Au (Bad Groenenbach)

Au Market Bad Groenenbach Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 34 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 15 ″ E
Height :	669 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	87730
Area code :	08334

Au is a hamlet of the Kneipp spa Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria .

Iller Bridge in the Au

geography

location

The hamlet is located in Upper Swabia in the Danube-Iller region, about three kilometers southwest of Bad Grönenbach, at an altitude of 669 m above sea level. NN . The village of Rothenstein and the hamlet of Manneberg border the Au in a clockwise direction in the north, beginning in the Unterallgäu district . In the west, the Iller runs from south to north and forms the border between Bad Grönenbach and Legau . On the western side of the Iller, the hamlets of Unterau , Oberau , Ehrensberg and Maien , which belong to Legau, border the hamlet of Au.

geology

Au is divided into different groups of houses and farmsteads. Directly on the Iller, the subsoil consists of deposits from the Young Holocene and a polygenetic valley filling, some of which originate from the Worm Ice Age. The ground in this area consists of marl , clay , sand , gravel and, in part, peat . The houses in the northern and southern area on the MN 21 district road a little east of the Iller are located on an area of the undivided upper freshwater molasse of the Miocene . The subsoil consists of clays , silt, marl and sand.

history

A mention of Au is documented as early as 1512. In the years 1811 to 1815, an angle school was built in Au, which was responsible for the school districts of Au, Schönau, Tiefenau, Manneberg and Brandholz. From 1815, the Royal Bavarian General Commissariat decided that there were only schools in Bad Grönenbach, Ittelsburg and Gmeinschwenden. In the Winkelschule in Au, the teacher Miller worked in 1813 and 1814, the teacher Buehl in 1814 and 1815, and finally the farmer's son Engelbert Klotz as the private teacher of his siblings.

traffic

The district road MN 21 leads through Au from the north, coming from Rothenstein, to the south . It then crosses the Iller and continues to Legau.

Web links

Commons : Au - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: History of the market town of Grönenbach - sources and full texts

literature

Hermann Haisch (Ed.): Landkreis Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei, Memmingen 1987, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1016 .

Individual evidence

^ Geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Regional Development and Homeland, accessed on November 19, 2015 .
↑ Joseph Sedelmayer; Historical association for the entire promotion of local history of the Allgäu (ed.): History of the market town of Grönenbach. Kempten 1910, p. 240.
↑ Joseph Sedelmayer; Historical association for the entire promotion of local history of the Allgäu (ed.): History of the market town of Grönenbach. Kempten 1910, p. 241.

[1] Geological map of Bavaria 1: 500,000. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Regional Development and Homeland, accessed on November 19, 2015 .

[2] Joseph Sedelmayer; Historical association for the entire promotion of local history of the Allgäu (ed.): History of the market town of Grönenbach. Kempten 1910, p. 240.

[3] Joseph Sedelmayer; Historical association for the entire promotion of local history of the Allgäu (ed.): History of the market town of Grönenbach. Kempten 1910, p. 241.