12 Sights in Marburg, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Marburg, Germany! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Marburg. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.

Sightseeing Tours in Marburg

1. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Turm

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Tower is an observation tower on the Lahn Mountains, which lie near Marburg in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. It was built from 1887 to 1890, is 36 m high and has 167 steps inside.

Wikipedia: Spiegelslustturm (DE), Website

2. elisabeth church

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St. Elizabeth's Church (Elisabethkirche) in Marburg, Germany, was built by the Order of the Teutonic Knights in honour of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Her tomb made the church an important pilgrimage destination during the late Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: St. Elizabeth's Church, Marburg (EN), Website

3. Lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Marien

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The Lutheran Parish Church, also known as St. Mary's Church or City Parish Church, is a Protestant church in the center of the city of Marburg. It supplies the Lutheran parish of St. Marien Marburg/Lahn with its catchment area in the southern upper town and the adjacent areas. It is also the deanery church of the Protestant church district of Marburg.

Wikipedia: Lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Marien (Marburg) (DE), Website

4. Grüner Mühle

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Grüner Mühle

The Grüner Mühle is a watermill formerly used as an oil mill and paper mill on the weir below the Weidenhäuser Bridge in Marburg an der Lahn on the edge of today's Südviertel. In addition to the "Green Gate" at the southern end of the street "Am Grün", the historic waterfront of Marburg with small-scale houses directly on the edge of the Lahn, this was the southern outskirts of the city before the expansion of the city with the southern quarter, which was built from about 1880 onwards.

Wikipedia: Grüner Mühle (DE)

5. Kilianskapelle

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The former Kilian's Chapel was built between 1180 and 1200 in Romanesque style as a market chapel of the parish of St. Martin in Oberweimar. The chapel with the patronage of St. Kilian is thus the oldest surviving building in Marburg's core city, located on the shoe market on Reitgasse in Marburg's upper town, not far from the Old University.

Wikipedia: Kilianskapelle (Marburg) (DE)

6. Kirche Sankt Johannes Evangelist (Kugelkirche)

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The Church of St. John the Evangelist, also known as the Kugelkirche, is a Catholic parish church in Marburg, Germany. It is located in the upper town and is the youngest medieval sacred building in Marburg.

Wikipedia: St. Johannes Evangelist (Marburg) (DE), Website

7. Martinskirche

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Martinskirche Teresa Traupe, OOAd fontesOo at de.wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by Hydro at de.wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in the center of the village of Michelbach, a district of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. It belongs to the Marburg church district of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck.

Wikipedia: Martinskirche (Michelbach) (DE)

8. Wilhelmsbau

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The Marburger Schloss, also known as Landgrafenschloss Marburg, is a castle in Marburg, Hesse, Germany, located on top of Schlossberg. Built in the 11th century as a fort, it became the first residence of Landgraviate of Hesse (HRE). The Marburg Colloquy was held here in 1529.

Wikipedia: Marburger Schloss (EN)

9. Botanischer Garten

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Botanischer Garten Willow / CC BY 2.5

The Botanischer Garten Marburg, also known as the Neuer Botanischer Garten Marburg, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Marburg, located on Karl-von-Frisch-Straße, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, and open daily. An admission fee is charged.

Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten Marburg (EN), Website

10. Schloss Elnhausen

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The Elnhausen Castle is a baroque palace complex in the Marburg district of Elnhausen in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf and is one of the few representative buildings of the Baroque in the circle. It is at 225 m above sea level. NN height on the northwestern outskirts in a manor on the expiring towing slope of the Stöckelsberg/Stackelberg (366 m).

Wikipedia: Schloss Elnhausen (DE)

11. St. Michael und St. Elisabeth

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The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Michael and St. Elisabeth in the parish of St. Bonifatius Amöneburger Land in the deanery of Marburg-Amöneburg of the Diocese of Fulda, is a listed church building in Schröck, a district of Marburg in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hesse.

Wikipedia: St. Michael und St. Elisabeth (Schröck) (DE)

12. Martinskirche

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The Protestant Martinskirche is a baroque hall church with a Gothic fortified tower in the centre of the old town centre of Wehrda. The Hessian cultural monument is the landmark of the town, which is incorporated into Marburg.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Martinskirche (Wehrda) (DE)

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