Ohrdruf

„Als nun Bonifatius das Land erhalten hatte / liess er an jener Stätte das Gesträuch ausrotten und auf dem gelegten Grund ein Kirchlein aufbauen“

Bau einer Kapelle an der Ohra durch Bonifatius

He continued his work in Lower Hessia. To show the heathens how utterly powerless were the gods in whom they placed their confidence, Boniface felled the oak sacred to the thunder-god Thor, at Geismar, near Fritzlar. He had a chapel built out of the wood and dedicated it to the prince of the Apostles. The heathens were astonished that no thunderbolt from the hand of Thor destroyed the offender, and many were converted. The fall of this oak marked the fall of heathenism.