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Gießen District

Historic Half-Timbered Houses of Marburg Old Town

Gießen District

Historic Half-Timbered Houses of Marburg Old Town

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Historic Half-Timbered Houses of Marburg Old Town

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Location: Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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1. Landgrave Castle Marburg – Elisabeth Church Marburg loop from Marburg (Lahn)

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2. Landgrave Castle Marburg – Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) loop from Südviertel

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3. Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) – Landgrave Castle Marburg loop from Marburg

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Dennis 🌳🪨🌲

April 15, 2023

In the upper town of Marburg there are numerous old half-timbered houses where the Brothers Grimm used to come and go. Since the buildings were not destroyed in the Second World War, the historic city center is still very well preserved. It's just beautiful.

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Michael (Wasi)

January 4, 2024

The Upper Town (Old Town) really has a large number of historically beautiful half-timbered houses to offer. Even if you leave the main path you will find beautiful half-timbered houses in the sometimes very narrow streets.

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Moonbeam🌜

May 24, 2024

Marburg's old town is shaped by its location like no other place. It was built on the castle hill, around it and on the river side downhill to the Lahn. Marburg residents did not have much space in their old town, both then and now. The narrowness and compactness of the medieval houses with their strange gables, roofs, bay windows, windows and gateways is therefore almost a little frightening, but also very picturesque.

The typical Marburg house was built from wood in the half-timbered style until the end of the 19th century. Stone houses, on the other hand, were rather rare, because stone as a building material was very expensive in earlier times and thus mainly reserved for the Landgrave and a few rich people. This is also the reason why the few stone houses were often given special names, such as the house at Nikolaistraße 3 (Wedding House) or at Markt 18 (Stone House).

In total, we find more than 700 historic houses in Marburg's old town, most of which were built between the 14th century and 1866, the time of the annexation of Hesse by Prussia. Many houses have been completely renovated, restored or rebuilt based on their existing basic structure in recent decades, so that today they shine again in their old and original splendor.
Source: marburg-net.de/altstadt.html

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Location: Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Historic Half-Timbered Houses of Marburg Old Town

1. Landgrave Castle Marburg – Elisabeth Church Marburg loop from Marburg (Lahn)

2. Landgrave Castle Marburg – Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) loop from Südviertel

3. Marburg Old Town (Oberstadt) – Landgrave Castle Marburg loop from Marburg

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