Ortenberg (Marburg)

Marburg and its districts

Ortenberg is a statistical district of the central Hessian university town of Marburg .

The Ortenberg district stretches east of the railway line and the Lahn runs north-south at the foot of the Lahnberge . The development took place in the 1920s. The area used to belong to the German Order . Since many expellees from Alsace , which fell to France, settled in Ortenberg after the Second World War , parts of Ortenberg were also called Elsasshausen.

The key figure for the district in the eastern core city is 233. The district has 3151 inhabitants and is characterized as a residential district with mostly single and two-family houses. In Ortenberg there is a dental clinic, the Tabor Protestant University , the Tabor nursing home and a kindergarten. To the west of Ortenberg is the Philosophical Faculty, the Center for Mental Health, the Clinic's Dentistry and the University Library of the Philipps University of Marburg .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] uni-marburg.de
2. ↑ Chronicle
3. ↑ Marburg: A short history of the city [2]
4. ^ Marburg from the east, 1930s. Historical image documents from Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
5. ↑ [3]

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 4.5 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 55 ″  E