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Bad Endbach

Bad Endbach
Coat of arms of Bad Endbach
Coat of arms
Bad Endbach  is located in Germany
Bad Endbach
Bad Endbach
Coordinates: 50°45′N 8°30′E / 50.750°N 8.500°E / 50.750; 8.500Coordinates: 50°45′N 8°30′E / 50.750°N 8.500°E / 50.750; 8.500
Country Germany
State Hesse
Admin. region Gießen
District Marburg-Biedenkopf
Government
 • Mayor Markus Schäfer (CDU)
Area
 • Total 39.84 km2 (15.38 sq mi)
Elevation 300 m (1,000 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 8,138
 • Density 200/km2 (530/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 35080
Dialling codes 02776
Vehicle registration MR
Website www.bad-endbach.de

Bad Endbach is the westernmost municipality in Marburg-Biedenkopf district of the state of Hesse in Germany, and borders on the Lahn-Dill district.

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 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 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 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.


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