Editing Fulda (section)

===Counter-Reformation===
[[File:Braun Fulda UBHD.jpg|thumb|Fulda in the 16th century]]
Prince-abbot [[Balthasar von Dernbach]] adopted a policy of [[Counter-Reformation]]. In 1571 he called in the [[Jesuits]] to found a school and college. He insisted the members of the chapter should return to a [[Monasticism|monastic]] form of life. Whereas his predecessors had tolerated [[Protestantism]], resulting in most of the citizenry of Fulda and a large portion of the principality's countryside professing [[Lutheranism]], Balthasar ordered his subjects either to return to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic faith]] or leave his territories.<ref name="counterreform1">Otto Schaffrath. ''Fürstabt Balthasar von Dermbach und seine Zeit. Studien zur Geschichte der Gegenreformation in Fulda'' (= ''Veröffentlichung des Fuldaer Geschichtsvereins''. Bd. 44, {{ZDB|517272-x}}). Parzeller, Fulda 1967, mit umfangreicher Literaturübersicht.{{in lang|de}}</ref> He also ordered the [[Fulda witch trials]], in which hundreds of people, including a number of crypto-Protestants were arrested on charges of witchcraft alongside others.<ref>Stuart Clark, William Monter, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=t1SFPods4DkC&dq=witch+trials+fulda&pg=PA27 Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4: The Period of the Witch Trials]''</ref>