Marburg: Shiver me timbers!
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selenakI was able to upload my Marburg photos now, and since it is a timber-tastic pretty little town with a castle and fairy tales, it didn't matter the weather wasn't always fine. (I was mostly indoors anyway, at the conference, just racing outside now and then to catch some air.)
That was a view of the castle and the old university church as seen from the river, the Lahn. Most of Marburg's old timber buildings are in the "Oberstadt", where also the conference in question took place, in the old city hall. Said old city hall:
Central town square:
A few alleys:
The black cat, btw, insists he's a Grimm cat, not a Poe cat. Not an American visitor he, unlike this gentleman:
Presumably, he was there for the conference, as his civilian alter ego. :) Now, as I said, Marburg is famous for some of its residents, including two students who hated the place on account of their flat being in a noisy, ill-lit part of town, but since they were the Brothers Grimm, the hosue they stayed in is a landmark (and a shop, and there is still a student community flat up there, which I think is grand):
And mementos like these:
Now for some gothic stuff. Another celebrity - who came here and died here in her 20s - was St. Elisabeth. Born Elisabeth of Hungary, married at age 4 to the two or three years older son of one of the biggest and most shameless double dealers of the time, the prince of Thuringia (he switched sides no less than 7 times during our equivalent of the Wars of the Roses and got more land out of it every time), had a happy marriage against the odds until her husband (young idealistic fellow, very much not like dad) died of dysentry on the eve of an aborted crusade, scandalized her in-laws by giving away all her wealth to the poor (founding hospitals, among other things), lived in poverty herself in Marburg then, died young. This church, next to where the hospital she founded was, is named after her:
Then there is the old university church (now Protestant, like basically all the Marburg churches: Luther Was Here, big time):
And the castle. Which I climbed up to at the beginning and at the end of the conference, hence the different weather; the second photo shows the keep as seen from today's Botanischer Garten:
As you may imagine, the castle is great for town overviews:
Though walking on the side of the river, you also get some great ones. Like the one I'm choosing to wrap this quick impression of Marburg an der Lahn up:
That was a view of the castle and the old university church as seen from the river, the Lahn. Most of Marburg's old timber buildings are in the "Oberstadt", where also the conference in question took place, in the old city hall. Said old city hall:
Central town square:
A few alleys:
The black cat, btw, insists he's a Grimm cat, not a Poe cat. Not an American visitor he, unlike this gentleman:
Presumably, he was there for the conference, as his civilian alter ego. :) Now, as I said, Marburg is famous for some of its residents, including two students who hated the place on account of their flat being in a noisy, ill-lit part of town, but since they were the Brothers Grimm, the hosue they stayed in is a landmark (and a shop, and there is still a student community flat up there, which I think is grand):
And mementos like these:
Now for some gothic stuff. Another celebrity - who came here and died here in her 20s - was St. Elisabeth. Born Elisabeth of Hungary, married at age 4 to the two or three years older son of one of the biggest and most shameless double dealers of the time, the prince of Thuringia (he switched sides no less than 7 times during our equivalent of the Wars of the Roses and got more land out of it every time), had a happy marriage against the odds until her husband (young idealistic fellow, very much not like dad) died of dysentry on the eve of an aborted crusade, scandalized her in-laws by giving away all her wealth to the poor (founding hospitals, among other things), lived in poverty herself in Marburg then, died young. This church, next to where the hospital she founded was, is named after her:
Then there is the old university church (now Protestant, like basically all the Marburg churches: Luther Was Here, big time):
And the castle. Which I climbed up to at the beginning and at the end of the conference, hence the different weather; the second photo shows the keep as seen from today's Botanischer Garten:
As you may imagine, the castle is great for town overviews:
Though walking on the side of the river, you also get some great ones. Like the one I'm choosing to wrap this quick impression of Marburg an der Lahn up:
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