Eschwege is a town in the state of Hesse in Germany. It is the home of the famous four day music and drinking festival called the Johannisfest, which attracts several thousand visitors and is said to be the best showcase of the quaint town besides the Open Flair, the greatest music festival in the whole region. With an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants, Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germanys sixteen federal states (Bundesländer). ...
There is also a very interesting Heimatmuseum in the town, located in the scenic old town with a market place surrounded by framwork houses. The old castle of the Landgrafen of Hessen today houses the district administration. The castle is also famous for the Dietemann, the figure of a man with a horn, the symbol of the Eschweger, which is located in the castle tower and appears every hour to blow its horn. Also scenic are the views along river Werra. To the east, the town is bordered by the Leuchtberg, the mountain of the town, which towers high over the town. In the river valley, the so.-called Eschwege basin, a collection of lakes has come into existence. To the West, there is the Meißner mountain rising up to 750ms.
Tradition tells us that Boniface now passed on to the River Werra and there erected a Church of St. Vitus, around which sprang up a town which to the present day bears the name of Wannfried.
At Eschwege he is said to have destroyed the statue of the idol Stuffo.
The difficulties that confronted him here were very great Christianity had indeed made great progress, but it had become mixed up with heretical tenets and pagan customs.
His influence was very great in keeping before the problemists of the day the charms of sober and graceful construction and in preventing these from being completely lost in the whirlpool of wild thematic fantasies.
H Eschwege, Chess - The Knight's tour in a continuous and uninterrupted ride over 48 boards or 3072 squares; adapted from Byron's 'Mazeppa' by H Eschwege, Shanklin Isle of Wight: Silsbury Bros. 1896, [36]p, diag, 22cm, limp.
In 1879, Lewis Carroll had befriended Lathleen Eschwege, that author's daughter, while on a railway journey, and subsequently kept an intermittent contact with the family.
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