Epfach

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Epfach
Community Denklingen
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 650 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 434  (May 25 1987)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 86920
Area code : 08869
View of Epfach and the Lech
View of Epfach and the Lech
coat of arms
Venus of Epfach

Epfach , located on the left bank of the Lech , is a district of the municipality of Denklingen in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

history

In the vicinity of the present-day place there has been since about 14 BC BC on the hill later called Lorenzberg, directly on the Lech, a Roman road station with about 80 soldiers and riders. They had the task of securing the crossing of the Via Claudia with the old salt road , which , coming from Salzburg , crossed the river and then led to Kempten . It was the most important road junction in southern Bavaria.

From 50 AD the military base , which had become unnecessary, was given up. The surrounding area was safe enough by now. Now a settlement was built on the Lech terrace where craftsmen and traders settled. It was named Abodiacum .

In the year 233 the destroyed Alemanni settlement, leaving behind a debris field. But between 260 and 270 the Lorenzberg was settled again, but this time it was provided with a ring-shaped wall for fear of Germanic attacks.

Around 355 the settlement was destroyed again by the Alamanni, but soon settled and rebuilt by the Romans. Roman troops were stationed on the Lorenzberg until 388.

Memorial stone for the local history

Around 370/380 a rectangular hall building with a three-part choir was built on the highest summit of the Lorenzberg, which is interpreted as a Christian “community building”. After 955 a larger church (20 meters long and 13 meters wide), St. Lorenz, was built, partly over the oldest church from the 4th century. In 743 the Battle of Epfach probably took place here . In the twelfth century, the - again much smaller - third church was built. The current chapel dates from 1751.

The former coat of arms shows a Roman oil lamp together with the golden Christogram. The coat of arms goes back to a find from the late fourth century, which is evidence of Christian life in the late Roman period.

The statue “Venus von Epfach”, found at the beginning of the 19th century, triggered the search for Roman treasures. Lorenz Boxler († September 24, 1844), the district judge of Schongau, initiated the first thorough excavations on Lorenzberg in 1830. A famous son of the place was Claudius Paternus Clementianus, whose career took him from northern Gaul to distant Judea , where he worked as financial procurator in the same position as Pontius Pilate about 80 years before him . He then became the imperial governor in the province of Noricum , today's Austria, and returned to Epfach / Abodiacum as a pensioner. The first documented Augsburg bishop Wikterp , who was originally buried in Epfach , had ties to the place .

Today the place is on the long-distance cycle path , which runs as Via Claudia Augusta along the ancient Roman road of the same name .

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality, which belonged to the district of Schongau , was incorporated into the municipality of Denklingen.

In 1996 the community hit national headlines for a sex crime against a seven-year-old girl.

Attractions

See also: List of architectural monuments in Epfach and List of ground monuments in Denklingen

  • The small Abodiacum museum in the former fire brigade's syringe house with finds from Roman times, two models and blackboards with descriptions of the historical period
  • St. Lorenz Chapel on the mountain of the same name
  • A Roman nymphaeum well house near the school
  • A bronze statue of St. Lorenz with a memorial plaque on the Lech Bridge
  • Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew

Soil monuments

See: List of ground monuments in the Epfach district

literature

  • Klaus Fischer: 2000 years of Epfach. Contributions to local history. Epfach 1986.
  • Günter Ulbert : The Lorenzberg near Epfach. The early Roman military station. Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Volume 9. Beck, Munich 1965.
  • Joachim Werner (ed.): Studies on Abodiacum - Epfach. Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Volume 7. Beck, Munich 1964.
  • Joachim Werner: The Lorenzberg near Epfach. The late Roman u. early medieval plants . Munich contributions to prehistory and early history. Volume 8. Beck, Munich 1969.
  • Anton Huber, Martha Ikier, Bruno Ikier: Epfach in old photographs. EOS print shop, St. Ottilien 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Venus, Excavations and Claudius, Alpenrand reports in Römerhand , accessed on September 13, 2018.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 492 .
  3. ↑ Crime: Cry of Helplessness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1996 ( online - Sept. 30, 1996 ).

Web links

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