Hesse-Marburg [SEP] dissolved or abolished
- This was first the case in 1485, but as the landgrave died without issue, and the landgraviate reverted to the greater Hesse.
- This was again the case in 1567, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse or "Philip the Magnanimous" split his large landgraviate into four parts, Hesse-Marburg being one of them.
When, in 1604 Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg died without male issue, he bequeathed equal shares of his territory to the landgraviates of Hesse-Kassel (Marburg)
and St. Martin. Toward the end of the 13th century, the double monastery became just a nunnery, and in 1286 the sisters switched to the Order of Augustinian Canonesses.
During the Reformation in Hesse, the monastery was dissolved in 1527 and its assets were transferred to the University of Marburg. 
During the Thirty Years' War, in 1635, the rectory was destroyed and the church was damaged. After the end of the war, in 1658, it was rebuilt, and in 1690 a new rectory was built