 The first meeting of the German bishops took place in Würzburg in 1848, and in 1867 the "Fulda Conference of Bishops" ("next to the grave of St. Boniface") was established, which reorganized as German Bishops' Conference in 1966.The annual autumn conference of the German bishops still takes place in Fulda, while the meeting in spring is held at alternating places.After the construction of the Berlin Wall the ordinaries in the East German Democratic Republic (GDR) were inhibited to participate in the "Fulda Conference of Bishops".