Last weekend I visited friends in Frankfurt, and we took an excursion to the traditional university town of Marburg, home to one of Germany's oldest universities, with a traditionally left-leaning student body. Marburg was generally unscathed by WWII, so there are still plenty of attractive half-timbered row houses and Gothic churches to admire. The old town and castle are situated on the sides of a modest hill, and the climb up is pleasantly scenic.
Here are a few pictures, including totally uncompromising radical left-wing graffiti (translations in hover text), an inscription from a stone on the side of a church (bonus points to anyone who can decipher it), a monument to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, a Catholic saint, which features a bronze sculpture of St. George and a graffito at the bottom protesting against the commercialization of education (may be a later addition!), the charmingly crooked tower of the Marienkirche, handmade posters celebrating recent high-school graduates, and other, completele unrelated things.
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