Landsberg (district)

The district of Landsberg am Lech is located in the west of the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Bavaria. Neighboring counties are in the north of Aichach- Friedberg in the administrative region of Swabia, in the northeastern district of Fürstenfeldbruck, in the east of the district of Starnberg, south of the district Weilheim -Schongau and in the west the Swabian counties Ostallgaeu and Augsburg.

• 4.1 District
• 4.2 Kreistag

• 6.1 traffic

Geography

The district lies in the western Upper Bavaria on the border with Swabia and comprises 31 municipalities with a total area of 804 km ². The Lech with its numerous barrages, Ammersee, which in the south reaching to the foothills of the Alps rural communities and, very centrally located by the A 96 Munich -Lindau and the B17 Romantic Road Landsberg am Lech, determine the image of the district. The lowest point of the circle is 525 meters at lower mountains, the highest of 830 meters in the Sachsenrieder forest at Sachsenried ( Schwabsoien ).

Through the county runs substantially along the Lech, the Bavarian- Alemannic language border. Within a few kilometers are often stark contrasts in the local dialect.

History

First traces of settlement secured approximately 4000-1800 BC, there are south of Pestenacker. Numerous grave hill fields and Celtic Viereckschanzen are (about 1550-1250 BC) obtained from the Bronze Age and especially from the Hallstatt period ( 700-450 BC). From 15 BC, the area was part of the Roman province of Raetia. West of the River Lech led the Via Claudia Augsburg to Verona. Epfach ( Abodiacum ) was an important Roman provincial small settlement.

After the end of Roman rule occurred in 5/6 Century, the land acquisition by the Alemanni and Bavarians. In the High Middle Ages, the area was ruled by the Counts of Andechs - Unterdießen and the Guelphs, which were inherited in the 13th century by the Wittelsbach family. They founded the ducal district court Landsberg, far beyond the limits of today's district to the northeast ( Moore Weis, Jesenwang ) and south ( Wessobrunn, Hieronymus ) reached out.

The county judge of Landsberg exercised on behalf of the sovereign from the high jurisdiction, in many places the lower courts. In addition arisen within the Regional Court on 30 Hofmarken in which nobles and monasteries were talking the lower courts. The last of these patrimonial and Hofmarken be resolved until 1848.

1803, the county courts were reorganized and partly rebuilt. The former ducal district court Landsberg was transformed into a Bavarian district court earlier order; its tasks and its territory were re- circumscribed. It included then most places of today's district, but some places were then added to the regional courts Schongau and Weilheim in the south of the old District Court. In the construction of the district court Bruck (later Fürstenfeldbruck) in 1823 had to relinquish some communities to the new district court, the district court Landsberg in the Northeast.

1862 a new district court Unterdießen was built. This made along with the District Court of the District Office Landsberg Landsberg as an administrative authority, a " Royal. Bezirksamtmann ," but the district court Unterdießen 1879 already dissolved. In the district structure, this had no effect. Two years earlier (1877 ) was the city of Landsberg resigned from the district office Landsberg am Lech and become a circular immediate city. The renaming of the district office in the district office or the district in the district took place in 1939. The first district was Hermann Loew ( until 1942 ). 1940, the town of Landsberg was reintegrated into the county am Lech, but this was reversed in 1948.

As part of local government reform in 1972, the district of Landsberg am Lech, the county- town of Landsberg am Lech as well as 14 municipalities in the neighboring counties Furstenfeldbruck, Schongau and Kaufbeuren was united to the new district of Landsberg am Lech. The town of Landsberg am Lech received by the loss of freedom circle the status of a district town.

In 2002, the spelling of the name of " Landsberg am Lech " has been changed to " Landsberg am Lech ".

Population Development

The district of Landsberg am Lech won 1988-2008 approximately 28,000 residents added or increased by approximately 33% - one of the strongest increases in population in Bavaria during the period. The following population figures refer to the territorial status of 25 May 1987.

Monuments

See monuments in the district of Landsberg am Lech

Policy

District

As a deputy district councils officiate since 2002 Peter Ditsch (CSU ) and Ruth Sobotta (SPD).

Council

UBV: Independent Civic Association

The ODP and the FDP form a committee community.

Coat of arms

Under a gerau ended by White and Blue Shield main, split of red and silver, a golden eagle in front, behind a rising red lion.

Economy and infrastructure

Apart from agriculture, the craft is an important factor in the industrial economy. Enterprises of national importance are in the district of Landsberg also based, such as the Hilti in Buy Ring, the company Hirsch bird in Denklingen that at Rational AG (hot air devices), the roadside assistance Central Southern Germany and the technology center of the ADAC in Landsberg am Lech and Webasto Utting Ammersee and Landsberg am Lech or Klausner Holz Bayern.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces maintains an airbase in Penzing, in Landsberg Guelph barracks and in Obermeitinger district Schwabstadl the Schwabstadl barracks.

Traffic

The two nodes of the rail network in this county - Buy ring and Geltendorf - are on the 1872/73 opened state railway line Munich - Buchloe, operate on the long distance trains to Switzerland.

From Buy ring led in 1872 a route to the county town of Landsberg, the 1886 lech upward assembled up Schongau. To the north, in 1877 the connection already created to Augsburg.

In Geltendorf since 1898 crosses the Ammersee Railway Augsburg- Weilheim with the east-west Munich - Buchloe.

Of the 90 kilometers of track, which includes the network, 23 km of route Landsberg -Schongau ( Fox Valley Railway ) for the regular passenger services were shut down; freight on this route operated the Augsburg Localbahn GmbH.

The running east -west motorway 96 connects the Allgäu with Munich. The B 17 ( partly as Romantic Road ) leads from Augsburg into the room feet and Tyrol.

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

City

Markets

Management Communities

Free community area

Communities

Towns and villages of the district before the municipal reform 1971/78

Until the local government reform in 1971/78, the district of Landsberg am Lech had 60 communities ( see list below). The town of Landsberg am Lech itself was an independent city.

In the west, bordering the county to the county Kaufbeuren, on the northwest by the district Schwabmunchen, in the north of the county Friedberg, in the northeast of the county Fürstenfeld Bruck, on the east by the district of Starnberg, in the southeast of the district Weilheim in Oberbayern and on the south by the county Schongau. The independent city of Landsberg am Lech was almost completely surrounded by the district.

Recent changes before the municipal reform 1971/78 were on April 1, 1939, the merger of the municipalities Oberwindach and Unterwindach to the municipality Windach and the integration of the town of Sankt Georgen in the market Unterdießen a.Ammersee.

The table shows the villages of the district of Landsberg am Lech to be displayed in front of the municipal reform 1971/78. The towns that still exist today, are in bold.