Rott, Landsberg

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

Geography

Rott is located between Landsberg and Weilheim and between Ammersee and Lech at the intersection of roads from Weilheim to Landsberg and Unterdießen to Schongau in the area of ​​so-called Lechrain, about four kilometers northwest of the famous monastery village Wessobrunn.

The municipal area includes the calibration or Calvary, a moraine hill which is 752 meters one of the highest points in the district of Landsberg, and about two kilometers south lies on a raised mire angel Rieder lake. The village lies on a gently sloping south-facing slope in a glacial moraine. The municipality is divided into the districts Rott and Pessenhausen.

History

A first colonization is detectable by means of burial mounds in the Hallstatt period. From the La Tène period comes a Celtic Viereckschanze between Rott and Reichling. Under the Romans ran the road from Epfach ( Abodiakum ) to Raisting ( Urusa ) over the municipality. Roman settlement evidence has been so far not discovered, but at least a bronze bust of the Roman god Bacchus was found, which is now on display in the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich. The Germanic series graves in the local area have been dated to the 7th century AD.

The place name is first mentioned as Rott Rota end of the 11th century and is derived from the Rottbach, which rises above the 1510 scale angel Rieder lake and these feeds. The name could come from Germanic times, and referring to the reddish-brown color of the river water. Rota but can also be as Indo-European, hurrying water ' interpret.

In the 13th century Rott came to the Monastery Wessobrunn; the community gained only after the secularisation of 1803 reflect the status of an independent parish and could develop into an independent and economically as socially unit.

Population Development

A serious change Rott learned after the Second World War, when the time about 600 inhabitants, the village had to borrow 300 expellees. This results in Rott developed from a traditional farming village to a more industrially defined community with a growing share of commuters.

The population figures from 1840 are based on the current community area (as of 1978).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: In Silver a lowered blue wave beams in a silver wooden shoe, diagonally crossed a red key and a blue Rodungsbeil with a red stem.

Culture and sights

  • St. John's Church in the town center with rich Rococo decoration (stucco by Michael Merk, ceiling paintings, John Legend performing, by Johann Baptist Bader ( " Lech Hansel " ), sculptures by Franz Xaver Schmädl )
  • Ottilie the chapel on the northern outskirts of the village from 1483, with a Baroque interior (Michael Merk, Sebastian Jaud, Matthäus Günther ) and old votive tablets
  • The new parish church of the Holy Family ( inaugurated in 1965 ) with green cemetery
  • Calvary ( at 752 meters the highest peak in the district ) with the 14 Stations of 1878 and the Lourdes Grotto of 1894. Beautiful, shady trail up the Stations of the Cross, then the Cross Mountain and spectacular views over the Alps to Ottilie Chapel
  • The angel Rieder lake, about 2 km south of Rott, popular swimming lake ( marsh lake ) on the edge of a conservation area
  • The Village Museum, which documents with changing exhibitions, the history of Lech Rains
  • The nature trail and the orchard on Lugensee

See also List of monuments in Rott ( Landkreis Landsberg )

Lech (river) Schongau, Bavaria Apfeldorf Denklingen Eresing Finning, Bavaria Geltendorf Hofstetten, Bavaria Hurlach Kaufering Kinsau Obermeitingen Scheuring Schwifting Thaining
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