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Stadtschloss
Grave of St. Boniface
Wall section with basket-weave structure
The Grime ReaperHistory Timeline Part VI
1802
The Princely Episcopate of Fulda was secularised and given to Prince William V of Orange-Nassau, who bequethed it to his son Wilhelm Frederick of Orange-Nassau, who later became King William I of the Netherlands.
1806
Because the House of Orange fought on the Prussian side in the Battle of Jena, and lost to Napoleon, he was de-throned in Fulda. At this point, French Regency began in Fulda.
1807
Napoleon occupied Fulda after the Peace Treaty of Tilsit.
1810
Fulda was given to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, and put under rule of the Prime Prince of the Rhine Federation, Carl Theodore of Dalberg.
1813
The rest of Napoleon's Troops retreated through Fulda, after the battle lost near Leipzig, which indirectly caused a typhoid empidemic. The dead French soldier were buried in a mass grave in front of the city walls.
As a result of Battle of Leipzig, Fulda falls into Austria's hands.
1815
During the Vienna Congress the providence of Fulda was dissolved. The major portion of it fell into the hands of the Prussians.
1816
Prussia gave Fulda to the Electorate Principality of Hesse.
1819
Under Elector Prince William I the present-day City Palace was re-designed in classical style.
1821
Fulda become capitol of one of four Hessian Electorate Principality provinces, which each had it's own government, court of law and state agencies.
1835
The first "Oberbürgermeister" (Lord Mayor of Fulda was Daniel Mackenrodt (1835 - 1859).
1866
Fuldaer became Prussian once again, when the Prussians occupied Hesse. Fulda became a county seat.
This year brought more developments with it: Fulda was joined in the railway system. The line from Bebra-Fulda went all the way to Frankfurt. This ensured economic survival.
1867
The first German Bishops' Conference took place in Fulda.
1871
Now the City of Giessen also has been connected to the railway system.
