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Elisabethkirche in Marburg

The Church of St. Elizabeth in Marburg was built from the August 14, 1235 at the foot of the Marburg Schlossberg . The German Order built it with significant promotion of the Landgrave of Thuringia in honor of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia . The hall church was built over the tomb of Elizabeth , what the church made into a major place of pilgrimage of the late Middle Ages . The grandson of St. Elizabeth , Landgrave Heinrich I , already the Church of Our Lady built in 1286 for her role model in Frankenberg .

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