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
Aremberg (mountain) flows past the Aremberg to the east; to the north an Ahr tributary, the Eichenbach, flows around the mountain. On the summit are a few ruins belonging to Aremberg Castle, once a mighty fortress, below and north of the mountaintop runs a section of Roman road. A section of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife racing track, from which the Aremberg can be seen, is named after the mountain. Aremberg (mountain) The Aremberg is, at , the highest mountain in the Ahr Hills () or Ahr Eifel ("Ahreifel"). It lies in the district of Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany). This former Tertiary volcano rises in the