Rotenburg an der Fulda Travel Guide
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Rotenburg an der Fulda (Fulda vacation rentals | Fulda travel guide) Overview
The nearest major towns are Bebra (some 6 km to the southeast) and Bad Hersfeld (Bad Hersfeld vacation rentals | Bad Hersfeld travel guide) (some 16 km to the south), The nearest cities are Kassel (Kassel vacation rentals | Kassel travel guide) (some 50 km to the north) and Fulda (some 70 km to the south). Besides the main town, Rotenburg a.d. Fulda is made up of the outlying Stadtteile of Lispenhausen, Braach, Schwarzenhasel, Erkshausen, Seifertshausen, Dankerode, Atzelrode (with Alte Teich Estate and Wüstefeld) and Mündershausen.
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Things to See in Rotenburg an der Fulda
Kreisheimatmuseum Rotenburg (district history)
Puppen- und Spielzeugmuseum (puppets and toys)
Memorial and meeting place: the former mikvah
Schloss Rotenburg, built in Renaissance style between 1570 and 1607, remodelled about 1790, today houses the Hesse State Financial School, includes preserved side building and palace park.
Town Hall, built in 1597–1598 and remodelled in the Baroque period; on 23 September 1637 the town was burnt down by Colonel Isolani’s people. The statue of Saint James at the Town Hall “fell crashing onto the marketplace and burst asunder” (according to the chronicler).
Saint James’s Parish Church
Saint Elizabeth and Mary Monastery Church in the New Town, built beginning in 1370, crypt of the Landgraves of Hesse. Only Landgrave Moritz the Learned’s son, Hermann, the first Quartfürst of Hesse-Rotenburg is buried here next to his consort Kunigunde Juliane of Anhalt-Zerbst. From this princely house also sprang Russian Tsaritsa Catherine the Great.
On the Alter Turm (mountain, 418.1 m above sea level) are hidden the ruins of Rodenberg Castle (from about 1150).
Heimat- und Strandfest (“Homeland and Beach Festival”, every year on the first weekend in July)
Historic Christmas Market on Rotenburg’s Marketplace and in adjoining lanes (from early December – 16 days) with Germany’s tallest Christmas pyramid
Kuckucksmarkt (“Cuckoo’s Market”) in the outlying centre of Braach (North Hesse art, craft and farmers’ market held on the last weekend of each month from May to October)
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Maps and Driving Directions to Rotenburg an der Fulda
Rotenburg lies on Bundesstraße 83 and on the so-called Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn (railway), which is nowadays part of the Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung (“Middle Germany Connection”).
Travel Insider Tips for Rotenburg an der Fulda
Funny: for some reason(according to this) germany only goes from munich to frankfurt.....hmmm...did anyone ever hear of BEACHES(NOT talking about lakes) or hamburg/bremen? holland anyone?? oh yeah: AMSTERDAM would cover the entire northern part. Hello? Try cuxhaven. beautiful summer- vacation
Shared by Ina Cropps, Nov 2010
I used to live 10 miles from there in Bad Hersfeld. A very beautiful place! Christmas there is breathtaking!
Shared by Danny Johnson, Nov 2010
Fulda Valley...What a beautiful part of the state of Hesse. Anyone out there remember the days of the "Fulda Gap" and the 11th ACR. The huge spreads of forest and the villages full of the best German cooking to be found. Ahhhhhhh what memories
Shared by Mike Talbott, Apr 2010
Been here 3 times, its a fantastic place to visit. Spend the day there! So many wonderful shops, beautiful old timbersided buildings. A must see!
Shared by Leda A. Miller, Nov 2010
Ooh..remember our school trip (many many moons ago now) to Rotenburg an der Fulda. Gorgeous little town ... :)) Still love it
Shared by Thomas Haselhorst, Nov 2010
VERY LOVELY CITY, WENT THERE A FEW YEARS BACK, VERY NICE AREA, QUIET AND LOVELY PLACES TO VISIT.
Shared by Ulla Marggraff Tibbets, Apr 2010
Beautiful place. I was there in the year 2000, and enjoy it very much.
Shared by Maria E. Staedtler, Nov 2010
Neustadt vom Fuldaufer
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- Wikipedia: Rotenburg an der Fulda
More about the History of Rotenburg an der Fulda
The settlement on the Fulda’s left bank, today’s Altstadt (“Old Town”), had its first documentary mention as a town in 1248, and after the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession in 1264 the town belonged to the Landgraviate of Hesse. The old castle in the valley had supposedly been removed sometime after 1423. In 1470 arose the first Schloss Rotenburg. A great town fire destroyed the Old Town in 1478 along with the newly built Schloss. Between 1627 and 1834, Rotenburg was a residence town of the landgrave family of Hesse-Rotenburg, the so-called Rotenburger Quart.
In 1615, 57 houses burnt down in Braach, and in the Thirty Years' War, in 1637, the town and the town hall burnt. The fire was set by soldiers from the Isolani Regiment. In March 1882, the volunteer fire brigade was started as a club. In 1900 it acquired an equipment shed with a drying tower near the Fulda (Fulda vacation rentals | Fulda travel guide).
In 2004, the town earned a silver medal in the national contest Unsere Stadt blüht auf (“Our Town is Blossoming”), and in 2005 it earned a gold medal with a special prize for the landscaping design of the Fulda floodplain.
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