Bad Hersfeld is a spa town in the north-eastern region of Hessen in Germany. It is located on the Fulda River and it is capital of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. Nearest other towns are Kassel in the north, Fulda in the south an Eisenach in the east. Locator map for Bad Hersfeld, Germany File links The following pages link to this file: Bad Hersfeld Categories: GFDL images ... A spa town is a town frequented, in times past, for health reasons, to take the waters. The name derives from the Belgian town Spa, and in continental Europe, a spa was known as a ville deau (town of water). ... Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ... The Fulda is a river in Hesse, Germany. ... Hersfeld-Rotenburg is a Kreis (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. ... Watershed of the river Weser Kassel (until 1926 officially Cassel) is a city situated along the Fulda River, one of the two sources of the Weser river, in northern Hesse in west-central Germany. ... Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the Fulda River and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district. ... Eisenach is a city in Thuringia, Germany. ...

Position: 50°52' north, 9°42' east. Elevation: 200 to 408 m. Area: 73.82 km². Population: about 30650.

Town districts: Bad Hersfeld (the old town), Eichhof, Asbach, Heenes, Hohe Luft, Johannesberg, Beiershausen, Allmershausen, Kathus, Sorga, Kohlhausen and Petersberg.

The town is well known for its Bad Hersfeld Festival witch takes place every summer in ruins of the church of the Benedictine Abbey. Further on there are famous mineral springs. A natural spring. ...

Since the German reunification the town is situated in the center of Germany. For this reason the town and the district became a focal point for logistic and distribution companies. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English often called East Germany) were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany). After the GDRs first free elections on 18 March 1990, negotiations...

Transportation: Autobahn A 4, A5 and A 7. The German and Austrian autobahn sign The Swiss autobahn sign Autobahn (pronounced in IPA) is the German word for a major high-speed road confined to motor vehicles and having full control of access, similar to a motorway or freeway in English-speaking countries. ...

History

Saint Sturm settled here a little monastery hermitage in 736. After this, the abbey mentioned above was founded by Saint Lullus in 769. So Lullus became also founder of Bad Hersfeld. Lullus was born in Wessex and became monk in monastery of Malmesbury in Wiltshire. He was a disciple of Saint Boniface and his successor as the archbishop of Mainz. Lullus died in 786 in Bad Hersfeld and was buried in the collegiate church, which he himself had errected. Saint Sturm (Sturmius) was disciple of St. ... Events The Kegon school of Buddhism arrives in Japan via Korea, when Rōben invites the Korean monk Simsang to lecture, and formally founds Japans Kegon tradition in the Tōdaiji temple. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Events Pope Stephen IV holds a council. ... Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England. ... Malmesbury is an old-established south Cotswold town in south west England in the county of Wiltshire. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... For the Roman general of this name, see Bonifacius. ... Mainz (French: Mayence) is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Events A council is organized in Constantinople, but disturbed by soldiers Beatus of Liébana, Spanish monk, publishes his Births Emperor Saga of Japan Emperor Junna of Japan Deaths Other 786 is the total value of the letters of Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim. In Arabic there are two methods...

The monastery was enlarged between 831 an 850 and Lullus was moved 852 to another grave in the new basilica. During this ceremonial Lullus was sainted by Rabanus Maurus. Since 852, the oldest folk festival in Germany, the "Lullusfest" is still celebrated in the week of Saint Lullus day, the 16th Oktober (his day of death). Events The Saracens capture Palermo. ... Events April 20 - Guntherus becomes Bishop of Cologne. ... Events Boris I Michael succeeds the duumvirate of Malamir and Presian as monarch of Bulgaria. ... Rabanus Maurus (left) presents his work to Otgar of Mainz Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. ...

Martin Luther visited the monastery, on his way back from the Diet of Worms in 1521. Hie held a seromon in the collegiate church on 1st of May. About two years later, the town and the territory of the abbey was widely protestant. Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) The Luther seal Martin Luther (November 10, 1483–February 18, 1546) was a German theologian, an Augustinian monk, and an ecclesiastical reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions. ... The Diet of Worms was a general assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small town on the Rhine river located in what is now Germany. ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing a split from within the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe —a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...

The French army used the formerly collegiate church as a supply and food storage. During their withdrawing in 1761 they destroyed the storage. So, one of the largest sacral hall buildings in Germany became a victim of the flames. Since 1951, the Bad Hersfeld Festival take place in the ruins of the Romanic church. 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Interior of the Saint-Saturnin church St-Sernin basilica, Toulouse, 1080 – 1120: elevation of the east end Romanesque sculpture, cloister of St. ...

Since 1949 the town officially acknowledged as a spa and so the name of the town became Bad Hersfeld ("Bad" ist a name affix, that indicates a spa). The waters of the Lullus an Vitalis wells are recommended to be helpful for people suffering from a liver, bulious and stomach complaints or an entreritis. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

External links

• official website of Bad Hersfeld
• Bad Hersfeld Festival
• Administration of cure
• Lullusfest in Bad Hersfeld