Dautphetal is a community in Hesse, Germany, and is among the six larger communities of the 22 in Marburg-Biedenkopf district.
The community lies in the western part of the district about 37 km east of Siegen and about 15 km west of Marburg in the upper Lahn valley. It is characterized by the Palaeozoic Rhenish Massif (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Indeed, this range’s foothills from the west meet the Westerwald’s from the south and the Rothaargebirge’s from the north here. Historically speaking, Dautphetal belongs to the so-called Hessisches Hinterland.
Since the community is to be found in the Rhenish Massif region, rock from the Palaeozoic Era can be found here. In Dautphetal, common minerals to be found include greywacke, diabases, quartzites, and loam produced by weathering of slate and diabase, but also partly limestone.
The geological zone is known to the Hessian Environmental Atlas (Umweltatlas Hessen) as Dill-Mulde .
Besides the copper ore that can be found here, the…