Engratshofen

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Engratshofen
municipality Fuchstal
Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 729 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 35  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 86925
Area code : 08243
Engratshofen from the south
Engratshofen from the south

The village of Engratshofen belongs to the municipality of Fuchstal in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

Geographical location

Engratshofen is located about three kilometers west of the Fuchstal district of Leeder on the slope of a mountain range that separates the Lech valley from the Wertach valley .

history

With its first documentary mention in 1059, Engratshofen is one of the oldest parts of the municipality of Fuchstal. At that time it probably belonged to the St. Mang monastery , before the Lords of Freyberg and the village of Leeder sold it to the Augsburg citizen Ulrich Honold in 1445 .

structure

Engratshofen is a rural, small village that used to be known to the US Army and the German Armed Forces because of a large special ammunition storage facility called Landsberg-Leeder . During the Cold War, the bunker, built in 1971, was used to store warheads for American nuclear weapons in over 40 earth bunkers .

The bunkers of the former ammunition store near Engratshofen

The bunkers have not been used for nuclear weapons storage since the 1980s, and in 2003 the area was sold by the German Armed Forces. After lengthy discussion and controversial debates, in February 2007 the company Energiespeicher Fuchstal , which had been founded for this purpose and which has owned the 19.4 hectare site under the name of the special area of ​​renewable energies Am Huttenbügel , was granted permission to produce biogas through dry gasification. However, due to technical problems, this plan was abandoned for the time being. The development plan to be drawn up presented the community with the problem that the details of the development were kept secret for strategic reasons and that the buildings on the site were built without a building permit at the time and the bunkers and watchtowers have to be approved retrospectively.

The planned biogas plant should generate around 1.6 megawatts of electrical power in the final stage .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.schwabsoien.de/9323.0.html Facsimile fiefdom letter with transcription