About Fritzlar
The following website provides all the information you need on Fritzlar town www.fritzlar.de (in German).
Here’s a bit on its history: Fritzlar is a small town (pop. 15,000) in northern Hesse, 160 km north of Frankfurt with a storied history. It can reasonably be argued that the town is the site where the Christianization of northern Germany began and the birthplace of the German empire as a political entity.
The town has a medieval centre 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. 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. The Gothic church of the old Franciscan monastery is today the Protestant parish church, and the monastery's other buildings have been converted into a modern hospital. Many houses in the town centre, notably around the market square, date from the 15th to 17th centuries and have been carefully maintained or restored. The town is dominated by the imposing Romanesque-Gothic cathedral from the 12th to14th centuries.
On the weekend of our wedding Fritzlar is hosting a medieval festival so be warned you may see lots of people walking round dressed as knights and re-enacting battles!
about fritzlar