🇩🇪 Marburg is a university town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn.
Having been awarded town privileges in 1222, Marburg served as capital of the landgraviate of Hessen-Marburg during periods of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day.
Marburg is a historic centre of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, and there are plans for a plant in the town to produce vaccines to tackle Covid-19.
History Like many settlements, Marburg developed at the crossroads of two important early medieval highways: the trade route linking Cologne and Prague and the trade route from the North Sea to the Alps and on to Italy, the former crossing the river Lahn here. A first mention of the settlement dates from 822 in the Reinhardsbrunner Chronik. The settlement was protected and customs were raised by a small castle built during the ninth or tenth century by the Giso. Marburg has been a town since 1140, as proven by coins. From the Gisos, it fell around that time to the Landgraves of Thuringia, residing on the Wartburg above Eisenach.
**Geography
**Marburg lies on the river Lahn, 25 km north of Gießen. The federal road Bundesstraße 3 connects it with Gießen and Kassel. It is served by Marburg (Lahn) station (long-distance and local trains) and Marburg Süd station (local trains). The city is divided into the following 25 boroughs (Ortsbezirke): • Altstadt • Bauerbach • Bortshausen • Campusviertel • Cappel • Cyriaxweimar • Dagobertshausen • Dilschhausen • Elnhausen • Ginseldorf • Gisselberg • Haddamshausen • Hermershausen • Marbach • Michelbach • Moischt • Ockershausen • Richtsberg • Ronhausen • Schröck • Südviertel • Waldtal • Wehrda • Wehrshausen • Weidenhausen.
Marburg has a population of over 76,000 people. Marburg also forms the centre of the wider Marburg-Biedenkopf District which has a population of over 245,903 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Marburg see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Marburg has links with:
🇩🇪 Charlottenburg, Germany 🇩🇪 Eisenach, Germany 🏴 Huntingdon, England 🇵🇱 Kościerzyna, Poland 🇸🇮 Maribor, Slovenia 🏴 Northampton, England 🇫🇷 Poitiers, France 🇹🇳 Sfax, Tunisia🇧🇪 Saint-Gilles 50.817
🇩🇪 Eschweiler 50.817
🏴 Littlehampton 50.821
🇧🇪 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre 50.833
🏴 Shoreham-by-Sea 50.834
🇵🇱 Częstochowa 50.811
🏴 Portsmouth 50.8
🇩🇪 Bad Salzungen 50.8
🏴 Bognor Regis 50.782
🇩🇪 Dietzenbach 8.783
🇬🇦 Port-Gentil 8.791
🇩🇪 Offenbach am Main 8.766
🇨🇭 Freienbach 8.75
🇩🇪 Marburg-Biedenkopf 8.738
🇩🇪 Bad Salzuflen 8.733
🇩🇪 Bad Vilbel 8.733
🇨🇭 Winterthur 8.717
Locations Near: Marburg 8.76919,50.8148
🇩🇪 Marburg-Biedenkopf 8.738,50.837 d: 3.3
🇩🇪 Giessen 8.677,50.585 d: 26.3
🇩🇪 Gießen 8.667,50.583 d: 26.7
🇩🇪 Waldeck-Frankenberg 8.89,51.191 d: 42.7
🇩🇪 Lahn-Dill 8.367,50.65 d: 33.7
🇩🇪 Korbach 8.874,51.277 d: 51.9
🇩🇪 Friedberg 8.75,50.333 d: 53.6
🇩🇪 Siegen-Wittgenstein 8.196,50.938 d: 42.5
🇩🇪 Bad Homburg 8.616,50.227 d: 66.2
Antipodal to: Marburg -171.231,-50.815
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16696.7
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15952.2
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15902.6
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15846.4
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 12013.6
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11929.8
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11916.6
🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 11911.8