Ecknach

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Ecknach
City of Aichach
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '45 "  N , 11 ° 7' 37"  E
Height : 448 m
Residents : 1122  (Jan. 1, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 86551
Area code : 08251
Ecknach (Bavaria)
Ecknach

Location of Ecknach in Bavaria

The place Ecknach lies on the river Ecknach and is a district of the district town Aichach in the Swabian district Aichach-Friedberg with a good 1100 inhabitants.

history

Ecknach was written around 800 ecchinaha. It was not until the 17th century that it became the current place name. An Ecko or Eckeprecht, who gave the place on the river of the same name its name, is likely in the 7th / 8th Century. There are two legends that tell of two chapels around 788. During the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century, they went up in flames and were rebuilt. Between 788 and 807 two priests had built two churches on land inherited from their ancestors in the Ecknachtal. In 1024, Empress Kunigunde handed over a large court in Ecknach through a nobleman to the Kühbach monastery .

Since 1818 Ecknach with the hamlet Tränkmühle and the wastelands Eitershofen and Nisselbach was an independent municipality, which in 1840 had exactly 330 inhabitants. On January 1, 1978, as part of the municipal reform, the place was incorporated into Aichach. The municipality of Ecknach is demonstrably much older than the larger city of Aichach today.

monument

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is the only building under monument protection in the district. Its tower is essentially Romanesque, the choir dates from the end of the 15th century. The present nave was built in 1971/72 and consecrated on September 24, 1972 by Bishop Josef Stimpfle .

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Aichach

Others

  • The Augsburger Verkehrsverbund ensures bus traffic with the 206 regional bus.
  • The federal highway 300 runs on the outskirts and leads to the federal highway 8 eight kilometers away.
  • The Ecknach flows through the village. In a project, the living spaces here are left natural.
  • The Aichach industrial park is located in Ecknach directly on the B 300.
  • The place is mentioned in Gerhard Polt's sketch “Waiting for Dillinger”.

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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 788 .

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