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I spent a total of five years in the town of Fulda in the heart of the state of Hessen, Germany. Before I was stationed there with the US Army, I'd never heard of the place. Click here to see a few photos of the city. What's special about Fulda? Well, for one thing, it's about the nicest mid-sized town in all of Germany. About 60 miles (100 km) north of Frankfurt and a few dozen miles south of Kassel, Fulda is considered the sweetest example of a Baroque city in the entire Federal Republic. Fulda was a bishopric -- run by a Catholic bishop named by the Pope -- and was a waystation for pilgrims because the town's Dom (cathedral) is the burial site of St. Boniface, the patron saint of Germany. A few meters from the Dom is the Michaelskirche, the oldest continually-used church in Germany. It dates from the 8th century. I worked in a few places while living in Fulda: at the ball-bearing factory (Kugellagerfabrik), the felt factory (Filzfabrik Fulda), and as a teacher at the Euro-Sprachschule (language school). The factory jobs sucked, but the teaching job was a great springboard to my first career -- teaching. Click here for a "Discover Fulda" link (in German). |
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