A Queensland heritage village just 50 km west of Brisbane — historic pub, extraordinary antiques, and a plantation mansion waiting to be explored.
Named Queensland's Top Tiny Tourism Town · 50 km West of Brisbane · Heritage Listed Since 1993
Hidden just off the Warrego Highway, 50 kilometres west of Brisbane, Marburg is the kind of place that most people have driven past without realising what they were missing.
This is Marburg — quietly remarkable, stubbornly itself, and well worth the turn off the highway.
"It's impossible to drive through Marburg without exploring its origins." — Good Food Gold Coast
German immigrants who cleared the Rosewood Scrub by hand, a rum distillery, a war that tried to rename the town, and a community that refused to let it disappear.
Three generations of the Bowden family have run this pub since 1944.
Come for the pub meal. Stay for the second round.
"The pub has been in the Bowden family for many years."
— Marburg HotelLes Birnie has been in the antique trade since 1961.
Built between 1888 and 1891 by Thomas Lorimer Smith.
Set in grounds of mature Jacaranda trees and towering Bunya Pines.
Marburg sits just off the Warrego Highway — turn off at Rosewood-Marburg Road and follow the signs.