Marburg

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Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Rural District. It has about 80,000 inhabitants and a small, but well-known university, the Philipps-University.

The upper part of Old town, near the castle and above the former village 'Weidenhausen' at river Lahn and a bridge is called 'Oberstadt' (upper town).

There are timber framing houses, similar to some houses in Alsfeld (Vogelsbergkreis).

Cycling trail Lahntalradweg along the river connects Marburg with Gießen in the South.

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  Marburg with its castle and a hill

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  A special tower near Marburg

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  The town hall in Marburg, at square 'market place' of 'Oberstadt'

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  The Neustadt in the centre of Marburg

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  timber framing houses near of town hall

Geography

The Lahn valley is surrounded by hill chains called Lahnberge and Marburger Rücken in the Central Uplands (Mittelgebirge), part of West Hesse Highlands. The city districts Cyriaxweimar, Elnhausen, Michelbach and Schröck are on the other side of these two hill chains.

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Map with central parts, railway line named 'Main-Weser-Bahn' to Frankfurt am Main (in South) and Kassel. River Lahn in blue Colour.

Marburg Media

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  St. Elizabeth Church

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  Marburg from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572

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  View of Marburg and the Lahn

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  The Wettergasse in the Old City

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  Town hall and market place with fountain (January 2016)

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  Adolf Knies

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  Public domain image of Adolf Eugen Fick from a scan of Contact Lens Practice by Nathan Efron. Text fragments removed. 

Other websites

Media related to Marburg at Wikimedia Commons