St. Mary's Church, Homberg

The Protestant town church of St. Mary stands elevated on the market square in the middle of the old town and is the landmark of the district town of Homberg in the Schwalm-Eder district of northern Hesse, visible from afar.

The 13th-century church is one of the most important Gothic architectural monuments in northern Hesse, along with the Elisabethkirche in Marburg. It has a special significance within Hessian Protestantism: In 1526, Landgrave Philip the Magnanimous convened the "Homberg Synod", which met in this church and marked the time when the Landgraviate of Hesse became Protestant. That is why it is called the Reformation Church of Hesse.