Bad Hersfeld

Bad Hersfeld is a German Ville of the Land of Hesse of approximately 30.500 inhabitants. The city is located at the edge of the river Fulda.

History

The first mention of the place is in the biography of Bavarian Sturm which settled as a hermit with some companions in the year 736 where today the territory of the convent is.

Innate generation later, Lullus, the sucsessor of Boniface on the seat of the archbishop's palace of Mainz, founded here, in the border region of the Thuringe, a convent of Benedictines, in 769. Charlemagne raised soon the foundation of Lullus to the row of imperial abbey, which was to be thus, pourplusieurs centuries, an important point support of the royal capacity at the border Is kingdom.

Twinnings

Bad Hersfeld is twinned with the following cities:

the Haÿ-the-Pinks France
Šumperk
Bad Salzungen Germany

External bond

the Festival Bad Hersfeld in the ruins of the old abbey church
Bad Hersfelder Celebrates of Lullus

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