Fritzlar
Fritzlar is a small town in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany, 160 km north of Frankfurt, with a storied history. The town has a medieval center ringed by a wall with numerous watch towers. thirty-eight meters high, the "Grey Tower" is the highest remaining urban defense tower in Germany.Photo: AxelHH, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Peter’s Cathedral and Spitzenhäuschen.
Saint Peter’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located in the small German town of Fritzlar. It is often colloquially referred to as a cathedral, due to its great size.
Spitzenhäuschen
Historic building
Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spitzenhäuschen is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalbsburg and Borken.
Kalbsburg
Neighborhood
Photo: AxelHH, Public domain.
Kalbsburg is a neighborhood, which is situated 4 km south of Fritzlar.
Borken
Town
Photo: Rüdiger Wölk, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Borken is a small town with about 13,000 inhabitants in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, Germany. The town is a former centre for brown coal mining and coal-fired electrical generation in Hesse. Borken is situated 9 km south of Fritzlar.
Fritzlar
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: town in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in Hesse, Germany
- Categories: urban municipality in Germany and locality
- Location: Fritzlar, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kassel, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.13182° or 51° 7′ 55″ northLongitude
9.27459° or 9° 16′ 29″ eastPopulation
14,800Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)IATA airport code
FRZUnited Nations Location Code
DE FRZOpen location code
9F3F47JF+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 250453504OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2924326Wikidata ID
Q492503
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fritzlar” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fritzlar”
- Arabic: “فريتزلار”
- Arabic: “فريتسلار”
- Aragonese: “Fritzlar”
- Arpitan: “Fritzlar”
- Asturian: “Fritzlar”
- Azerbaijani: “Fritzlar”
- Basque: “Fritzlar”
- Bavarian: “Fritzlar”
- Belarusian: “Фрыцлар”
- Breton: “Fritzlar”
- Bulgarian: “Фритцлар”
- Catalan: “Fritzlar”
- Cebuano: “Fritzlar”
- Chechen: “Фрицлар”
- Chinese: “弗里茨拉尔”
- Chinese: “弗里茨拉爾”
- Corsican: “Fritzlar”
- Croatian: “Fritzlar”
- Czech: “Fritzlar”
- Danish: “Fritzlar”
- Dutch: “Fritzlar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فريتسلار”
- Esperanto: “Fritzlar”
- Estonian: “Fritzlar”
- Finnish: “Fritzlar”
- French: “Fritzlar”
- Friulian: “Fritzlar”
- Galician: “Fritzlar”
- Georgian: “ფრიცლარი”
- German: “Fritzlar”
- Greek: “Φρίτσλαρ”
- Hebrew: “פריצלאר”
- Hungarian: “Fritzlar”
- Icelandic: “Fritzlar”
- Ido: “Fritzlar”
- Indonesian: “Fritzlar”
- Interlingua: “Fritzlar”
- Interlingue: “Fritzlar”
- Irish: “Fritzlar”
- Italian: “Fritzlar”
- Japanese: “フリッツラー”
- Kongo: “Fritzlar”
- Korean: “프리츨라어”
- Kurdish: “Fritzlar”
- Ladin: “Fritzlar”
- Latin: “Fricdislaria”
- Ligurian: “Fritzlar”
- Limburgan: “Fritzlar”
- Low German: “Fritzlar”
- Luxembourgish: “Fritzlar”
- Malagasy: “Fritzlar”
- Malay: “Fritzlar”
- Minangkabau: “Fritzlar”
- Narom: “Fritzlar”
- Neapolitan: “Fritzlar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fritzlar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fritzlar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fritzlar”
- Persian: “فریتزلار”
- Persian: “فریتسلار”
- Picard: “Fritzlar”
- Piemontese: “Fritzlar”
- Polish: “Fritzlar”
- Portuguese: “Fritzlar”
- Romanian: “Fritzlar”
- Romansh: “Fritzlar”
- Russian: “Фритцлар”
- Russian: “Фрицлар”
- Sardinian: “Fritzlar”
- Scots: “Fritzlar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fritzlar”
- Serbian: “Friclar”
- Serbian: “Fritzlar, Dom- und Kaiserstadt”
- Serbian: “Fritzlar”
- Serbian: “Фрицлар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Friclar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fritzlar”
- Sicilian: “Fritzlar”
- Slovak: “Fritzlar”
- Slovenian: “Fritzlar”
- South Azerbaijani: “فریتزلار”
- Spanish: “Fritzlar”
- Swahili: “Fritzlar”
- Swedish: “Fritzlar”
- Swiss German: “Fritzlar”
- Tatar: “Фрицлар”
- Tumbuka: “Fritzlar”
- Turkish: “Fritzlar”
- Ukrainian: “Фріцлар”
- Urdu: “فرٹزلر”
- Uzbek: “Fritslar”
- Uzbek: “Fritzlar”
- Uzbek: “Фритзлар”
- Uzbek: “Фритцлар”
- Venetian: “Fritzlar”
- Vietnamese: “Fritzlar”
- Vlaams: “Fritzlar”
- Volapük: “Fritzlar”
- Walloon: “Fritzlar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fritzlar”
- Welsh: “Fritzlar”
- Wolof: “Fritzlar”
- Zulu: “Fritzlar”
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