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middle-ages reformed academy, today seat of the city museum
The Herborn Academy was a Calvinist institution of higher learning in Herborn from 1584 to 1817. The Academy was a centre of encyclopaedic Ramism and the birthplace of both covenant theology and pansophism. Its faculty of theology continues as the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Church of Hesse and Nassau. The institution held the principle that every theory has to be functional in practical use, therefore it has to be didactic.
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First mentioned in a document dating to 1219
Schloss
Still inhabited by a seminary of the Protestant church of Hesse.
It has more than 100 types of local and exotic birds and many other animals, a garden-café, playground, and other interesting features.