When all the princes of Germany assembled together with the Emperor at the Diet of Worms in 1521 for what would become Luther's moment of truth, Philipp was only a teenager. However, Philipp was there, and he encouraged Martin Luther to stand firm. This next picture below was not in a museum, but just in the window of a drug store in Marburg.
Please leave a comment if you would like to better translate this German caption that went with the picture above. It tries to capture the words which a young Philipp of Hesse spoke to Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms as something like, "You are in the right, Doctor, God will help you!"
There is a lot of this in Marburg:
What I mean to say is there are lots of stairs in Marburg. Marburg is quite a vertical city, and all the stairways lead up to Philipp's castle:
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