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Fulda

City in Hesse, Germany, on the River Fulda, 82 km/51 mi northeast of Frankfurt am Main; population (2005 est) 64,000. The city produces textiles, carpets, and rubber. Fulda was made a city in 1157. St Michael's Chapel (818) is the second oldest church in Germany.

Fulda developed around a Benedictine abbey founded in the 8th century by St Boniface, whose tomb is in the city's baroque cathedral. The abbots of Fulda were made prince-bishops in 1752. Nearby at Petersberg, the church of St Lioba contains the oldest wall painting in Germany, dating from 838.

Fulda

River in Germany; length 220 km/137 mi. It rises in the Rhön massif, 20 km/12 mi southeast of Fulda and flows through Fulda before joining the River Weser just south of Kassel.



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