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The old town has made its mark on Marburg. It was here that the town's 750th anniversary was celebrated in 1972, although the castle and market town are much older. Indeed, in 1140 the town minted its own coin, the "Marburger Pfennig". Today, too, this venerable university town spans the bridge between past and present. A town, in which you still get a feel of the Middle Ages: whether you wander through the narrow alleys of Marburg's upper town, admire the crooked timbered houses below the "Landgrafenschloss" (Landgrave's Castle) or spend a while on the historic "Marktplatz" (town square), you feel as though you have been transported back to mediaeval times. The Russian poet Boris Pasternak who spent a semester studying in Marburg in 1912, put this feeling into words: "If it were but a town! But it is a mediaeval fairytale." As you walk through the upper town you will soon see what Boris Pasternak meant.