Elbach (Fischbachau)

Elbach municipality Fischbachau Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	790 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	143  (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	83730
Area code :	08028
View from Breitenstein to Elbach

Parish church of St. Andreas in Elbach

Elbach is a district of the Fischbachau community in the Miesbach district in Bavaria .

geography

Elbach lies at an altitude of 790  m above sea level. NN in the floodplains of the Leitzach Valley at the southwest foot of the Schwarzenberg and at the foot of the Breitenstein . The parish village is located on the Elbach stream of the same name , where Elbach's industry used to settle. A sawmill, a forge and a quarry were found. The Elbach valley basin forms a wide basin that was washed out of soft flysch layers by ice and water.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1079.

The parish church of St. Andreas with its towering onion dome was rebuilt in 1689 by the Hausstadt master bricklayer Hans Mayr after a fire. Kaspar Glasl built the tower in 1722; at that time the current interior decoration of the church was made. The Heiligblut cemetery chapel , built by Georg Zwerger between 1669 and 1670, is older and has a rich and colorful Miesbacher stucco.

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in Fischbachau

Web links

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

• Photos of the parish church and Holy Blood Chapel furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .
• Elbach in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 104 ( digitized version ).