The university town of Marburg

20 April 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Old University building, now departement of Theology © Willow

Old University building, now departement of Theology © Willow

Marburg is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany, on the River Lahn. It is the main town of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district and its population 80,000. Marburg is the seat of the oldest protestant founded university in the world, the University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität-Marburg), founded in 1527. It is one of the six smaller “university towns” in Germany, the other five being Freiburg, Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Tübingen, as well as the city of Gießen, which is located 30 km south of Marburg.   read more…

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