Door knocker in Marburg, a university town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf

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Door knocker in at the main entrance gate of the medieval Elisabeth Church in Marburg is a university town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (Landkreis). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 72,000. Having been awarded town privileges in 1222, Marburg served as capital of the landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg during periods of the 15th to 17th centuries. The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day. Marburg remains a relatively unspoilt, spire-dominated, castle-crowned Gothic/Renaissance city on a hill partly because it was isolated between 1600 and 1850. Architecturally, it is famous both for its castle Marburger Schloss and its medieval churches. The Elisabethkirche, as one of the two or three first purely Gothic churches north of the Alps outside France, is an archetype of Gothic architecture in Germany. The Elisabeth Church also contains the tomb of Paul von Hindenburg and his wife.

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Size: 4592px × 3056px
Location: Germany, Marburg
Photo credit: © Remo Kurka / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: church, city, door, elisabeth, gate, german, germany, head, hessen, hindenburg, iron, knocker, lion, marburg, medieval, paul, town, von