individually by car, taxi or hotel shuttle 24 km (25 min)
If you don’t want to go on a guided excursion but still want to make the most of the match-free Wednesday afternoon, you can also drive to the nearest town on your own
The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld (until 1949 Hersfeld) is the county seat of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse.
Bad Hersfeld is known nationwide mainly for the Bad Hersfeld Festival, which has been held annually in the Abbey Ruins since 1951. The Stiftsruine is considered the largest Romanesque church ruin in Europe.
The history of Bad Hersfeld dates back to the 8th century.
On the relics of a hermitage founded in 736, the Anglo-Saxon cleric Lull a companion of Boniface and his successor on the Mainz bishop’s chair, built a Benedictine monastery in 769. This was to play a role in the missionization of the Saxons and Thuringians and was therefore elevated to the status of an imperial abbey by the Frankish king Charles (from 800 emperor) as early as 775; it possessed immunity and the right of free abbot election. The abbey existed for 837 years until its dissolution in 1606, when most of its territory fell to the Landgraviate of Hesse. Under its total of 66 abbots, the abbey has experienced about four hundred years of continuous rise and prosperity, the rest of the time is synonymous with stagnation and rapid decline.
The Lullus Festival is the oldest folk festival in Germany. It commemorates the founder of Bad Hersfeld and Boniface’s disciple Archbishop Lull (710 to 786). It was celebrated for the first time in 852. Since then, the popular local festival has been held during the week in which the anniversary of the death of “Saint Lullus” (October 16) falls. Sights & Events: (Bad Hersfeld Festival), opera in the abbey ruins, guided tours of the historic old town, Konrad Duden Museum with ascent of the church tower, spa park with the ruins of the Abbey – festival location …