Weilheim old town in Upper Bavaria

Marienplatz in Weilheim around 1900

City wall at Vötterlgasse around 1900

The old town of Weilheim in Upper Bavaria is the historic city center of the district town of the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau . It consists of several building ensembles that are under monument protection .

history

From around 1080 nobles can be traced to Weilheim; they were feudal men of the Andechs-Meranians and died out around 1312. From 1236 there was a palisade fence as a forerunner of the city wall . Around 1328, the Munich patrician Ludwig Pütrich the Elder enabled the establishment of the Heilig-Geist- Spital outside the city walls through foundations . In the Middle Ages , Weilheim was hit by several severe fires.

It was not until the 19th century that the cityscape of Weilheim began to change, which was not noticeably changed neither by the wars of the 16th to 18th centuries nor by the numerous fires. As part of the secularization in Bavaria in 1802, the Franciscan monastery in Weilheim was closed. The former Franciscan monastery burned down in 1825, after which a joint building for the Heilig-Geist-Spital and a hospital was built on today's Münchner Straße. Three city gates were demolished between 1872 and 1874: the Obere Tor in 1872, the Schmiedtor in 1873 and the Pöltnertor in 1874.

Building ensembles

Individual monuments

See: Monuments in Weilheim by streets

literature

Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 528-613 .

Web links

Commons : Weilheim in Oberbayern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Klaus Gast: The Weilheim city wall (part 1). In: Lech-Isar-Land 2016, pp. 9–24.
↑ Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, page 29.
↑ Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, p. 133.
↑ Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, p. 211 ff.

47.83925 11.14112Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 21.3 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 28" E

[1] Klaus Gast: The Weilheim city wall (part 1). In: Lech-Isar-Land 2016, pp. 9–24.

[2] Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, page 29.

[3] Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, p. 133.

[4] Christian Buck (ed.), Hans Rid: From Weilheim's past. Development history of the city of Weilheim from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. Stöppel, Weilheim 1984, p. 211 ff.