And the story goes ...

This is one of several churches in Marburg, Germany, a university town north of Frankfurt that was once the capital of the entire region of Hessen. Most famous internationally, however, were the Brothers Grimm, who collected many of their fairy tales here - Rapunzel's Tower stands in Marburg, and across the Lahn hills, in the area called Schwalm, little girls' costumes included a red hood...

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