The Fritzlar Cathedral St. Peter is one of the most important architectural monuments in northern Hesse in terms of history and architecture. The history of the cathedral and the city of Fritzlar begins around 723, when St. Boniface founded a Benedictine monastery on that site. A few years later, around 732, a first stone church was built in its place under monk Wigbert. Around the year 1000, that monastery was transformed into a canon’s monastery, but it was completely destroyed in the course of the disputes between Henry IV and the opposing king Rudolf of Rheinfelden. It was to take only a few years before the construction of a basilica the size of today’s cathedral in high Romanesque style was begun, the basic forms of which are still standing today.