens. He built a hunting lodge in the style of the late period, a castle-like villa, surrounded by an English garden with beautiful sculptures of an African Artist
that was a nice trip
Lovr
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