Wenkbach is a village in
Hesse
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,
Germany
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and part of the municipality of
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 Marb ...
. It is situated 10 km south of
Marburg
Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approxima ...
and 20 km north of
Gießen
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...
. 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.
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Former municipalities in Hesse
Marburg-Biedenkopf