Fulda - wikipedia Fulda This article is about the city in Germany. For other uses, see Fulda ( disambiguation ). Fulda Panorama of Fulda from the town castle Coat of arms Fulda Location of Fulda within Fulda district Coordinates : 50 ° 33 ′ 3 '' N 9 ° 40 ′ 31 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 50.55083 ° N 9.67528 ° E ﻿ / 50.55083 ; 9.67528 Coordinates : 50 ° 33 ′ 3 '' N 9 ° 40 ′ 31 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 50.55083 ° N 9.67528 ° E ﻿ / 50.55083 ; 9.67528 Country Germany State Hesse Admin. region Kassel District Fulda Founded 744 Government Lord Mayor Gerhard Möller ( CDU ) Area Total 104.04 km ( 40.17 sq mi ) Elevation 261 m ( 856 ft ) Population ( 2015 - 12 - 31 ) Total 67,253 Density 650 / km ( 1,700 / sq mi ) Time zone CET / CEST ( UTC + 1 / + 2 ) Postal codes 36001 -- 36043 Dialling codes 0661 Vehicle registration FD Website www.fulda.de Fulda ( German pronunciation : ( ˈfʊlda ) ) ( historically in English called Fuld ) is a city in Hesse, Germany ; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district ( Kreis ). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. Contents 1 History 1.1 Middle Ages 1.2 Counter-Reformation 1.3 18th and 19th centuries 1.4 Cold War 2 Mayors 3 Transportation 4 International relations 4.1 Twin towns / sister cities 5 Sons of the town 5.1 1800 5.2 1801 -- 1850 5.3 1851 -- 1900 5.4 1901 -- 1950 5.5 1951 -- present 6 Notables 7 Images 8 See also 9 References 10 External links History Middle ages This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( April 2017 ) In 744 Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, founded the Benedictine monastery of Fulda as one of Boniface 's outposts in the reorganization of the church in Germany. It later served as a base from which missionaries could accompany Charlemagne 's armies in their political and military campaigns to fully conquer and convert pagan Saxony. The initial grant for the abbey was signed by Carloman, Mayor of the Palace in Austrasia ( in office 741 - 747 ), the son of Charles Martel. The support of the Mayors of the Palace, and later of the early Pippinid and Carolingian rulers, was important to Boniface 's success. Fulda also received support from many of the leading families of the Carolingian world. Sturm, whose tenure as abbot lasted from 747 until 779, was most likely related to the Agilolfing dukes of Bavaria. Fulda also received large and constant donations from the Etichonids, a leading family in Alsace, and from the Conradines, predecessors of the Salian Holy Roman Emperors. Under Sturm, the donations Fulda received from these and other important families helped in the establishment of daughter - houses near Fulda. St Boniface baptizing and undergoing martyrdom - from the Sacramentary of Fulda After his martyrdom by the Frisians, the relics of Saint Boniface were brought back to Fulda. Because of the stature this afforded the monastery, the donations increased, and Fulda could establish daughter - houses further away, for example in Hamelin. Meanwhile, Saint Lullus, successor of Boniface as archbishop of Mainz, tried to absorb the abbey into his archbishopric, but failed. This was one reason that he founded Hersfeld Abbey - to limit the attempts of the enlargement of Fulda. Fulda in the 16th century Between 790 and 819 the community rebuilt the main monastery church to more fittingly house the relics. They based their new basilica on the original 4th - century ( since demolished ) Old St. Peter 's Basilica in Rome, using the transept and crypt plan of that great pilgrimage church to frame their own saint as the `` Apostle to the Germans ''. The crypt of the original abbey church still holds those relics, but the church itself has been subsumed into a Baroque renovation. A small, 9th - century chapel remains standing within walking distance of the church, as do the foundations of a later women 's abbey. Rabanus Maurus served as abbot at Fulda from 822 to 842. Counterreformation Prince - abbot Balthasar von Dernbach adopted a policy of counterreformation. In 1571 he called in the Jesuits to found a school and college. He insisted that the members of the chapter should return to a monastic form of life. Whereas his predecessors had tolerated Protestantism, resulting in most of the citizenry of Fulda and a large portion of the principality 's countryside professing Lutheranism, Balthasar ordered his subjects either to return to the Catholic faith or leave his territories. 18th and 19th centuries The foundation of the abbey Fulda and its territory originated with an Imperial grant, and the sovereign principality therefore was subject only to the German emperor. Fulda became a bishopric in 1752 and the prince - abbots were given the additional title of prince - bishop. The prince - abbots ( and later prince - bishops ) ruled Fulda and the surrounding region until the bishopric was forcibly dissolved by Napoleon in 1802. The city went through a baroque building campaign in the 18th century, resulting in the current `` Baroque City '' status. This included a remodeling of Fulda Cathedral ( 1704 -- 12 ) and of the Stadtschloss ( Castle - Palace, 1707 -- 12 ) by Johann Dientzenhofer. The city parish church, St. Blasius, was built between 1771 -- 85. In 1764 a porcelain factory was started in Fulda under Prince - Bishop, Prince - Abbot Heinrich von Bibra, but shortly after his death it was closed down in 1789 by his successor, Prince - Bishop, Prince - Abbot Adalbert von Harstall. The city was given to Prince William Frederick of Orange - Nassau ( the later King William I of the Netherlands ) in 1803 ( as part of the short - lived Principality of Nassau - Orange - Fulda ), was annexed to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806, and in 1809 to the Principality of Frankfurt. After the Congress of Vienna of 1814 - 1815, most of the territory went to the Electorate of Hesse, which Prussia annexed in 1866. Cold War Fulda lends its name to the Fulda Gap, a traditional east - west invasion route used by Napoleon and others. During the Cold War, it was presumed to be an invasion route for any conventional war between NATO and Soviet forces. Downs Barracks in Fulda was the headquarters of the American 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment, later replaced by the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. The cavalry had as many a 3,000 soldiers from the end of World War II until 1993. Not all of those soldiers were in Fulda proper, but scattered over observation posts and in the cities of Bad Kissingen and Bad Hersfeld. The strategic importance of this region ( along the old West / East German border ) led to a large US and Soviet military presence. Mayors Cuno Raabe ( CDU ) : 1946 - 1956 Alfred Dregger ( CDU ) : 1956 - 1970 Wolfgang Hamberger ( CDU ) : 1970 - 1998 Alois Rhiel ( CDU ) : 1998 - 2003 Gerhard Möller ( CDU ) : 2003 - 2015 Heiko Wingenfeld ( CDU ) : 2015 - Transportation Fulda station is an important transport hub and interchange point between local and long distance traffic of the German railway network, and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. It is on the Hanover -- Würzburg high - speed railway ; the North - South line ( Nord - Süd - Strecke ), comprising the Bebra - Fulda line north of Fulda, and the Kinzig Valley Railway and Fulda - Main Railway to the south ; the Vogelsberg Railway, which connects to the hills of the Vogelsberg in the west ; and the Fulda -- Gersfeld Railway ( Rhön Railway ) to Gersfeld in the Rhön Mountains to the east. Fulda is on the Bundesautobahn 7 ( BAB 7 ) and is at the eastern terminus of the Bundesautobahn 66, which ends at a three - way junction with the BAB 7. It is also on the Bundesstraße 27. International relations See also : List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany Twin towns / sister cities Fulda is twinned with : Como, Italy ( 1960 ) Arles, France ( 1964 ) Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia ( 1991 ) Wilmington, Delaware, USA ( 1997 ) Litoměřice, Czech Republic ( 2001 ) Weimar, Germany Crediton, England Sons of the town 1800 Anton Storch 1952 Adam of Fulda ( around 1445 - 1505 ), composer and music theorist Adam Krafft ( 1493 - 1558 ), a Protestant church reformer Justus Menius ( 1499 - 1558 ), theologian 1801 -- 1850 Ferdinand Braun 1909 Georg von Adelmann ( 1811 - 1888 ), physician and surgeon Otto Bähr ( 1817 - 1895 ), lawyer and politician Hugo Staehle ( 1826 - 1848 ), composer Ferdinand Braun ( 1850 - 1918 ), physicist, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate in physics 1851 -- 1900 Adalbert Ricken ( 1851 - 1921 ), mycologist and priest Ludwig Hupfeld ( 1864 - 1949 ), instrument maker and industrialist Wilhelm Heye ( 1869 - 1947 ), officer Clara Harnack ( 1877 - 1962 ), painter, teacher and mother of the resistance fighters Arvid and Falk Harnack Anton Storch ( 1892 - 1975 ), politician Paul Deichmann ( 1898 - 1981 ), officer of the Luftwaffe 1901 -- 1950 Karl Storch ( 1913 - 1992 ), athlete, hammer thrower Wilhelm Balthasar ( 1914 - 1941 ), Air Force officer Martin Hohmann ( born 1948 ), politician ( CDU, now AfD ) Winfried Michel ( born 1948 ), composer, recorder player and music publisher 1951 -- present Immanuel Bloch ( born 1972 ), physicist Sebastian Kehl ( born 1980 ), football player Patrik Sinkewitz ( born 1980 ), professional cyclist Notables Adam of Fulda Tobias Sammet Martin Hohmann Ferdinand Braun Sebastian Kehl, ( born 1980 ), former footballer Franz Kaspar Lieblein Max Stern Dirk Sauer Fr. Gereon Goldmann Edguy Wilm Hosenfeld ( 1895 - 1952 ), officer and Righteous Among the Nations Images Cathedral of Fulda Statue of Saint Boniface ( 1830 ) in Fulda Fulda, 1850 `` Stadtschloss '' ( main entrance ) at Fulda Old City Hall of Fulda Orangerie Kloster Frauenberg ( Fulda ), a Franciscan monastery St. Michael 's Church Baroque Adelspalais Old University of Fulda : Adolphs - Universität Fulda Looking east toward Fulda over the rich farmlands Weser river watershed, showing Fulda river and the city of Fulda See also Fulda Gap References Jump up ^ `` Bevölkerung der hessischen Gemeinden ''. Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt ( in German ). August 2016. Jump up ^ Otto Schaffrath. Fürstabt Balthasar von Dermbach und seine Zeit. Studien zur Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Fulda ( = Veröffentlichung des Fuldaer Geschichtsvereins. Bd. 44, ZDB - ID 517272 - x ). Parzeller, Fulda 1967, mit umfangreicher Literaturübersicht. ( in German ) Jump up ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Ripley, George ; Dana, Charles A., eds. ( 1879 ). `` Fulda ''. The American Cyclopædia. Jump up ^ Brown, Jerold E., ed. ( 2001 ). Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Army. Westport, CT : Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 209 -- 10. ISBN 9780313293221. Jump up ^ `` Stationspreisliste 2017 '' ( Station price list 2017 ) ( PDF ) ( in German ). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016. External links Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Fulda. Official website ( in English ) 360degree virtual tour through downtown Fulda Vonderau Museum Fulda Hochschule Fulda ( University of Applied Science ) Holocaust survivor testimony of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Fulda on the Yad Vashem website Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fulda. 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Question: where is fulda and what is its significance
Answer: Hesse, Germany