Marburg is a university town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district .
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13 Facts About Marburg
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The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day.
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Marburg is a historic centre of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, and there is a plant in the town to produce vaccines to tackle Covid-19.
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Marburg was one of the capitals of Hessen from that time until about 1540.
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The Hessian territory around Marburg lost more than two-thirds of its population, which was more than in any later wars combined.
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Marburg is the seat of the oldest Protestant-founded university in the world, the University of Marburg, founded in 1527.
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When Romanticism became the dominant cultural and artistic paradigm in Germany, Marburg became interesting , and many of the leaders of the movement lived, taught, or studied in Marburg.
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From 1942 to 1945, the whole city of Marburg was turned into a hospital with schools and government buildings turned into wards to augment the existing hospitals.
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Marburg remains a relatively unspoilt, spire-dominated, castle-crowned Gothic or Renaissance city on a hill partly because it was isolated between 1600 and 1850.
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Much of the physical attractiveness of Marburg is due to Hanno Drechsler who was Lord Mayor between 1970 and 1992.
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Marburg promoted urban renewal, the restoration of the Oberstadt, and he established one of the first pedestrian zones in Germany.
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Marburg's Altstadtsanierung has received many awards and prizes.
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University of Marburg, founded in 1527, is one of Germany's oldest universities.
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