The Bad Hersfeld Festival is held in the Stiftsruine (abbey ruins), the remains of a large church that was originally built between 831 and 850. This church was part of a Catholic monastery for the first several centuries of its existence, but on May 1, 1521, Martin Luther came to Read More …
Bad Hersfeld was only called “Hersfeld” until 1949, when they finally got state permission to use the coveted word Bad in their name. It is a town of 30,000 people in the eastern part of Hessen, conveniently located on the regional bicycle route R1 and also on the main railway Read More …
In 2005, I took a Regional Express train from Frankfurt to Fulda, and then started cycling along the regional bicycle route R1 down the Fulda River Valley. It was a cool, overcast day, which was fine for cycling but not ideal for taking pictures. I arrived two years too late Read More …
If your bicycle has a flat tire or something you could always take a train to Bad Hersfeld. Every second InterCityExpress (ICE) stops in Bad Hersfeld, so there is an ICE connection every two hours, which makes for eight or nine ICEs per day in each direction. There are also Read More …
A glance at a map of Germany will reveal that there are hundreds of place names that start with the word “Bad”, and you have probably guessed that this does not mean all these places are bad in the sense of awful or terrible. The German word Bad means “bath”, Read More …