homberg's town church, st. marien's or st. mary's, holds a special place in hessian protestantism: in 1526, landgrave philip the magnanimous convened a synod in homburg that sat in this church, marking the point in time when the landgraviate of hesse became evangelical. thus the church, one of the most important gothic monuments in north hesse, is sometimes called the "reformationskirche hessens" – the reformation church of hesse.