The Marburg Colloquy was a meeting at Marburg Castle, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, which attempted to solve a disputation between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It took place between 1 October and 4 October 1529. The leading Protestant reformers of the time attended at the behest of Philip I of Hessen. Philip's primary motivation for this conference was political; he wished to unite the Protestant states in political alliance, and to this end, religious harmony was an important consideration.
Anonymous woodcut, 1557
Martin Luther
Huldrych Zwingli
Philipp Melanchthon, born as Philipp Schwartzerdt
Marburg is a university town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 76,000.
View of Marburg, dominated by the castle and St. Elizabeth's Church
St. Elizabeth Church
Marburg from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572
View of Marburg and the Lahn