The Fulda is a river in Hesse, Germany. It is one of two headstreams of the Weser River (the other one being the Werra). The Fulda River is 180 km in length.
The source is located in the Rhön mountains. From here it runs northwards through the Weserbergland hills and finally meets the Werra River close to Hannoversch Münden.
In 1309, the plague having ravaged Fulda, the inhabitants of the town, impelled by fanaticism, ascribed its origin to the Jews and killed 600 of them (Trithemius, "Chronicon Hirsaugensis," fol.
Mordecai Fulda, one of the exiles of 1671; Elijah b.
The number of the Jews in Fulda in 1890 was 525 in a total population of 13,125; in 1903, 650.