Fritzlar

Fritzlar is a small German city pop. 15,000 within the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, a hundred and 60 km ninety nine mi north of Frankfurt, with a storied history. The town has a medieval middle ringed by means of a wall with severa watch towers. Thirty-8 meters one hundred twenty five feet high, the Grey Tower are the very best last urban protection tower in Germany. The city corridor, first documented in 1109, with a stone alleviation of St. Martin, the city's client saint, is the oldest in Germany still in use for its unique purpose.

The Gothic church of the old Franciscan monastery is today the Protestant parish church, and the monastery's other homes were converted into a present day health facility. Many houses in the town middle, appreciably across the marketplace square, date from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries and have been carefully maintained or restored. The town is ruled by way of the implementing Romanesque-Gothic Church of St. Peter from the 12th-14th centuries. In 1974, the town hosted the 14th Hessen tag state festival. The modern Saint Peter's Church, built in the eleventh century, is observed by means of a monument to Boniface.