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22-636: Bad Endbach lies in the Lahn-Dill Bergland ( ie Highland) in the foothills of the Rothaargebirge and Westerwald mountain ranges in a changeable low mountain range landscape between the towns of Marburg and Herborn . Within the community's territory, in the Hartenrod area, rises the brook known as the Salzböde, along which stretches much of the municipal area. Geologically, the area belongs mainly to

44-409: A "foot", believed to average about 33 cm long to do their measurements. The building stones were boulders, greywacke, on rich beds of mortar. There are no hewn stones. The inner room is a plain chamber. The building has a ridge turret as a bell tower. It never had a steeple like other churches in the area. These are the main things that set the building apart from others in the area. The inner room

66-809: A more exhaustive list of the Rothaar's many peaks . In the Rothaar Mountains and/or the Rothaar Mountain Nature Park or their outskirts are found, among others, these municipalities: Many hiking trails run through the Rothaar Mountains, including the Rothaar Path , a 154 km-long trail through the heights, and the Waldskulpturenweg ("Forest Sculpture Way") along which are found various sculptures and other artworks by different artists. In winter, many sporting opportunities beckon visitors to

88-544: A sun Or; below a watering can Or. In Wommelshausen stands a noteworthy old chapel of Romanesque origins that was apparently remodelled or renovated in the 13th century in the early Gothic style. It is said to be an important historic building as it has hardly changed over the ages. Timbers found in the demonstrably remodelled east gable come from the year 1268 (the year that they were felled). The building that stands today is, however, much older, likely by as much as 200 or 250 years. During renovation work, clues were found on

110-607: Is a low mountain range reaching heights of up to 843.1 m in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse , Germany . It is believed that its name must once have been Rod-Hard-Gebirge , or "the cleared forest mountain range", as the range has nothing whatsoever to do with the colour red ( rot in German ), nor with hair ( Haar ). The thickly wooded Rothaar, rich in mineral deposits, is found (mostly) in Westphalia sandwiched between

132-469: Is further an example of one of the earliest galleries in the whole area. The chapel is said to have once been built over a spring . Its location at the lowest place in the village lends weight to this story. It was supposedly a chapel to Saint Mary before the Reformation , and served as a pilgrimage site because of the spring, which was said to work wonders, and which was said to have come forth from under

154-570: Is the community of Bischoffen in the south and the community of Siegbach in the west, both of which belong to the Lahn-Dill district. Bad Endbach's municipal area is divided into eight constituent communities. The village is clearly older than the first mention, as the chapel (mentioned below) had already undergone remodelling in 1268. The community of Hütte also belongs to Wommelshausen. Once wholly confined to Wommelshausen's rural area, it has now also swallowed up 80% of Endbach's rural area, too. It

176-579: The Devonian and Culm formation in which slate , greywacke and diabase predominate. Clockwise from the north, the following towns and communities border on the community of Bad Endbach: The communities of Angelburg , Steffenberg and Dautphetal lie to the northwest, north and northeast respectively. Next, to the east, comes the town of Gladenbach . All these municipalities lie, like Bad Endbach itself, in Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Further, there

198-830: The Sauerland Mountain Range to the north, the Upland mountain range (northeastern foothills of the Rothaar) to the northeast, Wittgenstein Land to the southeast and the Siegerland to the southwest. The range's southeastern foothills are lies in Hesse , and is the only part that lies outside of Westphalia . It stretches from the upper Eder and the Lenne from the Kahler Asten (841 m) southwest of

220-664: The Winterberg Tableland ( Winterberger Hochfläche ) some 30 km to the southwest and drops off steeply towards the west, but much less sharply towards the east. The Rothaar is a narrow, banklike mountain chain, mostly over 600 m forming a large part of the Rhine Massif ( Rheinisches Schiefergebirge ). The highest peak in the Rothgaar Mountains is the Langenberg at 843.1 m. The elevation of other mountains in

242-406: The area are only slightly lower so that the individual mountains that make up the range hardly stand out from each other. The Rothaar Mountains are more or less co-extensive with the Rothaar Mountain Nature Park, parts of which do, however, reach into adjacent areas. In the northern Rothaar rise, among others, the rivers Diemel , Lenne , Neger, Nuhne, Odeborn, Orke, Ruhr , Wenne and Wilde Aa. In

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264-668: The choir. There is a pleasant anecdote about this. Easter hiking week, Whitsun hiking week, Health days, Music days, Autumn hiking week, Sinnlos youth evangelization [1] . Bad Endbach earns its livelihood overridingly from its spa business and tourism . There are no big companies operating in the community. Bad Endbach offers an extensive network of hiking trails, a choice of specialized offerings for migraine therapy and vein treatments as well as clinical aftercare. Rothaargebirge The Rothaar Mountains ( German : Rothaargebirge , pronounced [ˈʁoːthaːɐ̯ɡəˌbɪʁɡə] , also Rotlagergebirge ), or Rothaar ,

286-700: The church building and capped with ever-more-elaborate roofs until the steeple resulted. Some wooden steeples are built with large wooden structural members arranged like tent poles and braced diagonally inside both with wood and steel. The steeple is then clad with wooden boards and finished with slate tiles nailed to the boards using copper over gaps on corners where the slate would not cover. Steeples can be vulnerable to earthquakes. A number of Romanian churches feature unusually slender steeples, and over half of these have been lost to earthquakes. Because of their height, steeples can also be vulnerable to lightning , which can start fires within steeples. An example of this

308-417: The entrance or center of the building. Towers are a common element of religious architecture worldwide and are generally viewed as attempts to reach skyward toward heavens and the divine. Towers were not a part of Christian churches until about AD 600, when bell towers first came into use. At first they were fairly modest and entirely separate structures from churches. Over time, they were incorporated into

330-523: The influence of the Worms Bauhütte (a forerunner to the later guilds ), as it bears a keen likeness to the rather bigger Magnus-Kirche (church) in Worms. The Bishopric of Worms once had vast holdings throughout the area. Two small, high windows on the building's south side have round frames inside, but oddly squeezed, peaked frames on the outside, a sure sign of remodelling. The former priest's entrance in

352-616: The range. Suitable facilities for this include the Postwiesen skiing area (near Neuastenberg), the Skiliftkarussell Winterberg and Snow World Züschen. Within or on the outskirts of the Rothaar are found the Panorama-Park Sauerland and Fort Fun Abenteuerland amusement parks . In 2011 began the reintroduction of free-ranging wisents into the Rothaar Mountains. The project is, however, not without its controversy in

374-468: The region, with cultivators in particular worrying about possible damage that the creatures might do. Steeple (architecture) In architecture , a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches and cathedrals and the use of the term generally connotes a religious structure. They might be stand-alone structures, or incorporated into

396-647: The same on 31 December of the same year, taking the former's name. On 1 April 1972, Günterod was amalgamated with Endbach, before in the end, on 1 July 1974, as a result of municipal reform in Hesse, Endbach and Hartenrod were not only amalgamated with each other, but also with Bottenhorn, Dernbach and Hülshof to form the new community of Bad Endbach. As of municipal elections on 6 March 2016 and formerly on 27 March 2011, respective on 26 March 2006, municipal council seats are apportioned thus: The municipal arms might be described thus: In vert six bendlets sinister wavy argent; above

418-461: The south front wall is definitely Romanesque. The layman's entrance lies on the north side underneath the later enlarged window. In the west wall is found a further window. The chapel once had an oblong choir which was broken up and its opening walled up in the 18th century. Measurements of the building's inner dimensions yield a width of about 6.95 m and a length of about 10.15 m. The walls are about 1.2 m thick. The builders, however, used

440-579: The south rise the Dill , Eder , Ferndorfbach, Ilse, Lahn and Sieg . Over the range runs the Rhine-Weser watershed . In the farthest southwest of the Rothaar are the Obernau and Breitenbach dams . Among the best known (but not necessarily the highest) of the Rothaar's peaks, which consist partly of porphyry , are (including all "Achthunderter" , or "eight-hundreders", sorted by height): The German Misplaced Pages has

462-627: The south side in the inner room to an earlier building. This earlier building might have been a wooden church on a stone foundation, and might have been built in the time of the Irish - Scottish mission in the area. Irish-Scottish missionaries were active in the vicinity even before Saint Boniface , as digs at the Büraburg Monastery prove (as do those at, among others, Wetter and the Christenberg). The building standing today might have been built under

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484-420: Was first mentioned in 1586 under the name "uf der Hütten", and later in 1703 as "Die Hütte". This community is not the same one as the former Unterwommelshausen. It is newer and can be traced back to an ironworks here in the late Middle Ages. On 1 February 1971, the two communities of Endbach and Wommelshausen combined into one community of Endbach, and likewise the two communities of Hartenrod and Schlierbach did

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