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Historical Cycle Path Wolfhagen – Station 5: Schützeberg

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Historical Cycle Path Wolfhagen – Station 5: Schützeberg

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Location: Wolfhagen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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1. Altenhasungen Church – Church of Oelshausen loop from Ehlen

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2. Erzeberg Holiday Resort – Church of Oelshausen loop from Ippinghausen

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October 6, 2024

The Church of St. Peter on the Schützeberg

The Schützeberg (277 m above sea level) is a shell limestone ridge on whose plateau a church once stood. It was dedicated to St. Peter.

The Church of St. Peter is probably the oldest in the Wolfhagen region. It was founded after 724 by Boniface (d. 754) during his missionary work. As a private church, it was part of the bishop's personal property. After his death, it was inherited by his successor Lullus, founder of the Hersfeld monastery, who gave it and other churches to Charlemagne. In 782, the Frankish king gave it as a gift to the Petersstift in Fritzlar.

The church on the Schützeberg was the parish church for a larger surrounding area, in which other branch churches were gradually founded. By 1131 at the latest, the parish was the seat of an archpriest, who was in charge of thirteen other churches in the Wolfhagen region.

In 1235, the Schützeberg pastor moved to Wolfhagen, which had been founded a few years earlier and whose town church belonged to the Schützeberg parish for a long time. As the town grew, St. Peter's Church lost importance and in 1241 fell to the Mainz monastery of Hasungen.

No remains of the building have survived. Piles of rubble next to the cemetery indicate its location. They come from the demolition of the walls in the late 16th century. The church site is a protected archaeological monument.

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Location: Wolfhagen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

Historical Cycle Path Wolfhagen – Station 5: Schützeberg

1. Altenhasungen Church – Church of Oelshausen loop from Ehlen

2. Erzeberg Holiday Resort – Church of Oelshausen loop from Ippinghausen

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