Marburg
Marburg is a small university town north of Frankfurt in the Lahn valley, Hesse. The castle on the hill, the university's historical buildings and the old city are the top sights of the city.
- Type: Town with 73,100 residents
- Description: city in Hesse, Germany, and seat of Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf
- Also known as: “Marburg (Hessen)”, “Marburg (Lahn)”, “Marburg a. d. Lahn”, “Marburg, Hessen”, “Marburg/Lahn”, “Universitätsstadt Marburg”, and “Մարբուրգ ան դեր Լան”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Elizabeth’s Church, Marburg and Spiegelslust tower.
St. Elizabeth’s Church, Marburg
Church
St. Elizabeth's Church is an Evangelical church in Marburg, Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Richtsberg.
Marburg
- Categories: district capital, college town, Lutherstadt, city with special status, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen, North Hesse, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.809° or 50° 48′ 32″ north
Longitude
8.7705° or 8° 46′ 14″ east
Population
73,100
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
UN/LOCODE
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Open location code
9F2CRQ5C+J5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Marburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Marburg”
- Albanian: “Marburg”
- Arabic: “ماربورغ”
- Aragonese: “Marburgo”
- Armenian: “Մարբուրգ”
- Asturian: “Marburg”
- Azerbaijani: “Marburq”
- Basque: “Marburg”
- Bavarian: “Marburg”
- Belarusian: “Марбург”
- Bosnian: “Marburg”
- Breton: “Marburg”
- Bulgarian: “Марбург”
- Catalan: “Marburg an der Lahn”
- Catalan: “Marburg”
- Cebuano: “Marburg an der Lahn (kapital sa distrito sa Alemanya)”
- Cebuano: “Marburg”
- Chinese: “馬堡”
- Chinese: “馬爾堡”
- Chinese: “马尔堡”
- Chuvash: “Марбург”
- Croatian: “Marburg”
- Czech: “Marburg”
- Czech: “Marburk”
- Danish: “Marburg”
- Dutch: “Marburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماربورج”
- Emilian: “Marburg”
- Esperanto: “Marburg”
- Estonian: “Marburg”
- Faroese: “Marburg”
- Finnish: “Marburg”
- French: “Marbourg”
- Galician: “Marburgo”
- Georgian: “მარბურგი”
- German: “Marburg”
- Greek: “Μάρμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “מרבורג”
- Hindi: “मारबर्ग”
- Hungarian: “Marburg”
- Icelandic: “Marburg”
- Indonesian: “Marburg”
- Interlingue: “Marburg”
- Irish: “Marburg”
- Italian: “Marburgo”
- Japanese: “マールブルク”
- Kashubian: “Marbùrg”
- Kazakh: “Марбург”
- Korean: “마르부르크”
- Kotava: “Marburg”
- Kurdish: “Marburg”
- Ladin: “Marburg”
- Latin: “Marburgum”
- Latvian: “Marburga”
- Lithuanian: “Marburgas”
- Lombard: “Marburgh”
- Low German: “Marborg”
- Luxembourgish: “Marburg”
- Macedonian: “Марбург”
- Malay: “Marburg”
- Maltese: “Marburg”
- Minangkabau: “Marburg”
- Northern Frisian: “Marburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marburg”
- Norwegian: “Marburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Marburg”
- Ossetian: “Марбург”
- Papiamento: “Marburg”
- Persian: “ماربورگ”
- Polish: “Marburg”
- Portuguese: “Marburg”
- Portuguese: “Marburgo”
- Romanian: “Marburg”
- Romansh: “Marburg”
- Russian: “Марбург”
- Scots: “Marburg”
- Serbian: “Марбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marburg”
- Slovak: “Marburg”
- Slovenian: “Marburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماربورق”
- Spanish: “Marburgo”
- Swahili: “Marburg”
- Swedish: “Marburg”
- Swiss German: “Marburg”
- Tajik: “Марбург”
- Thai: “มาร์บวร์ค”
- Tumbuka: “Marburg”
- Turkish: “Marburg”
- Ukrainian: “Марбург”
- Ukrainian: “Марбурґ”
- Urdu: “ماربرگ”
- Uzbek: “Marburg”
- Vietnamese: “Marburg”
- Volapük: “Marburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Marburg”
- Welsh: “Marburg”
- Western Frisian: “Marburg”
- Wu Chinese: “马尔堡”
- Yakut: “Марбург”
- Yue Chinese: “馬堡”
- Zeeuws: “Marburg”
- “Marburg”
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