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Marburg Castle #99095711
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Marburg is a university town in the German federal state Bundesland of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district Landkreis. The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 72,000.nHaving 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.