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 and has a population of approximately 76,000.
View of Marburg, dominated by the castle and St. Elizabeth's Church
St. Elizabeth Church
Marburg from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572
View of Marburg and the Lahn
The Lahn is a 245.6-kilometre-long (152.6 mi), right tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
Source of the Lahn at the Lahnhof
The confluence of the Wetschaft with the Lahn
The Upper Lahn Valley at Bad Laasphe from the Topographia Hassiae of Matthäus Merian, 1655
Heuchelheim Lake