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Apple Village is a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech and a member of the administrative community Reichling.

Geography

Apple village is situated between Landsberg, Schongau and Weilheim directly at Lech in the area of ​​so-called Lech Rains.

Apple 's Villages is an independent municipality with the districts apple village Hausen, Grub mill Klaft, Upper apple village, Rough Lech mountain, village and meadow under apple. Until the 1972 local government reorganization apple village belonged to the district of Schongau. Since 1978, Apple Village is a member of the administrative community Reichling.

History

The first mention of apple village took place in 1305. In publications, for example in Landsberger Kreisheimatmuseum book is to read that the name of the village apple village first appears in a 1313 Augsburg certificate. Through the research of the Working Group history, which was established with the village development in apple village in 2001 and is active as a part of the community participants, discovered an earlier document from the Apfeldorfer parish archives. There, a two-volume manuscript is preserved, which was the mid-18th century by Franz Töpsl, the provost of the Augustinian Canons in Polling written. In it, he quotes the first document in its whole length. It dates from the year 1305 and describes how the monastery polling has come into the possession of the parish apple village. A copy of this document is also located in the Bavarian State Archives in Munich.

This purchase and gift letter stating that a Hainricus of Ennis and his wife Elisabeth de Wilhain have the monastery polling sold its rights to the parish apple village part and given away to some extent. Heinrich von Enn and Elizabeth of Weilheim So these were the church leaders in apple village, which also states that the history of apple village does not begin with the first mention. The transaction was sealed on March 12, 1305 in Wessobrunn monastery. Among the witnesses who have confirmed it, there is also a Dominus Hainricus Rector Ecclesiae is in Apheldorf ( Mr. Henry, head of the church in the village apple ). Pastor Henry is therefore the first Pollinger monastery priest in apple village. The close connection of Apfeldorfer parish to the monastery polling had until the secularization in 1803 inventory.

Inseparable from the history apple village and the old nursing court Rough Lech mountain is connected, which is said in ancient writings that it was an ancient palace and court. Perched on a rugged mountain besides the Lech river, they gave him this sonorous name. The nursing court included the village communities apple village, Birkland, Kinsau, Peißenberg, Reichling, barn and Mundraching. Rough Lech mountain has become also be known that here the well-known hunter host of Munich, one of the leaders of the Bavarian uprising of 1705, was captured. With the secularization of the annexation of the nursing Court was entered in the District Court of Schongau.

The rest of the history of apple village reads like in many villages of Lech Rains. Wars, plague, and hail destroyed again and again the meager livelihood. The commercial structure was still on the Lech and agriculture determined until 1900 by the rafting. The Apfeldorfer Rafter brought their wood and goods transportation to Vienna and Budapest.

Today, Apple 's Villages is an independent municipality with 1000 inhabitants well, which has survived through the picturesque location at the Lech and a well-functioning village community its rural character. In collaboration with the Directorate of Rural Development is currently trying to obtain this village structures and to make according to the motto " Steal Lech dahoa " for the future life and lovable. The 700 - year celebration exceeded all expectations with over 5,000 visitors.

Attractions

The parish church of "Holy Spirit " has a late Romanesque west tower with a pitched roof, a late Gothic choir ( which was stuccoed in 1740 ) and a Baroque style longhouse. The plan for 1747 built by Polling monastery vicarage with pretty interior hall dates from the Baroque architect Johann Michael Fischer.

See also: List of monuments in apple village