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Gießen District

Salzböde Spring Meadow

Natural Monuments

Gießen District

Salzböde Spring Meadow

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Salzböde Spring Meadow

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Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Lahn-Dill-Bergland

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Location: Bad Endbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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2. Wilhelmsteine Rock Formation – Megalithic tomb at Hülsberg loop from Bad Endbach

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3. Wilhelmsteine Rock Formation – Wilhelmsteine loop from Schlierbach

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Uwe Schmeling

June 18, 2020

Very inconspicuously in the middle of a meadow, the salt marsh rises and swells towards the light with all its might.

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Uwe Schmeling

January 6, 2019

This is where the salt flakes originate.

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𝑫𝒋𝒆 𝑵𝒚𝒊𝒎𝒂🌞🌿

November 4, 2021

𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐳𝐛ö𝐝𝐞 - 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐬 𝐳𝐮𝐫 𝐌ü𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐠
The Salzböde is an approximately 27.6 km long right tributary of the Lahn in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district with its mouth in the Gießen district in the state of Hesse, Germany.
The origin of the salt flats lies in the southwestern part of the Gladenbacher Bergland in the historic Hessian hinterland in the municipality of Bad Endbach, northwest of the district of Hartenrod, in the Schlierbach district.
The source area is 435 to 410 m above sea level. NN on the southern slope of the 564 m high Würgeloh, a southern branch of the Bottenhorn plateau.

There is no actual source.
The water seeps from many individual springs, which are distributed over a large area on a marshy, wet meadow, known as a "salt meadow", on a gentle slope.
The “Salzbödequelle” sign on site marks the point where the water becomes visible as a small stream for the first time.

The generally easterly direction of flow is due to the location of the well over 500 m high plateau of the Bottenhorn plateau in the north opposite the steep hills of the Zollbuche natural area with summit heights between 300 and 450 m, initially in practically uninterrupted succession to the south. Only in the second half of the route the salt flat then turns more and more in southerly directions.

In the direction of flow, the salt flat crosses the districts of the localities of Hartenrod, Bad Endbach and Wommelshausen-Hütte (all of the municipality of Bad Endbach), then the districts of Weidenhausen, Erdhausen, Gladenbach and Mornshausen of the city of Gladenbach and the districts of Lohra, Damm and Reimershausen of the municipality of Lohra. In between, the salt flats at the Steinfurtsmühle below Oberwalgern also briefly flow through the municipality of Fronhausen.
It thus flows for the most part in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district.
Shortly before its confluence with the Lahn, it touches the district of Salzböden, the settlement Röderheide and the district of Odenhausen of the city of Lollar in the district of Gießen.

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September 6, 2020

Unfortunately waterless in September 2020.

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Location: Bad Endbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Salzböde Spring Meadow

1. Wilhelmsteine – Wilhelmsteine Rock Formation loop from Wallenfels

2. Wilhelmsteine Rock Formation – Megalithic tomb at Hülsberg loop from Bad Endbach

3. Wilhelmsteine Rock Formation – Wilhelmsteine loop from Schlierbach

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