Altmannshofen

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Altmannshofen
Aichstetten municipality
Altmannshofen coat of arms
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '14 "  N , 10 ° 2' 55"  E
Height : 625 m
Incorporation : July 1, 1971
Postal code : 88317
Area code : 07565
Church and castle in Altmannshofen

Altmannshofen is a part of the municipality of Aichstetten in the Ravensburg district .

history

In a certificate from Emperor Charles V from November 17, 1525, Georg III. Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil for his services in the peasant war the rule Zeil as Reichs-Mannlehen . This included the high level of jurisdiction over the knightly rule of Altmannshofen at that time .

The Eschach flows through Altmannshofen . Altmannshofen Castle , which was built in the first half of the 17th century, is slightly elevated in the town center . About one kilometer north of the town center, on the Zeiler gravel field, lies the 715  m above sea level. NN high Blutsberg. There was the Blutsberg Castle , which still contains the ramparts, moats and margins.

In 1806 the community came to the Kingdom of Württemberg , there in the mayor's office Zeil-Zeil and from 1820 it was a community in the royal ducal office of Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg. The royal Princely Office Waldburg-Zeil and Trauchburg was part of the Oberamt Leutkirch . On July 1, 1971 Altmannshofen was incorporated into Aichstetten. In 1973, the district of Wangen , which was created from the Leutkirch and Wangen regional offices in 1934, was transferred to the Ravensburg district.

The place is on the federal highway 96 from Lindau to Munich . At the junction Aichstetten which lies within the boundaries of the sub-local Altmannshofen, a is motorway service set. There is also a mineral oil store, which is part of the strategic oil reserve of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The church of Altmannshofen is consecrated to St. Vitus. The ecclesiastical community is part of the Allgäu-Oberschwaben deanery in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .

coat of arms

Altmannshofen Castle

The blazon of the coat of arms of the former municipality Altmannshofen reads: In silver a red deer head, the right upper corner of blue and silver roughened.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 536 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Aichstetten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Aichstetten in the description of the Oberamt Leutkirch from 1843  - sources and full texts