Diocese of Büraburg
The diocese of Büraburg was a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church established in 742 in today's Fritzlar . It was dissolved in 755.
history
Around 680 the Franconian Reichsburg Büraburg was built with around 8 hectares of interior space, a mortar wall at least 1.50 m thick, several towers and three gates. Several pointed trenches were dug at the particularly endangered places. On the eastern part of the Bergsporn there was an outer bailey, in which rural farms and craftsmen were settled. Around 700 the fortifications were reinforced by new, thicker (approx. 1.80 m) walls. The gates were expanded, the interior settlement was built more densely and systematically (post structures, stud houses on stone beams or cellars, pit houses). The church of St. Brigida was built on the central summit plateau.
In 723, the Büraburg served St. Boniface as a base of operations and a military protective shield when he felled the Danube oak near Geismar , which is only a few kilometers away , probably on today's cathedral square in Fritzlar . He had a chapel built from the wood of the oak, which he consecrated to the apostle Peter . This wooden church was the nucleus of the Benedictine monastery Fritzlar founded by Bonifatius in 724 , the first abbot of which he appointed St. Wigbert . This monastery was converted into a collegiate monastery in 1005 .
In 742 Bonifatius raised Büraburg together with Würzburg and Erfurt to dioceses. The first bishop was Boniface's companion Witta . As early as 755, however, the diocese, together with the diocese of Erfurt, which was also founded by Boniface, was incorporated into the diocese of Mainz by Lullus , as both hindered the further expansion of his diocese to the east and their task as missionary dioceses was considered to be completed. Afterwards, Büraburg was the archdeaconate (later moved to Fritzlar ), the center of Mainz authority in northern Hesse and on the Eichsfeld .
literature
- Oliver Hellmuth: The founding of the diocese of Boniface. GRIN Verlag (2004), ISBN 3638262219 .