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) 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 northwestern part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, around east of its border with North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the volcanic region of the High Eifel. On its southwestern slopes lies the village of Aremberg and, at its southeastern foot, the village of Antweiler. The basalt cone is surrounded by the small nature reserve of Aremberg. A section of the middle reaches of the River Ahr