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Marburg-Biedenkopf

Marburg

Marburg is a small university town north of Frankfurt in the Lahn valley, . The castle on the hill, the university's historical buildings and the old city are the top sights of the city.
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  • Type: Town with 73,100 residents
  • Description: city in Hesse, Germany, and seat of Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf
  • Also known as: “Marburg an der Lahn” and “Marburg/Lahn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Elizabeth’s Church, Marburg and Spiegelslust tower.

Church
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
St. Elizabeth's Church is an Evangelical church in Marburg, . Built by the Teutonic Order on the site of Elizabeth of Hungary's tomb in the 13th century, the church is one of the earliest Gothic churches in Germany.

Photo: Hydro, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Library
Photo: HeinrichStuerzl, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Richtsberg.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a borough of Marburg in .

Marburg

Latitude
50.809° or 50° 48′ 32″ north
Longitude
8.7705° or 8° 46′ 14″ east
Population
73,100
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE MAR
Open location code
9F2CRQ5C+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240053395
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2873759
Wiki­data ID
Q3869
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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 ան դեր Լան”
  • 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”
  • Danish: “Marburg”
  • Dutch: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • Dutch: “Marburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماربورج”
  • Esperanto: “Marburg”
  • Esperanto: “Marburgo”
  • Estonian: “Marburg”
  • Faroese: “Marburg”
  • Finnish: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • Finnish: “Marburg”
  • French: “Marbourg”
  • Galician: “Marburgo”
  • Georgian: “მარბურგი”
  • German: “Marburg (Lahn)”
  • German: “Marburg a. d. Lahn”
  • German: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • German: “Marburg”
  • German: “Marburg/Lahn”
  • German: “Universitätsstadt Marburg”
  • Greek: “Μάρμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “מרבורג”
  • 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”
  • 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 an der Lahn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Universitätsstadt Marburg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marburg”
  • Norwegian: “Marburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marburg”
  • Ossetian: “Марбург”
  • Papiamento: “Marburg”
  • Persian: “ماربورگ”
  • Polish: “Marburg”
  • Portuguese: “Marburg”
  • Portuguese: “Marburgo”
  • Romanian: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • Romanian: “Marburg”
  • Romansh: “Marburg”
  • Russian: “Марбург”
  • Scots: “Marburg”
  • Serbian: “Марбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marburg”
  • Slovak: “Marburg”
  • Slovenian: “Marburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماربورق”
  • Spanish: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • Spanish: “Marburg/Lahn”
  • Spanish: “Marburgo”
  • Swahili: “Marburg”
  • Swedish: “Marburg”
  • Swiss German: “Marburg”
  • Tajik: “Марбург”
  • Thai: “มาร์บวร์ค”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Marburg”
  • Tumbuka: “Marburg”
  • Turkish: “Marburg (Hessen)”
  • Turkish: “Marburg (Lahn)”
  • Turkish: “Marburg a. d. Lahn”
  • Turkish: “Marburg an der Lahn”
  • Turkish: “Marburg, Hessen”
  • Turkish: “Marburg/Lahn”
  • Turkish: “Marburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Марбург”
  • Ukrainian: “Марбурґ”
  • Urdu: “ماربورگ”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Marburg”. Photo: Gerold Rosenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.