Hello from Wacky-Z
yesterday we made a nice trip....first in the car...on the highway to...
...Fritzlar
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.
BrunoAusTirol and I are a bit buggered by the city...... this small street called Fischgässchen....behind the wall are very old houses
I did not make it. On the plate is some information about these houses, unfortunately not in English...it means...
Curia were designated as the home of a Säkularkanonikers, a canon or a canoness, mainly for individual buildings are representative district in immunity to the church
At the end of the alley you have this great view of the Cathedral
another view....
and now some information..The St. Peter's Cathedral is one of the most beautiful Romanesque-Gothic churches in Hesse.
Three-aisled basilica
The Cathedral of Fritzlar measures 43 meters (from the basement to the top). He continues to shape the cityscape of the small town in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis (formerly Circle Fritzlar-Homberg). The three-aisled basilica in Fritzlar is considered one of the most beautiful in Germany.
Collegiate Church of St. PeterAb the 11th Century, built and rebuilt several times, combines the Cathedral of St. Peter Roman and Gothic styles. In the oldest part of the Fritzlarer Domes are the crypts, which can also be viewed as the Cathedral, which, amongst other things, "Henry Cross" and some of the oldest monstrances the German-speaking.
In 2004, the cathedral in Fritzlar the honor to be allowed to carry the title of Papal Basilica, bestowed by Pope John Paul II at the request of the diocesan bishop of Fulda, Heinz Josef Algermissen Mgr
The construction of the Romanesque-Gothic church of St. Peter was the end of the 11th Century began. Here Henry I was crowned king. Fritzlar but at no time was bishop.
and another view...
The city hall, first documented in 1109, with a stone relief of St. Martin, the town's patron saint, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its original purpose.
a little break before one of the oldest houses in Fritzlar, it is now the Tourist Information
I'm sitting here on the Roland fountain on the market square.
Many houses in the town center, notably around the market square, date from the 15th to 17th centuries and have been carefully maintained or restored.
Finally, I've looked in the cathedral ....look the Krippchen
what a nice trip..
huggs your wacky-Z
