of Bischoffen (Lahn-Dill-Kreis), and in the west on the community of Bad Endbach (Marburg-Biedenkopf). Town divisions Gladenbach's municipal area is divided into 15 constituent communities (Stadtteile). History Amalgamations 1972 Runzhausen 1974 through municipal reform: from the former Biedenkopf district: Bellnhausen Diedenshausen Erdhausen Friebertshausen Frohnhausen Kehlnbach Mornshausen Rachelshausen Römershausen Rüchenbach Sinkershausen Weidenhausen from the former Marburg a.d.Lahn district: Weitershausen The postal robbery in the Subach Within Gladenbach's current municipal area, between Mornshausen and Erdhausen, the so-called Postraub in der Subach took place in 1822. A gang of poor farmers and poachers robbed a money-bearing mail coach running between Gladenbach and Gießen in a narrow pass above a small brook called the Subach, making off with the then unheard-of sum of more than 10,000 Gulden. These details and others are contained in a contemporary police report, which also laid the groundwork for the German made-for-TV film The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) by Volker Schlöndorff. Politics Town council As of municipal elections held on 6 March 2016, town council seats are apportioned thus: Coat of arms The town's coat of arms might be described thus: Party per fess, above in azure the Hessian lion rampant striped in argent and gules armed Or crowned Or langued gules, below in vert a saltire Or. The lion is an emblem of the town's early affiliation with Hesse, and the saltire (X-shaped cross) stands for the influence wielded before this time by the Lords of Merenberg. Town partnerships Monteux, France (1987) Bad Tabarz, Thuringia (1991) Niemcza, Poland (1998) Londerzeel, Belgium (2010) Demonstrations In 2004, there were four marches, declared legal but guarded by great police presence, by neo-Nazis from outside the town, which set off even bigger counterdemonstrations. In the end, the citizens' league, a group created at the instigation of headmaster Siegfried Seyler uniting churches, Jusos, DGBers and ordinary citizens, made an appeal. The centres for this rightwing extremism were Gladenbach, Kirtorf (Vogelsberg) and Marburg. The biggest rightwing extremist group with about 30 rightwing extremists and a large body of sympathizers was the Aktionsbündnis Mittelhessen (Middle Hesse Action League; ABM), a fusion of regional "free comradeships". Late in 2004, the ABM dissolved itself unilaterally to get around a ban imposed by the Hessian Interior Ministry. The activists resumed their activities in other neo-Nazi groups. The ABM was the most active and biggest neo-Nazi group in Hesse. Culture and sightseeing Regular events