Wendelstein (mountain) hundred metres below the summit. On 20 August 1890 Germany's highest church was consecrated. It is dedicated to the Patrona Bavariae and is managed by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as a satellite church of the parish of Maria Himmelfahrt in Brannenburg. The Wendelstein Church's description as the "highest church in Germany" is indisputable; all other higher church buildings (such as the Zugspitze Chapel consecrated in 1981) are not churches in the ecclesiastical sense, but only chapels. Regular masses and marriage services take place in the mountain church in summer. The little Wendelstein Church is also often called a
Germany Valley (Georgia) consists mostly of pastureland and small farms with cattle and horses. Forestland, much of it owned by the United States Forest Service, surrounds the valley. Several wooded hills rise above the valley floor. Germany Valley is framed by numerous mountain peaks. Big Face () rises above the valley's southern edge and dominates most valley vistas. Billy Mountain, at , and Elisha Mountain—both of which sit along the Eastern Continental Divide—rise less dramatically to the north. Also on the Eastern Continental Divide is Black Rock Mountain at the eastern end of the valley, which is the centerpiece of Georgia's highest state