Wenkbach
Wenkbach is a village in Hesse, Germany and part of the municipality of Weimar (Lahn). It is situated 10 km south of Marburg and 20 km north of Gießen. Wenkbach has about 680 inhabitants. Among other buildings in the village worth seeing are the old church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ... in Wenkbach. It is also worth a visit, as are the half-timbered houses to be found in the old centre of the village. {{Authority control Former municipalities in Hesse Marburg-Biedenkopf ...
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Weimar (Lahn)
Weimar is a municipality in the south of Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Gießen administrative region, Hesse, Germany. The municipality's administrative seat is the centre of Niederweimar. Geography The municipal area stretches south from Marburg in the Lahn valley and west with the Allna valley on into the Gladenbach Highland and comprises an area of about 47 km². Other than Marburg, the community also borders on Ebsdorfergrund to the east, on Fronhausen to the south, on Lohra to the southwest, and in the far west on the town of Gladenbach. History The name ''Weimar'' is believed to come from the Old Germanic word ' (holy, sanctified) and the Old High German word ' (lake, swamp or moor) put together. Allna had its first documentary mention as early as 807 and is thereby the earliest named centre in the community. Alongside this, however, Kehna, Oberweimar and Niederweimar, simply from their names, are said to be the oldest centres in the municipal area. The founding o ...
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