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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRITZLAR , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Hesse-See also:Cassel, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Eder, 16 m. S.W. from Cassel, on the railway Wabern-Wildungen. Pop. (1905) 3448. It is a prettily situated old-fashioned See also:place,with an Evangelical and two See also:Roman See also:Catholic churches, one of the latter, that of St See also:Peter, a striking See also:medieval edifice. As See also:early as 732 See also:Boniface, the apostle of Germany, established the See also:church of St Peter and a small See also:Benedictine monastery at Frideslar, " the quiet See also:home " or " See also:abode of See also:peace." Before See also:long the school connected with the monastery became famous, and among its earlier scholars it numbered See also:Sturm, See also:abbot of See also:Fulda, and Megingod, second See also:bishop of See also:Wurzburg. When Boniface found himself unable to continue the supervision of the society himself, he entrusted the See also:office to Wigbert of See also:Glastonbury, who thus became the first abbot of Fritzlar. In 774 the little See also:settlement was taken and burnt by the See also:Saxons; but it evidently soon recovered from the See also:blow. For a See also:short See also:time after 786 it was the seat of the bishopric of Buraburg, which had been founded by Boniface in 741. At the See also:diet of Fritzlar in 919 See also:Henry I. was elected See also:German See also:king. In the beginning of the 13th See also:century the See also:village received municipal rights; in 1232 it was captured and burned by the See also:landgrave See also:Conrad of Thuringia and his See also:allies; in 1631 it was taken by See also:William of Hesse; in 176o it was successfully defended by See also:General Luckner against the See also:French; and in 1761 it was occupied by the French and unsuccessfully bombarded by the Allies. As a principality Fritzlar continued subject to the archbishopric of See also:Mainz till 1802, when it was incorporated with Hesse.

From 1807 to 1814 it belonged to the See also:

kingdom of See also:Westphalia; and in 1866 passed with Hesse Cassel to See also:Prussia.

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