Birkland
Birkland is a district of the Markt Peiting in the Weilheim-Schongau district in Upper Bavaria .
geography
Birkland is a settlement in the Pfaffenwinkel in the Upper Bavarian Alpine foothills , east of the Lech , and lies between Landsberg am Lech , Schongau and Weilheim .
history
Birkland is first mentioned in a document in 1130 under the name Pirkwang . The area of today's Birkland then belonged to the Wessobrunn monastery .
Birkland became an independent municipality in 1818, which belonged to the district court of Schongau .
On January 1, 1976, Birkland was incorporated into the market Peiting as part of the municipal reform.
Attractions
In 1715 Dominikus Zimmermann designed an altar for the Gothic chapel of St. Anna. This altar now stands as the high altar in St. Anne's Church.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 595 .
Web links
- Welcome to Birkland. Birkland's market councils in the Peiting local council, October 25, 2011, archived from the original on March 17, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 18, 2018 (Birkland's unofficial homepage, which has since been abandoned).
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ' N , 10 ° 57' E