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| Friedberg | ||
| federal state | Hesse | |
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| Residents | 29.180 (2019) | |
| height | 140 m, 153 m | |
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Friedberg is a city in the Wetterau, In the state Hesse.
background
Friedberg is a cultural center of the Wetterau with many further education schools. The Adolfsturm, a 58 m high keep within the castle complex, is the city's landmark. In the Judengasse of the old town you will find the monumental underground ritual bath / mikveh, which is 25 m deep in Germany. 1958-1960 Elvis Presley was stationed in Friedberg. His work is recognized in the Wetterau Museum.
The campaigns of Germanicus required a Roman military camp, which was built on the Friedberger Burgberg at the beginning of the 1st century AD. After the end of the campaigns, the Romans withdrew. From 69-79 AD Vespasian again built a Roman fort on the castle hill, which was built around 260 AD when the Romans retreated to the Rhine border. was abandoned again. Today you can still find the excavated remnants of a small bathing complex. Tacitus mentioned the "castellum in monte tauno" (The fort in the Taunus Mountains), and probably meant the fort in today's Friedberg.
Between 1171–1180, Kuno I von Hagen-Münzenberg founded Friedberg, presumably on behalf of Emperor Barbarossa. According to the oldest surviving document, the castle dates from 1216. The castle and town of Friedberg are located on a basalt rock in the Wetterau. The city is mentioned in a document from 1219. Castle and town were legally independent units and later their own territories within the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. The close proximity of the castle and town led to friction for centuries. A similar geographic situation in Nuremberg resulted in comparable problems. In Friedberg, cloth was produced with economic success. Friedberg became an imperial city as early as 1252. Two trade fairs were held here every year. The Friedberger cloth was in great demand and was delivered to Lübeck, Silesia, the Netherlands and Vienna.
In the 14th century the city had about 3000 inhabitants and was a medium-sized city. The Jewish community had existed since 1241 and had a few hundred members. The city burned in 1383 and 1447. The Frankfurt fair became more important than Friedberg. The result was an economic decline. The city had to go into debt. Since 1347, the empire pledged the imperial city of Friedberg several times to various noble lords. From 1455 it was in the pledge of Friedberg Castle. In 1483 the castle took control of the city. In 1497 there were only about 1300 inhabitants in Friedberg. Wealthy citizens had moved to Frankfurt am Main.
In 1541 the imperial city became Protestant. The city suffered from the Thirty Years 'War, the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the looting. In 1802 the city fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. At that time it had about 2000 inhabitants. Castle and town were united in 1834. The construction of the Main-Weser Railway (1850–52) was the reason for a slow economic rise.
getting there
By train
Friedberg is located on the Main-Weser Railway, which runs from Kassel to Frankfurt am Main.
The only long-distance traffic connection is the Intercity from Karlsruhe via Frankfurt am Main to Hamburg. This line every 2 hours also stops in Friedberg.
In regional traffic there are connections to:
- Kassel - Marburg - Giessen - InterCity and Regional-Express with double-deck coaches, each every 2 hours
- to water - Regionalbahn (as Mittelhessenexpress, runs from Schwalmstadt-Treysa via Marburg and as a wing train from Dillenburg)
Regional express of the HLB from Marburg and as a wing train from Siegen. - Frankfurt am Main - S-Bahn (S6, terminus) and Regional Express
- Bad Homburg - Friedrichsdorf - Regional train (diesel multiple units)
- Hunger - Regional train (diesel multiple units)
- Nidda - Regional train (diesel multiple units or trains)
- Hanau - Nidderau - Regional train (diesel multiple units)
Attention: Friedberg train station owns no elevators.
Train and bus timetables (VgO) for Friedberg
In the street
Friedberg is not far from the 
, kassel - Frankfurt am Main
The German half-timbered street leads through the place.
mobility
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The tourist center is small and flat, so everything can be easily reached on foot.
Tourist Attractions
- City fortifications. Longer stretches of the medieval city fortifications have been preserved, some of which are built into houses. Here is also the one leading to the lake meadow Poor sinners gate with pointed arch from 1293. In the southeast is the Red tower with pointed arch frieze and crenellated wreath. The Adolfsturm in the castle has a 58 m high keep. The tower was built after 1347. Open Sa So. 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., adults € 2.00, young people € 1.00. A walk in the Burggarten. In the castle there is a garden from the second half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.
- Old town. The old town, which adjoins the castle complex, is a mixture of many half-timbered houses and also some new buildings and a large number of restaurants, bars and also small shops. The proportion of Muslim residents is particularly high in some of the streets, so that there is also a higher density of kebab snack bars and adequate restaurants.
- Judenbad. The Judenbad is located behind an inconspicuous door at Judengasse 20. The square, ritual women's bath (mikveh) has a well-worth seeing shaft that reaches down to the groundwater level a good 25 meters. According to the inscription, the bath was built in 1260.Price: 2 €.
- Kaiserstrasse. Numerous half-timbered houses from the 15th to 18th centuries have been preserved along the wide Kaiserstraße, which was previously used as a market. Some were covered with slate or plastered. The Theological seminar at Kaiserstraße 2 is a two-storey late classicist building in the arched style and dates from 1848. It is particularly worth seeing House to the Roseneck (Kaiserstrasse No. 59/61) that dates from 1333. Its current form was probably made in the second half of the 15th century. The House To the Bornziegel (No. 77) used to be the guild house of wool weavers. It is said to have been built in 1473. The three-story building is one of the most impressive buildings House number 114 from 1598. It still has a wooden spiral staircase. Among the few old stone houses on Kaiserstraße are houses no. 118 and no. 120 of interest. House 118 is probably the oldest secular building in the city. It was probably made at the end of the 12th century. The owner was the German Order (Frankfurt). Older buildings have also been preserved in the narrow side streets of Kaiserstrasse.
- town hall. The two-storey town hall was built between 1737 and 1740. The meeting room on the upper floor, in which city council meetings were previously held, has served the Friedberg Music School as a practice room since 2001.
- 1 Wetterau Museum, Haagstrasse 16. Departments: Celts, Romans, 1930s agriculture, 1950s mom and pop shop, Elvis Presley souvenirs, mikveh.Open: Tue to Fri 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sat, Sun and public holidays 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.Price: 2 €.
- 2 City Church of Our Lady, Wolfengasse. Gothic hall church, built around 1260 to 1410.Open: Tuesday to Friday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.Price: adults € 1.00, young people € 0.50.
- 3 St. Jacobus Church, Ockstadt. Neo-Baroque "Okschter Dom", district of Ockstadt.
activities
shop
kitchen
nightlife
accommodation
- 1 Dorheimer Hof, Wetteraustrasse 70. Tel.: (0)6031 7370-0, Fax: (0)6031 7370-40. All rooms have a shower or bath / toilet, hairdryer, telephone with wake-up service, cable TV with Premiere radio, hotel's own WiFi service and free parking.Price: DR 70 - 80 €. including a rich breakfast buffet and 19% VAT.
- 2 Garni-Hotel Stadt Friedberg, Am Seebach 2a. Tel.: (0)6031 60 70, Fax: (0)6031 60 71 00. 59 rooms equipped with shower / toilet, hairdryer, telephone, modem socket, W-Lan from T-Mobile, several rooms with cable TV, free hotel sauna, free parking lot in front of the hotel and individual garages for a fee.
trips
literature
Web links
- https://www.friedberg-hessen.de/ - Friedberg's official website
