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Freising
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Freising is a city in Bavaria, Germany with a population of 48,500 inhabitants. It is located north of Munich at the Isar River, close to Franz Josef Strau International Airport. It has two prominent hills, cathedral hill with the bishop's castle and the Weihenstephan hill with the oldest brewery of the world. Even though archaeological discoveries demonstrate that the region was settled in the Bronze Age, it had no proof. Saint Corbinian settled at a shrine, which was present at Freising in 724. He was the forerunner of the diocese of Freising that was started after his death by Saint Boniface.
Freising began to turn in a religious center in 996 and received city rights from Emperor Otto III. After the establishment of Munich 40 kilometers on south around 1150, it began losing lose its economic importance. In 1159, the Romanesque cathedral was built. In the secularisation of 1803, Catholic Church lost a lot of its properties and control on the city. Freising is one of the oldest settlements in Bavaria, which gained importance by becoming a religious center of Bavaria in the start of the Middle Ages.
Freising was and still is the center of an important diocese. As it is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Germany, it is one of the most visited places amongst the most die-hard travelers the world over.
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