Felsberg

Felsberg is a city in the Schwalm-Eder district approximately 25 kilometers south of Kassel. There were settlers in the Felsberg location, as long ago because the final ice age, as witnessed by the discover of the 12,000-yr-vintage, so-called Rhunda Skull. In the first Century AD, the Felsberg area become inhabited by the Chatti, a Germanic tribe. The simplest point out of the vicinity from this time is a record through the Roman historian Tacitus approximately one of Germanics’ campaigns, when within the yr 15 he destroyed Mattium possibly these days Maden, the Chattel’s capital.

In the 8th Century, the Felsberg area became part of the Frankish Empire, and this is when the city become first cited in documents. It became additionally right now that Christian missionary work became being carried out in the vicinity with the aid of Saint Boniface, who in 723 felled Thor's Oak close to Fritzlar, about 15 km 9 mi west of Felsberg, thereby starting the Christianization of the peoples of northern Germany.