Coordinates: 50°54′N 8°31′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...

Biedenkopf
Federal state	Hesse
Administrative region	Gießen
District	Marburg-Biedenkopf
Population	13,762 (31/12/2004)
Area	90.33 km²
Population density	152/km²
Elevation	305 - 674 m
Coordinates	50°54′ N 8°31′ E
Postal code	35216
Area code	06461
Licence plate code	MR
Mayor	Karl-Hermann Bolldorf (Oberbürgermeister; CDU)
Website	Stadt Biedenkopf

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Geography

Location

The town of Biedenkopf lies in the west of Marburg-Biedenkopf district. Ringed by mountains reaching up to 674 m above sea level – the Sackpfeife reaches this height – the town lies on the upper reaches of the river Lahn. Together with 18 other municipalities, it belongs to the Lahn-Dill-Bergland region The river Lahn in Limburg The Lahn is a river in Germany. ...

Neighbouring communities

Clockwise from the north, the following towns and communities border on Biedenkopf: the towns of Hatzfeld and Battenberg in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, in Marburg-Biedenkopf district the towns of Münchhausen am Christenberg and Wetter and the communities of Dautphetal and Breidenbach as well as the towns of Bad Laasphe and Bad Berleburg in Siegen-Wittgenstein district. Battenberg (Eder) is a town of 5000 inhabitants in Northern Hesse, Germany. ... Waldeck-Frankenberg is a Kreis (district) in the north of Hesse, Germany. ... Wetter is a small town in the German state of Hesse. ... Bad Laasphe is a town and a municipality in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Bad Berleburg is a town and a municipality in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...

Divisions within the town

Christian communities

• Evangelical-Lutheran congregation of Biedenkopf
• Parish of St. Josef Biedenkopf (Roman Catholic)
• Free Evangelical Congregation of Biedenkopf
• New Apostolic Congregation of Biedenkopf
• Biblical Community of the Jesus Christ Oasis

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Politics

Town council

Town council consists of 37 seats. At the last election in 2001, the seats were apportioned thus:

• CDU: 12 seats
• SPD: 15 seats
• FDP: 1 seat
• BB/UBL: 7 seats
• Independents: 2 seats

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Town partnerships

• La Charité-sur-Loire, France
• Oostduinkerke, Belgium
• Wepion, Belgium
• Neustadt an der Orla, Germany
• Cogoleto, Italy
• Kecskéd, Hungary

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Culture and sightseeing

Museums

• Schloss Biedenkopf (stately home) with Hinterlandmuseum
• Schartenhof Eckelshausen
• Wallau village museum
• Dorfstube Engelbach
• Private Holder tractor museum in Engelbach

Music

• Eckelshausener Musiktage ("music days")
• Harmonica orchestra and mouth organ group

Parks

• Town park below the community centre

Sport

• indoor swimming pool at the community centre
• Lahnauenbad (outdoor swimming pool)
• indoor and outdoor swimming pool in Wallau community
• four sports halls in the main community (Großsporthalle, Stadtschule, Lahntalschule, Jahn-Halle)
• Großsporthalle (sports hall) in Wallau, gymnasium in Weifenbach
• Aue-Tenniscenter
• Franz-Josef-Müller-Stadion (stadium)
• Sports field in Wallau, football pitches in most communities
• riding hall
• shooting range
• Trimm-Dich-Pfad ("Trim-Yourself-Path")
• Perfstausee (reservoir) with bathing beach

Regular events

• Every seven years, the town holds a Grenzgang in which people walk around the borders of the town's forest (see External links).

Culinary specialities

The Kartoffelbraten – or popularly the Brott – is a typical Biedenkopf culinary custom which has grown out of the autumn potato harvest. In many places in the forest, traditionally in early autumn, the tasty tuber is cooked in the glow of a heap of charcoal made from freshly felled beechwood. The unpeeled potato tastes best with butter, salt, liverwurst and salad. For the Biedenkopfer Kartoffelbraten, only three kinds of salad are traditionally served: radish salad, onion salad and herring salad. Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy tuber. ... Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents of animal and vegetable substances. ... Species Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech Fagus grandifolia - American Beech Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech Fagus lucida - Shining Beech Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech Fagus sylvatica - European Beech Beech (Fagus) is a genus... Butter is commonly sold in sticks (pictured) or small blocks, and often served using a butterknife. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... Leberwurst is a typical sausage served in Germany. ... A salad is a food item generally served either before or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish accompanying the main dish. ... Binomial name Raphanus sativus L. bunch of radishes The radish is a root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family. ... Binomial name Allium cepa L. Onion in the general sense can be used for any plant in the Genus Allium but used without qualifiers usually means Allium cepa L., also called the garden onion. ... Species Clupea alba Clupea bentincki Clupea caspiopontica Clupea chrysotaenia Clupea elongata Clupea halec Clupea harengus Clupea inermis Clupea leachii Clupea lineolata Clupea minima Clupea mirabilis Clupea pallasii Clupea sardinacaroli Clupea sulcata Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic...

Economy and infrastructure

Planning

In the 2001 Middle Hesse Regional Plan, the former district seat (Kreisstadt) Biedenkopf is designated the middle centre in the rural area. The town is part of the Marburg - Dautphetal - Biedenkopf - (Bad Laasphe) development belt. This belt's job is to open up the region, to make possible an exchange of goods and services between middle centres as well as to connect the region to the high centre of Marburg and to the long-distance transportation network. Building on public transport is thus given special importance. Central Place Theory is a geographical theory that seeks to explain the size and spacing of human settlements. ...

Moreover, there exists a local transport and population belt, Dillenburg - Steffenberg - Breidenbach – Biedenkopf, with a regional connective function. Together with Dautphetal and Breidenbach, Biedenkopf is described as a commercial hub.

Transport

Highway

• Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) 62
• Federal Highway 253
• Federal Highway 453

Alongside the two regional buslines 481 (RKH line 5301) and 491 (RKH line 5356), other local buses serve the town.

Railway

The Obere Lahntalbahn is the only railway line that serves the town. In May 1987, passenger traffic towards Dillenburg on the Scheldetalbahn was discontinued. Minor freight services persisted for a few years serving the Buderus firm until December 2002. Dillenburg (population ca 25,000) is a city and a castle in the German district of Lahn-Dill, in the federal state of Hessen. ...

Biedenkopf is joined by the Obere Lahntalbahn (a Deutsche Bahn line) to Erndtebrück in Siegen-Wittgenstein district and the town of Marburg by way of Bad Laasphe, Dautphetal and Lahntal. The railway serves three stations in Biedenkopf: Wallau, Biedenkopf- Schulzentrum and Biedenkopf. On weekdays there are 21 journeys between 5:30 and 21:00, on Saturdays 13 between 6:45 and 19:00 and on Sundays 12 between 8:45 and 19:00. All trains allow bicycles. Germanys main train operator, the Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railway Corporation, also known as DB or DBAG) provides passenger and freight service via federally owned tracks. ... Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis (district) in the south-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ...

Established enterprises

In Biedenkopf and its outlying communities, machine manufacture and mould making have always been strongly represented. Among the companies in this business are Meissner AG (model- and toolmaking), Banss Schlacht- und Fördertechnik GmbH and CFS (packing systems, formerly Krämer & Grebe Tiromat). Furthermore, processing synthetic products is another of the town's industries, represented by, among others, the firm Elkamet.

Media

The daily newspaper with the greatest market share in Biedenkopf is the Hinterländer Anzeiger owned by the Lahn-Dill newspaper group (flagship paper: the Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung). A local section can also be found for the old district of Biedenkopf in Marburg's Oberhessische Presse, itself a regional paper. Furthermore, there is a whole range of advertising flyers such as Hinterland extra from the Oberhessische Presse, the MAZ (Mittelhessische Anzeigen Zeitung, or Middle Hesse Advertising Newspaper) or the Sonntag Morgenmagazin ("Sunday Morning Magazine") from publishing houses in Gießen. theatre in Gießen Gießen or Giessen ( (help· info)) is a city in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hessen, capital of both the Gießen district and the Gießen region. ...

Public institutions

• Police station
• Branch of the Marburg-Biedenkopf State Council Office (with vehicle licensing, job centre, folk high school, building and youth office as well as the authority responsible for foreigners)
• Financial office (branch of the Marburg-Biedenkopf financial office)
• Employment agency (branch of the Wetzlar office)
• Kreishandwerkerschaft Biedenkopf (district craftsmen's association)
• Branch of the Dillenburg Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK, Chamber of Industry and Commerce)
• Medienzentrum Biedenkopf – one of three places in Marburg-Biedenkopf where educational media can be rented
• Pension office of the Biedenkopf Evangelical Deaconate.

Biedenkopf also has a DRK hospital with 110 beds. Alongside surgery, the areas of specialization include gynaecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, and urology. Folk high schools are institutions of adult and continuing education. ... Half-timbered houses in Wetzlar Wetzlar is a city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse in Germany, capital of the Lahn-Dill district. ... The German Red Cross (German: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz) is the national Red Cross Society of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... A typical modern surgical operation For other uses, see Surgery (disambiguation). ... The shamefulness associated with the examination of female genitalia has long inhibited the science of gynaecology. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Internal medicine is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of internal diseases, that is, those that affect internal organs or the body as a whole. ... Urology is the field of surgery that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and of the male reproductive system. ...

Education

• Gymnasium (Lahntalschule Biedenkopf)
• Real- and Hauptschule (Stadtschule Biedenkopf)
• Professional schools
• Biedenkopf primary school
• Primary school and Hauptschule (Mittelpunktschule Wallau)
• Folk high school

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State institutions

Since 1953, Biedenkopf has been host to a Hessischer Rundfunk VHF and television transmission facility on the Sackpfeife. The antennae are borne by a 210-m guyed steel-lattice mast with a diagonal cross-section measure of 1.8 m. Its position is 50°57'8"N, 8°32'1"E. Map of the nine regional broadcasting members of Germanys ARD radio/TV network. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ...

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Karl-Heinz Schneider, bearer of the "Verdienstkreuzes am Bande" (bestowed 28 April 2004)
• Wilhelm Henkel, bearer of the "Verdienstkreuzes am Bande" (bestowed 9 January 2004)
• Gretel Henkel, bearer of the "Verdienstmedaille" (bestowed 9 January 2004)

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External links

• Biedenkopf's official webpage
• Wallau/Lahn community
• Transmission facility
• Biedenkopf at the Open Directory Project further links
• Official Grenzgang page

Towns and municipalities in the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf

Amöneburg | Angelburg | Bad Endbach | Biedenkopf | Breidenbach (Hesse) | Cölbe | Dautphetal | Ebsdorfergrund | Fronhausen | Gladenbach | Kirchhain | Lahntal | Lohra | Marburg (Lahn) | Münchhausen | Neustadt (Hesse) | Rauschenberg (Hesse) | Stadtallendorf | Steffenberg | Weimar (Lahn) | Wetter (Hesse) | Wohratal The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as DMoz (from Directory. ... Marburg-Biedenkopf is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. ... Amöneburg is a town in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany. ... Marburg is a city in Hesse, Germany, on the Lahn river. ... Rauschenberg is a small town in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district of Hesse, near Frankfort in southwest Germany. ... ... Wetter is a small town in the German state of Hesse. ...