Eichenhofen (Haldenwang)

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Eichenhofen is a church village and part of the municipality of Haldenwang in the Swabian district of Günzburg ( Bavaria ).

geography

Eichenhofen lies at an altitude of 470 meters on the left side of the valley slope of the Saurüsselbach, one of the source rivers of the Wallerbach , which flows into the Glött from the left near Winterbach .

The village, about three kilometers northeast of Haldenwang, can be reached via the GZ 10 district road .

history

In the 13th century the village was the seat of an aristocratic family that named themselves after Eichenhofen and probably sat on the Geigenburg east of the village. The castle was a fiefdom of the Margraviate of Burgau and the village of the Augsburg bishopric .

Eichenhofen was a small parish that was subordinate to the Fultenbach monastery. Since the Fultenbach monastery dissolved more and more, nobles as fiefs of the Augsburg monastery took the tithe in Eichenhofen. In the first third of the 15th century these were the Westernach and Riedheim . Around 1720 the place came into the possession of the Lords of Riedheim.

Eichenhofen came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 and had a second class patrimonial court until the civil jurisdiction was abolished in 1848 .

The formerly independent municipality of Eichenhofen was incorporated into the municipality of Hafenhofen on July 1, 1972 and joined Haldenwang on January 1, 1976.

Attractions

Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene

See also: List of architectural monuments in Eichenhofen

literature

  • Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 147-148 .

Web links

Commons : Eichenhofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 29'  E