Langenaubach is a village and a ''

Stadtteil A quarter is a section of an urban settlement. A quarter can be administratively defined and its borders officially designated, and it may have its own administrative structure (subordinate to that of the city, town or other urban area). Such a ...

'' of

Haiger Haiger is a country town in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. The nearest city is Siegen, about 25 km north of Haiger. Geography Location Haiger lies about 5 km west of Dillenburg, and 20 km southeast of Siegen on the eastern ...

in the Lahn-Dill-Kreis district in

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Da ...

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. There are 1,631 inhabitants, of which 65% are Protestant and 10% are Catholic (2017). There was a mine called "Constanze" in Langenaubach

Geography

Location

Langenaubach lies about 3 km south of

, and approx. 20 km southeast of

Siegen Siegen () is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein in the Arnsberg region. The university town (nearly 20,000 students in the 2018–2019 winter semeste ...

on the eastern edge of the

Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Massif ( or Rhenish ...

range, near where the three states of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhab ...

and

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

all share a common point. The brook Aubach flows through this village.

Neighbouring communities

To the Northwest Langenaubach borders with the villages of Oberdresselndorf and

Niederdresselndorf Burbach is a municipality in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Burbach is located in Siegen-Wittgenstein district on the river Heller, about 15 km south of Siegen. Burbach also is a community i ...

, to the North with the

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and the village of Flammersbach, to the East with the village of Donsbach, to the Southeast with the village of Medenbach, to the South with the village of Breitscheid, to the Southwest with the village of Rabenscheid.

References

{{Authority control Villages in Hesse