Bayersried (Eggenthal)

Bayersried Community Eggenthal Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 13 ″ E
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	87653
Area code :	08347
	St. Nikolaus in Bayersried from the southeast

Bayersried is a district of the Upper Swabian municipality of Eggenthal in the Ostallgäu district in Bavaria .

location

The parish village is located west of Eggenthal at the intersection of the district roads OAL 11 and OAL 12 .

Bayersried is located on the 88 kilometer long Crescentia pilgrimage route from Kaufbeuren to Ottobeuren and Mindelheim .

history

The place name indicates the origin of the place as a clearing settlement of a man called "Baier" or a group of columns from Baiern in the then densely wooded area as the origin of the place. In the late Middle Ages, the place was owned by the rule of Balzhausen until around 1384, who then donated the property to the Ursberg monastery. In 1461 the place fell to the Ronsberg lordship of Schönau zu Stein. After their division, the place came to the Kempten Monastery under Prince Abbot Engelbert von Syrgenstein around 1749 , in whose possession and jurisdiction it remained until the secularization in 1803.

In the course of the desertification in 1799, 13 branches were separated for the municipality of Bayersried, which were managed under the collective name "Holzstetten". On May 1, 1978, the previously independent municipality of Bayersried was incorporated into Eggenthal as part of the regional reform. Up to this time the places Binkenhofen , Beschaunen, Blumenried, Mayers, Kreuzhof, Lausbichl, Reichartsried, Schönlings, Sonderhof, Stehlings, Unterwebams, Völken, Webams and Wurmannswies belonged to the municipality Bayersried, which was in the district of Marktoberdorf .

In terms of church, Bayersried was a branch of the parish of Lauchdorf until the beginning of the 16th century , before it was raised to its own parish. Today the parish belongs to the Eggenthal parish community in the Kaufbeuren deanery .

Attractions

See also: Monuments in Bayersried

The parish church of St. Nikolaus was built at the end of the 15th century and is surrounded by a cemetery with a tuff stone border. Conversions and restorations were carried out in the 16th century to make them Baroque and in 1859 and 1929; In 1955 the nave was extended to the west. The altars are the work of the Obergünzburg stonemason Adolph Traut , a stone relief comes from Franz Xaver Fischer, who was pastor in Bayersried from 1910 to 1935. The altarpiece in the choir dates from the 2nd half of the 18th century and shows St. Nicholas at the feet of Our Lady. At the bottom left there is a representation of the village of Bayersried with the church.