FRITZLAR, a town in the Prussian province of Hesse-Cas sel, on the left bank of the Eder, 16 m. S.W. from Cassel by rail. Pop. As early as 732 Boniface, the apostle of Ger many, established the church of St. Peter and a small Benedictine monastery at Frideslar. Among the earlier scholars of the famous monastery school were Sturm, abbot of Fulda, and Megingod, second bishop of Wiirzburg. Boniface later entrusted the office to Wigbert of Glastonbury, who thus became the first abbot of Fritzlar. In 774 the little settlement was burnt by the Saxons, but soon recovered. Soon after 786 it was the seat of the bishopric of Buraburg, founded by Boniface in 741. At the diet of Fritzlar in 919 Henry I. was elected German king. Early in the 13th cen tury the village received municipal rights. As a principality Fritz lar continued subject to the archbishopric of Mainz till 1802, when it was incorporated with Hesse. In 1866 it passed with Hesse-Cassel to Prussia.